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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
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ON THE AIR
Televisipn Fantasy \
Proves Beguiling
BY HARRY MacARTHUR
There Is one kind of theater
which fares better on television
than in any other settidfc. This
is the fragile, intimate fantasy,
too slight for stage or screen but
just right for the audience at
home. It would never survive
projection in a theater or ex
pansion to Cinemascope propor
tions, but it blooms in the close
living room rapport between
viewer and TV screen.
The Held was invaded Tuesday
night by the ABC-WMAL-TV j
“Elgin Hour" and the result, as :
far as this viewer was concerned,
was wholly satisfactory. The play
was “Midsummer Melody" and
there wasn’t a great deal of sub
stance to it, really. What it
lacked in substance, however, it
made up for by being completely
beguiling.
“Midsummer Melody.” written
by Joseph Schull. concerned it
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self with a young man about to
depart a small Midwestern town
in search of new horizons in the
West. As he was about to leave
a wisp of a girl equipped with a
station wagon and a small harp
came along, determined to seek
out and record the last shred of
folk music in the land. The'
young man fell under her spell,
but in plenty of time realized!
where his roots really were and
who his true love really was.
** * *
That's about all there was to
it, basically, and it isn't very
much. It was played so deftly,
though, and embellished so en
chantingly that the thin thread j
of its plot was quite ample for
any strain placed on it.
Kathy Nolan, as the young
harpist in search of folk music,
was a most bewitching lepre
chaun type. Jerome Courtland
was thoroughly Ingratiating as
the young mechanic who almost
rode into *the West with her.
June Lockhart Injected, great
charm Into her portrayal of the
girl*the boy never should have
dreamed T>f leaving. And Ern
est Truex added just the proper
fillip as her father, the man
who ultimately did take off in
that station wagon in search of
romantic adventure.
Other than the sensitive play
ing. the principal embellishment
of "Midsummer Melody” was a
parade of folk songs employed
as a musical score, making this
something of an American opera.
The melodies were both haunt
ing and light-hearted and Miss
Nolan and Mr. Courtland
themselves most effective balla
deers. Daniel Petrie directed
“Midsummer Melody,” weaving
its fragile parts into a gossamer
theatrical fabric of just about
complete delight.
** * *
SALUTE The Lone Ranger
will be unseated tonight (for this :
week only) by the “American j
Homemaker of Tomorrow." The
special program, "Eddie Fisher
Salutes Young America,” featur
ing the singer, of course, and
John Daly, will be seen over
ABC-WMAL-TV tonight at 7:30.
Its feature will be the an-
Channel Chuckles
s%assir
“I with tht'd ting tomt
thing tht dag dattn’t know."
i
nouncement of the winner of
Betty Crocker’s “American
Homemaker of Tomorrow” con
test, selected from 180,000 senior
girls who entered from 8,000
high schools. The Washington
I winner, Irene Schneider, will be '
! cm hand for the festivities.
Another event In Eddie Fish- .
er’s life is coming up next month,
incidentally. The May 20 tele
cast of his NBC-TV program*:
(WROTV—Wednesday. Friday.
7:30 pm.) will be his 200th.
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AWARDS—To ABC-TV, a Na
tional Headliners Club Headliner
Medal for its “comprehensive
and generally excellent coverage
of the Army-McCarthy hearings 1
from their inception to the end.” '
(Bryson Rash and Gunnar Back 1
were the commentators and Ed :
Sherer directed the cameras.)
To NBC and its news director,
William R. McAndrew, a Ns,- 1
tional Headliners Club award for 1
“consistently outstanding radio 1
network news broadcasting" on
the “Heart of the News” pro- 1
gram. <
To Eric Sevareld, of CBS-TV’s ,
"The American Week,” the tel
evision award of the Sidney Hill-
{ man Foundation, for his “out
standing achievements" in the
medium.
** * *
CANINE BACKLOG—If the
young around your house have
been worrying over the thought
that they might outlast Rin-
Tin-TTn, tell them to relax. The
man who owns the star of that
TV sales, Lee Duncan, has Rin-
Tin-Tlns In depth, like a Notre
Dame backfleld.
The first one, which became a
.famous movie star, was found as
a two-day-old pup by Duncan
in France during World War I.
He has long since passed on and
if is a descendant, Rin-Tln-Tin
IV, seen in the Screen Gems tele
film series.
He will be followed some day
by Rin-Tin-Tin V and Rin-Tin-
TTn VI. aready undergoing the|
prescribed course of training.!
And that's not all. Rin-Tin-Tin'
VII recently reached the age of
10 weeks and has been assigned
to basic training at the hands
of Caroline Duncan, Mr. Dun
can’s 15-year-old daughter.
These Rin-Tin-Tins may out
last us all and take over instead
of the ants and grasshoppers.
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