Evening star., 1951-09-07
Ion the Air
|CBS Toast
Will Bottle
| NBC Hour
By Harry Macarthur


stein Story"
The two hour-long shows, de-
scribed as "a panorama of the play.
Wright-producer's triumphs and
disasters, were written by Sullivan
and will have a cast that all but
the most determined Cantor devo-
tees will find hard to resist. Mr.
Hammerstein, himself, will be or
hand and his songs will be in
terpreted by Gertrude Lawrence
Lena Horne, Mimi Benzell, Dolores
Gray. Dorothy Sarnoff, Lisa Kirk,
Muriel Rain, Nanci Crompton,
Robert Merrill and others.
"The Oscar Hammerstein Story
has a career of some 80 years to
cover. For music it will draw upon
such hits as "Wildflower," Rose
Marie, . Sunny" Desert Song, f"
I"Show Boat" New Moon, "Mu-
sic in the Air. May Wine" Car
men Jones" !" Oklahoma" Gar
Iousel," Allegro South Pacific"
and THE King and T." the last
five of which were written in COL
Elaboration with Richard Rodgers.
This may be launching a bio
graphical trend with Toast of the
Town" Helen Hayes is scheduled
to be on hand on September 80,
at any rate, to play the starring
role in "The Helen Hayes Story" ;"
which is something else that will
be hard to resist.
This battle between Toast of
the Town" and Comedy Hour"
incidentally, will be another of
those affairs in which the viewer
is the loser as well as the winner.
You have to pass up one good
show to see another. And there
are so many hours when there
lis nothing on worth straining the
cathode rays for.
4 4 y x
Peace Farley Special. - Your
Stake IN Japan" another of those
special event telecasts prepared
and sponsored by Time magazine.
will be televised tonight at 10 and
is scheduled here by both WMAL-
TV and WTOP-TV. The program
will be, according to the an
nouncement, the first attempt to
adapt the March of Time radio
style to the TV medium =
1t will utilize a wide variety of
theatrical techniqueS to illuminate
questions uppermost in the public
mind 1t will contain specially
written spots. enacted episodes,
documentary film clips, interviews
and commentary.
THE purpose of the telecast, I"
according to Max Ways. interna-
tional affairs editor of Time and
managing editor of the program,
lis to tell people what is really
going on and give them as good
an idea as possible of what may
happen next.
Like most events, the San
Francisco Conference will have
the thick cloud of contemporary
fuZz around it. Our job is to get
the conference in perspective.
Accordingly, our show will empha-
size the situation rather than
analyZe the treaty. We will give
the viewing audience the best pos
sible picture of what this new
move on the world chessboard
means :"
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Week End Guests:
Saturday: Patricia Bowman,
back on her own show (WTOP-
TV-6:45 PM Senator Rob-
ert Taft, on American Youth
Forum" (WNBW II PM j..
Henry Hull and Patti Page on
The Ken Murray Show" (WTOP-
Tvs PM =. Ezio Pima, jim
my Durante. Danny Thomas, Jack
Carson. Jane Froman, Herb Shri-
ner, Valeria Belts and Ben Blue,
on "All-Star Revue" (WNBW-8
PM Lima Romay, Buster
Keaton, on Faye Emerson's WON
derful Town" (WTOP -TV - 8
p.mJ :. Marguerite Piazza, Wen
dell Corey, Mata and Hari, join
ing Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca
on Your Show of Shows
CWNBW-9 PM -. Fran War.
rem and Bob Haynes on Songs
for Sale" (WTOP-TV-10 PM.
Sunday: Hugh Gaitskell, British
Chancellor of the Exchequer, on
Meet the Press" (WNBW-4p.m.)
-. Wally Butterworth, on Leave
it to the Girls" (WNBW-7 p.m.)
!. 4. Frances Langford. on "1'he
Paul Whiteman Revue (WMAL-
TV-7 p.m.) ;. Isabel Bigley, Eva
Gabor and Jack Leonard, on This
Is Show Business (WTOP- ~
7:30 p.m.) -. Eddie Cantor and
Cesar Romero. on Comedy Hour"
(WNBW-8 p.m.) -. Madeleine
Carroll, ir Woman of Intrigue, ;"
on ''Television Playhouse" (WNBW
g p.m.) :. June Havoc, on "The
Fred Waring Show fWTOP-TV
3 p.mD Fran Warren, on
Celebrity Time" (WTOP-TV--
10 PM.
Monday: Sarah Vaughn. on
"The Perry Como Show (WTOP-
TV-7 As PM /. ;. Eugene Conley,
on Voice of Firestone" (WNBW
$50 pm -. Sidney Blackmer,
in Prophet of Darkness" on
Lights Out" (WNBW-9 p.m.)
{. Laraine Day, in Its
Promise on "Video Theater"
(WTOP-TV-9 PM Denise
Alexander, Richard Derr and Faith
Brook in "BllhhleS " IN "Rohert