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wr Newsaflay (Center Section Y.j mi YeOevnsndmi By Barbara Delatiner For the exclusive benefit of confirmed TV addicts (and critics) who remain glued to their small screens come sunshine, holidays or national emergencies, WCBS-TV yesterday added two entries to its Sunday afternoon roster. Both shows, Young Audiences, a musical appreciation program for small-fry, and "First Meeting, a book review scries, deserve better fates and better time-skits. Given half a chance, the two could easily attract more tlun the few Sunday summer stragglers theyll garner in their present spots. In returning to the air for its second-annual het-wcathcr run, "Young Audiences again indicated that its a top-flight morsel of childrens programing. Yesterday, the informal lecture -conceit featured the Rudie String Quartet.

And with commentator David Randolph leading the way, the members of the quartet uncondc-scendingly, yet in terms understandable to their young viewers, explained the instruments and offered excerpts from Ilavdn, Leclair, Brahms, Borodin and Milhaud. An enthusiastic group of students from a Brooklyn grammar school participated in the half hour, answering and asking questions. A good time was had by all with some learning thrown in along the way. What a Trcndex this show could run up mid-week at say 5:30 PM! First Meeting, a show originating out of Los Angeles KNXT, is getting it's first outing in these parts. A unique species, the offering makes full use of TVs pictorial charms, by having excerpts of books dramatized during the literary discussion.

Presided over by Tumley Walker, 'a talkative reviewer whose tendency to become overly excited somewhat detracts from the proceedings, the local premiere examined "The Ugly American, a current best-selling novel by William J. Ledeier and Eugene Burdick. According to Walker, the program is designed to make "books seem alive and speak for themselves. If nothing else, these aims were aptly accomplished by sprinkling the talk with dramatic vignettes from the paces of the novel. The literary criticism was cursory to say the least.

The participants Walker was joined by co-author Burdick did not dwell heavily oriThe worth of the book; but by giving the gist of the contents they certainly may have succeeded in whetting a viewers appetite for mere. Talk shows this season brought the art of conversation back into American homes. Maybe First Meeting will reintroduce us to reading. Noted in Brief What an imposing figure John L. Lewis is! The lien roared through a lively session of Meet the Press list niglit, evading questions with case and emphatically answering those that interested him.

Just Lewis bulldcg face with his famous bushy eyebrows holding the spotlight was enough to fascinate a viewer for 30 minutes Moral Re-Armament (MRA) was the subject cf a disappointingly dull, special two-hour telecast over WFIX Friday night. Despite some superb photography that was especially effective in color, the major portion of the program, a film entitled Freedom, was a chore to watch and listen to. Written, acted and produced by Africans, the movie repetitious! and awkwardly attempted to show how MRA principles might save a mythical African country from dormant imperialism and a growing nationalism that threatened to destroy it. The dedicated amateur actors' made the already amateurish story painfully slow and rough-going. Much more rewarding was a closing live symposium that featured MRA followers discussing the movement.

Those 15 minutes certainly did mote to explain MRA than the preceding 9() minutes. Dinah Shore wrapped up her season last niglit with a rather spotty shot. The hour ran the gamut from tremendous to sad with ELiinc and Mike fitting into the former category and Dinahs rendition of Tut; on Marne filling the latter spot. For some speaking of that number, the lyrics were dunged. Me replaced Marne.

Wonder what sensitive sponsor soul objected to "Marne? French chanteuscs come and French chantcuses go, but none can hold a candle to Edith Fiaf. The diminutive singer, clad in her customary simple black, gave Ed Sullivans sideshow a much needed shot in the arm last niglit. Miss Fiaf is magnificent! SKATING ALONG TOGETHER in a production number for tonight's Summer on Ice" special are actor Tony Randall, left, singer Rosemary Clooney and actor Tab Hunter. The skating and musical extravangania will be presented 10 PM over NBC-TV. It will be an easy job for Hunter, who once was a skating champion.

INI Uvea Bays TW INIetiwoirk (Save Mam a Run-Airoundl By Ben Kuhavik So far David Niven has done nothing on his David Niven Show except act as host. On tomorrow's episode, however, lie will make his first and last acting appearance on the series. "'And I wouldn't be doing it cither, he said, if I liad known when I filmed it what I know now. Niven, currently filming a movie with Mitzi Gav-nor in New York City, looked perfectly contented with himself and his work except when he talked of his TV show. Mv sponsor signed for the Tuesdays at 10 PM period in good faith, said Niven.

But as soon as the show started, NBC told the sponsor that the time slot was available only for the summer. His half-hour spot will be gobbled up by a scries of weekly specials that will be seen Tuesdays at 9:30 Pjri starting in the fall, according to a recent NBC announcement. Niven said that the practice t.f promising and then dumping sponsors out of prime time spots apparently was increasing. "It was never my Intention nor that of my sponsor to do a summer replacement type of scries, said Niven. But some devious behind-the-scenes machinations led to our being nothing more than a hot-weather filler.

At this late date, theres nothing much in the way of good time left on any of the network schedules for the coming season. If we knew this was going to happen before we started, we would not have bothered to begin. Niven has such a great sympathy for his present sponsors time problem for a very definite reason that extends back a number of years. Dick Powell, Charles Boyer and 1 had this same sponsor back in the days of Tour Star Playhouse, he said, "and the sponsor got just about the same kind of kicking around from CBS that its getting now from NBC. It seems that just when the sponsor wanted to renew Four Star Playhouse for a fifth year on CBS Thursday glit schedule, CBS said nothing doing, llie network did ter the sponsor the opportunity to partially pay the lie far OH H'li ials nf tlsa ttina u4 el-xbuut night schedule, CBS said nothing doing, llie network did effei bills for "Playhouse 90, which at the time slated HOST AND STAR.

David Niven, who until now hes served only as the host on tho David Niven Show," gets his chance to star tomorrow in Tho Last Room," a story about secret police methods behind the Iron his Academy Award-winning name to be lent to a scries in which it looked for a while as if he would never appear except as host. Having my name on the show, though, is cheating to a certain degree. 111 admit, I guess people thought I was going to perform. We called it the David Niven Show to give the series some sort of continuity. After all, a sponsor with a half-hour anthology series is at a disadvantage unless he has some sort of identification for the program.

With all the difficulties Niven has been having with 1 his latest TV venture, there are a couple of scenes in the movie he is making now that make him very happy. I'm called on in the movie to kick in a IV set's picture tube twice, lie said, and I must admit I do it with great relish. was to take over Four Stars half-hour time slot and then some. "But that's a rather rotten trick, Niven said. After all, what kind of message does a sponsor put across when it shares the same program with a flock of other sponsors? Critics complain that Niven should not have permitted Historic LI Defense Forts Have Administrative Duties Now (See Story on Page 11C) 1 Monday.

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