Evening star., 1953-02-27
Viewer Says You Are There'
Won't Find Her There Aquin
By Harry Macarthur

which was at once educational
and entertaining.
The television version started
with a recreation of the explo-
sion of the Hindenberg at Lake
hurst, N. j. 1t has since pro-
duced pictorial reports on the
killing of Jesse James and the
above noted shooting of Dillin-
ger. It must be admitted, to be
sure, that that was an uncon-
vincing and notwithstanding off,
stage pop when the coward shot
Mr.. Howard and laid poor Jesse
in his grave. But the boys may
make up for this next Sunday
with their TV description of the
execution of Joan of Arc.
The way things have been
going, they may burn a live &C
tress at the stake.
NAMES IN THE NEWS -
Steve Allen is turning from radio
and television to make his
Broadway debut on April S.
He has signed on for the lead
ing role in The Pink Elephant. "
new comedy by John Fuller,
which starts rehearsing Monday.
Its Today pre-New York
tour will include a week at the
Sam S. Schubert Theater here,
starting March 30. Groucho
Marx is returning to the boards,
too. Palm Beach, Fla, the
atergoers will see him the week
of March 9 in Time for Eliza
beth." co-authored by Marx and
Norman KraSna. He did it
last summer at La Jolla, Calf =,
and it did without him during
it's regular Broadway run. .
Tonight will be Bob Hope night
at the Friars Club in New York.
-. The radio-TV- film comic will
be saluted at a testimonial dinner
for his Is years as an NBC radio
entertainer. Hope also will
be on hand tomorrow night
when George Jessel returns to
NBC-TV's "All Star Revue" /"
along with Fred Allen and 9TH
ers. Jerry and Jimma Strong
of WMAL will be guest host and
hostess tomorrow night at the
22d annual ball Of the CIV
Engineering School. They'll
also be master and mistress Of
ceremonies at the Mississippi
State Society dance a week from
tomorrow.
X X \ II
PROGRAM NOTES-Eddie AL
bert, movie comedian who found
a niche on local television in
Hollywood. will preside over a
new CBS-TV daytime program,
starting Monday. The COM
edy-variety series will be seen
Monday through Friday from 3
to $3.50 pm. King Solomon
and the Bee" will be tomorrow's
drama for children on "The
Tinker Shop" (WMAL-TV-4:30
PM. The cast of Wash
ington-Lee High School students
will include Bob Humphrey. JEFF
Eddy and Marion MacBaisey.
Johns Hopkins Science Re-
view" will turn Monday (WTTG-
$50 p.m) to More About Space
Travel" There's been some
progress, apparently, since the
three-program series last Sep
tember and this will bring you
up to date. Lets Go Fish
ing" designed for local anglers,
will start Thursday at 1920 pm.
on WMAL-TV. 1.-THE Traffic
JAM" radio documentary on the
seriously critical condition of the
Nations highway system, will be
broadcast Saturday. March Z.
at $50 pm. by NBC. Gene
Lockhart of stage, screen and
television. will be the narrator.
VOL has revised it's broad
cast schedule considerably. in
case you hadn't noticed. One
thing it has done is drop the all
night record show. installing Les
Sand in the midnight to 2 am.
Sign-off spot. Other VOL
disc jockeys and their new hours
are: George Crawford, 8 to 9
am. II am. to IL. l to 2 pm:
Herb Davis. 9 to II am, 1890
to /. 8 to S pm; Milt Grant, 2
to 3 pm. S to 8 pm.