Evening star., 1949-05-15
News of Video and Radio
It's Howdy Doody Time at 3 PM. Today;
Big Show to Launch Bond Drive
By Hory.M Macarthur

tOmOTrOW ulRHt anu Will Ue Car
,ried on the ABC, CHS. MBs and
NBC networks.
Television, which has cut into
the reading time of a number Of
people, will be whipping up some
interest in books tomorrow night
at 9 on WMAL-TV. The pro-
gram, a feature of the American
Booksellers Association conven-
/ ton here this week, will be a dis
cussion of the ways and means of
bringing more books TO more
| people.
Robert A. Campbell Of Los An
geles. president of the ABA. will
act as moderator on the program.
The panel will include Carter
Brooke Jones, book reviewer Of
The Star; Merle Colby, Washing
ton author of The Big Secret;
George A. Hecht and Walter ".
| Mckee. The latter two will rep
resent the publishing industry.
Mr.. Hecht is general manager Of
the Doubleday Book Shops in
New York. Mr.. Mckee is sales
manager of Pellegrini & Cudahy
and a former ABA president.
Programs and People: Bill Har-
rington, a newcomer, will be the
singer replacing Frank Sinatra on
Your Hit Parade" (WRC-Sat-
urday, 8 PM this summer when
the program moves to New York
on June 4. Though unknown to
Nation wide radio audiences. Mr..
Harrington, a graduate of WLW,
Cincinnati, does have his follow
ers. The Duke and Duchess of
Windsor have called on him more
than a dozen times to sing at
private social gatherings. +.
incidentally, the Your Hit Pa
rade" sponsor is so happy with
that program that the summer
replacement for Jack Benny
(WTOP-Sunday. 7 p.m), start
ing June S. will be Your Hit
Parade on Parade" This will be,
as you can guess, hit songs of
past hit parades. T.. . George Hicks,
whose D-day broadcasts still are
remembered. has joined the staff
of the NBC News and Special
Events Department. His first
chore will be a visit to Europe
along with 80 other reporters and
correspondents, for broadcasts
marking the fifth anniversary of
the invasion of Normandy. :. Ed
Archie" Gardner of "Duffy's Tav-
ern" (WRC-Wednesday 9 p.m.)
has asked for and been granted
release from his current sponsor
contract. which still had a year
to run. :. Willis Conover, WWDC
disc Jockey and authority on the
life and works of Duke Ellington,
will discuss THE History of Jazz"
next Friday at $50 pm. at the
American Veterans Committee
clubhouse, 1751 New Hampshire
avenue NV. The meeting will
be open to the public.
Telenotes: THE Challenge of
Television" will be the topic con-
sidered by a group of experts
in the field at a panel discussion
to be held by the radio study
group of the American Associa-
ton of University Women next
Friday at 12:45 pm. in the Con-
gressional Room of the Willard
Hotel. DR.. Paul F. Douglas. presi-
dent of American University, will
act as moderator at the luncheon
discussion session. Speakers will
includes Commissioner George E.
Sterling of the FEC. A. D. Willard
of the NAB, Charles Kelly,
(W MAD. William McAndrew
(WNB w, Walter Compton
(WTTG) and a number of others.
WMAL-TV extends its sched-
ule starting tomorrow to come on
the air an hour earlier each day,
at S pm. The program is a one
hour sports show originating in
Baltimore. conducted by Jim
McManus. 1t will feature sports
results and q variety of other
features. e. Abe Burrows has
signed contract with CHS. his
first project to be a 30-minute
ABE Burrows Show" designed for
simultaneous broadcast on radio
and televiSion. Nancy Davis.
of television's "Ramshackle Inn"
seems to have a fair claim to the
honor of being the first video
player signed by Hollywood. She
was picked by MGM for the lead
opposite Zachary Scott in Muir
der In the Doll House"
4 y
Awards and Honors: To the
"RCA-Victor Show" cited by
Musical Courier for. high stand
ards of musical presentation. &. =.
To Thor Ditson. who will conduct
the CHS Symphony in a pro-
gram of his own works today at
SPIN: the Alice M. DitSon award
for leadership in contemporary
music. To Phil Harris and
Alice Fay, a plaque for "the out
standing family show Of the year," F"
by Campus magazine.