Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-27
On the Air
ThisCritic
Sees q Dark
VFuture
By Horry Macarthur

days and you find a prophet. TIT
man or woman who hasn't voice.
an opinion about televiSion'S eff.
feet on future generations is /,
rare one, indeed. Usually theso
predictions are harmless enough
since, once voiced. they are read.
lily forgotten and raely come bach
to haunt a man.
A set of prophets has been put
out on a limb, however, by New
York televiSion station, WOR-TV
These are the TV critics and edi.
tors whose forecasts of the fu.
ture have been placed in a lead.
covered Graduation proof, O.
course> copper box in the sta.
TONS new building, to be opened
in July. POSI-.
Thnee dimensional television
televlsion you can smell, too, anc
television spanning interplanetary
space were among the prophecies
and, with one exception, a gen.
orally rosy future was seen. The
exception was Miss Harriet Var
Horne Of the (this is only one
newspaper New York World-Tele-
gram and Sun. If Miss Var
Horne turns out to be right rattle,
than on the far end of a limb
you can be glad you were not
porn 100 years later than YOU
were.
1t is her thought for POSI- that
"our people are becoming less
literate by the minute. Along
with the old patterns of existence
television is destroying the old
standards of culture. AS old
habits decline, such as reading
books and thinking thoughts, TV
will absorb their time.
by the 21st Century our peo-
pie doubtless will be squint-eyed,
hunchbacked and fond of the
dark. Conversation will be a lost
art
Chances are" Miss Van Horne
concludes glumly. that the
grandchild of the Television Age
won't know how to read this"
You realize, of course, what this
means. 1t means that actors, &C
tresses, directors and TV script
writers may be the last bastion
of literacy in 2051. They'll have
to know how to write and read
television scripts.
The Right Man: That affinity
which developed between the
Senate Crime Investigating Com
mittee and television, has pro-
duced another TV personality
Rudolph HALEY, former chief
counsel for the committee, has
been signed as the narrator for
CBS-TV's "Gangbuster" series,
which win be launched on tele-
vision in September. He follows
in the footsteps of some distin-
guiShed radio narrators for the
program. including former New
York City Police Commissioner
Lewis j. Valentine, and Lewis
LaweS, former Sing Sing warden.
Senator Estes Kefauver, former
chairman of the committee, al
ready has been mentioned as a
probable television host on series
ABC-TV plans, based on his book,
Crime in America"
Week End Guests:
Saturday: Robert Sterling, in
Careless Love-" on THE Faith
Baldwin Theater of Romance"
(WMAL-TV-12::30 PM. &.
Art Tatum and Frank Yankovic,
helping Faye Emerson salute
Cleveland, on Wonderful Town"
WTOP-TV-9 PM. Johnny
Mercer and Phil Silvers as guest
judges, Joan Edwards and Don
Cornell singing. on Songs for
Sale" (WTOP-TV-10 PM.
Sunday: Senators Homer Fer
guson and Paul Douglas debating
the advisability of military alli-
ance with Spain, on Peoples
Platform" CWTOP-TV-6 p.m0
Betty Ann Grove and Ray
Malone, on Ted Mack's Family
Hour" (WMAL-Tv-6 PM.
Marilyn Day. on Summertime
Revue" tWMAL-TV-7 PM. 49,.
Eva Gabor and Skitch Henderson,
on Go Lucky" CWTOP-TV-7:30
p.m0. Senator John Spark
man, on Meet the Press" (WNBW
1870 PM. Yul Brynner,
Cab Galloway, Rose Marie and
others. on Toast of the Town"
(WTOP-TV-8 PM. Four
escapes from behind the iron
curtain, on American Inventory"
(WNBW-8 PM Arthur
Whittemore and Jack Lowe, on
Recital Hall" (WNBW-8:30
p.m0 Gaby Rogers and
Sidney Blackmer, in "Televi-
sion Story" on "Television Play
house" (WNBW-9 PM .
Franchot Tone, Melville Cooper,
Ginny Simms and Ogden Nash,
on Guest House" (WTOP-TV-
9 PM. Valerie Belts and
Harold Lang, on Celebrity Time"
(WTOP-TV-10 PM. Sen
ators Blair Moody and Wallace
Bennett discussing price controls
and imitation, on American
Forum of the Air" (WNBW-10
p.mD.
Monday: Donald Curtis, on
Hollywood Screen Test" (WMAL-
TV-7:30 PM. Iona Mas
Sey, in The Third Time" on
Cameo Theater" (WNBW 3
PM. Sonny Tufts, Pamela
Britton, Andrea King and Gig
Young, on ''Pantomime Quiz"
(WTOP-TV-s PM. Thomas
L. Thomas, on Voice of Fire
stone" (WNBW-8:30 PM.
Herb Shriner, filling in for Arthur
Godfrey on Talent Scouts"
(WTOP-TV-8:30 PM. E. Am
bassador Warren r. Austin, on
"United-or Not" (WMAL-TV-
9 p.m0. . Eva Gabor, Jean
Adair and Una O'Connor, in cat