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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 18--Hollywood funnyman Bob Hope will be the feature attraction at the Harvard Club of Southern California's Washington's Birthday Dinner, on February...
...News to Me.* Last week they launched the third in their series, The Name's the Same (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Like most of the others, it has a panel of experts: Comic Abe Burrows, Actress Joan Alexander, Musician Meredith Willson. It also has a funnyman moderator (Robert Q. Lewis), and a succession of contestants, in this case individuals whose names are the same as those of living & dead celebrities (among last week's mystery contestants: Jane Russell, a Long Island saleswoman). Each panelist is allowed ten questions, pays a $25 forfeit for failing to guess...
...seized, in plain view of all, with electric charges of wild vigor, wild friendliness and wild anxiety. He emitted a hoarse, gobbling cry. The audience, instantly enslaved, gave one seal-like bark of obedient laughter and then bathed him in 20 seconds of delighted applause. Oldtime Funnyman Bert Lahr (Hot-Cha!, George...
What's My Line? comes in the standard half-hour size, equipped with a standard panel of four: Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress Arlene Francis, Funnyman Hal Block and a guest. By asking questions that can only be answered with a yes or no, the panelists try to discover the business occupations (which have already been flashed to the TV audience) of the lady wrestlers, tree surgeons, wig-makers, house detectives, sword swallowers, etc. who appear as challengers. Each "no" answer wins $5 for the challenger; if he can answer no ten times he gets credit for defeating the panel...
...does the panel seldom takes it lightly. Among the 5,000 letters received each week, a good number usually protest Miss Kilgallen's relentless onslaught (observed one TVman: "Dottie's butler gets very annoyed if she misses one"). Almost as many take issue with the puns Funnyman Block incorporates into his earnest questions. Others charge collusion, although Moderator Daly insists that there is only one signal he ever gives to the panel: when he pulls his right ear lobe it warns them, usually Block, that the questions are getting dangerously close to double entendre...