Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After an audit of his income taxes paid in the past twelve years, Actor William ("Bud") Abbott, 63, surviving half of the Abbott & Costello comedy team, was mowed down by revenooers. Conceding that his arrears total about $500,000, Taxpayer Abbott lamented that he is out of cash, his $125,000 ranch, his financial interest ($100,000) in old movies, his house (up for sale on Uncle Sam's orders) and friends. Said he of old acquaintances who forgot: "All my so-called pals suddenly don't know me any more-now that the booze has stopped flowing...
Holiday, U.S.A. (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Versatile Folk Singer-Actor Burl Ives sounds off on American song styles from 19th century tinkle-tankle to the latest Broadway specimens...
...story falls into the predictable triangular pattern, which soon resolves into the predictable eternal question: Which boy will get the girl? In this instance, the answer is intended to answer the race question, but since Actor Belafonte's skin seems just about as light as Actor Ferrer's, the audience may justifiably wonder if the question itself is not almost academic. Anyway, black boy gets white girl-or seems to. But then in the confusing finish (which was reshot after a big front-office foofaraw), all three wander off together hand in hand-with the girl...
...Gnoli broke his pencils and joined an Italian road company as a "no-talent" actor. Spear carrying eventually led to a promising career in theater design. But art drew him back to Rome, where he conceived the best pictures in last week's show-austere descriptions in ink of the city's dark and quiet corners: a hand laundry where only the linen sparkles, an empty tavern where the chairs seem to converse...
Mark Twain Tonight! Premature old age descends nightly on Actor Hal Hoibrook, 34, as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and the wisdom of the great humorist as a platform lecturer...