Evening star., 1951-04-22
TVH the NIF
Award Giving and Receiving
Enters Its Spring Season
By Horry Macarthur

Call Alan Young and 1.-The Gold
bergs" third. Listing Of Burns and
Allen as the third nomination
serves only to remind this reporter
that he'd better take a look at
them again soon to see if George
Burns has decided yet to do q
televiSion show on TV.
Voting on the dramatic pro-
grams is a little more difficult,
one Of the most agreeable signs
around this Office all week. You
could list half a dozen nominal
tions with justification. You make
Studio One" the No. / choice
without pause, then you vote for
'"TeleviSion Playhouse" and "Tele-
vision Theater." Your only excuse
may be that those are older
friends than Pulitzer Prize Play
house" and Ford Theater," but at
least it's an excuse.
The mystery show category is
one of those with only two nomi-
nations, a Nominating Committee
rebuff the producers of the mys-
terry and detective thrillers may
not take lying down. Anyhow, the
choice is between Suspense" and
Lights Out" if that's choice.
Groucho Moy Be Funnier,
But Iine? Is Fresher
Among the quiz shows the vote
goes to Whats My Line?" over
You Bet Your Life" Groucho
Marx may be funnier, but What's
My Line?" is fresher and does
what television does so we'll
brings you face to face with peo-
pie you wouldn't otherwise meet.
The third-place vote is a write-in
for "Quiz Kids" in place of the
nominated Leave It to the Girls"
The answers are so much more
intelligent.
In considering the children's
shows, it ought to fascinate you
to know, the Nominating Commit
tee has passed up "Howdy-Doody
There is no reason why this
shouldn't be. since merit and not
popularity is the basis for this
voting, but it does seem strange
to vote on children's shows with
out that freckled face staring
back at you.
The f1rst-place vote here goes
to 200 Parade" as entertaining
a zoology lesson as you ever saw.
followed by 'Mr. I. Imagination"
and Super Circus" Next on the
list is the forum discussion cate
CORY. with American Forum of
the Air" Meet the Press" and
Court Of Current Issues" nomi-
mated. Might as well vote for them
in that order.
Musical variety programs come
up next with "Garroway- y-at-Large"
an easy favorite. No matter how
you feel about it's star, this is the
slickest thing in television from
Ia production standpoint. It's
"The Fred Waring Show" for
second place, with '"The Paul
Whiteman Revue" written in as
preferred to your Hit Parade"
The director nominees are Max
Lehman, Fred Coe and Robert
Montgomery. This is not among
the easier choices, but this is the
order in which they'll have to be
ranked, Lehman getting the nod
for the sheer size of that task of
staging the 112-hour "Show of
Shows" every week.
The news commentator field is
the other wherein only two nomi-
nations have been made-DouglaS
Edwards and John Cameron
Swayze. Sheerly on the basis of
the collars Swayze wears, the vote
goes to Edwards.
The final segment Of the TV
ballot is for commercial presenta-
tions, which are those things you
hear family when you have gone
out to the kitchen to make a glass
of lemonade. The less said about
this vote, the better. Don't admit
a thing is the motto around here.