Variety (April 1953)

44 KAMIO-’TELEVISION PtifiarEff. Wednesday, April 15, 1955 * Television Chatter New York | Fred Barton is president of the TelePrompTer Corp. and Irvin* B. Kahn chairman of the board. Jack Manning doing the life of Bizet on DuMont’s “One Man’s Story” this week, and plays Sydney Carton of “Tale of Two Cities” for web’s Monodrama Theatre April 27 through May 1 . .. Doug Edwards, only 35, celebrating 21st year in newscasting. He started at high school at Troy, Ala, . . . William j. Papp is new executive producer of ABC-TV’s “Tales of Tomorrow,” replacing Mort Abrahams, who resigned to freelance v . . Grace Bussell, secretary to Hubbell Ro- binson, Jr., CBS-TV programming veepee, in Bermuda for week’s vacation. Sylvia Stone returned from Florida to do featured role on NBC-TV’s “Big Story” Friday (17) ...Ed Sullivan to emcee second annual Boston Post Music Festival at the Boston Garden May 1... Richard Rector now program serv- ice representative at CBS-TV. Victor Allan of same web upped to assistant production manager of program department. ' NBC-TV station relations veep Harry Bannister returned from a tour of Texas affiliates over the weekend . . . Metopera star John Brownlee’s daughter, Delphina, makes her vjdeo bow tonight (15) on DuMont’s “Stage a Number” ... Radio-tele emcee Johnny Olsen made his dramatic bow on teevee Friday (10) on ABC-TV’s “Tales of Tomorrow.” Hollywood Walter Richards packaged a cross-the-board show, toplining Merle Travis and his wife, Judy Hayden, with a May start skedded on KECA-TV . . . Bill Stuiia off his KNBH show with flu . . . Wax Seal sponsoring Sam Balter on KLAC- TV . . . Russ Severin and a femme guest will host “Cinema Carnival” pix on KNBH . . . Golden Chalice bankrolling KECA-TV’s “Moon- light Movies.” . . . Ted* Meyers subbing for vacationing Gene Nor- man on KHJ-TV . . . Eastern Co- lumbia angeling “Sunday Matinee” on KECA-TV . . . Bruce Bennett skied to N. ,Y. for appearance on Lux TV show April 23 . . . Iron- rite bought participations on Mercedes Gaffney's KECA-TV pro- gram for 13 weeks . . . Duncan Renaldo (Cisco Kid) to Washington on personals, joins his sidekick, Leo Carrillo, in Chicago April 17 for 15-day stand .with Cole Bros, circus . . . Peggy Lee to N. Y. for video guestings. San Francisco Bill Hollenbeck named KGO-TV program director, succeeding Blue Wright resigned . . . Chef Cardini, on a reducing,kick, hopes to lose 12 pounds in two weeks, eating his own teevee menus . . . Lew Frost (NBC), Don Tatum (ABC) and Charles Glett (CBS) Lark’d in for meeting of the Governor’s Coun- cil on Educational TV . . . Hoagy Carmichael marked time at the Mark and took in the Tanforan races. Said heTl use Buddy Cole on his “Star Dust” TV series this summer ... Helen Parrish, of “It's A Good Idea,” came up with her producer, Cally Curtis, to confer with her sponsor, th6 phone com- pany . . . Jim Connolly and Shorty Evans sky’d to Hollywood for blue- print consultations on the new ABC studios, here . * . Helen Dol- man launched “Gracious Living,” on KGO-TV (12)... Lt. Gov. Good- win Knight to begin “Report From The Legislature” TV series on KPIX, (17)... Bill Dempsey, KPIX educational director, to Columbus for the Radio-TV Institute . . .• William Winter to the Orient for a month, leaving his TV newserie to Lee Giroux and Sandy Spillman, Chicago Zenith’s Ted Leitzell and Far- rell Davisson off to Ohio State Educational confab.. .Litt Jewelry to sponsor quarter-hour telepix on WGN . . . Jim Moran, Windy City auto dealer, will emcee a three* and a half hour cancer telethon April 24 over WBKB. Moran' will bankroll the majority. of. the show . . , WNBQ’s “Creative!’Cookery” now has 41 out of a possible 50 sponsors* inkfed for bankrolling... Virginia (“Duchess”) Marmadukc, Sun-Times reporter, victim of a surprise switcheroo as the heroine in NBC’s. “This Is Your Life” . . . Irv Kupcinet, Chi columnist, dated for a cerebral palsy telethon May 22-24 . .. U. A. Sanabria will dem- onstrate his three dimensional teevee before the Chi - Television Council today . . . Six bankrollers for ; the pre and post-game slots for the summer baseball series have been inked by. WGN-TV. Gametime sponsorship for both the Sox and Cubs is by Hamm’s Beer and Chesterfield . . . George Jenesen, WOR and WOR-TV sales manager, on business swing thru the midwest. . . Good chance that NBC-WNBQ’s “Faces in the Win- dow” featuring Ken Nordine might also be programmed for the web’s radio WMAQ . . . J. Fredd Muggs, chimp star of NBC-TV’s “Today,” celebrated his second birthday Monday (13) amid WNBQ festivi- ties for the semi-sapien . . . WGN- TV will debut its new camera bug show “Through The Camera Eye” today (14). Seven Chi camera deal- ers will bankroll. .. Lew Sanders, production topper of Television Attractions, acquired telepix rights to “Doc Savage,” newsstand adven- ture yarn . . . Clifton Utley, NBC newsgabber, received the Sigma Delta Chi radio newswriting award . . . Sarta, Inc. completing new Manor House Coffee teleblurbs... Sun-Times joining the circulation race for televiewers with its new Sunday supplement “TV Prevue” ,. . Alben Barkley, now starring in NBC-TV’s “Meet The Veep,” to guest speak before the Sales Ex- Temple Univ/s Semester Course in TV Production Philadelphia, April 14. The radio and television division of Temple Univ. has launched a semester’s course in TV produc- tion at the studios of WFIL-TV. Arrangements for use of the stu- dios were given by Roger W. Clipp, general manager of the WFIL sta- tions, who assisted in.setting up Temple’s on-campus modern radio station in 1947. Course of three semester credit hours is given by Neil McEnroe, director of WFIL-TV’s “University of the Air” series. Classes are held Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m., and stu- dents' engage in actual TV produc- tion via closed circuit, with pro- fessional personnel sitting in to point out flaws and correct errors. Station employes, represented by .IATSE through Ray Norton - and Lamar Cox, participated in initial plans for the project which will run until June. WDAF-TV’s Power Spread Kansas City, April 14. Increase-in power boosting its output nearly five times was put into effect here last Friday by WDAF-TV, outlet of the Kansas City Star. Under temporary ap- proval from the FCC, station is in a test period until May 10 on its boost from 22,000 watts to 100,000 watts. Cost of the equipment and in- stallation is ipcfre than $100,000, ac- cording to Dean Fitzer, general manager. With the boost station hopes to firm up fringe areas on former power coverage, and to ex- tend fringe areas to another 100,- 000_viewers. \ • In the Only Nationwide Poll of Television Viewers... (Conducted by Radio-TV Alirror) Was Voted "BEST DAYTIME TV SERIAL" Written by BILL BARRETT Produced by BEN PARK . V , ~ ‘ ■’ Inside Stuff-Radio Welbourn Kelley, newly-appointed Munich Program Manager of Radio Free Europe, left for the continent last week for a survey of RFE's installations before taking over post. A veteran newspaper and radio-tele writer, Kelley served as Navy lieutenant commander during World War II and is the author of sev- eral books, among them the first volume of the U. S. Navy’s “Battle Report” in collaboration with Capt. Walter Karig, USNR. In these days of growing accord between films and television, WLIB, New York indie radio operation, has pulled a switch by setting a year- long promotion-merchandising tie with the Loew’s Theatres chain in Gotham. ' Scheme calls for station’s two Negro disk jockeys, Buddy Bowser and Sara Lou Harris, to tape interviews in the lobbies of three Loew’s houses located in Negro neighborhoods. Talks will be taped Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and replayed on the pair’s morn- ing shows at 10:15. In addition, station will’ air a cross-the-board “Movie Clock,” giving features and time schedules at the Loew houses. In return, three theatres will run trailers on station’s Negro opera- tion four times daily, seven days a week. Houses will also display large lobby posters, advertising station, program and merchandise (donated by station sponsors) to be given away to interviewees. Ohio State Awards Continued from page 32 —— ■ broadcasting north of the border, where the impact of television has yet to be^felt to any great extent. Judging of radio programs were carried on in 14 cooperating cen- ters-throughout the U. S. Hbre are the radio winners: Radio Awards Group X. Program Heard Nationally by Network or Transcription. 1. Religious. First award for "The Ave Maria Hour” to the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, New York; honorablo mention for "The Way of the Spirit” to CBC. 2. Agricultural. First awards for "Na- tional Farm and Home Hour” to NBC, Chicago, and for "Summer^ Fallow” to the CBC. 3. women's. None. 4. Cultural. First award for "The Jef- fersonian Heritage” to National Associa- tion of Educational Broadcasters; honor- able mentions for "Tales for the Hundred Thousand” and for "CBC Documentary Series,” both to CBC. 5. Personal and' Social Problems. First award for "Return Journey” to the CBC; honorable mention for "The People Act” to the TV-Radio Workshop of the Fund for Adult Education, CBS and the Na- tional Committee for the People Act. 6. Public Issues. First award for "Cross Section" to the CBC. 7. News Interpretation. None. 8. Furthering International Understand- ing. First award for "People Under Com- munism" to NAEB; honorable mentions for "Canadian Primer” to CBC Interna- tional Service, and for "Report on Korea" to the Voice of America. 9. Special One-Time Broadcasts. First award for "Her Majesty the Queen 1 ' to CBC; honorable mentions for "Case His- tory” to National Institute for Mental Health In co-dpcratlon with NBC, and for "Statement of Account” to UN Radio. 10. Children's (Out-of-School). None v 11. Teen-agers (Out-of-School). First award for "The American Trail” to Ladies' Auxiliary, 'VFW, Kansas City, Mo. 12. Primary Pupils (In-School). None. 13. Intermediate Pupils (In-School). None. Group II. Regional Networks, Organiza- tions and Stations and Clear-Chan- net Stations. 1. Religious. First award for "Ask the Minister" to the Texas Synod of the Pres- byterian Church of the U. S. and Baylor University, Waco, Texas; honorable men- tions for "l'Histoire do Dleu" to the Diocesan Bible Service and CKVL, Ver- dun, Quebec, and for "Three Minutes with God” to WGY, Schenectady, N. Y. 2. Agricultural'. First award for -"The Prairie Gardener” to CBC. 3. Women's. First award for "Martha Deane Program" to WOR, New York; honorable mention for "Other People's Business with Alma Dettingcr” to WQXR, New York. 4. Cultural. First award for "Tomor- row's Symphony” to tho Lowell Coopera- tive Broadcasting Council - and WGBII, Boston. 5. Personal and Social Problems. First award for "New World A-Coming” to Public Service Division, WMCA, New York; honorable mention for "Case His- tory” to WMBD, Peoria, 111. 6. Public Issues. First award for "Amer- ica Goes to the Polls" to WT1C, Hartford, Conn.; honorable mentions for "Issues on Trial” to Western Reserve U., Cleveland, for "Indianapolis .Forum” to WIBC and Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and for “Town Meeting in Canada" to Town Meeting, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C. 7. News Interpretation. Honorable men- tions for "News Report by Louis M. Lyons” to Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council and WGBII, Boston; and for "The Oak Ridge Story” to WNOX, Knoxville, - Tenn. Special Citation — for "News Analyses by Qulcy Howe” to WILL, U. of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 8. Furthering International Understand- ing. First award for "Crusade for Free- dom” to WBT, Charlotte, N. C.j honorable mention for '‘London Calling” to KPOJ, Portland, Ore. 9. Special One-Time Broadcasts. First award for "The Longest Mile” to KOIN, Portland, Ore.; honorable mentions for “Louis Braille” to WNYC, New York, and for “They Are Never Free” to KFRE, Fresno, Calif. 10. Children's (Out-of-School). FJrst award for “Reading Is Fun" to KGW, Portland. Ore., in cooperation with that city's Junior League and Library Asso- ciation. 11. Teen-Agers (Out-of-School). Honor- able mention for "Young in the World” to WBAL,'Baltimore, Md. • 12. Primary Pupils (In-School). First awards for "Old Tales and New” to Min- nesota School of the Air and KUOM. U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and for "This Way to Storyland” to WNYC, New York. 13. Intermediate Pupils (In-School). First award for "Americans to Remem- ber to WNYC, New York; honorable mentions for “The Magic Book” to KMBC and KFRM. Kansas City, Mo., in coop- xl 8 .* K, _p. PubUc Schools, and for Working Together” to Dept, of CBC Catl ° n ^ es ^ enl Provinces and $on, °‘\ High Pupils On- School). First award for "Radio Almmac” to Wisconsin School of the Air, U. of c Madison; honorable mentions for Say It In Spanish” to WNYC, New Yonc, and for “A Name to Remember” to Broadcasting Service, U. of Michigan. Group ni. Local Organizations and Sta- tions (less than 5kw). 1. Religious. None. 2. Agricultural. None. 3. Women's. Honorable mention for "Let’s Go Shopping” to Extension Service, New Mexico A and M College, State Col- lege, N. M. 4. Cultural. First award for "Radio Guild Laboratory Theatre” to Radio Guild, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Special Cltatlon-rfor "WNYC Thirteenth^Annual American Music Festival” to WN*rC, New York. 5. Personal and Social Problems. First award for "Polio Primer” to Radio House, U. of Texas# Austin. Texas; honorable mention for "The People Speak" to KOAT, Albuquerque, N. M. 6. Presenting Public Issues. Honorable mentions for "Spadework for Democracy” to Radio House, U. of Texas, Austin. Texas, and for "Campus Press Confer- ence" to WNYC. 7. New? Interpretation. None. 8. ‘Furthering International Understand- ing. Honorable mention for "Background for Peace and War" to KSVC, Richfield, Utah. 9. Special Qne-Time Broadcasts. None. 10. Children's (Out-of-School). Honor- able mention for "Candy Cane Lane” to KUSD, U. of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. D. - # 11. Teen-Agors (Out-of-School). Honor- able mentions for “Youth Talks It Over” to WNYC, New York, and for "Voice of the Campus” to Indiana University. 12. Primary Pupijs (In-School). First award for "Fun with Speech" to South Dakota School of the Air and KUSD, U. of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. D. 13. Intermediate Pupils (In-School). None. 14. 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