Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before showtime, and CBS's Hollywood Studio 31 was a reptile house of cables, clotted with men and monitors, cameras and booms, eight sets. "Tuesdays are miserable.'' a man explained. "The actors are just getting aware of the cameras and the feel of the set." This time, matters had got miserable well before Tuesday...
Tuesday is fun-and-games day in the nation's 41 million TV parlors, with no fewer than eleven quiz shows in about as many hours. Best of the big batch is a witty, unpretentious panel quiz on CBS called To Tell the Truth (9 p.m., E.S.T.), which came to television almost a year ago from the well-stocked cupboard of Goodson-Todman,* purveyors of What's My Line...
...Revivalists: After scoring a success last week with The World of Nick Adams, a dramatization of five of Hemingway's early stories about a teen-age boy growing up in Michigan, CBS's The Seven Lively Arts this week firmly established itself as one of the season's brightest newcomers with The Revivalists, a hallelujah-breathing documentary film on militant evangelism. From the husky-voiced zeal of Billy Sunday to the polished fervor of Billy Graham, the camera caught arresting glimpses of believers throbbing with the joy of religion. A Negro named Cat-Iron Carradino croaked...
Critic John Crosby, who has been dishing it out to TV for eleven years in the New York Herald Tribune and 95 other papers, started taking it last week. After serving as narrator in the debut of CBS's The Seven Lively Arts, Crosby "went into a state of shock" at the sort of things TV critics say about a new performer...
...uncontrolled territory" of New Guinea. In fact, the local headhunters had never even heard of TV, and when Lowell ran off the "rushes" for some native chiefs, they were "utterly bored." This week Thomas put U.S. viewers to the test with the first of seven new color travelogues on CBS. Gleeful headhunters waded shoulder-high in scummy New Guinea swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters in narrow canoes at breathtaking speeds, and Headline-Hunter Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle...