Evening star., 1949-08-14

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Miss Barrymore greetings during
the program. Brother Lionel, OF
course, will head the list of Holly
wood celebrities joining in the trib-
ute and Bing Crosby will sing
Happy Birthday" to the actress.
Others participating will be Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Spencer Tracy,
Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Bay
ard Swope, Somerset Vaughan,
Lynn Fontanne. Alfred Lunt and
Charles Bracket. president Of the
Motion Picture Academy.
The program will be on the net
work tomorrow night and will be
broadcast over WMAL by trans
cription at pm. Tuesday.
A local television program also
will be passing some sort OF mile
stone tomorrow when Washing
ton Newsreel' (WNBW-daily,
6::55 PM presents it's 2,00lst
story. For the occasion, News
reel" turns introspective, giving
viewers a pictorial report on the
staff in action. getting pictures
and getting them on the screen
in short order. The program has
used up more than 100000 feet
of film since it's first telecast on
January 18, 1948.
Sports Department:
The final portion of the world
championship golf tournament
at the Tam O'Shanter Country
Club in Chicago will be telecaSt by
Dumont (WTTG) this evening
from 6 to 7 o'clock.
The Walker Cup golf matches
at the Winged Foot Country Club
Mamaroneck, N. Y, will be covered
this week by NBC. One broadcast
is scheduled for Friday evening
four on Saturday.
Two races also are on MICS
schedule for next Saturday-the
Ocean City Handicap at Atlantic
City and the Whirlaway Stakes at
Washington Park in Chicago.
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Telenotes: Carter Barron will
be Evalyn Tyner's guest next Fri
day night on her lively music and
interview session at the Statler
Embassy Room (WMAL-TV-10
PM. He is the head man for
Leow's here, the man who launch
ed the Capitors Going Native"
revues, one of which, in turn,
launched Miss Tyner. :. William
Gargan. who spent II years as a
name" Hollywood actor, has
moved back to New York. desert
ing the movies, at least tempora-
rily. for a new career in television.
He starts on NBC-TV next month
in the video version of the radio
character he started recently on
MBS, Martin Kane - Private
Eye" NBC probably will get
both AM and TV versions of Ted
Mack's Original Amateur Hour
this autumn from ABC and Du-
mont. Better time was the bait
in each case. Since this rumoI
comes along from Ted Mack's own
mimeograph machine, it can be
taken as well-founded. :. TO
night on Broadway" which, was
seen briefly last season as an ex-
pertinent in presenting excerpts
from current Broadway hits. be-
comes a regular CHS feature this
fall. 1t will be on CHS Sunday
nights at 7. "Mr. PIN Passes
By" A. A. Mines first Broadway
success, will be this weeks play
on "Television Theater" (WNBW-
Wednesday. 9 PM. Valerie Co.'S
sart and Rex O'Malley will tor
the cast. 49,. The Clock" NBC-
TV mystery drama series, has q
sponsor and will be regular
Wednesday, -night-at-8:30 feature
during the coming season. The
ED Wynn Show" first major
video program to originate in Hol-
lywood, has set October 6 as the
starting date over CHS. 1t will be
telecast on Thursday nights at 9
THE Goldbergs" will be back
on CBS-TV August 20, and also
will be a radio feature again in
September.
Programs and People: Robert
Young, one of Hollywood's better
known fathers, becomes a radio
father in the new air series,
Father Knows Best" 1t will start
on NBC August 25 as a regular
Thursday-n -night-at-8:30 feature
J.. The sixth overseas program in
the Americas Town Meeting"
series Tuesday night on ABC ex-
amines Turkeys unique political
and geographic position in the
Near East. "Calvacade of
America" moves to Tuesday night
at 8 on NBC when it returns Au-
gust 80 after the summer layoff
Elliott Lewis has been signed
for a second picture to follow his
role in The Story of Molly x" at
Universal International. . Frank
Sinatra is expected to announce
soon that he'll be a disc jockey
on MBS starting in September.
Jean Hersholt, who has been
honored by a number of medical
groups for his portrayal of radios
"Dr. Christian" has just received
the tribute that is the ultimate
in something or other. He has
been made an honorary witch
doctor of the Ngaio tribe of West
Africa. There's a possibility
that radio may have to do with
out 10 Stafford for awhile. She
has negotiations under way for a
picture in England for J. Arthur