Evening star., 1951-07-25
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BY Horry Macarthur

oy HorTy MocArrnuT
They were trying to drive
people crazy all over the tele-
vision Monday night. Out of a
total Of three hours devoted tc
various dramatic and melodra-
matte exercises, an hour and a
half was devoted to attempts to
convince people they had taken
leave of their senses.
On Cameo Theater' (,VNBW
Monday, 8 PM Clara Luce
(the actress, not the playwright
and Stateswoman) was engaged
in an affair titled "Of UnSound
Mind" which must have been
familiar to some televiewers since
this wasn't it's first time out
Miss Luce was the villain in this
Her plot involved a lot of bribery
in order to convince her husband
that he was doing things he
couldn't remember doing, so he
would go back to a sanitarium
and she uld take off with the
other man.
In "Tremolo" on Summer The
ater" (WTOP-TV-Monday, II
p.m0 AGiSs Haila Stoddard was
caught up, as the victim, in much
the same sort of melodramatic
trials. Instead of another man
the third c-rner of the triangle
in "Tremolo" was a mother in
law, who wanted her son back anC
went to great deal of trouble te
convince Miss Stoddard that she
was doing things she couldn't re-
member doing.
This is a completely acceptable
notion for a suspense drama, but
this is getting a lot of mileage out
OF 1t in one night. Maybe tele-
vision needs a sort of clearing
house for plot twists, so these
things can be spaced a little bet
ter. 1t will be long time before
this particular idea can be used
again without a concerted rush
toward the channel selectors, from
one end of the coaxial network 10
the other.
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Bundles for Paris: Helene
Francois, the singing sister OF
Movie Actress Denise Darcel who
is winning nightly huzzahs at the
Old New Orleans Sazerac Room,
was contestant last week on
Jerry Strong's Block Party"
(WTTG-Thursday, 1880 p.mD.
This is a quiz show, as you prob
ably know, on which one of the
rewards is supply of the spon-
sor'S products for the residents of
"a block designated by the con-
testant. Miss Francois ran up a
real freight bill for them. The
address she gave was % rue
Collange, Levallois Perret, Seine.
ParlS france.
Premier: Tonight is the night
Cat 10:45 on WTOP-TV when
Mug Richardson, longtime asso-
ciate of Arthur Godfrey, will re-
turn to television with a show of
her own Her partner in the new
enterprise, as already has been
reported, will be Gene Klavan,
WTOP's candidate for bigger and
better things in radio and tele-
vision.
The new program, called with
a fair degree of simplicity, "The
Mug and Gene Show" will have
Miss Richardson and Klavan
chatting, interviewing guests
when there are interesting guests
to interview" and airing their OBJ
servations on the world of show
business. Washington and life IN
general.
Color for Theaters: Negotiations
have been completed by goth Cen
tury-Fox and CHS for use of the
latter's color television system
With the formers Eidophor large
screen theater TV. The Eidophor
system was recently acquired b.
10th Century after it's develop
ment at the Federal Institute of
Technology in Zurich, Swlthzer-
land. The first demonstration of
the Eidophor-CBS theater color
.TV is promised for early fall. It's
use will mean, according to Spyros
r. SkouraS, president of the film
company, that Americas movie
audiences will see. in color, "the
finest in stage, opera, ballet and
symphony offerings, as well as top
sporting and civic events"
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Programs and People: Sammy
Kaye, for the first time in his
bandleading career, is in the midst
of doing three different network
programs within a weeks time.
Last night he wound up a four
week engagement on DuMont's
I"Cavalcade of Bands" Saturday
at Z he will start the new Sammy
Kaye Show" on CBS-TV and Sum
day he will do his regular weekly
radio show on ABC (WMAL)
Comedian Fred Allen and
NBC Announcer Ed Herlihy are
getting together over plans for
a new television show come fall.
They're cousins, but this would be
their first joint broadcastine en-
terprise. Word from the sports
front is that the International
Boxing Club has upped to $780,
600 the asking price for radio-TV
rights to the Walcott-C Charles re-
turn match. :. Jack Carson MAY
double between his Saturday night
INBC television show and a revival
of Texas LII Darlin'" Iuhey, he