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“Thunder in Washington” on The Alcoa Hour was spellbinding stuff, with two brilliant performances by Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley, but the sudden ending left me frustrated and just a little mad to boot. It was like going to the theater and having the stage manager come out at the end of the second act and say: “Well, that’s all, folks. Good night” . Cutest act I’ve seen on TV in a long time: that ventriloquist on the Ed Sullivan Show who used an adorable French poodle for his “dummy”... I’m not surprised that the Sunday night Variety Hour is giving up the ghost after the first of the year. Aside from the Martin and Lewis sessions, that series has been getting more and more wobbly.
I don’t know how Matinee Theater stays as good as it does. An hourlong drama five afternoons a week is a back-breaking job, but the scripts aren’t bad at all and the acting for the most part is superb... Even though I had read the story years before and knew the ending, I still got a bang out of “Our Cook’s a Treasure” on Alfred Hitchcock Presents Not everything David Niven does on Four Star Playhouse rings the bell. “Here Comes the Suit” was duller than dish water. I didn’t tune out because I kept thinking that matters would improve but they never did.
Ym afraid it’s true that This Is Your Life always seems more interesting and entertaining when it is
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dealing with show business figures. I kept thinking just that during the tribute to Mrs. Julia George, who spent her early life in and around Masontown and Uniontown. There was no question that Mrs. George deserved the honor, but the halfhour. was pretty static .. . Because I wouldn’t miss Phil Silvers for the world, I saw only the final 30 minutes of Martha Raye’s last show. Pretty bad... That hillbilly setting for Gisele MacKenzie’s version of “Love and Marriage’ on Your Hit Parade misfired with me. I thought it was a rather tasteless way to present such a lovely number.
A cast of genuine troupers like Cyril Ritchard, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Anne Jeffreys and : Robert Sterling de-. serves better—much | better—than ‘Dear est: Enemy’ 715.3. 1 can’t understand why The Big Surprise hasn’t caught on in the same way as The $64,000 Question. Actually I think it’s a much more entertaining program and does not go in for all the gingerbread which sometimes makes the other giveaway so exasperating ... I’ve seen some glaring cases of miscasting on TV but I think putting Raymond Massey in the title role of “The Late George Apley” topped them all. He was so terribly wrong for the part.
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