Evening star., 1951-10-12
| On the Air
|ABC Really
| Did Reach
| For a Star
By jaw cormody


1.-THE casting Of which ABC- -WMAL-
TV viii have a sensational sort oil
thing to offer.
This is the importation OF Miss
Pamela Brown from England to
play the title role FIRST half
Miss Brown is coming over for
the one piece of acting. flying back
home Immediately afterward fof
the busy season she always merits
Jas England's most shining younger
star.
Getting Miss Brown to recreate
Gertrude Lawrence's old stage
Irole-in q play which opened in
Washington at the National
theater by the way-is sheer in
lspiration. Any drama critic will
tell you that nowhere in the Eng
lish speaking world is there a
younger actress who can compare
with her in comedy. This estimate
of the unbeautiful but fascinating
Miss Brown Is based upon two
performances here which are TN
Iforgettable.
The first Of these was her Lady
IGwendolyn Fairfax in John Giel-
Igud's all-star Importance Of Be-
ling Earnest" the other as "the
lady" in "The Lady's Not for
Burning" The latter play set a
new record at the Gayety during
Its fortnight there last Spring and
Miss Brown was every bit as
responsible for its allure as Giel-
|gud or its author, Christopher
Frye.
There may be fiercely national
istic citizens who insist that an
American actress could have been
found for the Susan role. In fact,
there are such.
Miss Brown should take care Of
these ever so handsomely on the
night of October II.
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For A Fast Start-There's no
doubt about it. television and radio
are giving their all next Sunday
to see that the Community Chest
campaign gets OF to a flying start.
All four video and IA local radio
stations in the National Capital
area will pool their facilities for
the second annual Red Feather
USO Calvacade, 1880 to IL am.
show. The cooperating network
may be even larger by the week
end when other managers have
had an opportunity to clear the
time. The show celebrates the
opening Of the $4.050,000 cam
Ipaign and WIN be produced in the
studios of WMAL-TV. 4461 Con-
necticut avenue.
TeleviSion station executive:
handling arrangements include
Walter Compton, WTTG-Tv: Johr
is. Hayes, WTOP-TV; William Nc
Andrew, WNBW-Tv, and Kenneth
II. Berkeley, WMAL-TV. Ben
IStrouse. WWDC, is chairman Of
the radio division.
Three top-flight features for the
program viii be the vocalizing Of
Betty Madigan and Eddie Fisher
representing the USO: a skit by
disk jockeys Art Lamb, Milton
Ford, Jerry Strong, Mike Hunni-
cutt and Willis Conover, and q
sketch. Leave It to the Washing
ton Girls"
The Washington girls to whom
1t will be left include Drucie Sny-
der Horton, moderator; Hazel
Markell. Diane Cameron, Eleanor
Lee. Nancy osgood and Ruth
Crane.
Radio stations already listed to
participate in the show include
WMAL., WRC, WWDC, WTOP,
VOL and to rebroadcast 1t later by
transcription, WARL. WGAY,
WEAM, WASH, WCFM. WGMS,
WBUZ, WAX and WINK.
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Saturdays Heroes-The same
stringent limitation on college
football telecasts, one game, will
prevail again tomorrow afternoon.
The National Collegiate Athletic
Association, which rations foot
ball to television, nevertheless can
defend itself on the ground that it
has a likely production coming UP.
This is the Notre Dame-South-
ern Methodist contest at South
Bend, Ind, and it brings together
a couple of outstanding elevens
which have made it a practice OF
being terrifcally dramatic when
even they meet. CBS's closed cir
cult color football telecast will
be the Army-Dartmouth contest
at West Point.
Radio networks, deemed less
competitive at the stadium boz
Offices, will carry a much more
generous quantity of football
WMAL will stick to Notre Dame
SMU, but Red Barber on WTOE
will have his usual roundup o.
some 20 simultaneous contests
and NBC-WRC win carry the due
between Louisiana State and
Georgia Tech. Mutual network
WWDC, will bring the Holy Cross
Tulane game northward from New
Orleans. Other directions too.
Birthdays-Kukla, Fran anG
Ollie-and some Of the others
will be 4 years old tonight an,
there will be a suitable observance
Of the occasion. BY the oldest oi
condolences Cor is it the oddest?)
Burr Tillstrom, creator Of Kukls
and Ollie, will be celebrating hi.
own birthday tomorrow. He il
more than 4. but how much. NJ
one is saying.
No one could be easier to wisl
% happy birthday to-even IL
better English.
This apphes to Jerry Strong
WMAL disk twirler, who is invit.
ing his radio audience to bake hin
a cake for his birthday, Octobe
l1R All noHae will 1Ao ea,,% - ~. an