Evening star., 1951-02-23
Ion the Air
Lester Fans
Think kHeCun
Do No oWronu
By Horry Macarthur

Jerry Lester's admirers are a
faithful lot. but their logic is
often like the Kremlin's. You
just can't please them, except by
taking favorable note of the Tues
day Thursday Friday proprietor
of Broadway Open House"
(WNBW-11 p.m). Taking note,
however. of the fact that his
Comedy Hour" appearance was
no riot of entertainment (some-
thing of which every one at NBC-
TV, including Mr. Lester, seemed
we'll aware) brought out the Lester
fans by mail and telephone.
The report here said that Mr.
Lester was fine but he had just
muffed one, but it soon was made
clear that only a man of no per-
ception or tastes would say that
about Jerry Lester. Funny thing
was that the anti-Lester people
came forward at the same time,
thinking they had found an ally
More recently, it was noted here
that the Lester fans apparently
had let him down. according to
the survey of the Washington
audience for his COMEDY Hour"
appearance. That brought this
rebuff from self confessed
Bean Bag:
About that article you wrote
on they let Jerry down. 7 think
that they were very right because
Jer had pretty bad show that
night. But on his own show Jer
is really George. In my opinion,
Jerry Lester is one the best en-
tertainers on TV. Jerry Lester
has started the II pm. fad along
with his great Bean Bag club and
his great sidekick Dagmar. Put
them and the rest of the cast to-
gether and you have one of the
best shows on TV."
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Televiewing: Ted Hus;ng has
been in radio almost as long as
Marconi, but some of the facts of
life seem to have eluded him. He
was gabbling away at the fight
Wednesday night> (WTOP-TV-I
10 PM when he spotted Milton
Berle and Bobby Clark in the au-
dience and began talking about
them. His voice was full of dis
appointment and he obviously
couldn't understand the tech
nical crews lack of alert
ness when those CBS-TV cam
eras failed to move over and
get picture Of Mr.. Berle and
Mr.. Clark, who work for NBC-TV.
>. Bobby Clark, incidently, man
aged some interesting effects when
he did THE Would-Be Gentle
man" last Sunday night. That
over -the-shoulder leer to take the
home audience into his confidence
was eApertly handled. The show
itself was a novel and welcome de-
parture for Comedy Hour" but
it must have had some of the
regular customers wondering what
was going on here. And speak
ing of that. what wassgoing on
during -Four Star Revue" Wednes-
day night? Coughs, giggles, ir-
relevant conversation and star
Ting thuds and crashes filed the
sound track and there were times
when Jimmy Durante's voice was
completely lost.
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Anniversary Celebration: Dem
onstration of new teaching tech
niques. student activities and
production of workshop TV
program will be featured on an
original television show to be
presented tomorrow night at
1920 on WMAL-TV. The pro-
gram. written. produced and
acted by students of American
University, has been scheduled in
connection with the university's
58th anniversary.
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Program Notes: Methods used
by fraudulent spiritualists will be
exposed tonight at $3.50 on Art
Bakers "You Asked for It"
/ (WTTG). The exposer will be
DR.. Hereward Darlington, direc-
tor of the American Psychical
Institute. and it will be the first
time THAT has been done on tele-
vision. {. Don before and Diana
Lynn will be Sundays "Bigelow
Theater" co-stars (WTOP-TV-
s p.mD. Sundays Armed
Forces Hour" (WTTG-s:30 pm.
will include a film report on Ma
rine training, indoctrination and
amphibious landing techniques.
Ray Eberle and the United States
Marine Corps Orchestra also will
be on hand. Oscar Karlweiss
will play the title role in "The
Man Who Bought a Town" Sum
day at 9 pm. on "Television Play
house" (WNBW. . Dane Clark
will be the visiting firm star on
next Mondays Hollywood Screen
Test" (WMAL-TV-7:30 p.m.).
You're a TV old-timer if you can
remember when that show was
one Of the weeks high points.
Washington's Bibi Osterwald, who
understudies both leads in Cen
tlemen Prefer Blonds" when she