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Evening star., 1954-12-26
On the Air

This final Sunday of the
year is traditionally the one
when the achievements and
peccadillos Of the past IL
months are examined. In
broadcasting 1t might make
better sense to schedule this
chore on a fiscal basis and do
1t in the summer, after one
season has ended and before
the next has begun. You won't
find anybody around here
flying in the face Of tradition,
though.
Besides. everybody else Is
passing out awards and the
act appears to be too much
fun to stay out Of. So 1t viii be
this last Sunday in 1854 for
the bouquets and brickbats.
Here, without further ado.
they are:
Best thing that's happened
to Television Yet: Disney
land" on ABC-TV. A pictor-
ial genius, whether the pic
lures are cartoons. Of actors
or Of nature in the almost
raw, Walt Disney also is en-
dowed with i'm a gination
marked by both wit and
charm. He has an uncanny
change of pace, too. and his
television programs so far have
been an unfailing source Of
delight.
A Poir From Evons
Best Television Drama:
Maurice Evans Shakespearean
prod u ctions on NBC-Tv's
Hall of Fame" The year.
though you may not have
realized it, saw two Of these
an exciting Richard LII" last
January and a most forceful
Macbeth" a few weeks ago.
In each he showed increasing
aMareness of how to best use
the television tools to bring
Shakespeare to home viewers.
Best New Television Per-
sonality: NBC-TV's George
Gobel, who is not really new
except to the television audi
ence. and who has introduced
q welcome touch of quiet and
a sort of sane insanity to TV
comedy.
Best Telefilm Series: An
award in this field is a surprise
even to the bestower, but the
CBS-TV Halls of Ivy" made
it. This is literate comedy
and Ronald Colman and Be-
nita Hume make the language
sound like music.
Best Recovery of the Year:
Steve Allen. who did one Of
the worst shows of all time on
the debut of NBC-TV's TO
Evening star., 1954-12-26

tions do not become too wild
'or exaggerated.
The Nelson's own home life
furnishes Ozzie with ideas for
many of their shows. giving 1t
q flavor that is lacking in SIM
liar family IV series.
Harriet has a real advan-
tage as the mother, because
she is dealing with her own
boys" Ozzie says. when a
situation calls for her to re-
primand David or Ricky, she
knows instinctively how far
she can go without alternating
the audience"
Ozzie points out that the off,
spring on some family shows
are precocious to the extent
that they frequently make
both ma and pa look like grade
A jerks.
Getting back to his own role
as father and husband, Ozzie
believes he plays 1t as close to
real life as possible.
Don't forget that lots Of
guys like it when their wives
soft-soap them into something.
For example, we all like to kid
ourselves into thinking we pro-
posed, but most of us know
that it's the girl who calls the
turn on that one." explains
Ozzie.
He doesn't feel that this
Evening star., 1954-12-26

beauty to come to New York.
She did fashion modelling for
q time but was ambitious for
more serious things. She even
tuaIly gained fame on two TV
shows, first Winner Take All"
and currently BEAT the
Clock"
'Roxanne Is definitely q new
type = said 3 studio spokesman
who preferred to remain
anonymous. an understand
able desire considering the
many other actresses under
contract to the studio.
This little lady Is the new
type Of star. refined. educated.
Evening star., 1954-12-26
Viewing Tv
By Hal Humphrey
HOII,YWOOn

Ozzie Nelson, the man Of the
house on ABC-TV's family
comedy show, Adventures Of
Ozzie and Harriet, resents
critics who class all TV hus-
bands as stupid OATS without
sense enough to get in out Of
the rain.
There Is a tendency on the
part Of critics to lump these
family shows together, giving
their readers the idea all
such shows have idiot hus-
bands with Phi Beta Kappa
wives" complains Ozzie.
I'm sure there was nothing
personal intended by Ozzie,
despite the fact that I am one
of those who have commented
on 10 disparity between TV
husbands and wives.
Ozzie does admit that a good
many male breadwinners on
these family comedies are con-
siderably below par in the
brain department. but denies
that he Is one Of them.
According to Ozzie, the
Nelson's have an advantage
over most other TV families
because it is the same family
in real life. He and Harriet
meticulously watch the scripts
to make sure that the situa-
Evening star., 1954-12-26
Viewing TV
The Nelson's Have One Advantage
Being Reol FomiIy Too Their Teevision Fumy Avoids
Situations Thot Are Too Wild or Exaggerated

business of a female outsmart-
ing her mate necessarily makes
him a dummy. and even takes
the stand that the audience
expects it.
In a sense, Ozzie's point here
is proved by the way some
viewers react to his apparent
lack of a job. You might say
that a guy who doesn't work
must have more than the
modicum of gray matter. But
this irritates, some OF the
shows fans.
Letters come in demanding
to know why he doesn't work.
or never even mentions having
a vocation of some kind.
when we first decided 10
do the TV show ! was going
to be q Druggist" Ozzie re-
calls. But pinning me down
to certain job would have
confined the number Of situa-
tions also. and the sponsor
worried about this. too"
On their radio series years
ago Ozzie was an orchestra
leader, his real life profession
at that time. But when he de-
cided to do TV, there already
was a family comedy which had
the husband leading band
fellow by the name of Desi
Arnaz.
Copyright 1854. Mirror Enterprises co.,
Evening star., 1954-12-26
DoteIine Washington
DoteIine Washington
Moving Time Is at Hand
First Week Of 1855 Will See Changes
In Several Program Schedules

Tuesday night is not the
only night that is going to
surprise you on Channel 8 the
first week of 1855. Some other
changes of schedule are
planned by WTOP-TV. almost
all involving half hour filmed
shows.
Starting on January 8, for
instance, will be a daily half
hour at 6 pm. with the over
all title of Action" 1t seems
apt enough. On Monday.
Wednesday and Friday "The
Range Rider" will be riding the
Channel 8 range. Joe Pa
looka" will take over Tuesdays
and Terry and the Pirates"
Thursdays.
On Saturday Of this same
week. something titled "Cap-
tain Nine Of the international
Evening star., 1954-12-26
On the Air
The Backward Glance
This Yeor in Teievision Was Marked
By Achievements and Peceodillos
By Harry Macarthur

night" and who now makes
an hour-and-a-llalf pass so
quickly that I am. is here
before anybody needs 1t.
There were fascinating as
poets Of the TV year which
may not be honored anywhere
else, even by the Peabody
committee. They should not
go unnoted, though, and II the
TV editor had suitable scrolls
he would pass them out. for
the reasons noted, to the fol-
lowing:
For Extreme Naivette In the
Face of Human Nature: That
fellow at the British Broad.
casting Corp, who told the
viewers that the upcoming
production Of George Orwells
1894" would shock the day
lights out of the young. the
old and the faint Of heart, ex-
pecting them not to watch.
New Critical Note
For the Most Intriguing New
Note In Tv Criticism: Philip
Hamburger Of the New Yorker
magazine. It was he who re-
Gently Gin the issue Of Decem-
ber 13) undertook an analysis
of Ed Sullivan's smile. This is
the same magazine which re-
Gently reported the various
ways in which men notice that
the years are passing-those
policemen who used to be adult
towers of strength are now
pink-cheeked boys, for instance
and one more can be added
to the list. Nothing makes the
years heavier to a TV critic
who used to know Ed Sullivan
as Old Stony Face than an
analysis of Ed Sullivan's smile.
For Most 1nnocently Be-
coming Involved in q Squab-
BILE: This Is Show Business"
which lost both of its sponsors
when the one advertising elec-
trio razors and mo messy
lather" and the one advertis-
ing a "new lather bomb" de-
cided they were incompatible.
For Most Alarming Note of
the Year: Bob Foreman. New
York advertising man, who as
serted that color television was
exciting no matter what was
televised, even If it's two eggs
frying. sSa
For the Most Startling
Award of Any Year: The Syl-
vania Television Awards Conn
mittee's selection Of The
Medic" to rank alongside "Vic-
tory ut Sea-" the only other
program it ever called the best
on Tv.
Evening star., 1954-12-26

Police" will be installed in the
6:30-to-7 pm. slot.
The Sunday programming at
WTOP-TV will be juggled a
bit. too, starting one week from
today. That comedy series
which had Robert Cummings
impersonating a zany named
Beanblossom, titled MY Hero"
is scheduled for 3 pm. Sum
days, followed by Amos n
Andy" at $3.50 pm.
This will leave Mr.. Cum
mings removed by a margin Of
seven and one half hours
from competing with himself.
The new bob Cummings
Show" also will start January
2, this on WRC-TV at 1890
pm.
Now there's one more adj
dition to the Sunday schedule
Evening star., 1954-12-26
Todoy's Programs on TeIevision
Hiohohts Sunday December 26, 1854

Mr. Wisn WIop
Nw Ipue; O. Adventures $780, NOW
H. Cartoon Club 'is
Evening star., 1954-12-26

at Minneapolis Central High
School.
BE sure and mention Joe
Martin in anything you write
about me-" instructed Roxanne
to the interviewer. giving gen.
erous credit where she felt 1t
was due. It was Joe Martin.
q Minneapolis commercial
artist and photographer. who
first saw her striking poten-
tialities.
Joe changed my name for
me and introduced me to
Harry Concver. Roxanne
explained.
Conover, the models agent.
persuaded the natural blond
Evening star., 1954-12-26

And 1t Muy Lose
Her to Movies
After Her First
By james Powers
HOLLYWOOD.

A bright new star in the
Hollywood galaxy is not un-
usual but one already known
to millions of potential fans
is something new and special.
Credit the age Of television
for the fact that q meltingly
beautiful blond with green
eyes and one memorable
name, Roxanne, is already
familiar to countless Amer
leans.
Roxanne, who has just COM
pleted her first motion picture
stint. loves Hollywood but i'm
mediately hurried back to her
first love-TV-which she
finds most rewarding.
"I would love to come back
to Hollywood-it's every girls
dream" she said in her first
interview on completing her
first movie. But there is such
q marvellous feeling about
working in TV.
"You get the feeling Of
knowing people wherever you
60. OF having friends in
towns and cities where you
have never been. TV seems
to have such an immediate
and intimate contact with
people. I love it."
TV may have lost Roxanne.
however, based on early re-
ports of her work in the
Charles K. Feldman-Billy
Wilder production Of the
Broadway hit. "The Seven
Year ITCH" for goth Century
Fox.
The movie stars Tom Ewell
and another notable blond.
Marilyn Monroe.
But my scenes are good"
said Roxanne. 81 think my
fans and friends viii remem-
ber me-"
Advance reports on the aim
are enthusiastic over the work
of the young Minneapolis
born former model. Roxanne.
real name Dolores Rosedale.
plays one of the several dream
sequences in the film with
Ewell. It is q takeoff on the
famed lovemaking scene on
the beach" In Prom Here to
Eternity" between Burt Lam
caster and Deborah Kerr.
Roxanne has interesting and
Individual reasons for liking
Hollywood.
II would like to work here"
she said. because it is such q
serious place. Every one here
works pictures. talks pictures.
lives pictures. ! like that. To
believe In something and give
yourself wholeheartedly to it"
The slim t5-foot 7-inch
l20-pound) blond beautiful
has turned out to be strikingly
photogenic-which win come
as no surprise to those who
knew her even back in the
days when she was q student
Evening star., 1954-12-26
HighIights

$500, WTOP (9)-Adventure:
The fate Of the survivors of
"Mutiny ON the Bounty"
who. settled on Pitcairn
Island.
$3.50, WTOP (9)--Now and
Then: Christmas In Shake
speare's day.
1880, WRC (4)-Watch Mr..
Wizard: Mysteries Of elec-
tricity.
1900, WRC t4)-Youth Wants
to Know: Senator Kefauver.
2:OO, WTTG (5)-Football:
Cleveland Browns VS.. De-
troit Lions.
1850, WTOP (9)-Face the
Nation: Harold Stassen.
$3.50, WRC ~ - American
Forum: "a Forecast for
1885," discussed by Senators
Wiley and Sparkm an.
George Meany, president.
AFL, and Clem johnson,
president, United States
Chamber Of Commerce.
4:3O, WMAL ~ - College
Press Conference: Sye d
Amjad Ali, Pakistan's AM
bassador to the u. S.
4:3O, WTOP t9)--The Search:
Study of earthquakes at
Fordham University.
/ 500, WMAL t5)-Super Cir
Gus: A double perch-pole
act and unicycle jugglers.
SOC, WTOP t9)--Omnibus:
Soprano Patrice Munsel
stars in 1.-THE Merry Wi
dow"
500, WRC i4)-Hall Of Fame:
"The joyful Tydings." the
story of how William Tyn-l
dale translated the Bible
from Latin to English.
$3.50, WTTG l5)--Georgetown
University Forum: Quest
for Peace"
$3.50. WRC f4)---Background:
Communism in Italy.
SOC, WRC l4)-Meet the
Press: Fred Seaton, Assist
ant Secretary Of Defense.
$3.50, WTOP .f9)-You Are
There: The passage Of the
Bin Of Rights. September
IS, 1859.
1900, WMAL l71--You Asked
for It: A Hindu baiancer.
a mud wrestling match and
q speed boat spectacle in
Cypress Gardens.
7:O0, WTTG t5l-Million DOL
lar Movie: orson WeIles In
Macbeth. =
5:30, WATAL i7)-Playhouse:
William Gargan stars In
''Lost Lullaby" the story Of
o detectives search for q
long lost boy.
1850. WRC Al-Mr. Peppers:
WalIy Cox. Tony Randall
Evening star., 1954-12-26

beautiful in q gentle and lady
like way" he added. 'She
has sex appeal but in o nice
way.
Roxanae studied art and
considered becoming an artist
herself before being persuaded
to take her place on the
models stand. She has studied
acting and done work In the
legitimate theater.
She was married March 13.
1854, to Thomas r. Roddy. q
budding industrialist and by
no coincidence q native Of
Minnesota also.
[Reieased by the North American
Newspaper Allianee3
Evening star., 1954-12-26

s.. !! {
This Is Your
Weekly
TeIevision
Guide

on WTOP-TV and that will
wrap it up for today. AS Of
January 2, the Sunday Late
Show" will be dropped, Boris
Karloff's Colonel March"
series Installed In the 1880
pm. niche.
More Changes 2
This same first week in jan
uary will bring some altera-
tions in the WMAL-TV sched-
ule, too. involving the daily
at-11 pm. period. The station
is bringing up some heavy am
mutton to get seriously into
the competition for the late
night audience. The biggest
gun Of the battery is Bryson
Rash, ABC White House Cor
respondent and special events
director for WMAL-TV. He'll
return to II pm. Monday
through Friday with q 10
minute nightly newscast.
This will necessitate q time
change for two other Monday
through Friday features on
Channel Z. Weather With.
Aletha" (Agee, OF course) viii
move to 11:10-11:15. followed
by Sports With Bill Malone"
at 11:15-11:20. Seven Star
Theater" will start at 11:20
nightly.
Programs and People
George Flax, who used to
handle press relations for
WTTG. has been made WASH
ington editor Of Tv Program
Week. That's the forthcoming
publication launched by Curtis
after an examination Of the
Tv Guide circulation figures.
Tomorrow's program on
the Greater Washington Edu-
cational Television Associa-
tion's pilot series (WMAL-TV
Monday, 9 p.m.) will be pro-
duced by the National Gallery
Of Art. Holland As Seen
Through the Eyes Of Rem
brandt" is the programs title.
and DR.. Raymond Sites, the
Gallery's educational director,
will show viewers some Of the
famed paintings hung there.
-. Billy johnson of WTOP-
Tv will join Red Foley. Ernest
Tubbs and others at q New
Years Eve Country and West
ern Style Music festivity at
U1ine Arena. Country and
Western Style Music is what
the people who make 1t prefer
to call hillbilly music.
More than $50 million televi-
sion viewers In the United
States and its possessions win
see the colorful activities of
the United States Army In the
film presentation. Military
District Of Washington, !" the
Army predicts. It's the 104th
program In "The Big Picture"
weekly TV series Of the De-
partment Of the Army. Some
what fewer than so million
viewers win have q chance to
see it here today at $3.50 pm.
and Sunday. January 8. at
$3.50 pm, over WMAL-TV. -.
In the usual progression in the
business world a man moves
up q notch when the man
above him moves up q notch,
but Bob Adams couldn't wait.
Assistant to Cody Pfanstiehl
at WTOP from 1949 to 1851.
Mr.. Adams left to go with
VOL, later moved to the NBC
stations here. Now Mr.. Pfan-
stiehl is becoming director Of
public relations for WTOP,
Inc, and his old assistant Is
taking his old Job, director Of
promotion for WTOP-Tv.
Evening star., 1954-12-26

and their families 90 on .
ski safari.
500. WTOP f9)-LToast Of the
Town: Billy De Wolfe. Cab
Galloway, Joan Weber. Her
mione Gingold and a pre-
view Of the film mot as A
Stranger"
$500, WRC t4) - Comedy
Hour: An ice show with
Barbara Ann Scott and q
supporting cast Of SO.
500, WTOP (9)-Electric
Theater: "A canon crippled
with paralysis watches his
parish being taken over by
an oyerzealous young priest.
In THE White Steed.n star
ring Barry Fitzgerald.
900, WRC t4l-Television
Playhouse: A stage-struck
girl fails to make the grade
In run, Girl. Run" ." with
Lee Ann Meriwetl1er Miss
America).
Evening star., 1954-12-26

$3.50. WTOP (91--Playhouse:
The romantic story Of an
attractive New England
school teacher is portrayed
in .'The Waltz" starring
Anne Bancroft.
1900, WMAL f7)-Break the
Bank: The sum Is $500.
1900, WTOP t9) - Father
Knows Best: Robert Young
is forced to sit all night
with a sick sparrow.
1850, WMAL l7)--Drew Pear
son: New time.
11:0O, WMAL t7)--Seven Star
Theater: Cecil Kellaway
stars In hurricane at Pill
grim Hill,s the comedy
about q Westerner who dis
rupts q staid Massachusetts
town.
Il:3O, WTOP l9l--The Late
show: Donald Cook stars
in 'sTfle Spanish Cape Mys-
terry.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-07-15

POWERFUL WoRM-GEAR DRIVE and
full roller-chain conveyor slide full loads
off without any hand labor. In filling
trench or pit ,silos, the Forage Unit will
unload as you drive through, or can be
used for stationary unloading. 6-ton model
shown with 3-level sides easily handles up
to AS blu. This means fewer trips, less time
lost uncouping and hooking up again.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-07-15
Let's Look at...
Insects and You
BY JOHN Il. CALLENBACH

LET'S TAKE a walk around the
farmyard. What do you see? Over there
a few cows MUNICH grass and chew
their cuds; couple of horses stand
head to tail, bobbing their heads and
switching their tails; chickens forage
through the grass and weeds; a rab-
bit warily hops out of the brush along
the fence; few sparrows, a meadow
lark and few other birds fly about,
and perhaps some honeybees energeti-
cally work over the sweet clover.
Is that all the animal life about the
place? Let's take better look. What
are you swatting at? Oh, mosquitoesi
Why is that COW switching her tail
and throwing her head back against
her flankS? Look at the horn flies,
stable flies, horse flies and deer flies
that fly up with each motion then quick
ly settle back to feeding. And I'll wager
that that COW rubbing against the post
has few lice bothering her. We've
almost doubled our animal inventory
now and well we should, since it is
conservatively estimated that four out
of every five different kinds of animals
we encounter are insects.
Well, one and one is not four out of
five, so let's look farther. Those horses
they aren't just being friendly; that
position and those switching tails are
means of fighting bot flies and other
flies. That's cooperation. Not every
thing is struggle for survival among
neutrality-suspicious. isn't talked about
as much, but it's probably more i'm
portant for survival than is COMPETE
ton. Why can't our world leaders take
a simple lesson from Nature?
How about the chickens, birds and
that rabbit? Chances are good that
we'd find lice, fleas, mites and ticks
feeding on them. And, in turn, if we
examined the stomach contents of the
birds many different kinds of insect re-
mains would be found.
That bare spot over there is insight.
ly. Yes, there's more evidence of in.
sects. That bare spot is a large ant
hill, and on the bushes and trees near
it the ants are tending their aphd
cows. Our list of animals is rapidly
taking. the proportion of four out Of
five, isn't it?
Truly there are lot of insects. F. E.
Lutz, in his fascinating little book, A
LOT OF INSECTS, tells the stories O.
some of the 1,4O2 different kinds he
found in his yard in a New York suburb
E. W. Teale has written a book called
GRASSROOTS JUNGLES-that amaz
ing world around your feet. w. M
Mann-he was born in Helena-studieC
ants around the world and tells abou
it in ANT HILL ODYSSEY. Fabre
Bronson, Wheeler and others describ,
for us panorama of activities among
these tiny creatures that is unequallet
in the animal world.
Mr.. Lutz's garden contained NOR,
different insects than there are differ
ent kinds of birds in all the Unite,
States and Canada. They are economi
cally important-good and bad. The,
are fascinating in their habits and thei
adaptations which make possible thei
existence almost every place on earth
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-07-15

sELF-UNLoADING 'fPower-Box" operates
from PTO. Smooth, dependable unloading
keeps blower working efficiently at full ca
pacity. Rear clutch lever stops and starts
conveyor instantly. Alton model shown
with 3-level sides holds up to 286 blu. Each
''Power-Box' easily converts to Spreader,
Feeder or All-Purpose Box for year round
use at low machinery investment.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-22
HISTORY REWRITTEN

"The burial place of the first
president is on my OXson Hill
(Md.) farm" Fred N. Maloof told
me when l had lunch with him on
my visit to Washington this week,
Now Oxson Hill Manor is on
the Maryland side of the Potomac,
opposite Mount Vernon where
George Washington is buried. But
George was not the first President
of the United States.
"That man." Mr.. Maloof's book
says, "was John Hanson, who on
Nov. 5, 1881, was elected president
for one year, and was congratulate
ed by Gen. Washington, who called
it "the most important seat in the
US"
John Hanson had served "a
years in the Maryland house, and
was a Representative in the Con-
tinental Congress.
Many people in Dare recall Mr.,
Maloof who three years ago was
the largest landowner in Dare
County. He still owns land on Roa-
noke Island, and won't sell. II love
that place and the people," he
says. He has an amazing recollec-
ton about everyone, and asked