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The Sunday Sun TELEVISION AND RADIO November 15,1953 PAGE 14 Section A fcmmIM IIIH BITll JOHN CROSBY'S COMMENTS mz tr. A KlVIQSTPr Radio And Television "pAMILLE," the first novel of the younger Alexander Dumas, may easily be one of the most terrible novejs ever written. As a theatrical vehicle, it's a different matter, having afforded a great many luminous ladies from Greta Garbo to Lilian Gish a splended opportunity to cough and pine and die in the arms of countless young lovers. "Camille" was written in 1848, in the middle of a romantic movement and in the best romantic tradition. If you examine not only the literature, which is a fairly accurate reflection of the time, but also the police blotters of mid-Nineteenth Century Paris, you will find that it was not at all uncommon for young men (or, for that matter, old men) to r.uin themselves utterly over pretty young courtesans with an abandon which seems fairly incredible now.

Special To Her Time Of course, a guy can still get into pretty serious trouble over a dame to this very day. But in fa pr: 4 1 xiv "i inimil wJl 'I more control over the destinies of his son than he has today. Also, a disastrous marriage in fho.se days could literally extinguish a young man socially, economically," and every other way. Sure-Fire Theater A bad marriage, hile it can still do a lot of damage, is hardly that serious a matter any more and consequently the scene lost much of its point. The last half of "Camille" has been surefire theater for a.

century now and even in modern dress, it was still a tear-jerker of unparalleled power. Much of this latter-day effectiveness can be attributed to Michele Morgan, a very fine French actress, who was imported here to play "Camille" and who breathed an awful lot of fire into some very tired lines. (If they'd put Camille into a Brooklyn accent, I'd have gone sloping off to the nearest saloon after the first five minutes.) Disease Ignored "How," asked a companion in front of the set, "are they going to get around streptomycin?" I rather wondered how they were going to handle tuberculosis in the light of modern too. Well, they ignored it. Camille coughed a good deal but there was no mention of TB and you rather got the idea that the girl died of a broken heart, more or less abetted by too many late nights at El Morocco.

In spite of all these churlish remarks, I'm happy to wish "Studio One" a happy fifth anniversary and many happy returns of the day. "Camille" is the two hundred and twenty-fifth production of this distinguished program hich has presented the works of everyone from Shakespeare to Bella and Sam Spewack, from Tolstoy to F. Hugh Herbert. In five years its audience has grown from 1.000,000 to roughly 23.000.000 which is an awful lot of people to see either Shakespeare or F. Hugh Herbert.

ICooyright. 1953. New York Herald Tribune. Inc. I John Crosby's pungent comment on television and radio programs appears regularly in The Evening Sun on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

To Make Comedy Joan Fontaine, a Motion Picture Academy Award winner, has signed to do a TV film for "Four Star Playhouse." Miss Fontaine's first television film will be "Babe on the Park Bench." by D. D. Beauchamp, a comedy about a girl who, evicted from her apartment, protested by camping out in a public park. Kishteenyearold Jill Coipv has the top sinsins spol on ths. "Dave Gairoway Show" over YYBAL-TV at 8 o'clock Friday nights.

Jeff Donnell. Mike Stokcv. Roc Mdiie and Ken Murray will be on hand for 'Tantominc Quiz" over WAAM Tuesday at 8 30 P.M. 'Life With Father7 Making ing a rather different manner. Ca-mille's problems are rather special to her own time and her own place.

So what happens? The "Studio One" production of "Camille," which was selected as its fifth anniversary play, opens to the strains of "You're The Cream In My Coffee" in a Manhattan penthouse in what I gather to b. the early 30's. The adaptation from one century and one country to a quite different century and country was made by Thomas Phipps, one of the most prolific writers of mediocrity in television. The language of love, which in the book and the play is thunderous and heroic to that point where it is a little preposterous, has been reached in scale to the commonplace cliches of cafe society. Importance Wanes The great love between Ar-mand and Marguerite became 1 just another affair between a loose lady and a junior at Harvard, who has yet to come into his own money.

Ye gods and little fishes, when will television producers stop trying to impose the customs of another century on our times where they don't belong? Take, for example, the scene between the father and Camille, one of the big scenes in both play and book. In its time and place, a father had a good deal Baltimore Colls vs. Philadelphia fages Sunday, Nov. 15 2:00 P. M.

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Howard St. formerly SAMUEL BROWN fURS recollections of his father. Til despotic but amusing elder Day. who resisted a belated Baptism and other whims of Mrs. Day, became an almost classic figure of turn-of-the-ccn-tury Americana, as these sketches grew inVn three widely read books.

"Life with Father." "God and My Father" and "Life with Mother." Record Oft Broadway In 1939 Lindsay and Crouse fashioned the material into a play which broke all theater records, with 3.213 performances on Broadway. It closed in July. 1947 after 401 weeks, the longest-run show in history. It has been performed also by numerous road companies here and abroad. Shortly after the historic stage closing.

Warner Brothers made "Life With Father" into a hit motion picture costarring William Powell and Irene Dunne as Father and Mother Day. Leon Ames and Lurene Tuttle were selected for the leading roles of the explosive Mr. Day and his witty, understanding wife. Vinmr. after 100 players were auditioned and 30 on-camera tests were made in Hollywood and New York.

The four Day sons. Clarence, Jr, John Whitncv. and Harlan, are played by Ralph Reed, Freddie Tel evision uow Leiston. Ronald Keith and Harvey Grant, respectively. Hitchcock's Daughter More than 200 actors were auditioned for the parts.

D6r-othy Bernard is Marporef, the Day cook, a role she enacted during the play's record-breaking run. Pat Hitchcock, daughter of film producer Alfred Hitchcock, is Norn, the Day maid. Leon Ames, born in Portland, appeared in the stage plays "The Cat and the Canary." "Love "Em and Leave "Em." "Broadway" and in the recent Chicago company of 'The Moon Is Blue." among other productions. Since 1932 be has been in many movies, including "The Postman Always Rings Twice." "Show Off," "Merton of the Movies," and the recent "By the Light of the Silverv Moon" and "On Moonlight Bay." Lurene Tuttle is one of Hollywood's most active radio and television performers, and in the past few years has appeared recurrently in motion pictures. Her current film Is "Affairs of Dobie Gillis," in which she plays Debbie Reynolds's mother.

She also plays Mis Reynolds's parent in "Give a Girl a Break," soon to be released. Today Channel 3 2.30-WBAL American Forum Dr. Charles Malik. Ambassador frm Lebanon J.OO-WBAL President's Week Film of President and Mrs. Ksenhoer'i trip to Ottawa 1 Nature of Things.

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It will he seen here over WMAR-TV, P.M. "Life with Father" will be broadcast "live" from CBS Television City in Hollywood. The producer will be Fletcher Markle, who produced "Studio One" last, season. Associate producer will be Vincent McCon-rior, who was on Markle's "Studio One" staff. Katherine B.

Day, widow of Clarence Day. creator of the story, and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, authors of the play on which it is based, are editorial advisers. Explosive Evening In the premiere broadcast, a birthday party for Whitney, one of the Day boys, turns into an explosive evening. Unbeknown to father. Mother Day has invited the socially prominent, Ormnntmis.

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