Evening star., 1948-06-13


they certainly seem to be funnier
than radio writer's.
There are two notes, not actually
related in any particular way,
which seems to offer some evidence
of the state of radio.
Item: WTOP considered it news
worthy the other day when state
of emergency made it necessary to
broadcast a program named Cap
itol Cloakroom" from the Capitol.
Item: MBS is entering another
in the take-it-away-we're-loaded
sweepstakes, and is casting subtlety
to the winds. When it starts calling
listeners on June 26, at 9 pm, the
new give-away program will be
known bluntly as THE Big Money
Game" 1t will live up to the name
by giving $500 to each listener
called who correctly names the Sc
quence in which three sets of three
tunes are played. The jackpot, If
nobody knocks it off, will build at
81 900 a week to a possible $4,000.
Take that, Stop the Music" you
$4,000 piker.
A newspaper in Dallas, Tex, a
reader wants us to know, says the
Mystery Tune" is "Moanin' Down
the Valley" by Hall johnson. 1T
is not" says our Mystery Tune"
authority at the Disc Shop. He
saw the sheet music and read both
the melody and the title, Down
in Alabam'" or Amt / Glad I
Got Out of de Wilderness" You
wouldn't catch us arguing with Sig
mund Spaeth, but the Disc Shop
man says he's. wrong, too.
Maybe we'd better launch a sub
sidiary column: For Radio Bingo
Players"
Video Notes: The latest count OF
the Washington Television Circulat-
ion Committee, consisting OF repre-
sentatives of WMAL-TV, WNBW
and WTTG, shows $4,000 television
sets operating in the Washington
Metropolitan area. Placing the
documentary film show
ing the life of displaced persons in
camps in Europe, will be televised
tomorrow night at $3.50 by WMAL-
TV. 1t was made in Europe by the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and
has a narration by Raymond Mas
sey. "Television Televised," a
series of five-minuate short films,
will unfold the inside story OF tele-
vision over % video stations, start
ing tomorrow night. The pictures
will be carried by all three local
stations, according to their maker,
the Austin Co. The firm handled
the design and construction OF
WNBW.
The Local Scene: Grifing Ban,
croft, CHS Washington correspond
ent, took over the weekly News
From Washington CWTOP-Satur-
day, 6 PM last night. He came to
Washington in 1889 as a correspond
ent for the International News
Service and joined the Chicago Sun
Washington staff in 1942. He went
on the CHS Washington staff in
March. :. Robert j. Shaw, writer
of "Mr. District Attorney" set up
headquarters at the Shoreham last
week, to gather material for new
radio series on world air travel: He
also is to. do some conferring with
local authorities on juvenile de-
linquency problems. . Inspector
Arthur j. Miller is now devoting
five minutes Of the Traffic Safety
Forum (WWDC Saturday, 7:45
PM to answering trafiic questions
submitted by listeners. WINK
has a new afternoon session, con-
Quoted by Jay Owen, called ANY
thing Goes" One Of the things that
goes is random telephoning, during
which listeners are asked questions
and invited to send Mr.. Owen prizes.
VOL and the American Legion
are jointly sponsoring a campaign
for funds to send the 1900 men,
bers of the Boys Club Of Washing
ton to summer camp. Arthur
Godfrey turned out to be the sole
write-in candidate for the presi-
dency when the Advertising Club
conducted a straw vote the other
day at the Statler. So far he has
not announced that he is not
either