Evening star., 1950-05-07

television, was Joe Dosh when he
was a Washington boy. He also
was the Hit Parade" singer
identified only as "A Guy Named
joe" He got his big break late
last year by way of a strep throat.
when he wasn't allowed to cancel
a record date. His recording of
Again." made with the ailing
throat, was second only to Vaughn
Monroe's Ghost Riders" in sales
for IL weeks. AS you may or
may not have noticed, WNBW has
scheduled a daily motion picture
in the hour at 6 pm. The pub
licity release telling about it in
cludes as intriguing list of movie
stars as you are likely to come
acroSs-Bela Lugosi, Gale Storm,
Doris Day, Forrest Tucker, Ann
Corio. Jack La Rue, Michael
Whalen, Anne Nagel, June Duprez
and Robert Donat. i. . The Roller
Derby will become a WTTG fea-
ture when it moves into Uline
Arena. Telecasts of the spectacle
on wheels are slated for May, II,
16, II, 10, %, "a and 26 at 10 pm.
Hollywood Screen Test"
CWMAL-TV, Saturday. 7:30 p.m)
has lived up to it's name, all right.
In the two years it has been on
the air, IL of the young performers
tested in dramatic scenes have
gone on to Hollywood contracts.
The champion Soda Foun-
taineer" of the District will be
crowned tomorrow night at 7:45
on WOIC's Modern Living" after
being selected by a panel Of Is
high school students who made a
test-taste-t tour yesterday.
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TeleviSion'S expansion continues
at q heady pace. AS of May l
there were 128,100 receivers in
stalled in the District, according
to the Washington Television Cir
culation Committee. Estimates
now are being made that the end
of 1850 will see between 9 and 10
million TV sets in use in the
Nation, with an estimated audi
ence of 35 million. There are
about 5,750,000 sets now scattered
across the country.
A recent Hooper survey of the
situation sets forth the statistic
that the TV audience is larger
than the radio audience in Balti-
more by a ratio of 50.2 per cent
to 49.8 per cent. This is the first
city where this has happened, if
it has happened. A survey expert
her points out that the Hooper
SUI. ,ey is by telephone, that ap-
proximately half of the homes in
Baltimore are without telephones,
that TV sets are largely concen-
trated in telephone homes. which
is not true of radio sets. All of
which indicates that the Hooper
figure is optimistic in television's
favor.
The American Research Bureau,
which counts the viewers and
listeners by diary studies, has no
figures on the TV-radio proper
ton here. The guess was hazarded,
however, that televiewers might
make up from SO to SO per cent
of the entire audience. An in
dividual TV program, OF course,
can pick up q larger audience
than anything else on the air at
the same time. Milton Berle
probably does. Frontier Theater," "
on WMAL-TV, can attract at
least 100000 viewers, far more
than are looking at or listening
TO anything else at the same time.
Programs and People: Felix
Grant, WWDC's "Yawn PATROL
man, is to be one of the guests
on the Robert @. Lewis program
which will fill in for Bing Crosby
during the summer. Roberta
McConnell's Never Marry a
Ranger" to be published tomor-
row, will be dramatized Tuesday
night on "Cavalcade of America. 4"
Frank Sinatra, forced out of
his daily NBC show by illness, is
not expected back until next week.
jeff Clark of "Hft Parade" is fill
ing in for him. WEAM-
Mutuals Straight Arrow" ded-
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