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Daydrama Has Wide Appeal Daydrama is the group title for afternoon programs ranging from suspenseful drama to warm comedy, all topflight entertainment on NBC-TV, Mondays through Fridays. They will be seen en the Florida Coast over WFLA-TV. Embracing such universal themes as romance, family life and marriage, the roster deals with the problems, conflicts and TAMPA SUNDAY TRIBUNE, Sunday. January 23. 1955 9-E i 1 jjUlA FURNITURE CO.

Corner Hyde Park and Lafayette St. I ITifnin fnlTl f71 Hi Ml humor inherent in all people. The group contains two promt nent departures from the ever- popular daytime serial. The World of Mr. Sweeney, which has received wide critical acclaim, presents a complete story or vignette each day.

Another, Modern Romances, tells a com plete story each week, with an entirely different cast and writer. The other programs have con tinued plots. A schedule and program de scription of the Daydrama pro grams follows: Concerning Miss Marlowe (3:15 4 P. stars Louise Allbritton as Maggie Marlowe, a 40-year-old actress, whose early marriage ended with the death of her bus 1 mmmma band and loss of her baby. She is ready to abandon her career and remarry, when she learns that her prospective bridegroom NEW STUDIOS OF WFLA RADIO AND WFLA-TV Here is the new studio building now under construction at 905 Jackson St.

in Tampa for WTFLA Radio and Television offices and studios. They will be completed next month. In background is part of the 140-foot microwave tower. Television with "Golden Th roat" Fidelity -Sou nd has died. Again she begins her work in the theater, only to find herself in love with a married man and tenuously reunited with Peter Lawford Gives Up Film Work For TV Role her daughter, who has grown up natlng her.

Director Finds She Can Act OtAs few not Lawford appeared in a movies as a boy, but did Peter Lawford, although one of the busiest leading men in Hollywood, has given up all film First Love P. has as its leads Patricia Barry and Val Dufour and tells the story of a newly-married couple and their adjustments to their new life together. The heroine, Laurie James, has led a happy childhood Louise Allbritton, star of NBC- work for a while TV's Daydrama, Concerning Miss i Marlowe, very nearly became a to give his full attention to In a warm family atmosphere the video show on NBC, Dear Her husband, Zach, has quite the Phoebe. opposite background and, as director instead of an actress. She took a two year course in directing at the Uni-i versity of Okla- result, invests all his time and energies in his work.

For Laurie Dear Phoebe is a filmed newspaper story with a twist t- the the situation causes misunder 1 homa before she standing during the early months of their marriage. This then de young man (Law picts the trials of two imperfect persons who want their marriage discovered that! she had a talent for acting as well. She subsequently joined the Pasadena ford) writes the advice -to the -lovelorn column and the girl 1 to succeed. undertake acting as a career until he was grown up. Then he went to Hollywood and worked as an usher at the Westwood Village Theater (where later many of his hit pictures were previewed) until he could get a break as an actor.

In Many Films Lawford has appeared in many films, getting better roles and bigger billing in each successive one. His first big role was in The White Cliffs of Dover. His first singing role was with Frank Sinatra in It Happened in Brooklyn. His most recent picture is It Should Happen to You with Judy Holliday. Lawford is fond of music, both popular and classical, and is an enthusiastic sportsman, particularly at tennis, skiing and surfing.

He likes to dance, and even enjoys preparing breakfast. His bride is the former Patricia Kennedy, daughter of former ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy. Lawford The World of Mr. Sweeney P.

stars the noted tegs' Playhouse, where Varied Features Planned (Continued from Page 1) will be conducted by Emily Moody, best known for her' performances with the Tampa Little Theater. Features will cover hair-styling, make-up, dress and home sewing, interior decorating, gardening, family health, budget problems and all phases of home life and management. Outstanding guests will appear on these telecasts. Musical Entertainment Ladies' Day with Lenny Dee, a 30-minute afternoon audience participation program, promises fun for everyone, both at the studio and at home. Lenny Dee, Decca records star, organist, vocalist and enter-tainer-MC, will be in charge of festivities.

There will be contests, games and prizes. Weather An evening weather telecast is to be scheduled by WFLA-TV daily except Sunday. Complete weather information, illustrated with maps and charts, will be provided, as well as an analysis of weather fronts, their movements and effect on weather over the nation and in our own area. Additional weather news will be brought to viewers on WFLA-TV in the early mornings on the RFD Florida programs. Half Shot? George Gobel says "My mother calls me Bambi because I was born during the hunting season." motion picture and TV actor, Charlie Ruggles, who portrays Cicero P.

Sweeney, the philo (Marcia Henderson) writes the sports column. The tall -dark -and -handsome young actor is British, and spent his early years in many parts of the world as his father, the late Lt. Gen. Sir Sidney Lawford, was a career officer in the British Army. Since this moving about precluded regular schooling, Lawford had a thorough but unconventional education by a series of tutors.

sophic proprietor of a small town general store. Along with the groceries, Sweeney dispenses free advice and counsel to anyone who seems to need it. In his efforts to do good, Cicero often becomes involved in embarrassing but amusing situations. Featured on the program with him is Glenn Walken, who plays Sweeney's impish young grandson. Modern Romances (4:45 5 P.

features screen star Martha Scott as narrator and "story editor." The program offers each week a complete story with a complete change of cast and a different author. Martha Scott explains the situation and introduces the characters to the viewers, permitting the pace to move with speed and tense excitement. Louise her stage performances attracted the attention of Columbia Picture scouts. She played in three movies there, and then signed with Universal for such movies as Pittsburgh with Marlene Dietrich, Bowery to Broadway and Her Primitive Man. Later pictures included Sitting Pretty, Walk a Crooked Mile and The Egg and I.

More recently she has done guest shots on television panel and dramatic shows, and played the lead in the Broadway play, The Seven Year Itch, while the star took a vacation. Of television, she says: "It is a happy medium. It combines the nicer aspects of both stage and screen. A television performance, she thinks, is sustained as in the theatre, and played to the camera as it is-in movies. She describes her role in Concerning Miss Marlowe that of a glamorous actress who seeks the security of marriage as a challenge.

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