Evening star., 1954-12-30
On the Air

Visions entertainment In New
York and Hollywood is not its
ahealthiest aspect. The major
Entertainment talent may be
Noncehtrated there, but it is
making precious little use Of
4elevision's potential to use it
bnly to communicate what goes
ION in a couple Of rather special
Icities.
! Besides, as Edgar Bergen was
saying the other day, when you
stay too long in the vicinity of
Bollywood and Vine or Radio
Eity, you get q little too hep for
Hhe rest of the country. Mr..
bergen moved to Washington
Ibis season to get Q change Of
Hcene for his radio program and
now some Of those In charge Of
bur television programming are
&bolt to test the broadening
Aenefits of travel.
The first show to hit the road
Fiil be NBC-TV's Home" and it
seill be followed shortly by both
EToday" and .eToniellt.s The
nrst Is bound for San Francisco,
kith q stopoyer at Chicago tlike
almost every one else). and the
fhtter two win go to Miami Beach
kWhere almost every one else
would like to go).
Home" will be in Chicago all
III next week. just In time for
Hoverage Of the two big annual
furniture shows-the Merchan-
Mse Mart and the American
furniture Mart. Arlene Francis
will make side trip to Milwau-
kee on Friday of that same week
for the fur industry's annual
winter convention.
The following week, for the
telecasts of January 10 through
January IA. Home" will be in
San Francisco. 1t has not been
announced what special events
1t may examine there, but any
one who has been there will tell
you that San Francisco itself Is
unough excuse for visiting 1t.
The Miami Beach visits of
To-day" and Tonight" also are
let for January 10 through
january IA. They will be just
ii time to help celebrate the 40th
anniversary of the Florida COM
nunity as the winter resort capi-
al of the Nation. Both Dave
Earroway in the morning and
teve Allen at night will conduct
meir shows out of doors. rain
81 shine" says a somewhat snide
Bress release from New York.
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Moving these shows involves
considerably more than every
#ody going out to the airport
Ind hopping aboard a plane.
4reparations for the Home" trek
&tarted last November, when
&roducer Dick Linkroum and
3ther staffers made two prelimi-
nary trips to Chicago. About 35
%eople - talent. producers, di-
Fbctors, researchers. writer's. Sec
Xtaries and other specialists viii
1T the road for Home" Part
a the crew. In fact. has been
s. Chicago all week making
lans.
The Miami Beach jaunt of
Today" and Tonight" viii In
olive about 80 people. These
Semprise about one-hah of the
&agular operating staffs Of the
NO shows.
On a somewhat lesser logistic
sale, some other television
&Tlows are getting ready to travel
II January. Don McNeill's ABC
sBreakfast Club" will be head
Hg west. The simulcasts of jan
nary a through January 90 will
Sfiginate in ARC's Television
Henter In HOLLYWOOD.
The same month win see
pinah Shore In New York for q
&ree-week singing engagement
8 the Empire Room of the Wall
Qplf-Astoria Hotel. From Janu-
ary Is through February 8 her
Tuesday and Thursday tele-
casts win be done from various
NBC studies and theaters in
Manhattan.
Then there Is Horace Heidt's
new .Show Wagon" to start
January Q on NBC-TV. It wiz
be teiecast live from q different
city each week. which could turn
put TO be q fine way to keep the
bullock fresh.
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These east-west and west
east moves. incidentally. play
hob with the habits. The
"HreAkfast Club east. for in
stanel. accustomed to rising