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vmmra a THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 15 1951- SECTION 9 Radio To Observe Baseball Week With Praise For Game On Many Programs HURLEIGH HERE MINSTREL SHOW IS SET Producer Says TV Cartoons Have About Hit Their Peak Will 'Plugs' Really- Sell Any Ducats? Couillens with Tsui Kernodlo and Sid Marcus Specialty acts will be offered by dancers from tho Gladys Reeves Studio by the Berry hill sisters and King Cbtton Quartet with by I Hannon with featj of magic and by Jimmy Groves and hia guitar Tickets at 50 rents will be offered at tho door Broadcasts To Originate From WHBQ Robert Burleigh noted MBS new commentator will originate two of hie broadcasts for tho network from the studios of WHBQ this week Mr Burleigh will broadcast his news commentary from WHBQ tomorrow morning at 8 and again Wednesday morning at tho same time On Tuesday he will fill a speaking engagement at Biloxi Miss Bickford Civic Club Sponsors Revuo Friday Saturday The and Varieties of will be staged at pm Friday and Saturday at Pope School Auditorium Chelsea and Third under the direction of Frits Lawless and Rudy Willing Tho Bickford Civic Club Is sponsoring tho event Appearing on tho program will be tho comedy team of Willing and Johnny Good enough minstrel end men Including Joe Mulberon Tom Kelly Albert Hornsby and A By JACK QUIGO Auodatrd friu Writer HOLLYWOOD April A new kind of part newspaper comio strip part animated movie feature is being developed especially for television It won't be as smooth as say a Donald Duck film but the best TV fans can expect In the foreseeable future This comes from Don Dewar former lawyer and film studio executive who now heads Telecomics Inc one of the few firms making cartoons for television Dewar and two partners Jack Boyd formerly with Walt Disney and Dick Moores veteran news- One Can Really Learn About 'Rocket 88' If One Tries 33 GOfl I COLGATE COMEDY HOUR Story Of Israel To Be Presented On Eternal Light Special by Mail Offer starring THE FIRST radio drama-docu-I ment ever written and STRAWBERRY PLANTS T0MY martin Xaw Is time te pleat Ptardy streag reeled plants Chains ef I papalar Varieties Have berries ia a few weehs lowest prkv! Chairs of Senator Panlap' wnrtd'a moat papa lar strawberry ar Maeiodoa etnWimt" Order mne of earh to have barn-s early and all season toon Ze per plant Orders of less than ZI a mcloae ioe ara tor postase idling With order ft or more wa "4 Bloom- Tnimtat Buih value 50e Na CO P's under ZI Return atooce for cheerful rafund if oat I teased AWKX HriUKRr Blaamlnslaa IN Peat SJT3S Seed mo Kama Addrree Bill Stern is best sportscasfer and Eva Arden of Our Miss Brooks best comedienne of 1950 in the annual Radio and Television Mirror poll Stern is heard over WMC The Commercial Appeal station through NBC at 9:30 Friday nTghts and Misi Arden through WREC and CBS at 5:30 Sunday afternoons with Celeste Holm and Fred Allen WMCT 7 PM CHANNEL 4 paper cartoonist went into production little over a year ago Now they have staff of 50 and are working full last They found that the field wasn't crowded TV cartoons were virtually limited to commericals few silent film comedies and the crusader rabbit series not much for a Nation of comio book fans The partners started with nes for NBC The 15-minute program was devoted to the adven tures of three heroes: Danny March Private Eye Boxer Kid Champion and Rocket Man Space Barton It wasn't much different from funny paper Characters and backgrounds were done in watercolor wash They flashed on the screen like comic strip panels but Instead of balloons with printed dialogue the lines were read by actors Onco you got Interested In the story you forgot the lack of action -almost But the partners considered this too static Now In a new series being readied they think they've gone about as far as you can go with a TV cartoon considering time and money limitations be action in this one When a character talks his lips will move although the rest of his face may not He'll walk or throw things If necessary Cars and trains will move he motion but not the continuous flowing motion of a movie cartoon will probably never have completely animated cartoons" says Dewar Disney and other producers release their old ones which likely Their processes are too costly Why we can turn out a feature for a fit tieth as much and In a fraction of the time Let's face it TV is a quantity medium By MIKE McGEE BASEBALL that perennial hypochrondiac of the sports world is to receive a new shot in the arm this week a shot in the arm for baseball being another straight slug of publicity This in case no one has told you la baseball week so radio which has been accused of not doing' right by our Little Nell will salute basebalL All during the week you may expect to hear pious mouthings over the radio about the grand old game Tallulah Bank-head today will salute baseball on her Big Show Ed Sullivan the Telephone Hour Hopalong Cassidy Ralph Flanagan and others also will put in a plug And confidentially folks all those plugs will not sell a single ducat The folks who like baseball will continue to go to baseball games regardless Those who don't like baseball or prefer to hear about it rather than watch it will stay home What baseball really needs Is good course in baseball appreciation In all the schools that would be required like learning to spell Minneapolis and Massachusetts Being a acientific game it lacks the sharp physical contact of football soccer hockey wrestling and boxing It otherwise lacks the speed of tennis jal alai handball and in some cases even mumble-ty-peg But a required course in baseball appreciation in all the schools should really elevate the game to the position its ardent press agents claim that it occupies Incidentally Matty Brescia of Memphis was largely responsible in lining up those plugs for baseball that hear 1 produced in Israel expressly for export to America will have a hearing on NBCTs Eternal Light at 11:30 tonight over WMC Tha Commercial Appeal radio atation in anticipation of Passover This will bo tha first of a series of three' made-in-Isrsel festival broadcasts to bo presented this year on Eternal Light by the Jewish Theolog-j ical Seminary of America in observance of Jewish holy days The second broadcast In the series will be presented Juno 10 in observance of Shavuot the third ia tentatively scheduled for the High Holy Days in the Fall Sylvia Berger author of many past Eternal Light scripts will write produce and direct the festival series Dispatched by the seminary last September to produce the programs in co-operation with the Jewish Agency for Palestine Miss Berger has tape-recorded many on-the-spot happenings in streets homes offices refugee camps The initial program titled Rocks Are Mine" will deal with a group of newcomers fastest-growing flower in in Miss Berger's words It will underscore tho giant problems of housing jobs food language personal adjustment It will treat particularly two friends who plan to establish a window-washing business in Jerusalem and arc disappointed when they find there ia no room for them there Two out of every three new arrivals the script points out want to settle In one of the two big cities i Now! Giant Exhibition Siio "MICHIGOLA MIRACLE DAHLIAS 12" ACROSS at the amazing low prica during 1950 Robert Bowlling of the Police Juvenile Department says: keeps the young people off the street after curfew And speaking of TV Little Rock is becoming quite a television town picking up WMCT John Cameron Swayze was recently off the air because of illness Ralph Paudof Strike it Rich admits its tough to pay taxes but Its tougher to learn to speak Russian New Yorker Magazine has a word of sympathy for those who objected to being televised on the recent Kefauver production nad suggest they could have gotten out of it by making their language salty enough it would have violated radio and television standards A1 Duranta of Walter Thompson Co press agent for Television's Thanatopsis the cat reports that the kitty now is on a diet to lose two pounds And Dorothy Kirsten reports shs thinks singers should stay slim so she is playing two 18 hole rounds of golf a week But isn't that apt to cause woman's athlete hump on the back of the neck? 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Variety Marks Neighborhood Matinees This Week HlfMAWC Dick Madison's portrayal of Wild Bill Hickok tha frontier marshal through Mutual and WHBQ also will become a television feature through WMCT The Commercial Appeal television station at 5:30 pm Thursdays OWTX WBAEBT Blooadoztoa DL DrpC till Name a ooo oos oooo oooosoooosooo Address a a aa fla an flo nn 5m borl Jast tasart tha saw iknlcil taa poaad "MAGIC STUMP REMOVER' ta nr uly traa atom aid ar saw Dacompoaaa fibraa down (a root tipa for EASY REMOVAL (Z aa aisa anaash for ana a tamp) Wesfern Germany Plans Television For Coming Autumn A varied program of moviea has been arranged for this week's regular Family matinees at 2 pm Saturday In the six films booked by I the Better Films Council and the co-operating neighborhood theater managers are Western adventure (stories dramas and comedy The films by theaters are as follows: PKABODY Gyjwr Wildcat Marla Montes Jnn Hall Angel and tha Badman John Warn Iran Rich ROSZMART Strand Woman Robert Younf BeUr Drake MZMPHXAH TODAY ON SEND NO MONEY set costing 800 east marks (about German flrma will ahow models at the Berlin Fair next Fall Officials estimate that on a mass production basis prices will be slightly 1000 Deutsche marks $240) paatmaa SI SO for I ob caa 9280 for IS as caa 9800 for lb aaa plna poatatn Or aand eaah with rear ardor for postpaid doHrury Ordarlodi Campbell Ce Rechelle SO III LAST SUNDAY this column confessed it was a little hazy on just what 88" might be no longer is true It is we must report something like two tomcats meeting on a tin roof Sam Phillips of the Memphis Recording Co who recorded the number for Chess Records took us around to the Handy the other night to hear the recording orchestra from Greenwood Miss do the number John Brochstein does an extremely capable job with the vocal but what was impressive was the performance of Ike Turner and Hia Rhythm Boys the recording orchestra also from Greenwood Folks who have wondered If the Negro race would ever produce another pianist of the Fats Waller caliber can stop wondering Ike Turner Is the hottest piano player in many a day not only all over the keyboard like a blanket over a baby's crib ons of the few who attempts It who can really play a piano and tap dance at the same time In fact he can even get on top of the piano and play the thing upside down The former town of Hot Springs Is now Truth or Consequences named in honor of the radio program which ahould place it in the unusual nami category along with Hot Coffee Miss Three Brothers Ark and Oshkosh Wis The Los Angeles Police Department pays tributs to TV crediting It for a decline of SO per cent In curfew arrests of juveniles MEMPHIS No I STATION A CBS Affiliate First In Music Drama Comedy and Newt Sedge Flynn Ollrla deHartlland Stad Cana Brans Stova radio UQ D0P(n) OUITOE AIRWAT flood Cary Coopra Ann Shmidan OF DAY BACK One Role He Has Cold DEAF FRANKFURT Germany April 14 (AP) Germany which claims to be the father of television Is only now hanging out tiny garments If all goes according to schedule the Northwest German Radio plans to present the first regular telecast program in Germany next They hope too to have sets on: GAMES sale before that time so be someone around to see the first shows The Northwest German Radio telecast an experimental play last month after long tests At present there are only a few hundred sets which can receive television in West Germany but the radio people hope they will mushroom when programs get rolling According to reports Communist East Germany ie hurrying up lta own plans for television One story is that the owned" radio Industry is producing 30) West their first Industrial under (about Broadcasts The major day will and York contest A1 Heifer by play WHBQ Chick starting TV Orleana HOLLYWOOD April 14 (AP) Character actor Oliver Cross isn't likely to be typed by his role in the serial video" In his only scene he is shown frozen zolid in a block of ice ARTHUR GODFREY TO SPEAK ON NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 12:00 Can Afford hearing happiness Will Start Tomorrow Over WHBQ gams of the return to the air via Mutual WHBQ starting at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon with the New Yankee-Washington Senator again will do the play assisted by Dick Bingham also will carry the out-of-town games again this year with the game at New Tuesday CONDUCTED BY DIMITRI MITROPOULOS PLAYS PREMIER OF JOIO "NEW YORK With the New Individually Fitted THE SYMPHONETTE 1:30 Today's Radio And Television Programs ACCURATONE HEARING AID WITH DOWN PAYMENT UNDER GUIDANCE OF MISHEL PI ASTRO PLAYS PROGRAM OF LIGHTER CLASSICS SMALL Fully Guaranteed CHEW IN COMFORT! BILL SHADEL and The News The Heariaz Yna've Wasted at tha Prire You Caa Pay Kind eat abeat Aeearateaa aaw! York Philharmonic-Symphony at 12 noon giving the first network performance of Dello Joio'a "New York Profiles" The Symphonette at 1:30 pm Jack Benny at 6 pm Choraliera at 9:30 pm WMPS of Darkness" theme on Greatest Story Ever Told at 4:30 pm Dr Francis McQuade of Fordham University will discuss Aquinas and Adventure" on the Christian In Action at 10:30 pm A new program The Bible Study Hour at 8 am conducted by Dr Donald Grey Barn-house Men Vanish" on Wild Bill Hickok at 8 pm Paul Hoffman speaks on Wo Put Freedom First We'll Stay on Committee on Present Danger at 9:30 pm New York ankees-Brookl jm Dodders at 8 pm Phil Regan will broadcast from Lowry Field Denver at 4 pm Moss comedy Up the with Joan Bennett Sam Levene and Thelma Ritter on Theatre Guild of the Air at 7:30 pm Rocks Are on Eternal Light at 11:30 am de Maletroit'e Door" on Story Theater at 4:30 pm Olga San Juan guest on the Paul Whiteman Show at 8 pm Tony Martin on Comedy Hour at pm of Destiny" story of three women caught between floors on an elevator at 8 pm New York Drama Critics Circle awards on Ed Sullivan Show at 10:30 pm WMCF (99T megacycles) duplicates WMO throughout broadcast day Leonard Rose cello soloist with Nsw 2:00 2:15 2:30 Newt Analysis with LARRY LESUEUR YOUR TROPICAL TRIP Talax Hearing Ceetee 101S Sterlek Bids Memphis Teas Road nt datalla abeat Aeearateaa teday Verne new Chew all kinds of food! 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