TV Guide (October 16, 1954)

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LAST OF THE HOLDOUTS (MOVIE QUEEN DIVISION) FINALLY TAKES THE TV PLUNGE Miss Ginger Rogers, who wears the burden of her 40-plus years with a certain air of perpetually surprised im¬ mortality is about to put her foot right smack in the water and walk right out in front of a real live television camera. The auspicious occasion (for such it must be considered) has been surrounded by enough trappings to raise all sorts of hob with the more routine mortals to whom TV is a weekly chore. Miss Rogers, a Texas redhead turned Beverly Hills blonde during the course of history, will appear as the premiere star of NBC’s highly publicized series of Monday night “spectaculars.” The vehicle, or prop¬ erty as they call it in Beverly Hills, will be Noel Coward’s “Tonight at 8:30,” which is to the modern London theater as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was to yesterday’s American theater. Every¬ body who is anybody on the London stage has done one or more of the nine one-act plays which make up the three-volume “Tonight at 8:30.” Slated to play opposite Miss Rogers in three of the plays (“Red Peppers,” “Shadow Play” and “Still Life”) are Trevor Howard, Martyn Green and Gig Young. Mr. Howard is being flown in from London especially for the oc-