Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dinosaur's Ear. The first network broadcast was delivered through a microphone that looked like a dinosaur's hearing aid, but the talent added up to a four-hour 1926 spectacular: Dr. Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony, Weber and Fields, the Met's Titta Ruffo, and the dance bands of Ben Bernie, George Olsen and Vincent Lopez. In the following years, while the unseen U.S. audience grew from 5 million radio sets to 127 million radios and 38 million TV sets, NBC kept the air buzzing with such big names and pioneering feats...
...back of an old theater program. Composer Bernard Herrmann contributed a few carols lacking either spirit or strength to presume on old standbys, and some solo songs (lyrics also by Anderson) that seemed saccharine even from Tiny Tim (Christopher Cook). Occasionally Fredric March as Scrooge showed some of his talent (as when he tried to wish away Marley's ghost as a case of indigestion), but for the most part, he seemed to be trying to caricature Scrooge Emeritus, the late Lionel Barrymore. The production was technically instructive for viewers interested in makeup techniques-the line dividing March...
Victor Borge, the happy Dane, comes to TV in his own show hardly more often than Christmas or the Festival of Music, and he is just as welcome. There are no comedians with Borge's talent for the piano, and no pianists with Borge's gift for comedy; moreover, with wit and fingers that are equally limber, he can travel first class in either company. In his second hour-long CBS appearance, Borge departed from his one-man show format, which earned him an 849-performance run on Broadway, to use a 42-piece orchestra -but he used...
...Army is perennially weak on the ice, the varsity's probable second opponent--B.U.--definitely will not be. The Terriers are loaded with Canadian talent this year and seem to be weak only in the goal...
...these actors give fine performances, though two at least stand out from the rest: Walbrook, who plays the sophisticated master of ceremonies, and Barrault, as the poet. Few actors would have enough courage to make a declaration of love while lying on their backs on the floor, and enough talent to make the scene come off. Barrault, however, does. His work and that of Max Ophuls lift a light film above the general run of French comedies...