Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-04
| On the Air
| PurIor Games
lis Not for
spectators
By Harry Macarthur

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the big TV shows only by kineScope
transcription and have felt. with
justification, that the customers al
home wouldn't hold still for very
much of that.
Kinescope, indeed, could make
steady moviegoers out of those who
never went to the movies before
but who considered that anything
other than kinescope would be the
lesser of two evils.
Hollywood television program
ming, too, has been the sort Of
stuff, if the samples exported tc
the East have been representative
which would give any movie-makel
the secure feeling that the compe-
Itition wasn't very keen. 1t was
only a few weeks ago that an out
slider from those West Coast parts
Igrowled here that wrestling is
still the best show on televisior
Iout there" 49,
Ali of this is by way of working
around to the arrival of a new
show called "Pantomime Quiz,
(which you will find. if you are
not wary, on WTOP-TV on Mon
day nights at 8. "Pantomime
Quiz" is another and not par
Iticularly novel version of that ole
Iparlor game in which the con-
Itsstantstry to guess the proverb
familiar saying. book title or line
from a song as it is acted out by
by a member of their team.
''Pantomime Quiz" employs two
teams of movie celebrities, one
regular and one visiting and you
never saw such gay informality
1t is small wonder that some OF
the movie moguls think actors and
actresses should be kept under lock
and key away from the public eye
when not working before the
cameras. Eight extrovert person
alities on the loose. with master
of ceremonies who apparently
would rather join them than keep
them in check, can provide quite
a spectacle
Parlor games are all right. of
course. for those who like to in
dulge in them. but as spectator
sports on television they leave a
lot to be, desired.
Good News: Far more likely to
bring a bit Of diversion into your
life is the game played on this
same WTOP-TV on Mondays at
$50 pm. Titled, TITS News to
Me-" this one is conducted by
John DAILY and pits a panel of
experts" against participants
from the audience.
The idea is that the expert"
are supposed to identify a recent
news event from verbal and visual
clews provided by Mr.. Daily. The
contestant starts with $40, passes
upon the correctness of the panel
answers and either wins $40,
nothing, or winds up somewhere in
between.
Also present is a contestant who
has been an eyewitnesses to a
news event of Importance. which
the panel members try to identify
in tn manner of go Questions, F."
though they battle against the
clock rather than against a set
number of queries. A Marine who
was present at the flag raising on
Two Shima stumped them neatly
on the first performance of TITS
News to Me-"
Whoever is responsible for these
panel shows around CHS does 6
good job and the network is for.
tunate in having Mr.. DAILY arounc
to conduct them. AS he does or
Whats My Line?" he keeps "It's
News to Me" interesting, lightly
humorous and moving at a goodly
clip.
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More Good News: Another new
Monday night television program
which should make good summer
viewing Cor good winter viewing
for that matter is "United-Ol
INot?" This fills the 9 pm. half.
hour on ABC (WMAL-TV) anc
could turn out to be as newsworthy
as MICS Meet the Press" which
continually lets televiewers sit II
on the making of a story they
will read in Mondays papers.
The formal is much the same
though "United-Or Not?" is 9
much more specialized affair. II
is televised from Lake Success ano
has a group of members of the
United Nations Correspondents AS
ISOLATION questioning u. N. dele
gates on timely and controversial
issues in world affairs.
"United-Or Not?" has been a
radlo program since May. 1850
and the television version Cts a
slmulcast, now should prove
equally popular. The opportunity
1t offers for a visit with such work
ers for world peace as Britain's
Sir Gladwyn Jebb (the first Tv
interviewed is a welcome one.
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It's Work, See: 1t is hoped that
this report on the new Monday
night viewing is appreciated. Chico
Marrero, the Mats pitcher. is one
of television's brighter stars this
season, winning or losing, and only
the strictest sense of duty got the
reviewers attention to other chan
|nels at all.
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Look at the Bright Side: Hiring
a cab, hitching a ride or walking
you didn't have to listen to Tran.
sit Radio. No captive you.