AIR I THE EVENING STAR TQN TH[ Playhouse 90 Director Washington, D. C„ Monday, April 27, IfJ* B-17 tlon’s right to accept or reject MB __ _ __ network programs so that it • Two Dazzling Tries • d«¦s JF Gets 3-Year CBS Pact may be free to substitute for a 3 Times Faster Relief BillDozier, CBB’s West Coast jTV?... RCA polled 50 of them network program a program of That Just Missed programming boss, didn’t waste i and 96 percent (including this greater local or national im- porunce-B. By BERNIE HARRISON any time signing ace director reporter)i are enthusiastic about H. TV Critic Star three-year It. visitor: j elegant repro- Robert Stevens to a I Tomorrow's That was an earnest, faithful and even TV Richard Carlton, (non-exclusive) contract. star of “I Led of that hunk of tum-of-the-century Ameri- w I duction flavorful Three Lives” and "Mackenzie's cana, “Meet Me in St. Louis,” on CBS—9 last night, and I Stevens, a TV veteran and ' enjoyed it most of the way. Emmy winner, was barely out ' Raiders.” . , He'll be inter- i THE SMASHING CLIMAX OF THE STORY OF I just thought it would never end. of the Playhouse 90 studio after viewed on Ranger Hal’s pro- Comparisons are inevitable, I guess, and the chatter at the his superb “A Comer of the gram tomorrow morning, 9 coffee breaks today will be AL CAPONE I o’clock, . was as ef- Dave Susskind-George Schae- Garden” when the wire was WTOP-9. Also NARRATED BY WALTER WINCHELL whether Jane Powell in fective as Judy Oarland. Walter fer production-direction team humming with the news of the due this week: Actor Cesar, Pldgeon vs. Leon Ames, etc. turned out a smooth, well- pact..,. The agreement assigns Romero, for Hecht's (down- all pretty that was ap- they paced production town) . I thought were Stevens ten major productions Romero will be fea- good last night, especially Ed pealing even if It missed the a year, including four Play- tured at two fashion shows Wynn as Gramps, but I'U tell right nostalgic chord. m v. JiiE i Thursday. you who was missed at one « • • • house 90s. *** * house. *** * Follow the Leader: Fred As- ' Option Time Tangle: fellow named Vincente The! A taire's one dance show won On The Run: For the first F.C.C.'s proposals last week to Minnelli who directed the nearly every award there is this time that I can remember. amend TV option time rules movie. season and that, oddly enough, were announced rather quietly, The one touch in the TV CBS is not carrying the "Ar- production which seemed su- may have been one of the thur Godfrey Time” title while but don’t let that fool you. The things wrong with Gene Kelly’s networks will be fighting this perior to the movie was the the away. Friday night special (WTOP- redhead is . Even with all their resources—and staging of the "Auld Lang Sterling, two-day -9). Jack who is a with their affiliates, Syne” dance, which gave added most of I ROBERT STACK sub until Sam Levenson takes suspect, backing them up. I NEVILLE BRAND KEENAN WYNN point to the decision to stay Fred set the pattern for the over tomorrow, gets his name dance-bash; Kelly’s perplexing Key proposed rule changes: “THE Louis. the logs. in St. in Dean Martin • UNTOUCHABLES” you remember the way problem was to balance several will begin bearing Reduce from 3 to 2V2 But do down on his hours the total time within each PART 2 cameras moved in elaborate production numbers May 3 show for NBC-4 today- Minnelli's of the four segments of : through a picture frame to a with a novelty turn or two, an on his return from the Las Ve- the WESTINGHOUSE DESILU PLAYHOUSE special Sandburg’s boardcast day which a station P suddenly came alive? offbeat 'Carl gas tourney . Champions. scene that of may option It evoked the mood perfectly rambling poem) and the inevi- His guest. Bob Hope, was in Ve- for network pro-j TONIGHT 10:00 grams. (Two CHANNEL 9 and held it. Something like table nostalgic reprise and gas, too—at least they had a 90-mlnute drama somehow make it look different. shows, for example, would have needed last night. to confer. “Sweep- that was chance difficulty clearing.) color. Not that the effort with- ing weekday program changes" AJso * was STORYBOOK TIME • pro- Miss was dandy, 1 stunning take effect at this Prevent ’’straddle’’ Powell out some dance se- the Magic WRC-radio grams from extending network thought. She sang well, cried quences irresistibly With the aid of the Genie of Lamp, week. Note, in particular, and an nos- programming into non-option beautifully, and bit Tab Hunt- talgic appearance Abu All (Kuldip Singh), son of Aladdin, woos Prin- the “NBC Radio Theater,” a I one in the time periods. er's arm in their fight scene : of Liza Minnelli, the daughter cess Silverbud (Sue England) in "The Land of Green drama series presenting a dif- • a sta- with great gusto. She wasn't : of Judy Garland and Vincente Ginger” on Shirley Temple’s Storybook, tonight, ferent play each weekday from Further broaden noon, quite the little tomboy-grow- j ] Minnelli. 7:30 o’clock, WMAL—7. 11:05 aun. to and thej. iiotknj ing-into-a-woman that Judy two-hour variety show, Jj lutjhefytf'! So far I'm concerned, this “It’s: was, but Patty Duke helped as Network Time.” with Frank 1 up was the show-saver. She’s her Blair and Don Russell make for this with a win- mother’s daughter, all right, as co- performance Tootle. Me.)—Showcase hosts and Skitch Henderson ning as even to the voice, a tremulous, and 103.5 Walter Pldgeon was excellent TODAY'S GOOD of Music: Boston Symphony providing the musical theme. Enjoy rare little girl echo of Judy's. Kelly (This the father, but mother. I’m 1 ... is the reason, I sus- as the ! handled her beautifully. MUSIC DIAL Orchestra. St. Matthew afraid, was rather woodenly 1 Passion by Bach (delayed pect, that Blair didn’t accom- perfection of But the show, on the whole, pany Garroway to Paris played by Myrna Loy. Os! broadcast in stereo). this the others, Jeanne Crain and seemed just a shade off center 6:00, WASH-FM (97.1 Me.)— week) .. Today’s show, by the! Continental dishes on nearly everything; Gene’s 9:00, WASH-FM (97.1 Me.)— way, was taped Friday Reta Shaw were best. Tab In the Coneert Hall: Or- on and patter lacked point; the direc- Classical Concert: Polovt- shipped back to New York by Hunter looked a little old. 1 by J at Duke Zeibert's, thought ,and he nearly botched tion was overly busy, the cam- pheus in Hades Overture sian Dances by Borodin and 'jet. NBC is hoping our his big song. era work distant, and I wish Offenbach and Fantasies Symphony No. 3 in D Minor Customs won’t insist on run-! Washington's they’d get the names of every- Sympboniques by Martinu. by Bruckner. ning the two one-hour tapes! All things considered, the FINISHING body in the studio before clearing them. ... What PROCSSS 96 who was au- 7:30, (107.3 Me.) 9:00, (1450 Most Fashionable dience and bar them henceforth WMAL-FM WOL AM-FM* Kc. do the critics think about color J —Opera Echoes: Candide by and 98.7 Me.) —Good Music CHANNEL CHUCKLES from attending any show They ! i Restaurant applauding Kelly walking. Bernstein. Time: La Finta Giardiniera —By Kcon« were by Bill Fred Astaire orly one Mozart and Violin Con- had 8:00, WGTS-FM (91.9 Me.)— certo by Brahms. partner Barrie Chase: Gene Music of the Masters: Vio- had three, and ballerinas at lin Recital by Leonid Kogan 10:00. WMAL-FM (107.3 Me.) that. One of them, I think, and Symphony No. 2 by Nocturne: Les Sylphides by would have sufficed. Rachmaninoff. Chopin, Vocalise by Rach- The show was like that. Too maninoff and The Water and you can get it at much. 8:05, WGMS-AM-fH (570 Kc. Music by Handel. these quality dry cleaners ; Carroll's Laundry Page Laundry fir Many Glasses Wrong SHIRLEY LU. 4-3700 Dry Cleaning NEW YORK. At least 10 CeMrot ta per cent of Americans are RA. 3-5524 Pioneer Laundry & wearing spectacle lenses that TEMPLE’S Dry Cleaning Dupont Laundry & are unsuited to their present AD. 2-131$ needs, according STORYBOOK “A Rebels,” C to the Bet- Woman starring CO. 5-4200 Q&SLaundry& | ter Vision Institute. 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