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Evening star., 1955-07-31

not lifted, the government
should not enter the dispute.
Major Conditions
Following are major condi-
tions Of the House bin, under
which the District and the
transit company would enter a
Ione-year agreement:
/. Capital Transit viii con-
Itinue to operate the system "as
required by its franchise obliga-
Itions."
2. The company viii bargain
with unions representing en-
lployes. under terms and condi-
tions directed by the Com
missioners."
8. Salaries of Capital Transit
leo. officers would be frozen al
1.-THE July /, 1855, level. In the
event wages are increased tc
union employees, appreciate in
fcreases" may be made to sal
aried employees "other thar
lofhcers" as set by the Commis-
Sioners.
| 4. ANY deficit in operating ex.
Ipenses during the year shall b
paid by the District to the transit
company. ANY such deficit coulc
not include "any return on in
vestment." Such a deficit coulc
Include depreciation and taxes
and be determined by existing
accounting practices of the Pub
1lic Utilities Commission "or upor
such other terms >. as the Com
missioners and Capital Transit
Co. shall agree"
S. Capital Transit will prompt
lily take all necessary steps tt
secure from its stockholders au'
Ithority to amend said contract
to provide for the relinquishmen
of all its franchise rights upor
1.-THE termination of said contract.
/ II such authority is obtained
within 80 days after the contrac
lis signed, under the bill. the con
tract would be amended by add
ling to it the franchise relinquish'
|ment provision.
Possibilities Noted
| The measure provides that tn,
|one-year period could begil
either from the date of passag,
lof the bill or from the dat
franchise REIMBURSEMENT is votet
Iby the stockholders, whicheve
lis later.
As some committee member
interpreted it, there are severa
possibilities under the bill. Tn
one year agreement could b
contracted, for example, withou
the franchise removal. Blu
members questioned appears
Ito be convinced that the fran
Ichise removal would follow as
natural sequence If the bill
. adopted.
The bill emerged from tn
, House committee after a lonI
, conference between Distrlc
commissioners and Mr.. Broad
. water: Mr.. Giddings and Ed
; Imund L. Jones, general counse'
Their two-hour conference wa
Isandiwched between mornin
. and afternoon sessions OF tn
committee.
Log Of the Day
Here, according to members
lis the way the day progressed
Consideration. virtually fror
I the 10 am. session start. cen
!, ,tered around a substitute bi
; draft taken to Capitol Hill b
the transit company officials.
} At 1890, committee member
; filed out. leaving the city an
+ transit officials closeted In a
effort to agree on the meaSur
Two hours later, the ofticia
q Iemerged, and reported disagree
! ment on several points. Asid
8 from the Commissioners basl
|objection to the voluntary" bill
= main differences involved NEAR
lof computing a possible operat
ling deficit and language definin
J the firms responsibility for re
moving streetcar tracks and re
Evening star., 1955-01-30
Todoy's Programs on TeIevision
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NRe Co. NGts lasuy On TO-
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Evening star., 1955-01-30

before, we had to throw out
four on Monday when we got
the list"
BY Tuesday morning vir-
tually everyone connected with
the show is provided with his
or her assignment in minute
detail and the program begins
to take form. All are on hand
by 8 am. Saturday to work
straight through until the pro-
gram signs off the air 1914
hours later.
All that for just 30 minutes
on the air.
Your Hit Parade" began
as a radio program nearly 20
years ago and came to TV in
inid-l950. Its top seven tunes
are chosen on the basis Of the
most popular songs on the air,
on phonograph records, coin
machines and sheet music.
Despite the handicap Of hav-
ing to give different visual
treatment to the same songs
for weeks in q row. Your Hit
Parade has been rated BY
critics and viewers as q model
OF how TO present popular muS
sic on television.
II takes more than 100 peo-
ple-inciuding nine dancers.
Evening star., 1955-01-30

white doggies. Finally. he re-
calls. they decided to let the
camera be the doggie, and
gave the audience q pup's-eye
view with only a dogs paw
showing--a stuffed one.
There are many other COM
plication smoothed out by the
backstage team so viewers
never know they exist.
Lounsbery says that ordi-
narily I'VE try to rotate the
songs among the singers and
rotate, the singers on the No.
l song.
But there are some that
can be done only by a girl.
such as Let Me Go. Lover"
Another thing that has
been a problem" says Nichols,
has been the popularity OF
group arrangements such as
those for Mr.. Sandman
Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane
and Teach Me Tonight"
Any drastic changes In the
top seven tunes also cause
added worries and extra work
on the Saturday night show
on NBC-TV.
Each show Is born IL days
In advance when Nichols and
Lounsbery huddle In the lat
Evening star., 1955-01-30
HiehIights

$500. WTOP (9)-Adventure:
Communicating with an
irnals.
$3.50, WTOP (9)-Now and
Then: "The Rubaiyat" by
Omar Khayyam.
1890, WMAL tT-operation
Truth: How the United
States Information Agency
combats Communism.
1900, WMAL (7)-Washington
Report: Diagnosis and treat
ment Of allergies.
2:OO, WMAL tD-Celebrity
Parade: Interview with Rep
resentative Roosevelt, Of
California, and Drew Pear
son reports on prison riots.
1880, WTOP t9,-Face the Ma
ton: Secretary OF Labor
Mitchell.
2:3O, WRC tD-Youth Wants
to Know: Gabriel Hauge,
administrative assistant to
the President.
$500, WRC (4l-Princeton IS:
Professor Joseph Brown Of
the schools department of
architecture. on learning
through sculpture.
$3.50, WRC (4l--American
Forum: Can We Protect
Our Pacific Interests With
out War;"
4:0O, WRC A)-Juvenile Jury:
With Comedians Kenny
Youngman, joey Adams. Al
Kelly and Dayton Allen.
4:3O, WMAL (7l - College
Press Conference: Walter 8.
Robertson, Assistant Secre-
tary Of State in charge of
Far Eastern Affairs.
4:30. WTOP t9D-The Search:
The way to independence for
paraplegics.
4:30, WRC t4--Zoo Parade:
Zoo wizardry with Marian
Perkins.
500, WTTG t51-Georgetown
University Forum: Reason
able Solution for Strikes"
$500, WMAL t7l-Super Cir
Gus: Performing dogs and
ponies.
500, WTOP t9D-Omnibus:
The Canadian Players, Ltd,
in scenes from Hamlet"
with an Interpretation by
Walter Kerr. drama critic
Of the New York Herald
Tribune; a fencing demon
stration by the United States
Olympic team, and the story
Of flight.
$3.50, WTTG 90 - Facts
Forum: The Right to
Work"
$3.50, WRC t4)--Edward Stei-
chen: An informal conyersa-
tion with the dean Of Amer
lean photographers.
SOC, WRC 90 - Meet the
Press: Gen. Lawton Collins.
Evening star., 1955-01-30

Gallo Singer Line Renaud,
home town. Armentieres (.
Jealousy is not the only thing
exchanged by girl singers.
Singer Peggy Lee has Just
written some special material
for Singer Dinah Shore. .
When Art Carney appeared on
Climax" awhile back. it was
in a role originally written for
Frank Slnatra, wllo oeci9ad
not to do it. ;. Sinatra. Incl
dentally. may again become a
.sTV regular via a new A3C
show Frank Lovejoy. star
Of the premiere show on Stage
q" on CBS-TV tonighJ at 8 30.
was driven to acting by TIE
1929 crash. He didn't get wiped
out. as many did, but as stock
market FIRMS 15-year-o,d
runner, he spent his leisure
time as an apprentice at the
Brooklyn Theater Mart.
III. M.
Evening star., 1955-01-30

It won't be his first network
appearance. though. Several
weeks ago he was the Arthur
Godfrey's Talent Scouts" win
ner. :. ABC-TV's Ray Bolger
holds to only one superstition
the one about whistling in
the dressing room. He con-
tends it started long ago
when actors and entertain
ers had to sneak about quietly
when of stage-you know, a
moving target and that sort Of
thing"
From Armentieres
The women OF America are
promised o look at what all
the singing was about In World
Wars / and II when Bob Hope
makes his next NBC-TV ap-
pearance esday night
tWRC-TV). The singing, that
is, about the "Mademoiselle
from Armentieres." Featured
on the show. via Aim. will be
Evening star., 1955-01-30
Matching Popular Tunes With Pictures Calls for moqinotion
Your Hit Purude'
Grew Manages
With Ingenuity
By Wayne Oliver
Associaied Press Staff Writer
NEW YORK.

Il AN6V l S4bxAs
Dressing old tunes in new
togs is the biggest problem on
your Hit Parade" but one of
the slickest teams in television
comes up with ear and eye
pleasing solutions.
The backstage brigade that
provides the settings for songs
by Dorothy Collins, Gisele
Mackenzie, Smoky Larson and
Russell Arms is headed by Dan
Lounsbery, producer.
But Lounsbery is quick to
disavow more than a share of
the credit for making This
Old House" seem new week
after week and making "Mr.
Sandman" keep viewers awake.
He says it's strictly the work
of a team, key members Of
which include associate pro-
ducer William Nichols, whom
he calls the idea man; William
Colleran, camera director, and
Tony Charmoli, staging direc-
tor and choreographer.
Any song that keeps turning
UP in the top seven week after
week is problem enough, says
Lounsbery, recalling 10 times
for "If" and "All My Love-"
many for II and 16 times. and
13 times this season for II
Need You Now"
But it's even tougher, he
declares. If the song is about
q specific locale or subject,
such as "Harbor Lights" Lit
tie Shoemaker" and "Shang-
hal"
Nichols says one Of their
toughest jobs was to keep
"Doggie in the Wondow" from
looking dog-eared after the
first few weeks. They used win
dows of all shapes and forms,
and big doggies and little dog
gies and, black doggies and
Evening star., 1955-01-30
Now Tppy Stnger Just Loves to Talk About the Weather
She Also Likes
Her Blue Room
Singing chore

year and a half before she
tried that again.
The second time she got the
part. This taste of the thea
ter so enthralled her that she
switched courses to become q
speech major. Before she was
through she became Mary
lands winner Of q contest
conducted by radios Philip
Morris Playhouse" appeared
opposite Edmund O,Brien in
the network broadcast Of "71I
Ocean Drive"
Her ensuing experience has,
been varied, from TV CONNER
cials for a brewery to Allan
Jefferys' WTOP television
show. She also, in 1852. was
a member Of Edgar Bergen's
Operation Santa Claus troupe.
Here in Washington, she spent
two summers playing leading
role in Faith of Our Fathers"
at the Carter Barron Ampli-
theater.
What Miss Stringer finds
herself doing more than any
thing else right now is change
clothes. When she arises, she
dresses for the street. At the
WRC-TV Sheraton-Park
studios, she changes for the
6:45 pm. weather show. After
that she gets back into street
clothes, goes to the Shoreham,
dons her floor show costume.
Her first Blue Room chore
over. she changes again,
dashes to WRC, changes for,
the TV show, changes back
into street clothes, returns to
the Shoreham, puts on cos
tune, finally changes back to
street clothes to 60 home.
Cross Street commuter
Since she mingles fashion
showings with her weather re-
ports. Miss Stringer puts in a
couple of daytime sessions Of
clothes-changing, too.
For 10 shows I need 10 cos
Tunes" she said, "and I
usually try on two or three for
each one I use"
In view of this tight sched-
ule. Miss Stringer's revelation
about her mode of transporta-
ton shouldn't have been as
startling as it seemed. It was,
though. She not only makes
one of her TV sponsors happy
by driving the proper make of
convertible. She makes him
even happier by using it night
" to drive from Shoreham ga
rage on zone side Of Calvert
street to a parking place adja-
cent to the WRC-TV studios
on the other and back again.
"You mean you drive back
and forth between the Shore
ham and the Sheraton Park?"
demanded one of her luncheon
companions. You must be the
only motorist in Washington
who commutes across a street
instead of down it,"
"You may think it's funny"
said Miss Stringer, but when
I drive I save three minutes"
With that tight schedule.
she may need them. AS it is.
II q upper ever jams the Blue
Room ringsiders are likely to
be startled by q weather re-
port where q aong should be.
Evening star., 1955-01-30

$3.50. WTOP ts)--You Are
There: The tragedy OF. John
Milton upon the restoration
Of Charles II to the throne
Of England. August 13, 1860.
1900, WTTG ts)-Million DOL
lar Movie: A kiss brings a
statue to life, In "One Touch
Of Venus" with Ava Card
ner.
1900, WMAL tT)--You Asked
For II: An expose OF fraudu-
lent carnival games.
1880. WRC t4)--Max Liebman
Presents: Variety" q mu-
sical revue in color with
Perry Como. Kitty Kallen,
Buddy Hackett, Pat Carroll,
Herb Shriner. Bill Hayes,
Jack Russell and Danny
Scholl.
1880. WMAL (5)--Playhouse:
Hans Conreid stars In otto
and the Coat" O comedy.
Evening star., 1955-01-30

ter's office "and make up q
routine of what we think viii
be on" They have to assume.
says Lounsbery. that next
weeks top seven will be the
same as for the current week.
Then" he continues, I'VE
decide who's going to do each
song"
There are certain features
they can depend upon not to
change, such as the two extras
done each week in addition to
the seven most popular tunes.
The third number on the show.
for instance. generally is a
dance extra and I'VE keep the
dancers out Of the one before
and the one after"
The following day Nichols
writes the script more fully and
by another day planning Is In
full swing. But it's not until
the following Monday. i've
days before showtime, that the
latest top seven list is received.
Frequently there are only
one or two changes from the
previous weeks list that had
been the basis Of the planning.
although Lounsberry recalls
that recently "Of nine num-
bers we had planned the week
Evening star., 1955-01-30
LAP N.wsf.asur.. Photo.

full orchestra and technical
personnel to produce each
weeks show.
Other key members Of the
planning and production staff
include Paul Barnes, set de-
signer: Sal Anthony, costumer;
Bob Daniels. technical direc-
tor; Bob Davis. lighting direc-
tor: Ed Marshall. audio super
visor: Larry Lawrence. audio
director, and Raymond Scott.
musical director and conduc-
tor. Scott is married to Doro-
thy Collins and is a brother Of
the late Mark Warnow who
once led the Hit Parade" or
chestra.
Evening star., 1955-01-30
on the Air
Newcomer
Servings
Been. Busy

Rod Serling, the young TV
writer whose Patterns" land
ed with such impact on ''Tele-
vision Theater" recently, is q
relative newcomer, but has
penned 100 dramas that have
been produced on television.
Patterns" to be repeated on
February - on "Television
Theater," was his sixth play
in only q few months to be
done on the Wednesday night
NBC-TV show. He preceded
1t with Next of Kim" "Old
Mcdonald Had a Curve" "Twi-
light Round" blues for joey
Menotti" and IA Long Time
Till Dawn" He started his
professional writing career
while still at Antioch College
in Yellow Springs. Ohio. by
selling a script to the "Dr.
Christian" radio series.
Together Again
The Pickens Sisters win be
together again as they were
back in the 1930s for Ed Sui
livan's Toast Of the Town"
TV salute to radio tonight.
Jane, who has been doing quite
well as q Single" will be re-
joined by Patti and Helen
only for the show inspired by
Ben Gross memoirs, 81 Looked
and I Listened" And they
will be joined by almost every
body who ever faced a net
work micropholie, with the
exceptions Of Eddie Cantor
and Frank Parker, who could
not make it It's on 1.-THE
U. S. Steel Hour" and not on
"The Goldbergs" where you
next will encounter Gertrude
Berg. A comedy titled "Six
O'Clock Call" written espe-
cialIy for her by Novelist James
Yaffe, will be Mrs. Berg's We
hicle Tuesday night at $50
(WMAL-TV) And Sid
Caesar. who promised no set
formal for his Caesars Hour"
this year, will prove it to-
morrow night at 8 (WRC-TV)
by reverting to the musical
review Eve ("Our Miss
BrookS") Arden has been
named Teacher of the Month"
by the Washington State APP
pie Commission. Two weeks
from today she'll proclaim
Apple for Teacher Week"
Who's This Fry?
Tyrone Power viii pay a call
to Art Lambs Lamb Session"
tomorrow (WTTG. $3.50
p.r1n.) to say a word about "The
Long. Gray Line" He is. as
you probably don't need to be
told, busy here at the National
with Katharine Cornell in
Christopher Fry's 1.-THE Dark
Is Light Enough" but WTTG
needs to be told. The report
from there says ''Mr. Power
will be visiting Washington to
publicize The Long, Gray
Line" Who's katharine Corr
nell. Who's Christopher Fry?
". Dick Summers. CHS mail
boy who has been grooming ms
way about his chores in New
York. finally caught the ear Of
Jack Paar. Tomorrow and
Friday young Mr.. Summers
will be given Q chance to air
his baritone over the Paar
Morning Show" on CBS-Tv.
Evening star., 1955-01-30
One-Time Coed
At Maryland U.
Busy on Tv
By Harry Macarthur

If the opportunity for strik-
ing UP a conversation with
Tippy Stringer ever turns up
in your life. you'd better rely
on Haven't I seen you some
place before?" Don't try the
''Nice day, isn't it?" gambit.
For the probability is that
you have seen Miss Stringer
someplace before. She Is avail
able for the seeing twice q
night, Monday through Friday
on WRC-TV and twice a night,
Monday through Saturday. as
the featured singer in the
Shoreham Blue Room shows.
But If you bring UP the
weather, Miss Stringer is like
ly to be of and running, in
charge of the conversation. An
accidental turn in her career is
responsible. All she wanted
when she turned up at Wash
ington's NBC station back in
1852 was a job in television-
any job. She was handed q
weather report.
IT didn't know anything
about the weather." she was
saying the other day. "The
first time I took a weather map
home my mother amazed me.
She could read it. She knew
what all those things on it
meant. I hadn't the faintest
idea. But now I love to talk
about the weather. I'd rather
talk about the weather than
almost anything"
Forecosters' Friend
In the course of reporting
twice nightly on the present
and possible future state OF
the atmosphere around Wash
ington, Miss Stringer has
formed a firm alliance with
and a high regard for the
Weather Bureau. She does not
take kindly to rude suggestions
that she might do better by
consulting the Hagerstown Al
manac.
For passing along their fore
casts, she has shared with the
forecasters the blame for near
misses. People have given her
a hard time about the promised
SHOWS Of recent weeks which
failed to arrive. She will leap
to the forecaSters' defense at
the first hint of a complaint,
though, clearly feeling that
an uheralded blizzard would be
worse than a promised one
which failed to materialize.
Anyhow, a man who watched
a Tippy Stringer weather show
on television and paid more at
tention to the weather than to
Tippy would be obviously los
ing his grip. This is a pretty,
photogenic and personable
young woman and the excuse
for pointing a TV camera at
her is not so important as the
deed Itself. You can look:
it isn't required that you rush
right out and put on the
chains.
It's Her Name
Miss Stringer, incidentally,
is bit unhappy that a New
York model named Tippy has
turned UP on television. Hav-
ting received the name from
Evening star., 1955-01-30

As Tippy Stringer she en-
rolled then in the University
Of Maryland, where nobody
ever assumed she was anything
but a pretty. girl-type blond.
It was at Maryland that
Miss Stringer turned toward
the entertainment world,
though she almost was lost to
1t. In her freshman year she
tried out for q role in a school
play and was 20 chagrined at
not getting 1t that it was q
Evening star., 1955-01-30

$500. WTOP t9l--Toast Of the
Town: A salute to radio.
with Ben Grauer. Jack
Benny. Edward r. Murrow,
and George Burns.
$500, WRC ~ - TeleVision
Playhouse: A young couple
resolves a divorce dilemma,
in The Way Things Hap
pen" starring Peter Lind
Hayes and Mary Healy.
500. WTOP t9) --- Electric
Theater: Johnny Ray Is an
unknown singer trying for
fame. In THE Big Shot
$3.50, WTTG t5)--Life Begins
at 80: Rudy Vailee visits.
$3.50, WTOP lsI--Staee Seven:
The experiments Of Frank
Lovetoy. q criminoIogy- pro-
fessor. make him a prime
suspect, in The Deceiving
Eye"
I0:00, WMAL i7l--Break the
Bank; The sum Ia $4,000.
Evening star., 1955-01-30

her parents instead Of dream
ing it up for professional use,
Miss Stringer feels she has a
legitimate claim to it.
Actually. the Tippy is q dim
inutive for Lewis Upton
Stringer. which she was named
when born in Evanston, Ill. 1t
Is q family name, attested to
by a Tiptonville and Upton
County in Tennessee, her
mothers home.
It has, on occasion, proved
Evening star., 1955-01-30
Bing Uses Tope
sy N. Assesio,sd pr..s

ey ihs Assecioisd Press
NEW YORK.
Bing Crosby is able to con-
tinue his nightly CHS radio
program without interruption.
despite his operation . few
days ago. because It's recorded
In advance on magnetic tape.
He recorded four hours OF ma
terial Just before his opera
ton.
Evening star., 1955-01-30

less satisfactory for a girl
than for a town or county,
however. There was, for In
stance. the time Lewis Tip
ton Stringer enrolled at Will
liam and Mary College, where
she was accepted on the as
sumption that she was male.
When she arrived it was i'm
mediately obvious that this
was the silliest assumption q
college ever made. but the
schools coed quota was filled.
Evening star., 1955-01-04
News OF Music
RecitoIists Brink and Pinkh0m
Further Horpsichord Trend

countless ornaments with flaw
less polish and tlnconcern.
The two modern works of the
program were ample indication
: that a composer who overlooks
this medium has missed mine
of instrumental color well suited
to many contemporary styles.
The Duet" of Alan Hovhaness
had movements so confusingly
brief that this writer completely
lost middle section with the
mystifying title Haiku" Never
theless the composer suggested
imaginative effects that would
bear more writing and hearing.
Daniel Pinkham's Allegro
Capriccioso," although remind
full Of the Stravinsky duo for
violin and piano, was diyerting
and original. It's dissonant
counterpoint sounded crystal
clear and was full Of the wit
and sparkle that seemed char
acteristic of Mr.. Pinkham's per-
formance throughout the eve
ming. His playing, both as ac-
companist and soloist, was con-
sistently fluent and intelligent,
if not quite Of real virtuoso CALI
Der.
Mr.. Pinkham has not yet
faced the cruel fact that on a
harpsichord a skipped beat or a
wrong note. like a tiny splinter,
is Immediately apparent. and
never fails to irritate. no matter
how obscure the sighted tone.
Evening star., 1955-01-04
1o54Morked as Record Year
For Speed, Height and Depth

Man kept trying to catch
himself in 1854. and in SO doing
set many new speed records,
the National Geographic Society
reports.
The society lists among the
world marks the mile-run rec
ords of England's DR.. Roger
Bannister and Australia's John
Landy. Also noted are new
speed records for aircraft and
new height and depth records for
man.
The society saw a 'portent for
the future" In the announcement
from a Maryland research lab
oratory that wind tunnel speeds
of some 10000 miles an hour
had been reached - 16 times
sonic speed and far exceeding
the attained fight record of
1850 miles an hour.
Among the records noted:
Announcement of a new world
record altitude mark by an Air
Force experimental plane, still
secret, but go. 900 feet would be
o good guess"
Evening star., 1955-01-04

A new world record for
woman miller, Diane Leather of
England, who broke the five-
minute mile by four-tenths Of a
second.
Descent by French Navy Of
ficers in a bathyscaphe to 1927
feet below the Atlantic.
Cracking Of coast-to-coast air
speed records many times during
the year, by military and civilian
aircraft.
Scaling Of the worlds second
highest mountain. Mt. Goodwin
Austen (K-2) by an Italian team
Of climbers. K-2 Is 28,250 feet
high. only 778 feet lower than
Mount Everest. climbed by the
British in 1858.
Evening star., 1955-01-04
TWA To Give Awards
For Aviation Writinu

Newsmen from at least ID
cities, including Washington,
will converge on Western sun
sites tomorrow to see some OF
their colleagues receive awards
for outstanding aviation re-
porting.
The occasion is the annual
aviation writing contest spon-
sored by Trans World Airlines.
Winners will be announced at
a banquet in Phoenix. Ariz..
Saturday night.
The newsmen also viii visit
Las Vegas. New.