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...Colgate Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). Starring Eddie Cantor...
Making his television debut on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m.), Allen was the third in Colgate's stable of comedians, which includes Bobby Clark, Eddie Cantor, Martin & Lewis, Bob Hope. His fans noted that the old, surefire Allen formula, modified for TV and bolstered with a $60,000 budget, was still serviceable. Transformed into puppets for the camera, the inhabitants of Allen's Alley talked in their best Bronx, New England, and deep South accents...
Patting his hands and batting his banjo-eyes, 58-year-old Eddie Cantor last week skipped through the Colgate Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBCTV) and his first appearance on television. Though surrounded by bright young people from current Broadway shows, Cantor looked as durable and sentimental as ever. He re-enacted skits from musicals of the '20s and sang such old favorites as Ain't She Sweet? and Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. Headlined Variety: "Cantor Sock in Debut ... Vet Showman a TV Natural." A twelve-city Hooper survey rated Cantor eleven points higher...
...Cantor's success proved the merit of a rotating plan devised to lure hesitant, big-name comedians onto television. Since few of the comics are eager for the grueling test of a weekly series, the Colgate Comedy Hour (sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) allows Cantor to alternate with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen and Bobby Clark (Clark, in turn, will alternate with Bob Hope). NBC will use the same technique on a new series starting next month which will star, in rotation, Ed Wynn, Danny Thomas and Jimmy Durante...
Colgate Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). Eddie Cantor...