Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-26
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Ed Wynn Moves to Tuesday Night
In Search of an Audience
BY Harry Macarthur

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father naturally marks with prop
er ceremony. The Stone solution:
Mr.. and Mrs. and the two children
will take a drawing room on the
train and celebrate en- route.
Telenotes: A stellar cast is be-
ing lined up to support Bob Hope
when he makes his big-league
television debut in Commute
holiday show two weeks from to-
day on NBC. Bea Lille, Dinah
Shore and Douglas Fairbanks are
three of those announced SO far.
Jerry Fairbanks Productions
is adding New York studio facili-
ties to those already in use in
Hollywood for making films for
television. Dave Garroway re-
ports he is a happy man even
with commercial sponsorship of
his Sunday night (WNBW) show.
Most people want sponsors, but
Mr.. Garroway and his admirers
were afraid sponsor would want
him ito add jugglers and funny
hats. We didn't" he says happily,
land to top it all off the sponsor
lets us sell the product in our
own way. All this and money,
too" New York's Stork Club
will be the setting for a new TV
program now in the works. Boss
Sherman Billingsley will appear
on it. The Show Goes On"
(WIOC. Thursday. $50 pm;
WTOP. Friday, PM has sent
one of its graduates to a Broad
way success. She is Gloria Lane,
who met the approval of the crit
les for her singing in Gian-Carlo
Menotti's THE Consul" i.
There are those who ought to
know who say oast-to-coast net
work television, via coaxial cable
and microwave relay. is not likely
before 1852. J.. After getting his
feet wet in TV recently, Jack Car
son may return to New York for
three more shows after the De-
troit theater date he started Fri
day. Gertrude Berg ("The
Goldbergs") last week became the
third person to receive the Quaker
City Jewish Community's HUI
manitarian Award in Philadelphia.
Previous recipients have been Ed
die Cantor in 1947 and Jesse
Lasky in 1913. No award was
made in 1949. Nick Kenny,
the New York columnist and song
writer, made an entry in the con-
test seeking 1.-THE Howdy Doody
Boy of 1880" His nominee: Ar
thur Godfrey. When he en-
barked recently on his sea voy-
age, Valentin A. Gubitchev took
along a capitalist television set.
Bet he doesn't see any "Kukla,
Fran and Ollie" where he's go
ing.
Programs and People: A single
30-second appeal by Jack Berch
on his 1880 am. NBC singing
session turned Mrs. Edward Rus
sells annual charity from q per-
sonal enterprise to 4 gigantic
project which will call for the
help Of the entire population of
her home town. Richmond, Que
bee. Mrs. Russell yearly makes
up packets Of used Christmas
cards to send to leper colony in
South Africa. She wrote to Mr..
Berch asking for help in collect
ing cards. She got it, in 20 tons
of mail containing some 5000, 900
cards, with more arriving every
day. >. Arturo Toscanini marked
his SD birthday yesterday, with
business as usual, rehearsing
and conducting the NBC Sym
phony. WWDC has sched-
uled the 13-week series, For
the Living" in cooperation with
the American Cancer Society. The
drst drama, Wednesday at 10
pm, will have Edward G. Robin
son as narrator. The first Of
six documentaries with the gen.
eral theme the Pursuit OF Peace"
being presented by MBS and
United Nations Radio. will be
aired tonight at 1880 on WEAM.
Joan Crawford, Maurice Evans,
Charles Boyer. Van Heflin, Robert
Young and Edward G. Robinson
head the cast. The program was
written and will be produced by
Norman Corwin, now chief of spe-
cial projects for United Nations
Radio. This special project will
continue through the spring and
summer, with broadcasts about
a month apart. Leo Gem,
British Aim and stage star, will
be narrator for the first of 13
Recovery Story" programs to be
broadcast by WRC next Saturday
at 7:30. The series, telling the
story of the three-year operation
of the Marshall Plan, is being
presented jointly by NBC and the
ECA. Our Gal Sunday" the
CHS daily serial, starts it's 14th
year on the air with tomorrow's
broadcast. Capitol Cloak
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