Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

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Jackie packs an hour full of his own hilarious hi-jinks, adds a sprinkling of stars and automatically alerts all television antennae his way Cavalcade of Gleason • Jackie rehearses a "Bachelor" skit, while director Frank Bunetta and producer Milton Douglas confer. Fun with the props, below. Right now there's nine-year-old competition in the Gleason family, and her name is Linda. She's been imitating her father since she was seven. "I want to take after him and make people laugh," she says. Luckily, Linda likes reading and arithmetic, too, since she still has her fourth-grade studies to consider. (She gets good marks.) Linda has done one little walk-on in her dad's show and is impatient to get on again. On the opposite page, you can get an idea of how Linda looks when she teams up with her daddy. She posed for these pictures especially for the readers of Radio Television Mirror. As for Jackie, you can hardly believe he lost seventy pounds before he went on Cavalcade of Stars — you wonder how he ever stood still long enough to put them on in the first place! At rehearsals, he bounces all over the stage, clowns with everyone during breaks, works fast and furiously. It's a quick-moving variety show, notable for Jackie's "Bachelor" skit that started as a one-time idea and stayed on by audience demand and for the musical guests which regularly include Metropolitan opera stars. (Popular singer Fran Warren, pictured above with Jackie, was a recent Cavalcade guest.) Another voice sometimes heard on the show is its producer, Milton Douglas, who used to be a concert singer himself. The permanent cast includes the June Taylor dancers, who put in twenty hours of rehearsal on each show, and Don Russell, the announcer. Parts of the show are rehearsed separately — all are tied neady together early on broadcast day. Cavalcade of Stars is televised Friday 10 P.M. EST on the DuMont Network. It is sponsored by The Whelan Drug Co. Inc.