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...James's The Pupil, and Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon. After meeting its legally required minimum of 55% Canadian-originated fare, the publicly owned network will fill in with a mixed bag of U.S. imports including Have Gun, Will Travel, Dennis the Menace, Danny Thomas, Red Skelton, Perry Como, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Ed Sullivan. CBC will get some of these shows before U.S. networks, to help fight U.S. competition for the more than half of Canadian sets within range of U.S. stations...
...action, when it comes, is fast and foolish enough to make this one of the more entertaining films of a not-too-entertaining summer. The ending is clever, and what precedes it has a little of everything, including a little wit. There are square jokes for squares (Red Skelton, playing himself, is unable to cash a check) and Clan jokes for Clan fans (Sinatra, disguised in blackface, asks Sammy Davis Jr.: "How do you get this stuff off?"). And for students of the ridiculous, there is a memorable doctor's-office line. Says ailing Richard Conte to a solemn...
...Skelton Show (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Red's main skit is about a fellow who takes refuge in a fallout shelter when his wife prepares to take the role of Madame Butterfly in a women's club production...
...Righter. Marlene Dietrich, whose respect for the master shot up when he correctly predicted that she would break her ankle in a studio accident, uses airplanes only when he gives the nod. Arlene Dahl, Robert Cummings, Rhonda Fleming, the Gabors, Hildegarde Neff, Adolphe Menjou, Tab Hunter, Susan Hayward, Red Skelton-all would rather pay Righter than the piper. Some use him more than others. Says Mrs. Van Johnson: "I don't ask Carroll when I should go to the bathroom, like some of our friends...
...serious issue was the conduct of Jackie Bright, the M.C. who rose from the floor of obscure nightclubs to the $25,000-a-year post of administrative secretary of null a 13,000-member union made up of vaudevillians, circus performers and miscellaneous nightclub entertainers (ranging from Red Skelton at $40,000 per week to a chorus boy at $75). Sporting pearl tie pin, jeweled cuff links and charcoal-grey suit, Bright quickly earned a reporter's nickname, "Blackie." Against him stood Blondie herself-Actress Penny Singleton, fortyish, who was up for re-election as A.G.V.A. president. Said...