Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Hollywood studio theater seats only 1,400 people ("We get queues as long as the Radio City Music Hall," says Keighley), only a handful of Lux's devoted audience have ever seen their idols in the flesh. To make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck...
...Against Crime (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Ralph Bellamy in a new thriller series...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS). Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...
Silver Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Four of a Kind, with Faye Emerson, John Loder...
Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, with Bela Lugosi...