Variety (December 1950)

86 TELElTSlOX Wednesday^ December 1950 Tele Giatter ‘Horace Heidt Show” on (11) . , . Fall issue o£ Journalism Quarterly has piece on television news program by Prof. Harry Heath, Jr. . . . Ralph G. Allrud has ' joined staff of Blair-TV, Inc. as ac^ ; count exec'. I Elaine Ellis appears for the third CBS , time on the'CBS“Sure as Fate” _ Ka/>ir i , 1 ^ j thi’ough Hext Sept. 24 , while dies-! series, Dec. 12, Carl Frank direct- Melville Ruick, back m cnciila-[ repacted for its segment ing . . . Ethel Frank now writing tion after playing a chaplain in an ‘ of the same web’s “Godfrey and ; two scripts a month for the weekly Army film, turns killer in “Big Fi'iends^” Story” Dec. 8 . . . WOR-TV's sig N. Ray Kelly has been named , , . , , j 1 , • f business manager of the Wein- nal has_been picked up clearly in | agency’s radio-TV depart- Battle Creek, Mich. . . . ABG-TV has garnered renewals from Ron- son (“Twenty Questions”), Pharma- Craft and American Safety Razor (“Cbllege Bowl”) Ironrite (“Hplly- wood Screen Test”), Dodge (“Show- time, USA”) and Goodyear (“Paul Whiteman’O. Lawrence Tibbett is scheduled to do his first straight dramatic role, sans songs, in a skit On CBS’ “Ken - Murray Show” Dec, 16 . . „ Maurice MacMurray of CBS-TV N. Y. sales staff transferred to the Chicago office . . . Marge Morrow, former CBS casting director and recently partnered with Doris Sharpe in a talent agency, will open her own talent office about Jan. 1 to Cover TV, radio, films and legit . , . Du- Mont’s “Captain Video” now spot- lighted in a bi-monthly comic book, distributed by Fawcett Publications ... Actress Jan Musial added to the cast of the upcoming “Going Places with Betty Betz^V series, being packaged by Anderson, Davis & Platte fox’ one of its clients . , . WPIX has inherited NBC’s hold on the Village Barn, Greenwich Vil- lage nitery, and teed off a new series of pickups from the spot Monday night (4) . . . Buddy Lester packaging his own video show, af- ter seven consecutive guest shots bn NBC’s “Kate Smith ..Show ” It’s to be sold by General Artists Corp.~ , . . Phillip Morris renewed its ment. Kelly was with NBC for 20 years prior to joining Weintraub last May , . . NBC-TV Casting di- rector William I. Kaufman now working on the second edition of “Best TV Plays of the Year,” with Ellery Queen” series (DuMont), instead of just editing, as formerly, for producers Norman and Irving Pincus. ■ Hollywood First performer to nix a bid from Snader 'Telescriptions is the first slated fbr publication by [Ginny Simms. MCA decided her Merlin Press within a few weeks! * . . Paramount veepee Paul Raibourn scheduled to make the principal speech at the luncheon session of the Canadian TV conference tomorrow (Thurs) at Toronto’s Royal York hotel. His I subject Is “'TV Progress and Promise.” Indie packager Lester Lewis had options picked up by sponsors on all three of his current video shows, “Holl 5 "wood Screbn Test,” “Penthouse Party” and “Eloise Salutes the Stars.” “Screen Test,’ in addition, picked up seVen more ABC stations . • . Lawson Paynter, formerly Y^ith McCann-Erickson, joined the Erwin, Wasey agency’s video department . . . Music Corp. of America, as part of its heavy expansion Into TV, has named Bill Richman to head its daytime tele activities. Quentin Reynolds will play a newspaper editor on “Pulitzer Prize Playhouse’* Friday (8) . . . Comic Jack Gilford to do a lead role in the “Musical Comedy Time” pro- duction of “Hit the Deck” Monday Icj/iUcl StOH the long hioina ^ PULSE CONFIRMS! WHLI Has More listeners in Long Island’s Major Market Daytime Than 3 New York City Network Stations...More Than All 4 Leading New York City Independent Stations Put To- aether. appearance in the vidfilm briefies might jeopardize future commit- ments . . . Arnold Mills set as as- sistant director on the A1 Jarvis show beamed over KLAC-TV 1 . . Harry Babbitt signed a five-year contract with KTJLA and will em- cee “Hollywood Opportunity” as first chore ... After 18 months on KLAC-TV, Kay Mulvey shifts to KTTV starting Monday (11) . . . First femme newscaster on coast television is Palma Shard, who bows on KFI-TV. To avoid look- ing at news copy, she will pre-re- cord her newscast. Then, with the aid of a hearing device, she’ll re- peat what she said on tape , . . KTTV has started operating on a hit-or-miss remote schedule Wed- nesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, opening up at 11:30. Statiou feels it will give directors and engineers more remote experi- ence in preparation for the sum- mer season when, it’s expecte'd, CBS will no longer be furnishing kinescopes and the station will be going in more heavily, for remote telecasting . . . James C. Pctrillo waived the usual 5% royalty fee ! to AFM for “The Joyful Hour,” ! Christmas vidfilm being made at I Jerry Fairbanks Productions for ' Yule use under Family Theatre sponsorship ... Telemount Pic- I tures signed Leslie Selander to di- irect 13 videoaters starring Russell “Lucky” Hayden. Series rolls Jan. ' 16, with each 30-minute film to cost between $8,000 and $ 10,000 . . . Harry Owens asked viewers to send In $I for a copy of “Song of the Sunset,” written by a leper, which Owens is publishing. He drew $1,700, all of which will go to the leper colony . . . KTLA pulled all but 600 seats out of its newly-acquired theatre and is in- stalling a camera runway down the center of the house . .. Coast is the greatest single user of film for ! television in the country, a total ; of 40 hours being beamed weekly by the^seven stations ... Roland Reed TV Productions, heretofore interested only in video conimer- cials, religious and commercial hlnis, will start rolling regular viclpix. Local Programming Establishes Domination I Data Source: fUlSE, N«vtmbtr. 1950 Monday through Fridoy 7 AM. to 4:30 P.M/ . Nompitood Town ’’THE VOICEOFION^SLAND^ WHII 1100 WHLI-FM on your dial A 98.3 MC Chicago* Universal Gas ■ Range dealers are dropping WGN-TV's cross-the- board “Stop the Record” day tinier to pick up 60-minute Sunday fea- ture film on WBKB, Dec. 10. I'raiin Weigle,. featured on the Record shoiv, moves over to WBKB to host the pix series . . pnie Simon’s “Simply Simon” half-hour on WENR-TV moves trom Thursday night slot to 7:30- 8 p.m. period on Mondays . , . Norman Ross is handling the chat- ter on WNBQ’s morning teeoff segment built around “Soundie” briefie films . . . A. Gettelman Brewing Co. has renewed WTMJ- TV, Milwaukee, Thursday night wrestling for 26 weeks . . . Over. 2,000,000 votes were cast during : Atlantic Brewing's year-long “Miss contest on WGN-TV with Shirley Saxby win-’ ning top honors among 435 con- testants ... Net assets of Tele- ; Vision-Electronics Fund, tele in- vestment firm, .increased from $2,781,000^ to $5>560,000 during I past year , , . Community Fund ■awards to Chi photogs were ; 2 }^^ yesterday (Tuesday) on I WENR-TV’s “Bob and Kay” tele- cast . . . As result of increased video activities, Entertainment Managers Assn, has organized a TV committee comprised of Jack Russell, Vic Brown and Jack Page . . . . ABC’s “Super Circus” slated for a four-page pix spread in January issue of Pageant . . . E. J. Brach & Soils, through J. Walter Thompson, renewed re-rUn series of Gene Autry vidpix on WENR- TV. Webs Seeking Agreement In Dispute With AT&T On Intercity Allocations Washington, Dec. 5. Following a pre-trial conference yesterday (4) with FCC examiner Hugh B. Hutchison, representatives j Of all four TV networks held a meeting here to explore the possi- bilities of working out an agree- ment in their dispute over inter- city allocations by the American Telephone & Telegrapli Co. Hear- ings are scheduled to begin next Monday (11) before Hutchinson on a complaint by DuMont that the telephone company gave prefer- ence to NBC and CBS in its cur- rent allocations. The nets are planning to hold further meetings in New York but it was considered doubtful that a compromise would be reached in time to ward off the hearings. How- ever, it’s possible they may ask for a postponement if prospects of working out a settlement appear favorable. It was agreed at the conference that AT&T would present its case first, if the hearings go on as planned. Baltimore, Dec, 5. For the first time the Federal Communications Commission has agreed to watch a television program as testimony in a hearing. Commission had asked officials of Johns Hopkins Unly. to testifir at its hearings On allocating TV channels for education. Hopkins toppers said the best testimony they could give on what educators can do, if given tele time and facilities, is the “Johns Hopkins Science Review” beamed on WAAM here, and invited the Com- missioners to view it. Three Commissioners were present at today’s (Tues.) hearing and . accepted the invitation to watch the “Science Review” tonighl. They said they’d ask other members of tho FCC to look in also. * ITS STILL OPEN HOUSE FOR COMICS ON NBC NBC producers Doug Coulter and Hal Friedman are continuing to line up guest comics for the Mon- d?»y and Wednesday night airings of “Broadway Open House.” George DeWitt, together with tlondos and Bratidow, will have their on-the-air audition for the show next Monday night (11), while the Slate Bros, are. to try out the following Wednesday. Jack E, Leonard also may get a crack at the spot. Comics are being tested to fill the role left vacant when Morey Amsterdam ankled the program several weeks ago. Decision is still pending on Mickey Deems and George Conley, who teamed for the show last week, and Wally Cox, Indicating that whichever comic finally draws the assignment will have new supporting talent, Coul- ter and Friedman have signed Bet- ty Ann Nyman, the Honey Dream- ers and Don Russell to back DeWitt and Condos and Brandow. Jerry Lester, of course, con- tinues with his present crew to hold down the Tuesday, Thursday and Friday airings. of “Open House.” Washington, Dec. 5. Television picture tubes are how being produced at the rate of over 10,000,000 a year, according to a report of the Radio-Teievision Manufacturers Assn. October tube sales to set makers, says RTMA, ex- ceeded 848,000 units, which com- pared with 764,913 tubes in Sep- tember.' The report declares that re- ceiver makers bought nearly 6,000,- 000 picture tubes during the first 10 months of 1950 and paid ap- proximately $150,000,000 for them, or an average of $25 each. • The tube purchases would indi- cate that the set makers have very little inventory, since production of sets during the lO-itionth period totaled 5,777,000, In recent months, set output has been greater than tube output, Approximately 92% of current lube production is 16 inches or larger. Detroit — Arthur McPhillips, as- sistant sales manager and traffic manager of WJR, has been pro- moted to sales service director. I He’ll direct the servicing of WJR sales accounts, super\dse station sales service men and continue su- pervision of the traffic depart- ment. Thaak Yaa - WMT Miami Beach, fla. from ^BARRY ‘Kay’s Kitchen’Gets Pitt HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND, N.Y f.iAS 1. GODOFSKY Pres. Rtprtstnfod by RAMBUU San Antonio—-KEYL will add a sixth day of programming, starting next Monday (11 1 , and will become local exclusive outlet for ABC. Plans are being made to begin televising seven days per week and - to add to its operations by sched- I uling daytime programs. At pres- ent, KEYL presents daytime pro- grams on Thursday. as Pittsburgh, Dec. 5. Katherine M. Neuman, former director of home economics depart-! ment of KlVIBC in Kansas City, has ianded first cooking program on town’s lone vidv^o channel, Du- Mont-owned WDTV. Her show’s called “Kay’s Kitchen,” and it’s a Monday through Friday afternoon feature at 1:15 for half an hour. Since her sponsors are local Natural Gas (IJdmpanies, “Isay’s Kitchen” naturally stresses the ad- vantages of cooking by gas. Bob ' Holt 1 $ directing the program, and agency is Ketchum, MacLeod & Glove. In addition to four gas outfits, associated sponsors are Jo- seplr Horne Co. department store, .Meadowgold Dairies, Inc., Krey ' Paclang- Co. and Lohrey Pack mg Co. KAYE SHOW" Starting Its 2nd Year of Spinning Records 7-9:30 A.M. 11:15 P.M. to 1 A.M.* (Doily) *Sli6w toon to omanoto from Uoding Miomt Btoch club. ON TV DAIIY WTVJ 1 : 45 > 2:30 P.M. Ntw York RoprosontoHvo: PRED STEELE 1775 Broadway, New York Omaha—Tip Saggau, top sports announcer for WOW for the past five years, steps out this week to take a new place as adjutam and director of activities ^ for. the * Omaha Post, American Legion. u ® replaced temporaril; by Bill McBride. ‘ ' do UQu ^tunt BULL or do you tvunt . • * PUBLICtTV? Too many publicity outfits offer tcio many services In Place Of publicity. If you want newspaper and magazine space, dramatic ex- idoltation, and q personal l*uild-iip: If you want what |)ubliclty should be—-one ol Broadway's top press agents can now take on two non- ccunpotiliVC accounts. Box V-800, Vorioty 154 W. 46tli Sf., New York 19