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...unusual and experimental. Last week replacing Your Show of Shows with Saturday Night Revue, NBC stuck to the familiar variety format as a showcase for some likable new talent. Starring Composer Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael and directed by Sid Miller (who often plays literate TV comedy with Donald O'Connor), the Revue introduced a Martha Raye-type comedienne named Helen Halpin, rubber-faced Comic Jackie Kannon ( I studied dramatics under Senator McCarthy"), and, best of the lot, George Gobel, who deadpanned a funny monologue about a lost bowling ball. Some other changes this month...
Rumors that the three evening events for which tickets are being sold might be called off because of poor sales were squelched by Committee President Daniel J. O'Connor '53 last night...
...made so many commitments--down payments on contracts and such--that we can't call the thing off now. It's on, come hell or high water," O'Connor said. He also denied any knowledge of possible changes in the method of choosing future committees...
About one third of the number of tickets necessary to cover the cost of the entertainments had been sold yesterday, but O'Connor and other members of the Committee expressed hopes of a last-minute buying rush...
...They hadn't sold many more tickets than this at the same time last year," commented O'Connor. Last year's graduation took place a week later, however...