Evening star., 1949-06-12

day at 7:45 pm, Is This Aviatlon
World" conducted by Capt. Rob-
ert c. Ace" Robson. a veteran
American Airlines pilot. Capt.
Robson has been flying since his
Cornell days. when he interrupted
the study Of orchid cultivation TO
take an airplane ride and never
set foot In an earthbound green
house again. He has held his cap
tain's rating with the airline since
1945. The VOL program includes
interviews with the famous who
fly, questions and answers and
a roundup of aviation news. Capt.
Robson aims the show at gen.
eral rather than a special audi
ence, his thought being that "it's
not for aeronautical engineers,
because they already know about
aviation"
A new program with prizes for
viewers starts tomorrow at GAS
pm. as a daily feature Of WOIC.
Titled, "Sketch-a-Quiz." it will
feature a studio artist drawing a
progressive portrait OF a we'll
known person. Prizes 60 to the
first three viewers who phone in
the identification Of the subject.
There will be other prizes for
identification Of music played
while the sketch is being drawn.
The art work will be under the
supervision of Buddy Pappas. who
used to be known, as Jesse James,
for his artistry in the rassles.
Programs and People: Abe Bur-
rows rare comedy talent will again
be put to use this summer. HIS
new show, Breakfast With Bur
rows (He Gets Up Late)." Will
make its debut on CHS July 4 at
$50 pm. The NBC University
Theater" has announced a ten
tative summer schedule. or at least
the first portion of it. 1t also moves
to q new time on the network
Saturdays at $50 p.m.-as a sum-
mer substitute for the NBC Sym
phony. The novel dramatized on
June 1S will be John Marquand s
Point of No Return" Those to
follow, maybe not in this order. will
be Graham Greene's Brighton
Rock" Bud Schulberg's What
Makes Sammy Run. Elizabeth
Bowen's Death Of the Heart" P"
James HiIton's "Good-by, Mr..
Chips" r. Scott Fitzergald's This
Side of Paradise" Stefan Heym's
"The Crusaders" and Thornton
Wilder's "Ides of March" :. .
George Hicks. who narrates the
NBC Summer Symphony concerts
and will be with "Theater Guild
on the Air" when it returns in the
fall, got his radio start here in
Washington. A student at the
GEORGETOWN University School OF
Foreign Service. he went around
to WRC back in 1928 looking for
a part time job and got talked
into taking a full-time announc-
ing post Evelyn Knight has
been signed to return to Club Is"
in August, after an eight-week va
cation The play-by- play &C
count of the Cooperstown Memo
rial Baseball Game will be a
WASH-FM- Continental FIN Net
work feature tomorrow afternoon.
Telenotes: Ethel Norman will
star In the first Of series OF half
hour variety shows taking over a
summer spot on CHS on Monday,
June 20, at 9 pm. -. Front Row
Center" is DuMont's summer re-
placement for Broadway Revue
on Friday nights at 8. Jan
Murray will be the star. The
network also is moving key to
the Missing into the Friday-at-9
spot . Valerie Cossart. daugh-
ter of Ernest Cossart. will be the
"Video Theater" star tomorrow
night at 8 on WNBW, playing the
lead In Applause of Thousands" "
Mary Hartline, the decorative
drum majorette on Super Cir
Gus" (WMAL-TV - Sunday, 5
p.m), is not just a girl waving q
baton in time to music when she
conducts the orchestral numbers.
She is a musician who plays piano
and trumpet and has composed
several songs deemed worthy OF