Evening star., 1951-05-25
On the Air
| TeIevision
Better Stuy
lOut of Here
By Harry Macarthur

economy and lett its mark on our
culture. 1t has made large groups
of people believe that wrestling
lis a sport, that interviewing in
Pan Alley composers is an art, that
a puppet named Howdy -Doody
ought to be president and that
there really is a Milton Berle.
No one knows to what limits
television can go, so there are
some areas of our civilization
where its influence must not be
allowed.
Those Of you who read and
were cheered by illustrator Vargas
comments on the future shape Of
American women in The Star the
other day had better join ranks.
Varga sees influences at work
which will make American wo-
men unrestrained and, in general,
Ilong-legged properly curvaceous
resemblances to the pin-up girls
he draws.
This is one of the most cheer
ing glimpses of the future any
one has had in several years. but
the sinister influence Of television
is at work in this field, too. Tele-
vision, says John Wray. the
choreographer and director of
Toast of the Town." has re-
Ivamped the size, shape and stat
ure of the chorus girl.
Television, he indicates. does
not want any Varga-type girls.
The TV chlorine must be neither
too tall nor too short, too curva-
lceouS nor too thin. but must hit
the middle ground" and have a
pleasant face"
"The girls we use on Toast" "
says Wray. come pretty close
to the perfect television picture
fairly small thighs, straight legs,
a minimum Of rounded calf, LOG
to 125 pounds. medium height,
with well-rounded but not over
developed curves"
The course is clear, men. We
must get a white horse for Dag
mar so she can lead us into the
fray, shouting the battle cry.
"Vasga!" Are we going to let
television turn the American
woman into a mere pleasant
faced, straight-legged. medium.
under-developed, minimum-round-
ed middle-grounder? The an
swer is mol" and television had
better beware.
Weekend Guests:
Saturday: Dorothy Kilgallen
and Daughter Vicki, on THE
Sam Levenson Show" (WTOP-TV
% .. Ben Blue and Florence
Desmond, on THE Jack Carter
Show" (WNBW-8 =. Washing
ton Harmonicist Johnny Puleo, on
THE Ken Murray Show" (WTOP-
TV-8 Laraine Day. on.
Your Show Of Shows" (WNBW
-9 ...J. Carol Naish and Phil
Foster, on "The Frank Sinatra
Show" (WTOP-TV-3) -. Mimi
Benzell. on "The at Home Show"
(WTOP-TV-1D.
Sunday: Price Stabilizer Michael
v. Disable, on American Forum
of the Air" (WNBW, WRC-1:30). .
. Senator Robert A. Taft, on
Meet the Press (WNBW-4). +.
Wanda Hendrix and Barbara
Whiting in "a New Year for Mar
Igaret," on "Bigelow Theater"
(WTOP-TV-6. Lima Romay,
on "The Paul Whiteman Revue"
(WNdAL-TV-O. -. Vivian Blaine
and Herb Shriner, on This Is
Show Business (WTOP-TV-
1880. Connie Haines, visiting
Eddie Cantor, on 1.-THE Comedy
Hour" (WNBW-8). Brig.
Gen. John H. Michaelis, recently
returned from Korea. on "Penta-
gon- Washington CWTTG-T:30)
:. Dan Morgan as Floyd Collins
and Sandy Campbell as Reporter
William Burke Miller, in RES
cue," on "Television Playhouse"
/ (WNBW-9. Victor Borge,
on "The Fred Waring Show"
(WTOP-TV-9. Fred Allen
and Portland Hoffa, on Gar
roway at Large" (WNBW-1O. i.
. Jarmila Novotna and Eugene
List, on Celebrity Time" (WTOP-
ITV-10).
Monday: Washington's Shirley
Talbot. on Hollywood Screen
Test" (MWAL-TV-7:30. d.
frankie Laine. on the Premiere
performance of the new Jerry
Colonna Show" (WMAL-TV-S) &.
f. Sarah Churchill and jeffrey
Lynn, in Sweet Sorrow" on
"Vidio Theater" (WTOP-TV-8).
+. The Philadelphia Athletics,
meeting the Mats at Griffith Sta
dium (WTTG-8:20). Eleanor
Steber, on Voice of Firestone"
(WNBW, WRC-8:3O. June
Dayton and John Forsyte, in
THE Pattern" on Lights Out"
(WNBW-9. June Havoc, in
|"Cakes and Ale" on Somerset
Vaughan Theater" (WNBW--
9:30). .. Vivienne Segal and
Judson Laire, in Here Is My
Life" on Studio One" (WTOP-
TV-10.
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Programs and People: ABC's
Saturday night television feature
for 10 weeks starting tomorrow
will be home games of the Queens
of America women's softball team
in Chicago. WMAL-TV will carry
the telecasts from 9 to ii pm. . {.
Evelyn Knight, Washington con-
Itribution to radio, television, rec
ords, cabarets and theaters, will
he given a Sneria1 Y,Iocn,,a toy,noy