Evening star., 1949-01-30
| News of Video and Radio
Godfrey Is Exception to Video Planning to
/ Rate Camera Over Microphone
By Harry Macarthur


followed by Cartoon Teletales" and
THE Singing Lady," both of. which
already have horde of young
followers.
That familiar dancing figure on
the lavish new Broadway Revue"
which had its premiere Friday night
on WNBW and WTTG, was Wash
ington's Barbara Cole. Miss Cole
has been signed on as a regular
member of the cast, which includes
Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca and
Marge and Cover Champion, among
others. She'll be an actress singer
as well as featured ballet dancer.
Miss Cole got her training here
with Lisa Gardiner and she has
danced in Song of Norway okla
homa!' and Music in My Heart"
and spent year with Ballet The
alter. She Is, as television hands go,
an old one, having appeared on
number of variety shows last year.
The National Symphony Orches-
ira, which made its television debut
the other night at the Inaugural
Gala, will be telecast again this week
In a regular program conducted by
Howard Mitchell. The station will
be WMAL-TV. The occasion will
be the next Star Neighborhood Con-
cert, Thursday night at Western
High School, when the symphony's
campaign for funds is launched.
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Program Notes: Henry Muslin,
who left the city room of The Star
to become CHS newsman, is back
at his old stand. Now he has a
desk equipped with, in addition to
relative of the old typewriter he
used to pound into submission, a
news teletype, microphones and
assorted electrical equipment, his
regular chore being The Star news
bFoadcasts over WMAL at 6 and III
pm. The noon assignment has
gone to Bill Coyle, who has been
talking into local microphones since
he was almost boy winning an
nouncing awards. A new con-
cert series, Pioneers of Music"
starts on WRC next Saturday after
noon at 3. 1t will be the second
major step in the home-study phase
of MICS University of the Air, this
to be conducted in conjunction with
the University of Southern Cali
fornia. A question for which
almost any taxpayer has a ready
answer, DO We Need More Taxes?"I
will be discussed tomorrow night on
the American Forum of the Air"
(WOL, WOIC-10 p.m0. :.
Youth Asks the Government"
which WMAL sends to the ABC net
work every Tuesday night at g.,
celebrates its second birthday this
week. The program. conducted by
John Edwards, was honored in 1947
by the Institute for Education by
Radio. Mind in the Shadow"
an inquiry into mental health prob
lens in the. United States, is the
CHS Documentary Units next spe-
cial one-hour program. 1t is sched-
uled for 10 pm. Wednesday
(WTOP).
Battle Lines: Now that CBS has
its Crosby, Benny and Shelton for
the wagS to toy with. the network
boss, William S. Paley, is laying
plans to use them and others to
best adva ntage. According to Variety,
the show business journal, the line
ups he has in mind for next season
are these: Ozzie and Harriet, Jack
Benny, Amos n Andy, Edgar Bergen
and Red Shelton on Sunday nights;
Bing Crosby, Fibber MCGEE and
Molly and Bob Hope On Wednesday
nights.
NBC, so the story goes, is about
resigned to leaving Horace Heidi op-
posite Benny. And there's nothing
wrong with Phil Harris and Alice
Faye that a spot, other than the one
facing Amos n Andy, wouldn't cure.
So NBC seems preparing to battle
the Sunday-at-7 bogey, not on AM,
but on television. 1t has big show
in the works about which nothing is
being said beyond the fact that it's
scheduled into that video niche op-
posite the unseen Benny. NBC does
own a pair Of the brigest new COM
edy talents, those Of Dean Martin
and Jerry Lewis, and this might
be where you'll be seeing them.
CHS is not ignoring television with
all that talent 1t has gathered up.
Jack Benny's video debut is slated
to be made in q month or so on
special program. This will be what
the trade calls q one-shot. not the
start of q series, but 1t also might
be a test flight for a lot Of CHS peo-
pie. Benny is expected to be ac-
companied by Amos n Andy, Mar
garet Whiting, Lum n Abner and
possibly Crosby and Bergen.