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The MacMullans interview many famous people on their WPTZ show Maj. General Littleton Waller speaks of the need for blood donors.
Meet the MacMullans
By HELEN BUTLER
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Want to know how to act when your best beau brings you home to meet the family — and what clothes to wear for that extra special occasion? The MacMullans will give you the answer to your etiquette problems on their TV show over WPTZ.
Comparatively new to television but long familiar to the Philadelphia scene are the MacMullans. Mrs. Edward J. MacMullan and her daughter, Ellie MacMullan Richards, offer a program that is interestingly different.
Ellie specializes in the good grooming department. In this she is ably qualified through her five-year association with John Robert Powers as model and lecturer. Now, in addition to her TV work, her lectures in various schools and colleges have helped and are helping many an undeveloped personality to make the most of herself.
Ellie often steps in and supervises a wedding, a tea, a gala party, should Mrs. Mac be snowed under, but first loves are lecture work and television. With a heart that admittedly often rules her head she confesses to a great interest in people and their problems.
Much has been written of Mrs. Mac and her activities aa Philadelphia's top social consultant for over twenty-five years.
Quite aside from her great enthusiasm for TV, she loves to do fashion commentary. In a lifetime of unusual experiences Mrs. MacMullan thinks perhaps the most personally thrilling was a fashion commentary job she did a few years ago in Cincinnati. Informed that the affair was to be a fashion show
and symphony concert featuring the wonderful Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Mrs. Mac assumed the fashion show would be first, the concert after. Appalled when she discovered she was expected to ad lib her commentary to a fifty-six piece orchestra and a full symphonic score, said she, "I think I'll go home."
Of course she didn't, and taking up the challenge, did such a good job, that the brilliant young symphony conductor Dr. Thor Johnson complimented her. Mrs. Mac beamed, blossomed, and admitted that there were times when she felt quite like Mary Garden. It was Dr. Johnson's turn to be appalled. "Then I thank God," said he, "you didn't decide to sing!"
Another memorable event took place recently when she was "lend-leased" to Washington to do commentary for a gala fashion show and benefit opening the Heart Fund Campaign. This cause, in which Mrs. MacMullan has a deep interest, was supported and attended by many luminaries including the first lady of the land, Mrs. Harry S. Truman.
It has been said of Mrs. Mac that her thoroughness and charm tend to create an irresistible force that seldom meets an immovable object but, while not admitting defeat, she does retreat slightly (even as you and I) in the face of her grandchildren's absolute passion for and devotion to — you guessed it — Hopalong Cassidy.
If you haven't already, we think you'd like to Meet the MacMullans.