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Dave Garroway Show (Fri. 8 p.m., NBCTV) is an attempt to return to the format and happy informality of the 1949-51 Garroway-at-Large show, which was telecast from Chicago. Though Garroway is using some of the same cast, technical crew and relaxed manner that he employed in the original show, he seems to have left some valuable ingredient behind in moving to Manhattan. NBC should offer a large reward for its immediate return...
...first volumes in the "Makers of the American Tradition Series," Roger Williams by Perry Miller may decide the success of what its editors call "a new and fresh approach" to the great figures of the American past. The format for the series is neither strictly biographical nor completely anthropological, instead it presents the speeches and writings of its subject with critical interpretation and explanation by the author. Therefore the author has a double task; to glean only the most significant of a man's published thoughts, and to reveal enough of his physical life to give his words coherence...
...Robe is familiar in formula, its format is different. While the CinemaScope process does not create a sense of depth so great as in stercoscopic films, one does feel the solidity of both actors and sets. The curving screen, however, two-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, presents unique problems of composition. Director Henry Koster carefully avoids small grouping of actors, but when close-ups are necessary, vast expanses of background distract to the right and left...
Within its Reader's Digest format, the Digest prints cartoons and writing culled from newspapers and magazines, unsigned articles of its own, and even a "full-length mystery" called Death Stalks the New Deal. Editor of the Digest is Public Relations Director Clayton Fritchey, 49, of the Democratic National Committee, ex-newsman (Pittsburgh Press, Cleveland Press, New Orleans Item), onetime administrative assistant to Harry Truman, and press campaign adviser to Adlai Stevenson. While the Democrats are not trying to make money on the Digest, Editor Fritchey estimates it will break even on a circulation...
...chance to give trial runs to novel, out-of-the-ordinary programs. But they seldom take such a chance. Instinctively, they prefer the familiar and inexpensive 'to the 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...