Evening star., 1951-03-30
On the Air
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Sign q New
| NBC Pact
By Horny Macarthur

been ignored up until now by this
department, since this department
thought NBC announced several
weeks ago that it had just signed
a contract with Margaret Truman
The thought that there might be
two Margaret Trumans is fright
ening only to some music critics,
but the possibility that there are
1.-two National Broadcasting Com
panieS is enough to make any man
want to overlook the whole thing
There also is that unprecedented
Milton Berle- -NBC pact. which viii
run for 80 years. during which
Berle will actually work 20 and be
paid fabulously for 80. or some
thing like that. It undoubtedly
will have NBC working for him
along about 1872.
The most important NBC con-
tract from the standpoint OF the
televiewers, however, is the one
to which Burr Tillstrom has just
attached his name. The an
nouncement doesn't say how long
this will run, but it is described as
a long-term pact. which guaran-
tees that ''Kukla, Fran and Ollie"
will remain with NBC.
There was no suspicion that Mr..
Tillstrom, creator of the Kukla-
politan people, would not remain
with NBC, of course, since he
started in television with the net
work when the whole thing was an
experiment, in 1898. It is good to
have it made official, however. You
won't find better news anywhere,
until Russia demands her own
disarmament and world peace.
If television never does anything
else to realize its full potential, it
can still call itself a success for
cheering multitudes nightly with
"Kukla, Fran and Ollie" May
they still be going when Berle's
option comes up.
Week End Guests:
Saturday: Neva Peterson and
Luther Adler in Portrait of Mix" "
on "Faithe Baldwin's Theater of
Romance" (WMAL-TV-11 ann
The o. Don Fritz Trio zone of
whose specialties is Sabre Dance
performed in hysterical laughter
on The Victor Borge Show
(WNBW-7 PM Franchot
Tone. on "The Jack Carter Show
(WNBW-8 PM Veronica
Lake, on THE Ken Murray Show
| (WTOP-TV-8 PM Peggy
Lee, on THE Frank Sinatla Show"
/ (WTOP-TV-9 p.mJ -. Virginia
Field. on Your Show of Shows"
(WNBW-9 p.mD -. Denise Lor,
on Earl Wrightson's "At Home
Show" (WTOP-TV-11 p.mD.
Sunday: Senator Estes Kefauv-
er, on Meet the Press" (WNBW-
4 p.m) . Senator Charles w.
Tobey, on Peoples Platform"
| (WTOP-TV-5:30 PM Will
liam Frawley and Sara Haden in
Room for Improvement on
"Bigelow Theater" (WTOP-TV-
6 PM -. Mimi Benzell, on THE
Paul Whiteman Revue" (WMAL-
TV-7 p.m0 Jack Benny,
making his third TV appearance
/ (WTOP-TV-7:30 pm0 >. Eddie
Cantor. helping start the Ameri-
lean Cancer Society's drive. on
i"The Comedy Hour (WNBW-8
p.m) Muriel Kirkland, Una
O'Connor and Russell Hardie in
Christopher Morley's "Parnassus
on Wheels" on ''Television Play
! house" (WNBW-9 PM .
Martha Wright (taking over now
as a regular panel member) on
Celebrity Time" (WTOP-TV-1O
PM.
Monday: Magician Mil Chirsto-
pher, on "The Garry Moore Show"
(WTOP-TV-1:30 PM Rob-
ert Preston in Sir James M. Bar
rie's "The Cd Lady Shows Her
Medals" on "Video Theater"
(WTOP-TV-8 PM Rise
Stevens, on "Voice of Firestone"
(WNBW-8:30 p.mD Cloris
Leachman and Tom Holman in
"Of Human Bondage" on "Somer-
set Vaughan Theater" tWNBW -
$50 pm. Ann Marno and
John Forsythe in Jan Valtin'S
"Wlntertime," on Studio One"
(WTOP-TV-10 pmD.
Programs and People: Some
program shufling at WTOP-TV
will take Hazel Markets Talk O.
the Town" off of the air this Sun
day. but it will be back April s,
time to be decided Film Star
Bill Gargan, of Martin Kane,
Private Eye" (WNBW-Thursday,
10 PM, will turn in his detective
badge this summer. His place Will
be taken, probably, by Lloyd Nolan.
who also knows a cinema cleW
when he see one :. Want to feel
even older than you did when Shir-
ley Temple got married the first
time? Margaret O'Brien is re-
ported being groomed for an NBC
fall-summer show. Junior Miss"
When Kate Smith vacations
this summer for her afternoon
NBC-TV show, there will be two
substitutes, Dorothy Kilgallen and
her husband Dick Kollmar.
X x X x
Atomic Era Department: Had
trouble understanding atomic en-
ergy? Be on hand next Wednesday
Iat 7:15 (WTOP-TV) when DR..
Ralph E. Lapp, atomic consultant,
will explain it to Faye Emerson.
He also will demonstrate a new
educational toy "a miniature
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