Evening star., 1953-02-25

NAMGO AN x1G NE"S-JOQy
Miller, one-time Miss Wash
ington, will be a "Chance of a
Lifetime" contestant tomorrow
(WMAL-TV-8:30 p.mD. She got
her singing start at the King Cole
Room and other bistros here.
Prizes awaiting tomorrow nights
winner include $1,000 in cash. a
weeks booking at New York's
Latin Quarter, an addition for
Columbia Records and try-out
with Columbia Pictures. Harry
Snow, who has had his stay at
the Shoreham Blue Room ex-
tended a third week. is a past
winner on that same Chance of
Lifetime. . Fletcher Markle,
Studio One producer, has hired
himself as a TV actor for a lead
ing role next Monday night
(CBS-TV) in MY Beloved Hus-
band" 1t will be his first try
at television acting. Actually it
was Director Franklin Schaffner
who, after fruitlessly interview
ing actors for several days, sug-
gested Markle play the role him.
self Television's Freedoms
Foundation. Award winners in
clude Bishop Fulton Sheen,
Martha Rountree and Larry
Spivak (for Meet the Press"
and Keep Posted~, Theodore
Crank (for Youth Wants to
Know"). Earl Goodwin, "The New
York Times Youth Forum" and
The Georgetown University
Forum" ,-~ -.--.
NO PLACE TO HIDE-Tele-
vision is fairly new in Canada,
but there are already 250.000
sets there. TV is making great
strides there, says A. D. Dunton,
chairman of the Board of Gov
ernors of the Canadian Broad
casting Corp. According to him
it will be impossible, within
few years, for the average Ca
madam to isolate himself from
televisionS effects. Within a
few years the longest unguarded
border in the world will need
guards even less.
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FANTASTIC, HUH? - Alan
Young wanted to use a live lion
on his first live television show
of the season next Sunday
(CBS-TV-9:30 p.mD. Ran into
trouble with his writer's, though.
They were concerned with the
plausibility (believe it or not)
of introducing a live lion into a
situation comedy.
How about having the lion
escape from a circus or zoo?"
suggested the comic.
Nonsense" said the writer's.
Those things don't happen in
real life. Sounds like a press
agent gag"
Mr.. Young dropped the matter
until the morning of February
16, when the papers carried
stories of the escapade of Goldie
and Elizabeth. Goldie and Eliz-
abeth. in case you have forgot
ten, are two real-life she lions
that loped out of their circus
cage in Memphis to make liars
out of Mr. Young's writer's. Mr..
Young and his lion will meet
face to face on Sunday evening,
plausible as anything.
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PROGRAM NOTES-A spe-
cial 30-minute television show
will help the Red Cross launch
Its annual drive next Sunday.
The cast will include Jane Fro
man. Tallulah Bankhead, Ed
ward r. Murrow, Bob Hope, Red
Buttons, Johnny Desmond, Ted
Husing. Meredith Wilson and
orchestra and the Ray Charles
Chorus. Radios contribution
to the start of the Red Gross
fund campaign will be a special
"Theater Guild on the Air" pro-
duction on Sunday of Lucky
O'Halloran" 1t will be broadcast
from here with Jimmy Stewart in
the title role. WMAL-TV
has purchased another group of
new-to-TV Hollywood movies,
for showing on Thursday nights
at 9. The starting date will be
announced shortly. There are
some fairly recent releases (as
television movies go) in the
package, which includes Car
negie Hail." THE Southerner,"
"On Our Merry Way" Winter
set" Korea Patrol" and "Sleep
My Love-" A talk on Far
Eastern Policy" by Adlai Steven
son will be broadcast at mid
night tomorrow on NBC radio