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...rating for three weeks in a row. The new champion: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, with 58% of the viewing audience. Adding insult to injury, Arthur Godfrey & His Friends won the No. 2 spot, with 55.8%. Berle (52.6%) is in third place, pressed closely by The Red Skelton Show...
Some commercial shows have, so far, baffled the network's biggest brains. How, they wonder, can culture be slipped even edgewise into such programs as Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life and the Red Skelton Show...
Texas Carnival (MGM) turns Red Skelton and Esther Williams loose in a familiar but cheerful Technicolored antic. They play a carnival sideshow team mistaken for a pair of multimillionaires at a grandiose Texas resort hotel...
...picture balances one straight romance (Actress Williams and Singer Howard Keel) against one comic romance (Comedian Skelton and Dancer Ann Miller), but it is dominated by Skelton's buffoonery, which looks like a one-man history of low comedy -good, bad and indifferent. When he is good (e.g., gulping jelly beans at a poker game, only to learn he has devoured $5,000 worth of substitute chips), he is as funny as anyone on the screen. When he is bad (e.g., making cross-eyes), he is as tiresome as a small boy imitating Ben Turpin...
...Skelton Show (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC-TV), the West Coast's second bid for nationwide attention, marks the first TV appearance of ex-burlesque Comic Red Skelton. The show opened and closed with Skelton flat on his back on the stage. In between, he got his head caught in a grand piano, beat his face with a microphone, shot himself in the foot. Making their TV debut, his rogue's gallery of radio characters (DeadEye, the cowboy; San Fernando Red, the crooked politician; Cauliflower McPugg, the punchdrunk fighter; Klem Kaddiddlehopper, the Irish tenor who is neither Irish...