Center for Labor Education & Research, University of Hawaii - West Oahu: Honolulu Record Digitization Project

Honolulu Record, Volume 10 No. 7, Thursday, September 12, 1957 p. 7

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TV Viewers Complain "Playhouse 90" Cut Into by Commercials

TV viewers are asking when is KGMB-TV going to stop ruining the, continuity of "Playhouse 90" by hacking into it with locally sponsored commercials? The station's dollar consciousness, was particularly noticeable the night Helen Hayes, first lady of the American , theater, appeared in Playhouse's "Pour Women in Black."

Sir Cedric Hardwicke was the commentator who introduced the drama and was supposed to appear again twice between the acts, but he was hacked out to make way for beer, super saving stamps, etc. plugs.

"Playhouse 90" is jointly sponsored by Bristol Myers and Marlboro cigarettes. Annoyed viewers say someone should, tell them about the mutilation of the show by KGMB-TVs short-sighted policy, which the station calls "accepted practice" in Hawaii.

p /> I do not say that at odd hours a patient must be given the regular hot dinner or supper. Few people would expect this.
 
But what is so complicated about opening and heating a can of soup, making some toast, or preparing instant coffee or tea? Why cannot a night nurse do these simple things after the kitchen to closed? Is it just too much trouble?

It is only common humanity to feed the hungry. If our hospitals are too big, too complex, too impersonal to do these small kindnesses for the sick, something is very wrong.