Program Preview

For the week starting Friday, Aug. 31. Times are E.D.T., subject to change.

RADIO

Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Bette Davis in Payment on Demand, with Barry Sullivan.

The Telephone Hour. (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: The Metropolitan Opera's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom.

Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco (Tues., all networks, radio & TV). The first coast-to-coast telecast over the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s new microwave relay project (TIME, Aug. 13). Conference highlights:

President Truman's address (Tues. 10:30 p.m.); the first regular conference session (Wed. i p.m.); the signing of the treaty.

TELEVISION

Meet the Press (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Britain's Anthony Eden faces Newsmen Marquis Childs, Alistair Cooke and Herbert Matthews.

Colgate Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jackie Gleason leads off a parade of comics returning for the fall season.

B. F. Goodrich Celebrity Time (Sun. 10 p.m., CBS). Variety show, featuring Binnie Barnes and Roddy McDowall.

Lux Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Hollywood's Wendell Corey in Forever Walking Free.

Westinghouse Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Roland Young in Dorothy L. Sayers' Mr. Mummery's Suspicion.

Studs' Place. (Mon. 10:30 p.m., ABC). First-rate, informal comedy of the relaxed "Chicago school."