Evening star., 1952-02-14
On the Air
| Film Acting
| Is the Life
For Dorothy
By Harry Macarthur

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1television than be on it. This il
Id factor; which seldom IS brought
lup when people are guessing about
1.-THE future Of TV but which might
lWeH be given more consideration
Television may turn out to be
such hard work that everybody
lWill want TO stay home and watch
Iit and nobody will want to do IT
fThis will leave them nothing but
blank screens to look at, but this
Ills no time to enter into any argu-
lments about the merits Of that q
itelevision entertainment
The TV matter was brought uE
lin Miss Shay's suite at the Statler
where she is cheering the Embassy
Room customers twice nightly
this week and next.
"Television?" she said. II love
| it. I sit glued to it all the time =
How about appearing on 1t?
"It's hard work. too hard. Oh
I'm do more, probably after ! get
back to New York, but there are
|easier ways to make a living. It's
hard work and hectic. too. On the
Benny show" (Miss Shay made
la bright but brief guest appear
|ance on Jack Benny's first TV
show this season. e. the only rea-
son for me being there was that
|hillbilly sketch Jack did. So what
happened?,
ST came on, sang a song and
that was that. BY the time the
program got on the air there
wasn't any time for me in the
hillbilly sketch, which was the
reason I was there in the first
place"
Movie acting is something else.
Miss Shay discovered the pleas
ures of this recently in an Abbott
Costello comedy.
"Some people say movie acting
is work." she said, but it's GER
tainly easier than television. ]
think it's easier than almost any
thing. You get up at s o'clock in
the morning. even learned to
like getting up early and going to
bed early-and go to the; studio
with your hair still done up.
"a man does your hair for you,
another one makes up your face.
then you go over to wardrobe and
they dress you. You go out to the
set and a man says You walk
over here and say hello You do
as you're told. Easiest thing in
the world. Nothin' to it.
That's why so many girls
want to be movie actresses. You
don't even have to think!" j.
4 *sAH
Tough Hombre Space cadets or
no. the influence of Hopalong Cas-
sidy. Roy Rogers ct al. is still wide-
spread. Man Just returned from
New York reports that he found
himself on Park Avenue one after
noon and came upon q sable lined
baby carriage. complete with me
FAINT. before a show window holis-l
ing a display af expensive foreign
motor ears. Strapped to said In
FAINT reclining on the sable was o
pair of handsome six guns.
81 y X %&
A Vote for Harkness---Whet ether
or not the teleyision broadcasters
are aware OF it, women are vitality
Interested in the nature Of day
time TV fare. They are not, 1t Isl
obvious, going to be satisfied with
the soap opera level of entertain
ment served UP all those years by
radio. They have firm views on the
matter. The mail today. for in-I
stance, includes this note from aI
Washington house:
II. and I am sure many others:
resent the implication OF Mrs. q.
F.. 5. of Falls Church that Today
is the only intelligent show for
women presented during the day.
For my money, Richard Hardness
and the News on Channel 4 at
11:45 am. is one Of the best news
shows on te1evision - morning,
noon or night.
1--WE get news plus atmosphere.
For instance. when he was dealing
with Korean objections to a truce
leaving Korea divided, he took us
to the Korean Embassy for his in
terview with the Ambassador. I
was interested in what the En-
bassy looked like. The same was
true for his interview with the
Ambassador at the time
he gave the Ambassador q chance
to present Egypt's side Of the
Egyptian-British crisis. We saw
not only the Ambassador In his
own setting but some Of the
highly publicized antiquities from
the Embassy museum.
'The news presentation is con-
else and direct with analysis and
background which gives spot news
story additional meaning. His. oc-