Evening star., 1949-09-18
News of Video and Radio
Football Is on the Air and TV
Is Ready to Catch 1t
BY Horry Macarthur

MocAFthur
Iaware that the majority of foot
ball fans are impatiently eager
throughout all of Saturday after
noon to know how a great number
of games are coming along. We
have also learned that each school
through local radio stations pro-
vides a detailed broadcast in the
immediate vicinity. ="
Throughout your review you
refer to television. Television has
a great deal to offer. Radio still
has plenty to offer and what we
are doing In our three hour Foot
ball Roundup is to make use of
the available powers and facilities
OF radio and we are not waiting
for television to push us into a
corner. Television will be a long
time matching coverage of foot
ball such as we are now perform
ing"
In other words. If we want to
watch one football game we can
go right ahead and do it, but Mr..
Barber will continue to cater to
that vast majority which has in
dicated high approval of his
system.
Sign-of-the- Times Note: Ed
die Cline has been a director of
motion picture features for 81
years. He started in the movie
business as a keystone Kop" and
one Of his continuing claims to
fame lies in the fact that he di-
rected the first Mack Sennett
bathing beauty comedy. During
his long cinema career he also has
been the man at the helm on sew
eral of the w. c. Fields comedies,
among them MY Little Chicka-
dee" and Never Give a Sucker an
Even Break" which still rank
among the funniest films ever
made. Mr.. Cline, apparently
casting about for a business with
a future, has just turned his back
on Hollywood and the movies to
enter television. He will direct
the Olsen-Johnson "Fireball Fun
for-All" show when it returns to
NBC-TV this week, now as a
Thursday night feature.
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Telenotes: Add to beauty con-
tests the one being conducted by
WNBW to select q television
queen to be crowned at the COM
ing Home Builders Show. Entry
blanks. if you are talented and
beautiful $50 per cent each), are
available at WRC in the Trans
Lux Building. WOIC has q
schedule change slated to start
tomorrow. Jim Simpsons sports
show moves into the 6:45-to-6:50
slot, with Claude Mahoney fol-
lowing with news. This allows
"Sketch-a-Quiz," with Judd Whit
ing giving prizes to people who
can tell what Buddy Pappas is
drawing, to expand to a half
hour. from 7 to 1880. Milton
Berle returns this week to his
Tuesday night spot on NBC-TV.
Programs and People: Bah Lin
coin, who used to report on So
ciety and women's affairs before
she turned to public relations, will
move her ''Lunching at the May
flower with Bah Lincoln" to
WMAL. The Transcribed inter-
view and feature news show starts
its second season tomorrow night
at $3.50 and will be heard every
Monday. 'The Joe Di Mag
gio Show" new variety sports
program with the Yankee star,
got under way yesterday as a
regular Saturday at 10 am. fea-
ture on CHS (WTOP). This
week will see a number of the
stars returning from the sum-
mer vacation. Among them are
Phil Harris and Alice Faye (to-
night on NBC), Bob Hope (Tues-
day on NBC). Bing Crosby (Wed-
nesday on CBS) and George Burns
and Oracle Allen (also Wednes-
day on CBS). Ted Malone,
radios rowing reporter, moves to
a new time on ABC (WMAL)
starting tomorrow. He will be
heard daily, Monday through Fri
day at 3:55 pm. Alan Cum
mings, WWDC's "Yawn Patrol"
disc jockey, collected $500. for the
National Polio Epidemic Emer-
gency Drive the other morning
by trading requests for dollar bills.
Ten Veterans Cab Co. drivers
donated their time and effort to