Variety (Nov 1948)

40 BANO WediMHHiay, November 17, 1948 Tele Follow-Up Continued from page it i in the same manner is something I that' will have to be ascertainea| from the-mail response. | Whether racism will detract; from "Toast's" value still isn't de-: torminedi but Ray Morgan's heavy commercials will probably have an i immediate effect. One particular plug o£ interminable duration had all the earmarks of the sponsor and agency testing the mail-pull of this show. A price reduction on writeins for a particular Emerson model Was- pitched with- a humor- less determination as though the very life of the show depended on the result of the mail response. It may be the wrong type of propa- ganda for this show inasmuch as video audiences- have; already switched to the sight, and sound mediumv ■ and may not think of retrogressing. , While dance acts predominated on the layout, each turn had some- ' thing different to offer. The suc- cession of terpers, starting with the line's okay offering, Clark Bros.' entertaining taps, the cute dance gimmicks of the Martin Bros, puppet act, and Klsa and Waldo's comedy: ballet, provided little conflict, each turn having dif- ferent attributes that were ap- preciated by . the audience. Elsa ■ and . Waldo, particularly, provided I a: hilarious. comedic note thati ciould hold its own on any type of | spotting. Paula Bane' gave a nice I account of herself with rendition! of "Buttons and Bows" and [ "Donkey Serenade" and Ernesto i Lecuona provided a classic note| with the : ivorying of his own i ■ 'Malaguena," as a trailer for his upcoming Gamegie Hall concert. Fontaine's impressions proved en- tertaining when lampooning cel- ebs. He was introed as.the "toast" of Boston. some fetching performances by Margaret Phillips and ■ Jocelyn Brando (the former of "Summer and Smoke," the latter of "Mr. Roberts" Broadway legiters), and Will Hare and John E. Straube. As a play it was no great shakes, representing a minor variation of Sidney Howard's "The Silver Cord" theme, in this instance a sister dominating her brother, but it held interest throughout and was ably directed by Ralph Warren and Fred Pressburger. that the result is an avoidance of fiormal income tax payments on personal Income derived from per- sonal services rendered. (Capital gains rate is flat 25%, while in- come tax rates graduate to about 75%). "It is my further understanding that. In addition to the 'sales' which have already been accomplished, others are being planned at the present time. "I am told that officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue have made official ruling regarding the legality of these transactions ! j^y WASHINGTOIS . . . and: ! should like to be informed. I regarding that ruling and the basis for it From the Production Centres ji Continued, from p»Ke t4 i Mutual prez, in for huddles with Ade Hult, midwest Veepee, and Frank' Schrelber, manager of WGN and WGN-TV "Hi Club," new teenager series, bowed via WAAF Sat. (13) Everett Holies, .WBBM news head, at work on a critique of the "antiquated" Electoral College system of installing U. S. presidents. Tome, titled "What's Your Vote Worth?,'^ is set for completion before the. next presidential race WMAQ launching a three-month car card campaign, plugging 14 local shows> and 27 NBC airers. Actors' Studloi whose . TV dra- malio efforts are a Sunday night feature on ABC, seems to be .find- ing itselfi lafter a few fumbling tries as a sort of experimental video showcase. An original half^ hour play called "Esther," by Ker- mit Love and Robert Moore, was put on last Sunday (14), bringing Television Location On EUCLID AVE. iH CLEVELAND ft-nfor%' iMillfling: folly .nqntpped tlien- 1-0 now oireiipietl^^lie entire biiildiiifc 4-1III lie niiKio uvailable for. ocL'upancy on six iHOnthK' notice—will. LEASE OR SELL An Ideal Snot for TilavUlM Statin M. B. HORWIIZ/ 601 Film Btdq. Plionn Prospect 3794 Admiral's "Welcome Aboard" show an the NBC-TV web Sunday (14) night unearthed a new pair of television comedians in the persons of McCarthy and Farrell, the team which opened last week at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria's Wedgwood Room, N^ Y."Boys socked acro.ss their very funny satire on radio disk jockeys, with the closeup lenses adding to their impact in the trick of mugged synchronizing to. the records of the Andrews Sis- ters and Spike . Jones; Same trick ha.s been used by several comer dians in the past but seldom with such telling effect as McCarthy and FarrcU impart. Their hep presenta- tion demonstrated their wealth of show biz experience. \ Dewey Sisters (2) opened the show with some okay acro-terping. Buck and Bubbles . followed with their standard vaude routine, which projected well over the ikes. NBC-TV .staffer Vic McLeod, who triples as writer-producer-director, is still having trouble keeping the show within range of his camera. Russ Morgan's' orch, as usual, cut the show welt but Morgan: should practice his lines more^he fluffed often Sunday night. Kudner ad agency, which took over the Ad- miral account last week from Crut- tenden & Eger, retained the tat- ter's filmed commercials for this program and they're still highly palatable. 1 It is apparent that this 'sale of i a business' procedure by high sal- j aried personsvwhose income is de- ' rived from what is ordinarily I considered to be personal services Kay Morean, WWDC; sportscaster, now handles a play by play ac- count of all home basketball games of the Washington Capitols.;.. Jody Miller, "Miss Washington of .1948/' adds her own four times a week show to her regular WWDC disk jockey stint WASH-FM, town's sole FM station without an AM. affiliate, was taken ^back in the midst of its exclusive broadcasting of the iPenn State-U. of P. football game when an irate femrae listener called to protest "just another one of is resulting in a loss of revenue to | those tricks that you AM station people are using to get the public to the government ■ and if continued the total loss would be sizable. Therefore I should appreciate it very much if you would make available to me at your earlie.st convenience a copy of the Bureau "of Internal Revenue, ruling which I have been told has been made and to inform me regarding the basis for that ruling." ILGWU Continued .irom.paee 24 i in, Romandi crew could not keep cadence with Baker. Martha Tilton and Harry Babbitt each warbled two numbers effec- tively. Miss Tilton ran through "Maybe You'll Be There" and "Way Down Yonder in New : Orleans" with the orch easing in behind her allowing Miss : Tilton to set the pace. Babbitt sang "I Remember Mama" and "Two Front Teeth." .Iim Backus bullied his way through five minutes of gags which were most assuredly dredged from empty barrels, buy FM sets"!..... . James S. McMurray leaves his post of production manager of WBAL-TV, Baltimore, to take over as program manager ol" WOlC, D.C.j Video outlet for the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, Inci- .. Fred L. Karpin, syndicated contract bridge columnist who does a weekly video program on the subject over WTTGTDumont, is being challenged by the rival Culbertson outfit for his booklet, "The Point- Count System of Bidding Contract Bridge".:. . Johnny .Bradford^ son: of Warner's; Col. Nathan Levinson^ whose TV show on WNBW (NBC) is clicking'here, starts work on. his Victor recording contract this week ;; Bill Herson, WRC-NBC emcee, is ailing.;.. . Sam Newman, engineer for video station WNBW-NBG, states that, his logs show a total of'2,020 hours and 25 minutes of TV programs since June 27, 1947 . . Ruth Crane's "Modern Woman'' back at work over WMAL-ABC, on both- AM and TV . Webs reported debating whether it will be a pool ^iTangement or an individual pick up job for the Presidential in- auguration .... Life magazine lensers in town preparing a spread on NBC's TV setup. Richards Continued.trom page ZS Benny COMEDIANS WANTED FOR TELEVISION SHOW Two yoiinff roinediiiiiK, jiol nocfH-- .sitrlly II tiMiin; »r<» w»nt«Ml tttr vlileo mIii>w imw in proilnrlliui; . ^\ ill r<>- :.'<llli^(^ •«>»<' Tiiiv weekly- .in IS, . \,- l)t.»8(.Tn>« yourKt'If fully In IHter. ^^^Ui' tUix i\rt. Vmiotv. ir.i w. mu St., ><\v v«ik jy, n. t. FOR TELEVISION —WANTED PUPPETEERS— New .York area. State experience puppets on hand and other details/ Permanent. Box 1655, Vorietyi 154 W. 44 St.. New York 19, N. Y. 5; Gontinued from paic 23 the Senate Appropriations Com- mitteet challenging capital gains deals for radio talent, may also have been a factor. in the blowup of the Benny negotiations. In fact, the Bridges fingerpointing, it's re- ported, may also throw: a wrench' in the • Bergen-Coca Cola deal which involves a tax. situation, though not classified strictly as a capital gains maneuver. Revealing IS the fact that the Bergen deal as yet has not been signed. In- the opinion of Bridges, the Amos 'n' Andy-Jack Benny "busi- ness sale" technique adds up to a dodge to escape income taxe.s (al- though the Senator did not men- tion either A & A or Benny by name.) Bridges demanded that the Bureau of Internal Revenue inform! him ol the ruling under which such airangements were regarded as legal. ; In view of Bridges' open attack, it's not expected that either CBS or NBC may go easy on any out- and-out capital gains deals without definite assurances from the Inter- nal Revenue boys that such man- euvering is okay. Bridges wrote in part to Col- lector of Internal Revenue SchoenemSn: "Reports have appeared recentl.v i regardmg the sale of their services I on a sale of a business basis by j topfliglit radio and screen perform- l ers. It IS my understanding tliat { those: sales are being negotiated I under Hie capital gains provisions ol our Inlerrial Ttevenue l.jiw.s and facilities of said 'Stafions,, b? any of them, have been used to carry out said, instriictioiis Oi' directives. I 4. To determine, in the light of any facts adduced under the fore- going issues, whether further pro- y. 111' '-eedings ' under, the cphimunifca- Glorge* "Turner I ••'""s act of 1934, as amended, par- choir' handled" two melodies of i V,':,"/?-!''?, ^°''' ^1^!^^ I "Carousel" tunes agreeably backed 1 312(AMhereof are warranted with • by only a piaho. Men of Note Were l ^^'^'-'SU?J^li'* i'^i?^lv°„'**" not of the best blends. 1 ^"'"^ J^^P^' WJR and WGAR or Those connected with the station '< ""^ I were very emphatic in relating that | Mullen Defends Stations I the public would now be serviced i Commenting on the Commission 1 with unbiased.news. Station will jorder, Frank E. Mullen, prexy of i be only 50% commercial with the ] the Richards stations, said the j remaining time going to public; three outlets have good public I service, education and religious ■ service records and "are now pre- programming. ■ j eminent in their several communi- , Second half of the inaugural (ies as leaders in good broadcast- I broadcast was presented Wednes-1 ing. j day (IG) night. Edward Arnold | "So .far as the issues are con- 1 and Lois Maxwell emceed. Clarke ' cerned," he continued, ■ '^nothing Dennis, Diane Richards, Lesly has been done by either G. A. Grey, Bobby, True Trio and Harry , Richards, the principal stockhold- Flannery appeared. 'No Baloney' Continued from page 23 ■ep; or-ahy -other person tiorih^ .With -KMPC; Wj tifying; the charges made against theni by a local Radio News club : of Hollywood. ' We are confident that it the heainng, whichi the Commission has ordered to be ' Colt, the committee's objective is ' held, the.se charges will be shown ' to run a "no-baloney" three-day to be without foundation." I session at which station owners ' and ■ managers: at the executive 'level can learn something con- : Crete about the industry's operas ' tion; Registrations will be strictly I limited to eliminate the peripheral groups. Purdue University, at ; Laiayette, Ind., has invited the party : state chairmanship to run NAB to use its facilities for the against Johnson, but the machine pilot conference but: no. decision' held fast at the ;seams, and the has as yet been made. : secessionists lost the race. ; Under present plans, the confer^: The Senator's position doesn't I ence will l)e a showcase for the' come from any antagonism against I latest techniques from a program-1 network operations as a whole, he .uning and technical view. . I5uring explained, but from a feeling that I the first day, various program i networks which hope to further ex- lems. Attempts must be made to include Mexico, Cuba, and Canada in any longrange solution to the' problem- in order that- border ares audiences can be protected from high-power- operations outside the U. S. Johnson feels that the station owners and tlie network operators are doing a- top job in the field of programming, and doesn't contem- plate any moves in the direction of giving the FCC greater powers of content supervision. He is a con- sistent radio listener, and a family show fan. Cleveland -7 WJW celebrated fifth year in {own- with a cocktail party. "Intri9uing. Evoked a vast amount of merriment." - —^Billboard; "WHAT MAKES YOU TICK?" ABC Monday Thru. Friday I1:4S to 12:00 for PROCTER and GAMBLE ..■•with. ■. JOHN K. M. McCAFFERY WriUmn and Directed by > . ADDISON SMITH Sen. Johnsoii Continued from page ZS Gene Cervi. 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CinieKl,' Hull, ,9llldlo 1801) . ,. ...•New 1 itrU , l'eH!|>lio.»e! <'!rele B-olWa : 'JAnN IlKAOi-'Oltll, itnnoiincef Tninm'ri|ilioii t'pon R«iiu«8t > 'Services, such as music and e.t: li- I braries, news agencies, script .ser- vices, foreign broadcast availabil- ities, etc., will bo exhibited. Tlie second day will be devoted to such tethniques as wire and tape lef- ordings and other technical mal- I ters. On the last day, the coni- ' munity needs of radio will bo tend their normal coverage with' a skeleton structure o£ clear channel and high, powered stations will take advantage of listeners in' rural area.s .who depend as much.I on local independent service as; lliey do on network feature cover- i age. I lie hopes to set in motion a grass ' SAVE KIER 8 X 10 GLOSSY PHOTOS 100—$7 500—$30 1000—$SS 8% IHSCOli'N'T for, fi«S4li wllfi nrdnr. tiiinninleed <ini«llt,r. Itrlliliiiilone I'll*.' Uli. Vroiii|»t Servlee. .:\Vr!l« for Hum-: I>|P8 uiid iirk'efi on otherolieii. 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