Evening star., 1951-07-19
On the Air
It's Red, Blue
And yellow,
Fellows
By Hory Macarthur

IDr0ughG them OUT lnCO the open.
There are experts all over the
place now, talking knowingly Of
scanning freQuencies, blue i'm
Ipulses, mixed highs and goodness
knows what else. Color television
has been explained in words of
one syllable. two, three. six and
nine syllables.
There is growing suspicion.
however. that none of these ex-
perts is qualified to write a word
about color. You see references
all over the place to "the three
primary colors red, blue and
green" A carefully-edited ma
tional magazine which prides it
self ON its accuracy even allowed
mention Of ''the three primary
colors, red. blue and green," to
slip by and get into print the
other day.
This sort Of thing can play hob
with the younger generation for
whom television has taken the
place Of parents, kindergarten and
street corner conversation as the
prime source of information about
life and living. We may even de-
velop a generation of the unedu-
Gated, composed of people who
never got to high school because
they couldn't get past an elemen-
|tary school art teacher who re-
fused to admit that the three pri-
mary colors were red, blue and
green.
It may be true that RCA and
CHS, in creating color pictures
via television, have to employ
green to make their reds lean
toward the deeper russets and
violet instead of toward unnatural
orange tints. Still there is plenty
Iof room for suspicion of the expert
who expounds SO easily Of red, blue
and green, filters or phosphors.
You have to be careful whom you
believe. A man isn't qualified to
explain color television or color
anything else until he is ready to
go along with centuries-old no.
menclature and agree that the
primary colors are red, blue and
yellow. No matter what happens
in the laboratories of Drs. Eng
strom and Goldmark, green is still
"a secondary color.
No Foundation: There were some
unhappy rumors floating about
that Joyce Mathews would be los
ing her Tv job after Sundays
wrist-slashing publicity. Northing
lis further from the truth, however,
according to a spokesman for Tin
tair. There is no point. says the
sponsor, in adding to whatever
woes she already may have. Miss
Mathews will continue to alternate
with Wendy Barrie in delivering
| the Tintain commercials on Som
1erset Maughm TeIevision Theater'
| (WNBW-Monday. $3.50 p.m1. Il
| is cheering piece of news to hear
New Record: Just in case you
thought the coaxial cable was a
lone-way affair. William r. Nc
Andrew, general manager of
IWNBW-WRC, has come up with
la new set of figures on Washing
ton program originationS. The
number of programs sent to net
works by the Nations Capital
is greater now than it was dur
ing World War II, when the pre-
yious record was set.
WNBW and WRC, which top
the list In this department around
here, now are sending the NBC
radio and television networks more
than IL hours and 20 minutes
of programs every week. These
are predominately news, forums
and other public affairs programs,
plus half-hour radio shows by the
Army and Marine Bands.
The WNBW originations include
six half-hour television shows
Battle Report" Survival"
America Speaks" American
Forum" and two separate editions
of Meet the Press" Washington
also is responsible for at least two
minutes of news films and COM
ment by Robert Mccormick on
News Caravan" every night.
Hey, Let Us Up: WNBW also
originates. for local viewers if
not to the network, a movie called
Shake Hands With Murder" It
keeps originating it. over and over
again. Will all the people. who
haven't seen it please look, so
we can go on to something else.
X X \
Programs and People: Margaret
Whiting will replace the previously
announced Ethel Waters on
Guest House" Sunday (WTOP-|
TV-9 PM. Danny Thomas,
now that -Four Star Revue" is
off for the summer. is turning to
movie work. playing the Gus Kahn
role in Wish I Had a Girl"
opposite Doris Day, which is nice
work If you can get it. :. Experts
at the Allen B. DuMont Labora-
tories. Inc, are predicting a real
cutback in TV set production in
the Fall. The pinch on tungsten
(used for armor- piercing shells,
jet engines and electronics tubes,
hasn't been felt yet but will be
then, they say. !. avier Cugat is
in the planning stage with a TVI
show for the 1852 season, toI
feature himself, his orchestra, his
chihuahua and Able Lane. !.
Robert Preston, summer star of
Ralph Bellamy's Man Against
Crime" on CBS-TV. says people
who live in stone houses shouldn't
throw glasses. =. And Warren
Hull of the CBS-TV daytime show !,
.Strike It Rich" got a prize
answer the other day when he