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Patting his hands and batting his banjo-eyes, 58-year-old Eddie Cantor last week skipped through the Colgate Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBCTV) and his first appearance on television. Though surrounded by bright young people from current Broadway shows, Cantor looked as durable and sentimental as ever. He re-enacted skits from musicals of the '20s and sang such old favorites as Ain't She Sweet? and Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. Headlined Variety: "Cantor Sock in Debut ... Vet Showman a TV Natural." A twelve-city Hooper survey rated Cantor eleven points higher...
With its orchestra, singers and dancers, straight man and comedian, Garroway at Large (Sun. 10 p.m., NBCTV) might be just another TV variety show. But on the TV screen, something surprising happens. Last week, back on the air after a summer vacation, Garroway again demonstrated an out-of-the-ordinary pace, outlook and quality that TV men have come to consider characteristic of the whole "Chicago school" of television...
Even with the Voice of America going full blast, how could the U.S. be sure that anyone was listening? Interviewed last week on Meet the Press (Sun., NBCTV, 5 p.m. E.D.T.), RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff suggested that the U.S. build 50 million $2 radio sets and give them away behind the Iron Curtain...
Without scenery, well-known actors or advance fanfare, Cameo Theater (Tues. 9:30 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) last week presented one of the most exciting plays ever shown on U.S. television. It was a tense, deceptively simple dramatization of Shirley Jackson's disturbing New Yorker short story, The Lottery. Crowding the TV screen with dramatic close-ups and using music scored for an unusual orchestra of organ and musical saw, Cameo took its audience into an isolated village of uncertain time and place to witness the celebration of an annual rite and its grim ending: the communal stoning-to-death...
Treasury Department Bond Drive (Mon. 10 p.m., NBCTV; 10:30 p.m., all radio networks). Guests: President Truman, Gladys Swarthout, Bob Hope, Gary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Jerry Colonna...