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beginning and won the first quarter
finals elimination, will be one OF
them. Others will be Stanley Morse,
trombonist; Johnny Mungel, singer,
and Pierce Knox, xylophonist.
Televiews: Bing Crosby is the
next important star slated for
television debut. He will appear on
the Christmas broadcast OF the
"Telvision Playhouse" (WNBW,
Sunday, 8 PM, December 10, sing
ing Silent Night" with the Bob
Mitchell Boys Choir accompanying
him. The play that night will be
Charles Dickens "a Christmas Car
OIL" with Dennis King playing
Scrooge. WOIC, the new local
video station, has been assigned the
pickup for CHS of the International
Children's Christmas Party at the
Shoreham< Hotel on December 19.
This will be the first telecast to orig
mate through WOIC facilities. The
station, affiliated with both CHS
and MBS, is slated to start its reg
ular operation on January Is. 1s49,
on channel 9. There now are
Al 'teleyision stations In operation
in 26 cities in the United States,
if the latest, in Memphis, got under
way as scheduled yesterday. Three
more will bring the total to so by
Christmas. The potency OF the
above ve-mentioned Arthur Godfrey as
an audience magnet Is attested by
a Quick schedule change by NBC-
TV. Last week, even before it knew
the outcome of Mr.. Godfrey's meet
ing with television, 1t moved Its
popular american Quiz" out OF
competition with him to new spot
at $50 Monday nights. American
Quiz" has long been ranked among
the top Is video entertainments,
according to the surveys. Re
ports have it that CHS is not spend
ing a lot of money on live talent In
competition with Milton Berle's
Star Theater" CWNBW, Tuesday,
IA pm.). Instead it will bolster its
Film Theater of the Air" by buy
ing some old motion pictures OF es-
tablished quality.
Sound Advice: WQQW-FM has
performed q notable service for its
music loving listeners in arranging
to broadcast the famed chamber
music concerts which are presented
at the Coolidge Auditorium Of the
Library of Congress. The first OF
these broadcasts took place Friday
and the next is scheduled for this
coming Saturday night, when the
Hungarian String Quartet will be
heard. Future programs will bring
such artists IS Francescatti, Robert
Casadesus, the William Kroll Quar-
tet, the Fine Arts Quartet and the
Budapest String Quartet to WQQW-
FM listeners. =. Home Town Boy
Makes-Good Note: 1t will be one
time Central High School student
returning to town when Charles
Collingwood arrives here shortly aft
ter the Inauguration to take over
as CHS White House correspondent.
After success as war correspond
ent, Mr.. Collingwood took up re-
porting the United Nations and
other news activities. He has won
the Peabody Award and has been
cited by the National Headliners'
Club. Henry j. Taylor, author.
journalist and economist, returns to
the ABC network on December 90,
with a weekly quarter-h hour Of news
and commentary. He will be heard
! locally on WMAL) on Monday
nights at 8:45. WWDC has
scheduled Ghosts of Yesterday" a
documentary featuring George Hicks
and interviews with hospital pa
tients, for next Friday night at
10:45. It is presented by the D. C.
Public Health Service. A new
dramatic series, featuring Basil
Rathbone as star and narrator and
"encompassing tales of mystery, ad-
venture and romance" makes its
bow On CHS January 8. The basic
material of each broadcast, accord
ing to advance word, will be drawn
from the actors full and exciting
life, which includes colorful and ad-
venturous wanderings over half the
earth from South Africa to Holly
wood"