Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1949)

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Lucky Pup and Jolo can now be seen by eastern and middle-western viewers, courtesy of the new east-midwest cable. Hope and Morey Bunin, originators and owners of Lucky Pup, are also responsible for their expert manipulation. Doris Brown emcees the activities of Lucky and his cohorts. (That's Foodini on her shoxilder.) WHEN Doris Brown got a chance to be on Barry Wood's CBS-TV show, Places Please, she never thought she was being discovered to ptiay mistress of ceremonies to Lucky Pup, Foodini, the wicked magician; Pinhead, a dim-witted stooge, and Jolo the clown. And just a little while ago, when Doris turned her^ back a minute, a couple of new characters sneaked into the show. One of these is Phineas Pitch, a circus barker. The other's a fellow named Hotchkiss, a butler by profession. Lucky, being a big shot now, seems to rate one of those things. We've seen some other shadowy figures hanging around lately — probably more characters trying to get into the act. They'd better be good, if they're going to get past Doris — and the Bunins. Hope and Morey Bunin own the puppets, and all of them were discovered at the Music Hall in New York's Radio City, while they were playing a sixweek engagement. CBS signed them up fast for television, and now they're on, Monday through Saturday from 6: 30 to 6: 45 P.M. EST., not too late for the children nor too early for father to catch up with them before he reads his evening paper. Pop seems to appreciate puppets just as much as the kids do. At least he does these puppets. Whereas Howdy Doody, that other great favorite of the kids and pop, is a marionette manipulated by strings, Lucky Pup and his playmates are hand puppets, manipulated by the Bunins' fingers. They're the product, too, of the Bunins' own hands — made by their master and mistress, every one of them. And they've traveled all over the world, have made homesick servicemen in the Pacific laugh heartily for the first time in weeks, made weary infantrymen in Europe forget their feet. They make us forget ours, too. And we've heard tell that it isn't only the puppets Pops like. It's the pulchritudinous Doris Brown they hurry home to see on their TV screens. RADIO MIRROR TELEVISION SECTION 50