Evening star., 1951-06-10
he Posing Show
The Posing Show
Movies Feel Better
About TV as Rival
Shape Of Things to Come Is Vague,
But Not Quite So Terrifying
By Joy cormody


Some cynical sxthgrade pupil look forward to
writing his masters degree thesis decade hence may as well
begin simplifying the task right
All daily paper for the predictions
being made the future of televon together with the
stories editorials and columns which seethe with contro
which televsion tomorrow
It merely that vdeo caught the imagination it has
last with the Of the first heaer TV broad
championship fight June 49, This
fight is not the 10mondol Of course not by approx-
maey $s5 Million but who knows how far dollar will go in
such fantastic atmosphere?
Maybe There Will Be Even Bigger Ones
Certainly not this correspondent So far he has even
idea przeght gates to $40 Million which
movie heaers with TV naturally which freul OF the
future have to be enlarged 20 80 times take of
video fight fans There might also be- SIS million Army
they
and leave only the playing field In such OF course the
Yale Bowl most other SadumS turned children
1of pvsrounos H. OF course cnhoren are young enough OF w
enough not to want to the football movies Or the prize
fight movies roller derby girls baseball what have you?
reference future televsion
possible predict its complete dominance Of the future
everything sleep by (atoug
while the other merely sit back and listen to the predictions
Letter More Tranquil Way Of Life
The latter is the more TRANQUIL way OF life The truth is that
1t be amusing than the funniest thing eevison
In the movies or in the theater.
The OF prediction toward which this department keeps
bent the theater the months
this has been somewhat morbid experience The predictions
have not been merely gloomy they have been catastrophe
This changing. they had worried enough theater
operators producers
ting the others do it. The National Collegiate Athletic Association
about whether to eev football instance The minor leagues
in baseball that major RCA
about which color shall decorate the future the
of Of those big expensive teevison hours who be
oned day by millions Of home reviewers deserted by those
who have CONT to watch hear Tv przegh world beauty
contest
Misery Gets Lot Of Company
only because they crowded Of misery by the
rival entertainment operators feeling better in
the last few weeks.
For the benefit that sxth-g start collecting
his thesis material this morning here's this
correspondent this week from top figure the
movie industry
Its not bad we've been thinking Hollywood
moving shouldn't it? makes distributes
pictures and knows about both than televon does
would not be surprised most of the runof mill pot
boiler material that be made nexnsivey turned
to television for distribution.
Don't misunderstood don't this would be inferior
material but the of thing that under the heading
routine fare.
1t Will Have to Be an Exchange
What with theater Tv giving the film houses of the
best of the broadcast features sports concerts perhaps big
expensive musical productions and the like will have to be
exchange basis think Hollywood realizes that 1t
stand lot Of adjustment and that, willy ny will have to-
ut the movie theater far from extinct movie theater
Big spectacle films still packing the presentation houses and
the theater business the industry viii after reent
with higher of film values than Hollywood
has bothered with before.
Funny thing, sometimes think that it is the legitimate
theater that the about in the entertainment
setup Granting that subst audiences in metro
potan its costs geared and to fewer and
fewer pocketbooks However, who really knows anythng?
indeed?