Evening star., 1951-04-12
On the Air
.Here'suDueI:
Mccormick
vs.. Beatty
By Harry Macarthur

ty heading for the old Bladens-
burg duelling ground. leave them
alone. It is their private feud. If
you were around and watching
when WNBW returned to the air
at l pm. yesterday to report
President Truman's dismissal of
Gen. Macarthur, you know what
happened.
Alerted along with other rep
resentatives of the press. radio and
television, Mr.. Mccormick was att
the White House awaiting the
promised important announce
ment. There was a direct wire
from there to the Wardman Park
studios of WNBW, held in readi-
ness for the flash. At the Ward
man, Veteran Newscaster Beatty
sat tense over q hot telephone,
ready to give the signal which
would put the bulletin on the
NBC-TV network.
In the middle of all this tense
ness. Veteran Newscaster McCor-
mick decided he needed his News
Caravan" cameraman, who was at
the Wardman. He fast-talked
somebody into letting him use that
direct wire and the waiting Beatty
heard a voice say. "All right, Mr..
McC Cormick, go ahead" Mr.. Beatty
gave the signal he'd been waiting
to give.
Hello, hello" said MIR. McCor-
mick to eager viewers from one
end Of the coaxial cable to the
other. Let me talk to my camera
man." Muttered voices were heard
and Mr.. McCormick's message toI
the world continued. "I'm on
WHAT?" he shouted and WNBW
stopped feeding his words to the
network right there.
Moments later the White House
flash came through and Mr..
Beatty went on NBC-TV to discuss
the news. He felt some apology in
order. At such moments, when big
news is breaking, he said in his
most polished and urbane manner =,
even a large network is forced to-
bring In unfamiliar and unini-
tiated newsmen."
MIR. Mccormick brooded darklyI
all day yesterday. He could con-
sole himself with the though that
Mr.. Beatty might have meant that
an "uninitiated" newsman was
one who would put another man
on a television network before he
knew what the other man was
going to say.
II ~
Slight Error: That statement
here yesterday that there would
be a lot of good given away by
Jerry Strong on his new TV
Block Party starting tonight at
7:30 on WTTG, must have startled
even Mr.. Strong. 1t should have
read, of course. "there1l be a lot
OF food given away" New printer.
obviously. Anyone who has been
around here very long knows that
Mr.. Strong is greeted universally
with mo good can come of this"
X
She Can Cook, Too: Delora
Bueno. the tall and trim Brazil
ian singers who currently is de-
lighting Statler Embassy Room
audiences. will make an appear
ance tomorrow at 3 pm. on Ruth
Cranes Modern Woman on Tele-
vision" (WMAL-TV. She will
not be singing, which is too bad,
but she will be showing how to-
prepare one Of her favorite Bra
lillian desserts, which, she prom
ises, is good.
Miss Bueno is no stranger to-
televiSion. She was featured for
full season awhile back, along
with Miguelito Valdez, on a popu-
lar program of Latin American
music on Du Mont. There also
are several projects now under
way which may eventually ar
rive at a good berth on a sum-
mer replacement show on one of
the networks. Nothing definite
so far. however.
When something definite does
turn up, you'll be advised. be-
cause Miss Bueno should prove
an asset to TV. She demon
strates a considerable talent at
the Embassy Room and her cam
paign to demonstrate that there
IS more to Brazilian music than
the samba has turned up some
unhackneyed and lively songs.
The singer, incidentally, can
perform trick few others of her
trade can do. Having been born
IN Dubuque and having had an
American mother around all those
years she was living in Brazil. Miss
Bueno is as bilingual as you can
get. She startles her audiences
no end when, after a lot of sing
ing in f1awless Portuguese she
turns to Cole Porter's ''Begin the
Begulne" and turns out to be
speaking equally f1awless English
X X X X
Program Notes: Nina Foch and
Edmond O'Brien will star in
owen Davis "Icebound" tomorrow
on Pulitzer Prize Playhouse"
| (WMAL-TV-9 p.m) . Some
thing called Superstition" will be
on WTOP-TV tomorrow night
at 9 instead of the previously
announced Somerset MaughamI
Theater." Only Somerset Maugh-
am Theater" on TV is on WNBW
alternate Mondays at 9:30. i.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley will discuss
Americas New Army (of 1942)
tomorrow night at 10 on March
OF Time Through the mYears"
| (WMAL-TV).