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...Groucho Marx...
...Quizmaster Groucho (You Bet Your Life) Marx, collar up, slouch hat down, landed at London Airport, beat off autograph hounds, then was besieged by newsmen. Asked one: "Why haven't you visited London for 23 years?" Growled Groucho: "To avoid newspapermen. You can call me the male Greta Garbo." With that, he loped off into the rain...
...shows for a fancy California cemetery. As a partner in John Guedel Productions (with M.C. Art Linkletter), Guedel has grown considerably in the industry since those days. For one thing, his programs are now much livelier; the biggest are Linkletter's People Are Funny and House Party, and Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life...
Such eavesdropping by television is not common, yet the out-of-studio use of the TV camera as a versatile, unsleeping third eye for man is more widespread than most televiewers, busy ogling Lucy and Groucho, are aware. In Houston's city jail, eight electronic cameras scan the corridors and cells. In the Redlands, Calif, jail, two cameras mounted in a bulletproof blister overlook the exercise yard, another, perched in the wall opposite the cell tier, swings from side to side like a metronome, staring balefully at the men in their bunks. Television eyes peer down at customers...
...three-minute introductions of the different numbers. Jack Benny had an uneven skit about his troubles in buying a ticket to a Rodgers & Hammerstein hit; Edgar Bergen made only the sketchiest effort at being a ventriloquist in a pair of episodes with Charlie McCarthy and Ed Sullivan; Groucho Marx got the best laughs as a quizmaster cutting Rodgers & Hammerstein down to size...