Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
News of Video and Radio
Network Chiefs Admit Television Has Future
but Stoutly Maintain That Radio Is
Here to Stay-Regardless
By Wallace (. Clayton

E E. Clayton
80 color television receivers about
the Washington area to demon
strate its method of color tele-
casting to Federal Communica-
tions Commission officials and
members of Congress during the
FEC hearings on color television
starting September 26. CHS will
broadcast over the transmitter of
WOIC during hours which will not
interfere with regular local or
CBS-TV television schedules.
The Radio Corp. of Amer
lea will also try experimental color
telecasts during the same period,
using the NBC affiliate here,
WNBW, to do the transmitting.
The American Broadcasting Co.
is launching new TV show built
around the adventures of the
comic strip character Lii Abner."
This Week on Television: The
Philco Television Playhouse will
inaugurate a new series at 9
o'clock tonight on WNBW. The
series will feature hour-long
dramatizations of books chosen
for the program by the Book of
the Month" Club. The initial
telecast will star Anthony Quinn,
Louise Allbritton and Catherine
Mcleod in Frank Yerby's, "Pride's
Castle. Studio One, another
dramatic show which received high
praise during earlier telecasts this
year. returns at 10 pm. tomorrow
on WOIC. Tomorrow's offering
will be "Kyra zelas." an adoption
of a short story about a young
pianist who starts developing into
monster after taking power
full new serum. Felicia Montea-
legre, an actress and concert
pianist. will star. ;. And Every
thing Nice" a fashion show, re-
turns to WTTG at 9 pm. tomor-
row. Wealthy Cousin Simon"
is the man who comes to dinner
with THE Goldbergs" at $50
p m. tomorrow (WOIC).
The return to the air of Fibber
MCGEE and Molly for their 18th
year on NBC will be celebrated
with a star-studded program
Tuesday night. The show will go
on at $50 pm. (WRC) and last
an hour. Bob Hope, Dennis Day,
and Phil Harris and Alice Faye
are among the radio big names
who will appear.
Other Radio Notes: Jack Benny
starts his 18th year on the air
tonight (WTOP, 7 p.m). With
him will be the usual cast, Mary
Livingstone, who has been with
her husband during all his air
years; Rochester, fixture on the
program for the last II years:
Dennis Day, who is starting his
10th year; Phil Harris, band
leader and stooge with Benny for
the last 13 years, and Don Wilson,
the announcer, who has been in
PRODUCING the Benny show for IS
years. Most important Of all,
Benny will have the same four
writer's who have been supplying |
him with high Hooper attracting |
material for the last six years.
The familiar clackety-clack
of the telegraph key will reintro-
duce Walter Winchell at 8 o'clock
tonight on WMAL. Eve Arden,
who is 'Our Miss Brooks" brings
her situation comedy show back
to the air at $50 o'clock tonight
on WTOP. :. The 10th anniver-
sary of the start of World War II
will be recalled in an hour long
documentary program at 2 o'clock
this afternoon on WRC. Titled,
Gould Be-" the show will present
a "dreamview" of what could hap
pen If all the nations showed the
same vigor in approaching the
problems of peace they do in at
lacking each other in wartime.
More Radio Notes: Hester Ran
dolph, woman burned for witch
craft in New England, returns to
haunt the descendants of those
who put her to the torch on In
ner Sanctum" at 8 pm. tomorrow
(WTOP) =. The career of Hoagy
Carmichael, writer of "Stardust"
and a couple of dozen other hits,
will be reviewed in part during
1.-THE Railroad Hour" at 8 pm.
tomorrow on WMAL. Some of his
top songs will be sung by Gordon
MacRae and Lucille Norman. !
1.-THE Afternoon of Life" dram
atization Of problems faced by
persons who reach retirement age,
will occupy WRC's Your Health
Todays" at 4 pm. Saturday. A
shift Of disk jockeys by WWDCI
now presents this lineup: Willis
Conover will present the best in
"be-bop" and hot jazz records
from 1880 to $50 pm. Monday
through Saturday. while Felix
Grant takes over TUNE Inn" from
10 am. to IL noon each day; the
new and well-received Jon Mas
sey's Musical Madhouse" will be
on the air from II pm. to l am.
daily, and will add a nightly 500
give-away to the formal. -. Cody
Pfanstiehl, WTOP's director of
press information and promotion,
will teach an evening course in
public relations at the Institute
Of Contemporary Arts this year.
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Sports News: The All-America
Conference is rumored to be in
terested in promoting a television
setup such as that recently