Show 1 Urunpct faa fan Thousands of letters-tha- t's what you' ve sent us in the 10 yean of “Masterpiece Theatre" And the one thing you've asked most is “IVhot’s that distinctive theme music and who wrote it?" It's an 18th century fanfare a “rondeau" h Mount Now a by the French composer question for you: What has been the most popular pro-7aYou guessed it Upstair Downstair In response to your “fan” fare we're bringing back some oi Upstairs Downstairs and three other tempting dishes in Festival ef Favorites-- a sample of the best of “Masterpiece Theatre? You'D find them served up (naturally!) on the Pubfic Broadcasting Service (check local listings) Jean-Josep- Recipe for love The feast begins tonight May 3 with The Golden Bowl a delicious treat from master storyteller Henry James lake a bittkmaire who buys his daughter a penniless prince for a husband then himself marries the former lover of his new Season it with suspicion add a dash of suspense and you've got romantic smorgasbord k la James enpertfy concocted far TV son-in-la- w Newspapers in the year 2000 may be technologically more sophisticated but commitment to community will still be their main strength By Katherine Graham In May of 1732 Benjamin Franklin just closing an edition of his the Pennsylvania when a friend returned from a trip into the Allegheny Mountains “Pick up any news?” asked Franklin The friend related how he had seen Indians go to a high hill build a fire from wet pine and using a blanket send smoke signals to Indians on the other side of the valley “What on earth were they doing?” asked Franklin The friend told him they were using the smoke signals to send news to each other “News!” exclaimed Franklin “Why this is going to kill newspapers" That apocryphal story related years ago by J Montgomery Curtis the e executive director of the American Press Institute has been matched over the past two centuries by any number of serious predictions that the end is near for newspapers Newsreels radio and television were aD supposed to render the newspaper extinct and similar predictions are now accompanying the arrival of the new electronic media Yet despite the proliferation of communications technologies in recent decades more copies of morning newspapers were sold each day in America last year than ever before The number of copies of Sunday newspapers being read is also at an long-tim- “Hurry up everybody Just five more minutes ’til the return of Upstairs Downstairs” Tugy talc and greedy young mistresses vidousness and comedy manners and morals all in a bawdy Gallic stew called Cousin Bette which begins June 14 Adapted from a novel by "the Dickens of France" Honortf de Balzac it's the story of a bitter spinster who plots to destroy her relatives But see who ends up getting cooked Next: lecherous old men Tea and company What’s London's most famous address? The Prime Minister's at 10 Downing Street? The bachelor digs of Sherlock Holmes at 221-- B Baker Street? Rivaling these Is 165 Eaton Place the elegant townhonee known to millions around the world as the home of the aristocratic Bellamys upstairs and their servants Hudson Mis Bridgesand Rose downstairs And for five weeks beginning July 19 you're invited to drop in for tca-a- nd the entire Upstairs Downstairs household good company-wi- th whose wit and charm won seven Emmy Awards and prompted one critic to hail the scries simply as “too good to miss” Scotch broth Then north to the Scottish Highlands and high drama The show is a clannish brew called Sunset Song a love story suffused with the bitter taste of World War I You'll find it starting August 23 But watch the calendar for aU of Festival af Favorites We guarantee you'll enjoy themfrom"bon appM" to the final "bonny good time!” It's a fact: Danger -e- njoyed UXB is the new hit of "Masterpiece Theatre" by seven million people ins single week all-ti- high One explanation may lie in the fact that newspapers in America provide more information today than ever before Last year daily newspapers averaged a record 70 pages for morning editions and 207 pages on Sundays — a far cry from the thin newspapers of the 1920 s and 1930's Some backbreakers like Sunday editions of The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are twice that size But what about the “electronic newspa()ers" that are being predicted? Is it true that when you sit down at the breakfast table in 1990 you will read about the previous nights baseball games on a video screen rather than Kathannt Graham is chairman of the board of the Washington Pott Company and chairman and prnident of the American Newspaper Publishers Association Mobil' ODM'vabona Boi A Mow Od CorpataMn ISO Emi J SI'MI V0k N V 10017 901 MOM Corporator) C FAMILY WEEKLY Way 3 ’981 on the printed page? Experiments already underway in a growing number of cities enable people armed with computer keyboards to call up news sports results airline schedules and advertising on their television screens Some experts predict that as many as of aU American homes will be hooked up with electronic terminals by 1990 Will this render printed newspapers obsolete? All the available information to date indicates otherwise Most of us are not used to paying a rather stiff price for small bits erf information Are we going to be eager to pay $4 or $5 an hour — about the going rate — to read information on a screen that is available in printed form for 25 cents daily or at most $1 on Sunday? The price level of home terminals is another obstacle The basic terminal that connects to your television set presently sells for $400 Obviously the price is likely to come down sharply in the years ahead But it will still be necessary to buy a piece of electronic equipment to receive information this way And unlike todays newspaper — which lets you parcel out the sports section the metropolitan news section the comics and magazines Ike Family Weekly to various members of the family — the electronic newspaper can serve only one person at a time It cannot easily be earned to the bathroom or be taken along to be read on the bus one-quart- er strength of moreover is their to organize and present large of information that help the readers understand — and come to grips with — the increasingly complex issues facing our society The current economic problems of our nation do not lend themselves to or explanations That is why newspapers continue to flourish in the face of competition from radio and television Financier Felix Rohatyn in a recent television interview went so far as to credit newspapers with making it possible for New York City to extricate itself from the financial crisis it faced in the late 1970’s “I think television is a very difficult medium for a politician to explain a very complicated problem to lots of 1 great The 45-seco- 200-wor- d 1 |