Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1949 — Page 44

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. MAY 22, 1949 AGE 44. : sa THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES : SUNDAY, 1 y 02 a LF Ee pan AR i % Pa po 3 . y . 5 . # St Old Hands in Theater Television ~~ [Dishran” Catches the Pictures Sees Video PRICE or to Look for Television Not Inventi {As an Aid to Y, TERMS! ate 00 ot invention S dll Al : om Plas $0.00 Foderal to | | To Help Their Business Main Nt oe? SO. Tn ne Man Medic bo Fads Have Come and Gone, But Fans u : Of 7 Always Return to the Movie Houses Medium Evolved Electronics Expert I sone Elevisi BY BUT EE en From Thinking Predicts Use in Pie nad 1 elevision eventually will help, not harm, theater business, : ey the consensus of local authorities in the entertainment] Of Many Minds Surgery Classes 5 Slecifical pn and exhibiting field. Television is not the invention “Television Will be a priceless : television m "With reservations, of course. Experienced observers like Earl, ony one man, Its hall of fame ald to the more rapid advance- Selenium Cunningham of the Fountain Square Theater Co., who has been|, ic ‘many names because the ment of medicine and surgery. as a resistor looking at show business for 40 years, cagily predict a temporary |, .dium was evolved, not invent- That is the prediction of Wal- as 3 Jesistas box-office slump while the nov: ton says. Vaudeville is getting ed. ter Solan, We en telegraph oj gity of Nome visu entertathment now vitality because ts the type| Videos eviuion bags with electronics department, Hs dem on Bis job in lasts. t televi suc entury scien : 4 " ® = his instrume Theater peopls are used t0/ Pest i pp MIE bolero Heinrich Hertz and Paul Nipkow. == onstrated the uses of television in in cloudy we those slumps. Slumps are 8ea- ,4,,04 to the engineering prob-| Hertz observed that electrical, {surgery and medical education sun was shi sonal. Right now, local theater|,, of video. As a result, vaude-|impulses could be transmitted = before the American College of resistor. business is way down. People| 0 are polishing up their Without wire. Nipkow, one of vid-| Surgeons convention. have spring fever. They're outl,., ines hopeful of getting into|e0’s earliest experimenters, was a A very mmportant bart of In- Historicall driving, gardening, playing golf.lyy. "haw game. German physicist, who, in 1884,) = dustrial television will be the television Wi They're doing anything but pack-| " poey if television keeps people|invented the now obsolete scan-| better training of internes, resi- analyzed th ing theaters. at home, it's going to’ be used for|ning disk technique of televising dents and practicing surgeons by Jog, thereb Only the younger, more anX-|iy..ic. advertising. That's a an image, Though it was cumber- means of close and accurate ob- o sng fous theater managers are WOr-.,..+ Far] Cunningham makes. some, his method established the servation that has been impos- that light co ried about television competition.iugye can put previews in every- essentials of television and re- sible heretofore except to the re- ep eh The older ones, who have seen body’s home, the way we now mained the only video system un- latively few students who can be That thok mass crazes lfke miniature golf..." inem on the screen,” Mr, tll the development of the cath- admitted at one time to the op- aa ' 20 or more years ago, know that Cunningham says. “That way, cde-ray technique, erating room,” he said. In ope the ups and downs on the bOX-\¢ojavision becomes an ally, not “The amphitheater in a medi- fever of exp office curve eventually level out.|y ry)» ; Bec Ahosy u His Time, 2 of " “7, cal school does not permit de- the prin ause ow was ahead o ” GL & ’ Go for New Things But what all local exhibitors, “0 0" o Ipag unable to oreats iu hg : : tailed study of the operating Blanc, Americans go for new things count on most to keep theaters a practical television. TUCSIVEr or This "dishpan" catches television pictures. J. G. Harden, |[surgeon’s technique, but television Paul Nipi BE res i 2 hie ay ob Lard? Dit Sear be ot ONE oF cos ome transmitter. . Television '. awaitsa| Indiana Boll radio and telegraph enginser, shows a new portable a7 20d HI tying t0 the student many, pater Ee in A tion a pain- P bn pd hos a week Oe the development of a related sci-| antenna on top of the telephone building. It will pick up race pic- 10 04 during the Nae a0 scanning a fully learned ple like being with other people, ®nce—radio. Radio was a labora tures and relay them to WFBM-TV’s transmitter tower in the |... steps of surgical procedure.” ning disk Local theater people are cau-|sharing enjoyment of a show. As '0fY Phenomenon probed by such background. * Mr. Boland explained wired or jyeen Pusiche tious about predictions. They're every theater-goer knows, any|l9th Century scientists as Hertz, . industrial television is not to be a ted a lin not too eager to be quoted, like show not only seems, but actual-|0dge and Maxwell, until it fired ._ ® confused with television broad- sen light one manager who commented|ly is better when the audience is|th® imagination of Marconi. 33 evis! n oO as ion cast for entertainment. He pre- e that television now is buying up|large. Laughter and applause are| In 1885 Marconi devised a dicted that such wired television Sell behind the very “B” pictures people try|powerful stimulants, transmitter capable of sending ° ¢ § [will be used in all major hospitals to avoid. Mare J. Wolf of Y, & W. Man-|fadlo impulses several hundred hy Sti He S Bu §’ [of the country within five years. fashion bul “Escape Me Never,” this man- agement Corp, sums it up:“You're Yards. He developed the practical OWS He feels that it will not be con- There was 1 ager quipped, meaning that the not going to change human na-|85Pects of the bewildering new ill fined to surgery alone but will be Ask for Work sletrl OO ee Supe. Fools Ji always want to I SORmlestion so Jp But Day Is Coming When Women wil used Dy Burses . and attendants RCA Victor's vs a 8 Fo I det . the Atlantic Ocean by radio. Select Latest Styles Right in Own Home En Ns xh 3 97240... . today! signals in 1 home. Purchasers of television Another radio immortal is Lee By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor knowing within a fraction of a Work sets will see at home the same er [ 3 DeForest, Chicago radio physi- SOME OF these days, with television, a woman will be able to second what is needed in each a 2 Three Ye: pictures they used to walk out on. gist, vee) the vacuum| a, per fashion shopping while she’s seated in her own living room. ward. 3 in German: Television may, and probably : u . amplifier in 1808. This in- But it won't be right away, in the opinion of local retailers. The cost of installing such lot of soater has sed undes Stone Agewill, hurt the small neighborhood 0 yent on was x yadio and tele- The television people themselves say the new gadget will bring service would be from $10,000 up- Jas ch ing—tube | theaters, But drive-ins are doing 0 Bi pa er vision what the invention of| .. 1a) fashion shows right into the home . . . but the retailers wards and would more than com- the bridge since we've been able to offer you su gtrated tha that already. Drive-ins solve both Jomger was 1 var men how to| Counter by pointing out that current television ‘camera technique pensate its cost by the better care a bargain as this. Now you can get RCA Victor Eve stream of : the parking and the baby siting He C Help Ch lamplify and regulate electric cur-|30¢80’t do the job adequately. |faghions are presented by tele- of patients during the long period Witness Televi withithe ; - wide and hands the action | problem. The neighbor a- an Help Choose At present, they say, there 18n't| vision however, no one antici-|8head of shortage of trained tness Television new, high, the great-g ter, with a small investment and Type Place, Antenna rents in a Jacuin tube, thereny enough flexibility ‘in MOVING nates that clothing will be Nurses. some pictures (61 oq. in.) at a price so low we sill receiving tu ¥ - “ ” . A PrOpOFtionate Totus Sant gom- AH y . Jrdlet ET t discanoon 19] cameras up close to catch style|orgereq exclusively by telephone i elevision, Ir Boland said, have to look twice to believe it! 8 1008 1 pete; any more than it cap at should you look for when + i Idetafls. (The same objection 8P-|arter being seen from a com- e a great factor in further- e J te with the larger houses that b televi complex adaption of the simple ing the traini fod for st Yee, this is a buy. All the many special features of d by 1907 pe ' . Ee a Fr you buy a television set? _audion 1s the cathode-ray tube. plies, according to furniture re-is .; 110 living room chair. Even Ie e De ng per or s es, a . : an 21 may ee oy hoi 8 o Some of the answers have taflers, in presenting Interiorijs 4o1on1one orders on non-fashe dents. p i ans, Strgeon an the famous RCA Victor instruments PLUS a chance 8 =, a $25 ee oh been suggested by Ernest A. Cathode-Ray Workers decoration schemes. The Samer: ion items zoom, women still will Rurses, ees ng ol as a to get expert installation an d service from the RCA system y 8 . Marx, general manager of thé pioneer work on the cathode-|back far enough to catch a w ole like to try on their garments bes |? arn he ne nis a ace. of this set aloe gives A. A. ' : Toc Early to Prophesy television receiver division of the ray tube, was done by Sir William [room, can’t provide close-up de-|,. ., buying. ment has required more and more Service Company. And purchase gested & fu Exhibitors here say it's too! DuPont Laboratories, Inc, Pas- Crookes, English chemist, who tails unless it can be moved freely a. J personnel for both the care and you the opportunity to get the new consoleite bose World War Sarl he Es Puphasy seie-d. dled in 1919. His research into|Pack and forth. BAHIA a Pet) (optional extra) iflustrated with the set. AC operation developmen the Indianapolis trend. In other| The purchase of the television effects of electrical discharges . 8" to experiment with television and| Television not lessen the ) ; lated resea! cities, ‘where television has been receiver is not the simple matter through rarefied glasses was used| JUST THE same, the television think it may revolutionize their need for specialists, general prac- : - of the De F established for some time, many|that a radio purchase has led us'by others to develop the kine- spokesmen believe their medium publicity methods. A guild of|titioners and nurses but will aid ! 0 PEN EVE RY New 1 DE mr x rahi Er, Pf Jor fo Soichiro EUSP SOTTEANG | § 95 in unges for their patrons. Be pure to congult a reputable] Starting in 1931, Dr. Allen B.|Which 18 lac n -|is planning to try it “as soon as ! vived afte Here, although a couple of|dealer Ha oi of a|DuMont g to wotk harnessing raphy of fashion jeeps, Sslavist technical difficulties have been|in their fields.” : EVENING C. F. Jenki managers naw ar Sickering 5 reputable manufacturer. Don't|the cathode-ray tube to the video| And ( hes re pil Hr aoe eliminated.” ERE John L. B3 fTOW or rent large home sets he misled by price cuts or false medium. Bit by bit, a long-life) comes (that is ¥eY¥:| No matter what the difficulties Sets Have 500 Parts OPEN HOUSE success for lobby use during the 500-mile| claims in an effort to get a less|cathode-ray tube was perfected|théy admit), “the appeal will beiare at present, it seems certain| melevision receivers require an Y > In 1927 th race, few theaters have space fOr | expensive set, Mr. Marx says, forland incorporated into oscillo-|'remendous” They expect tele-ithat more and more “salesmen” |gyerage of five times as many successfully this added entertainment feature. in the long run it may turn out|graphs. The cathode-ray tube is| Vision to increase vastly te will enter the home by television parts gs the average radio. A ing pictures Exhibitors say they want to see {5 he very much more costly. |a specialized vacuum tube which| circulation” or distribution of, , , making every living room a table model television receiver, SEE THE RACE MAY 30th radio, but | the quality of programs televised| ~ , 4oqier can show you how the|generates, focuses and directs a| tems shown. potential showroom. alone, has more than 500 compo- scanner an locally. before they contemplate ye iy operated, t the type|stream of electtons sothat they| Meanwhile, they are visualizing Homemakers will be able to do nent parts Meanwhi investing, a wy {i a t 8¢ an increase in programs to help much of their ng without : 2 Vv) A | Zworkin ht television euts of cabinet suitable for your home impinge upon a fluorescent screen. |, i omakers—sewing and dress- buy} - 2 It home ‘ Gown | 4ocoration and tell you where to en fes RIA ker: 8 tine| Stepping beyond the telephone. . .| ALL FOUND IN TV SET At plication fc eT ot ondance, "Hollywood place your antenna. 5 : ’ making, cooking, beauty-routine|snd if they don't like what the|” Among the basic raw rials Tr Philo Far his Sue have 0 Tike ae The distance. of. your ‘Subjects ‘Warned demonistrations, party planning, “salesman” has to sell, it Will be used in television production are| 2. J is genius, can priser " ents, ‘ne. jy froth the transmitter should be'R TV Cc ; : {Ssrdening, s = @ easy to turn him off. wood, paper, brass, copper, yub-| 3811 N. Illinois St. WA-5000 dissector” t Cantor Dellever omomatitios: mn! considered. y rews ONE THING retailers admit: Boro Brid ber, plastics, and of course, fron, : : : They mu force the industry to improve the The normal range of most) Many sad experiences with The television audience promises nefit Bri ge Fans steel and glass. ? for oh olet product. So even ff exhibitors| transmitters is about 50 miles.|people who forget they are being| to be the one at which they beam| In the future the bridge fan can 3 piel’ 2 have a tough time for a while, | However, if you have any doubt televised have driven television most of their sales efforts—the sit back, relax and watch the : ’ anc. lo go o eventually they will be thankful{about receiving good signals at/crews to print and distribute the $2000. to $5000 income families,|PlaY Of every card by bridge ex- ( LE A RE 4 -S H A R PE ¥ -— B R I 0 H TE 2 P : I a for television. your home, ask a dealer aboutfollowing on a card to video with the high average of five|Perts in /televised tournaments. : a Rr Theaters May Al qv |this before buying. audiences: persons now viewing each set,|In® American Contract Bridge THE INCOMPARABLE re Pa rrr pl bsorh T¢ the| If you're beyond the‘ 5O-mile| “You are being televised.” This| gales “pull” should be good, they |L°88U anticipates an increase in : : ON 4 ARIM JNK S of _tlevisie Lyric he aanages theaters, radius, it's always advisable to|is followed by a polite admoni-| yy the enthusiasm for bridge be- cars a after wrestling with this new have a survey made to determine tion. jo an Cae (A local furniture retailer says came ot ths. TC \ Tan ht competition, “will finish up by|800d reception. The height of a ; d that in one eastern city, during|Tv SET COST LOW EASY CREDIT TERMS World War absqzbing it." Walter Wolverton | home sometimes is an advantage, Specia Bridge Made [the past six months, a shade Maintenance costs are extreme- . Firs of tHe Circle Theater agrees. [even though it may ne & con-| A. special bridge over a smalllabove half the television set|ly low for TV sets. Tube replace- i As early “Remember = how Siderable distance froM the broad- creek had to be built to hold the(sales have been to families below |ments are no more frequent than demonstrat sald Jaglo ola finish pi busi. go ns i ah oh o 30:miledadiua mebie. 3slevision transmitter at me 38000 income level.) ail for standard radio sets in the cessfully in ness? a actual was e edway. e OW SUCCESS: y' home. 1928. Gene start a new cycle Te interference may be caused by WGY in f ment. 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