TELEVISION NEWS Chicago. August 10,1951 gets him as he is about to elude cops and gangsters. Recreate Speakeasy Era For Pete Kelly’ Preview Pete and his boys punctuate the finding with ■* mournful blues, assisted by singer Maggie Jacksor (played by Meredith Howard) NBC. Wednesday», 6:30 p.m. Each episode is complete in itself PDST and tins may or may not be Radio’s first drama series with typical. characters and background tied in with jazz, the story got off to an Band figuring in the story, and interesting atari with first episode. which provides the only back Scene is in a Kansas City speak ground music, is comprised of Dick easy in the torrid ’20s, in which Cathcart, cornet; Elmer Schneider, Pete Kelly (played by Jack Webb), trombone; Matty Matlock, clarinet. hot cornet player, heads a jazz Ray Shet man, piano; Nick Fatool, combo. An old friend and former drums; Morty Corb, bass, and Bill musician, Gus Trudo, who has been Newman, guitar. serving time for a murder he did They play a good brand of jaz. not commit, has escaped from the and no one can argue that it penitentiary. doesn’t belong io the period. “Jazz Ask« Aid authorities’* will l av« to fight only a» to whether it’s “true Kansai- Ho appeals to Kelly to help him City style” of the times or some escape to Mexico to elude not only derivation thereof—and they will. police but mobsters who aim to avenge the death of their pal in the manner of the times. Kelly tries to help, but fate intervenes, 1-urg«- «liiih new »paper» and na­ as Trudo’s sister, who had been in tional mugarine» eimlinuully quoin Hollywood—To launch its new jazz-drama serie». Elmer Schneider, trombone: Dick Cathcart, comet; lov«* with the guy he had been ac­ from Down Beat's authoritative arti- Pete HeUr’i Blues NBC spared no effort to recreate Ray Sherman, piano, and Matty Matlock, clarinet cused of killing, and who ulso be­ and arranger Bill Newman is regular guitar man on lieve« him to have been the killer, rh- und new« feature«. the show. Radio u>tor Jack Webb (Dragnet), a jazz ■nick of the Volstead era. Local« of the preview pir- fun und record collector, had a big hand in planning ty wa« the Hangover club, which NBC took over for the show ind «cHing it to the network. He plays the one night (Jeoa Stacy*« off-night). Tbe band above, part of Pete Kelly. Arthur Hamilton will write the with the exception of guitarist George Van Eps, at original songs to be used. and Meredith Howard, an the left, provide« background music for the radio l&-y ear-old Io« Angeles high school girl, will be the ew serie». Morty Corb plays ba»«; Nick Fatool. drums; singer. ously by director Lou Florence, with one especially fascinating ef­ fect which features a whirling rec­ This Model TV Ford ord superimposed over the view of the guessing guests. Too Obvious An idea which injects a little hex Slows Up The Show appeal into an otherwise purely cerebral show employs a very pret­ VITA-C urve ty girl who selects each record from New York—In the beginning was the disc jockey. And it was & rack and transfers it to a turn- table. This, too. somewhat FACINGS inevitable that this particular fauna indigenous to entertain­ spoiled by Ford’s constant refer­ ment should have its, fling at television. Various attempts have ences to he, pulchritude and its been made from lime to time and, in most cases, the results disastrous effect on the audience, panelists, technicians, and probably ha« come up with an almost per­ »nd WOV’s Max Cole. the studio mice, to huch an extent fect formula with its Tuesday The rs are picked aceord- that the girl herself was patently night In Record Time. ing to availability from varioue embarrassed. The ‘"almost" is provoked by the cities ar »und New York as well as Even including the twe »ore from Manhattan itself. The rec- spots in the offering, it still forms fact that at the moment the show TONE ha. a «evere caw of too much ma 3 ords and questions chosen a pleasant way of enjoying your ter-of oc r«monies. Art Ford, who from suggestions sent in by the disc jockeys visually. With a uth- emcees the show, cannot bear to viewers; if the suggestions are less tightening up *1 these loose CHAMBERS be out of camera range foi more used on the air, the suggeftor re­ ends, however, the half-hour could than 20 seconds at a time. He ac­ ceive» an album of records. Ca­ b«' well on its way to being a top­ tually—and obviously—cuts in on mera angles are handled ingenu- caliber presentation. any deejay who happens to be talking, thereby forcing the cam­ eras to abandon the script arid hastily switch over to liim, which ruins the sequence and rattles some of the less hal'd y sous who are guesting. Hold Him However, Ford could forcibly restrained for at least half SCHOOL OF PERCUSSION of the program, the pioblem of the disc jockey video will have been solved. The format is the usual panel one—three guest disc twirl- IT’S LATER CLARINET era, one guest celebrity, and the MC Several records are played, and the visiting three (the celebri­ THAN YOU MOUTHPIECES ty is exempt) are supposed to guess what i ambe -s being played, who wrote them, and other THINK musically pertinent bits of infor­ mation. Be sure of your future by Another segment of the half­ studying now with the old­ hour u devoted to the visitor of the est yet most modern school Personaline Clarinet Monili moment being questioned about his aelf by the panel. In the past some of music in America today. of rhe video visitors have been The Knapp School offers the ROY C. 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