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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1949
Page
12
Critics felt the debut radio outing mixed promise with jittery spontaneity as Martin and Lewis, NBC stars, faced a steadier, more disciplined format. Lewis's zany bits and Martin's Crosby-esque singing drew both laughs and wary reactions from columnists and fans alike.
Articles discuss the early NBC program attempts with guests like Bob Hope and William Bendix, noting their misfit impact while praising Florence McMichael as a standout asset. Lewis jokes about club prices and radio accessibility, hinting at future TV success. Pia Tassinari and Ferruccio Tagliavini appear on the Telephone Hour, with Henry Cabot Lodge and Arthur Watkins on American Forum of the Air.
On the Air tonight at 8 NBC WTAM features When We’re Green We Grow with Jane Darwell. Cavalcade of America adapts Mrs Jane S McKimmon’s book about a pioneer home demonstration agent. Dr Clarence C Stoughton speaks at 8 on WCMW FM. Railroad Hour offers a backstage look at Kern and Hammerstein. Miss Tatlock’s Millions stars John Lund and Wanda Hendrix on CBS WGAR at 9. A recorded YWCA Building Fund dinner broadcast concludes the lineup.
A midweek broadcast lineup lists WNBK and WEW stations with programs from 4:00 Distaff to 10:00 Boxing. Notable entries include Uncle Jake's House, The Goldbergs, Nat's Barn Dance, and a 1200 Coming Attractions preview segment.
Through this week the series All Good Things Begin at Home will be presented each morning at 8 30 over WCMW sponsored by the Canton and Stark County Minister s Association. The National League Cincinnati Reds Brooklyn Dodgers game will be described at 1 30 over WAND. Phyllis Hamilton executive director of the Y W C A will be interviewed at 3 45 a m over WAND. Alfred Williams and James Rila of the Washington High School debate team will be featured in a broadcast at 10 30 over WAND.
The program will present Ali Baba in dance at 9 on WEWS. Romanian Rhapsody will air on The Fred Waring Show at 9 on CBS WGAR.
Bob Hope agreed to a strict contract with no ad libs or extraneous comments for his Suspense appearance, with forfeit of fee for violations. Star Theater on WNBK ranks top in Hooperatings. Ozzie and Harriet may be canceled after five years, and Frank Sinatra signs with MBS for a daily disk jockey show starting in September.
Herbert Hoover will be honored in absentia with Variety Clubs International’s 1948 humanitarian award. The $1,000 scroll and silver plaque will be presented in San Francisco on Wednesday by Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, accepted by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur for Hoover. The award was chosen unanimously by a jury of 50 editors and publishers.
About 1,000 educators and broadcasters will gather in Columbus May 2 for a four day institute on education by radio and television. Sessions will cover TV as a teaching aid, adult education, and university use, with leading figures from CBS research, the Film Foundation, and ITPA presenting.
The War Orphans Scholarships board welcomes Rear Adm Dennison naval aide to the President as a new director. The piece explains a bridge hand analysis for an opening spade lead, detailing a plan to exhaust East and secure five diamonds one heart and one spade for the contract.
In Colville Washington on May 2 a German shepherd named Sandra from the coast guard K-9 Corps tracked and found 2 year old Daryly Webley an hour after a 100 man search failed. Neighbors police had searched woods since Saturday night with no result before Sandra’s discovery.
Columbus reports no traffic fatalities for April, marking the first full month without a death since December 1946. The milestone highlights improved road safety and fewer fatal collisions in the city.
War Hero Marshal S. K. Timoshenko now commands the Byelo-Russian district centered on Minsk and Vitebesk, stretching to the Polish border. He reviewed the May Day parade in Minsk yesterday and reviewed Moscow’s parade last November 7 on the 30th anniversary of the Soviet revolution.
A promotional ad quotes Judy Lee Cross of 372 Rucket Road Akron QC confessing she finished a whole bag of Ranger Joe popped wheat cereal in one meal. The copy extols its honey flavor no sugar needed and calls it delicious crispy and nutritious inviting readers to try it today.
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