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GOOD AIL WEEK Sept. 4 10 VLOG Ma g's frame ORLANDO, FLORIDA. SUNDAY, SIPTIMBIR 4. IMS Mary Stuart, Queen Satisfied With 'Search' and the show Itself." she mm I is By MARGARET McMAXUS NEW YORK, N. Y.

Mary Stuart, another type queen who spells her name the same way, will return this week to the world of Search For Tomorrow, oldest of the daytime television serials. In undisputed reign of the soap opera heroines, with 1,000 performances tucked under her belt, Miss Stuart was written out of the CBS-TV script after her fictional June wedding. Supposedly she has been on a long honeymoon. Actually, Miss Stuart, married to television director-producer Richard Krolik, has been on leave of absence to have a baby, a girl now five and named Cyn-lh' R- v'RLES HEROINE a direct, intelligent woman with a highly developed ser of humor easily aimed at her self, Mary Stuart said she, and the character of nnne Barron, now Tate, ar very much alike. all, I helped ve character of Joanne said.

"I've played her since she was created and I play the part exactly as I'm feeling. If I get up in the morning with a headache and feel irritable, that's the way I do the show." Miss Stuart's mother, Mrs. G. M. Houchins, of Tulsa, finds the show much too realistic.

UPSETS MOTHER "She never watches it," said Miss Stuart, "if I'm having trouble, which I am frequently. When someone is being mean to me, it upsets my mother terribly. I tell her this is a great compliment. Think how convincing I must be." Miss Stuart's mother is not alone in believing the realism of the Midwestern town of Henderson, population 100,000, and the actuality of Joanne Barron, widowed mother of Patti, now married to Mr. Tate.

Every week brings letters and long distance 'phone calls with advice on how Joanne should run her restaurant, on how she should i SOAP OPERA QUEEN Mary Stuart doesn't want another show. Doesn't wont to go into movies, or a musical. She just wants to keep her title of undisputed queen of the soap opera. Doldrums? This Summer? Uh-Uh! handle her difficult, domineering mother-in-law, even how she should dress, and -wear her hair. Born Mary Stuart Houchins, reared in Tulsa, Miss Stuart was a speech and drama major at the Univer-city of and worked briefly after her graduation for the Tulsa Tribune.

"They fired me after two weeks," she said. "I was there just long enough to learn how to use a camera." Confident and ingenuous, she then came to New York and with her vast photographic experience, she got a job as a photographer in a night club here. This job turned out to be a stepping stone to Hollywood, when Joe Pasternak, the director, spotted her in the night club and offered her a movie contract. IN MOVIES "I was in a lot of movies," said Miss Stuart. "When the elevator doors opened, and a girl said, 'going that was me.

In the scenen where the secretary said, 'Mr. Smith will see you now, that was me." Because she found it satisfying to eat regularly, she made a run of western movies, but in 1950, after four years in Hollywood, she decided to return to New York and see what television might have to offer. NICE, STEADY JOB It had to offer Search For Tomorrow and here she is, about to go into her fifth year on the show, a nice steady Job, at nice, steady pay. "And I don't want to do anything else," said Miss Stuart. "I don't want another television show.

I don't want to make any more movies. I don't want To do a Broadway play. "This is enough for me. I spend 20 minutes every night learning my script I go to the studio at 8:30 in the morning and I'm home by 1:30 in the afternoon. I have plenty of time to spend with Dick and the baby.

Why make life one long stretch of nervous tension? HOPES SHOW LASTS "I just want to keep on doing what I'm doing and I hope the show lasts for 20 years." Well, there is one other little thing she does. She makes records. She made an album of children's songs which she has sung to Patti. called Joanne Sings and this fall she will make a second album. But that barely counts.

A hardy soap opera queen, with all she has to endure, can knock off a chore like that without even gettmg up from the sofa. Almost. By CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK UPl Let's give a big party and invite all the guys and girls who have made, television-watching a pleasant pastime this summer. They fill a large ballroom, for included are the unnamed cameramen, designers, producers, directors, writers, electricians, prop men and walk-ons who could have ruined everything simply by deserting the city heat and taking off for the beach. In one corner of the room mills a large and noisy crowd around a small, genial man and a spectacled, pleasant woman.

Everyone is asking them, "But why didn't you go for the $64,000 question?" "vj and doing a little and acting a scene a drama. She is Janet the triple-threat girl, a high reputation vision this summer. in is Cyril Ritchard, the role of King in The King and Mrs. an original TV musi-tedy which the toast- of this party boldly he best evening's en-ient of the summer. j's a lot of music in many, many playing, with Paul an, somewhat thinner yore, strolling smil- ng them.

And on site side of the room inn man conducts his nd. He's Stan Ken-some of his guests me, Oscar Levant, Carmichael, Cab Cal-who have appeared '55, the toastmas-vorite summer musi-Tam. very center of the held at a respectful by the crowd, stand nk Stanton, president Svlvester L. Weaver -ident of NBC, and Kiutner, president says he was very with the reception of ide World, which 1 the continent. also is interested ing the field of elec-i jurnalism and pub-ire features.

Like he can point to a of summer ac-mnts by his net-ng from the Sun- PAUL WHITEAAAN The man with the bands day morning religious program. Look Up and Live, through Let's Take a Trip, to some exciting televised horse races. Kintner also shares their interests, pointing to the news programs of John Daly and the importance of a wide variety of sports programs. One thing he wonders is whether the toastmaster hasn't forgotten the important role of films in this summer's television entertainment. Well, the probably forgot a lot of things.

And possibly he remembered some things that might better have been forgotten. But, looking over the mass of talent and contemplating the fortunes of people in the amazing world of television, he wondered how many would still be around for the Christmas party. JANET BLAIR Triple threat star Then you see that the two are Gino Prato, the New York shoe repairman, who knows and loves opera, and Mrs. Catherine Kretiz(y, the Camp Hill, grandmother who knows and loves the Bible. Neither Gleason nor Gobel is present, of course.

But somehow you don't miss them. There are, after all, plenty of other interesting people. Through the crowd pushes a pretty woman, calling, "Albert!" she's Peg Lynch, the author and co-star of the most delightful domestic comedy series of the season Ethel and Albert. Over there a gorgeous gal is showing a tall man how she pleased the eyes and ears of televiewers these hot summer evenings on several pro-prams by singing a little war '-i PEG LYNCH Writes her own lines.