Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-10
On the Air

Disney's first television venture
into what he calls the realm
"Tomorrowland." That was an
out and out education film
all you "Disneyland" viewers
watched with rapt attention on
WMAL-TV last night.
1t may not have been fair to
let you walk into this without
warning, but it seemed the bet
ter way. To hint in advance
that Man in Space" was in any
way educational would automat-
ically have diminished its audi
ence And that would have been
a disservice to those who shun-
ned it because Of a forbidding
word.
Educational is what this was,
though. and a finer example of
the way in which television
can be used with imagination to
impart information would be
hard to name. Man in Space"
was entertaining. all right. from
beginning to end. 1t was loaded
with laughs.
At the same time it was a clear
course of instruction that might
as aptly have been titled. space
travel, Elementary, l." 1t started
at the beginning and by gradual
stages brought its students up
to the day after tomorrow.
Man in Space" began with
the history of rocket propulsion,
the only force man now knows
which could shake him loose
from the pull of gravity. 1t pro-
crossed to the highest-fying
modern rockets and the princi-
Piles by which they operate.
1t turned to the problems Of
space fight. How do we get the
space ship into space? How do
the humans aboard survive the
rigors of the journey? Then
Man IN Space" projected this
information to show how man
probably will first shed the ties
that earth-bind.
1t was thoroughly engrossing
and everyone who was enter
tanned by it also must know now
the difference between space
travel fact of science and space
travel fancy of science fiction.
All unaware, we have been, of
all things, educated by Mr..
Disney.
COMMUTER-H you detect
sleepy look in the eye of Har-
pist Robert Maxwell at the
Statler's Embassy Room or in
that of Harpist Robert Maxwell
on Jack Paar's CBS-TV Morn
ing Show" it will be only nat
ural. It's the same eye, same
harpist. Having found himself
with two different engagements
in two different cities in one
week. Mr.. Maxwell is doing the
only thing man can do under
the circumstances. He's COM
muting between New York and
Washington.
Immediately after his second
Embassy Room show, Mr.. Max
well makes dash for the air.
port and a plane to New York.
He appears on the Paar show
(seen here over WTOP-TV from
7 to 1925 am. then spends
several hours rehearsing for the
following days telecast. Another
plane trip gets him back to the
Embassy Room in time for the
OILS pm. show. Somewhere In
between all this travel and work
Mr.. Maxwell gets some sleep, but
not very much. So far 1t hasn't
had any effect on his rendition
Of such works as "Ebb Tide"
which he wrote. or "Shangri-La, u
which Is Jackie Gleason's theme
music.
CRIME DRAMA-Turning hi,
attention to the juvenile delin-
ouent. Reginald Rose came ur
with a highly charged melo.
drama in Crime in the Streets
1t was televised Tuesday night
on the ABC-WMAL-Tv "Elgir
Hour"
Crime in the Streets" is moi
Mr.. Roses best efforts to date
though 1t will not diminish hi.
standing as one Of the ADLER Tv
dramatists. 1t Just falls q littl,
too patty into place and demon.
strates that fiction can b,
stranger than truth If It looks to,
much like fiction.
The central figure Is q juve
nile delinquent who drags tw,
faithful members OF his stree
mob into . plot to murder I
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