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...Cyrano do Bergerac, 39-year-old José Ferrer remains a frustrated Shakespearean actor. His only Broadway appearance in Shakespeare was as sharply etched Iago to paul Robeson's 1943 Othello. This week, with José Ferrer Presents Shakespeare (Sun. 10 p.m.) over Manhattan's station WNEW, he got a zealot's chance to share his bardolatry with a wide audience...
...dozen people into the chapel where it was held. But after Disc Jockey Martin Block put a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on his program for 15 minutes of prayer for peace, he was able to announce that the switchboard at Manhattan's station WNEW "lit up like a Christmas tree...
...kind of turnabout of his 1938 invasion of Carnegie Hall, he does a classical disc-jockey program for Manhattan's WNEW. Having tucked away some of his heyday earnings, Benny has also become a patron of long-haired composers. Early this month, playing with the NBC Symphony, he gave the first performance of the new Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra that he commissioned from Aaron Copland...
Between performances in Broadway's Peter Pan, Boris Karloff launched his Boris Karloff's Treasure Chest (over Manhattan's WNEW). Far from the creep-voiced menace of his early movie days, Karloff dished up nonsense (Lewis Carroll's double-talking Jabberwock), limericks, and songs (recorded by Groucho Marx and Burl Ives), gave a fatherly lesson in tolerance (the story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction...
Hired by New York's WNEW to read poetry, play records and tell stories to the kiddies: Cinemenace Boris Karloff...