Evening star., 1950-01-15
News of Video and Radio
Another Television Station, WOIC,
Celebrates an Anniversary
By Harry Macarthur

Macarthur
Leo De Orsey. and the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, but Variety,
the show business weekly, is will
ing to hazard guess. Its guess
is ''in the neighborhood of $780,
900 a year." Well, he's a thou
sand times funnier than Milton
Berle and Berle gets more than
100000 a year.
In review:
The Saturday night fireworks
promised by CBS-TV turned out
to be half damp flzzle and half
real pyrotechnics. About all that
was proved a week ago was that
Ed Wynn is just as funny on Sat-
urday night as he was on Thurs
day night, which came as no great
surprise. Mr.. Wynn's version of a
silent movie, performed with some
agile aid from Lucille Ball, was
one of the funniest sessions TV
has yet provided. Recently NBC
frightened DuMont with an offer
to buy block of Saturday night
time, move which prompted Du-
Mont to cry out to the FEC that
some rich people were trying to
set up a monopoly around here.
AS long as Ed Wynn, is around no
opposition is going to set up any
monopolies.
The wet fuse that just splut-
tered through an hour and finally
went out was the one supposed to
set off a great explosion in the
Ken Murray hour. No one IA
miliar with Mr.. Murrays work
will be surprised that he brought
nothing new to television, of
course. Mr.. Murray is the same
master of ceremonies on video as
he is anywhere else, and if you
find him hilarious, you are free
to make him your Saturday night
Milton Berle. The contents of his
hour seemed to this reviewer not
so much poor entertainment as
tjust lacklustre. Maybe television,
which revived it, is going to kill
off vaudeville again before it
realizes it.
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Telenotes: THE Show Goes
On" promised variety program
with Robert @. Lewis as master
OF ceremonies, finally makes it's
debut this coming Thursday over
CHS. The first TV show is
scheduled for 10 pm, but you'll
find it moving around on Thurs
day nights for a month or so until
permanent spot can be settled.
The AM version, a recording of
the audio portion of the TV pro-
gram, will be broadcast by CHS
on Fridays at $50 pm. Life
Begins at 80," which concluded
a year as an MBS radio show last
September, became an NBC-TV
show last week. 1t is on alternate
Friday nights at $50. Jeanne
Warner starts a new TV disc
jockey show tomorrow night at
10:30 on WNBW. Her first guest
star will be Carlos Ramirez, the
Colombian movie singer now at
the Latin Quarter of the Old New
Orleans. Miss Warner-plus
Ray Michael and some other
people-has just been driven out
of that longtime "Television Jour-
nal" spot by the kiddies' cowboy
craze. Journal is being replaced
on WNBW at 6 pm. daily by
Cactus Jim," followed by q car
toon program. -. Conrad Nagel,
host OF ABC-TV's Sunday night
! Celebrity Time" has just become
producer of the show as well. =,
Programs and People: A new
program on which persons in
volved in controversial news will
be allowed to give their side of the
story makes it's debut today on
Mutual. 1t is titled "Rebuttal"
and will be heard at 9:15 pm. :
The 1850 March of Dimes drive
will be opened today by Basil
lO'Connor over the ABC network
at 3:15 pm. Another March of
Dimes program, featuring Irving
Berlin and a number of other
musical notables, is scheduled for
Wednesday at $50 pm. on ABC.
-. jackson Lowe of WWDC, who
knows from personal experience
how it feels to be a child polio
victim, also joins the March of
Dimes drive today. During the
campaign every request for a mu-
sical number must be accom-
panied by contribution. i. :.
Nancy Osgood, director of wom-
ems activities for WRC, has start
ed her eighth year with the
station. James Stewart has
joined the repertory group of
Family Hour of Stars" (WTOP-
Sunday, 6 p.m.), along with
Loretta Young, Jane Wyman,
Irene Dunno, Dana Andrews and
others. . The latest to join the
disc jockey set is 10 Stafford,
I the popular singer. She is taking
the American radio institution to
Radio Luxembourg-via transcript
tions made in Hollywood. =.
Marquis Childs (Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday and Joseph c.
Harsch (Tuesday and Thursday
share a new program of news
commentary on WCFM daily at
! 7:30 pm. Jim Gibbons WMAL,
J WMAL-TV sports director, has
been named, of all things, honor
airy captain of the girls basketball