Show TIMES TIIE GARLAND BROADWAY GARLAND AND MAIN STREET UTAH - BILLY ROSE You might not think it to look at them but the two big branches show business are in heavy trouble — movies and television broadcasting The movies a business with plenty of product is up against a rapidand though some of the ly shrinking audience companies are still In the won't be black it’s a cinch of i when there are 10 million TV sets in 10 they million parlors Judging by the financial pages the people who own the agree with me because most of the movie stocks are selling companies for less than half of their 1946 quotations business on the The television has a rapidly expand other hand are siphoning out of their box but ing audience offices Second on a darned little prodbans the film companies will uct worth looking be able to run off their traders at And as I see in millions of living rooms and the few tests of this type of adit It Isn't the fault of the TV vertising indicate that it's plenty tycoons — there Potent Third the midget screens can be used to develop new picjust isn’t enough theatrical talent ture personalities and this as around to provide movie men unit tell you is the enterreal life blood of their ally busigood live for the tainment ness 300 half hour What can Hollywood do for Telethe shows which vision7 Plenty A sufficient amount of the right kind of film will solve present each week unless something In other words better than half of its programand it one ming problems — and I'm of course is done about pronto business will grow more insolvent not referring to the grade Z vintage and the other more insipid stuff which certain stations now Is there a solution7 Of course run as a last and ludicrous resort and like all good solutions it's a I'm talking about pictures exTelevision one: must marsimple pertly tailored for the small screen or vice versa— and and ry the movies skillfully staged and lighted if there are laws on the books which which will other things among steer clear of the long shots which get in the way of these nuptials then in the public interest the laws look like so much oscillating mush will have to be changed Hollywood eventually can produce The advantage of tbi s alliance darn near every type of TV proto the are many and obvious First gram from the travelogue through the sale or rental to dramatie play but for of film expressly made for openers it might do well to conthe TV screen the centrate on the popular classics movies can start recouping some that people never seem to get tired of of the money that the home sets For short the best of the Instance stories of De Maupassant Ben Hecht Damon Run Henry yon and Somerset Maugham ditto a series of symphonic standwith Toscanini and Stokowski by double ditto the in conducting of Durante antics spired Jimmy Maurice Chevalier at)d a hundred others In the rhinestoned hodge podge that makes up show business Access to such a stock pile of film classics would among other take the presthings sure off the TV programmers and allow them to concentrate on a few really good live shows And before long if they use the sense that God gave geese the blending of the reel and the real would add up to entertainment which one could watch without rushing for the rail The be overall consequence would that two businesses which give employment to lens of thousands would once and for all climb out of the red and into the pink which paid Paramount Pictures $560000 for an interest in DuMont some years ago is angling to sell That for $12000000 its holdings of would be a nice capital gain course but I wonder if it wouldn’t be smarter for Paramount to hold on to this stock and invest a few extra bucks in a film library to make DuMont the first TV network worth a second look Who knows— it might be a handy hedge against the time when there are 20 million television sets and DuMont is considering the purchase of Paramount for $560000 Washed-Ou- O By INEZ GERHARD DEREK rose to Hollywood in "Knock on Any hit the jackpot again in "All the King’s Men" and now Columbia thinks his first Technicolor picture "Rogues of Sherwood Forest” will top both of them Next comes “The Gainesville Circus ” But Derek’s rise to stardom was not so sudden as it sounds A native of Hollywood JOHN Door” JOHN DEREK on of parents who are actors he was under contract to both David O Selznlck and 20th Century-Fobefore he got his big break when Humphrey Bogart picked him to play the killer in "Knock on Any Door” In 1948 he married Patti Behrs a film starlet He is serious works hard at his career Broderick Crawford is now busy sending Glenn Ford to jail in "Con icted” he’s a district attorney a Next he goes later Jail warden into the role every male in Hollywood wanted the lead in "Born Yesterday" WE appointed LAST jYEAR of our chairman Bridges annual fair In Burnerest Old Jake Fletcher had been chairman for 15 who those were and there years of disapproved ousting him in favor of young Barney Cyrus Gill the town's leading and richest citizen voiced the sentiments of the majority “Jake ran a good enough fair but Jake’s getting old and his ways are out of date We gotta keep up with the times out here in Burnerest like everywhere else Barney Bridges Is young and has modem ideas ” This was true enough Barney The promised to zip up the fair first thing he planned to do was modernize the horse racing event Heretofore we’d Just had races that were run for the honor of the with folks making thing trotters side bets Barney’s idea was to import some famous promoter and make the betting open "It's a heck of a lot worse to bethave a lot of undercover ting going on with no system to it than it wi be to have open being everyone betting with given a chance to throw In his dime’s worth Every one but Jake Fletcher with “The only trouble agreed that is” he allowed “this professional promoter jigger you’re going to import ain’t known to none of us If hfc's a slicker look out!” "Pshaw1" declared Barney tol"The man I have in mind erantly has been in the business for years He wouldn’t dare try nothin' funny ” “Dunno about that” said Jake “You got to figure that every last with crimiman of us is endowed “Crime Report" (KMOX St Louis) is called by experts the hottest show in the Midwest Hal Stuart discusses the crime news of the day each night at 10:15 his tough voice and colorful reporting make It a crackling roundup of what’s new In the underworld "I am not a retired police desk sergeant!" ays Stuart but admits having been a private detective If you liked "A fetter to Three Wives’’ wait till you see "Three Husbands " A millionnaire bach elor played by Emlyn Williams dies leaving letters to three of his Da best friends— IJoward J5ilys and Robert Strudwick Sheppherd Karne” — saying that he's been carrying on romantic liasons with their wives who are Eve Arden Vanes a Brown and Billie Burke “Daytime Drama” dresses named for eight popular radio shows and two heroines were launched at a Stork club luncheon sim recently: will be held liar fashion show across the country "Right to Happiness” Is a crisp plaid sundress "Anne Malone” a dark rayon sheer Big Sister" "The Guiding Light” and "Ma Perkins’ were ptl repre sen ted John "Broadwsy’s Broderick as served riot squad" bodyguard for everybody from Jack Dempsey and Queen Marie to Pres Ident Roosevelt when he was a New York policeman RKO will show his career in “The Life of John Broderick" I sat watched in the grandstand and the sulkies line up They madp a pretty sight The band was sun shinning and the playing was happy and feeling everybody everybody was happy the race started Then Around the track they went six of them Burnside's best stretching out in necks their perfect stride Homing Pigeon led up to the half then Jasper Bush's horse came abreast of him then Hector Dryaon came abreast of them then Fergus Cross came abreast of them It looked like a neck and neck affair which struck me as being strange Then suddenly I stopped and just stared yelling Coming down the stretch the four lead horses had slowed down and by crlpes 15 yards from the finish tape they all stopped! It wasn’t until late that night that I got all the details Dana Easton had bribed Charlie and Jasper Bush to pull their horsea so Hector Dryaon could win Hector was t long shot and would have paid plenty But it didn’t work that way Because Jake Fletcher Why? bad figured wbat Dana Eaiton was up to and had secretly and bribed the ether individually four racers to bold in their horses With all six drivers bribed the race simply came to a standstill and nobody finished "Which" Jake Fletcher pointed out "just proves my contention that every man’s a crook if be thinks he can get away with it” 0EWMD EAGER "Sweet time come soon" is theme of thought with this little OJibway Indian and his squaw waiting lor the season’s first tourists at colorful post on Lake trading Indian children Ontario with tame hear cubs compete for tourist’s candy This ACROSS I Microorganism 5 Corrosion on iron 9 Charles Lamb 11 DOWN Animal Jelly High priest 3 Tumult 4 Comrades 28 5 Narrow 2 Inlet (Geol) Peruvian 8 Awkward Indian Author of "Adam 8 7 for wall Bede” 12 Gaping (poet ) Sun god Beverag Melody DevourM 20 Most nimble 22 Title of 14 15 17 Every one but Jake Fletcher He allowed "If be’a a agreed slicker look out Oh were honest nal instincts That’s beenough on the surface But you give cause we re smart us a chance to pull a fast one an' we'U jump at it— if we're sure we can get away with it " NYWAY Barney Imported this chap Dana Easton Dans E:ast from on had promoted everything races prize fights to steamboat When we put the proposition up to him he said he’d dure be glad to promote tbe horse racing angle ol our Fair The day of tbe Fair arrived and It seemed that mast of the money was bet oa a mare drive aamed Homing Pigeon by Charley Cole well Charlie bad won plenty wf races la past years and It looked Uka be waa going to win again A 18 24 25 27 respect Metal Foe River ( So Am ) $1 Largs anake 33 Period of time 34 38 A reckoning Title of a knight 39 Shaded walk 40 Tbe flounder 42 Nickel (sym) 43 Dwelling 45 Attics 47 Affirm 4S 49 60 City (NW Pm) Part of a camera Plant ovule Frighten Tapestry 11 13 16 29 hanging Rub out Consum Likely Before 26 29 30 32 34 35 Is Your Paper Game QUICK and Is Its Life By William Nelson R PVERY column inch of every copy of every Issue of this newspaper costs so many cents to produce regardless of whether it is matter or occupied by editorial that what advertising Knowing cost is It may seem only natural that publishers would be inclined to increase earnings by devoting to all of the space they advertising could sell Strange as it may appear such Is not the case All recognized newspapers set quotas or percentages for productive and material and seldom violate them It Is not uncommon for a newspain order to per to omit advertising get in more news it may sound r u stic to a Paper sacrifice ev- enue and dis an adappoint vertiser to allow more space for non productive news It matter isn’t Although the paper owns all of its space and can use it as it sees fit it has obligations It will not avoid for several very sound reasons When this newspaper accepts subscriptions it is entering into a contract with readers An unwritten clause of that contract assures that the issues readers will receive will contain an established amount of news editorials features and advertising There is another side too that the publisher It is keeps in mind that of costs To maintain qualified staffs in both news and advertisIt ing departments Is expensive is increasingly so if the space each fills each issue fluctuat wildly Both ’’8ides’ - as they Keyed are called In most to of newspaper Quotas can ocfices casionally turn out additional pages by working But they longer hour cannot do ao at frequent Interval! It is to the of the pato therefore per maintain a staff to keyed fairly rigid quotas of news and advertising Any other merely increases the inch Those who submit news particushould unlarly publicity chairmen derstand and remember thia fact And when your club or group can do so isn’t it not only profitably but also neighborly good business to reciprocate the newspaper’s numerous gifts of space by placing in It? advertising Tear To make brave Personal pronoun Copper (Rom ) Spoiled as meat Sharp edge of two moldings Particle of addition Ancient wine cup Junta LAST WEFK'S ANSWER 36 Aromatic pice 37 Stones 1 Caliber 44 Bitter vetch 46 Exclamation is pretty TASTY MEAL well washed out Here was a young fighter known as Janiro a fine boxer and a good puncher a few At the years ago age of 22 when he should be Just Grantland Rice he is barely able to go five rounds After the fifth round barring a flurry in the 10th Janlro was just about able to hold his hands up But there was nothing Graziano could do about It couldn’t He break through the boxing skill that Janiro still carried It was an Interesting fight cause the crowd was remembering the Graziano that used to be The crowd expected the killihg punch at any second Only nothing happened - The heavyweight situation is in much worse shape than any other division There is practically no division left Whether heavyweight or not Charles has a bad rib or a bad heart he has no fan or crowd appeal and there Is no one else around to help things out No one seems to care Rocky Graziano should have been fighting at least once a month lie Is still only 28 Janlro at 22 la young enough to back get in training and have plenty left for 10 rounds There are no five round contests listed at the moment If it gets any worse we’U soon be having fights If Rocky Graziano had been in the Robinson facing ring last week it would have been an tremely melancholy evening for The fight would have been Rocky a joke There Is nothing anybody can do at this spot for the heavyBut at least weight collapse those In other divisions might get in shape for a change and make a struggle to stand up 30 for minutes there’ll be a good young heavyweight popping out to pick np the loose million he could make with about half the stuff Dempsey Louis and Tunney bad to show starting Its 'Space' PMIIE 21 23 t PARTY Rocky given by Graziano and Tony Janlro at Madison Square Garden was typiIt Is cal of the 1950 fight game still breathing but that’s about all it At the moment rpH? Has Obligations SESCBEENa Valves the Ads By Reading Although It May Not Be Love at First Sight Television and the Movies Must Get Married By Posted on Keep ’$ Baseball Mystery There that has is one angle of baseball always left us in a hevy was the between developed 1900 and 1920 When you have fine pitching you are supposed to have When you have heavy light hitting or consistent hitting you are sup posed to have shaky pitching But in the first 20 years of this elastic century the game had its best pitching and its finest hitting combined For example this period sent into action such pitching stars as Cy Young Mathewson Alexander Johnson Joe Wood Addie Joss Ed Walsh Jack Wild Bill Donovan Nap Ruck er Rube Marquard Miner Brown Bill Dineen and a long list It was nothing to win from 30 to 40 games Cy Young had flock of did So years Alex Matty and Johnson Earned run averages ranged from 90 by Ferdie Schupp and 22 by by Walter Johnson up to Alexander Any number of pitchers had seasons under two earned runs per game Here was an era of great pitching But where were the crushed and baffled hitters? Here are a few names — Roger 424 420 and Hornsby Ty Cobb 410 420 George Sisler Nap 405 Shoeless Joe Jackson 410 once averaged Hornsby 400 above for three out of four consecutive seasons Any number of batters were 370 and 380 Trls Speakabove er was one of these So was Wahoo Sam Crawford So was Bonus Wagner The game was loaded with great hitters Now here’s the odd part — today we have no pitcher around who can come even close to winning 30 As I recall it Dizzy Dean games was the last winner back around 1934 Also today we have no 400 hitters in sight even dimly outlined against a hazy horizon Anyone who can hit 350 Is almost sure to win the batting crown fog This mystery that Rival Pitching Arguments team What has the stronger pitching staff— the Red Sox or the Yankees? 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