Variety (December 1950)

S2 B ADI0•TELE\TSI03^ Wednesday^ December 20, 1950 New York Kaiscr-Frazer. renewed DuMont's “Adventures pf Ellery Queen” for 13 weeks . . . Murray Jordan, WLIB staff announcer, narrating a TV film about the N. Y. Public Librarv’s Bookmobile for the citv's TV department . ; . Frank- lin Pulaski Rhodes pacted as an- nouncer for the Christmas . Day *'L’ncle MiUie’.’ show .on NBC . v . Faye Emerson, Abe Burrow and Joey Adams subbing for Robert Q. Fewis on hi^ daytime CBS strip, while he vacations., in Florida for a week . . . 'Producer Bill Von' ■ Bag.” will produce, tl e package u Thor Brooks will direct . . . Dave Barry took over emcee chores on KLAC-TV program emanating from Hollywood Palladium . . , Sears Roebuck will bankroll thr Fleetwood Lawion news analysi'^ show over KTSL starting Jan. 1 in mail order firm’s debut as a video sponsor . . . KECA-TV's “Academy Theatre,” which features the first 26 films made for Procter & Qam- ble sponsorship by Gordon Lev6y« w HT be sponsored by Corona Dark cigars after Jail. 5 . V. ^ Walter Wanger returned from ISlexico where his company is lensing the Zehle of WARD’S ‘Tt‘s in the Bag” first three “Captain Scarlett” tele- offering a $100 war bond to the; pix starring Richard Creenie femme viewer sending in the best —;————- name for . the grocery; .store fea- tured on the show ... Don Brown, Vnicag.p formerly with Republic Pictures, 1 cbi NBC account exec Dan Mc- signed by Bernard J, Prockter; to - Guire wrapped .up a 26-sveek re- direct tile filmed sequences of ..newal from the Waiider Co. .'Oval- NBC-TV's “Big Story” . . Sono ; tine i for. the 4:45-5 Friday se.gment Osato has femme lead oppo.site , of “Howdy Doody” ... Ivor Mc- Richard Hart in DuMont’s ‘Dllery Lareii, former producer of “Don Queen” show tomorrow . night , T\icNeiH’s . .TV Club,” joins Chi (Thurs.i . . . Treva Frazee pacted ! ABC as a staff producer . . . John for a character role on the preem . Meek Industries has boosted prices of CBS-TV’s “Charlie .Wild, Private of its. tele sets 10% ... Hir.sch Eye" Friday (22) . . . Sportscaster Guy Lebow' signed to handle WP.IX wTcstling Saturdays from the Bayonne Naval Base, N. J. . . . Harry Forwood, until now press- agenting legit shows only, has opened his own publicity office, with Sid Caesar as his lop per- sonal account . . . Local Chevrolet Dealers pacted to bankroll the en- tire series of Golden Gloves box- Richards Coutinued from page 21 go Clothing Co. will sponsor Sunday afternoon feature film on AVBKB : beginning Jan. 14 . . . Fred Giese, WGN-TV photog, named first vee- 1 pee of Chi Press Pliotographers Assn. . . . Tony Fontaine, Paula ! AVray and The Starnoters headlin- i ihg \VGN-TV's new Monday night ' musical, stanza—-“By Candlelight” I . . Dorothy Shay due in Dec. 27 McNeill aspects of the news so I can back and keep, w'ithin boUnds.” . Burns said it was “outrageous” that tile letter had not been intro- duced before. He demanded that Ford be subpenaed ’ to make Sure I get all the records.” Ford replied: “It is standard operation for defense counsel to smear and sling mud.” Ford of- fered to take an oath that he had no more documents that the FCC had subpenaed from Fitzpatrick in 1949. James D, Cunningham, FCC examiner, took no action. Fitzpatrick testified that . Rich- ards never ordered him to slant the news. He also testified that Rich- ards had bombarded his staff with memorandums, letters and tele- grams which ranged in subject from bebop music to the Wayne University football team. “No one man could comply with all his ideas,” Fitzpatrick, who : two w'eeks ago had said Richards had a “definite psychosis,” said. “SoriVe of them were ridiculous.” The nearly 100 character wit- nesses who so far have appeared on Richards' behalf ranged all the way from Detroit’s mayor, to industrial leaders to union leaders, to educa- tors, to former governors, to po- licemen and to Board of Com- merce officials. to a “man in the street'* heckler, I who ends up backing the program’s j principles. There was a note of irbny in the fact that this tribute to the Bill of Rights and denunciation of totali- tarianism provoked what the' ACUU later called “organized pro-1 tests.” Especially since the airer j did not mention the case of Jean ^Iuir. (who was dropped from an NBC-TV program because of pro- tests arising from her inclusion in “Red Channels”,) and since the ACLU some months ago offered to support “Channels” topper Ted Kirkpatrick when the latter was ,''^^iost censored oft’ an NBC sta- tion. , Bril. Continued from page 23 to guest on ABC’s Don ing matches as televised by WPIX.. tele show . . . WBKB director Scott Red Barber’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Yoiing planning to wed Thea Lyla Thomas, critically, injured 1 .Mueller Christmas Day . . . With when struck by a Oar near her jxy Forecast dropping Ernie home in Jacksonville. Fla,, Satur- clay <16). CBS sports chief and lii.s wife flew to her bed.side, forc- ing a cancellation of their pro- posed holiday vacation in Mexico . Eddie Cantor scheduled to re-, turn from the Coast today (Wed.) to prepare, his New Year'S' Eve slum- for NBC’s “Colgate Comedy Hour.” Lena Horne signed to emcee “Your Show of Show.s”.Jan. 20 on deal set by Nat Debbins . . . Marty .Goodman submitting a tele pack- age headed by singer Kitty Car- lisle . . . Robert Cummings set for the Bob Hope show Sunday (24) . . . Maurice Lapue, ex Music Cofp, of America tele sector, has joined the J. Walter Thompson RCA Blue Chips Simon's “Simply SimOn” variety .show on WENR-TV. Dec. 25, Wright & Assocs., agency which packaged the series, is pitching, the show to other clients . . , Dave Durstin joins Chi ABC-TV a.s a producer . . . Entire stock of Tay- ilor Tubes. Inc,, teevee parts manu- facturer, has been purchased by a group headed by Jack Kaufman,, prc.xv of Lewis & Kaufman, Inc., Los Gatos, Calif., electron tube makers Continued from pa?e 21 phonette, Paul Tripp and dramati zations of children’s classics. Almost all of the regular com meiHjial stanzas are being decked , with Yule trimmings during the i holiday season. Additionally, spe- , cial airers have been set. Among the special shows are: ' NBC-TV’s “Heralds of Goodwill.” i a salute to the United Nations i which Caroline Burke is producing , for the 11:30 p.m. slot on Christmas ; i Eve. Ben Grauer will exj)lain carols , of many iahds and Juanita Hall and ; ! a chorus will sing. -Hansel and Gretel’ on TV I “Hansel and Gretel” will be sung in English by the NBC-TV Opera I Theatre IMonday at 2 p.m. : “The Joyful Hour,” Jerry Fair- banks^lensed vidpic of the Nativify', is being screened by all four video webs. It was produced by Father Patrick Peyton with a cast Of Hollywood names. On some Ideal outlets it is being sponsored. DuMont is airing an hourlong “Christinas Song” Monday at 9 !,p.m., featuring special music by $1,500,000 Deal Pending For Adantic City Sale Of 2 Stations, 3 Newspapers Atlantic City, Dec. 19. Plans to sell the three newspa- pers and two radio stations operat- ed by.the Atlantic City, N. J., Press- Union Publishing Co. for a sum of between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000, have been announced here. , A company headed by R, L. Ad- ! ams, editor and publisher of the , Bethlehem. Pa., Globe-Times, will assume ownership of the resort publishing firm as"soon as the FCC acts on the transfer of the radio licenses. Albert J Feyl. president of the I Press-Union Publishing Co., Said ; the transfer includes the Morning and Sunday Press, the Evening i Union and radio stations AVBAB and WBAB-FM. Adams saidi the new oAvners plan no changes in i operation dr personnel. Present owners, Feyl, Francis Groasdale, vice-president, and for more tlmn 30 years managing edi- tort and the family of the late Paul J. O’Neill, former secretary-treas- urer and advertising manager, have controlled the newspapers since April 2, 1919, was amended in June. His ojdginal pact had called for $100,000 dur- ing 1948 and $140,000 from 1949 through 1952, ^ ^ ^ « Folsom was also handed an op- and Metop tion by the board on 50,000 shares singers Brian Sullivan and Lois of stock, along with a similar grant of 100,000 warrants to RCA board chairman David Sarnoff. The op- tions haven’t much value at, the agency. Hollywood Norman H. Sloane named as- sistant to Dick Moore wlio directs tele operations for ABC’s western division and manages KECA^TV . . , Following resignation of George Fogle, Bob Oakley stepped in as veepee of the National Soci- ety of Television Producers . . , John Jay Franklin departed for Hawaii to lens background for a projected vidfilm series on the Islands . . . Phil Itapp now produc- ing DuMont Television’s “Star Time” . . . L.A. Daily News colum- nist Matt Weinstock propping a vidfilm series dramatizing items from his pillar. Peter O’Crotty Pryor Heads Heart Fund i Arthur Pryot, veepee of BBD&O, ; has been named AM--TV chairman, for the 1951 Heart Fund. Other Committee members are:; Robert E. Kintner, ABC; Frank) Stanton, CBS; Frank White. MBS; Charles. C. Barry. NBC; Walter Craig, Benton & Bowles; Wallace S. Jordan, William Morris Agency; , Ivor Kenway, ABC; Thomas H. Lane, McCann-Erickson; Thomas D. ; Luckenblll, William Esty; Gerald F. Maulsby, CBS; Richard McDonagh, NBC; Thomas M. McDonnell, Foote, Cone & Belding; Everard W. j Meade, Young & Rubicam; Richard Pack, WNEW; Adrian Samish, Dan- cer - Fitzgerald - Sample; L o w e 11 Thomas, CBS; Lewis H. Titterlon, Compton; Sylvester L. Weaver, Jr;, NBC-TV; David A. Werblin, Music Corp. of America; and Frederick A. Zaghi, Young & Rubicam. Hunt. Cardinal Spellman will visit WABD’s (N. Y.) “Morning Chapel” today (Wed.) at 9:15 a.m. ABC-TV is telensing “Family moment, since they permit pur- in cooperation with the chase Of the shares at $17.75, con- Radio Commission on siderably above the present price ' . 9:30 p.mi, depicting a on the New York exchange. The faniily sing with old English carols. $17,-75 figure was the market on . ABC will originate the day the warrants were granted.; Christmas Stocking” from Chicago The options were given to both ; bn Monday from 3-4 p,m., with Jon e.xecs as incentive compensation, i and “Sparky” as hosts, and “particularly since,”, according to ! the Lone Ranger, Ozzie ahd llar- tlie minutes of the board meeting, i Nelson, Dick Haymes, Ginny neither of the officers “has any' Simms, Ted Malone, Happy Felton Other i n c e n t i v e pay.” Board i ^hd others guesting. At 11 a.m. the stated tliat it long ago recognized will beam “GI Cluiistmas Call,” the, desirability of the options as 1 calls from GIs overseas and an incentive, but never gave them ; their families in the States. becau.se they might be ta.xable and [ CBS will air the fifth annual therefore of little value. However, • Christmas Eve concert of 17th and Vivienne Segal Retiring After Wedding Rdbinson With Vivienne Segal’s marriage to Hubbell Robinson. Jr., CBS prO^ gram veepee, she will retire pro- fessionally after a long career in almost every branch of show busi- ness. She had planned essaying a new TV series with Glenda Farrell (two former showgirls in the mid- dle-age of their careers), but now CBS is seeking a new vis-a-vis for Miss Farrell. Joan Blondell is un- der discussion. This is Robinson’s third mar- riage, the first two being radio scripter Terry Lewis and more re- cently, Margaret Whiting, the song- stress. Cowles, Paley Continued from page 21 it stated, that situation has been changed by clarifications in* the Revenue Act of 1950. Board, as a result, set up a com- mittee to make recommendations 18th century music by the Boston Society of Ancient Irrstruments Sunday (24* at 11:30 p.m., and the annual program of carols with the Collegiate Chorale and Dorothy I’.cerning the options for Sarnoff 1 Maynor at midnight. fir DiDliiile :s6Hiflg^ W D E L WILMINGTON DELAWARE WKBO HARRISBURG PENNSYLVANIA WORK YORK PENNSYLVANIA WGAL LANCASTER PENNSYLVANIA WRAW READING PENNSYLVANIA WEST EASTON PENNSYLVANIA and Folsom. Group con.sisted of Gano Dunn, chairman; George L. ■ Harrison. Arthur E. Braun. John Hays Hammond, Jr., and John T. ■ Cahill. They came up with the' recommendations that w e r e adopted. The^ options must be ; exercised by Nov^ 3, 1955, or with-1 in three months after either of; the execs leaves the company if tliey depart before the expiration | date. ! Mutual, for the fourth consecu- tive year will present the -\M “Joy- ful Hour” on Christmas Eve at io p m., with a score of stars. Web will also air the “St, Nicholas Can- tata” with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m., Sunday (24*). “Thou Bethlehem,” dramatization of the Nativity, will be aired at 11:30 p.m.', followed by an hour in which displaced persons in Euro- pean camps will be heard in carols. Niles Trammel’s contract, which | Premiere of “Birthday in Bethle- runs from Nov. 1, 1948, until Dec. | hem,” by Gene Bone and Howard 31. 1952, has not been changed, i Fenton with text by Frank He continues yearly. to get . $100,000 don, will be broadcast by 11:30 p.m. Sunday (24*. King- NBC at left the Cowles’ Minneapolis Star- Tribune farm for the office of Kingsley Murphy, former Tribune owner-publisher and now owner of KSO, CBS’ Des Moines outlet. Attached to the bird were “cor- dial greetings, warmest regards, happy Holiday. Signed, John Cowles,” Cowles and Murphy are directors in the Star-Tribune and have been closely associated in business for a decade. Meanwhile, with the turkey on its way, CBS brass and the Cowles triumvirate shook hands, the vibrations shak- ing loose the KSO-CBS Des Moines connection along with KSCJ’s Sioux City CBS affiliation. For ABC the switches, which take effect June 15, mean goodbye to WNAX, Yankton, and KRNT, Des Moines. The third Cowles .station, WCQP, Bo.ston, is not lo move under the CBS banner be- cause Columbia has its bwned-and- operated WEEI in the Hub, For Kingsley Murphy of KSO, 20*^0 stockholder in the Minne- apolis Star-Tribune, it was cold turkey for Christmas. Cowles had sold KSO to Miirphy in 1944. WDELTV WILMINGTON DELAWARE w\ WGAL'TV LANGASTEit PENNSYLVANIA STEINMAN stations C lair ft. McCollough, G*n*roi ManagtHr ky ROBERT MEEKER ASSOCIATES Chicago San Francisco How York Loi Angelos s- f'i' 's' x>'''' *. CoRtlhiied from jiiage 22 a librarian who was fired, afl'cr 36 years on the job, because she .Sub- scribed to the Nitton, New Repub- lic and Negro Dige.st; a Berkeley college prof vvho refu.sed to sign a loyalty oath as a “freeze on ideas,” and a government employee who was dropped because 17 years ago, as part of a Bryn Mawr political science course, she had attended a Communist Party meeting. Stanzai ended with a discussion of the McCarran Act, which Pat- rick Murphy Malin, of the ACLU, termed “notorious because it un- dermines our greatest strength— Our ability to tolerate all opinions, unpopular as they may be.’^ Producer-director Hoiner Fick- ert lined up a name cast, including Melvyn Douglas as emcee and Kenny Delmar, Berry Kroeger, Anita Louise, Karl Malden, E. G. Marshall, Saiiford Meitner, Bui*- gess Meredith, Cameron Prud’- hornme, Joel Walsh, and Mary Wiekes, with Don' Pardo as an- nouncer. Philip Lewis’ script was in a much-used format, that of 1 narrators expounding their views wer to its (f ff service an