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Monday, Nov. 3, 197S Philadelphia Inquirer D-3 TV I RADIO LISTINGS ike Douglas Enters Las Vegas, Escapes Intact By LEE WINFREY cariously with Mike Douglas. And The second part of this series dream, which is what most visitors will appear in Tuesday's TV see-to Las Vegas do anyway. tion. New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, with Katherine Dunham Dancers "In Performance at Wolf Trap" Gunther Schuller, Conductor Tonight at 8 on WHYY, Channel 12.

PBS VTW On Television of it. Into this neon cavern, this pit paved with green felt, came Mike Douglas last month. He taped two weeks of his syndicated television show and got away with both his soul and his billfold intact. Not everybody who has been here can say that. Douglas had certain advantages.

He doesn't smoke or drink, for example. He doesn't even like to travel much, preferring to produce his show in his home base of Philadelphia. And, most of all, there is about him a settled look, the tranquility of a man at peace with himself, a man who knows what he can do and yearns for nothing more. Besides, when you're already making $2 million a year, like Douglas, who needs some petty jackpot from a slot machine? The 'Mr. II Suite' "The Mike Douglas Show" bunked at the Las Vegas Hilton, whose 2,139 rooms make it the largest hotel here.

They gave Douglas and his wife Genevieve the best room in the house. Called the "Mr. Suite," it is up near the top. The Mr. who usually stays there is Barron Hilton, Conrad's son.

In the Hilton Hotels Conrad is board chairman and Barron is the president. The suite has a piano and a pool table to remind Douglas of those he has at home, and a fully-stocked bar, which Douglas doesn't bother with at his own manse. If you're feeling frivolous, you can light up the Mr. H. Suite good.

Little lights come twinkling on in the floor and the drapes at the flick of a switch. Ah, friends, if you and I but had a syndicated talk and variety show that played on 130 stations, if stations in Chicago and Detroit would only pay five figures a week to run our act, you and I could gambol in the glow installed for Mr. H. But we can't. So tomorrow and next day we'll just have to visit vi- -i First of a three-part series LAS VEGAS The gambling casino at the MGM Grand Hotel is so big that one would not be surprised to see fog settling in on the far end.

A thousand slot machines form only part of the scenery. The whole thing is bigger than a football field. At the Circus Circus, you may sip you choose in the "Horse Around .4 ar," a carousel that revolves slowly to give you a full view of all action. Below you the gamblers play, above you trapeze artists swing. Now and then aerialists throw down long thin phallic balloons that bounce unnoticed off the shoulders of the gamblers pulling obsessively on the arms of the slot machines.

At Caesars Palace, you may test your footing trying to dance in a floating nightclub called Cleopatra's Barge. In Benihana Village, a Japanese restaurant layout in the Las Vegas Hilton, the owners smite the place periodically with summer storms, artificial lightning striking Made possible by a qrant from Atlantic Richfield Company AtianticRtchlieldCompany and thunder rolling, while false rain pours into the ponds. Just a Home Boy And all the while gamblers play, losing a billion dollars a year. Las Vegas looks like a carnival conceived in a cocaine dream. Of all the ways ever found to separate a man from his money, surely 99 percent are operative here.

Here a medium-big entertainer like Wayne Newton can sing 32 weeks a year and take home $2 million. Money seems to be flying around everywhere until you yourself try to catch some 1 7" 'S "TffT i i'MsisFwM sfN 'Face-Off Puts Opposing Views on ABC Show boost its ratings, it's engaging in assorted stratagems. On Tuesday, Nov. 18, for instance, it's preempting all regular programming Times," "Joe and Sons," "Switch" and "Beacon for last years blockbuster film, "That's Entertainment!" with 11 major stars and scenes from nearly 100 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals. You're going to be seeing some proud people on Action News.

Tonight they're Irish. While there he was asked by a Variety correspondent what he thought of a remark attributed to Chronicle TV columnist Terrence O'Flaherty, questioning whether Douglas merited a $2 million annual salary. "He complained," Douglas said, "because he's not making two million. He's never said anything nice about me maybe because he failed in his attempt to do the same kind of show." O'Flaherty submits a rebuttal in the current Variety, charging that he's been "hilariously maligned by Mike Douglas (the TV host who struggles daily to make the world safe for Philadelphia) and misquoted." Noting that for 34 weeks, 13 years ago, he hosted "PM West," O'Flaherty writes, "I insisted on being referred to as a San Francisco newsman, never as a performer. I did not then, nor do I now, aspire to spend my life entertaining old ladies in the afternoon.

"For that sort of job, $2,000,000 is cheap. To live in Philly, he should get double. "As for my failing to say anything nice about his show, I wasn't aware that I hadn't. But, somewhere, there must be a good reason for the omission." CBS, traditionally the pace-setting network, this season has been having the rare and humiliating experience of trailing NBC and even ABC. To invited 1,500 executives and their spouses to name their 10 all-time favorite programs.

The shows nominated totaled 302. The Top Ten were "Perry Mason," "Your Show of Shows," "Star Trek," "Playhouse 90," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "The Defenders," "The Milton Berle Show," "Omnibus," "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "The $64,000 Question." Only two can be considered "current." The second ten, none on a commercial network, included "Upstairs Downstairs," "Our Miss Brooks," "Get Smart," "Studio One," "The Forsyte Saga," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Twilight Zone," "Armstrong Circle Theater," "Maverick" and "Philco Playhouse." Of 30 others listed, only eight are now being aired "Tonight" (29th), "All in the Family" (32d), "Rhoda" (35th), "The Carol Burnett Show" (41st), "Kojak" (42d), "Days of Our Lives" (44th), "MASH" (46th) and "Hollywood Squares" (47th). Not a single vote was cast for such yesteryear and present-day biggies as "The Beverly Hillbillies," Bob Hope, "The Lucy Show" (though "I Love Lucy" was 22d), Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, "Peyton Place," Red Skelton or "The Wonderful World of Disney." Mike Douglas, who begins four weeks away from his KYW-TV home base at 4 p.m. today with a star-crammed show from Hollywood, de-toured to San Francisco to visit Bing and Kathy Crosby. By HARRY HARRIS I Inauirgr TV Writer One daily feature of ABC's radically-revised "AM America," bowing on Channel 6 at 9 a.

m. today as "Good Morning, America," will be a "Face-Off" confrontation between individuals with diametrically-opposed points of view. Today's forensic foes are New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis and National Review editor William Rusher. Their subject: The CIA. Tomorrow's mini-debate, on corporal punishment, will be between Virginia Baker and her son Russell, whose suit cued the Supreme Court's recent ruling that approved spanking of students in certain circumstances, and Lancing Reinholz, superintendent of the Burlington, schools, who advocates four R's.

The fourth? Retaliation. Other daily components of "Good Morning America's" "magazine" format will be titled "Money," "Couples" and "Doctor." Not all may be seen here, because Channel 6 is carrying only the first hour, delayed, of the 7 to 9 a. m. program. Actor David Hartman, the show's host, will participate in varied ways.

Tomorrow, for instance, he'll direct questions at Ted Kennedy from New York while Geraldo Rivera is quizzing the Massachusetts senator in Washington. The Broadcast Information Bureau publisher of Facts, Figures Film, a tradepaper for TV executives, v. 1 1 1 4 1 in Imm Tonight at 5:30, Action News begins a three-week series of special reports on ethnic pride. few i'kViKv- ii -Hit's a great opportunity to learn something about your neighbors and maybe yourself. This evening, Mariellen Gallagher re ports on Philadelphia's Irish.

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Orch.) Dvorak Cello Concerto (Harrell, Levine) Debussy Khamma (Ansermet) Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto WFLN-FM FROM GERMANY Franz Song Bruch Symphony 1 in flat GENERAL PROGRAMS 6:55 and 12:25 WCAU (1210) THE ECONOMY: John R. Coleman, Havertord College 1 2-1 2:30 WUHY ARCELLO MASTROI-ANNI, tiim star WFLN RALPH COLLIER: Mark Evans Asted, U. S. ambassador to Finland, from Helsinki 1- 1:30 WKDN (106.9) READING CIRCLE: Jon Arthur begins LeRoy Eims's "Winning Way" 2- 5 WUHY FRESH AIR: Ethel deCoaeh, on faith healing; Larry Collins, author WUHY FAMILY STORY: "Puck of Pook's Hill" begins WCAU MYSTERY THEATER: "The Mortgage," with Larry Haines. Communist defector's dilemma threatens marriage WUHY ALTERNATIVES: "Is Our Navy Second Rate?" Rear Adm.

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