Evening star., 1953-11-26
Macbeth May Be Scrambled,
But It's Still Shakespeare
By Harry Macarthur

without much trouble. All it
would require would be a short
movie detailing his movements
in the eight or nine days start
ing last Saturday. Last Satur-
day he was in Los Angeles, hav-
Ing flown out for the telecast Of
the USC-UCLA football game.
That night he flew back East,
got grounded in Pittsburgh,
made New York for the RedskiA-
Giants game after it was well
into the first quarter. After his
Monday night 6:15 radio show
on NBC, Mr.. Allen took off for
Salt Lake City to prepare him
self for the Brigham Young
Utah game. He was due in Los
Angeles last night for his
Wednesday Sports Spot" and if
he hasn't run out of breath,
plane tickets or altitude he
should be back in Salt Lake City
today watching the football
game. And he has until Sunday
afternoon to make it to Forbes
Field in Pittsburgh for the
Redskins-Steelers game.
TV A-PLENTY - The latest
October - count Of television
sets in use in the country is
25,690,0 900, according to Hugh M.
Veville, jr., NBC director of re-
search and planning. That's an
increase of 4.456.000 since Janu-
ary l, 1858, Mr.. Beville adds.
and puts TV into Sc per cent of
the homes in the United States.
According to w. c. Johnson, vice
president of the Admiral Corp,
405, 900 of these sets are in the
Minneapolis-St. Paul receiving
area. In the same area there are
100000 home telephones and
$4,000 bathtubs.
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CHANNEL -HOPPING-Danny
Thomas Make Room for
Daddy" has become ABC-TV's
"most-exposed" television show.
It's seen on 112 stations every
Tuesday night at 9. CHS
forgot one thing when it erected
that mammoth Television City
in Hollywood. The slight lapse
is being remedied now. To keep
the Board of Education happy,
a permanent Schoolroom is be-
ing set up for the child actors
in Life With Father" and my
Friend Irma." Writing for
television may lure two more
playwrights, Maxwell Anderson
and Elmer Rice. :. And writing
for Broadway has lured two TV
playwrights. Robert Alan Aur-
thur and David Shaw, frequent
contributors to "Television Play
house." are collaborating on a
stage play, comedy called Be
fore and After" One of Shaw's
"Television Playhouse" dramas.
Double Jeopardy" already is
headed for Broadway.
Ethel Norman, who contrib
uted a lively note to that B'nai
Birth "Dinner-with- the -Presi-
dent" show. has two TV dates
set. She'll do NBC's Comedy
Hour" on January "a and Feb
ruary. %. Janet Gaynor will
make her television bow this
week. in a play titled, Dear
Cynthia" on Saturday nights
Medallion Theater." Jack
Carson will do his first TV show
this year on Sunday night. He
has the lead in a comedy, 1.-THE
Marriage Fix" to be seen on
&C. E. Theater."
Omnibus" due to originate
in Hollywood next Sunday so
Jack Benny can try again with
THE Horn Blows at Midnight"
may do two or three additional
shows from there before the end
OF the year. Gary Merrill,
who contributed no little to the
~. S. Steel Hour" "P. o. w."
is being offered a regular tele-
vision stint. It would be a week.
ly Give" show from New York.
with Merrill cast as an insur-
ance investigator. "Fireside
Theater" and it's sponsor are
marching far into the future
hand in hand. The 1954-5 plans
have been made and Producer
Director Frank Wisbar will start
shooting the shows sixth year
Of films next month. All
the stars make big money play
ing those plush Las Vegas gam
bling denS but Dinah Shore. She
was sought by one, but her spon-