Evening star., 1951-05-15
On the Air
eIevision
May Make Us
ImmobiIe.
By Harry Macarthur

thlng mere, to be sure, but ap-
parently not on so large a scale
and not with a transit strike to
give it impetus.
One thing is sure to happen
Housewives will discover that it is
a lot easier to watch a televiSion
set and pick up a telephone than
lit is to get dressed and go down
Town. Other merchants will have
to follow the first one to the tele-
vision salesroom plan. The
butcher (if he has anything to
lSelD, the baker. the greengrocer,
the fried chicken box man and
every one else will have to go
along.
Before long almost everybody
will be immobile except athletes,
actors, truck drivers, trash COL
Ilectors, die-hard golfers, newspa-
Ipermen (who are always over
worked) and newsboys.
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In time nobody will go to Of
fees except filing clerks. People
who now go to offices and sign
papers will stay at home, examine
the papers by television and ini-
Itial them by facsimile broadcast
for the filing clerks to file. Roads
and streets will fall into disrepair,
the automobile industry will COL
lapse and few people will notice
whether there is a transit strike
or not.
You won't have to go anywhere
You will do your work. get your
food and clothing. enjoy your
recreation and entertainment all
by way of cathode tube in a
box in the living room. Science
is sure to hook television and the
telephone together some day, so
you won't even have to go out to
visit friends and relatives.
Then, some morning, you'll
wake up feeling a bit under the
weather. You'll call the doctor
"H-m-m-m, you do look a lit
tie pale" he'll say over the video-
phone. Hold out your tongue
and say 'Ah.' Yes" he will go
on, you have it, too. Everybody
has it. You need exercise"
1t will be well-meant but ILL
considered advice. You may make
it to the front steps, but that's
as far as you'll go. If the unac-
cuStomed exertion doesn't get
you, the harsh fresh air and
bright sunshine will. AS you sink
to the ground the last sound you
will hear will be a chorus of faint
IyelpS in the distance. The dogs
will be moving in to take over.
It will be centuries before they
develop communication much be-
Iyond the happy bark and angry
Igrowl
Programs and People: -Four of
those CHS radio shows being pre-
pared for television-"My Friend
Irma." MY Favorite Husband"
the Hal Peary show and THE
Llneup"-have passed the audi
ton stage. The fifth mentioned
awhile back-"Rocky Jordan"
with George Raft-Will turn up
on, radio as summer replace
ment, with television, via film, as
a fall possibility >. A three star
parlay is lined up for -Four Star
Revue" tomorrow night (WNBW
81, with Eddie Cantor and Fred
Allen joining Jimmy Durante
Three new features have been
added to the daily Bailey Goss
Show (WMAL-TV-4 PM.
They include The Brain Buster. :"
a twin city quiz on Mondays;
Family Forum" a discussion of
child-parent problems on WedneS-
days and Family Feud," child
parent quiz show On Fridays
A TV version of Booth Tarking-
tons THE Intimate Strangers"
will be the '"Television Theater"
play tomorrow night at 8
(WNBW). Peggy Conklin and
Nelson Olmsted will play leading
roles Veteran Actor Fred
Sherman will star in the comedy,
The Devil You Say" on Stars
Over Hollywood" tomorrow night
tWNBW-10:30) The Where
Brothers. now regulars on the
weekly James Melton show, are
really television veterans. Their
debut was made in England in
1885. Their next TV show was
an appearance with Lillian Gish
and Helen Morgan in New York
in 1887 Ernie Kovacs is the
newest addition to the NBC-TV
schedule seen Mondays through
Fridays at 3:15 (WNBW).
DivOt Department: Many
Iphony hair-piece is worn in the
lTV studios but the one Ben
Ludlow will be wearing this
week will be worn out of
necessity, not vanity. Mr., Lud-
low is director of the orches-
ira on Ford Theater" (WNBW-
alternate Fridays, 9 p.m.) and he
and the orchestra will be before
the cameras in "Peter Ibertson. :"
He'll be bewigged because crew
cuts weren't the favorite male
style in the ''Peter Ibbetson" days.
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Concert Department: The ap-
pearance of Pianist Ivor Gothic
on WGMS (FMO tonight at $50
will be the first of a series of
concerts designed to give WASH
ington music-lovers an oppor-
tunity to hear young artists on
the thresholds of their careers
Pia Sebastiani, Argentine
pianist-composer, will be heard
tomorrow at 9 over WASH, broad
casting from the Hall of the