Evening star., 1954-11-12

was cOmpaClDle Dut only paTely
on Wednesday night.
The "Best of Broadway is just
not good enough to survive every
thing that happened to it on
television this week.
incidentally, while this series
is before the meeting, its studio
audience deserves some more
attention. The attention of q
firing squad. preferably. This is
undoubtedly the worst set of in
truders we have. It not only
holds up proceedings by applaud
ing every stars entrance, it also
laughs at the most atrocious
times. It roared, for instance
when Jack E. Leonard said to a
girl selling bongo drums. "Just
for that turn in your bongos and
yon're of the team"
This is about as funny a line
as Hello and anybody who
laughs aloud at it ought to be
barred from public assemblies.
From public assemblies in tele-
vision studios, at least.
HOT QUINTET-The really
spectacular television perform
ance of the week turned up near
the end of 1--WE Got a Secret"
It was brief, but unforgettable.
Master of Ceremonies, Garry
Moore introduced Violinist Mis-
cha Elman and soon got him to
making music. Instead of his
violin, though, Mr.. Elman played
the piano, his first public per-
formance anywhere on the in
strument. For this auspicious
occasion he was given some
highly questionable surprise sup
port from Mitch Miller, the CO.
lumbia Records executive, on.
clarinet; Pianist Skitch Hender-
son, on the accordion: Comic
Morey Amsterdam, on bass, and
Mr.. Moore. at the drums. 1t may
not have been the most musical
rendition Of "Tea for Two" ever
heard, but it will long stand
as the most memorable.
IN THE NEWS-Wth NBC-
TV's-or rather Larry Spvak's--
Meet the Press" SO successful. it
is natural that others should ex-
plore the same field. There Is abb
solutely no reason why we should
have only one program of this
sort, but you can't merely copy
it. The problem is to get a show
just like it which doesn't look
T just like it.
The latest try has been made
by Producer Ted Ayres and
CBS-TV with Face the Nation"
This is. nobody can deny. Meet
the Press" with minor variations.
On "Face the Nation" the man
meeting the press faces two rep
resentatives of it here, two out
Of town. On last Sundays first
show Senator Mccarthy was
questioned by william Hines, jr..
Sunday Editor of The Star; Will
liam Lawrence of the New York
Times; Frank Gibney of News
week lin New York;, and Jep
Cadou Of the International News
Service Tin Indianapolis.)
They didn't. it must be ad-
mitted, get much further with
Senator Mccarthy than any one
else has in this sort Of TV inter-
view. They did. however. put up
a brave try and it was highly
interesting half-hour. The elec-
tronic gimmick of bringing in the
out-of town reporters seemed to
work smoothly enough. after Mr..
Gibney's face failed to show on
his first two queries. Ted Coop
served ably as moderator.
So CHS now has show all Its
own which will make news for
the Monday papers, even as
Meet the Press" long has done
for NBC. Making this news this
coming Sunday for Pace the
Nation. incidentally viii be
Senator-elect Clifford Case of
New Jersey. His out-of-town
questions viii come from Chi
cago and Philadelphia.
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DEBUT Anybody around here
4 dying for 4 look at Marion
Brando's girl friend. Josanne
Mariana? If so Cor even If not
| sol she'll make her first public
I appearance in this country Sum
1 day on the Comedy Hour.
Marion cahled his permission
rom Rome.