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Miller lived fully for those four years. He "kicked around some out West," managed to get himself jailed for vagrancy, worked in lettuce fields, and even acted in Broadway productions of Walter Hampden (Cyrano) and Sothern and Marlowe's Shakespeare troupe. At times, his ten dollars dwindled low, but at other times he made money-lots of money-writing for cheap magazines. "I had a perfect formula that worked while I stuck with it," he gleefully relates. "I used to go to the New York Library and read the cheap stories of 1900. Then I would rewrite them-adding more...
Second Spec. At week's end, NBC gamely presented its second spectacular, a TV version of the 1941 Moss Hart musical, Lady in the Dark, starring Ann Sothern. Just like the first spectacular, it was big, beautiful and contained too many production numbers. There was such a quantity of large-scale scenes that the camera could take only a few closeups during the 1½-hour show and many viewers may have felt that they were watching the entire production through the wrong end of a telescope...
Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m.. NBC). Lady in the Dark, with Ann Sothern...
...unquestionably the outstanding friend of the working girl. CBS has four shows devoted exclusively to the trials and tribulations of three secretaries and a schoolteacher. But, in refreshing contrast to real life, the girls are seldom asked to do much work. On Private Secretary, blonde Cinemactress Ann Sothern occasionally pecks at a typewriter, but mostly she is shown trading wisecracks with her boss (Don Porter), getting mink and sable coats from the firm's clients or having her superior business acumen vindicated (dumb as the girls are, they are all far brighter than the men who employ them...
...Hollywood finally given in to TV? Not quite. A few movie figures, notably Robert Montgomery, had long been familiar faces on television; some, like Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings, had propped up sagging careers by taking the television plunge. This season's rash of film stars on TV amounts to a sudden upswing in the trend, but the big-studio, big-star antipathy toward television still exists...