Evening star., 1951-05-21
On the Air
Hollywood
May Have a
| Pal in TV
By Harry Macarthur

ing way to a new friendliness. I
is not entirely open yet. since tn
theater owners do not regard tele
vision as precisely the best thinl
that has happened to them sine,
the invention of popcorn. TIL
movie makers, however, ar
changing their minds about T'
and for a very sound reason.
The reason is that televisioi
stations are gluttons when l
comes to consuming feature films
When television coverage become
as widespread as it is expected tt
become in few years, it will b;
movie market the likes of n,
theater chain ever dreamed OF
Television will have Hollywood
working nights without being abl'
to satisfy its appetite for feature
films.
Washington, one Of only foul
cities in the country with four Of
more televiSion stations, offer.
fair evidence of what the future
holds when the TV freeze is lifted
According to a count made re.
Gently by Variety, the show busi.
ness weekly. the local televisior
stations now buy feature films a
the rate of 28-a-week.
This adds up to more than l..
400-a-year. And this is a gool
three times as many feature.
length motion pictures-good. bae
and indifferent-as Hollywood
turns out in a year. 1t is a mar
ket to impress Metro as much al
Monogram.
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New Jobs Department: Tha
search for Judy for the forth
coming TV version of "a Dat
with Judy" has ended at the door
step of 17-year-old Pat Crowley
Miss Crowley had her first speak
ing part in the touring compan.
of "The Philadelphia Story ant
won unanimous approval as q
new star" in the ingenue role il
Margo Jones Broadway produc
ton, Southern Exposure" Sh'
also has played numerous drama
tic roles on television. "a Dat'
with Judy" will start on the ABC'
TV network on Saturday, June 2
at 1880 am.
Latest of the veteran entertain.
ers to be scheduled for a televisior
debut is Jerry Colonna, who will
be the head man of another ABC.
ITV project. This will be a weekl.
half-hour featuring song and sat
ire by Colonna, more songs by
Barbara Ruick and guest stars
the first of whom will be frankie
Laine. "The Jerry Colonna Show
will make its ABC-TV network
bow on Monday, May %, at pm
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Not Too Personal: If Margaret
IO'Brien does not star in a TV
show titled Sandy Dreams" it will
be because she was asking $1,75C
per half hour. If she does, it will
be because she stopped asking OF
the price was met. That dinner
at which a flock of the towns
notables will honor the Shorehan
Blue Rooms Barnee (Breeskin)
tomorrow night was supposed to
be a surprise. but it didn't work
out that way. Barnee. however. is
still going to be surprised tomor-
row night. Joe Graydon, the
Hollywood TV star who was Joe
IDosh when he was a Washington
singer, recently turned down a
television show originating in New
York. Likes that Southern Cali
Ifornia climate. Edward r
IMurrow, the ace CHS newsman
won his fourth Overseas Press
Club award last week. He was
honored also in 1910, 1948 ano
1850. Milton Berle and his
"Star Theater" will be back on
NBC-TV next year in the regular
Tuesday-at-8 niche.
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On the Air to Stay: "Theater
Guild on the Air" the consistently
high-ranking radio drama show
will be back on NBC on Sunday
nights next season for the same
sponsor. The $3.50 pm. time slot
will be filled again this summer
by the NBC Symphony, starting
June 10.
Program Notes: "The Vaughn
Monroe Show" is the one where
Laurie Wide Open Spaces
Anders and Comic Ken Murray
will turn up tomorrow night
(WTOP-TV-9 Tomorrow
nights DuMont (WTTG) lineur
will include washington Report,
IA new program by iris Coffin
scheduled for Tuesdays and Fri
days at 7:45 pm. discussion OF
cerebral palsy on Johns Hopkins
Science Review" $500; a visit
by Buddy Lester and the Calgary
Brothers to "Cavalcade of Bands
80, and Children of Shadows,
special benefit, at 10 This
last one is being presented in CO.
operation with the Association
for the Help of Retarded Chill
dren and the cast will include
Imogene Coca, Gertrude molly
Goldberg Berg, Barry Gray
Robert @. Lewis, Joyce Matthews
Judith Evelyn, Betty Furness and
IA host of others A new series
of wrestling shows from the In
ternational Amphitheater in Chi
|cago has been scheduled by
WMAL-TV. on Mondays at $3.50
and Fridays at 1890 pm.