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Unloved Girls. On the drama front last week, TV was well-served by three young actresses and a dozen men. The actresses were all love-starved: on Robert Montgomery Presents, Janice Rule proved movingly simple as an adolescent who found death as well as love with a hoodlum; on Philco TV Playhouse, Eva Marie Saint was convincing as another tortured girl who finally married a man old enough to be her father; on Lux Video Theater, Marilyn Erskine brought surprising authority to the role of self-conscious Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The dozen male actors had a fine time...
...Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Eva Marie Saint in Middle of the Night...
...drama student at City College of San Francisco, the new Miss America won $5,000 cash, a Nash sedan, a Philco TV set and about $50,000 in endorsement and personal-appearances fees. To show off her less obvious talents during the contest, Lee Ann gave a dramatic reading of a scene from John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea. Next day, Miss America modestly insisted that her figure was really nothing to get excited about. Said she: "I think Dior's flat look came just in time to save...
...Philco-Goodyear TV Playhouse had troubles both onstage and off. Last week's play, Recoil, by A. J. Russell, had a good plot (a nice guy wants to get through life without stepping on anyone, but his girl and events won't let him), an adequate cast, and uneven, but sometimes moving, writing. However, the actors had more than average difficulty remembering the words; even bright-eyed Susan Shaw, doing the Goodyear commercials, blew her lines...
...opening curtain. RCA cut the price of its 15-in. color sets from $1,000 to $495, will rebate $505 to those who have already bought sets, and in September will bring out a new 21-in. tube. CBS-Columbia will introduce its new 19-in. set this month; Philco is developing a cheaper and simpler picture tube that it claims will bring set prices down...