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Evening star., 1953-08-13
On Vacation, Miss Frances
is Taking No Chances
By Harry Macarthur

Tucker. Margaret Whiting. Mitzi
Gaynor and Margaret O'Brien.
We're not sure what the eti-
quette is in matters of this sort
incidentally. 1t could be. how
ever, that ABC, if it sends us an
after dinner speech every Sun
day, is also committed to sending
everybody pony of brandy and
a cigar.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY-A
breathless press release just re-
ceived quotes Joan Davis as say
ing, more emphasis will be
placed this coming season in tel
evision comedy on the type which
pleases the majority"
JUNIOR SIZE-That "Omni-
bus, jr.," project of the Ford
Foundations TV-Radio Work
shop has been given the working
title of Excursion" and is pro-
crossing toward it's premiere
date. It will start Sunday, Sep
tember 13. at $3.50 pm. on NBC-
TV. The half-hour program is
to be styled primarily for chill
dren 8 to 16 years old. 1t will
try to give its audience a pro-
vocative look at its past, present
and future by employing the tai
ents of many acknowledged ex-
pertS in various fields within a
framework of entertainment"
These experts will range from
Burgess Meredith, who will ap-
pear in some dramatized scenes
from THE Adventures of Huckle-
berry Finn" to Sal Maglie, who
will try to show that a curved
ball does indeed curve. Two
original musical comedies are
being prepared for "Excursion"-
one by Alan j. Lerner and Arthur
Schwartz. the other by Alec
Wilder. Leading statesmen will
discuss our form of Government.
Life on earth will be traced from
the beginning to the atomic age.
Another feature will be a news
reel especially edited for the
young audience. And still an
other, which, ought to find favor
with these viewers, will be a
series of drawings by Charles
Addams demonstrating the rela-
tionship between child and par
ent.
TESTING-If you are among
those whose WNBW picture went
to pot while the stations new
high antenna was being con-
structed, reprieve is at hand.
Work has progressed faster than
expected, WNBW reports. If all
goes we'll the station should be
operating from its new high
tower as of Monday. You'll have
a chance to check the reception
before that, too. Engineers are
planning to test the new power
and new antenna in operation,
with a test pattern, Saturday
and Sunday nights after the
regular sign-of time.
Evening star., 1953-08-13
On the Air

There seems to be one seq
ment of the television audience
for which the broadcasters have
some respect. They may push
the adult viewers around, feed
ing them through the summer
on second-run telef1lms and re-
peats by kinescope. After all,
most viewers are accustomed to
being pushed around by the
time they become adults and,
while they may scream at
times, few send their television
sets back to Gen. Sarnoff and
tell him what to do with them.
But no chances are being taken
with the young.
There will be, for instance,
no repeat showings by request
of the most popular programs
of the past season" while Frances
Norwich is vacationlng from
"Ding-Don School," Not for
the pre-school size viewers,
these warmed-over ~ dishes.
Miss Frances knows better.
"Ding-Dong School" (WNBW
- Monday -through-Friday, 10
a.m.) is being seen by way of
kinescope recordings this week
and next, but the shows are
brand-new. On three long July
Saturdays Miss Norwich and
crew worked, making three COM
plete half-hour kinescopes on
each of the first two, four on the
third.
1t probably is not that Miss
Frances loves her work so much,
but rather that she knows her
audience and how far it can't be
pushed. Elder viewers might
emit yelps of protest, but chill
dren are more direct. Con-
fronted with Miss Frances re-
peating herself the little bounders
might carom plastic automobiles
off the TV set. Or, worse still,
turn to the cartoons (Which they
apparently don't mind seeing re-
peated over and over and never
come back to "Ding-Dong
School" at all.
It's too bad some sponsors
don't show the same respect for
their prospective customers.
/ \
! JOB FOR GEORGE-ABC-TV
has found a pair of sponsors to
give alternate-week support to
its proudest talent possession,
George Jessel. Come September
13 "The George Jessel Show" will
be launched as a weekly feature
on ABC-TV on Sundays at $50,
probably an ideal hour. The
young, innocently engaged at the
time in adventure with Roy
Rogers, never will miss George.
| Often referred to, in his own
publicity at least, as THE Toast
master General of the United
States" Jessel will be playing
that same role on television. Ac-
cording to word from ABC. he
will have full scope to display
his extraordinary talents and
abilities as an after-dinner
speaker" The half-hour show
will take the form of a testimo-
nial dinner with an employe or
executive of one of the sponsor
ing companies as guest of honor.
There also will be guest stars
to entertain. Names mentioned
in the announcement. with no
/ specific dates set, are Sophie
Evening star., 1953-08-13
7 eIevision Tomorrow
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W1s-1e Cartoon Ihsar 1G30 Early Bird Ihssr NAums
1745 z. J.
Morning Mssum
Billy JnsoIs csrsan Show TO- Wheel Fortunes H. III That 1885, Strike
eudng uG l. Allan ftGs ssw Dsuhs Nothing;
Big Pyut $50 Mors 4 Pick Temples $780, Billy JohEn
WMAl14S Bulletin l.
S. Nm st
cauwsy
h5s News; Today SIS Local News Gss A2s $50
1l1s The Sennsts 1ao Three Steps 11A Fellow
Little on
AIS, MsS Quick ouh 2ao Ncy NOshsok the $780,
ladies'
Evening star., 1953-08-13
HighIights
Rodio Todoy.

7:O5, WGMS-Music: Lilo,
star Of the Broadway musical
"Can-Can," is guest.
1850, WWDC-Baseball. New
York VS.. Washington.
$3.50, WTOP-Electric Thea
ter: William Holden stars in
owen Wister'S THE Virginian."
$3.50, WMAL-Time Capsule:
Guests are Architect Frank
Lloyd Wright, Author Julius
Evening star., 1953-08-13

Evening news broadcast
direct from The Stars news
room Monday through FRI
day over Stations WMAL
and WMAL-FM, 6 PM.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
AIRPORT

EIHNEYT Lseshvrs Pike. Route J
SO"SDA A. Baiiey's X Roods
Open 8 PM. CAPTAIN BLOOD"
ERROL FLYNN, OLIVIA DE HAVI.
LAND, sos. Plus PAULA" LORET-
ia YOUNG, KENT SMITH, $3.50,
s59i sToRY starts .pd Fri sAiNT1Se San TE1RANcISG1
CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE"
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Continued From Page C-1

rary Broadway revues. Viz:
Almanac"
Kitty King, Betty Nichol-
son and their colleagues on
The Stars switchboard who
are as unfailingly cheerful as
they are competent.
And ChorIey's Stoff
And a composing room that
bulges with such drama de-
partment backstops as Charley,
John, Clarence, Phil. Hank,
Arnold, Andy. the othe
Charley. These are the indiS-
pensable men by whom 1t takes
a really lax drama department
to slip an error.
Press agents galore. Jack
Foxe, Rufus Blair, Richard
Nancy, Ernie Emmerling; the
Bills Keefe. Fields, and Doll;
Walter Alvord, Joe Lawlor and
the many others who give
shape to one of the most
shapeless occupations of mans
deviSing.
The Raleigh's staff, Jack
Edgar, Mister Pete, John,
Janis, Pat. Dorothy, Jean,
Gladys, Grace, Belle. and the
others who make as big hit
with his show businesS~-and
other guests as with a critic
Evening star., 1953-12-20
SUPER CHIEF DRIVEN

On the Indian Head Hwy, via South
On the Right--No TrafRc Hazards!
All Children Under I2 Free!
MARK STEVENS. JEAN KENT. THE
BIG HEAT" at $3.50. $40. FRANKIE
LAME, RAINBOW ROUND MY
SHOULDER" at S:l5.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Cheer to the Cheerful

whose friends they nave Deen
for years.
Golfers names Of Moffett,
Mitchell. McKelway, Macom-
ber-and to prove that they
don't have to begin with IN"
-Guyol, Evans, Edwards, Dem
ton (again) and Stann. And a
golf writer named Whittlesley
who is most happy when re-
cording embarrassing news.
Hotel men, and their very
nice wives, such as Gardner
Moore. Neal Mack, Herbert c.
Blunck. C. c. Schiller and
Frank Weakley.
England'S Archie Gardiner
who must be the drollest dip
lomat in town. And to the
Henri Bonnets for virtues as
charming.
On this international level.
too, a Frohliche Weihmachten
to Wanda FaStnacht Nagen-
gast to whose growing English
we may have contributed a
word and a pronunciation here
and there.
And, warmed by another
year, the warmest of wishes
for the readers of this col
umn who are, beyond a cavil.
the handsomest, best dressed,
most worthy, and altogether
admirable humans to be found
anywhere.
disclose that fewer than 3
million persons in the GIG
million covered do not listen
to the radio because of tele-
vision. There must be a lot
of fringe listening outside Of
TV hours by the 72 per cent
with televiSion available.
In the evening, between din
ner and bedtime. the report
shows, % per cent of the peo-
pie covered listen to the radio
for an average Of l hour and
A minutes. That. however,
is just barely more than the
28 per cent who don't have
any television sets to watch.
Maybe a survey Of teleview-
ers only is in order, to find
out when and where they lis
ten to the radio.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Macarthur
CONTINUED From Page C-1.,

Continued From Page CID
come addictS of radio back
ground noise.
Sponsors might think it over.
Shout to gain the attention
of a man reading a book and
he will merely. without look
ing up. twist that knob until
his subconsciouS hears music
again. It might make every
body happier to speak softly
to those who want to listen.
Examination of the report
Of the Politz study, it should
be noted, discovers no evidence
that television is dead. Radio
is not replacing it.
It is true that the figures
Evening star., 1953-12-20

HAYWOOD eIasia g Z aEN onsSaNP.. sesP.
THE BIG HEAT" at 1870, 3:3O.
4:35, 7:4O, 9:45.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
SIDNEY LUST THEATERS

BETSVILLE DRIVEN
BALTIC. Blvd. WE. $500. Open 8 Pm.
DOUBLE FEATURE
''UNTAMED BREED" at $40, and
JEFF CHANDLER, MARILYN MAX
WELL. EAST OF SUMATRA"
(Technicolorl, at 6:3O, 9:3O.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Branch Drive.ln

Branch Ave. S.E., Md. Rte. 5, 6li
Mi; So; of d. G. Line. 10. s-99SS.
Matinee To-day! Cont from 5:3Ol
BILL ELLIOTT in KANSAS TERRI
TORY" $40. S:35. LOUIS HAY
WARD in ROYAL AFRICAN
RIFLES in color. $50. 9:55. Ex-
ira! OUR GANG" comedy at s:15
week end! Starts Christmas Day.
PETER PANT
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Miss HuWkins
To Marry
nOctober

Mr.. and Mrs. Gardiner Haw-
kins of Tenaf1y, N. j., and La
Luz, N. Mex, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter,
Sheila, to Mr.. T. George Har-
ris. He Is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Garland Harris Of Tren-
ton, KY.
The bride-elect is the grand
daughter of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel L. Shober of Phil
adelphia. Pa, and the late Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Hawkins
of El Paso, Tex. She is a grad
uate of st. GATHERINGS School
in Richmond, Va, and VaSsar
College in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Miss Hawkins was formerly ad-
vertising director of McKettrick-
Williams. Inc, Of New York
City.
Mr.. Harris served with the
Third Army in the European
Theater and received a battle
field commission and three
combat decorations. Following
the war, he attended the Uni
versity of Kentucky. He is a
graduate of Yale University
where he was a member of the
Ale, Quail, Chowder and March
ing Society and was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa. He is now q
Washington correspondent for
Time Magazine and a member
Of the Washington Press Club.
An october wedding is
planned.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Engagement Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert K, Dov-
er of Washington have an
nounced the engagement of their
daughter Rita to I'd 1t. Howard
Wilson Hovermale, USAF. He
is the son of Mrs. Victoria Hover
male, also of this city, and the
late Mr.. Howard Burman How
ermale.
Miss Dover received a B.A.
degree from the University of
Maryland where she was a men,
ber Of Delta Gamma sorority.
She is now employed by the For
eign Operations Administration
as an administrative aide.
1t. Hovermale is also a gradu-
ate of the University of Mary
land where he was a member of
Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and
Seaboard and Blade, national
military science honorary fra
ternity. He is now stationed at
Hondo Air Force Base at Hondo,
Tex. where he is enrolled in basic
flight training.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Miss Crawford
AuQust Bride

Announcement is made Of the
marriage of Miss Monica Cecilia
Crawford of Washington to Mr..
Laurence A. Baldwin, also of this
city. The ceremony took place
at st. Joseph's Catholic Church
in Miami, Fla, on August 10.
The Right Rev. Msgr. George
Rocket officiated.
Mrs. Baldwin has been as
Sociated with the American
Chemical Society here. The
bridegroom is an official with
the United States Veterans Ad-
ministration.
The couple will be at home
after October l in Georgetown.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Eileen McNoW
AuouSt Bride

st. James Episcopal Church in
Upper Montclair, N. j., was the
scene August % of the marriage
of Miss Eileen Bridget McNally
and Mr.. George Carter. The bride
is the daughter of Capt. and
Mrs. McNally, U. S. N, of Upper
Montclair. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Rex Carter of Cynwyd, Pa, are
the parents of the bridegroom.
The officiating clergyman at the
ceremony was Rev. Donald Col
Inns. A reception followed at
the home Of the brides parents.
Mr.. Carter is now a I'd lieuten-
ant at Foster Air Force Base in
Texas.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Spring WeddinQ

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph ]. Spe-
sick Of Silver Spring. Md, an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Joan Bernice to Mr..
Arthur Lee Decker. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Dek-
ker of Hillside, N. j.
A spring wedding is planned.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Niece Is Honored

Miss Elizabeth Dubois. daugh-
ter of former Senator and Mrs.
Fred T. Dubois Of Idaho. enter
tanned at tea on Thursday in
the Gallery Room of the Dupont
Plaza Hotel, honoring her niece,
Airman &c Adelia Dubois.
The latter is visiting her aunt
at the hotel while on leave
from Lakeland Air Force Base
in San Antonio, Tex,
Evening star., 1953-08-23
MRS. RICHARD P. LAYMAN
The former

MISS margaret +. st. John.
Miss Margaret Evelyn st. John,
daughter of Col. and Mrs. Glenn
ent st. John of Silver Spring,
became the bride on August %
of Mr.. Richard Paul Layman,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lay
man of Somerset, Pa. The we'd
ding was held at the Walter Reed
Memorial Chapel, with Maj. Gen.
Ivan L. Bennett. chief of Army
chaplains, officiating. A recep-
ton followed at the Officers Club
at Walter Reed Army Medical
Center.
After a wedding trip to Swift
Water, Pa, the couple will live
In Philadelphia, Pa, where Mr..
Layman will attend the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Medical
School.
Evening star., 1953-03-14

The District cannot build
enough highways, bridges or Off
street parking facilities to ac-
commodate traffic in the down.
town area. Traffic Director
George E. Keneipp said today.
The only solution to the down.
town parking problem is to make
mass transit systems improve
their methods or to organize car
clubs to bring people to work and
downtown stores. he said.
The Department of Vehicles
and Traffic, in a survey last
Tuesday from am. to 6 pm,
found that 29,791 vehicles en-
tered the District over the
Highway Bridge. In Sc per cent
Of the cars, the driver was alone.
Thirty-five per cent carried only
two persons.
A similar survey is to be made
soon of cars entering the Dis
trict from Montgomery County
on Wisconsin avenue and from
the Silver Spring area.
Mr.. Keneipp said he was un-
able to say whether the building
of subways, like New York'S
would be feasible financially, but
he said they would improve the
traffic situation. which is getting
progressively worse.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
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Evening star., 1953-03-14
DC. C.AdvisorYCounci|
Asks for Information
On Reorganization

The Citizens Advisory Council
of the District Commissioners
wants a first-hand report on the
progress of the local Govern
ment reorganization plan.
Members seemed a bit hurt
that they have not yet been
officially posted on the progress
of the program. which has been
under way since last July.
At a regular meeting of the
advisory group yesterday, C:oun-
Gilman j. c. Turner said he un-
derstood the council was sup
posed to work closely with the
city officials.
Prior Information Wanted.
"They should let us know
what they're doing" he said.
YES" agreed Councilman
Woolsey w. Hall. 1--WE ought to
know their plans before they
put them into effect"
Chairman Robert v. Fleming
said he would arrange to have
Schuyler Lowe, director of the
District Department of General
Administration and overseer of
the reorganization operation,
present at the March 27 council
meeting,
:. Would Aid Public Works.
At the suggestion of the men,
berS, Chairman Fleming also
agreed to inform city officials
and appropriate civic leaders
that the advisory council is hold
ing itself in readiness to give
whatever assistance is needed to
push through the pending $337
million public works improve
ment program.
The advisers, in fact, spent
nearly two hours yesterday dis
cussing the Health Department
budget for fiscal 1854, with par
ticular emphasis on 81 million
worth of urgently required"
projects excluded from the 1854
budget approved by the District
Commissioners.
The council decided it needs
further information before tax
ing action on the Health De-
Evening star., 1953-03-14
PoIice-Fire Pay Raise
Bill Before Senate Unit

The police-fire pay raise bill
now is before the Senate Dis
trict Committee. in advance of
House action on the measure.
Senator Beall, Republican, of
Maryland, chairman of the Pub
lie Safety. Subcommittee, yes
terday introduced a copy of the
pay raise bill, reported by the
Kearns Subcommittee of the
House District Committee.
The House bill is to come up
for action at the next meeting
of the House District Committee.
This calls for graduated in
creaSes for all ranks except the
superintendent of police and the
chief of the Fire Department.
The biggest raises would be in
the lower brackets.
The starting pay for police and
firemen would be raised from
$3,409 to $4,000. and rockies
could go to top pay for a private
in three years, instead Of five.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
.Chi||um Bus Route
Change Ordered

Southbound Chillum line buses
operated by Capital Transit Co..
will be shifted from Eleventh to
Tenth streets NV, beginning at
Vermont avenue.
The District Public Utilities
Commission ordered the switch
yesterday. 1t will go into effect
on March %.
The Tenth street route prob
ably will be used only so long
as that thoroughfare remains a
one-way street. 1t has gone
through about one month of a
siX-month trial period.
Merchants, however, already
are complaining of the one-way
order, which also applies to
Twelfth street, now carrying
only northbound traffic between
Vermont and Pennsylvania ave-
nues NV.
Under yesterdays PUG order,
the Chillum buses will still travel
north on Twelfth, with E street
the connecting leg to Tenth.
Commission Chairman Ken
meth w. Spencer said the PUG
generally favors bus operation on
one-way streets wherever con-
venient. The shift to Tenth
street. moreover, eases the traffic
load on Eleventh. which carries
another CTC bus route, dual
streetcar tracks and Greyhound
buses.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Elected DC. Delegate
In Senate Proposed in
Bill Being Drafted

New legislation that would
give the District an elected, nom
voting delegate in the Senate will
be introduced in the House on
Monday.
Representative Abernethy,
Democrat, of Mississippi said
today he is having the bill pre-
pared by the legislative counsel
OF the House.
The measure will be substi-
tute for the Senate-passed bill
to give the District an elected,
non-voting delegate in the House.
That bill will come up for pub
lie hearings before the House
District Judiciary subcommittee
after the Easter recess. Repre-
sentative O'Hara, Republican, of
Minnesota is chairman of that
group. a.
FaVOraDle Reaction.
Mr.. Abernethy originally
planned to offer an amendment
to the Senate bill, putting the
delegate in the Senate, when it
came before the O'Hara sub
committee. But he explained to-
day that he decided to present
the bill. after his idea brought
a favorable reaction from sew
eral House members.
II don't see why such a dele
gate couldn't sit in the Senate" "
said Mr.. Abernethy. "He would
not be limited in time for debate.
He would not be restricted to the
House five-minute rule. Maybe
this is a good idea.
Could Introduce Bills.
Washington is an important
place in the world, and a District
delegate in the Senate would call
attention to the vital significance
of the Nations Capital"
The Abernethy bill, it is under
stood, would give the delegate
the same privileges as the Sen
ate bill, which was sponsored by
Chairman Case of the Senate
District Committee, and by Sen
ator Nicely. Democrat, of West
Virginia, former chairman.
The delegate would have a
seat in the Senate, could intro
duce bills, participate as a men,
Der of committee, but he would
have no vote. The bill would set
up Board Of Elections and the
necessary voting machinery.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Maryland to Seek
To Abolish Tolls on
Bridge at Benedict
By the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 14.-Mary-
land Road Chief Russell Nc
Cain said the State makes such
a small amount on Patuxent
River Bridge tolls at Benedict
it will take steps to abolish the
charge.
The Roads Commission chair
man said Gov. McKeldin and
Joseph D. BuScher, special as
Sistant attorney general, will
confer on the matter soon.
Mr.. Mccain noted tolls from
the bridge are only a little more
than the cost of collecting them.
He said one of the problems
was protection Of private in
vestors whose bond purchases A.
nanced construction of the span.
This might be solved, Mr.. Nc
Cain added, by setting UP a trust
of about 50 million to pay on
the bonds as they become due.
Evening star., 1953-03-14
Police Seek Dog Poisoner
In Angry Northwest Area

A mysterious dog poisoner has
stirred up residents of a North
west neighborhood and caused
police to issue special orders to
keep a lookout for suspicious
persons in the area.
About II dogs have been poi
soned in the last few months in
the neighborhood of Macarthur
boulevard and w street NV,
police said. Several have died
as a result.
A delegation of residents called
on Capt. Daniel o. Fletcher,
commanding officer of No. Z pre-
cinct, last week to see what could
be done.
Capt. Fletcher ordered his
beat men to keep a lookout for
any suspicious actions in the
neighborhood. A detective also