Evening star., 1952-03-05
On the Air
Thut Tubes
| Same One

By Harry Macarthur

paign oratory. They seem de-
signed for immediate effect, ir
the hope that nobody will be Gao
lenough to demonstrate a lone
memory and bring them up again
This time, RCA proved to have
Ia long memory, or one long
enough, at least. It countered
the CHS demonstration with q
statement by DR.. c. B. Jolliffe
vice president and technical di-
Irector Of RCA. Broadcastings
Telecasting Magazine, DR.. Jolliffe
said, on August 20. 1851. quoted
DR.. Peter Goldmark Of CHS as
having said:
"While a color tube will un-
|doubtedly be developed at some
time which will satisfactorily
serve color television. the RCA
tube is not the answer. Even II
this tube were comparable in price
with the color wheel. we still
would not use it because Of its
inferior picture quality"
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Two days later, DR.. Jolliffe went
ion, there was newspaper story:
Columbia Broadcasting System
has tested the Radio Corporation
of Americas tricolor tube and has
found it unsatisfactory for use
with the CHS color method in its
present form, a network official
disclosed yesterday. The CHS
official said that the tube did not
produce color with it's system equal
to that obtained with the disk"
The tube CHS demonstrated. this
week, DR.. Jolliffe noted, "is ex-
actly the same tube which existed
in 1851 at the time the CHS Of
f1cials made the statements :"
The RCA official statement pro-
duction department still seems to
be on a spot. Since most un-
biased observers have found the
two systems about equal (from a
viewer standpoint and without re-
gard for the compatibility and
simplicity factors). RCA can
hardly be the first to say that
the CHS system is vastly improved
by the color tube. It can't be ex-
lpected to say, either. that the
RCA tube is not an improvement
over the CHS spinning color wheel.
There is a growing suspicion
around this department - and
probably a belated one at that
that these two embattled corpora
tions are no more sincerely at
odds than a pair Of those grunt-
Iand-groan thespians ona TV
wrestling card. They, this sus-
picion runs, merely yelp ct one
another on occasion to keep color
Itelevision in, the news, to keep the
appetite for it whetted Until some
body can sell you some.
| Whatever the truth, the super
iority of color television seems to
have been proved, all right. Even
before it is In use it is giving us
some funnier comedy than black
and-white television has man
aged when trying.
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No Score-C Columnists are al
ways Haunting their discoveries
pointing proudly to the great star
whose talent they recognized be-
fore any one else did-but it never
seems to happen here. Twenty
seven persons at last count had
laid claim to being the one who
discovered Evelyn Knight. depo-
nent not among them.
! Before she started on her climb
to fame in the entertainment
world Miss Knight sang aronnd
town for a number of years, long
enough to become an old friend,
but did she get discovered? Not by
this boy. All we can boast is a
feeling Of faint surprise when,
after Miss Knight drifted out of
our ken Cor vice versa) during the
early war years, she turned up at
New York'S Blue Angel.
Then there is the case of Mindy
Carson, a much-in-demand TV
guest star and recording artist,
who viii be at the Capitol Theater
for week starting tomorrow. Miss
Carson. a biography Of her which
has turned up in the mail dis
closes, appeared at the Club Cairo
in 1948. when her singing career
was almost four years younger.
On March Is, 1948, this column
ist, who has since displayed con-
Isiderably more enthusiasm for
Miss Carson's singing, >took note
Of her visit to the local bistro.
Among the "other" acts, 1t was
noted. was q Mindy Carson, "who
can sing a ballad quite fetchingly
and whose features are bit remi-
Eniscent Of Ingrid Bergman's, which
is enough for any girl"
There is nothing poisonous
about a review like this. Of course,
but 1t isn't tossing any hats very
high In any air over any bright
new stars. Close, but no discovery.
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Spectacular-You won't be able
to do it. but it might be a good
idea to at least try to divert your
wife's attention from '"The Kate
Smith Evening Hour" tonight
(WNBW-8 o'clock. She (your
wife. not Miss SMITH is liable to
be sent on shopping spree. A
portion Of the program win be
given over to what is described as
"the most spectacular fashion
show yet presented on TV." Dis
played will be the latest gowns
designed by Dior, Balenciago,
Faith, Fabiani, Griffe, Dessis and
others, including a little number
embroidered with 100000 pearls
count 'em II you don't believe it,
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