Evening star., 1951-08-13
On the Air
Maxim Bout
Starts New
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By Harry Macarthur

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the home not the theater brand
before the month is out. The
regular Wednesday night pro-
gram on CHS CIV and radio) will
resume a couple of weeks early
for the Joey Maxim Bob Murphy
fight August % and the Kid Gavi-
lan-Billy Graham match on Au-
gust 20. The Friday night series
at Madison Square Garden Con
NBC television and ABC radio)
will start again on September Z
and continue for 80 weeks.
NBC-TV has lined up more
than so stations to carry the Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic Associ-
atoms televised football schedule
this fall. Some 10 games will be
put on TV during 10-week Pc
riod, only one a week in each 10
cality All University of Vir-
ginia football, starting with the
George Washington game on Sep
tember 20, will be radio reported
by WPIK, Alexandria A real
collectors item" i. scheduled for
Greatest Fights" next Friday
(WNBW-10:30 PM, the film of
the Jack Johnson-Stan Ketchell
fight of October Is, 1909. That's
the one which is part of the clas-
sic evidence that a good, big man
can lick good. little man. john
son, outweighing Ketchell by so
pounds, did it then, even if just
barely E. Red Barber will return
this year to that Football Round
up" he originated four years ago
on CHS.
Happy Geniuses: If your child
is showing signs of precocity-
threatening maybe to become
Quiz Kid''-don't worry too
much about it. DR.. Paul A. Witty,
professor of education at North
western University, has just made
a survey of the ex-Quiz Kid stu
alton and has presented a happy
report. Almost all of the former
prodigies. who have graduated
from the radio and television
panels at the age of Is, are faring
we'll as young adults. Their
health is better than average, DR..
Witty discovered, and, apart from
reading more than most other
young people, their hobbies and
interests are quite normal.
The best-known of some 200
former Quiz Kids probably is
Vanessa Brown, %, an actress
who has won praise on stage and
screen. Most recently, she has
been touring with Katharine Hep
burn in "As You Like It." In
Hollywood, she has appeared in
important roles in a dozen or so
films. her Quiz Kid background
showing itself only in the fact that
she pursued this movie career
while carrying a full schedule at
U. c. L. A.
Another former Quiz wizard
who has been making a place for
herself in the entertainment
world is Joan Bishop, now Is.
Miss Bishop is a talented singer
and pianist who has sung with
the San Carlo and Chicago Opera
companies, appeared in Carnegie
Hall and played in a Broadway
musical, in addition to making a
host of radio and TV appear
ances.
Mutual Admiration Society: r.
wing Berlin, who wrote the music
for millions of the Nations ro-
mances, will make his television
debut September IL on NBC-TV
in the our-long Irving Berlin's
Salute to America" ThereIl be a
host of Broadway and Hollywood
stars taking part, with the COM
poser acting as producer, director
and host.
Joan Bennett has signed for a
S2-Week series of television films
titled Joan Bennett Presents" !
Neil Hamilton. Hollywood Screen
Test" host, is finding himself
right back where he started from
almost. The ABC Television
Center in New York is at 7 West
Sixty-Sixth street. The Hamilton
career in the theater silent films.
sound films and television, started
with a job as a PHOTOGRAPHERS
model-at Z West Sixty-fifthI
street :. Happy prospect for the
coming season: Dinah Shore isl
about set for a TV show of her
own which would replace the John
Conte Little Show" on NBC-TVI
CHS is preparing a "See ItI
Now" TV version of it's Hear tt
Now" radio program What |
NBC-TV wants is a sponsor for
Dave Garroway. Armour. which
was set, got unset the other day.
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Progress: Color television, CHS
style, is wasting no time in estab-
fishing itself on a par with other
forms of broadcast diversion. AS
OF Monday, August 20, CHS color
television will have a program
called 1.-TWO Sleepy People," it's
very own Mr.. and Mrs. show.
There's no limit, we keep telling
you, to the wonders science can
bring us j.. Baseball on color TV
will be confined to New York, in
cidentally. Even II receivers aren't
available, the big leagues still
don't want a game televised in
someone else's territory.
studs Place" will move to
Monday nights at 10:30 starting
next Monday. being replaced on
Friday starting this week by
America in View" Leave us all
hope WMAL-TV can arrange it's
schedule so that there's room for
the show in the new spot. Studs
Place" is one of the best reasons
there is for owning a television
set Charlie Wild, Private
Detective" will try the Battle