Evening star., 1952-01-04
On the Air:
Stage Stor
Lends Churn1
To TV PIuy
By Harry Macarthur

ttelevision she was gracing Georg'
Shiels' "The New Gossoon." TIL,
Irish comedy drama about a younl
mans coming -of-age has beer
performed a number of times. bu
it's safe to say that the gossooni
mother never has been done with
more sensitivity and warm charm
than by Miss Mathews. More o.
her is another thing television Car
use.
Instances Of freak ng-distanct
televiewing continue to turn up
the latest reported by a consid.
erably surprised Minneapolis view.
er. He turned on his set a few
days ago, according to Allen B
DuMont Laboratories engineers
and did a fast double take as tht
screen lighted up to show a base.
ball game in progress before shirt.
sleeved spectators. Turned out te
be coming all the way from Cuba
where an audience in shirt sleeve.
watching a ball game is a norma
thing this time Of the year.
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Old Program, New Network
Author Meets the Critics." which
is described as "video's second
Oldest show" and which certainly
must be classed among the lively
and rewarding TV sessions, has
moved now to DuMont (WTTG).
The Peabody award-winner will
be a regular Thursday-at-10 fea-
ture. "Pantomine Quiz" 6
bit OF Hollywood foolishness which
has been seen heretofore via
kinescope recording, turned L.;
this week live Cor, live for it, on
NBC (WNBW-Wednesday, 1890
p.m0. This one is described as
being "unrehearsed and informal
as private Hollywood party" and
it's a fair description. If watching
"a bunch of minor Hollywood stars
play charades is your idea of a
high good time, don't let any
shudders of pain around here
stop you.
That Monday night hour va
Gated by Somerset Maugham
Theater" (WNBW-9:30 p.m.)
apparently is to be filled by max
ing Robert Montgomery Pre-
sents" a weekly show with alter
mating sponsors. The new one
(JohnSon's Wax will take over
next Monday when Mr.. Mont.
gomery presents a dramatization
of John O'Hara's novel. "Ths
Farmers Hotel" 1t will be the
first OHara work on television
and the cast will be- headed by
Thomas Mitchell and Faith
Brook.
Week End Guests: Tomorrow
Vice President Barley, on
American Youth Forum" (WN-
BW-5 p.m0. -. Martha Raye
and Robert Cummings, on "All-
Star Revue" (WNBW-8 p.m.)
Veronica Lake, Horace Nc
Mahon and James Melton, on
THE Ken Murray Show" (WTOP-
TV-8 p.mo. Marguerite
Piazza. joining Sid Caesar and
1mogene Coca, on "Your Show o1
Shows" (WNBW-9 p.mD.
Skitch Henderson, filling in for
vacationing Faye Emerson, on
wonderful Town" (WTOP-TV-
9 p.mJ.
Sunday-Dr. Philip E. Mosely
discussing the future of Soviet
diplomacy, on Horizons" (WMAL.
TV-1 p.m.) Harold Stas-
sen, on Meet the Press" (WNBW
a p.mo Mindy Carson,
Martha Ann Bentley and the
-Four Aces. on Star of the Fam
lily" (WTOP- TV-6:30 p.m.)
!. =. Fred Allen, on Sound OF
Time" (WNBW-7 p.m.)
Les Compagnons de la Chanson
Eddie Dowling and Margaret
O'Brien, on Toast of the Town"
WTOP-TV-8 p.m) Dom
aid O'Connor, Harpo Marx and
Marie Macdonald, on "The Com
edy Hour" (WNBW-8 pm.) -.
Pearl Bailey, on "The Fred War
ing Show" (WTOP-TV-9 pm.)
3. Jean Pierre Aumont, play
ing Louis Braille in "A Softness
in the Wind" on "Television Play
house" (WNBW-9 p.m.) ..
Teresa Wright and David Niven,
on Celebrity Time" (WTOP-TV
10 p.mo Alfred Drake
and Rita Cam, in Dark of the
Moon," on Cameo Theater''
(WNBW-10:30 p.m).
Monday-Arthur Treacher, on
Hollywood Screen Test" (WMAL-
TV-7:30 p.mD Henry Hull
and Airline Frances, in "Mr.
Finchley Versus the Bomb" orig
inal drama by Rod Sterling, on
'Video Theater" (WTOP-Tv -
3 p.m) Rise Stevens, on
Voice Of Firestone" (WNBW--
$3.50 p.mJ Donald Buka
and Don Hammer. in "The School
for the Unspeakable," on Lights
Out" (WNBW-9 p.m.)
Joan Wetmore, Phyllis Kirk and
Whit Bissell, In "The Devil in
Velvet" TV version of a John
Dickson Carr thriller, on Studio
One" (WTOP-TV-l0 p.m).
X X X X
PremiereS-A new drama show
with Sarah Churchill as hostess
on WNBW Sunday at $3.50 pm
|. Claudia" new weekly
continued drama, with Joan Nc
|Cracken and Hugh Reilly in the
leading roles, on WNBW Sunday
at $3.50 pm.
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Program Notes-"A Softness ir
the Wind" which Jean Pierre