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Just Across the Street (Universal-International). Ann Sheridan plays a lady with problems in this warm-weather farce. She is a poor working girl who is the sole support of her old tosspot dad (Cecil Kellaway). Plumber John Lund, for whom she works, thinks she is the socialite daughter of Robert Keith and Natalie Schafer, and gallantly insists on driving her to & from a palatial home, when actually she lives just across the street from his plumbing shop. Naturally, this mistake leads to complications. After several reels of hot & cold running gags, the complications are cleared up, but by then...
Most TV stations are off the air by 1 a.m., but Pittsburgh's WDTV is one U.S. station that telecasts 24 hours a day. The experiment began last month, after Station Manager Harold Lund discovered that nearly 200,000 swing-shift workers in the steel mills and other Pittsburgh industries seldom got a chance to see TV except on weekends...
...sold, at $475 an hour, to sponsors peddling beer, jewelry, insurance and pianos. Each night and dawning, televiewers see two feature films, two westerns and one episode of a serial (currently: Flash Gordon). Because "you can't call people up on a survey at 4 in the morning," Lund has no idea of the size of his audience, but there is no doubt that the show is going over. Swing Shift fan letters pour in at the rate of 350 a week. Sample: "Even if a guy has dinner at 1 a.m., he likes to relax afterward just like...
Several outstanding competitor will be missing this winter: Jim Weaver, who captained last year's squad, Skiddy Lund, jumping and cross country expert, and Ed Ritvo, who led in downhill and slalom. Houser hopes, though, that new men, White Black, George Wilson, and John Glessner, may plug some of the game...
...cases where GOP support of Democratic candidates is the only way to eliminate arch-crooks from city government, the Shattuck-Forbes-Lund advice is correct. But in a year when Republicans might have won several seats on the Council it amounts to a sellout, one which will render the GOP impotent and futureless...