Evening star., 1951-01-04
On the Air
But Bryson
Wont Take
The Credit
By Harry Macarthur

~ IcIlldulcO 1OI oISooAA 1sooAA,
of "Telenews Daily" (WMAL-
TV-Monday through Friday, 7
p.m.) and other things. to cap
television's year with one Of its
most notable achievements. Mr..
Rash came along too late to win
mention in any of the lists Of an
nual awards-it was, in fact, on
the very eve of 1951-but his &C
complishment must be noted in
the archives.
Mr.. Rash is the man who man
aged to silence Senator Mccarthy.
1t happened during an hour
long review of the years news at
s o'clock last Sunday evening on
WMAL-TV. The film-and-com-
ment documentary got around, as
1t eventually had to get around,
to the noisy headline making ac-
tivities of Senator Mccarthy dur
ing 1850. The Senator came into
view, expounding. At least his
mouth was moving and he seemed
to be expounding, but not sound
came from the loudspeaker.
Golden? This silence was pure
platinum.
Mr.. Rash, as you might expect.
modestly refuses to take any
credit for this. It was, purely and
simply, an accidental failure in
the sound reproduction portion of
d. the Aim projection equipment
and, to the commentator in charge
1t was a mishap which marred
the program. Even if it was Sen
ator Mccarthy who was silenced.
1t did not, Mr.. Rash should be
told, mar his review of 1850
noticeably. 1t was a news-jammed
SO week period and he did note
worthy job of condensing a year
of "Telenews" films into an hour
of highlightS.
*& \
Another praiseworthy New Year
documentary was Columbia's The
Challenge of the '50s-Years of
Crises" telecast (WTOP-TV) on
Monday afternoon. This brought
together a host of CHS CORES
pondents from various news CEN
ters of the world. With filmed in
terviews with leaders in the coun-
tries they report and in a discus
sion conducted by Edward r. Muir
row, the CHS newsmen painted in
rough picture of the tensenesS
that is alive today. An hour per-
mits only the Sketchiest coverage
OF so wide an area as was in
cluded, but this was a fair DEM
onstration that television can
throw some light on confusion,
especially when it has Mr.. Muir
row to bring order out of chaos.
Strictly Personal: Evalyn Tyner,
who brightens things considerably
at the Statler Embassy Room
whenever she returns there (Which
she has now, will be January 81
guest on Ed Sullivan's Toast of
the Town" (WTOP-TV-Sunday,
8 p.mD. Miss Tyner and her piano
are no strangers to television, or
to Toast of the Town" She made
something Of a sensational ap-
pearance on the program last
year and also did her own TV
show from the Embassy Room for
awhile on WMAL-TV Wash
ington's Jody Miller, incidentally,
who left here to do a tour of the
Statler chain with Miss Tyner's
show awhile back, got only as far
as Pittsburgh with that project.
She left there and went to New
York for job with CHS, appear
ing on those color television DEM
onstrations. That might be called
unfair competition. RCA won't
find anyone prettier as a good ex-
cuse for its system Daryl
Harpa, another color television
pioneer-his was the first color
television orchestra" when he was
staging lively shows last season
for RCA tests on WNBW-is re-
turning to the room which was
designed especially for his Latin
American entertainment. That's
the Caribar Room of the Ward
man Park and the return engage
ment starts tomorrow Note
to Roxanne Hill: Milton Berla has
not gone away forever. He is just
vacationing in Florida. He will be
back on WNBW Tuesday night at
8 on January 16.
To Be Heard and Not Seen: Vio-
let Heming returns to the enter
tainment world tomorrow and
every Friday thereafter at $50
pm. with a series of dramatic
readings on WCFM. The first
program will include comic read
tngs from Kipling Richard
Bales, director of music at the Ma
tional Gallery of Art and conduc-
tor of the National Gallery Or
chestra, will resume his record and
comment program, "The Inside of
Music" tonight at $50 on WCFM.
This, you should remember, was
an interesting VOL feature back