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Goodman got into the Festival after a half-hour interview with the titular chief of the American delegation, Joy Silver. Goodman told Miss Silver he was not a Communist but was in favor of peace...
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...
Goodman got into the Festival after a half-hour interview with the titular chief of the American delegation, Joy Silver. Goodman told Miss Silver he was not a Communist but was in favor of peace...
Recital Hall (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC-TV), as the name implies, is not really a conventional TV show at all, but a half-hour recital filmed as a concert hall audience sees & hears it, without comment, commercials or trick camera work. Following Pianist Gyorgy Sandor, the first soloist: Baritone William Warfield, Cellist Leonard Rose...
Amos 'n' Andy (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV) reaches television as a half-hour filmed show after a talent search that took four years. Heading the cast of characters originally created in blackface by Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden in a quartercentury of radio shows: ex-Vaudevillian Tim Moore as the posturing Kingfish; ex-Teacher Spencer Williams as Andy; Actor (Anna Lucasta) Alvin Childress as Amos, the taxi tycoon. The opening show served up the most rudimentary of plots (the Kingfish gets a draft notice by .mistake), but embellished it with slapstick situations reminiscent of the better...