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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Electric Guest House (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). A panel from Broadway, identifying acts performed by Ethel Waters, Roland Young and others...
...hour-long blend of variety acts with a charade-type quiz. In the first show, Pianist-MC Oscar Levant was in his usual sour mood, but his trademark insults seemed more neurotic than funny. Among other guests, Isabel Bigley (Guys & Dolls) and Cornelia Otis Skinner gave performances which a panel of "experts" (including Actress Binnie Barnes and Theatrical Producer Herman Levin) managed to identify...
Pantomime Quiz (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV) is The Game (charades), Hollywood-style, which means that the participants do not lounge around like their quiz panel counterparts in Manhattan, but get right in there pitching and mugging. Such regulars as Jackie Coogan and Adele Jergens, and such guests as Virginia Field and George O'Brien, take turns plugging their latest pictures, then enacting the words of a quotation for the rest to guess...
...based on the old parlor game of "Hangman." Unlike many others, it has a relaxed tempo, some briskly intelligent repartee, and gives the impression that the participants are actually enjoying themselves. As moderator, Northwestern University's Dr. Bergen (The Natural History of Nonsense) Evans handles his four-man panel of experts with the assurance of a high-voiced Clifton Fadiman...
Juvenile Jury (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) has a panel of five moppets who solve such special problems as what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial...