Variety (March 1958)

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TELEVISION BEDEWS URstlEff Wednesday, Marcli 5, 1958 PUT IT IN WRITING f .. . TTT?TTTMMMMfftMmttttfMtttttM With Dan Anthony, Dr. Kenneth f i fTl 1 Tl' " 11 f T m 1 ele r ollow^Up Comment - ca I.indfors, Carlton Fredericks, A ■. 1. guests , T-fl ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ »4 » 4 ♦ ♦♦ ♦» | » ♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ » > + ♦♦ »+♦-»♦♦♦♦ Producer: Rqhert C. Bloom •,' ., ' ' \. .. ; ' I - Director: H. Wesley Kenney See It Now. . : . to the removal of hi^ fiddled body it out as to whether Williams Is Writer: Betty L. Freedman Attainment of Statehood for. the from a barber’s chair. really that kind of guy. 30 >lins., Tue.s., .8:30 p.m. territories of Alaska and Hawaii There were vigorous vignettes Of Other contributions to Williams’ WARD; New York ; ■ ■ - ' ■ -has been one of the longrunning CO rv doines on occasidn but there writing personality were what he I ^ things ^ congressional serlalsMlt’s now up e'vasileness too In ’explaining described his loss of -‘Infantile v«ron- . with... rut It In wilting, , again), but toe pro & con issues whv the most nfomihent gangster omnipotence”—which comes when tit.* panel, show. that, premiered a . were never set forth so vividly or in the Brooklyn underworld could as the child emerges from infantil- V.,ck aL'o Tuesday 'Feb. 25; as a dramatized so effectively as on last' ism and stiffens a sense of outrage 1.;, :.I half-hour on WABD.Newj Sunday’s ’’See It Nov’< under Ed ^ «mf was mCntTon mad?of the "hen all his demands are So York 1 hat s oven if you believe .Murrow and Fred ; Friendly’s con-.. Ki - ; •+., district attorney who longer met. with love and care and m the -.science of graphology in strUctively probing auspices. was 8 lav in ~ Dressing indictments what, according to Williams, is the relation tq character analysis., -\vjsee It Now” toSSed : the debate and flnii^. ^ S^cu?e pS5ect rimt.of anger in a “ P^ple, He A\ cs Kenney an excellent direc- around: in:.word and picture, from murder cases against Aiiastasii. didn t-however, say why this made I oi- in oilier areas; goofed bh sound; every conceivable angle, doCu^ Blaming it alL ontheebmmon ‘‘pee- 1 2 1 , rn angrier than anyone else, aiid caineia pickup: Sandy Becker,; meriting both sides of. the .story pul” wasn’t sufficient. Also, three years,of enduring as the moderator of a three-man pan-; with- on-the-spot capsule siimma- . t>„_ • u-Wn dirpctcd did a , sh °c c ’erk gave him an insight cl of handwriting--experts” (that tions. from all walks of life while iri SiiSees iS? ?}° most .people go through mclmrcs Virginia Graham who was al the same time Updating the -ha-, ll rather than living at oiire modest about her knowl- ticii bri the Washington, D. C., ■Ocularly.if . it. He also has a deep suspicion cd *c ot graphology and . loaded temper. The. Visual . montages of i wHerJ ^the People^who try to become his w ith opinions' about the character Alas ka - Hawaii resources, their . t** fiends—they’re interested in Ten- of the mystery guests on -the;people, economy and behaviour d Tnt Williams-Xather than Tom kept the nice-guy qualities he nor- conipanying arguments: Almost as many adjective jerkers were . involved in the creation of r . Williams seems to feel the re- mally shows during his juve tv em- • Fr0ITi AlasKa> the closest of the ihls gaSgster scriDt as covered the P 0 *? abo V- t the an S er and y iplenc f ce,* chores, but uas jmcertom in Uvd; to the lhr ^ hb i d D f Statehood, v ^liSSr^ InA^ Script | n hls writing are exaggerated,- and bis new nighttime rplc And the ;( . ame foV ceful arguments from col-1 °“f bv MaMn ^ h f PQinted to his^haPPter plays framework of Put It In f Writing ■ i■.$. ge students,. States-born home. Grlcmb^ along with his belief that the more. S, by v * ieed -1 ^leaders, Eskimos. Gov; : Mil^,Step : Thi^iSS^aJStefs Tv t° ^‘ ie t with 'ineSe ’standtag hp 1 fdlSfc there’VnS*c?y • % was able to duck the question S 'ivVBIMntt’nds 1 lih^ringylt° to | f.(iej.ests^freiglit-^ahd 1 ^shlppinf V.r.e mvstpvv mipst ner show from house. Rans. in fm'm inai YY,\mj lnienns jimmiig ic iv it it Pros ts •.-'■freight and shiDDing I i. one mystery .guest-- per^sho\y froiii - jdricture'S: Similarly, from Hawaiii - ouse? .5™ ' th'e. effect of statehood on diverse . l of life on the islands] . w . Bob Hope. Show Wallace framed the question with¬ in the context of a quote from George Jean Nathan, and Williams observed that Nathen has panned ■‘ise mentioned .so far. Idea of Pirii^V^- , cane ^ineanDle - Bob ; Hope's: March airing .on an bu t one of his works am «“f eti,i were L- seeI ? to ‘' afflnit y’ themselves against those, oi tne ex-. r - r ramifications tne course, nope s sessions nave | f 0r him. * . pmts. who derive theirs from hand-; ploied in.aUit? .an n . f reac hed^'..a- kind of. assembly line i PerhaDS mos t interesting was writing alone proved, to' be only / But it was when Murro^c 5c Casformat;.In.:.which regulars virtually fwni; am i» evaluation of hil ow’rt embarrassing for the guests andinvadedthe^ ■ D. C. piecincts fo l i C an guess what he’ll be doing and „ k u e » s never f e i> he’s been mil the least bit arresting for the ^vmvs with ■Senators^ap^ j s ^. y : .... Ze to reach thf. S he Set'fo?’ audience. The foolishly generalized Kastland and Geoige W. Malone, ] There was one essential differ- hi mS elf in anv of hfs Dlavs and he questions, couldn’t be honestly an- fwP outspoken opponents of the^ ence j n tbis telecast. Normally, wouldn »t class himself P in y the same sweretl by anyone, and it’s doubt-;: statehood. btljs,- that ...See It Now. Hope’s staiidiip c °medy sessions, at-J Ga g U A as Hemingwav and - -Faulk- ful that many more stars will per^. provedl anew.its forcefull. penetrat- tbe beginning give the show stiff i- ner 8 for exam nie ^Wallace hadDer- mit themselves to appear on a pr o-= mg role m three-dimensional per- c j ent strength to overcome stiuc- haoVas much P friistration ih oene- grani. especially a local one where ; sonality exposure.^Eastland.s trot- weaknesses in the sketches. + ratine Williams’ thoughtful gbard- the promotional returns , are lim- j ring out. of .the _ red heii ing bu^a- j h is time, the. opposite took place. e dness as characterizes the 8 frus^ ited. where they are torn apart ohlgpm and .the fear of .-Abe Harry; K wasn r t . that Hope’s monolog ;Sfon of wflliW own chara^ swell a flimsy-_pretext.■ as:han^wMtf -^s^tSs^ma- • 5any laughs, but tefs,'but it was'still an Interesting liu ,inal>sis . , Ajt . j jor squaw k against Hawaii. State- d ° ne better m - hlS del>alt ' and at times fascinating closeup of ROBERT TROUT WITH NEWS j ji°od was.: perhaps, par for the j H op e collected a cast comprising the perionalttos 11 S topgra< Jf haa ea ' Din^r^axC^lH,; - « rtJ i n ed lor Sen; with ho: particular talent, Natalie Lowell Thomas Writer: Tf put ' t nnt*^Wn so' >vith do pariicular talent; Natalie Lowell Thomas CBSTV l^ightehing ^oth^ to content andlWood and Robert ’Wagner, Ring one of the belt in the “High Tim new lineup replacing “Beat; Ration, uni^.^djeen^StS H’f a^ ^ gg Sund'ivs^make's^for^^hap'pv'ton- ‘ ttibute to MurrOw that he could ^ia^^chJrirdng^and ni S ht - It was Lowell Thomas’visit deni. “The Last Word,” which scin^- hold in himself in check (though■ a•[^ootil -^i^tl^th^Sem not to to ' the ?emote count ^ of Tlbet till at od. last time-up i2>, was fol- y^wer could, sense a champmgat;^ 0 ^- The expedition took place, ac- '-lowed; for the last five minutes the blt '■ as M alon , e ,. went , off the lind-take'does ? it for them 8 cording to the commentary, prior boforo R:30 by “Robert Trout^ with ; deep end - ;There. foUoAvedan to the Chinese Communists’ take- tho Nows.” Vefeian ne \vsgabbervconating-diatribe not only against) Miss Wood also a looker, was over of Tibet. What was captured Trout, unaided by film, clips or' accepting.non-contiguous areas in-; in several bits of bttsiness with b y the cameras was the multi- anv (itlior visual assist^ gave a to Statehood ‘which he envisioned iHope. Two Sleepy People, done faceted, different culture existing resonant and often humorous dis- . inevitably as embracing . Puerto.; in the then-and-hmv vein, went at o the roof of the world.” tiiK-lioit ti).Jiis;i;e;vs briefs ' , « pther^e «14 THE RAY DOREY SHOW With Jesse Cain, announcer; Pris¬ cilla Howe, Bill Green and Park . Squares (4); Tabby Boots, Frank Ceratti, guests Producer-Director: Bob. Kinkead 30 Mins., Mon-thru-Fri., 2:30 pjn. PARTICIPATING WHDH-TV, from Boston (color) WHDH-TV, Channel. 5, has: Hub’s only live color variety show and it's a good one, nicely, paced,- musically strong and with unusu¬ ally slick sets. An interesting pre¬ opening before the credits in show caught Friday. (28) was a steam- room set, with two. fat boys in steam cabinets, both guests, the pro nitery comic, Tubby Boots, weighing in ait 353, and Frank Ceratti; a 350 pounder of the Watertown Highway Dept, who pipes and had extra hit in “Home Before. Dark” filmed in and around Hub. Opening brought forth some one liners between Boots and Ceratti with announcer Jesse Cain referee¬ ing and. then both fat boys stood up and scampered off : with the steam cabinets to catch “The Ray Dorey Show.” It was a slick bridge into the show, which . had . four scenes with some handsome sets , by Henri Lion. Dorey rode with guest Ceratti in a prop Watertown Highway Dept, truck and talked his guest into a nice rendition of “Sleepy Time’ Down South.” Bill Green at the 88, Don Alessi, guitar, . Russ Centamore, base, and Lou... Magnano on vibes, backed up love¬ ly songstress Priscilla Howe, who warbles with the band at the near¬ by Statler-Hilton, for rousing “You Belong To Me” with Jesse Cain, announcer, assisting. I Tubby Boots, featured guest, did his w r .k. pantomine of Anna Rus¬ sell, with a lectern provided by Lion and placard, addressing a la¬ dies’ club sesh using recording of Miss Russell’s ictiial voice on tape to close the show in smooth fash¬ ion. Color came through fine. All in all, Ray Dorey Show shapes as rewarding viewing and WHDH-TV rates for first tv showcasing of. va¬ riety talent In Hub on across the board basis. ' Guy. Foreign TV Reviews tinc-tum to his news briefs. day evening item. ' BLUE FAIRY ’‘ieli 1 v K-ileahle Sun r^bsa and thus changing the whole i tine with feeling effect and appre- ] 'J“JL.fr io,S - 'Vleabl.e r f un ' j complexion of. Congress but wound dates a comedy situation. Wagner, at tcm - A t ’ up deploring the imminence of the 1 although not given much to do. did {j 1 ® S° rnba JJ travelog was g»*eatest depression in history ; lar that which was demanded of him in j tion in parts, references to expedi¬ tion porters paying no taxes,, a * ft • hixltncrTT ax; O nnn-npareahle stvle liuii puruers paying nu iaAes, a MiriSSS,*“-• lKe :Sn which. half 6£ this hour show Fvp 1 p,PrnH.fill I it V V u would serve its purpose. w v ould was sponsored by. Johnson Motors, foi'SioV Executive Producer: Leslie Urbach • and fin. ; uhn mt-W stim.VTatinw Vnmmer- equal time), a Tibetan festival com- Pr<Hli1Mr . - annex Mexic.6 tomorrow, and fin-i who. got. some stihiulating commer- • .u «*• ntipptnr nin f Kally feeling sorry for Murrow and : cials. NBC took out the other half l n ba ^! b fJJ Director. Don Kane all New Yorkers who live on a for plugging, its shows. It’s an in- .^ m .P ts to popularize the subject at RC l 1 V^CTOftypDi’ K rl RRn?' ‘‘10 r r override” behind glass win- ; teresting commentary.on television actual,ty de ' JSJi / —* jIw . BROS... • dows and have no inkling of wdvat’s, itself when a Bob Hope isn’t SRO. pictad by the camera * v. l nicaRo happening anywhere else in the i Jose. . The footage had some fascinat- . j Aciij/mt & .Eckhard.t\ . • world. • - - .. \ ;. ' ing moments. Thomas and son v\ hat Chicago television seems to ’■ if Malone represents democracy |. \ Person to ; Person Lowell Jr, were forbidden by the need [east today , ts another kid- in aciioii. one coqld only Wonder i 'ffiev brought up the curtain then Tibetan government from tak- stmw. but tins oris so attractively why Alaska or Hawaii would Want ;..s 0m e ‘40 minutes earlier at New ihg their regular camera crew on .wrought it s worth adding to the equality. Rose. . York’s Shubert Theatre Friday the expedition. So, father and "son, tisl it only to boast bv. to exemplify . 1 ,, -. 1 .28^ where-Sells Axe Rhiging” accompanied by guides and porters; enh he -^ ^ y a sin n’ 1 ^ local opus , :■ . Climax , f showing to-gtie .Judy Iloltiday an took off from India to Dhasa, the ca; he dom. . . v - I ' Albert Anastasia, chief of the ex-= opportunity to get home in time to capital.. On the, outskirts, they t ‘ lin “A ar< f immediately in terriiination department and. Lord ■ P i av hostess to Edward R. Murrow' visited villages, trekked the coun- lt> distayor, ;but both are external High Executioner of Murder Inc., ; 0 n CBS^TV tryside, and finally reached the and don t n’fiyct on the shows, in-: got drilled plenty at the -end-of tlie ; ’.- - She - came* 'oii- in the last auarter capital and the^ imposing “Palace trinsic (lualitv,. One. “Blue Fairy” , 60-minute Chrysler Corp.,“Climax” • 0 f the show and seemed none the of the Gods” Of the Dalai Lama: IS hticking sonic prettv fast net T , production over CBS-TV (27 > but i worse for her arduous song-and- The Thomases had an interview woi k com petit ion at 7:15, and two, i some small fry viewing the pro- dance stint in the tuner that same with the “living Buddha.” On the it s hard to imagine even moppets.' ceedings must have thought they: 'pyoning it was of course just an- way home, the elder Thomas suf- Mtting still for a drawnout. serial- bumped off the Wrong guy.v -A other routine fan mag styled Inter- fered a broken hip from a fall off a i/ed tel.mg of a story like . Pinoc- , The ..dirty yegg from Brooklyn.; view .but Miss Holliday was com- horse, which was not really mend- clno. especially when that story;.. crackerjack; exponent of murder.^(pletely at ease oiid projected the ed until he reached the States, ana others-like it have been un-; violence, syndicate crime, forgery.; amiable charm that comes off so There were treacherous mountain equal time), a Tibetan festival corn- ally feeling sorry for Murrow and ; cials. NBC took out the other half PiSS.*?. ail New Yorkers who live on a for plugging, its shows. It’s an in- S? p ^l ar + K® w.??hE “iO r f override” behind, glass win- > teresting commentary.on television tbe * J*L x P en fP actuality de- d(iws and have no inkling of wdvat’s, itself \vhen a Bob Hope isn’t SRO. pict ®d by the camera, happening anywhere else in thei Jose. . The footage had some fascinat- \\;orld. f . , . - ,■v ing moments. Thomas and son I. If Malone represents democracy j . Person to Person Lowell. Jr, were forbidden by the in acliori. one could only wonder i They brought up the curtain then Tibetan government from tak- w hy Alaska or. Hawaii would, want i.some *40 minutes earlier at New ip S their regular camera crew on equality.; . Rose. .. York’s Shubert Theatre Friday th e expedition. So, father and'sbn, ■: . rr- . «28I. w here ‘^Beils. Are Ringing” is Ja PCpmpanied by guides and portei^; j . Climax showing, to give Judy Holliday an took off from India to Lhasa, the fpl jed en toto by the networks in ; salary kickbacks, embezzlement, well on. stage! Also in for a briefie Passes, a narrow bridge to cross, the mere ^ space of an hour. This [extortion and. every other phase of ; q and a was Miss Hollidav’s moth- turbulent waters to navigate. The MM-sion ot “Pinocehio.” at the rate; mayhem emerged . not quite ..as : er. Mrs. Tuvim. • - natives were primitive and strange it is unraveling, looks like it’ll run ruthfess as heWas in rieal life in i I n before' the musicdriiedv star —-a feudal land lost ifi time.. It was a month at least _. . ■ .-■ ’ the rugged environs of. Red Hook !^•as . photographer Dave Duncan, truly a high adventure. ()\ e room ing this is the fact that and South, Brooklym. Eli AVallach, '.He had some interesting things to Tbe commercials by Delco util- tae script is very i.atothaent,. with although riot meaning to, gave.the sav about his photo work during ized some of the footage Thomas a sott-pedaled .moral tosson in each Anastasia role a toiich of sentimen- ; \V6rld War II and his soon due took on his treks for the series, installment and an assort merit -.nf ;'.tiflity/.and~ despite the .gangster’s ' pictbrial book. “The Private World While effective, as an entity, they interesting side characters wjio untidy end; incipient; hoods; catch- 0 f. Pablo Picasso.” Gros. detracted frorii the credibility, of never appeared m the motion pic- ing the show may have regarded j __^ r -the-.program, tpjt nt-times the view-’ ture or; televised versions; of. the ; him with considerable admiration; { Mike Wallace Interview er didn’t know where the commier- tale bet ore What.- mot*', it s eri- .Certainly Anastasia could have; Mike Wallace’s interview with ^ c ^ al began and ended. Horo. ; ..acted by the- Kutus Rose Marion-/ been painted in^^ darker hues than pia^wSght T^n&seA W^flM An s ’^ was showm in the ‘‘Climax” pr.o- bad' more than its share of ^mo- The Twentieth Century AJs . A 1 */ ’ 110 '- U s . sometimes duction and Don Ameche’s banal ments of candor; but it also had Unpleasant memories of World nl? r. - r T t0 £o - rg?t moralizing lacked the necessary w hat Can only be characterized as War II were revived Sunday (2) on uu> it not rial people. > bite to inflame the viewers. Much iicrhtPr mnmentc CBS-TV’s “The Twentipfh r«»n. ^ r j tbe; newsreel cli P s j0 f ;the gangster ,W.miams to discover why his playl Nuremberg/’ when the machinery ht ;ri u Jo flms hkc Peter Pan. t reign m the video . version ; of . are obsessed With tragedy, vio- J of Allied justice dealt with some loea’ 1 ‘ Anatasia: His Life .and"Jence,. frustration, bitterness and-21 top Nazi leaders. A profusion R(’\ l ?r n conim-1 b • De D tb u ' ^ j >• r ij- -bate. Playwright replied that he i of well-edited clips, Andy Logan’s Bros ^ ^ ‘ + i Per 4 haps the method of unfolding really didn’t believe-they were but ‘ tight script and Walter Cronkite’s S nmnt f J k l . ltb ^ ripi v w^s bad. It was patchy ; his analyst does, and the matter is j able narration helped recreate the rm^ipirK- fui SJniwr t Vrir!f v 2?* ai1 ? di sjoinved. It had- Ameche as .currently under discussion between ; atmosphere of this historic event, p wlvt', , nl'r.5 r lnn P i n g ' a lv commentator selling his boss, the . two. of. them. Williams sug-‘ For the most-part the script han- tici.KrivIn' Mv2* P !; ^ on the gisted that Wallace and his Satur- ; died the trial and.its multi-faceted i,vd costn nW : dt ‘ mI5? r - f t0 pi ' q >! e h . ls ^ night ABC-TV audience .would aspects in chronological order, and costumes of. Robert Stebbins,, case traced the lund passages m just have to wait for.:the reason .’ Field Marshal Hermann Goering. Les. i Anastasia s rise from ship-jumping- until he . and. his analyst have had 1 . (Continued On page 48) ; THE WHITE JUNGLE With Okoli Onyekwena, Edric Con¬ nor, others Director: Claude Whatham 45 mins., Tues., 10 p.m. Granada-TV, from Manchester. To a majority of. colored people, Britain “is the end of the rain¬ bow.” Granada-TV, taking another step into the experimental program field, probed the reasons, why col¬ ored folks are coming to U.K. at the rate of thousands each week; how they are treated. when they get here; and their views on this country after they’ve been here for a while. For some of the immi¬ grants, there was a rainbow’s end, for others life got pretty tough when they landed. The program¬ mers have a flair for the offbeat, and generally succeed In getting across out-of-the-rut topics, and in this all colored offering there was the basis of a fine program; , which, however, lost a lot of its. impact through its length. As a 30-minute show. “The White Jungle” could have registered as a taut, gripping inquiry, but the extra 15 minutes led to some repetition and spoiled the interest. . Edric Connor and Okoli Onyek¬ wena handled; the emceeing chores between them, and: brought to light the problems confronting the im¬ migrants. Among the settlers were four stowaways from British Gui¬ ana, a midwife, a school teacher arid a business man. Some had succeeded in making a go of life in Britain, but others had had, and were having, difficulty in .finding jobs and homes. There were plenty of jobs for people content to do manual work, but for those with higher ambitions, jobs; were harder to find. Finding homes too, was not easy—that is. “decent” homes. One West Indian said that rents <. were immediately doubled for col¬ ored people The program made a fairly good try at explaining color -problems, and was much helped by the frank;- honest statements made by partici¬ pants who appeared to be com¬ pletely unaware of the cameras. - Bary. MYSELF WHiiN YOUNG With Dennis Price, Maxine Audley, Zena Walker, Andre Maranne, Stuart Hutchinson, Phyllis Mor¬ ris, Jeremy Brett Writer: Dario Bellini Director: John Moxey 90 mins.,: Wed., 9 p.m. ... Associated-Rediffosion from Loh- don As the saying goes, “there are always ;two sides to a story,” and there certainly were in this tv adaptation of Dario Bellini’s “Paul (Continued on page 48)