Evening star., 1951-02-15
On the Air
On the Air
This Is q TV
Milestone
| For Sure
By Harry Macarthur

A noteworthy milestone in tele-
vision will be passed next week
by WTOP-TV. A number of OBJ
servers have predicted that the
day would come when sports
events would be staged especially
for television, with the partici-
pants paid by the sponsor rather
than. out of gate receipts. Some
promoters even have threatened
to do this.
So far, however, this has been
all talk, which makes WTOP-TV,
as far as any one around there
has been able to determine, the
first television station to stage
weekly boxing matches in the
studio. These will be strictly
amateur, presented by the Metro
politan Police Boys Club. Con-
testants will be from 7 to II years
old, between As and rs pounds,
will wear large gloves and helmets
and will battle in a 12-foot ring.
The fight arena tone will be given
by the presence of Jimmy Lake,
as referee, and Arch Mcdonald,
doing the blow-by-blow descrip-
ton.
! All of this will take place on
Tuesday nights at in a half
hour to be devoted nightly to
programs named Corner" The
Boys Club boxing show. natu-
rally enough. will be called I'm
This Corner" On Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays it will
be Cactus Corner" with folk
songs by Pick Temple and a
nightly chapter of a Western
cliff -hanger (the first to be Gus
ter's Last Stando.
On Thursday, the 6 pm. show
will be Comedy Corner" and the
fare will include cartoons and old
film comedies. On Saturday nights
t it will be Candy Corner" the
juvenile talent show conducted by
Ted Lingo finally getting a regular
spot.
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Television Marches On: An
other milestone will be passed on
Monday by the TV broadcasting
industry when Singer Jack Berch,
on his New York television show,
donates a pint Of blood to the Red
Cross with the cameras looking
on. You can be sure will be the
| first time THAT has ever been
done on television. 1t is hoped
that this will inspire viewers to
donate blood in more private sur
roundings.
The Red Cross estimates. Incl
dentally, that 100000 blood dona-
tions will result from last weeks
appeal on. Hear 1t Now" (WTOP
Friday, 10 p.m).
Comedy Stars Reach a Limit:
After % consecutive weekly 90
minute television shows. Sid
Caesar and Imogene Coca began
to feel the strain and the need
of rest. They will be absent from
the next two shows while taking
a two-week vacation. They will
do this separately, NBC is care
full to point out. Caesar and Miss
Coca, the press announcement
reads, will head for the warmer
climes of the South independent
of each other and accompanied
by their respective families"
Fred Allen, as was limited here
the other day, will take charge OF
one of the interim shows. that Of
February "a. This Saturday 'Your
Show of Shows" (WNBW-9 p.mD
will have one Of the screens more
amiable leading men, Robert
Cummings. on hand. Others who
will join the show as special at
fractions during the absence Of
Caesar and Miss Coca are Herb
Shriner, the Indiana Will Rogers,
and Senor Wences, the ventrilo-
quist.
OF Programs and People: Gene
Klavan fans will be happy to
know that he is taking on new
television assignment, starting
this week. It will be a children's
talent show called Happy Town"
with Mr.. Klavan presiding as
mayor of the village where every
body has a birthday every day."
The time will be Saturday at II
IN. and the program will be seen
on stations In Baltimore and
Philadelphia IN addition to
WTOP-TV Tonight is the
night when Bill 40 Questions"
Slater takes over as master Of
ceremonies on Broadway to
Hollywood, (WTTG-8:30 p.m)
>. Tomorrow night, in case you
had forgotten, which is hardly
likely, the special event will be
Helen Hayes portrait Of Mary
of Scotland" on Pulitzer Prize
Playhouse (WMAL-TV-9 p.m).
Miss Hayes supporting cast in
the Maxwell Anderson drama will
include Mildred Natwick, as
Queen Elizabeth; John Emery.
Lord Boutwell,, and Anthony Kem-
BILE Cooper, Lord Darnley . The
talent lineup tomorrow night on
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