Evening star., 1949-12-18
| News of VideO and Radio
Christmas Tree Lighting and Other Special
Programs to Be Seen and Heard
Bv Harry Macarthur
By Harry Macarthur

men will work with televi-
sion specialists in the development
of operate adaptations of high
artistic caliber." Lawrence Tibbett
is the artistic director. The first
production will be Bizet's Car
men," with Gladys Swarthout and
Robert Merrill in leading roles, to
be sung January at pm. {.
Ollie, the distinguished and cru
dite dragon of MICS "Kukla, Fran
and Ollie" was being unhappy the
other day because of reports that
his audience was slipping away to
watch something called Captain
Video" If it is any consolation to
him, the latest Pulse figures for
the Washington audience list
'Kukla, Fran and Ollie in top
place among the daily TV shows.
"The Sleeping Beauty" will
be tonight's Christmas present to
the usual children of all ages"
from Tonight on Broadway" by
way of the fantasy sequence in
"Howdy, Mr. Ice of 1880" :.
WNBW's staff scored another tele.-
vision first last Monday night in
taking a camera out to cover the
plane crash and Boiling Field res
cue. The station was feeding the
network a visual report from the
disaster scene while the rescue
work still was under way. !
Strictly for Laughs" CBS-TV
musical show featuring the Kirby
Stone Quintet. becomes a four
times-a-week feature starting to-
morrow (WOIC-7 PM. The
Nations 98th television station
went on the air yesterday CWXEL
in Cleveland, Ohio. The 9th sta
ton (WOAI-TV brought the
number of television cities in the
country to So when it started reg
ular programming recently in San
Antonio. Television receiver
manufacturers, who have watched
their wares being offered at sale
prices recently, were caught fiat
footed by an unexpected rush of
Christmas business. All are run
ming at capacity and some are
falling behind in supplying eager
dealers.
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Programs and People: Mar
garet Truman is turning partly
to Christmas music for her broad
cast Tuesday night on the
Carnegie Hall program. She will
sing Silent Night" Little Town
of Bethlehem" and an operatic
aria. :. The Carnegie Hall series,
incidentally. has been renewed
starting in January and will con-
tinue on ABC. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ronald Colman. most famous on
radio as Jack Benny's next-door
neighbors, will start their own
radio program in January on
NBC. 1t will be a situation COM
edy series titled The Halls of
Ivy" and will be heard on Fridays
at 8 pm. =. NBC also has found
a sponsor for its Screen Di-
rectors' Playhouse" Its brother
firm. the RCA-Victor division of
RCA, takes it over and will pre-
sent it on the full network Fri
days at 10 pm, starting January
6. A new audience participa-
ton program, Comedy of Errors"
will make its debut on Mutual
on Christmas eve at 7::30. Jack
Bailey, the Queen for a Day"
man. will be the featured per-
former. ;. Lets Talk it Over"
a series OF round-table discussions
presented by the Prince Georges
Council OF Parent Teacher Asso-
Citations, starts Tuesday at sos
pm. on WINK. -. Cedric Adams,
the Minneapolis columnist who is
known around his home grounds
as "Mr. Northwest" expands to
the national scene after the first
OF the year. Now known nation
ally as the man whose Minneap-
oils column is weekly ad in the
New Yorker, Mr.. Adams will do
a daily radio stint at 1855 pm,
Monday through Friday, on CHS,
starting January 3.
Arthur Godfrey Department:
The redhead is a popular man out
in Cleveland, Ohio, too. The
Cleveland Plain Dealers annual
radio poll, the Nations oldest
continuous census of fan opin-
ion" has just discovered him a
Walkaway favorite with listeners