TV Guide (May 14, 1954)

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SEARCH FOR TOMORROW No tears: a rare photo of Lynn Loring, left, and Mary Stuart smiling on the show. T HE ONLY difference between CBS-TV’s Search for Tomorrow and other soap operas is the fact that it can be seen daily at 12:30-12:45 P.M. (EDT). No other soap opera can make that statement, which is a very good thing. Frankly, “tomorrow” had better come soon for the characters on this show, before they all lose their minds. If what these poor people go through is supposed to represent the trials and tribulations of the normal, aver¬ age American family, then “tomor¬ row” had best be in the nature of an H-bomb and let’s get it over with. The people populating Search for Tomorrow are never happy. They keep searching for happiness, which presumably is a sort of allegorical to¬ morrow, but they keep winding up in a hospital or a lawyer’s office. If they are not in deep trouble them¬ selves, then they are deeply troubled by somebody else’s trouble, which they borrow at an extremely high in¬ terest rate. The plot? Well, there’s this widow wlio is in love with this man who either has a wife or hasn’t, he isn’t sure, and there is this other woman, in a hospital, who keeps saying she is so his wife. Whether she will ever walk again has not yet been disclosed. One thing, though—she can still see. Most times they go blind.— D. J. FINE TUNING By OLLIE CRAWFORD T OKYO introduces telephone-tele¬ vision system. It’s fine, unless the phone rings while you’re in the tub. • This means the end of the guy who calls up at 3 A.M. and says: “Guess who this is?” • Now a gal has to pick up the phone with one hand and her make-up kit with the other. She can’t say she’s been up for hours, when the TV set shows her pin-curlers. For the early morning calls, she looks like some¬ thing out of Zoo Parade. • With the TV-telephone system, the proper opening is “Howdy doody” instead of “Hello.” • When a guy calls home and says he’s detained at the office, his wife can watch the night club floor show. It won’t be long until the telephone- television has developed its own Mr. Peepers program. • The gals now use the phone a lot, but wait until they can show each other their new hats. • It will be easy to sell. All the com¬ pany has to do is give the first set to Marilyn Monroe.