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Show By LYN CONNELLY ; TP HERE is no question about it there are just some shows that should never attempt to do on the night side what they find to be a successful format in the daytime A few years back, Don McNeill Mc-Neill transferred his highly successful suc-cessful "Breakfast Club" on radio to a once-a-week night schedule on television with rather horrible results . . The show, in fact, was such a colossal flop that it took two years for the network moguls to decide on a possible simulcast of the "Breakfast Club" intact . . . Result: simply terrific Why? Perhaps because the cast are at home on the morning show they're natural and unassuming, whereas on the night experiment they were trying too hard to impress Big name celebrities were brought m as guest stars in an effort to match other night time variety shows Don was stilted and ill at ease and he transmitted that feeling not only to the cast but to the audience And let's face it corn can be digested in the morning but it leaves one flat in the evening Realizing that, the cast strived to be what they were not sophisticated Now as their own selves they are wonderful won-derful on TV and we predict an even rosier future for the show than it had on radio, if that is possible. PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: More of those wonderful won-derful 33 '$ long-playing discs, comprising com-prising a full album . . . There is a delightful one starring Marguerite Margue-rite Piazza and Gordon MacRae doing the entire score from that Victor Herbert favorite "Naughty Marietta" . . . Billy May does a fine job on a brilliant selection of operetta favorites including "One Kiss," "Serenade" from "Student Prince," "Rose Marie," "Hugn-ette "Hugn-ette Waltz," "Vilia," "Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise," "Italian Street Song" and "The Desert Song." |