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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
HOLLYWOOD V
BY sHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD.-Jimmy Du-
rante has seen the light of
reason and will cut his current
quota Of three teleyision shows
monthly to one only next sea-
son. And Ruth Berle told
me why Milton will do no
more TV shows from Holly
wood when the present sea-
son is over. They made it too
difficult for him here. criti-
cized him too much. He has
all the money he'll ever need,
and I'm trying to persuade him
to give UP work for one year"
1t really looks like the Lu-
ellie Ball-Desi Arnaz Il Love
Lucy" is going of the air next
year. The sponsors are dick
ering for Medic" Bob
Hope will have Douglas Fair
banks, jr., and Line Renaud
French songstress Bob dis
covered in Paris last year,
on his February % show from
London.
Ursula Thiess will make her
television bow In New York,
while making personal appear
ances in the East with hus-
band Robert Taylor for his
picture, 1.-The Last Hunt" Bob
loathes TV and aims to stay
away from it.
The hazards Of television:
Don Taylor had to shift to an
other scene hurriedly while
doing a live Front Row Gen.
ter" teleshow Sunday. Bumped
into another actor who was
also shifting, and ended up
with q black eye. He's recuper-
ating ct Palm Springs. 8.
Parent-teacher groups around
the country are UP in arms
over the use of children on TV
quiz shows for money. They
claim the kids get too nervous.
Hugh Marlowe is top choice
for the title role in 1.-THE First
Nighter" TV series Screen
Gems is planning to film. Don
Ameche did this series on
radio for years and years. In
fact, 1t made a star Of him.
Oscar Levant, appearing with
Julie London - the former
Mrs. Jack Webb-on O local
quiz show. told her: People
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19

lante action in q migrant
workers company city; Lloyd
Bridges. Jack Warden. Betty
Lou Keim.
900, WTOP t9)-Electric The
ater: Mild-mannered piano
tuner becomes innocent pawn
IN jewel robbery: Jack Benny.
Zsa Zsa Gabor.
$3.50, WTOP t9-Alfred Hitch
cock: Woman correspondent
behind Iron Curtain gets in
volved in disappearance Of
clergyman: Claire Trevor.
1000, WRC (4)-Loretta Young:
millionaire Tightwad." story
of a young couple in love;
Robert Sterling. Marilyn Frs
kline.
1900, WTOP Disappointment
with Adventure: Girl work.
ing for Radio Free Europe
gets false report that husband
is dead; Signe Hasso.
1880, WRC t4)-Justice: Rookie
fireman leads fire inspectors
to trail Of arson: Lee Phillips.
1880, WTTG (5)--Uncommon
Valor: Marine Corps series
tells drama of heroic Wake"
defense.
1880, WMAL az - The Man
Called X: Agent helps i'm
prisoned ballerina escape by
arranging for her to be two
places at one time: Barry
Sullivan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19

$3.50, WTOP t9l-You Are
There: for 1.-The Surrender
of Corregidor."
1000, WTTG t5)--Georgetown
University Forum: The
World War Behind the Iron
Curtain" Gerald Steibel,
James McCargar and John
De Chant, guests.
1900, WMAL (0-You Asked
For 1t: Electronic home;
trick bag punching act;
Tomb Of the Unknown Sol
der.
1880, WRC t4)-Frontier: THE
Voyage of Captain Castle"
story of United States naval
officer who was shanghaied
into Texas navy.
500, WRC t4)-Comedy Hour:
Gale Storm, hostess. Guests.
Ben Blue. Peter Donald,
Jonathan Winters, Groucho
Marx ION film with Gonzales
Gonzales) and 1.-THE Sol
diers." Tom D'Andrea and
Larry Blake.
500, WTOP (9)-Ed Sullivan;
Billy de Wolfe. Hermione
Gingold, contralto Jean Ma
deira. the Coolers. and Opal,
the performing elephant.
900. WRC tN-Alcoa Play
house: Reginald Roses
Tragedy in a Temporary
Town." brutal story Of vigi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
TODAY'S ~
MOVIES

200, WTTG (5) - Range
land and Empires: An OUT
law contests a mans right
full claim to oil properties.
Front Page Story; The
tale of twelve exciting hours
in the life Of a news editor:
Jack Hawkins.
500, WMAL (D--"Kipps":
A diapers apprentice finds
his store life getting too
dull; Michael Redgrave.
7:30, WMAL (D-"Odd Man
Out: An Irish revolution
list is wounded by police and
stalked for eight hours:
James Mason. (1947)
800. WTTG (5)-"The For
gotten village: In a little
Mexican town the inhabi-
tants refuse to seek medical
help when their children
become i'll during an cpl
demic; Burgess Meredith
narrates. (194l.)
11:15. WRC a. - Count Of
Monte Cristo"; Robert Do
nat and ELISA Landi.
(l934.)
HAS. VIDAL (1D-Baltimore
Channel-"Women on the
Run; A commercial artist
goes into hiding; Ann
Sheridan. Dennis O'Keefe,
Robert Keith. t1950)
ll:l5, WBAL (lS)-Baltimore
hanne1 - "The Three
Points: A Bourbon. on trial
for conspiring against the
Italian troops. unfolds the
strange narrative Of his adj
ventures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
ANOTHER MOVIE STAR CONES TO TV
Lee Tracy Play Draws Heaviest
Fan Mail Since Servings Patterns

Wheneuer a TV play on a par
ticular subject clicks. the in
duStry infers that the public
wants more OF the snme?),
Bob Will, of WWDC, has a
new fan-a 14-year-old girl
in Dallas, Tex.
Bob aired a wire story about
the girl last Sunday. Seems
she needed a 1909 Lincoln
head penny to make her collec-
ton complete.
Laura Zaslow, 10, Of the
1900 block w street Sc, heard
the broadcast, called Bob up
and the penny is now on its
way to Jane Wallace.
Millicent Waldron, WTTG's
weather girl. is on leave and
drops a line from New York
that she's been named mistress
of ceremonies for the Interna-
tional Beauty Show Feb. q
through March ! in New York.
"Stylists come from all over
the world to compete for the
Golden Venus trophies" she
writes.
Program MemOs: Don't for
get - WTTG-5 changes its
Monday through Friday pro-
gramming from 7 to 8 pm.
this week. featuring a flock Of
new shows such as II Spy"
Crunch and Des" and "keng
John Silver" :
WMAL-7 has a premiere
this evening, too-'Dr. Hud-
sons Secret Journar--and
WTOP-9 will offer MY Friend
Flicka" next Wednesday. The
opening OF this was delayed by
a film snafu.
\
Mildred Natwick, the hilari-
GUS medium of "Blithe Spirit"
will star in Always Welcome"
for Studio One Feb. az :.
She'll play a warm hearted
woman who makes a career of
raising homeless children.
Charles Boyer will imper-
senate Charles Boyer on the
II Love Lucy" show March S
:. Did you know that Boyer
never actually uttered the line.
Come with me to the Cas-
BAH?
Teresa Brewer has signed
for five appearances on Ed
Sullivan's show.
BERNIE HARRISON
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
By MARGARET McMANUs

NEW YORK. N. Y.--Alfred
Hitchcock, the master Of those
high-class mystery movies
which just ache with tension
and suspense. padded silently
across the carpeted living
room of his hotel suite here
and opened the door with an
angelic, blue-eyed smile.
Employing an almost Orien-
tai. Charlie Chan-type cour-
tesy, he babe his visitors enter
and made them comfortable
on soft chairs, which appeared
devoid Of ticking bombs. Then
he gave them hot coffee with
no traces of arsenic.
"You see what a mild,
friendly fellow I am" said Mr..
Hitchcock. Hollywood director.
and now the producer-director
Of the Sunday night CHS tele-
vision series, Al1reo dltcn-
cock Presents"
Short, Round, Witty
People think because I like
TO do thrillers that I'm q real
life villain, o Boris Karioh
kind Of fellow. Now that isn't
true at all, is it? Why. you
might almost say I'm sanity"
This short, round man with
the witty. articulate tongue
and q mind as quick as q flash
Of lightning In a summer
storm, claims that his jolly
dealing with the macabre Is
sheer bravado.
Tim such q shy, nervous in
dividual," he said. That's why
I do these mysteries well. I'm
terribly law abiding and scared
to death Of policemen. I
wouldn't drive a car for II
years after I came to this
country. I was afraid I might
get q parking ticket"
Although all his movies and
his television shows deal con-
sistently with sinister charac-
tiers and murder in various
forms, the productions are
often lightly, laced with a
subtle, wry humor.
Hitchcock Terrified?
Actually, I'm an old fraud"
he said. "One might think I
take the subject OF death
lightly because I have a little
fun with it. don't at all. 1t
terrifies me even to contem-
plate it. Once in Ireland I was
passing beneath a building be-
ing torn down and some bricks
fell near me. I almost choked
to death saying my prayers"
British born, educated In q
Jesuit seminary and at the
University Of London, Alfred
Hitchcock came to the United
States in 1899 to direct motion
pictures in Hollywood.
Since, he has made such
classic thrillers as "Rebecca,"
dial NJ for Murder" Rope"
and Rear Window" and more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
ON THE AIR
Lucy and Desi
Get Spec Fever

as sympathetic as Como did
in Goodman Ace.
\ X + 4
To digress for a moment, it
seems to me that the networks
have been looking in the wrong
places for headline talent.
If any scouts were looking at
Shower of Stars" last Thurs
day (WTOP-9) it should have
occurred to all that there's still
plenty of life in some Of the
older performers.
Rudy Vallee. for one.
The star crooner Of the 20s
and early sos, who once en-
coed the most popular variety
show on radio. engaged in some
banter with Gary Crosby dur
ing the program that was as
amusing as it was charming.
He Has It Made
He has a flair for light
comedy that is most engaging
and If his bit on the show
doesn't lead to offers for other
shows, there's something wrong
somewhere. maybe Rudy.
like Bling, prefers counting to
working.)
If the show generated any
nostalgia for you Thursday, I
think the quality can safely be
attributed to master of cere-
monies Red SHELTON.
He was sincerely respectful
to the old stars, such as Gene
my Blue Heaven Austin, his
comedy lines were light and
breezy, and he conducted him
self beautifully throughout.
You rarely see this side Of
Shelton on TV. The fans. I'm
sure. took to the subdued comic
instantly.
The hour show. which gave
the impression of casual" pro-
duction. was a delight from be-
ginning Georgia Gibbs to end
tthe Andrews Sisters. ! got
my biggest musical kick, which
was clearly practicable. out of
ziggy Elman's trumpet solo in
And the Angels Sing" It
still sends me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19

If you enjoyed Lee Tracy's
performance on Kraft a few
weeks ago in a dandy drama
about a TV perfectionist called
Good Old Charlie Faye"
you've got plenty of company.
David Karp's crisply written
play has piled up the heaviest
mail count at the sponsors
Office since Rod Servings sem
sational Patterns"
The play is a natural for the
movieS--but even more of, q
natural for q repeat" per-
Torrance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19

Playwright Gore Vidal, by
the way, is reported in this
weeks Variety as favoring a
''repertory" theater for TV.
where the better plays that
so many people miss can be
given another showing.
Next Inside TV" drama
coming up is one by Paddy
Marty Chayevsky called
THE Man Who Knocked Of
Sullivan" Purely fictional, Of
course.
(Wonder Uhy 1t is that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
Durunte to Slow Down
To One-u-Month Show

tell me ! look so much like
Jack Webb that If sit next
to you you'll divorce me-" Os-
car will soon have his own
television outlet for his with
cisrns.
North American Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
COLOR SHOWS
THIS WEEK

Sunday, 3 to 4 pm. WRC a.
Zoo Parade: Port Elizabeth
Snake Farm"
Monday through Friday, $50 to
6 pm. WRC (4-Howdy
DO0dy.
Tuesday. 8 to 8 pm. WRC d.
Milton Berle Show.
Tuesday, $3.50 to 1890 pm,
WRC N--Circle Theater.
Tuesday, $50 to 10 pm. WTOP
t9--Red SHELTON Show.
Thursday, 3 to 4 pm. WRC o.
Matinee Theater: When the
Beugh Breaks"
Friday, 3 to 4 pm. WRC d.
Matinee Theater: II Want to
March"
Saturday, 7 to 1880 pm. WTOP
(e)-The Gene Autry Show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
BY BERNIE HARRISON

The pattern for fall TV is
quite evident now-bigger and
longer shows - and if you
should happen to like things
pretty much the way they are.
setter stock up on writing
paper, stamps and ink and
start assuming your most in
dignant stance.
The half-hour COR leSs) show
appears doomed - even the
top-rated ones.
And while this isn't exactly
the way the networks planned
it, you can hardly blame the
performers who are still fail
ing away in forgotten formats.
They can read, too. and the
hoopla and the headlines are
reserved for the spectaculars.
Desi Demurs
Even Lucille Ball and DeSi
Arnaz have succumbed to the
fever. CHS is currently trying
to convince them that they
should continue their series
"as is" for another season.
Lucy and Desi would rather
be on once a month with a
longer show-or once every
two weeks. They reason that
it's only a question of time
until their show begins to dip
and they'd like to make the
switch while they're still on
top. Il Love Lucy is consist
entity in the upper five.)
You can't blame them.
They haven't been loafing
this current season, either.
using expensive stars as guests
(Which they never did before)
and doing such strange things
as dropping the formal al
together to do a musicale, ala
"Brigadoon." Take a look at
their show tomorrow night %.
WTOP-0 and you'll see the
way they're thinking.
II the fan reaction to to-
morrow's show should be
something extra. look for Desi
to start pounding the table at
his next parley with CHS off,
Gals. In Spanish, yet.
Good-by to Money?
Herb Shriner. Of course. has
already severed the ties that
bind him TO Two for the
Money"
Here is another series that
could have continued for at
least another season. but Herb
wanted out.
He signed a new contract
with CHS calling for him to
appear in an hour variety type
OF show. a gamble that both
he and the network were will
ing to take.
Some Of you will remember
that Herb once starred in a
alf-hour comedy show for
ABC-TV. 1t was a delightful
program. as recall, but a bit
too relaxed and off-beat for
the times. Uncle Miltie was
Mr.. Television then and come
dams hit hard. Herb was too
early with his easy-going style.
Now that the trend is his
way. things should be con-
siderably easier.
This could also be Dinah
Shores last season on her
tYice-a-week 15-minute sing
ing stint. She starred few
months ago in an hour show
for Chevy and proved Ito the
network and HERSELF that she
could handle the extra Is min
utes without an off-note.
NBC has her tagged for a
Spectacular in April on the
basis of her showing for
Chevy and Dinah will prob
ably go the way of Perry Como
next fall.
May she find q head writer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19

recently. THE Trouble With
Harry"
Mr.. Hitchcock said he en-
joys producing motion pictures
and television shows equally
well, but he particularly likes
doing the opening and closing
bits as the host narrator on
his television presentations.
It isn't that he is a frus-
trated performer. He Is simply
gratifying the same whim
which makes him appear In
one scene Of every movie he
makes. It is q Hitchcock trade
mark.
Acting Is Out, for Him
Certainly / never wanted to
be an actor" he said indig-
nantly.
He said he thinks his mys-
terry shows are different from
others In this category because
he concentrates on suspense.
while most whodunits concen-
trate on surprise.
Nov I'll explain the differ
ence between suspense and
surprise" he said. IF. before
you came into this room. the
audience knew that a bomb
had been placed beneath that
sofa on which you are sitting,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19

as sympathetic as Como did
in Goodman Ace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
Mild, Friendly Alfred Hitchcock
Saws He's Scared of Policemen

great suspense would have
been created.
"Our dialogue would be un-
important. 1t wouldn't matter
a bit what we said, and we
could talk a long time - the
longer the better - while the
suspense builds. will she get
up from the sofa?' win some
thing distract her?' win she
be blown to bits?'
1.-THE quality Of suspense
lasts and it lends itself to
understatement. 1t takes one
or two minutes to reveal a
surprise killer and it's all over.
It may not be enough to sus-
tain an entire show
Actual Murder Case
In New York to make q
documentary film OF an actual
criminal case. 1.-THE Wrong
Man." Mr.. Hitchcock will be
here several weeks before he
and his wife. Alma. take of
for Africa, where he is going
to make a movie.
Alfred and Alma Hitchcock
have one daughter. Patricia,
who is an actress and has ap-
peared on her fathers tele-
vision program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
Todoy's Programs on TeIevision
Sunday, February 19, 1856

G3a
W. Of Sunday Playhouse WoP V gan
The $50 Adventures TO- Jewish
Rabbit
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-19
UP BETIMES AND TO WORK

A new morning man" will take over the 7-to-8 am.
hour on CHS television (WTOP-TV-9) starting
tomorrow. It's Will Rogers, jr, former Representa-
Morning." to be seen five times week, will feature
comments on the wry side of the news features,
interviews and anecdotes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-26

barbs at "imperialist (Western) monopo-
lies" It was not even admitted that Mr..
Shepilov had renewed the Russian offer
to finance the Aswan Dam project. World
Bank President Black, who saw Colonel
Nasser during the same week, was re-
ported as believing the Cairo government
still would prefer Western financing.
President Nasser, it was announced,
will visit Moscow in August. There may
be, at that time, further Qualification of
the Russian-Egyptian relationship. At
the moment, the best guess appears to be
that the Nasser administration intends
to continue its recent policy of dealing,
and perhaps bargaining, with both sides
of the East-West division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-26
Transition in Cairo

The results of the Egyptian election
are easier to evaluate than is the full
meaning of the Egyptian COM
munique issued as Soviet Foreign Min
lister Shepilov ended his weeks visit in
Cairo. In the former case, Canal NasSer,
leader of the military junta that has
governed Egypt since mid-1952, has re-
ceived unconteSted Endorsement to change
his title from Premier to President, to
apply form of constitutional rule to
the country and to set the stage for cleo
ton of legislative assembly. 1t would
be unrealistic to interpret these changes
as meaning that Egypt has become a
full-hedged democracy in the Western
sense of the term, but it would be less
than fair to deny that they represent a
certain progress toward this end. And
coupled with last weeks departure of
British troops from the Suez Zone, they
end one more chapter in the revolution
airy Story-the struggle for more modern
and effective government free of foreign
domination. Ahead is the opportunity, If
external affairs permit, for the new gov
eminent to carry on with its program Of
social and economic reform.
In the Russian Egyptian communique
there is little, on the surface at least, to
cause serious apprehension in the West
or among Egypt'S neighbors. There were
expressions of mutual interest in all fields
of political, economic and cultural CO.
operation but no specific commitments
were mentioned. Perhaps significantly,
1t was emphasized that friendly relations
between the two countries are based ION
the principles of the charter of the United
Nations" and there was no echo in the
communique Of Mr.. Shepilov's frequent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-26
Bad Legislation

Although the House passed it in
modified form, the bill to exempt GER
tain gasoline station from residential
coming restrictions is just as Objectionable
as ever. The new measure would give
preferential treatment to an old service
station at Massachusetts, and Wisconsin
avenues, so as to permit an Oil company
to rebuild 1t in permanent form. The
stations occupancy of the restricted site
is permissible now under monochrome
ing use" variance, granted on condition
that no Improvements adding to perma-
nency of the station would be made The
ultimate objective of this limitation is to
force the station to move to zone where
service stations are permitted.
Similar legislation, which extended
special coming privileges not only to the
station at Massachusetts, and Wisconsin
avenues but to another one as well, was
vigorously opposed by the District Com
missioners and, on their recommendation,
was vetoed by President Eisenhower. The
President pointed out that If an exception
were made in these cases, owners of thou
sands of other nonconforming-u prop
critics would have cause to ask similar
favors. He described the proposal as
based on spot coming" and hence de-
structive Of orderly coming in Washing
ton. The bill just approved by the House
undoubtedly would receive presidential
veto II 1t got as far as the White House.
1t is bad legislation and ought to be killed
by the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-26
Dr.. Christie

My heart sank when I read
in The Star the news of DR..
Arthur c. Christie's death. He
surely was one of Gods noble
men. Ours is a better world be-
cause he lived and served in it.
I last talked with DR.. Chris
tie at a church dinner in Flor
ida at which he spoke. In de-
scribing the nervous, tense
world in which we live, he
quoted a modern poet as fol-
lows:
"A l0orld OF coins and tDireS
and motor horns,
A World OF figures and of men
tDho trust in facts,
A pitiGble hypocritic tDorld in
Which men NTH blinkered
eyes and hobbled feet
Grope doDn a narrow path
and call it life"
DR.. Christie was pleading
with his audience for the
broader Christian life in which
men love and serve with faith.
He will hear no more motor
horns, for he lives now in a
realm prepared for him by the
Lord he served SO well. And if
in that land of eternal peace
there is a place of special
beauty which God has re-
served for those He loves best,
1 believe Arthur Christie re-
sides there, still serving. still
loving.
Wilbur La Roe, jr.