Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1952 — Page 24
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Letters to Kathleen—
TViewers Would Like
Crosby on TV
THE once-touted' “triple-
Take the case of Meredith
threat man.” Among other things, he is: a
“popular” music, a multi-talented star of his own radio show, and
television luminary. ; he is running “Meredith Willson
SOONER OR LATER, public opinion influences all\y;.sie Room” Wednesday at 9:30, things—and TV programs are no exception.
From the letters written to Times Radio-TV Editor Kathleen this week, it's obvious that from the viewer's
standpoint there is still a lot to be
desired in TV programming. contenders for a
spot, in public opinion, are Bing fie
Crosby, Fiber McGee and Molly, “Our Miss Brooks” and Grand Ole Opry. rods weel’s winning letter was written by Mary Cartre, 1220 Park Ave. Her letter: : THE RADIO program which 1 would most like to see on Tv is Fibber MoGee and Molly ou knew why? : 1 would like to actually see what falls out of the closet when Fibber opens the door. . » ¥
Other letters stated: BING CROSBY'S entry into
television is something this guy 3 is looking forward to. With his ©
xed rsonality and great Mlax Te probably the best~ loved individual in show business since Will Rogers—Delbert Bixler, » ” »
I FEEL “Our Miss Brooks” would adapt delightfully to television. All the characters on this 1 including the biology
teacher's frog, are highly enRachet's pet | Mrs, K, Bus, artinsvil
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¥ : ® 8 » . WE WOULD greatly enjoy seeing Gildersieeve and “One Man's Family” on TV.—Mrs. R. ©. DougIns, 17 Schiller St.
» . Ld I THINK “Our Miss Brooks" fs very humorous and has the kind of humor that anyone can understand. I would like to see it on TV.Botty Bay, 2284 Wheeler
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FIBBER AND MOLLY ~— What IS in that closet?
THE BING OROSBY show would give the best all-around program for both young and old ~Mrs. Mary I Kidwell, 5047 E. 18th St.
THE RADIO program I would like to see on TV is “Grand Ole Opry."—George Reifel, 1917 Main st.
» OF ALL ‘the radio programs on the air, Fibber McGee and
Gibson, 1140 Division St.
Le » THERE 18 only one radio proam that I miss and that is the ing Crosby program, and I certainly would like to see it on TV. —Mrs, William Frobenius, 1752 N. Leland Ave,
By Solence Service WABHINGTON, Apr. 190 Shortwave radio broadcasts will
warned this morning. Reception is expected again to
“The Name's the Bame,” 3 p. m. Sunday on Channel 6.
over future projects,
sit down with enough time to get caught up on all things I
of more songs and stories and a musical play.” ; Also, to get a chance to visit his house in California's’ Mandeville Canyon, a modern house furnished in Chinese, and to see his cat; Cookies, which he describes ‘as “an alley.” In Manhattan he lives in a penthouse with his wife, the former Ralina Zarova, retired concert singer, and their deschund, Piccolo. - . » A FIFTYISH gentleman who looks fortyish, Mr, Willson made his first stage appearance in his native Mason City, Iowa, at the age of six, “Mama was cleaning the attic that particular Saturday morning,” he explains, “so I sneaked off to fame and fortune.” The part: A frog. The fee:
A penny. He studied the piano at a tender age, but Mama Wilson didn’t
Meredith Willson
threat man” today is as old-} fashioned as the New Look.:iE
composer of both serious and musician, a conductor, an author,’ Currently p. m. on WIRE, and appearing weekly on “The Big Show,” Bun-' day at 5:30 p. m. on WIRE, and} {as & panelist on the program During his “leisure” he mulls’ His ambition? “To be able toi
Willson; he’s at least a “sextuple-fee
|deem the Instrument distinctive enough, so she sent to a Chicago mail-order house for Mason City’s first flute (which was delivered by Meredith's cousin Walter, the postman on his block). During a high school vaction he also played the piccolo at a summer resort {and ended a triumphant season {by sitting on his poccolo and twisting it into an are, At 17 he set off for New York to study under the famous flutist, (Georges Barrere, “with Papa's fried chicken, Mama's prayers, a mail-order fute under my arm, and a bent piccolo in my pocket.” Woon came the great day when he was hired as a substitute flute player at the Winter Garden-—but it turned out to be a Winter Garden on the Bowery, Next came a job in a Bronx movie-house
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Stat! Correspondent
NEW YORK, Mar, 20--Money,
It isn’t her money, but it’s her
job, as the paying teller on “Break the Bank,” to hand over the prize money to winners. Five mornings a week in a CBS radio studio (WISH, 10:30 a. m.) and on Bunday (8:30 p. m,, Channel 6) over television Janice clutches a fistful of dough and waits nervously for somebody to give the
s|“Very few people try to cheat to
give the right answers, It is very gratifying.” The biggest windfall the pretty brunet ever handed to any of the
quiz program contestants was $11,500. There wasn't a guard
she
tional Bureau of Btandards here big pay-off question and afraid he wouldn't know swer. When he got it be disturbed by weak signals,/was so excited I bit down hard— fading and, during this radio/on my tongue.”
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Gives Away Money, But Not Her Own
kerchief, only it turned out to be the full skirt of her evening dress, so she had to walk in front of the television cameras with her torn skirt trailing. Janice does all right on the fi-
since she's been a successful radio actress from childhood. “lI used to play the part of Little Orphan Annie on that radio serial, and all kinds of other children’s parts,” she said. “I guess my yearly income hit five figures before I even was in my teens. But I never got as excited over earning it as I do over giving it away.”
Admit Burglary Spree
In Vigo County TERRE HAUTE, Apr. 19 (UP) ~Two men who admitted staging “20 to 30” burglaries in Vigo
County during the last two months faced second degree
burglary charges today. Authorities sald Carl Eugene Spice, 28, West Terre Haute, and Kenneth James Carter, 23, Terre Haute, confessed looting filling stations, groceries and offices here and in neighboring communities. ® PHILCO ® WESTINGHOUSE
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AT 22 MEREDITH started a five-year flyte-fest with the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York. By 1929 he was In Hollywood, scoring musie for early “talkies.” (He later did the scoring for Charlie Chaplin's “The Great Dictator” and for “The Little Foxes.”) Then he became a musical director for radio, sometimed directing as many as 17 shows weekly, and somehow found time to compose original works and to direct symphony orchestras up and down the west coast. . His comedy talents were discovered by accident, when he was musical director on Hollywood's “Good News” program about a dozen years ago. A George Kaufman comedy script- called for four male players, but someone had slipped up and only three had been engaged Robert Taylor, Spencer Tracy and Hanley Stafford. “So out of desperation,” he said, “they gave the part with the fewest lines to me, and the part with the fewest lines turned out to be the funniest « « and I'll be John Brown {if 1 wasn’t on my way to becoming a perfectly practical radio stooge.”
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