Evening star., 1951-04-23
On the Air
The SuIIuvun
Performance
Was Winner
On the Air
By Harry Macarthur


a wise decision. Miss Sullavar
finally got around to doing the TV
version of Edith Wharton's "The
Touchstone" on the program last
Friday CWTOP-TV, 9 PM and
proved well worth waiting for.
Without her. in fact. "The
ITouchstone" might have been
something less than an unalloyed
delight. The central figure in this
yarn-the one played by Miss
Sullavsn-iS the dutiful, loving
wife of a screen writer on the
skids. He betrays a former de-
ceased love by selling a batch OF
old love letters to a publisher and
things look black for the marriage
until WHEY gets around to read
ing the letters. These. somehow.
prove to her that he never did
really love that other woman at
Iall.
This is a little on the syrupy
side. Any male who encounters
this sort of thing always falls back
on the clche that it is women's
magazine fiction, on the basis that
he never sees it anywhere unless
lit has been adapted from some
thing else. Women. he reasons,
must like it, since it never is pre-
sented to men in its original form.
Any man ought to have liked
THE Touchstone." however, with
Miss SULLIVAN playing the leading
role. Hers was thoroughly win
ming performance. marked by SEN
sitive understanding and glowing
with enough life to give the whole
thing credibility. The tricks she
can perform with that voice were
a delight to hear and there is one
Itelevision screen in town where
Miss SULLIVAN can turn up any
time she chooses to do SO.
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No Trouble at ALI: You can
cancel any worries you may have
had because Of the report that the
sponsor was not satisfied with
THE Victor Borge Show" (WNBW,
Saturday, 7 PM. Said sponsor
has just renewed the Borge con-
tract and he will stay in business
at the old stand, take an eight
week vacation, then return and do
III weekly shows before option
time comes around again. The
last Borge- Nielsen was within easy
Mailing distance (flve-renths OF a
.poinD Of Sam Levenson's.
The Uninitiated?: 1t does not
do to belabor the same story for
too long, but a postscript has been
added to the Bob Mccormick
Morgan Beatty affair. The night
President Truman relieved Gen.
Macarthur of his commands, you
know. Mr.. Mccormick got on the
NBC-TV network with what he
thought was private conversation
and Mr.. Beatty chided him on the
air with a remark about inexperi-
ienced and uninitiated newsmen.
Well. the night Gen. Macarthur
arrived in Washington, Ray
Michael paused for breath before
Launching a commercial and Mr..
Beatty's voice came booming out
over the air. AT IL what?" he
demanded of the WNBW audi
ence.
Sugar Coated Learning: Every
thing television does is the most
something or -other it has done
so far, so CBS-TV can be excused,
perhaps, for announcing that lone
of television's most extensive edu-
cation projects to date" is being
launched this afternoon. 1t seems.
on paper. to be a good idea the
network has come up with and it
can be permitted q little enthu-
SiaSm
The program, five-a-week
series with the general title Its
Fun to Know -" is designed
to make effective use of television's
audio-viSual resources" 1t will
be seen Monday-through- Friday
at 4:30 pm. on WTOP-TV. Ac-
cording to present plans. the
schedule will run like this:
| Monday: THE World and You"
devoted to history. government,
current events and such non-
academic subjects as books.
clothes, games and club activities.
| Tuesday, How to do it," dem
onstrating the making of handi-
craft and industrial art products,
with an eye toward encouraging
the expression of creative i'm
pulses.
Wednesday: why" discussions
of general science, explaining such
familiar phenomena as the tele-
phone. the flight of an airplane.
the causes Of thunder, the struc-
ture of the atom.
Thursday: How to Draw" dis
cussions of the fundamentals of
drawing and art appreciation,
with graphic analysis OF classic
art works.
Friday: How to Dance" de-
signed to develop children's musi-
cal and rhythmic senses through
simple folk dances.
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New Shows: Time for Beany,'
whimsical puppet show for chill
dren, which started on the West
Coast, now is WTTG feature
at S pm. Monday through Friday
starting today -. Family Handy
man." addition to the WMAL-TV
schedule, features Paul de Fur in
a program of hints for the home
It's seen FRIDAYS at 6:45 pm,