Evening star., 1951-04-25
On the Air
Woodbury.
Has Right
| To Howl
By Harry Macarthur

AL Woodbury., musical director
of Music with the Girls" is one
radio performer who takes a dim
view of television. 1t is not that
he thinks television is not here toI
stay or that it might. not provideI
lucrative opportunities for musi-
cal director. It is just that Mr..
Woodbury. has a plain, old-fash-
ioned beef.
AS matter OF fact. it is di-
rected at the movie industry as
much as at television. Mr.. Wood
bury, like any number OF other
of southern California.
has done his share Of movie work.
Along with his fellow laborers in
the Hollywood Vineyards, he now is
watching others pluck the grapes
from his vines.
It is situation which has al
number of film workers unhappy.
The studios rent out their old
movies to television for varying
fees-whatever the traffic will bear
and pile up profits, while the
actors are left with only the men,
ory of what they were paid to|
make the pictures in the first
place.
1t would have been entirely pos
sible, If Bill Boyd hadn't had the
foresight to buy up his "Hopalong
Cassidy" right for him to have
become a top-f1ight television star
without reaping a single reward.
MFR. Woodbury. is not losing the
millions Mr.. Boyd would be losing
if he hadn't sewed up the "Hoppy"
title, but he does feel that his
complaint is legitimate. It CEN
tiers around a Shirley Temple two-.
reeler, for which he wrote the
musical score in 1882. He was
paid $25 for about 400 measures,
a job which would pay $500 today.
THAT picture is being shown
again and again on TV," he COM
plains, ''but it means nothing
more to me financially. The worst
of it is that after we finished the
Shirley Temple picture, the musi-
cal director borrowed SIS from
me and never repaid it. I wound
up contributing to both movies
and TV for So"
Efficiency, Manhattan Style:
Another young man bitter
about television is one who has
recently become entangled with
TV production in New York.
TITS all very logical, though,
when you break it down time
wise" he recently wrote to a
friend, setting forth his bill of
complain. ''In Washington it takes
one guy one hour to do a given
job. In New York it takes nine
guys nine hours to do the same
thing. Sect f1gures!"
Hardy Pioneer: The movie in
dustry may never get around to
erecting that 90-foot gold statue
to D. w. Grinith, but the televi-
sion people had better start right
now thinking of some proper way
to honor a asTV hero. He is the
unnamed man turned up in sur
vey OF viewer habits by Encyclo-
paedia Britannica Films, who has
confessed to the pollsters that he
watches television 100 hours a
week.
He is the standout in his class
but In one respect he is not alone
The survey also discovered that
a large segment of the population
spends more time watching tele.
\ vision than at work. To be exac1
about it, 80 per cent of the Ty
owners have their sets on NOR.
than 40 hours a week.
II that doesn't throw a. scare
Into the book publishers, nothin,
will.
Programs and People: The chill,
Idren's department of Evelyn Da.
Wis Dance Playhouse will make {
series of Friday appearances
starting this week, on Nancy Os,
goods 1890 pm. program OF
WNBW. The young dancers will
be shown creating their owl
story dances. ABC-TV i
going in for film in rather larg,
way to fill in the networks sum
rner schedule. Among the serie
titles are Industries for Ameri
Ca" America in View" "Democ
Iracy's Might" Americas Health,
Scouting in Action" and Mar
shall Plan In Action" (new). N,
times yet assigned. If you'll
promise not to be discouraged to-
much by it, there is report tha
NBC plans to scout the "Borsch
Circuit" this summer for possibl
TV comics.
X 4 %K
Radio Department: Guy Lom
bardo and his Sweetest Musi
This Side of Heaven" will agail
fill in for Jack Benny on CB!
Sunday nights this summer. LON
bardo and the Royal Canadians
incidentally, will appear at Ulin
Arena Saturday night at 8:3(
along with Hillbilly Singer Jimm
Wakeley. :. The Radio-TV Gull
Of American University will air
half-hour drama on VOL tonigh
at 1880. in honor of Theater Wee
lin Washington. -. If you misse