Word: philco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Confession, with John Ireland and Neva Patterson...
...some alarm: it strikes directly at their ambition to make New York the television center of the U.S. by concentrating on "live" shows. Not only is Fireside produced in Hollywood, but it is done on film and costs less than such $20,000-and-up New York productions as Philco Playhouse, Robert Montgomery Presents and Ford Theater, Fireside actors are relatively unknown and scripts are picked impartially from obscure free-lance writers and the classics. Producer Brewster Morgan and German-born Director Frank (Maedchen in Uniform) Wisbar will try almost anything. They have retold the plot of Dostoevsky...
...color picture tube which would do away with the wheel, all limitations on picture size, and make CBS as fully electronic as any other system. RCA had demonstrated such a tube late in the hearings, but the FCC reported that it was deficient in registration and color fidelity. CBS, Philco, Du Mont, Paramount and others are working on tri-color receiver tubes of their own design. None of them has yet been proved in field tests...
...Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m. NBC-TV). I'm Still Alive, with Burgess Meredith and Haila Stoddard. ^ Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Contralto Marian Anderson...
After weeks of indecisive pawing & snorting, Wall Street's bull market this week jumped over the fence. Prodded by fat earnings, generous dividends and a spate of stock splits (General Motors, Philco, Container Corp. and a rumored split by Chrysler), stocks went bouncing up in the opening session this week. The Dow-Jones industrial average reached 228.94, thus breaking through the previous bull market high of last June and climbing to the highest point since September 1930.* Railroad stocks, which had been pacing recent market advances, also rose; their Dow-Jones index was the highest since August...