Evening star., 1951-04-26
On the Air
And q Happy
Birthday
To Puris
By Harry Macarthur

might and Jerry Lester, OF all peo-
pile, already has done so.
1 It's trend and you might &c
along with it. Happy 2,000th
birthday, city of Paris.
II ~ ~
1 Another Star: The CBS-TV star
roster has just been increased to
two with the signing of Maria
Riva to an exclusive. long-term
contract" She has made only
three network television appear
ances-the last on Studio One"
but network officials believe "she
shows promise of becoming one OF
the mediums brightest stars"
! The 26-year-old actress was
Maria Manton before she married
i William Riva, an instructor in
scenic design at Fordham. This
union ultimately resulted in Mar
Ilene Dietrich becoming a grand
mother, since she is Maria S
mother. and the Rivas have two
sons.
/ Miss Riva, as CHS prefers to call
her, made her first and only screen
appearance at the age OF nine,
with her mother in "The Scarlet
Empress" When she was is. she
enrolled at the Max Reinhardt
Academy in California and re-
manned there as a teacher after
her graduation. With Jack Geller
she helped organize Geller's work
shop, where one of her pupils
was Mary Sinclair, signed three
weeks ago as the first CBS-TV
dramatic star.
! Miss Riva's first chore under her
new contract will be a co-starring
role with Barry Krueger in "Por-
trait by Rembrandt, to be pre-
sented by Studio One" next Mon
day night.
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Program Notes: Star Cartoonist
James T. Bergman is late addi-
Ition to the guest roster on
1--WE, the People" tomorrow night
(WNBW-8:30 p.m) He will be
telling the television audience
about his experiences as the first
civilian to go along on "dry run"
atom bombing rehearsal, which he
has described for readers of The
Star and Look Magazine ;.
Second Threshold" which closed
last Saturday night after l6 weeks
Ion Broadway, will be presented to-
morrow night on Pulitzer Prize
Playhouse" (WMAL-TV-9 p.mo
The play was begun by Philip
Barry and completed after his
death by Pulitzer prize winner
Robert E. Sherwood. Give Brook
and Betsy Won Furstenberg play
the leading roles Edgar Ber-
gems third television program (not
counting his recent guest appear
ance) is scheduled for tomorrow
night at $50 on CBS-TV (WTOP-
TV. The show was put on film
at the Jerry Fairbanks studios in
Hollywood.
! Personal and NOt-So-Personal:
Bob Hopes radio sponsor has re-
newed for another year and at
the same time has taken a one
year option on his television Sery-
ices. The radio program will con-
tinue in the TueSday-at-9 slot on
NBC Hopalong Cassidy is
slated for a Washington personal
appearance soon in connection
with the 18th annual School Pa
troll Assembly, to be held here
May IL and 13 .. Whodunit ad-
diets apparently are going to be
kept happy by TV this summer.
Another scheduled for a regular
niche is Man Hunt" which will
substitute for the TV "Hit Pa
rade" during the seasonal hiatus
. WNBW's Jeanne Warner will
take a trip north" in a week
or so to entertain troops Con-
slant Reader Chis name is Cody
Pfanstiehl and he gets paid to
read TV columns) says that Vic
tor .Borge may have a Nielsen
rating within f1ve-tenths of a
point of Sam Levenson but that
Washingtonians "love Levenson
one-third more than they love
Borge" Since he does not often
have the chance to haunt TV rat
ings, he may as well be allowed
to quote these, which are the
Washington Pulse figures for
March. The rating is lis for
Levenson (WTOP-TV-Saturday
PM and 9.5 for Borge (WNBW
Saturday, 7 p.mD. If Mr.. Pf.
comes around late IN May with
some April figures, you will be
advised.
II X X
Radio Department: What hap
pened to "Of Human Bondage
on THE Somerset Vaughan Tele-
vision Theater" has not deferred
Mr.. Maugham's sponsors. 1.-The
Somerset Vaughan Radio Thea
ter" will present a two-part ver-
sion of Bondage" first half COM
ing up Saturday at 1880 am. or
WTOP F.. Progress in getting
rid of discrimination in the Armed
Services will be discussed on THE
New Frontier of Human Freedom
series Saturday night at 10 on
WWDC Charles E. Wilson's
speech before the American News
nannr p11hlicharc Association will