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...Philco Corp. liked its five-year-old Philco Television Playhouse well enough to sponsor a new radio show, the Philco Radio Playhouse (debut: Sept. 30, ABC), which will take the easy way out by using half-hour adaptations of Philco's hour-long TV dramas...
Paul Winchell,* mouthpiece-godfather of a goggle-eyed dummy named Jerry Mahoney, is out to prove that there is more to his talents than dandling a doll on his knee. Television's top ventriloquist, Winchell is beginning his sixth TV season by filling his half-hour show (Sun. 7 p.m. E.S.T., NBC) to the brim with Paul Winchell, master of ceremonies, man of many voices, dramatic actor, singer, dancer and soap salesman (Cheer and Camay). By such breathless activity, Winchell, a muscular, 29-year-old New Yorker, hopes to escape an occupational hazard of ventriloquism: becoming incidental...
...crowd slavishly applauding everything in sight, including the commercials. In repartee with the amateur panelists (a device Groucho Marx has used with immense success) Allen's gift for ad lib is supposed to shine forth. Shine it did on the first show, but all too briefly in the half-hour clutter of people and performance. The acts-a girl singer, a ballroom dance team and a pair of "electronic harmonica" players-were adequate but undistinguished, raising the question whether another talent show is really TV's crying need...
21st Precinct (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS Radio) makes an effective half-hour of police drama (from Manhattan files), but loses a lot of sting from its resemblance to NBC's Dragnet (from Los Angeles iles). In its favor, the new show has Actors Everett Sloane and Joan Lorring and Director-Writer Stanley (Gangbusters) Niss, an expert at creating minor personalities. 21st Precinct captures the sounds and scenes of everyday police work; the characters are all underplayed, just like Dragnet (which pretty much originated that school of radio acting, and has lately begun underplaying its own underplaying). Unsponsored...
...night the President sat down to a steak dinner with 46 of the 48 freshmen Republicans from the lower house. After coffee, he gave an informal half-hour talk. Ike did not preach or threaten. He outlined the policies of his Administration and quietly explained the reasons for them. Afterwards, the Congressmen kept Ike on his feet for an hour answering a steady drumfire of questions that covered everything from Korea to extension of the excess profits...