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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-11
D. c. STUDIOS
By BONNIE AMMAN

IN unique ana QramhClC S6CS CLldC
any ambitious maker would love
to have in his backyard. Since
February of this year. Channel z
has free and easy access to them
through the magic of an electronic
genie on wheels.
The areas only mobile video tape
recorder is being used increasingly
by the station to give realistic focus
to a variety of local programs
especially in the area of public
affairs. ION fast-breaking news, of
course, mobile cameramen will never
be replacedD
On a typical assignment, the air
conditioned truck has two cameras
and is manned by director, assistant
director, and three engineers. A
wireless microphone enables the
person on-camera to move about
freely. and only one reel of tape Is
needed to tape an hour-long show.
Notable examples of shows in
which the truck has been a head
liner include the excellent tour of
Washington Cathedral last March,
the Fourth of July Marine Corps
memorial program at the Two lima
statue, and, most ambitious effort
to date, the August 2 Washington
Summertime musical show which
roamed all over the city to picture
its top sightseeing spots.
Joseph McCaffrey, in his new and
highly rated Capitol Closeup pro-
gram tuesdays. 1880 pm), has
really put the truck through its
PAGES. His interviews with leading
members of Congress are always
tapped on the scene with the Capitol
dome rising majestically in the back
ground
JOINING THE RANKS: The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-11

NO ooLING-Here's proof thot the
Copitol Hill background on Joseph
McCoffreYs Copitol CIose-Up show is
no mere pointed bockdrop. WNAl-
rs mobile video unit visits the "'Hill"
every week to tope McCoffrey's in
terviews on the scene.
install a master UHF antenna. If
this is a trend, and it moves as fast
as the apartment house instant
UHF" movement did earlier this
year, there will be many patients
enjoying a more pleasant con-
valescence.
WETA is helping matters along
by sending complimentary program
guides to every hospital resident who
rents a set.
lshinstOn. D. C.. August II, 1863 IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-11

JOINING THE RANKS: tn
Washington Hospital Center hs
become the first area hospital I
The Sunday Stur TV Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11

Judy year. Your reviews Of
her two shows have been vic
ious and your second review
was idiotic as well. 1t re-
minded me of the question
Ingrid Bergman once asked
Bosley Crowther: Tell me,
Mr.. Crowther, how does one
become a critic?' If Bar
bara Streisand ever stole a
show from Judy Garland, 1t
certainly wasn't the one / saw
Sunday night. Her chief con-
tribution to the show was max
ing Judy look even lovelier
than usual by comparison. :"
=
Drama department: 1t might
seem that a TV play about a
sergeant accused of being a
Communist spy might benefit
from the incredible page-one
coincidence Of a real sergeant's
sale Of secrets to the Reds.
Unfortunately The Case
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11

Against Paul Ryker," part one,
on the premiere Suspense The
alter last night (NBC-D, was
as far removed from the au-
thentic thing as Barefoot in
the Park" at the National.
Its troubles were many and
familiar; the short scenes
stripped bare Of all except es-
sential information; the brisk
pace that passes for direction,
the familiar players headed by
Lee Marvin as the sergeant,
and the unholy alliance with
the deranged persuasive sec
ton of the orchestra that
plays for all TV melodramas.
Guilty or not. I care not.
Money was obviously spent
on sets, players Vera Miles,
Bradford Dillman and Lloyd
Nolan), extras and everything
except a script that gives the
actors a chance to make their
roles different from the last
ones they played on TV.
- -
Earlier this week, the
Eleventh Hour NBC-D Of
fered the beginnings Of a good
idea and some characters with
flesh on their bones. The play,
however, suffered in the re-
strictive series formal and the
ending. as Ralph Bellamy lee
tured a Senate committee, was
pretty hockey. Still, the earlier
scenes in the home of the SCI
enlist (Charles Bickford) were
excellent and the limericks, ]
thought, we're a nice touch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11

in our review Of Judy's second
show Tuesday.
only some built-in problems
like what to do with Van Dyke
flawed the singing, swinging
affair"
The Judy Garland Club let
me have it. incidentally, for
suggesting that Barbara Strei-
sand was even remotely in the
same league with her. Sample
excerpts:
Mable M: Il rather enjoyed
the first Judy Garland show,
and thought I'd look in on
her next one. I hadn't followed
her too closely over the years
and as for TV, we didn't get
a set until a year ago and 1
can still do without it, believe
me. Well. I tuned in on Judy's
show last Sunday night and
never was so disguised as with
Barbara Streisand! I thought
she was silly. assinine, OBJ
noxious and all like adjectives
.. and then you praised it! =. q.
Mary NJ: Barbara Streisand
steal a show from Judy Gar
land? Don't be funny e.. g.
You've lost your judgement, If
you ever had any"
H. W.: Although I often
disagree with your reviews, I
usually think they are fair
and sensible Judy is so SUI
perior in looks, voice, and per-
Sonality that it is silly to COM
pare them. While Barbara
(the spelling of her name is
another silly affectationD was
singing, all I could think of
was how much better Judy
would have done those
songs. :"
A. c.: You must have set
aside 1868 as your knock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
WOOK-TV
(ChonneI ~

5:00-Teenarama Dance Party.
6:30-News, Weather, Sports.
7:OO-Wrestling. Chicago.
S:0O-Uncovered. Mark Sabre
mystery.
S:S0-Broadway Goes Latin.
9:00-Movie. Youth on Pa
role" Marian Marsh, Cor
don Oliver 193D.
l0:3O-NewS. Weather. Sports.
11:00-Mahalia Jackson Sings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11

changed. I'm kinda like Judy'S
producer. I did two parts on
my brother Dicks series. one
shy, the other pushy. The new
writers liked the pushy one.
It's good for the show-but
0aughD I could be wiped
out. :"
Jerry was right.
CHS announced yesterday
that Jerry has been relieved
at his own request as a regu-
lar" on the Garland show "in
order to permit the comedian
to star in the pilot film Of
My Son Google a new series
planned for CHS for next
season.
CHS also had a quote from
Miss Garland on Jerry's de-
parture from her show:
81 can't help being selfish
enough to wish Jerry Van
Dyke weren't leaving us. He
has been more than a talented
coworker - he has been a
friend, someone who was fun
to work with. But he deserves
a chance to try for a show of
his own. I wish him all the
luck in the world-with all my
heart"
Most Of that, ! think. is
true; Judy and Jerry got along
fine. Jerry also said, when he
was here, that Judy invariably
improved on her scripts when
it came to performance time;
that her instincts were ire
mendous. As for the chance
to try for a show of his own,
well, he didn't have to leave
Judy's show for that. The
pilot was set months ago.
In view of the writer's in
ability to work Jerry in pro-
perly, however, the decision
was inevitable. AS we noted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
SUNDAY TV
GUEST LIST

1900, WT0P (sl-Report from
Capitol Hill. Representatives
Joel Broyhill. Republican of
Virginia: Charles Matthias,
Republican Of Maryland and
Carlton Sickles, Democrat of
Maryland.
1880, WRC (D-Georgetown
University Forum. Leo
Brady. professor Of drama
at Catholic University: DR..
William H. Roberts, profess
scr Of international law at
Catholic University.
1880, WTOP C9D-Face the
Nation. Tran Van Chuong.
formerly South Wet Mans
Ambassador to the United
States.
2:30, WMAL (7l-Issues and
Answers. Secretary of Agri-
culture Orville Freeman.
$3.50, WRC C4)-Focus on
World Affairs. Secretary of
State Dean Rusk. Francis
Wilcox of Johns Hopkins
University.
$500, WRC (4l-Meet the
Press. Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu
Of South Wet Nam.
1880, WTTG (5l-Mark Evans
Show. Allen Dulles, former
head of the CHA. DR.. Harry
King. director of the Eye
Bank and Arthur Schlesin-
ger, jr., special presidential
assistant.
$3.50, WTTG (5)-Under Dis
cussion. Authors Erskine
Caldwell. Herbert Gold, Ed
mund Fuller, and Judith
Holman; John Simon, film
critic of the New Leader;
DR.. Harold Greenwald, psy-
chiatrist. Martin Levin of
the Saturday Review" is
moderator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
ON THE AIR
Jerry's Premonition,
Sadly, Was Right
ON THE AIR
By BERNIE HARRISON
Star ~ Critic

Prophetic Words: When Jerry Dyke excaty
one short month the CHS une of the
him. naturally what he knew about the firing Of the producer
writers. etc. the Judy Garland show and whether this
would affect him. He replied:
"An know Is that the concept on the show has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
TODAYS GOOD
MUSIC DIAL

1900, WMAL-FM COTS Mc.)
Musical Reflections.
Works by Telemann and
Beethoven.
sos, WASH-FM 1911 Mel
Symphony in Stereo. Tchai-
kovsky's Symphony No. 2 in
c Minor; Brahms Concerto
No. 2 in B Flat.
$3.50, WGMS AMIN $50 Kc.
and 1888 MeD-Library of
Congress Concert. Juilliard
String Quartet; Harold
Wright, clarinet. Works by
Roger, Shostakovitch and
Mozart. Live broadcast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Uncle Toms

In the future one can expect to
hear less about Uncle Toms" in the
Negro community.
An Uncle Tom, in the modern
vernacular, is any Negro who speaks
up for moderation by Negroes in the
racial dispute. 1t is term which con-
notes scorn and contempt, and it has
been used with considerable effect.
Now it has been held to be IibelouS
by an Ohio jury. A Negro-owned paper
in Cleveland, apparently a bit mixed
up, quoted former Governor Mike Di-
Sale as having called Negro woman
an Uncle Tom. She denied it and Mr..
Disable denied saying it. The Judge
told the all-white jury to decide whether
the term was derogatory. The jury
quite rightly decided that it was and
awarded the woman $32, 900 In damages.
Good-by, Uncle Tom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Last Chance

Members of the National Symphony
Orchestra have reached the hour of
decision. Again they will vote-perhaps
tonight and most likely for the last
time-on acceptance of contract with
q the parent orchestra association. They
must be fully aware that a negative
vote almost certainly will doom the
1854 concert seasons opening next
Tuesday. The seriousness of the oc-
casion will be evident to all who read
details Of the dispute elsewhere in this
edition.
Any appeal to the orchestra mu-
sicians now must be an appeal to reason.
1t would have to call attention to the
$40 weekly increase awarded in each Of
the past three years which have left
the association holding a $150,O0O def
icit. Unquestionably, these increases
were long overdue and necessary for
the well-being of the orchestra as in
dividuals and as a first-class unit.
The players must know that the
association leaders, and the hundreds
of volunteers who raise much OF the
money, are genuinely concerned for
their welfare. Can there be any reason
to doubt these men, who give selflessly
OF their time and energy, when they
say they gladly would give every penny
demanded If they had it to give?
There simply is a point beyond
which goodwill cannot be stretched in
dealing with the public purse. Already
association negotiators have pledged
money for salaries which must be
obtained beyond normal fund raising
efforts. The demand for the cultural
dollar is acute, the public's capacity to
give is not unlimited.
Realistically, orchestra members
must consider the consequences of a
contract rejection. If Howard Mitchell
does not lift his baton in Constitution
Hall Tuesday night, it we'll could be
curtains for this season.
Beyond that, the future Of SYM
phony orchestra in Washington would
be dim indeed. For the association
would find it impossible to return more
than fraction of the gift donations,
and the chances Of Interesting the
donors in trying their luck again would
not be worth a broken G-string. In
more ways than one, this may be a
last chance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
The Charming Past

Congress has sent to the President
and he has signed military appropria-
ton bill that adds up to $47.2 billion.
This is chicken feed, more or less, COM
pared to the OUTLAWS Of the Second
World War. But still it is pretty big
stuff-even fantastic stuff-to those of
us who can remember what life was like
before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
We can remember, for example, that
IN the mid-1930s the total annual ex-
penditure on our armed forces amounted
to something like $500 million or less.
And in 1899, when Hitler was making
everybody nervous, it totaled in the
neighborhood Of not much more than
81 billion. Alas, how times have changed,
and how the expenditures have grown,
necessarily and urgently. Even in this
relatively relaxed period, when nobody
IN Washington or Moscow seems to ex-
pect sudden outbreak Of about nu-
clear war, there is an tnsistence that the
arms race must go on-unleSS or until
the world figures out a safe way to
end it.
Meanwhile, all peoples and govern
ments could do worse than keep in mind
the astonishing oscillation that has
taken place since the United States
spent only peanuts on It's defense in
the 1930S. The march of time has
changed everything in the interim.
Progress has gone forward at a pace
and in dimensions that chill the spine.
Maybe we should say hail to it, but we
still like to recall those days when no
body seemed mad at anybody else and
when our entire yearly military budget
was hardly more than the cost of one
nuclear aircraft carrier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
SuYe by Spending

Your editorial, Pipe Dream
Salaries" strongly limited
that it would be unwise to
spend the $40 million per
year necessary to implement
the plan of Clarence B. Ran
dali, President Kennedy's
adviser, to raise the salaries
of members of all branches
of the Federal Government
to a proper level.
I consider myself a con-
sentative when 1t comes to
spending money, whether it
is my own or that of our
Government. But I do not
think in the case Of proper
salaries for top Government
people we are spending" ad-
ditional money; rather we
are investing" in a better
operating plant. Properly
compensated, top-level exec
utives pay for their salaries
many times over. BY invest
ing a $40 million sum we will
save, in my opinion, hun
dredS Of millions Of dollars.
Richard England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Too Many Spies

The great and powerful
United States is slowly sue
cumbing to the Communist
plot for taking over the free
world. When q nation cannot
have a secure defense
against an enemy it will. in
time. fall into the clutches Of
that en- my. That is what
will happen to the Unite d
States If our security agen-
cies 90 on being finishing
schools for spies" Why thor
ough Investigations are not
made on security workers be-
fore they are accepted for a
job, followed up by periodical
checks after they are on the
job. is beyond reason!
If security measure contin-
ue to be as lax as they now
appear. our country will not
have a prayer in the world
against the Communist take
over. Now that the racial cri-
sis has somewhat simmered
down, the Kennedy admin
istration should clean up our
security agencies so that the
American people may have
assurance that, one Of these
days. they will not go to sleep
a free people and wake UP an
enslaved nation.
Mark C. Kennedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
On Hunting q Detente

Just hours before last weeks Soviet
American unpleasantneSs on the road
to Berlin, Premier Khrushchev declared
in message to President Kennedy that
the Kremlin would do everything with
an its power" to help make the newly
operable nuclear test-ban treaty "the
beginning of sharp turn toward a
considerable relaxation Of international
tensions" However, whether thing Of
accident or design, the incident at Ber-
Inns Babelsberg checkpoint, together
with the later one involving a British
convoy, has demonstrated that such
turn probably is long way off.
This is the unanimous opinion, In
fact, Of the most highly placed and
most knowledgeable officials Of the
United States Government. They are
not walking about on Cloud 9, in a
state of ecstatic euphoria. After all, as
one Of them has wryly observed, a de-
tente, despite the great deal of talk
about it, does not really exist at pres
ent, nor is it in near-future prospect.
At most, according to him, the world
merely has "a license to hunt" for
ways OF easing and eventually elimi-
mating the tension that plaques it.
There have, of course, been some
recent East-WeSt agreements. One of
these is the So-called "hot line" accord
"a useful but not very significant
arrangement to improve communica-
tons between Washington and Moscow.
And another is the test ban, which is
potentially important, but nonetheless
strictly limited. There is also the in
formal but quite vague Soviet-Ameri-
can consensus that nuclear weapons
ought not to be placed in orbit around
the earth. And beyond that, at the
moment at least, there are indications
that the United States and the USSR
may be able to reach a meeting of
minds on establishing conSulates on a
reciprocal basis, and starting direct
civil air service between Moscow and
New York
These developments are encourag-
ing as far as they go, but obviously they
fall short of constituting a real detente.
The official who has spoken of the
license to hunt" has summed up the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Why Pickets?

I witnessed the picket line
in front Of the Safeway store
on Columbia road near Sew
enteenth street NV. on Oc-
tober II. I also witnessed a
similar march before the
same store a week earlier.
I have often wondered If
anybody could really pin
point any concrete results
attributable to such marches
and picketing and I have
come to the conclusion they
are just time wasted. During
the picketing I checked care
fully and did not see a col
ored person hesitate to ente.
the store or turn away from
it.
They Just went right in
and did their shopping, and
indeed at times there were
more colored customers in
side than white ones. Thus in
effect the colored patrons
practically said they couldn't
care less about the picketers,
the slogans. the placards, the
chanting, etc.
Lillian Sinclair Large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Tronsit-Stuqe One

The decision by Representative
Whitener to seek congressional approval
of an abbreviated version of the Wash
ington area rapid-tranSit plan makes
good sense.
Certainly it is a modest request
proposing subway and surface rail facil-
tiles which would be reasonably COM
plete only in central Washington. 1t
would extend a single rail line across
the Maryland line in Montgomery Coun-
ty. Reaching into Virginia, its routes
would barely cross the Potomac. This,
Of course, is merely first step-little
more than a skeleton of the functional
system which should be put into oper-
alton throughout the Metropolitan Area
at the earliest possible time.
But the practical fact of the matter
Is that the broader plan proposed earlier
by the National Capital Transportation
Agency does not have a chance of
passing this year. Mr.. Whitener was
realist enough to recognize this, and
wise enough to develop more limited
scheme. Fortunately, the limited pro-
gram does not violate the concept Of
the broader plan. For the most part,
it represents those portions Of the total
system that normally would have been
built first, anyway
It's greatest merit lies in two facts.
First, 1t avoids the danger of COM
hitting the area all at once to a pro-
gram which might have turned out to
be overly ambitious as to financing, or
too infleXible as to routes. There has
been good reason, we think, for skepti-
cism about some of the NCTA'S eSti-
mates of patronage and of future
revenues for its proposal as a whole.
BY limiting the initial authorization
to those routes which obviously are
essential to any system, the new APP
proach poStponeS decisions on future
extensions until patterns of area growth
are clearer, and until there is an OPP
portunity to test public response to
the central facilities.
More important, the Whitener plan
avoids the fatal error Of appearing to
pit rapid transit against urgently needed
freeways. It's transit routes would COM
plement, but not duplicate, regional
freewayS now slated for construction.
There is, however, another side to
this coin. For the transit-highway con-
troversy unfortunately has blossomed to
great proportions. And unless there is
break in the Stalemate over those
freeways which already are held up,
there is scant chance that transit bill
can pass this year. The most contro-
verSial of these projects is the northern
part Of the inner loop freeway, on
which presidential inter-agency policy
committee has been seeking agreement
for months. Fortunately, the committee
is scheduled to meet again on Monday.
Perhaps it will not be possible for
the committee to produce firm recon-
mendation before Representative White
ner submits the new transit bill to a
House District subcommittee next
Wednesday. But it is vital that the
committee try. If even an informal con-
sensus as to the freeway design can be
reached on Monday, Mr.. Whitener's
hand will be strengthened UNNECESSARILY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Open Door Policy

Candidly speaking, In con-
trast to a recent article on
the Society Page Of The Eve
ming Star, entitled "Diplo-
matically Speaking: Why
should President Kennedy, or
anyone else for that matter,
be concerned with the COM
bat record Of Mrs. Tito, when
there is the murderous rec
ord Of her Communist hus-
band to appall anyone who
is interested in World War
II history?
When, oh when, will this
continuous parade Of Com
munists through the open
doors Of the White House
cease? Perhaps election day,
1864, will attest to the limit,
the endurance that the
American people have for
being insulted.
John W. Adams, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
HUrroh for Sidewalks

Hurrah for the Devonshire
Elementary PTA for their
fight to have q sidewalk. The
children Of today are often
criticized for not being physi-
cally fit and their parents for
being too soft and permits
sive. I'm glad to read about a
group which is willing to
fight some Of the real cul-
prits in the matter - the
persons. for instance, who
should make certain that
adequate sidewalks are pro-
vided and don't.
Officials, according to The
Star. pointed out that many
areas of the county have no
sidewalks and that in other
areas children walk to school
on dirt paths bordering on
the roads. Big deal! Huckle-
berry Finn had the same two
choices but he didn't have
tractor-trailers and sports
cars to contend with as do
the kids in this high density
traffic area.
Many apartment jewellers
and home owners live within
walking distance Of church,
school, store and library but
dare not risk the lives Of
their small children by walk
ing along the road. No won-
der that mamma" has to be
a chauffeur and Junior" has
a shine on the seat Of his
pants.
Talk about encroachments
on human libertyl II we
can't say prayers in school.
rem Q m Der our ZIP Code or
swallow digit dialing, then
please, let's have q place to
walk so we can clear our
heads and stretch our anato-
my.
Officials and developers
please lead the way!
Earl A. Noel.