TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1956)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

George isn't a bit bashful about showing his mother how much he loves her, any time! He thinks papa Herman Gobel — whom he calls "Herb" — is just the greatest, too. Alice and George Gobel, all dressed up and with some place to go — taking their moms, Lillian Gobel and Lucy Humecke, to the gala premiere of "The Desperate Hours." The George Gobel Show. NBC-TV, three Sat. out of four, 10 P.M. EST, for Armour & Co. (Dial Soap) and Pet Milk (all products). .. His mother knows: George Gobel is a very philosophical comedian— or is he a humorous philosopher? B By ELSA MOLINA ecause people think of NBC-TV's George Gobel only as a comedian, they frequently say to his mother, Mrs. Herman Gobel, "I'll bet George keeps you laughing all the time with his clowning." However, according to this woman who knows him best, George is a quiet, serious young man, a hard worker whose philosophy has always been: "You only get out of life what you give." Lillian Gobel laughs at the misconception that George was an overnight success. "Nothing," she says, "could be further from the timth. George has been a professional since he was twelve — and an enthusiastic amateur since three. . . . But George hasn't always been a comedian. Music was his first love. As a baby he slept in a buggy alongside the family piano. My folks were musical and my brothers all sang harmony as I played the upright. They said about George, sleeping there as he did, 'If he doesn't grow up to be another Caruso, it will be a miracle.' "In his free time, he sat by the hour listening to the victrola. His favorite song {Continued on page 87) Dad may not know it, but Georgia and Gregg realize he is wasting his breath on that sunflower. And they're a little skeptical about the way George strums a guitar — though wee Leslie and mama Alice listen most politely. 36