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LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL
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LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL — If you don't believe it ask the above members of the cast of Life Can Be Beautiful, NBC dramatic serial heard Mondays through Fridays
over the NBC-Red network at 12 Noon CST. Left to right: Ralph ("Papa" David Solomon) Locke, Mitzi (Rita) Gould, John (Stephen Hamilton) Holbrook and Alice ("Chichi" Conrad) Reinheart.
The "Life Can Be Beautiful" program was on the air two years last September 5th, and to date the chief problem of the authors, Don Becker and Carl Bixby, is how to introduce a villainous character into the script and keep him, or her, that way.
Their difficulty can be traced directly to Papa David Solomon, the central figure of their story, and to the atmosphere of his little Slightly-Read Bookshop, where, for the most port, the scene of the story is laid. When Bixby and Becker created David Solomon, they endowed him with a philosophy which is summed up in the program title, "Life Can Be
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Beautiful", and they gave him a sincere belief in the fundamental goodness of every human being. Papa David immediately came to life before their eyes, and has so stubbornly adhered to the characteristics, with which they themselves endowed him, that every new, and supposedly villainous, character which they introduce to the script immediately reforms under David's kindly tutelage, and another plot has to be revised.
Stephen Hamilton, a crippled yoimg lawyer, was already living with David in the bookshop when the story opened and, in the first day's episode, Clhichi Conrad, a
young girl from the slums who had been turned out on the streets by a woman she believed to be her mother, ran into the shop for refuge. These two have since become Papa David's "adopted" children, and the old man's influence on them was all according to plan. A short while ago, however, a character by the name of Rita Yates was introduced to the show. She was supposed to be in the bookshop for the questionable piorpose of swindling money from one of Chichi' s friends, and her character was definitely on the shady side when first we met her. She
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