Evening star., 1950-11-19

and the Baltimore scientists have
demonstrated have made thi.
program something in which
Johns Hopkins, and now Du Mont
can take a great deal of pride.
We can't help wondering whether
it Is an accidental or an inten.
tional irony that televisien'!
history some day will show thai
"The Johns Hopkins Science Re-
view" was scheduled opposite
Milton Berle.
Bob Hope and NBC Could
Leorn a TV Lesson
While this was being writer
another story arrived at the desk
which makes Mr.. Poole look ever
better. He may even have to leave
that science show to subor-
dinate and become the savior oi
television. This new story is from
NBC. The heading reads: "Bot
Hope Will Have All-GI Audience
for His First Show on The
Comedy Hour"
Seems the International Thea
ter In New York is going to be
filled with representatives of cal
branches of the armed forces
when Mr.. Hope does this next
Sunday night at 8 (WNBW). This
is fine. The boys in the armed
forces deserve all any one can give
them. But if Mr.. Hope is. as NBC
says, doing this show for "an all
CT audience" that lets a lot OF
us out, doesn't it? It has been
apparent for some time. Of course.
that the radio-enriched come
dians have become so accustomed
to playing to studio audiences
that no other audience matters
to them, but around here we al
ways keep hoping for improve
ment.
What a contrast to the radio
born attitude Is the one which
grew out of Mr.. Poole'S study OF
television. In his book, Science
via Television," he says. so simply
and clearly:
"Television programs must be
constructed from things that
constantly happen before the eyes
of the audience" Audience, to
the man who wrote that, mear.s
all the people at home watching
television. They are represented,
it will be a happy night when
Mr.. Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jack
Benny and any numbec of others
find out, by the lens of the tele-
vision camera on which the red
light is lit to indicate that
the camera Is in use.
If TeIevision Hurt,
So Did the Weather
Jerry Jordan, who recently ana
lyzed THE Long Range Effect of
Television and Other Factors on
Sports Attendance" has come up
now with an analysis of the 1850
baseball season. There were five
factors, he finds, accountable for
the attendance drop. These in
clude: % Weather. for one third
of the loss in the majors: CD i'm
proved performance in majors
shifted to smaller drawing clubs,
to overall attend
ance decrease; CD drop from
postwar peaks; "a new TV own
ers hurt attendance temporarily,
and (5) major league sportscasts,
radio and TV, hurt minors more
than majors.
In eight leagues which drew
more than / million paid ad-
missions in 1949. Mr.. Jordan dis
covered, 20 televised teams had
better attendance records in 1850
than IS non-televised clubs.
Some Rondom Notes,
Proqrom and Personal
Peter Lind Hayes and Mary
Healy start new show on NBC-
TV Thursday night at $50. .
DIR. Christian" becomes a TV fea-
ture tomorrow by way of a series
Of Jean Hersholt's films. to be
seen Mondays at 8 on WTTG.
jim Gibbons. morning man for
WMAL. sportscaster, rassle and
fight commentator on WMAL-TV
and football commentator on one
or the other or both, became a
father for the fourth time a week
ago. Happened on the Saturday
the Metropolitan Opera
replaced sports on WMAL and he
he didn't even miss a COM
Gene Klavan's "Capi-
tai Punishment" (WTOP-nightly
1902 a.mD began drawing such
an audience that he tried it out
last night from the Arena Stage
in the Hippodrome Theater, fine
place for an extrovert to work
Could turn into a regular thing
maybe. Les Sand, of WTTG's
nightly Game Room" was one OF
the people considered as a re-
placement for Morey Amsterdam
on NBC-TV's Broadway Oper
House" Didn't like giving up q
good thing here for a two-week
cancellation clause there, though
Turned down a CBS-TV show in
New York for the same reason
=. Latest rumored Mr.. and Mrs
show for radio. s'help us: The
Duke and Duchess of Windsor.