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With Imagination. Big, 37-year-old Dave Garroway, an amateur mechanic, gem cutter, tile-setter, photographer, bird fancier, cabinetmaker and bibliophile, says his scriptless show is planned by "four guys sitting around a table." The other three, all under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer. The Garroway show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains...
Appearing on a radio program in Madrid with a British chemistry professor, visiting Cinemactress Ava Gardner was caught scriptless for once. "Professor," Ava began brightly, "tell me about science." Replied the elderly professor: "Miss Gardner, perhaps you might tell me something about love...
Narcotic Pull. The puppets, all powered by Tillstrom's nimble hands and agile, nine-voiced throat, make their way through rambling shows that somehow seem to crackle with spontaneity. Sketchily rehearsed, scriptless, punctuated with casual pauses, Kukla is likely to strike viewers at first as mildly irritating. But the show has an odd, narcotic pull: by the time Chicago joined the coaxial cable last January, Kukla had built up a Berle sized audience rating...
...Marxian formula is simple, scriptless, and enormously successful. Each couple of contestants (three for each half-hour show) is given $20 and a chance to bet on their answers to questions in a given field. Quizmaster Groucho perches on a stool by the microphone, and chats with them between questions. He encourages them to tell their life stories, and as they talk, he festoons the impromptu dialogue with strings of rapid-fire gags, or simply guides his victims into verbal traps and lets them writhe. "Women are the best ones on this program," says Marx, carefully flicking cigar ashes...
...nights after their television premiere, Olsen & Johnson unveiled their new revue Funzapoppin before 8,700 people in Madison Square Garden. Next morning the gun-shy critics produced mixed notices. "A gargantuan honky-tonk," sniffed the Time's Brooks Atkinson. "Olsen & Johnson would be practically scriptless if the Chinese hadn't invented gunpowder," grumped the Herald Tribune. "A cheerful nightmare," said the World-Telegram. Actually, Olsen and Johnson seem to be criticproof. Funzapoppin's predecessor, Hellzapoppin, was disdained by almost every critic, yet it ran for more than three years on Broadway...