TV Guide (September 3, 1955)

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Windows CBS’ Windows is an excellent example of how TV can dress up an otherwise routine series of dramatic shows with a single gimmick. In this case, the gimmick lies in the title. The viewer is let in on dramatic doings via a peek through a window. What he sees, when he gets past the window, is a somewhat better-than-aver- age dramatic series which utilizes both stars and non-stars, depending—a radically wise idea!—on who fits which script. The first of the series came rather a cropper, beginning with an excellent premise (all the children of a neighbor¬ hood disappear at the same time) and then slowly falling apart at the seams. A later drama, however, told an engrossing story of a girl locked in an apartment from which there was no escape, this being her estranged husband’s way of driving her out of her mind. The show also has done a good job of handling a Ray Brad¬ bury excursion into the unknown. —DJ. Kent Smith, left, Frances Reid and Charles Mendick question young Charles Taylor about vanished tots. €) By Oliie Crawford rp FINE TUNING Expert contends soap-optera heroines are “too chic.” They may suffer, but their wardrobes don’t. • The gals are just typical average housewives in typical average $500 house dresses. • The soap-opera heroines are the gals who contract rare tropical dis¬ eases and break out in $50 hats. Portia just can’t face Life without her mink stole. She has tragedies, but wearing last season’s hat isn’t one of them. Eknaline may lose the old homestead, but she manages to hang on to the new Dior. • Even “John’s Other Wife” looks smarter than John’s other urife. • The boy’s point is that the average real housewife wears a bathrobe modeled by Jess Willard for the Dempsey fight, slippers that splay out like snowshoes and a hairdo that inspired the song “Rag Mop.” There hasn’t been a female like that on 'TV since “Tugboat Annie Meets Abbott and Costello.” • Soap opera is where the tornado can wreck a gal’s house without touching her coiffure. • The whole thing just proves that in soap opera, it’s the woman who Rue de la Poix’s.