Evening star., 1951-03-12
On the Air
How About
A TeIevision
Box Score?
On the Air
By Harry Macarthur

day that everyone is a television
critic. Every Wednesday, he has
discovered, the elevator operator,
the cab driver, the barber. the
waiter and everyone else he meets
is ready to tell him what was
wrong or right about last nights
"Cayalcade of Bands" (WTTG-
Tuesday. 9 p.mD.
This is a good, healthy thing
and the TV-radio editor has been
toying for some time with the
notion that there must be a way to
give the professional critics
louder voice. One of them now
has come along with a suggestion
which may get some support from
other televiewers. Viewer r. H.
Reineck Of Columbia road NV.
writes:
"It would be interesting if you
could run box score in your
column or somewhere else for
people to rate the various TV pro-
grams. I would be willing to drop
card, say once a month, to rate
the various programs. The results
might be very enlightening if
enough people would respond ;.
This is just an idea that I
think would be interesting for
someone to exploit and I hope
they will sometime"
It's a sound idea that Mr.. Rein
eek has. 1t might help clear up
| the question of how much the rat
ingS mean. either by supporting
them or by providing an antidote
for them. If you're interested,
let us know.
About That Billing: Televiewer
Jim Bastian of District Heights
(Md) reports that one detail of a
recent column about "Garroway-
Iat-Large" leaves him puzzled
(Which is way under par for this
course). Writes Mr.. Bastian:
"Garroway introduces the dance
team of Aura Vanio and Jimmy
Russell. This would bill them,
then. as Russell and Vanio would
it not, and not as Russell and Aura
as you did in the aforementioned
column and in previous column?
Assuming this supposition cor
rect, don't you think you owe an
explanation to those persons you
chide for not being familiar with
the Chicago professors show?
On the other hand, if they do
bill themselves as Russell and
Aura, is any explanation given?"
The answer. Mr.. Bastian, is that
NBC bills them as Russell and
Aura and there seldom is any ex-
planation of name in show busi-
ness except that it seemed like a
good idea at the time. Since NBC
pays their salaries it could call
them SaEnoff and Coy if it wanted
to.
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A Star Is Reborn: Helen Mack
who directs THE Saint" on NBC
radio, was a well-known movie
actress several years ago. One
recent evening, as she was leaving
a Hollywood restaurant with Vim
cent Price, star of THE Saint"
she was ignored as the autograph
hounds stopped him. A boy broke
away from the group, however.
and stopped Miss Mack as she
walked away.
Oh, you don't want my auto
graph" she said. I'm not any,
body Important
Yes you are" he told her.
you've been reissued on televi-
sion"
Programs and People: 1.-The script
Of The Young in Heart" in |
which Alan Mowbray will appear
tonight (WNBW-9:30) on Robert
M o n t gomery Presents" was
adapted by Gilbert Seldes. That's
the same Gilbert Seldes who wrote
the recent searching and readable
critique of the entertainment ar:s,
The Great Audience" The
Three Rays are a trio who have
found themselves tied up with an
out-of-town theater or night club
engagement every time TV has
beckoned. They finally are get
ting the act on television-having
turned down two weeks at Phila-
delphia theater in order to appear
on Jack Haley's Star Revue" this
Thursday (WNBW-9 p.m.). . i
Secretary of Agriculture Charles
Brannan will encourage the plant
ing Of victory gardens this spring
with an appearance tomorrow
night on Bill Youngman's Flower
and Garden Timetable" (WMAL-
TV-6:45). Evalyn Tyner's py-
rotechnic piano technique will
have another showing on "The
Kate Smith Show" Thursday at
4 (WNBW).
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Still Fighting: Radio isn't CIV
ing up to television without
struggle. Its latest is a million
dollar" super-dramatic shov' to
bow Thursday at 10 on CHS. The
first production will be "The Heir