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When Jackie Gleason suddenly up and announced his retirement from CBS television last winter, he got a wire of "appreciation" from an NBC vice president. The telegram was ill timed. In the first place, the Gleason show had become so lackluster in recent seasons that he already seemed semiretired. In the second place, Gleason turned right around and signed an $8,000,000 deal with CBS for one more season. It would be, he proclaimed, "something different" and "something better...
Father Boyd gets mixed reviews. Variety called him "hipper-than-thou." San Francisco's Columnist Ralph Gleason dismissed his act as "boring" and advised him that "the nightclubs are in far less need of preachers than the cathedrals." He sometimes has to deal with heckling spectators who have had a bit too much to drink, but in general the audience, which often includes priests and ministers, seems to like his act. The Rev. James Clark Brown, pastor of San Francisco's First Congregational Church, calls Father Boyd's appearance at the hungry i "the most effective...
...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 pm.). Art Carney joins Jackie for the first of ten topical musical plays, this one called "The Politician...
...Duddy are on stand-by call if the act needs revamping. It is an expertise that they first developed while working together on the old Arthur Godfrey TV show-Bresler as conductor, Duddy as director of the chorus. In the years since, they have collaborated on recordings, several Jackie Gleason specials, a gross of TV commercials (Ford, Esso, Chesterfield) and are currently working on a musical. But they have never lost their love for nightclubs, especially since they command up to $20,000 for an act. The important thing, as Duddy says, is "being inspired by the personality we work...
Injuries to starting players hurt the Crimson's chances against the Boston club. Back Parker Wise and Lloyd Macdonald both were out with inflamed knees. Wing-forward Dan Gleason and Captain Quent Spector were also sidelined from the game...