Word: baird
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results. As distinctively package-produced by Henry Jaffe (The Chevy Show, Shirley Temple Storybook), Bell's Adventures in Music, first of four NBC shows this season, tastefully allowed top artists to perform without interruption, even dispensed with an M.C. The cast: Actor Maurice Evans narrating for the uncanny Baird puppets (TIME, Dec. 29), Opera Star Renata Tebaldi (two exciting arias from Madame Butterfly), the piano team of Gold and Fizdale and members of the New York City Ballet. Warmest, most memorable part of the show: Singer Harry Belafonte's spellbinding finale. In a full-throated 18 minutes...
...after the Government first permitted firms to own reactors, was forced to drop out in the face of expense and uncertainty. Today, the maturing U.S. atomics industry is made up of about 100 major Government and privately owned manufacturing and research organizations. They range from such small firms as Baird-Atomic, Inc. and Nuclear Science and Engineering, with only a few million dollars worth of business in supplying the major atomics firms, to such giants as Westinghouse and Du Pont, whose contracts run into hundreds of millions (see box). Several of them are ahead of G.E. in certain fields...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Adventures in Music, with Harry Belafonte, Renata Tebaldi, Maurice Evans, Duo Pianists Gold and Fizdale, the New York City Ballet and the Baird puppets...
...Baird turns clay models of his puppets' heads over to his 13 artisans for casting in plastic; there may be four or more versions of the same character to show his various stages and moods. In action, the creatures are handled by the Bairds (Cora plays all the female parts) and their company of four men. Though a puppeteer may handle as many as four characters at a time (including dancing marionettes with 27 strings apiece), the art requires less finger dexterity than uncanny ability to project voice and body down from the overhead "bridge" onto the stage. "Some...
...generally used animals: a gossipy hen (Hedda Louella McBrood), a bulldog TV interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...