Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

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Please Print State Embalmers. Actually, if the Glamorlovelies are present, it's a cinch the boys' quartette is close by. Two of the Enchanters, Val Grund and Robert Walter, are married to Glamorlovelies, and another, Robert Decker, is Darla's husband. They swing into syncopation. Now the stage looks like a nightmare in a talent office. Next to a supple couple gyrating weird tribal dances, trainer Frank Weed soothes a tame deer startled by the flying axes of the limbering Lobdell brothers, champion woodchoppers. Undisturbed among the flying chips, Darla explores a few bars of "Marie," stagehands screech huge cardboard boulders cross-stage, the male chorus madly swaps Mountie hats for fit, announcer Nelson Case reviews the merits of Budweiser Beer, while in the background, atop the huge cardboard log cabin, assistant director Jack Lubell is precariously planting a Canadian flag, the very best. Simultaneously enter Rosie, the three-hundred-pound dancing bear, brushing up on her waltz, secretary Shirley Milner to report the correct spelling of Bikini Atoll, and a Railway Express man with a prepaid moose head. Add the din of hammering, a trombone solo, and lightning flashes from the Radio Television Mirror cameraman. The rehearsal has started. Surveying this melange from his favorite position hunched atop a chairback in the second row, Ken is in his element. Calmly he directs all energies, keeps each of the groups working, and magically begins to weave them into the integration plotted on paper weeks ago. Viewers later applauil the result: Mounties cheering a woodchopping contest, Darla singing to a deer, Ken mistakenly whispering words of love to a bear, and a rousing outdoor finale. Guest stars Frances Langford and Jon Hall arrive to a warm reception. Ken has been officially proclaimed as Hollywood's Ambassador to New York, and the Murray show has become a favorite of film folk. More stars have appeared on the Ken Murray Show than any other program in television. In fact, so great was the clamor for tickets for Ken's premiere in Januarv 1950, that CBS-TV made a special halfhour program before his show just to televise the notables. In attendance were Faye Emerson, Conrad Nagel, Joan Blondell. Ilona Massey, Buddy Rogers. Lawrence Tibbett, Robert Garland, Deems Taylor. Jackie Robinson, and a red carpetful of others. Today Miss Langford and Mr. Hall have been booked specifically for an unusual South Sea Island dramatic sketch, and while they greet cast members, a few crisp directions from Murray transform the stage from the Canadian Northwest to the South Pacific. Native drums beat a somber tattoo, and inside a thatched hut the dying village chieftain passes on the heritage of the people of Bikini to his American son. This semi-documentary dramatic spot on the program is most unusual for a varietycomedy show, but once again a Murray hunch has paid off handsomely. Among memorable presentations have been "A Tribute to West Point," "Christmas Around the World," "Cavalcade of Champions," and a noteworthy sketch by Norman Corwin entitled "Between Americans." called