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...Hope Show (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With George Jessel...
...playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because Agatha Christic has made him so. The witness for the prosecution is Patricia Jessel, as Romaine. She should be commended for bringing some restraint to a part which calls for a mysterious woman with a gutteral German accent...
...English country house who attempts to protect her young charges from the evil doings of a pair of phantoms. The opera's 16 scenes flashed quickly across the stage., building awareness of horror as the red-haired Quint appeared in the tower, the green-face Miss Jessel was seen by the lake, and the ghosts chanted diabolically to the children at night...
...makes the rounds of up to two dozen cocktail parties and receptions a week, seldom takes notes but remembers what she sees or hears-and prints it on the theory that liveliness is more important than documented facts. "Rumors persist, though it seems improbable." she wrote recently, "that George Jessel will be the next envoy to Israel." On occasion, the rumors backfire. Once she made the mistake of crossing pens with Rival Columnist Austine ("Bootsie") Hearst of the Times-Herald, erroneously reported that Austine, six months after the birth of one child, was expecting another. Austine retaliated with...
Show Biz (Victor LP). An audible history of the entertainment world for the past half-century. A fast-moving, name-dropping kaleidoscope, narrated by George Jessel, it is illustrated by selections of everybody who was anybody from Will Rogers to Dinah Shore...