Word: gobel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Gobel Show (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guest: Jack Benny...
Author Douglas-who originally had the book privately printed and sent to some 400 friends-is a weathered Janizary in the gag profession, whose sultans have been Bob Hope, Red Skelton, George Gobel, Jimmy Durante and, for the past twelve years, Jack Paar. Although Paar has announced that Douglas will be dropped when his contract runs out this month ("You have misused me and your expense account"), Jack has plugged the book, which was also aided by the flack magic of Manhattan Pressagent David Green. Result: last week a lot of people were being tickled by such blunt, Douglas-made...
...flop from the start, will also disappear next month. Behind Closed Doors, a cloak-and-daguerreotype, is almost sure to follow. Even laughter is losing out in a dreary season: by May, Uncle Miltie Berle and the Kraft Music Hall part company as planned. George Burns, George Gobel. Ed Wynn, Jackie Gleason will be gone...
...vehicles for this sort of "scientific advertising," Supersalesman Culligan is making the most of NBC's "hotline" service for handling fast-breaking news. NBC's Stardust series will dot the broadcasting day with brief appearances by big show-business names-Marlene Dietrich, Bob Hope, George Gobel. Analysis Stardust is a projected series that will put top newsmen among the other stars. The Image series (audio documentaries) will be an ambitious collection of documentaries starting with Image: Russia, a 1½-hour-a-night, month-long study of the Soviet Union, "authenticated" by Hearst Columnist Bob Considine...
...their AM radio as well as the TV set and, by placing them seven to ten feet apart, achieve an approximation of stereo sound. The experiment worked so well that ABC equipped 75 stations with the TV-radio rig, and NBC will try the same gimmick with the George Gobel show. Says a network man: "This puts a third dimension on the whole thing...