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Actor Gilbert, 29, was born into a vaudevillian's family in upstate New York, was early farmed out to a troupe of South American aerialists. and turned to comedy when he plunged through the safety net in a 65-ft. circus fall. An ex-fighter pilot, Gilbert sings well enough for light opera, can play five musical instruments, juggle, dance and do acrobatics. He will probably be around TV for quite a while...
...Emery M. Lewis, 57, moved up to president of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., fourth largest U.S. tobacco company (Viceroys. Kools, Raleighs. Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco). The son of old Vaudevillian Walter Russell Lewis, Ohio-born Emery Lewis managed to get through grammar school before he quit to work in a paper mill. At 20 he started keeping books for American Tobacco Co., joined Brown & Williamson in 1927 as a comptroller, quickly moved up, in 1941 became vice president for sales. Lewis takes over from Timothy V. Hartnett, 63, who was named the first full-time chairman of the Tobacco...
Because of its vaudevillian humor, the film needs ample scenery and enough action to keep from becoming drab. Instead, its producers confine themselves to an actual stage, and proudly advertise that the film is an exact replica of what was seen on Broadway. The sets are as scantily decked as the chorus girls and hardly as well made. This is a disadvantage doubly accented by a color process which brings out blues and greens, adding a blue bag to every eye and just a dash of purple to the lips. The effect is pretty macabre...
Pride of the Family (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) offers Old Vaudevillian Paul Hartman as a bumbling average man whose well-meaning efforts to do right by his wife (onetime Cinemactress Fay Wray) and two children create no end of confusion and misunderstandings. Hartman's memorable hangdog face and ability to make the most of his harassed-father role raises the show above the common level of television's glut of family comedies. Sponsors: Armour & Co. and Bristol-Myers...
Doubtlessly, once the arms program is unrolled, the economic pressure thus freed will make price and wage controls necessary. (Doubtlessly, too, certain aspects of the OPS have functioned well and should be retained, such as the metals allocation program). Until that occurs, though, the controls program will remain vaudevillian. An orgy of demolition is obviously not the answer, for international events are arbitrary taskmasters at best. The OPS should be reduced to a stand by board, prepared to impose controls whenever the government finds them genuinely necessary and only then...