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Monday, November 13 SHIPSTADS & JOHNSON ICE FOLLIES OF 1967 (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Ed Ames breaks the ice with songs and patter, as the annual skating extravaganza glides into its 31st year...
Homespun Hippie. Actually, Douglas, 46, is a square with sharp edges. By "always keeping in mind the people of Cedar Rapids," he avoids the kind of blatant plugging and inside show-biz patter plaguing the late-night talkathons. As a result, his viewers consider him one of them, a kind of homespun hippie who can parry with Stokely Carmichael or trade one-liners with Jack E. Leonard. Though the caliber of guests only occasionally rises to a Bob Hope, it is also true that Douglas' program has become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic...
Died. Martin Block, 64, radio's original platter and patter man; during heart surgery; in Englewood, N.J. "It's Make-Believe Ballroom time," purled the theme song. "Put all your cares away." And millions did-to the tunes of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore. For the Ballroom's affable host, the recorded performers always came alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial...
...wooden. He has even turned the sure-fire stage trick of Before and After into a dull science. We see a fresh-air mountain town transformed into a germ-crazy health spa. We watch a number of perfectly sound people subject themselves to two minutes of Dr.Knock's patter and turn into stretcher cases. But the one gimmick is pursued with such lethal, plodding logic that it nearly kills the play...
They did it by shooting from the lip, dauntlessly laying down a crossfire of patter that is often more fizzle than sizzle. Sample exchange from this week's season-ending show...