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The new CBC Television Quiz Show has on its regular panel, Bernard Cowan. (upper left) as Moderator; Toronto news paper columinist Frank Tumpane, (upper

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Television Is

Bringing

Families Together Again

Of all the surprising facts per- formed by television. perhaps. the most amazing is what it has done to the almost extinct insti- tution of the family.

Before television appeared on the scene. sociologists were in- menting that the home appeared dopmed. that family life had be- come almost non-existent and that the members of a family hardly saw each other from the beginning of the week to the

end.

The function of the home had come to seem something like that of the pits at. an automobile race track. Member. of the fam- ily skidded in individually. were rcblenlshed. obtained minor ad- justments. then roared off as quickly as ssible, followed by shouted words of advice.

Now all that is being changed. Television is reuniting the fam- ily, physically at any rate. and luring it back into the home. EVENINGS AT HOME

A study made iv Rutgers Uni- versity revealed that families with television sets spent 50 per cent more evenings at- home than non - television families. They averaged. five evenings a week in the home. and three hours and 50 minutes watching tehvlsion.

chances are that. in addition to.the family circle, a number of friends. friends of friends. and just passersby will be present In the living room audience. A noticeable increase in visitors was reported by 70 per cent of the set owne s. Twenty - six per cent said th risets had been in- stfumentll in making new friends for them.

other notable changes in peo- ple's daily pattern of living are being made as a result of own- ing a television set. They listen to-radio much less than they did before. They have cut down cqisiderahly on their reading and lifetime habits of movie at- tendance have been broken.

Numerous surveys are being made on this subject but with more than academic interest by the movie industry. mhgnstes and by pxsrlishars.

And rdigious leaders are giv- infge consideration to the e. ct television is going to have

church attendance. , MANY WAYS

In many other w television friniluencing and terlng fam- llylifeu

Mothers report with amass- A

ment that their children come right home from school instead of loitering until past dinner- time. Instead of romping noisily about the house. they plop right down on the floor in front of the set, where they gaze spellbound at the screen for hours ' until finally detached and sent to bed.

Discipline is no longer a prob- lem as mothers threaten to de- prive their offspring of their favorite shows.

Among intellectuals it is fash- ionable to assert that television will be the death blow to the art of conversation. Undoubtedly conversational habits will be- come adapted to the new situa- tion. Small talk may have to become smaller. but it need not be inferior.

As far as intra-family com- munication is concerned tele- vision already has made notable contributions. Before acquisi- tion of a television set. memners of the average family were apt to have little to say to one an- other. their individual interests being so diverse and seemingly incomprehensible to other mem- bers of the family.

But now it is not ommon for a housewife to disglay an uncommon grasp of w at hap- pened ln last night's wrestiiiig matches. when discussing them with her husband at the break- fast table. And. that subject dis- posed of. father is quite capable nowadays of tumlng to his 10- yearold daughter and discussing the latest escnpade of a puppet group. i

All this takes place only in a home that has a television set. DUE TO NOVELTY

It is natural to wonder wheth- er thc changes in living habits which television has affected are the result mainly of novelty.

Radio. when it was in its in- fancy. had strange effects on its listeners. People sat glued to their sets. listening to static. They got up in the middle of the night to log distant stations. They even used to get offended if anyone talked during a broad- cast

Likewise. it was predicted that as the novelty of television wore off, families who owned sets would become more able to take their television or fit alone. Surveys on this point ave prov- ed surprising. however.

One survey found that famil- ies who had their sets longer

than six months used them more

Telephonovision May Come Next

It's been rumored that someday far in the future. somebody might

Properties Mon Has

3 Problems!

One of the most fascinating- yit friendship-destroying - jobs to be found in the CBCfs new Television Building in Toronto is that of properties man. com- monly referred to as the props man.

The props man must sit in on initial conferences for all pro-

, jected shows, whether these be

popular question - and - answer panels of full-length dramas. and find out what will be re-

quired in the way of stage furn- ishings. Then, when any necessary

background flats have been con- structed, pnlnted and erected he must arrange his own contribu- tions and decide just what ex-

't.s-I trimmings are required to

give the studio scene an air 'of authenticity and completeness. MANY ODD CALLS '

Occasionally the props man is called upon to produce grand pianos of peculiar construction; sometimes all the setting needs to complete it is a glass ash tray; occasionally the object of his search no longer exists in .which case he must find an ac- ceptable substitute.

Where. for example. would one find a living, breathing unl- corn? Often no matter how

much advance notice he is given. the props man is still searching for one particular object right up until camera time.

Toronto Television's p r o p s man is Steven Finnle. a veteran of 10 years' window display ex- perience ln leading department stores. .

Finnie has been avidly acquir- ing all sorts of objects for his props room. home as common as everyday cups nndt saucers. others are out-of-the-way as bam- boo curtains and old-fashioned gramaphone hornwobjects he will need from time to time in furnishing the sets for the two studios.- Naturally, every object is examined critically not only for its temporary value in to- day's set, but for its possible per- manent value for future set- tings. Those which he consid- ers indispensable are purchased or obtained on yca anent loan. FRIENDSHIP DESTROYED

Itpls just here that the friend- ihip-destroying aspects of being

props man come in. So enter- prising has Steven Finnie be- come in obtaining -by one means or another-various ob- jects for his collection from peo- ple he knows. that these same

Don't Tinker

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Set.-..'-High Voltage Inside

Watch television to your heartls cgtntgnt '--in don't tinker with the so .

'l'nat's sound counsel for every- one. including the hlndylnli WI10 thinks thatgbocausa begcan fix a leaky fsiiest or metal 0 MN swttdrtlist he is nullified to gay. into the works of the fam- l1y'1'VsctvItuII1lle0dlllIIII.sIn snent-or even when it doesn't.

11;. TV set fined with com- plicated - use nic equipment- Take it a t and you'll. probably not be ab e to get it properly to- gether agaln. I

But even more serious is the danger involved.

There In from 7.000 I-0 30-000 volts of electricity at different points within the safe confines of the cabinet. This c are: with the ordinary house htilll clmlll voltage of 110. so it is immediate- ly apparent that no one but a qual- ujad service men d remove the back of the television set or tinker with what is inside. even though the set is disconnected.

There are many POW-I Inlide the set which accumulate high voi- tage charges which have to be expertly grounded by the service cman before be can proceed with

” stments. One of these is the picture tube screen. housed safe- ly beliind the safety glass of the set.

The picture tube itself-an ex- pensive replacement-has a high vacuum which means that break- .j:-m-gm-ma-poo?-mu

-. .. people, his friends. now evade him when they see .him ap- preaching the front door.

The secret of success in the properties business is memory- and- friends. Combine the two and you can find almost any- thing-at the risk eventually of losing the friends.

However. Steven Finnle feels that in time his friends will re- turn. Meantlme. he knows his job is one of the most exciting that television has to offer. Not many people, he avers. are'able to go down to the office in the morning. confident that within five minutes the telephone will ring. and that a fast-talking pro- ducer will plead:

"Steve. I need a statue of Venus do Milo and s fifteenth century tB.C. of course) stone hatchet and I need them this afternoon-and oh, I forgot to mention, there's no money bud- geted to buy them so you'll just

have to scrounge them."

age is dangerous. Shattered by ac- cidental breakage. this highly im. ploslve, or suctional force. may bury remnants of the tube and other parts of the set in the walls of the room. Only I servlceinan or qualified engineer should ban. die it at any time. and he must like lpeclal Precautions.

iI"or the same reason no one Ihould be Permitted to fool with the safety glass.

TV.,sets are perfectly safe ex- cept in the hands of inexperian. ced persons. But it can become gggsfirgculg tr: youb and yours if

e a su s ute trained expert. ml. the

Video Aids Baby Sifter

Television has caused a mild- revoiutlon in the "baby sitting" business.

Just, ask parents. who own sets. If you have an evening of TV entertainment to offer in your home. there's little trouble in get- ting a sitter. they say.

There's little time for your tots to get into mischief and cause headaches for the sitter - the youngsters are too busy watching TV horse operas and bedtime stor- ies. . Just about all the baby sitter has to do is it. and watch. Bobby- soxer or grandmother, they all like TV. too. home set owners even report a drop in fees demanded by their baby sitters. i

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invent an unpopular gadget com- blning the telephone with televis- ion. perhaps called telephonovision.

What will this do to blind dates' made over the phone? Will women want to answer the gadget first thing in the morning, with their hair in pincurls? What if you're pretending not to be at home?

There's no limit to how far this could go. The telephonovisiuu of the future between Junior and his mother might well go like this:

"Hello. dear, just thought I'd call from the office and make sure you didn't forget to go to high school today. My. but your teeth need brushing. You go do that right now.”

"Ge, Ma." says Junior. "I'll be late." '

"And while you're at it. wash the back of your neck. It's dis- graceful."

"Gee whiz. Ma. do I hafta?"

"in fact. I think I'll make 0 dental appointment for you today. Hurry along now. Bye."

"My. Ma. I sure wish this thing hadn't been invented."

on an average day than families who had newly acquired them.

Inasmuch as sociologists have blamed much of 'society's ills and defects on insufficient and unsat- isfacto y home life. it will be in- terestlng a few years hence. to compare statistics on divorce. de- Iinquency. etc.. in television families compared with non-teie- vision families.

if such authorities as Leonard W. Mayor. president of. the Child Welfare League of America and vice-president of Western Re- serve University. are right, the television families will come out ahead in such comparative sta- tlstics.

"We have in television a limit- less new instrument for improv- tng all phases of youth develop- ment from cradle to maturity.' he says. ,

"It can solve the country's lack of educational and cultural facilities and reverse the Nth Century trend of children spend- ing more and more time outside the home. it'll bring children back into the home." some sociologists are less an- thusissti-.. What they mean by family life. they say. is active pursuits in common. not a pas- sive grouping in front of a'

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