Word: martha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Begun five years ago on radio, the TV version of Meet the Press, which started in 1947, has been designed by Co-Producers Martha Rountree and Lawrence Spivak as an on-the-news soapbox where national and international figures like to spring surprises. The secret, says 34-year-old Martha Rountree, is timing. "If you have Joe McCarthy on your program in an ordinary, run-of-the-mill week, people say, 'So what?' But if you get him the night after he makes a sensational speech, everybody's spellbound...
...Meet the Press, sponsored by Revere Copper and Brass, tries to maintain a fairly even balance of opinion on its reporters' panel. "We never load the panel against the man being interviewed," explains Martha Rountree, "because people are always for the underdog. Why, with a loaded panel I could take the worst man in the country and make him a martyr...
...Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Martha Scott and Robert Sterling in The Choir Rehearsal...
Hollywood home life was having its usual ups & downs. After another spat with Martha Vickers, his third wife, quick-tempered Mickey Rooney, 30, huffed off to live with his mother for a while. After seven months of marriage, Elizabeth Taylor, 18, and Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 23, decided to try a separation test...
...essence of this production is its lightness and airiness but it would be even more so if some members of the cast were more confident. Milton Schlein, as the pompous Magistrate, enjoys the part, and so does buxom Martha Fontek, as Lampito. Virginia Carroll as Lysistrata occasionally forgets in the first act that comedy demands a fast and forceful delivery, but she plays with increased confidence in the second...