Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-23
For Radio Listeners
BY Harry Macarthur

| day, 8 pm.). We don't know what
it is, but we have been in touch with
a couple of people who say they do
One of them Is a reader who left
a message telling us the title is
"The Old Grey Horse Came Through
the Wilderness" That's what she
said. The Disc Shop. Connecticut
avenue record emporium, which
considers the searching out of the
mystery melody" a service to its
customers, has another idea, how
ever. The Disc Shop man came
back from his research to report the
title is Down in Alabam' and the
subtitle is Amt I Glad I Got Out
de Wilderness" That, he says. is
the title, authenticated and verified.
These give-away affairs, which
broadcast more money than enter
tainment, are having their effects
on the Hooper ratings. The latest
Hooper listing MAY 80 shows that
Charlie Mccarthy and Fred Allen,
whose competition is stop the
Music" now rank 18th and 18th.
This is a gain of one place for
Edgar Bergens chum and a drop
from eighth for Fred. Three months
ago, though, Mr.. Allen was in the
No. spot, with Mr.. Bergen right
behind him in fifth place. That's
what share-the-wealth did to them
Arthur Godfrey, to inject happy
note, found his Talent Scouts"
show listed in third place in the
new Hooper ratings.
X X X
The oldest of all radio programs
will be celebrating it 25th anniver-
|sary today and if you were asked to
name it you'd probably tumble
awhile before coming up with the
right answer. Well, MICS Ma
tional Radio Pulpit" (WRC-Sun-
day, 10 am is the program mark
ing its first quarter century on the
air. The Radio Pulpit" regularly
is conducted like Protestant
church service, with sermon, pray
ers and devotional music. Today's
program will be a special anniver-
sary presentation, featuring among
other things a dramatic sketch,
Religious Ministry Over the Air"
tracing the history of religious
radio.
X X X II
The Local Scene: If you're a
listener who always has wanted to
add a few remarks to the comments
of your favorite movie reviewer,
WINK has the program for you.
You Review the Movies" makes its
debut today at $3.50, inviting listen
ers to telephone their movie criti-
cisms to Hugh Guidi, who will pass
them along the air. Gordon
Hittenmark is back in Washington
and starts new radio program,
Wings Over Washington" at 3
pm. tomorrow over WQQW. The
program will originate from the
Washington National Airport and
will be introduced with a special
broadcast from there today at $3.50
pm. Gunner Back takes over
City Desk" (WTOP-daily, $40
PM tomorrow. Henry, Muslin,
former reporter for The Star, who
has been doing the local news
broadcast, becomes night city editor
for CHS news in Washington. g.
WWDC has inaugurated a Saturday
night dance party, with Bill Cox
conducting three hours of continu-
Gus (canne0 music from II pm. to
2 am. Fague Springman, the
Well-known local baritone, has been
renamed Spencer Springman by
Horace Heidi and selected to COM
pete in the second quarter finals of
the Heidi talent hunt show next
Sunday (WRC-10:30 PM. .
Television has solved one of life's
problems; you now can be in two
places at the same time. King
Peter of Yugoslavia was thus aided
by progress last week, when the two
places he was supposed to be at the
same time were in a television
studio (WTTGs) with Hazel Markell
and at a cocktail party at the
Shoreham. The simple solution was
installation of television receivers
at the cocktail party.