Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

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standing there before a camera
drawing lines on q map.
He not only is drawing lines
on a map, but he is expected to
be witty or clever or something
while doing it, the program di-
rector having overlooked one
small fact. It is the weather in
which the customers were In
terested in the first place, not
the wit Of somebody talking
about the weather.
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Mr.. Allen can be forgiven his
little Jokes because he obviously
knows something about the
weather. Mr.. Hunnicutt can be
forgiven his, too, because he
often is funny. But he diSquaIi-
f1es himself as a weather expert.
He wears his hat indoors and out
and clearly is oblivious to atmos-
phere change.
Mr.. Weaver, in one household
at least, serves only one purpose.
He runs up the telephone bill
with calls to the Weather Bureau
to find out what tomorrow's at
moSphere really will contain.
His weather reports somehow
create the conviction that he
wouldn't know a cold front from
a herd Of antelope if one or the
other came charging down Con-
necticut avenue.
Miss Stringer's qualifications
as a weather observer include a
facial structure which has an
artist we know rhapsodic. Such
bones. She hasn't a single bad
camera angle.
Being q woman, however, dis
qualities her as a weather fore
caster. This is simple logic. Who
plans picnics? Women. What
happens on the days picnics are
planned? It rains. So how can
you depend on a woman, even
one Of impeccable facial bone
structure, for the word on to-
morrow's weather?
The really disconcerting thing
about t~elevision'S weather fore
casters is their occasional lack
OF unanimity. Maybe they get
their information from four diff
erent Weather Bureaus, which is
something the taxpayers had
better investigate. Anyhow, on
some nights you can get four
differing views on the present
and probable future state of the
atmosphere, Four different peo-
pie will stand there in front of
four different maps and draw
lines and all will draw them in
different places.
II there aren't four different
Weather Bureaus, there are only
two other possible conclusions.
One Is that these TV forecasters
really don't know what they're
talking about. The other is that
the weather man Is issuing four
different forecasts in the hope
that one will be correct. Take
your choice.
LITTLE HELPER If Lauren
Bacall displayed any nervousness
when she made her TV debut the
other Sunday on Ed Sullivan's
Toast Of the Town." there was
sufficient cause. She was doing
fine until she talked to Guy
Mitchell. the top-notch pop sin
ger. Mr.. Mitchell, this weeks
headliner here at the Casino
Royal. also appeared on the
Sullivan show that night.
Between the dress rehearsal
and the show Mr.. Mitchell was
talking with Baby Bacall and
Humphrey Bogart, who, as you
know, is Baby's husband. He
was, Mitchell confessed, pretty
nervous about the whole thing.
What are you worried about?"
Baby and DOGGY asked calmly.
There's nothing to it. Why be
nervous?"
why be nervousl" shouted
Mitchell. why. I'll go out
there and lay a bomb in front of
millions Of people and I'll be fin
ished. won't be able to get an
other television job. They'll can
Gel my record contract. Para
mount will cancel my picture
contract. I'm dead!"
The outburst Gained Mitchell.
but his train of thought had
Miss Bacall pretty shaken by the
time the show started.