Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-25
On the Air
More LocuI
TuIent Gets
TV Chance
By Harry Macarthur

ton the following week. Judge,
will be members of civic organiza.
lions. different one Of which
will make UP the audience eacl
week.
If you feel you might be &
would : be stage Seven" per.
former. don't pick up that tele.
phone. Don't call anybody. Write
Ia letter to Van Beuren de Vries
Outlining your talents and inclos-
ing a. snapshot or picture. Address
lit to him in care of WMAL-TV
4461 Connecticut avenue, Wash
|ington 8. D. c., and you will
Eventually be notified when to ap.
pear for your addition.
Over at WTOP-TV, which has
been trying out prospective tele-
vision actors in Washington, un.
qualified success is reported. More
than $50 would-be actors and &C.
Itresses turned up at last weeks
additions. including 10 members oil
Faith Of Our Fathers" cast. In
a few weeks Producer Charles
Hill will start casting the stations
projected local TV drama series
The hometown girl getting 8
break at WNBW is Sherry Sher.
wood, whose Date With Sherry
radio program will be "showcased'
on television Thursday night a
1890. Miss Sherwood will be &C.
companied by Dancer Weldon
Barr and Baritone 10Y Roberts
who also qualify as local talent.
| Now what WNBW has to do /.
find a proper niche for another
local favorite. Jeanne Warner. Mis-.
Warmers ability as a singer Of
romantic ballads is sufficient thai
her use as telef1lm jockey, agree
able and charming though she NAV
be In the role, is a gross waste OF
talent.
Proof Positive?:: Jerry Strong
maintains it is not true that his
material is written by his French
poodle, Froodle, but the evidence
bellies him. That dog can use Q
typewriter. anyhow. The proof is
right here in the mail. to wit:
Dear Mr.. Macarthur:
Il thought your review of Robert
Montgomery Presents was terrific
but you only led me up to the
very point at which had to leave
the television set to help my mis-
tress comfort our 6-year-old who
had had a bad dream. Since then
I've been having bad dreams about
what actually did happen at the
stroke Of three! Please, won't you
remove my suspense with apollo
gfes to CHS for using that express
sion relative to an NBC produc-
tom letting us know what hap
pened at the fatal hour?"
This is signed Froodle Strong
and bears the imprint in blue ink
of a pair of French poodle-size
pawprints. so it must be authentic
What happened on Three
O'Clock" last Monday-that dog
lives enough of a dogs life without
being kept in suspense-is that the
basement suddenly was full OF
people. Came 3 o'clock and the
man who had set a time bomb and
then found himself bound and
gagged in its immediate vicinity
was Joined by his wife, an ambu-
lance attendant and a cop. The
cop wanted to know what was ir
that drawer (Which hadn't ex-
IplodeO and the wife said, Moth
ing. There was some fertilizer, but
I took it out this morning and put
lit on the flowers. Wasn't very good
The flowers died. What's the mat
ter with my husband?" Hes
stark, staring mad" said the am.
bulance attendant.
Mr.. Montgomery left him there
but the rumor is that he wa.
adjudged qualified at last, got q
job as a morning man on the
radio, and lived happily ever after
Any more questions from the
Strong family?
X A+*
Not Guilty: DR.. Roy K. Mar
shall, who conducts the popular
informative and generally fascin-
ating Mature of Things" (WNBW
Friday, 10:45 PM has just been
named by the Atomic Energy
Commission as consultant-mem-
Der OF the committee which is to
establish an atomic energy exhibit
at the National Museum here
This makes him the first man ac-
icused once of tossing vital atom
secrets on the winds to be ap-
pointed to anything by the Acc
The accusations were made BY
thousands Of apprehensive tele-
viewers when DR.. Marshall tele-
Ivised a f1ve-program series on
atomic energy some months ago
even going so far as to explain how
you can whip up an atom bomb in
the Kitchen. Actually, he didn't
broadcast any secrets or say any
thing which wasn't already a mat
ter OF public record. He Just ex-
planned things SO clearly that the
customers thought they must be
learning something they shouldn't
know.
DR.. Marshall, incidentally. is
again doing his Informative COM
merclals on Ford Festival
.WNBW - Thursday. 9 PM
brought back by public demand
He must be the first man that has
ever happened to, too.
GAS HEAT