Evening star., 1952-03-26
|On the Air:
Careful, II,
Hollywood
Has q Plot
By Harry Macarthur

OI OOCS Will t11C UOAAAOOts iOACP4O4Ol
until its innocence in any givel
matter is f1agrant,
TeleviSion'S trouble Is that it
| still young and like a puppy,
eager for any show of affection
whether genuine or counterfeit
lTV virtually leaped with joy whel
Hollywood's Mickey Rooney be
came available to it.
/ It put Master Rooney on "All
Star Revue" with Jimmy Durante
lproving conclusively that eve,
Margaret Truman is a better fol
for Durante. It put him in tn
"Celanese Theater" production o
Saturdays Children" provinI
Iconclusfvely that Maxwell Ander
son is not an actor-proof play
wright, or wasn't when he wrot'
saturdays Children" Last nigh
the former Andy Hardy becam
involved in Milton Berle'S pro
gram, proving, if anything. wha
this viewer will only learn of b.
Fhearsay.
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On Monday night Hollywoo,
sent television, even If only tenn
|porarily, another stellar attraction
Miss Yvonne DeCario. Miss d
Carlo may be the flower of British
Columbian womanhood, quite pos
sibly sends money home ever.
week, writes to her folks fire
Iquently. is kind to children ant
animals and does not drive her ca
too fast. Her qualifications as al
actress were not diScernible, how
eyer. to the all-seeing eye Of tn
television camera.
Helen Hayes, or even Ann Sheri
dan, would have been hoored, o
course, by the role Miss DeCarl'
was called on to play In "Anothel
Country" on Lights Out" (WNBV
Monday, 9 p.m.). She was cas-
as a young woman who come.
wandering into a room where
some preSent-day musicians ar
playing Beethoven'S Opus 70, OF
Ghost Trio" and shortly turn.
out to be the long deceased coun.
tess to whom old Ludwig dedicated
the thing in the first place. Ar
aspiring young composer who i.
pole-axed by the sight of hel
promptly dies to join her. which
apparently is more than Beeth.
oven would do at the time.
It is granted that this i.
fantasy in a somewhat rarefiec
atmosphere. but anything Writer.
Ruth and Gregory Morton ma,
have had in mind was not tt
be brought to life by an Elizs
Doolittle delivery of lines, which
is what Miss DeCarlo dedicated tt
Another Country"
These may seem like isolated
instances. but television had bet.
ter beware. There is a vast plot
under way cut in Hollywood tt
drive people away from their Ty
sets and back to the theaters
Those old movies starring ths
Ritz Brothers are sure to be OF.
fered to teleyision any day now
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Orat0ry Department The Co.
lumbia Broadcasting System ha.
solved at least one phase Of thu
equal time and facilities" prob.
lem. It has set aside the hall
hour on Friday night at 10 on its
television network for a series o1
programs on which presidentia,
candidates will put their cases tc
the televiewers. The series, titled
Presidential Timber" will start
on April and continue until all
candidates have been heard.
The same candidates will be
given a rostrum on two CHS
radio programs, also starting next
week. Candidates and Issues
will be heard on Tuesdays from
10 to 1890 pm. and Presidential
Profiles" on Thursdays from
1880 to II pm.
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Expansion-July is the datt
set for the opening of the new
television link with the South anc
Southwest. This will add eight
cities Miami. New Orleans, Hous.
ton, San Antonio, Fort Worth
Dallas. Oklahoma City and Tulss
to network TV six days before
the opening Of the Republican
Convention in Chicago.
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Programs and People-"Claudia
The Story of a Marriage" will
move to CBS-TV, next Monday
to a spot just ahead Of "Studit
|One." at $3.50 pm. Joan Nc
Cracken and Hugh Reilly vii
continue in the leading roles.
Alan Young will wind up his cur
rent CBS-TV series tomorrow
night. When he returns il
the fall. after several, movies, h
will switch his TV formal from
variety to situation comedy.
Main Street Music Hail." de
Scribed as a "road company O
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry,
will make its TV bow tonight OF
the Kate Smith Evening Hour
(WNBW-8 p.m.). Roy Acuf
the Duke OF Paducah, the Carte
Sisters and other Grand Oh
Opry" folk will be featured In tn,
20-minute hoedown. -. There
IA sponsor casting a longing ey
toward a TV version of the one
time CHS radio hit, 'sYou Wer
There" Lillian Gish will pla,
Grandma Moses this week o.
Playhouse of Stars (WTOP-TN
Friday. 9 p.m0. -. The tele
play will be an adaptation b
David Shaw of the recent auto
biography. Grandma Moses, M
Life's History. ]. NBC-TV'
Ralph Edwards Show currentl
seen three times a week, will ex
pand next week to a Monday