Evening star., 1952-03-03
On the Air
One Winner
Among The
"A. M. Entries
By Harry Macarthur

Having grumbled at lengtl
about morning teleyision pro
gramming it is only fair-ant
high time. in fact-to note one o
the pleasant am. interludes
This is NBC-TV's "across-the.
board" strip, Dave n Charley.
which is sent from Hollywood
every morning at 1880 (WNBW
It's a simple little dramatic
sketch. usually the dramatiza-
ton of a joke you already know
or at least can't anticipate, bu
Dave Wilcox and Cliff Charley,
Arquette give it a lot of fresl
humor It's entirely .ad libbed
incidentally, which OCCASIONAL!
trips up unsuspecting actors callet
in for supporting roles On,
Iof these muffed a line recently
at what he thought was a re,
hearsal, then promised to get i
right when the show was tele.
cast 1--WE all have to 60 some
time" said Dave. or maybe it wa
Charley. THAT, Jack, WAS tht
show"
Television, which has some ode
ideas about definitions of word!
(about the degree of newness re.
quired to call a movie "new," fol
instance), has now defined Slight
delay" 1t is any delay up tt
a half hour in length The
definition turned up last week or
Meet the Champ" (WMAL-TV-
Thursday. $50 p.mD instead
of Meet the Champ" ABC-TV
sent its stations and their viewer.
a slide advising that there woulc
be a slight delay" because o.
technical difficulties, so relax anC
light up a You-Know-What
The late George Washington Hill
would have loved it The com.
mercials came through fine anc
that slide with the product name
on it was there all the time
"A 29-minute commercial and ths
sponsor gets part of his money
back because there wasn't any
show.
II -
Protests-The young, who count
themselves among Red Skeletons
best friends, don't fully approve OF
that 10 pm. Sunday spot his TV
program occupies. :. Their latest
move to. have something done
about it is a petition forwarded to
NBC by the management OF
WSAz-TV in Huntington, w. Va
1t is signed by IS junior high
school pupils there, who advocate
an earlier hour for Shelton.
There were protests, all right,
when WTOP-TV dropped Steve
Aliens Song for Sale" from the
Saturday night schedule, but
these were nothing beside another
set of complaints with which the
station was deluged :. This other
one was aroused when Louis Al
len, a veteran local TV figure as
veteran TV figures go, was
dropped. .. This was such a
large and firm protest that Mr..
Allen will be back on WTOP-TV
as of $40 pm. today, for his five
analysis of the weather,
which will be a daily feature.
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Experts COnfounded Back in
1850. when Your Show of Shows"
went on the air, it was the easiest
thing in television to find an ex-
pert who would tell you that Pro-
ducer-Director Max Lehman and
Stars Sid Caesar and Imogene
Coca couldn't keep up THAT pace
Turning out a brand-new one
and-one-half hour television show
every week would be impossible.
d. Nobody ever proved this to
Mr.. Lehman. Mr.. Caesar, Miss
Coca and the others of the SHOW
of Shows" permanent company,
though. The program last
night started on its third year
without even pausing to count the
awards it and it's personalities
have won. ). Two full seasons on
television is 78 shows, or more
shows than ever hope to
get to Broadway in two years and
more movies than some Holly
wood studios turn out.
y 4 y
Programs and PeopIe-Ten pro-
ductions of Playhouse Of Stars
WTOP-TV-Friday. 9 p.mJ have
been selected by the Armed Forces
Television Film Recordings Selec-
ton Group for showing to service
men overseas The group in
cludes two plays starring Mar
garet Sullivan "Still Life" and
tine Nymph and the Lamp'D and
one with Helen Hayes c'Dick
Fleece. :. Jim Thorpe is to be
featured in a TV film series deal
ing with modern sports and In
dian folk lore. Juvenile Jury
being dropped by its present
sponsor. may turn up again as the
summer replacement on TV fol
Groucho Marks "You Bet Youl
Life Polo, writes Jimmy
Powers in TV Guide. will be "a
big TV sport of the future"