Evening star., 1952-03-16
On the Air
On the AIR
Be Careful, Now, VoudeuiIIeI
TeIeyision' 5 Waving an Ak
By Harry Macarthur

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get firm opinion. simply by nudgng the
you the probable effect televion viii have
almost anything This field full Of selfapponted experts
which makes coumnist because he always md
somebody somewhere, who will with him. needs
70 know somebody somewhere agreeing him.
In all this conjecture about teevison and the future not
whole lot Of attention paid most probable effect TV
is likely to have almost certain at this stage III its
life be destined finish Of. movies but job the
movies themselves started when they became vocal.
Vaudeville football sport likely
to overephasis And it win be teevison which win bleed
dry pound it to pulp. then lay it tenderly away.
It is Of teevisons earliest clches that vaudeville act
that used be good for and finished of.
performance clche nothing than i valid
generalization made the easy way.
An Act Used TO Be Duroble
Back vaudeviles heyday career
skt titled Get New Woods which
he did years according
to one OF the ess shak memories around here which undoubt
edy will be refued in the next mail Other vaudeville
did the character with them
It doesn't work j teleyision though. The medium
demands miracle like Producer Max Lehman OF "Your
Show Of Shows who somehow Sid repeating
himself more than he does Unfortunately the supporting and
featured ace comics dancers ugg acrobats novelty
turns-are not well off Caesar
They have the rounes specaies they
forming in theate and night clubs and they take them from
one T show another In comedy there sort of nbreed
1ng with the boys sitting around stealing from another
often. doubt stealing their jokes
on the number Of them which can be set orchesed and
practiced to perfection in given time.
Every Ones in the Front Row, Nov
It used to be the critics who accused Of being faded
ret customer routine critic called sreds
seeing it performed dozen times by different comics
old charge went might still be fresh seeing
it for the frs time.
-. Tssyision now has put every large
the popuiace at leasat the rngside
front row. The televewers especially this
been given opportunity to become very
Jaoed with variety acts than critic years
There by rough count the four
networks every week to programs employing vaudeville
doesn't include borderne local programs
lot OF vaudeville No watch course
viewer who isn't careful will find quickly becoming
familiar and new chapeaus quickly becoming hat
1t won't happen hurry station freeze.
will be lifted and all those people teeyison will
have to go through what we've televson
ThereII Be Honds for the Torch
may be cataclymc when comes too Vaudeville won't
p allowed just to crawl back to the heaters because man
VINO has finally too much own hresde
isn't likely to go out of his to of it,
Ihe passing OF vaudeville will bemoaned course as
was the passing OF burlesque training ground will
be gone Where the viii be- will young newcomers with
talent develop their entertaining skls? will the new
stars come from? 8@.
Actually this won't be problem for teevison as
any parent with TV set in the living you When
Milton Bere Captain Vdeo and Roy their
course and are ready hand down will be
hands ready to grasp it. Why, there and year-olds
now VINO can initiate Milton Bee well over for
him next Tuesday night. -
Actually too likely to sav dead th;s rev+
time either It's quite possible you may see the day when
RO-keiths having gamut advertising yaude
v as an added nducement to its
TV shows.