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Pg4 CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE SaturJajr, July 12, 152 Stars of This Is Music AIR THEATER TO STAR TENOR AND SOPRANO ON W-G-N TONIGHT VERDICT ON TV: IT SURE SHOWS UP POLITICIANS PUT CONVENTION LOSS OF TV NETS AT 3 MILLIONS -Julia Rahaman, soprano, and Joseph Laderoute, tenor, will be Continued from page 1 the soloists on W-G-N and Mu-tual's Chicago Theater of the Air program at 9 p. m. today. Miss Rahaman will sing Pace, Pace mio Dio" by Verdi. Laderoute has chosen Annie Laurie' and Now Sleeps the til W' ft Anita Jordan I' Crimson Petal." They will sing in duet a medley from Romberg's "Desert Song." Col.

Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of The Chicago Tribune, will address the radio audience. Anita Jordan, lyric soprano, a native of Chicago and graduate of the Julliard School of Music, will be the "career performance guest on the program. She will sing Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme and April in Paris." New York, July 11 Special Aside from the All-Star baseball game, which NBC-TV carried from Philadelphia on Tuesday, the doings of the Republican national convention at Chicago provided almost the interest for television viewers here this week. In connection with the convention coverage, Variety, bible of the entertainment world, reported that the TV networks stood to take a loss that may run in excess of $3,000,000.

This results from the fact that the networks must prefimpt time that otherwise would be paid for by sponsors of shows, the money plunked down by sponsors of the convention, sessions will fall far short of defraying the expenses of the networks. CBS-TV announced special Hooper surveys showed that its stations in New York, Philadelphia, and Los. Angeles led all other stations in their areas after the first two evening sessions, covering the MacArthur and Hoover speeches. Beginning July 19, WOR-TV will become the first television station to carry a live, all night program. The station's programming chief, Harvey Marlowe, said the show will follow the variety format and will be seen Monday thru Friday from 11:30 p.

m. to 5 a. m. and on Saturdays from 11:30 p. m.

to 6 a. m. A name disk jockey will conduct the all night program. CBS-TV's coaching school for political candidates got a new pupil this week in the person of Rep. John Kennedy Kennedy has announced thai he will run against Sen.

Lodge Mass. in this year's election. At the finish of an hour of intensive classroom work, Bill Wood, director of public affairs for the net- created for the product was devastating. An out of itate viewer com Television certainly made national figures out of such men as Sen. Dirkscn, Sen.

Know land, and Gov. Langlie. Of course, they were known In their own areas before. Now millions would know them anywhere. Their faces are as familiar as those of movie stars.

Because of this impact, I think television will stimulate the average man's interest in politics. And the average woman's even more, because she will have more time to follow the campaign on TV." PLUS Viewers commented on the effectiveness of the close-up shots particularly of the hamming of delegates and the antics of visitors in the gallery. Yesterday they saw faces in every state of emotion from the wildest ecstasy to dumb unbelief and pain. Two of the human interest shots yesterday included a Park Manor girl, an ardent Taf worker, in tears, hardly able to speak even after Taf and Eisenhower had appeared together. Then there was the wild eyed, bedraggled sequence of Tom Casey, the ABC man, knocked down and almost crushed in the mob, and strangled in coils of cables at the Conrad Hilton right after the Taf t-Ike meeting broke up.

Consensus of televiewers was that TV committed both sins of commission and ommlsslon, but the over-all coverage was excellent, giving them close-ups not only of what happens on the convention floor but in the back it Bill Snary and Jackie Van will be heard in starring singing roles on This Is Music over WGN-TV at 9 p. in. Thursday. work and headmaster of the school, had high praise for Kennedy. He has a natural approach which comes over television very well," Wood said.

Radio Corporation of America this week staged two field tests of its compatible all-electronic color television system. A third test will be staged next week. RCA obtained authorization to stage the tests from the federal communications commission. Set owners in the New York area could receive the test signals in black and white. Despite the great interest in the political goings on in Chicago, metropolitan New York dealers reported that sales of television receivers had failed to measure uu to expectations.

available to the pool telecast. The result was a lot of extra news features not available to other TV stations. Spencer Allen's illuminating commentary gives these films an added fillip. Besides these convention extras WGN-TV also found time to squeeze in the All Star Baseball game. Lily of la Show John Ott will offer tips on the care of day lilies on How Does Your Garden Grow? at 1:30 p.

m. tomorrow over WNBQ. rooms and hotel suites of the mon who run the show. RANDOM IMPRESSIONS: Many people have commented on the superiority of the WGN-TV coverage of the convention. Besides the lively CBS-TV pool coverage, WGN-TV had its spirited nightly Press Conferences; the Larry Splvak Martha Rountree Keep Posted, as relayed from DuMont, and as an extra, WGN-TV had its wonder- ful Chicagoland Newsreel, telecast nightly.

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