Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

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Color throughout R M 74 Only $9.98 postpaio Bartholomew House, Inc., Dept. RM-351 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17. New fork \u m THE Radio Television Mirror's brand new feature serves up the PULITZER PRIZE PLAYHOUSE Pantaloons and silk stockings predominated in male attire at the recent Pulitzer Prize Playhouse presentation of "Knickerbocker Holiday." One of the girl dancers edged up to Dennis King, who played the lead and remarked: "Mr. King, you've got a run." Pulitzer Prize Playhouse: Fri. 9:00 P.M., EST. ABC-TV. THE HALLS OF IVY A gypsy fortune teller is only a woman who has put her feminine intuition on a paying basis. The Halls of Ivy : Wed. 8:00 P.M., EST, NBC. TALENT SCOUTS Arthur Godfrey was asked at a recent Talent Scouts rehearsal if the terrifir storm had done much damage on his farm. His answer: "The wind blew everything together in the barn. We'll have succotash for the next six months — the easy way." Talent Scouts: Mon. 8:30 P.M., EST, CBS-TV. CAN YOU TOP THIS? A fussy old lady was walking along when she noticed a little boy sitting on a door step, smoking a cigarette. In high dudgeon she remarked, "Little man, does your mother know you smoke?" The gamin whipped back with, "Lady, does your husband know you flirt with strange men?" Can You Top This: Tues. 8:00 P.M., EST, ABC; Mon. 8:00 P.M., EST, ABC-TV. PAUL WHITEMAN REVUE Bibi Osterwald, who understudies both feminine leads in the Broadway musical hit "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," guested on the Paul Whiteman Revue recently. Asked what would happen if both leads were out of the show the same night, she replied, "Oh, they'd just use the understudy's understudy." Sun. 7:00 P.M., EST, Paul Whiteman Revue: ABC-TV. BERT PARKS SHOW While rehearsing a bubble gum sequence for NBC's daytime Bert Parks Show recently, Bert couldn't blow a bubble to save his life. After much straining, Art Linkletter, veteran emcee who happened to be in the studio, came over and blew the biggest bubble seen around these parts in many a day. Bert Parks Show: M., W., F., 3:30 P.M., EST. NBC-TV. PORTIA FACES LIFE A recent "Woman of the Week," saluted by Lucille Wall on NBC's Portia Faces Life, was famed artist Grandma Moses. Noted as a "primitive" painter, ninetyyear-old Grandma Moses has definite opinions about modernist and abstractionist painters. "I don't like them. That sort of thing would be good for a rug or linoleum," she said. Portia Faces Life: M-F, 5:15 P.M., EST, NBC. PENTHOUSE PARTY Nothing can be more tiring than completely dull actress unless it is completely witty one — Betty Furness. Penthouse ABC-TV. Party: Fri., 8:30 P.M., EST, ABE BURROWS' POEM OF THE MONTH DIFFICULT TYPE RHYMES I guess you have heard it dozens of times Wednesday and Orange are words without rhymes These two tough babies make all poets miss But I have solved them both like this: Try some frozen orange juice An American not a foreign juice. You shouldn't have killed that rooster last Wednesday You had a good meal but you spoiled the poor hen's day. Abe Burrows appears on This Is Show Business, Sun., 1 :M\ P.M. EST, CBS-TV; "We Take Your Word, oi radio Fri., 10 P.M. EST. CBS. on IV Tues., 10:30 P.M. EST. CHS; Hear It Now, Fri. 9 P.M. EST, CBS