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Helnl Radio-Television News Service
11/8/50
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Sweet William Alerts Video To Ne w Problems
( Larry Wolters in 11 The Chicago Tribune" )
ANIMAL INDISCRETIONS : As most Kukla, Fran, and Ollie fol¬ lowers know, the show was somewhat dampened the other evening by Sweet William, a skunk from the Lincoln Park zoo who was making a guest appearance. Ollie came up promptly with a mop and saved the situation. On Sunday night, Sweet William showed up on the Lincoln Park Zoo show, but Zoo Director Marlin Perkins had taken precautions, and there was no repetition of his lapse. A few minutes later, how¬ ever, a South American ferret had similar trouble, but Director Per¬ kins was ready and reached for a towel.
Perhaps you've heard Dave Garroway's reference to the Budgy bird in the studio lastSunday. Budgy, a miniature parrot, got away from his cage on Gail Compton's Pet Shop a day or two earlier and has been winging around in NBC's studio A at potential peril to the per¬ formers ever since, Gail also had some trouble with a little lamb which verified the story Mary first told about her pet "the lamb was sure to go".
There have been other cases of animal lapses. Back in the radio years FredAllen had eagle trouble. Of course, the radio audi¬ ence didn't see this, but it broke up the show anyway. In television it happens occasionally. There was the case of the forgetful ele¬ phants on Super Circus.
Dr. Wesley A. Young, Managing Director of the Anti-Cruelty Society and conductor of the Animal Clinic on WENR-TV, recently ran into some problems with a four legged character called Milton Burro. This episode provoked a meeting of members of the stage-hands union, who demanded a clarification of the properties they were to handle.
As a result, Dr. Young and Compton, among others, now have a special cleanup detail.
Mark Is Doing No Weeping
("Hollywood Reporter")
Mark Woods, ABC Vice-Chairman, is waving no public crying towel over the radio situation if there is a situation. Says he: "The radio business, in an over-s.ll sense, is at a new high. And at this moment, radios are outselling television sets two to one. Sig¬ nificantly, a great proportion of these radio sets are being purchas¬ ed by owners of television receivers. All that does not, it seems to me, add up to a picture of a sickly or moribund industry." Nor would NBC's successful peddling of Operation Tandem seem to indicate that the radio pulse is flickering away, regardless of the fact that one of the participating sponsors is Poppa RCA. There'll always be a radio especially in the front seat of an automobile.
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