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Ever since the days of Clarabell the clown and his ever ready seltzer bottle, parents have complained about the quality of children's TV programming. But seldom have they had so much to complain about. A typical afternoon of kidvid these days can be a mind-numbing march of cartoon...
Died. Rufus Rose, 70, puppeteer, whose marionette offspring, Howdy Doody, was one of early television's big stars; of peritonitis; in New London, Conn. Rose joined NBC's Howdy Doody Show in 1947, redesigned its gravel-voiced, freckle-faced principal and colleagues, Dilly-Dally and Phineas T. Bluster...
Right, Bob, but where will all this frivolous trading on borrowed image capital end? Next Clarabell will be honking the wonders of Schweppes tonic or Princess Summerfall Winterspring plugging water beds.
A $2,000 cowboy marionette dressed in a plaid shirt, a kerchief and boots, Howdy Doody was mostly a 27-in. block of lemonwood. His voice was supplied by Actor Bob Smith, who also played Buffalo Bob, billed as "the great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians." Perhaps even more...
As Clarabell spoke-for the first time ever-to say "Goodbye, kids," the show's producer, Roger Muir, was grumbling offstage that sponsors were losing interest in kiddy shows, since children simply cannot offer much immediate return for the advertising dollar. But NBC is replacing the recently de-sponsored...