Evening star., 1952-01-07
By Harry Macarthur

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lwhims Of the networks are strange
indeed.
Now, however, it develops that
the noise of this protest has pene-
rated to the sanctum where CBS-
~ plans are made. The network
as in the case of ''Mr. I. Magma
ton" has taken note of audience
pressure and, as of this morning
dorothy Doan is back as a TV
regular. Her new assignment is q
program called Morning News,
which she will share with Harry
Marble from 10 to 1915 am. Mon
day through Thursday and from
10 to 1890 on Fridays.
The new program "is designed
to keep morning viewers abreast
OF the latest national and interna-
tional news developments, and also
to give the feminine television
audience additional coverage of
activities of special interest to
them, such as the theater, fash
ions and the arts" The news
presentation will be augmented
by moving and still pictures and
by interviews. a field in which
Miss Doan's admirers consider her
excellent.
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Travellers-"Kukla, Fran and
Ollie" will be in Washington late
this month for an appearance at
the National Press Clubs Father
Daughter dinner on January 26
. According to latest word
they'll do shows from here that
week. January 81 through Is
But don't start heckling anyone
you know around NBC;; Burr Till
strom and his K-F-O troupe
always have preferred to work
without a studio audience.
That new Dorothy Doan pro-
gram is not the only one which
changed a pair Of network pro-
gram lists this morning. On CHS
(WTOP-TV, early viewers will
find Miss Doan at 10 followed by
Arthur Godfrey at 1918 Except
Friday and a new feature movie
program at 1890 NBC
(WNBW) now comes on the air
at 10 am. with the MEL Martin
Show" which is followed by "It's
in the Bag" at 10:30, Ernie Kovacs
(no comment) at II, Dave and
Charlie" at 1870 and Richard
Harkness at HAS 81. Next Mon
day. the NBC-TV schedule under
goes changes again, when Dave
Garroway and To-day" take over
from to 9 am, with new local
shows filling in from 9 to 10.
Vice President Barkley's COM
ment after facing the sharp ques-
tions of the young participants in
Ted Granik's American Youth
Forum" (WNBW) Saturday: Say
these young people really are
alert" Mrs. Barkley's comment,
whispered to her neighhor as her
husband composed an answer to
Ia pertinent query: Hes the cut
lest thing" :. This program, in
cidentally, is perhaps the most
hopeful in all television. The
younger generation demonstrated
here is no cause for any worry
lat all.
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Triumph-CBS keeps flooding
the radio-TV editors with bulle-
tins on the condition of Dick Rus
sell, the young man whose heart
operation in Los Angeles was wit
messed by doctors in Chicago and
New York by way of CHS color
|television. The latest word is that
Mr.. Russell spent the holidays
with his family in Las Vegas. is
up and around and doing fine. and
expects to go back to work about
February l. This is good news,
but isn't it going a little far, fell
lows. to imply that this is one
more clear-cut victory for the
CHS color system?
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Explanation-Just in case Pro-
.ducer Bob Montgomery achieves a
faithful adaptation of John
|O'Hara's 'The Farmers Hotel" to-
might c'Robert Montgomery Pre-
sents." WNBW. $500. and in case
you are one of those people who
bravely tried the novel but
couldn't stay with it. here's what
tits about. The story line. as sum-
married. by NBC-Tv. is this:
The locale is the Pennsylvania
country; the time is the present.
The story of Ira Studebaker and
his Farmers Hotel begins on the
night the place first opens for
business. A man and woman, mar
ried. but not to each other, stop
at the hotel to make phone call.
While their car is being repaired,
they decide to stay for dinner
They are Joined by other guests.
While the storm RACES outside,
good fellowship reigns within un-
til one of the guest sinsults and
quarrels with another and leaves
the hotel. The party breaks up
with tragic consequences"
It would have saved one man
a lot of time if that summary had
arrived ahead of the book, but
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