Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-20
On the Air
The Senator
Proves He
Knows TV
By Harry Macarthur

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York. Housewives have discarded
their brooms, bartenders have
dropped their towels and business
| men have set aside their chores
to watch intently as the commit
tee has put a combined spotlight
and heat lamp on crime.
The response to these telecasts
as it shows up at broadcaSting
station telephone Switchboards in
dicates that they are attracting
even wider interest than those OF
the United Nations general assem-
bly, and security council sessions
Start to watch and only the most
urgent business tears you away.
1t was on a regularly scheduled
television entertainment Sunday
night. however, that Sen. Kefau-
yer demonstrated how we'll he has
adapted himself to this new me-
dunn. The program was What's
My Line?" an adaptation of a
parlor game, which has a panel
trying to guess the occupations of
visitors from all walks of life, by
the yes" or mo" answers to ques-
tons. The occupations are not
usually ordinary and the panel is
generally amusing and it makes a
diverting show.
7 Sen. Kefauver was Sunday
nights celebrity challenger" in
/ the weekly feature in which the
panel is blindfolded and tries to
determine the identity of a we'll
known visitor. After he was iden-
titled there was a round of wish
we-had-your-ratings and Hal
Block, the comedy writer, feeling
his responsibility as the wit of the
panel. tried to nail on the topper.
Il think we should tell the Sem
ator," he said, how much we
like his new show, What's My
Crime?'"
Thank you," said Senator
Kefauver. And 1 want you to
know how happy 1 am to be meet
ing you HERE"
/ Now, What's That Sponsors
Nance: Bouquets and Bonuses, Z"
as you may have gathered if you
watched it Sunday afternoons on
/ WMAL-TV, was sponsored by a
trade association of local florists.
Well, the phone rang last Sunday
at the conclusion of the last show
in the series, while cast and crew
were standing around bidding
each other goodbye Jerry Strong,
who had just given away a
stable jackpot, chore he cheer
fully performs for a sponsor, went
out to take the call. In a few
minutes he came back.
Man wants to know what florist
in Arlington is a member, Sc
he can buy some flowers" said
Mr.. Strong. He drew the finest
collection of blank looks ever as
sembled in one place. Nobody
around there knew anything about
that.
/ Now, They're Interested: Alan
/ Young has television to thank for
reSuming movie career. The
young comic found Hollywood CIV
ing him the disinterested stare
after three film roles and he
turned back to radio and then
embraced television. His success
on that later medium won him
"a Paramount contract and he
now has been awarded a part
which number of movie per-
sonalities had their eyes on.
/ This is the AndrocleS role in
the Gabriel Pascal production of
Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and
the Lion" for which Howard
Hughes just signed Mr.. Young.
1t goes before the cameras at
RKO-Radio studios on May IS,
all conflicts with Mr.. Young's
future commitments having been
ironed out. The word from Holly
wood is that the Young Hughes
deal is multi-picture pact and in
dications the that the Edinburgh
born comic is finally getting what
he went to Hollywood for in the
first place-a movie career.
x X X X
/ Programs and People: Robert
Cummings will be the Somerset
Vaughan Television Theater" star
tomorrow night at (WTOP-TV)
The play will be 1.-THE Luncheon"
story of young man elated and
frustrated by his love for the rich
est girl in the world. Jimmy
Durante will be back on -Four
Star Revue" tomorrow (WNBW-
8 PM. with Carmen Miranda
as his special guest, which sounds
as though lively hour is in order
. Jim Hawthorne is the latest
Hollywood TV star due for a build
up by NBC-TV. Your Junior
Revue" will get a new time next
Sunday on WNBW, starting at
1880 am, recessing for a half =
hour at IL, resuming from 1890
ito l. . When Jack Benny was
bedded with the flu recently and
filled his Sunday evening time
with a recording of a 3-year-old
show, everyone on the tape was
paid the original fee. Johns
Hopkins Science Review starts its