Evening star., 1949-11-20

morrow, Tuesday. Wednesday
Friday and every day next week
with both the feature and CO.
feature races to be seen between
3:15 and 4:15 pm. Chuck Thomp-
son and Walter Haight. jr., will
be the announcers. Marsha
Hunt. the screen star who Is be-
coming something Of an old hand
at television drama, will be seen
tomorrow night In Silent as the
Grave" on "Silver Theater'
(WOIC-8 p.m). -. Today is the
Goth birthday anniversary Of "The
Goldbergs." an event which was
marked last Friday on the AM
broadcast (WTOP-S p.mJ and
will be marked again tomorrow
night on the telecast (WOIC-
$3.50 p.m.). The program made
its radio debut on November 20,
1929, and remained on the air for
II years. then ran almost a year
on Broadway as the play. Molly
and Me-" The television series
started last January II and the
program returned to its original
medium, radio. on September 2,
Gertrude Berg, who writes the
scripts and plays Molly Goldberg
has written more than 100000
words for almost 5000 perform
ances, which is a lot of words and
a lot of performances. Plans
to bring Abe Burrows to teleview-
ers in a show Of his own are in
the works and it should be ready
some time next month. The new
Burrows show was prompted by
the success Of his appearances as
a panel member on the CHS show,
This Is Broadway"
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Programs and People: "The
Quiz Kids" having launched their
season on NBC Sunday after
Moons. also have launched the
nth annual BEST Teacher Con.
test" One Of the gratifying thing
noted last year was that prizes
offered winning students did not
materially increase the number Of
letters. School children appre-
ciate good teachers more than
prizes, this seems to mean, and
like to see them honored. The
six f1nalists in WTOP's Most
Beautiful Girl" contest will learn
tomorrow night during Radio
Theater" CWTOP-9 p.m) which
of them Is the winner. The local
girl will compete with winners
from other cities for the national
honor. Charlie Edwards,
WMAL's Round the Town" mas
ter of ceremonies, is doubling be-
tween his disc jockeying and the
Capitol Theater this week. He's
narrating the Thanksgiving Over
ture" In the theater's stage show.
Eddie Cantor and his wife
will be honored as "Mr. and Mrs.
American Citizens" at a dinner
given today by the Los Angeles
Lodge Of B'nai Birth. Arch
Mcdonald is q large-size sports
caster and 1t Is taking three men
closer to the welterweight class
to I'LL in while he vacations. Bob
Addie Of the Times-Herald will
be doing Mr.. McDonald's daily
Speaking Of Sports" (WTOP-
$50 p.m.) this week. Dick Nc
Cam, general manager Of the
Washington Redskins. takes over
next week, and Shirley Povich OF
the Post the week after that. {.
Groucho Marx. who has been
limiting himself pretty much to
his radio chores lately. returns
to movies for q role in Bing
Crosby's "Mr. Music" -.
Red Shelton was cornered out
on the West Coast the other day
by one Of this departments opera
tives and asked about his televi-
sion plans. It turned out that he
is not at all unhappy to be tied to
one of those contracts which pro-
hibits TV appearances.
I'm a year and half, when my
MGM contract expires" is when
Mr.. Shelton will be thinking seri-
ously Of television. fright now
I'm lucky MGM won't let me
because somebody would talk me
into doing it and I'd be like every
body else today-at the mercy Of
the technicians.
In Tv they're just like the
technicians In the movies when
the talkies came In. always ready
with You can't do that!' Ask EN-
why q closeup was impossible and
they'd say because the camera
made noise So somebody would
say Throw Z mattress over it. and
1t worked, 50 they covered the
camera with a 'blimp' and threw
the guy in the control room put in
the street.
"And television's like that now" :"
he concluded, "but 1t should be
over 'technician pains by 1851,