Evening star., 1951-09-24

q shining bulwark in televiSior
against television's threat to tht
literacy of coming generations.
Mr.. Kieran has come to know
through the years that life car
be enjoyed with the rarest zes1
if you make one simple discovery
the discovery that learning i.
fun, not a chore. Once you de-
velop this thirst for knowledge
to a point where it is catholic
where you want to know more
about anything at all, you have
insured happiness for at least part
of every one Of the rest OF youl
days.
There is so much to know that
you can never know it all, but
you can daily taste the pleasure
of knowing more.
What Mr.. Kieran is doing now
in television-by way OF a weekly
15-minute filmed program titled
"Kieran's Kaleidoscope" seer
here Wednesdays at GAS pm. on
WMAL-TV-is passing along this
enthusiasm for learning some
thing now that you didn't know a
few minutes ago.
The first program in the series
last week was a visual explora-
ton of some of the things the
slow motion camera has helped
us know about birds and animals
With Mr.. Kieran's knowing but
never consciously learned COM
mentary it was a completely
fascinating quarter-hour.
With such as John Kieran and
DR.. Roy K. Marshall around, we
really don't have to worry too
much about television's threat to
the Nations literacy. They should
be able to keep the appetite for
learning stimulated enough that
people will continue to want to
know how to read and write.
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Program Notes.-The first Gel
anese Theater" Chats the one
which has brought the Play
wrights' Company into television)
production on October 8, will be
Eugene ONeill's "Ah. wilderness!
A noteworthy cast will be headed
bv Thomas Mitchell and will also
include Roddy McDowall, Dorothy
Peterson and Phil Coolidge. The
season with plays presented on
alternate Wednesday nights at lO
will bring Susan and God" mo
Time for Comedy" "Winterset'
"old Acquaintance, Counsellor
at-Law," Joyous Season" Re-
union in Vienna, anna Christie, .
Brief Moment" They Knew
What They Wanted" Animal
Kingdom" Saturdays Children.
street Scene Mornings at Sew
en-" "The Petrif1ed Forest" THE
Distaff Side" when Ladies Meet.
"Yellowjack and ION Borrowed
Time"
mfr. District Attorney" is set
for its television debut week from
tonight as an ABC (WMAL-TV)
Monday-at-8 feature. Jay Jostyn,
Len Doyle and Vicki VIOLA will
play their old radio roles in the
TV version. Today's new ad-
dition to the soap opera field is
Love of Life" on WTOP-TV,
Monday through Friday at 1918
pm. Peggy McCay plays the
leading role. Today's new
conner to the evening list is 1.-The
Amazing Mr.. Malone" to be a
regular on ABC-TV on Mondays
at 8, with Lee Tracy featured. e.
Pigskin PrOgreSs-Irked by the
W'NBW use of the word exclusive"
in connection with it's Satur-
day afternoon football schedule
WTOP-TV has lined up its own set
of grid contests and will duplicate
coverage of some of the service
games in the area. Report is that
the threat was made to take the
beef right up to Gen. Vandenburg
If WTOP-TV cameras weren't al
lowed in, too. WTOP-TV also
has rescheduled the Sunday series
of delay film telecasts of college
games. They're set now for 3 pm,
which means that you won't be
able to see both these games and
those Redskins tilts set for WMAL-
TV. NBC-TV (WNBW) has
added the Notre Dame. Southern
California game on December /.
This is the same day the Army
Navy game is played, but the time
difference would permit NBC-TV
to carry both.
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Not Too PersOnal-Spike Jones
calls from Boston to pass along
the word that the zany antics
of his recent Comedy Hour"
show will not be repeated when he
appears at the National Guard
Armory October S. The armory
show will be a completely new
Musical Depreciation Revue. y
Ezio Pima (how's that for
running a musical gamut in four
dots?) has signed an exclusive
long-term contract with NBC for
both radio and television
Margaret Sullivan is the latest
star to be signed by Playhouse OF
Stars" though no dates have been
announced for her. The program
will bow on October with Helen
Hayes starred in the opener
Sarah Churchill will start on Oct
ober Z. an informal show titled
Hallmark Presents Sarah Church
Ill" on CBS-TV Sundays at 5:4s
pm. William Gargan ha'
been signed by NBC to five-yeal
contract which covers both pro
ducing and acting on radio anc
television. His first assignment i