Evening star., 1951-10-22
On the Air
This Ought
To Be a Rest
| |WeCun Use
by Horry Macarthur

Explanations of the difference be-
tween the RCA and CHS color
systems.
| It ought to be jdst the sort Of
respite we all can use.
The funniest (unintentionally,
that Isl line in the printed reports
of the defense mobilizer's move
was the one which read: eft was
noted that the proposed freeze on
further developments in color TV
might serve to protect CHS from
losing its hard-won advantage in
the bitterly protected field" Mean
ing, perhaps. that the CHS system
Is a cinch just so long as no one
is allowed to develop anything
better.
There is a strong suspicion
around this typewriter inciden-
tally, that this latest color tele-
vision bombshell came as no sur
prise at all to the RCA executives.
Even with their improved color
system, those boys have been far
too SNUG for people on the OUT
side looking In. II they didn't
actually know this was coming,
they must have guessed it.
No Film for Benny-Jack Benny
has scheduled six television ap-
pearances for the 1951-52 season,
the first on November 4 with the
Others following about six weeks
apart. The Benny shows will be
done Give" from Hollywood with
This Is Show Business" giving
up its Sunday-at-7::30 spot on
CHS WTOP-TV) for them, as it
did last year. Benny, inciden-
tally. will make an extracurricular
radio appearance this week with
Jonn Kodiak in a drama titled
The Incredible Village" The
special broadcast for the United
Jewish Appeal is set for Thurs
Gay at 10 pm. on CHS radio.
Milton Berle probably will find
himself working the next time he
has vacation period. He "owes"
Robert Montgomery an apnear-
ance on Robert Montgomerv
PRESENTS in trade for a Mont
gomery appearance on "Star
ineater." Since the drama is on
less Than "a hours ahead of his
own show. Berle would have to do
II on week of from "Star
lneater. One of the FcC's
Dig problems right now is a rash
oi bootleg Tv booster" stations
Dealers set them up in fringe
areas to rebroadcast television
programs and increase the mar
ket FOR TV sets. They're real H.
legal and could draw a sI0 f,0n
tine ana TWO years in prison. i
NO Problem-f you'd like to
test your ingenuity to see how
you might fare as a teleyision
producer you can try it on the
problem which recently faced
George Foley. production chief
on Tales of Tomorrow" Mr.
Foley was presented with a drama
IN which some earth people tam
gled with some 12-foot giants
from Mars. His solution: Two
sets exactly identical, except that
one was only half the size of the
other. the earth people being pho
tographed in the normal one and
the giants" from Mars in the
half-size one.
Drama Department-ComedianI
Wally Cox will turn dramatic
actor next Sunday night to
play the leading role in The
Cooper" on "Television Play-
house" (WNBW). June Lock-
hart has been signed for the title
role in "The Doctors Wife" next
Monday nights "serio-comedy" on
"Video Theater" (WTOP.TV) !
:. Priscilla Gillette and Frances
Fuller will head the cast of They
Served the MUSES." next Monday
on Studio One" (WTOP-TV) /
{. :. The next Playwrights Com
pany drama on "Celanese Thea
ter" will be Maxwell Anderson's
"Winterset," set for October 81
(WMAL-TV). Wendell Corey.
OF the movies has been cast op-
posite Margaret SULLIVAN in Noel
Coward's Still Life" to be seen
Friday night on Playhouse of
Stars" (WTOP-Tv).
X II u II
Programs and People-Lauritz
Melchoir Of the Metropolitan
Opera and Hollywood will ioin
Vera zorina among Victor Borge's
guests next Saturday night, when
the Danish wit headlines "All-
Star Revue" (WNBW) Madee
Evans, who once won great re-
nown on the receiving end of a
grapefruit delivered by Jimmy
Cagney. will be Celebrity
Time" visitor next Sunday
(WTOP-TV along with Rudy
Vallee, who won his fame with a
megaphone in his face. The
Stars Hollywood columnist, She'll
ah Graham, will lend glamor to-
Eddie Cantor's Comedy Hour"
appearance next Sunday (WNBW) :.
Other guests will be Cesar Romero
and Mimic Arthur Blake. =,
Herbert Marshall. Jackie Gleason
and Kay Thompson will join Kate
Smith on her evening show
Wednesday night (WNBW). j.
Gleason, who has been doubling
from his own Dumont show for
"a number of NBC-TV guest ap-
'pearances, will become an NBC-
TV exclusive next season. The
plan Is for him to bring over his
complete production unit TO do
his own show on NBC. In case
you missed the news on the sports
pages. the next Joe Louis fight,
the one with Rocky Marciano this