Evening star., 1951-12-17
On the Air
There Ought
To Be q Place
OF Refuge
By Harry Macarthur


Help Wanted-There was a re-
cent survey. a joint project of
NBC and CHS, delving into the
amount of radio listening done
elsewhere now that television has
taken over so many living rooms.
What we really need now is a
survey of places of refuge avail
able to man on a Saturday night
when his youngest young are in
the living room chortling over
Olsen and johnson on TV and
his eldest young is in another
room communing with Gene Au-
try via radio. It's almost as
bad as buscasting. =. A minority
parent hasn't got chance.
Anything unpleasant ever said
: here about Morey Amsterdam is
hereby rescinded. Mr.. Amsterdam
is trying at times but he acquitted
himself on Songs for Sale" He
read set of lyrics in combina-
tion of disbelief and high drama
and then looked up in surprise.
II feel like Nick Kenny when I
read like that" he said.
Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding
(WNBW-Monday through Friday,
tbs p.m.) seem to have acquired
some admirers, but every time they
come within range of this viewer
(came. that is, before Santa
Claus they seem to be doing the
same show over again. The
television cooking programs and
the soap operas Of both radio and
TV may be fit objects of satire,
but there must be other things
to poke fun at. The trouble
with that Elliott Goulding soap
opera, in fact, is that it resembles
the real thing closely enough that
it becomes equally boring about
the third time around.
Yule visitor-Sir Ralph Rich
ardson may. as Pamela Brown
did awhile back for 'Celanese
Theater," make a flying trip
to the United States for one
TV role. He will. at any rate,
be here on Christmas night to
appear in Charles Dickens "a
Christmas Carol" over NBC-TV
(WNBW). :. It will be notable
event on one other score, too. the
first television venture of United
States Steel, which long has lent
dignified support to radios
''Theater Guild on the Air" :.
Sir Ralph's supporting cast will
include Arthur Treacher, Melville
Cooper, Margaret Phillips. Alan
Napier. Robert Ray Smith, Nor
man Bars and Malcolm Keen.
=. Fred Coe of NBC-TV's "Tele-I
vision Playhouse" is producing CA
Christmas Carol" and David
Swift. one of Mr.. Goes regular
writing hands, Is doing the
adaptation.
Horizons" (WMAL-Tv-Sun-
day. 6 p.m) will consider THE
Future Of Painting" on next
weeks telecast. The guest
speaker will be Peppino Mangrav-
lite. assistant professor of paint
ing at Columbia. whose work you
will find at the Corcoran and
Phillips Galleries here. :. Frank
Sinatra raised $4,000 on his re-
cent quick jaunt abroad. at a
charity performance in London
for the National Flying Fields
Association. :. frankie Boy, in
cidentally, will be a guest this
week on THE Alan Young Show"
(WTOP-TV-Thursday, 9 pm.) !
Jack L. Warner has COM
pleted arrangements with Eddie
Cantor to give the entertainer the
Jolson treatment in 1.-The Story
of Eddie Cantor" According to
the Warner Bros. announcement,
THE saga Of the beloved come
dian who rose to the greatest
heights as an entertainer and as
an American citizen Is planned +. i
as one OF the most significant
pictures in (the studio's) history" u
True Story II Was Stains
Prisoner" next weeks production
on "Television Playhouse" (WNBW
Sunday. 9 p.m.) will be a docu-
mentary account of Robert Vogel-
er's experiences with imprison-
ment behind the Iron Curtain.
His comment: This is very
happy Christmas season for me.
except that I'm thinking Of Bill
Oats. the Associated Press bureau
chief in Prague. who is being held
behind the iron curtain right now.
Both because Of his ordeal, and
my own. welcome this opportu-
nifty to have the real facts Of my
experience with iron curtain
Justice brought before the public
in this realistic dramatization.
Mr.. Vogeler will be played by Ed
mon Ryan, veteran of TV drama,
and the script was written by
David Swift (busy fellow from
Vogeler's own f1rst-person account.
Robert Trout. who began his
radio career as 21-year-old script
writer at WTOP Qt was WJSV
them and went on to become a
presidential announcer, will return
to the CHS fold on January 4. He's
been with NBC since 1947, most
recently as the moderator of the
TV show, who Said That?" ).
The Army's television show about
the facts Of life In Korea, "The
Big Picture" which was launched
and developed on WTOP-TV, will
start 13-week run on WTTG Fri
day night at 9::30 NBC-TV
will have two pick-ups from the
West Coast on New Years Day
an hour-long report on the Tour
nament of Roses parade at 1890
pm. (EST) and the telecast of
the Rose Bowl game between
Illinois and Stanford starting at