Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generated by dramatic shows. CBS's Best of Broadway resurrected the 1941 hit, Arsenic and Old Lace, and filled it with a star-studded cast that Broadway today would give its eyeteeth to have. As the addlepated Brooklyn sisters who gently practice mass euthanasia on lonely old men, Helen Hayes and Billie Burke were the epitome of lethal charm. John Alexander recreated his memorable role of their nephew who believes that he is Teddy Roosevelt (and leads a spirited charge up San Juan Hill every time he gallops upstairs), while Orson Bean managed to bring fresh good humor...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Actress Helen Hayes, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...Heart (MGM) stars Actor-Dancer-Singer-Comic José Ferrer in the life story of Composer Sigmund Romberg. As Ferrer plays him, Romberg is just Ferrer with a Viennese accent. When the story begins, in 1911, Romberg is a piano player in a Manhattan restaurant belonging to Anna Mueller (Helen Traubel); when it ends he has made the big time. This thread of a story sews together some patches and snatches from Romberg shows (Maytime, The Desert Song, etc.), most of them super-duper production numbers. Among the performers: Rosemary Clooney, Gene Kelly, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, Cyd Charisse, Howard...
Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes in Arsenic and Old Lace, with Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Billie Burke, Orson Bean, Edward Everett Horton...
...frail. Kobayashi rarely leaves his villa near Takarazuka. except for a monthly visit to his theater. Next day he sends cryptic memos to the directors. He still manages to keep his musical empire humming, brings eminent Western concert stars to the town (e.g., Singers Marian Anderson and Helen Traubel, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin). Early this year, he will repossess Takarazuka's Tokyo branch, which the occupation forces had turned into the famed Ernie Pyle movie theater. Last week the old showman ventured forth to take in a special show with a Christmas finale. Sample lyric...