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...Arthur T. Brown; Pacific Palisades, Calif.'s St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons; Midland, Mich.'s St. John's Lutheran Church, Alden B. Dow; Houston's St. John the Divine, Fred J. MacKie and Karl F. Kamrath with Hiram A. Salisbury; Los Angeles' St. Brigid's, Alfred V. Chaix and Ralph W. Johnson...
Imagination & Morals. Winding up a successful run on Broadway, 3 for Tonight breezed onto Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m. E.D.T., CBS-TV) like a breath of spring. On an empty stage with no sets and few props, Narrator Hiram Sherman asked his viewers to contribute imagination to the show. He held up a pencil and said it was a sprig of lilac. Just then a girl walked by. "You're late," said , Sherman. She hung her head. "Here," he said, and handed her the pencil. Immediately the girl was aglow. "Oh!" she exclaimed, cupping the pencil, "what lovely...
...speeches. Once, he cut school and bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says he: "Public speaking meant something in those days. Those men had to speak without microphones to huge crowds...
...Mutiny Court-Martial-another big Broadway winner. There will be dissenters, however. Sceneryless and recital-like, 3 for Tonight yet aims at effects as soberly startling as a lady pallbearer. It is also a kind of variety show that not too wisely shrugs at variety: beyond Master of Ceremonies Hiram Sherman, there are only the dance team...
...show needs more such perkiness. more of the zip Belafonte puts into When the Saints Go Marching In. brighter chitchat than likable Hiram Sherman brings to lifting the silver dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...