Evening star., 1951-11-08
By Harry Macarthur

compromise.
When the television cameras
were focused on Frank Costello's
|underStandably nervous hands az
he testified before the Kefauvel
Committee, Mr.. HALEY. as the
committees chief counsel, found
himself in the very center Of a
drama so engrossing that millions
were ignoring work in Office and
home to watch 1T unfold on tele.
vision screens. More recently he
embraced the opportunity to stay
in the public's eye on the less dra-
matte but equally right-mindec
Crime Syndicated" show.
Other public figures have estab-
lished themselves as sworn ene-
mics Of crime and corruption. but
Mr.. HALEY is the first to owe sc
much to television. Television. IN
the future, is quite likely to affect
politics more than it ever has af-
fected movie attendance, potato
chip sales or reading habits.
The fear that Milton Berle
might be elected president
(Howdy Doody DID get a sizable
number of votes one time) is Of
set by the one great advantage
that Tv gives the voters in q
political campaign. The television
camera. as has been pointed out
before. is awfully hard to fool. II
has a sharp eye for separating the
phoney from the sincere.
Also Rans-One trouble with q
loose promise is that you may find
yourself forced to keep it. For this
reason and this one alone a Tues
day inspection Of Channel Z was
made this week as a follow-up o1
last weeks examination Of the
Channel S opposition to Miltor
Berle and Frank Sinatra.
Charlie Wild. Private Detective
is the 8 o'clock ABC (WMAL-Tv)
offering on Tuesday nights. It.
star is a young man named Johr
McQuade. who impersonates 9
shamus with a large affinity fol
danes in distress and q fast
tongue with the patois in which
things Of this sort are related.
This week Mr.. McQuade, or Mr.
Wild, was discovered In his office
where he was berated by a police
fcaptain or lieutenant for hiding
q witness to what was held to be
la gang killing. Mr.. Wild played
lit innocent and then when the
cop was gone he brought this girl
out from under his desk. She
sided up to him and told him
she'd pay WELL il he'd help her
Well, he helped her and he almost
got shot because she wasn't nice
girl at all but one who had put
the slug on her boy friend.
Charlie Wild" in this particular
episode, did not offer many sur
prises, but it did move at a re-
spectacle pace and the dialogue
was pleasantly hard-boiled, If you
don't find the rugged private eye
a little silly. This probably fills
a half-hour agreeably for the
whodunit addicts.
The $3.50 pm. period Is being
filled currently by WMAL-TV witt
Educating Your Child" a local.!
produced documentary series
which examines modern teaching
as 1t is used in the Montgomer1
County schools. This weeks chap
ter took a studious look at Mont
gomery Junior College.
This. plainly. is aimed at a spe'
cialized audience. It will not lur,
any entertainment-seekers to thi
spot on the TV dial, but it proba
bly, is in a proper time slot; sine
none of the Educating You
Child" viewers Is likely to feel an.
sense of loss in being forced t.
pass up Berle and Sinatra to see il
Speedy-Calling upon both avia
ton and television. CBS-TV Wi
start next Monday to bring int
your living room fast daily r
reports on the United Nation
General Assembly sessions il
Paris. A special unit Of the typ
which puts a filmed television pro
gram on theater screen within
seconds after it is received is bein
sent abroad for the job.
| TeleviSion cameras will pick u
the sessions. feeding the sigma
to this Paramount Inter-Filr
Television unit, where picture an
sound will be developed, fixet
dried and recorded on standar
35 nm. film within 30 second
after the event. The films the
will be flown to this country ane
flying weather permitting. be tele
cast the day following each meet
ing.
CHS also is planning exclusiv
weekly digests on television Of tn
U. N. sessions. with next Sunday
scheduled for $3.50 and those o.
following Sundays at 8 pm. Time
for the daily showings Of the T
reports on the General Assembl
meetings have not yet been set.