Evening star., 1951-02-05
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By Harry Macarthur

Ii you nave been going around
thinking of Dagmar as a great
big blond named Jennie Lewis,
from Huntington, w. Va, you
have been wrong. She is a great
big blond named Virginia Ruth
Egnor, from Huntington. w. Va.
That, at any rate, is what it says
in the February issue of Cosmo-
politan magazine, of all the places
for Dagmar to turn up.
It says also in this yarn that
the imposing decoration of the
Tuesday. Thursday and Friday
sessions of Broadway Open
House" (WNBW-11 PM is
leaving her mark on the country.
Dagmar fan clubs are springing
up. Husbands all along the coaxial
cable are staying UP till midnight
If they never did before. A book
publisher is bringing out a vol
ume devoted to the things Dag
mar does with words, which often
are startling things.
Cosmopolitan also manages
fair description of what it is that
Dagmar does-"she surrounds her
self with an aura of what might
best be described as uncultured IN
tellectualism." Yes, it might well
be.
This attention given Dagmar
by a magazine with a larger fe-
male than male audience is only
one item of evidence that editors
detect a nationwide interest in
television, even If it is available
in only IS cites. Last week, the
man prof1led by the New Yorker
was DR.. Allen B. DuMont, who
built a television manufacturing
and broadcasting empire on his
improvements in the cathode ray
tube. 4
The current Life has not one,
but three, television stories. The
heroine of the personality fea-
ture is Imogene Coca, whose COM
edy was always considered too
"high-brow" until her success on
the Saturday night "Show of
Shows" (WNBW). Life also looks
at that recent Chicago blaze, "the
most-watched fire in history" and
at the Phonevision tests, also
in Chicago.
Radio isn't being forgotten by
the magazine. either. In that
same February Cosmopolitan
there is report on the Is top
records of all time. The list is
the result of a poll of 20 disc
jockeys who are considered, in
the music business, "the best
and most influential in the trade"
WashinGton's man on that list is
WTOP's Eddie Gallaher.
Looks entry is corking piece
on Tallulah Bankhead, who has
made all that splash on NBC's
'The Big Show" It reports a
number of inspired remarks by
and about Tallulah, including
Howard Dietz's immortal "A day
away from Tallulah is like a
month in the country"
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There is this much to be said
of amos n Andy" The long
time radio favorites are not rush.
ing blindly into television. After
year and a half of additions
and other preparation, CHS is |
now ready to announce the TV
debut of the comedy show, at a |
date and time to be announced
later. 1t probably will be in June. |
Freeman Gosden and Charles
Correll, originators of the charac-
ters who now are almost a part
of American folk lore, will con-
tinue on radio (WTOP-Sunday,
7:30 p.m.). They also will laid in
the production" of the telecast
series. which will be on film with
ve9eran Negro actors in the lead
ing roles.
Program Notes: Billy Rose has
returned to his television show
CWMAL-TV-Tuesday, 9 p.m.)
and henceforth will do the open
ing and closing commentary.
Flowers for Mile" will be to-
morrow nights story. Anne
Marno, Martin Brooks and E. G. |
Marshall will head the cast of
Might Break" on "Suspence"
(WTOP-TV-Tuesday, $50 PM. !
=. Johns Hopkins Science Re-
view (WTTG-Tuesday, $3.50
p.m0 will discuss this week what
scientists are doing to help farm
ers get larger and better eggs and
chickens with more meat on them.
.. :. Edmund Lowe, motion picture
star for many years has started
work on a television program,
Front Page Detective" which will
come east by kinescope. =. Jack
Dempsey is rumored being con-
sldered for TV show-for the
moppetS, yet. :. Fred Allen seems
really to have given up on tele-
vision for this season, if not for
ever. He has been signed on as one