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Winds. Ronald Alexander.
author of Broadway's Time Out
for Ginger" has been followed
to the CBS-TV fold by Sally
Benson. writer of the Junior
Miss" and Meet Me In st.
Louis" stories. ;. They are the
first two members Of a new
creative group being organized
to develop new program ideas.
Wally ("Mr. PeepersD Cox
is a record star, too. now.
RCA Victor has just recorded
his Dufo stories on a disc titled
What a Crazy Guy" Bud
Collyer is now conducting ABC-
TVS Monday night Talent
Patrol" which used to star Steve
Allen. Hazel Markell will be
guest speaker at the ladies'
luncheon of the Shenandoah
Apple Blossom Festival in Win
chester (Va) tomorrow. The
WTTG television and Mutual
radio commentator also has the
coronation on her early summer
calendar.
THE SWITCH Tom Ewell
has new contract with NBC-TV
which allows him also to appear
IN motion pictures or Broadway
plays.
PROGRAM NOTES-A some
what elaborate production OF
Dickens "A Tale Of Two Cities"
seems to be in the making on
plymouth Playhouse" cABC
Album") for the next two Sum-
days, May 3 and 10. Judith
Evelyn has just been signed to
play Madame DeFarge, joining
John Ireland (Sydney Carton
and jeanne Dru Gucie Manette).
The two-part teledrama will
have an original musical score.
too, composed by Dimitri Tiom-
kin, who won an Academy Oscar
for High Noon" Next
Saturdays Original Amateur
Hour" (WNBW, $3.50 p.m) will
be on film. Its performers
are GIs in Korea, who were
f1nalists in the series of amateur
hours Ted Mack recently con-
Quoted in and around battle
areas. THE Stu Erwin Show"
(WMAL-TV-Friday. 1880 p.mD
has been renewed by it's sponsor
for another So week period.
starting June 5. It will enter
it's fourth year on the network
next fall. "Kukla. Fran and
Ollie" back home in Chicago,
are planning a circus show for
next Sunday on NBC-TV.
Reports Producer Beulah Zach
ary: with a little urging, or
without, Mr.. Oliver j. Dragon
will sing one of his starring roles
in Big Top" The starting
date for WMAL-TV's "Theater
Showcase" has been moved up to
May 7. Local amateur drama
groups will be featured in a
series of 13 one-act plays.
CHS will provide exclusive radio
and television coverage of the
Kentucky Derby Saturday after
noon at S. The DuMont net
work has signed pact with the
Shrine East-West Football Com
mittee for televising of the an
nual charity contest for the next
three years. :. The Crew Chiefs.
Air Force musical group, will
make a guest appearance tomor-
row afternoon on WMAL-TV's
"Bandstand Matinee" (4:30
pmD. The teen-age show
also is engaged now in a Bunny
Hop contest. with an all-expense
trip to Hollywood awaiting the
national winners. The 50th
anniversary of powered flight
is being celebrated each morn
ing this week by Dave Caro-
way on To-day" NBC-TV's
experimental venture into adult
education, American 1nven-
tory" has been renewed for an
other 80 weeks. The network
presents it in cooperation with
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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ON RADIO ROW-NBC al
ready is making plans for the re-
turn of Arturo Toscanini to con-
duct the NBC Symphony during
the 1953-54 season. .. 1t will be
the 18th complete season for the
86-year- -old conductor. NBC,
incidentally, has abandoned plans
it had for a spring tour by the
orchestra and Toscanini.
Listener named Irene Manchey
hopes we'll say something nice
about Chuck Dulane. WGAY disc
jockey. HE has terrifically
good taste in music" she says.
:. That nice enough, Irene?
lone Mans Family" will COM
plete it's 21st year on NBC radio
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