Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

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She knew she was coming, so she baked a cake. Visitors bring Ed gifts and goodies, eyed hungrily by the staff. Midway in the program, Ed sits down and reads a bit of poetry he thinks the studio and home, audiences will like. Lee listens in, too, while the Cy Coleman trio provides a bit of appropriate background music. The lady is in the audience, but tenor troubador Lee Sullivan singles DATE 111 Meet Ed Herlihy and Lee Sullivan, two men who manage to have more dates in one day than most fellows do in a lifetime! her out as the girl he most wants to Sing to on this particular morning. All part of a gay, informal hour on TV. MANHATTAN s afety in numbers? Sure, says Ed Herlihy, who dates several hundred women five mornings a week in a New York television studio. Sometimes a husband comes along as chaperon. That's fine with Ed' Often they bring the kids too. The cameramen g° slightly mad trying to catch them all, since it's a nighty mobile, unrehearsed performance. Lee Sullivan strolls about with his mike until he finds a pretty #A to ^o „liB.e unm ne nnas a pienj. a — sing to. Ed gets some audience members to do little stunts or just get up and exchange a bit of banter, and there are always a couple of well-known guf * w do a spot of entertaining. The program began J» summer in Central Park, moved indoors when lea>* began to fall. Featured on the show was breakfaj under the trees, and happily the coffee and cake have now moved right along indoors! ^omirror TELEVISION secti^ Besides presiding over Date, Ed's done the same for Sunday Children's Hour past ten years, announces the Kraft TV Theatre and on radio, newsreels. That's Welcome Travelers' Tommy Bartlett, a welcomed guest. Date in Manhattan, with Ed Herlihy, is heard every morning, Monday through Friday, from 11 to 12, EST, on WNBT. Participating sponsors are Savarin, Quaker Oats, MacLevy Dance Studio, Solomarx and Vitrex. 47