Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Producer David (Armstrong Circle Theater) Susskind rasped that they are "too flippant, too cursory, too gossipy, not constructive enough, and not important enough to create a body of critical judgment on one of the most important mediums ever invented...
...sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American flu." Frankie Boy's most effective helpers appeared with him earlier in the week on the Edsel Show, a fluid, funny musical tour with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Rosemary Clooney, which proved that in TV as anywhere else (see CINEMA) there is no substitute for style...
Buried 2,000 Years: The Dead Sea Scrolls (CBS's Armstrong Circle Theater), laced with film clips of monotonous desert vistas and sun-scorched hills, of "the sweet water of Galilee" and frenzied rioting in Palestine, retold the story of Hebrew Archaeologist Eleazar Sukenik's brave struggle to spirit the first of the ancient parchments through the barbed-wire barricades of hostile Arabs. But the crucial events that led to the archaeological find of the century and the evaluation of the Scrolls' significance to the history of Judaism and Christianity were too complex to be tailored skillfully...
...Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment life." ¶ CBS's The Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show off the air (the third time in three years) to present Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong in a $400,000 production choreographed by Eugene Loring-whose dances gave last week's Crescendo, a big CBS variety show, some of its infrequent high moments. ¶ Standard Oil's (NJ.) $600,000 75th Anniversary Show, to be staged in color over...
Satchmo:The Musical Autobiography of Louis Armstrong (Decca, 4 LPs). This lushly packaged, $20 salute to the most influential jazz soloist of them all traces his long career from the shouting, heavily riffed style he learned from Joe Oliver in his Chicago days (Dipper Mouth Blues, High Society) to the high, singing lyricism of the late '20s and early '30s, admirably illustrated in one of his own alltime favorites: On the Sunny Side of the Street. Most of the numbers, recorded at the end of 1956, are replays of records Louis cut between...