Evening star., 1951-01-25
On the Air
Sid Caesar
And Show
Are Tops
By Harry Macarthur

Your Show of Shows" was tele-
visions top program of 1850. 1t
was that, at any rate, in the opin-
ion of the magazine and news
paper television editors and col
umnists who voted in the second
annual Motion Picture Daily
Fame television poll. The program
and those connected with it won
total of six first places, top
ping the record of Milton Berle
and Star Theater," with four
flrsts last year.
The Max Liebman-produced g.
| to-10:30 segment of Saturday
Night Revue" was named as both
the best network program and the
best variety show. Two awards
also went to Sid Caesar (best per-
former and best comedian) and
two to Imogene Coca. She was
voted the best comedienne' and the
most promising feminine star, as
confusing pair Of titles as a girl
ever had handed to her on the
same platter.
Neither Berle nor Star Thea
ter" incidentally. came out ahead
in any category in the Fame-TV
voting, though he still tops almost
every audience poll by a slzeable
margin.
There are several incongruities
in the poll other than the selec-
ton of Miss Coca as both best"
and most promising" You might
think, for instance, that the best
network program, with the best
comedian and best comedienne,
couldn't help being the best
comedy program. But that honor
went to NBC-TV's Sunday night
Comedy Hour"
Have another. The only Com
edy Hour" performer who did any
better than Berle in the matter of
top honors was Jerry Lewis. The
vote decided that he was the most
promising male star.
Then there is the case of Ron
som Sherman. His show was
voted the best daytime television
program, yet, at a time when
sponsors are clamoring for TV
time, NBC could not, or at least
did not, find one to support Mr..
Sherman. The best daytime tele-
vision show on the air is not on
the air.
It should be noted perhaps-and
without comment. to be sure
that these are results of a poll
which also includes these honors:
The painfully cute Bert Parks
was selected as the best master of
ceremonies and those ad nauseum
singing commercials on This Is
Show Business" were voted the
best commercial presentation.
Further word has come along
without Jack Benny's second net
work television show, for which he
started rehearsalS yesterday in
New York. The program is sched-
uled for Sunday night at 7:30 on
WTOP-TV. in the spot usually
occupied by This Is Show Busl-
ness"
The comic plans, for this second
TV try, "a visual Interpretation
of the atmosphere of his radio
program" The locale will be
moved from the living room of
his first show to his dressing
room. The Benny guests will in
clude Frank Sinatra, Faye Emer-
son, Frank Fontaine and Don
Wilson. Eddie Rochester" An
derson has been cancelled out
because of "last-minute script
revisions."
Programs and people: Dolores
Dupont, wife of the Shoreham
Blue Rooms Barnee, looked and
sounded fine last Sunday on
Hazel Markets Talk O. the Town
(WTOP-TV). Is regular TV spot
for her cooking? Look for
those old Rudolph Valentino films
to turn up on television before
long. There are some who think
the late Valentino will be the
next TV sensation, a Ia Hopalong
Cassidy Abbott and Costello
will do two more Give" shows for
NBC-TV, and after that will try
film Tomorrow night at 9
you'll have to decide between
Judith Anderson in The Silver
Cord on Pulitzer Prize Play
house" (WMAL-TV) and Robert
Sterling in Final Copy" a Ford
Theater" dramatization of Jay
Barbette mystery novel (WTOP-
TV.
The weeks Cinderella story
concerns Reba Tassell, %, who
had her first speaking television
part in the Studio One" pres
entation of "Track of the Cat"
after doing walk-on in the previ-
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