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...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Song and dance from some of the best in the business. The Four of Us stars Ethel Merman, Beatrice Lillie, Ray Bolger, Benny Goodman. Color...
...white fringed shawl Songstress Carroll sat with a single spot shining on her tawny face while she sang a moving set of folk songs with powerfully restrained drama. Later she was on her feet again belting out a Heat Wave with the raucous abandon of a Merman. In the course of the long show, Diahann Carroll displayed only one serious weakness: an occasional tendency to oversell her role, as in her version of Just Lookin' Around, which was so coated with coy baby talk that the message never filtered through...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). For a musical salute to Ethel Merman's career, Merman on Broadway collected Tab Hunter, Fess Parker and Tom Poston. Color...
...While in Europe, Robinson also talked Alec Guinness into making his U.S. TV bow (scheduled Nov. 10) by captivating him with a comic short story about a Machiavellian bank clerk. For forthcoming Ford specials, Robinson has also hooked Jack Benny, George Burns, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Stewart, Ethel Merman. Coos one Robinson recruit, Roz Russell (whose coldness to TV he thawed by offering her a thumping $100,000 for the first Ford show): "Hubbell is the Eisenhower of the TV world, because he can assemble a team and delegate authority...
...list is rich with names-Olivier, Guinness, Bergman, Booth, Robards, Merman, Hope, Berle. The live drama, the comedies, the variety shows they will star in will be balanced by an ambitious slate including opera, public affairs, sports, education and adventure. There will be a record 250 hours of colorcasts...