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...Overnight, like the Shmoo, Dagmar became a valuable piece of property. She made a guest appearance on the Red Cross pint-of-blood show, where she read an essay and sang a song. At a mammoth benefit in Madison Square Garden, Dagmar drew more applause (and whistles) than Ed Wynn, Bob Hope or Jimmy Durante. Her NBC salary rocketed from $75 a week to $1,250. ABC gave her $10,000 to sign a network contract that will pay her an additional $2,000 weekly, promised her a TV show of her own next fall. This week...
...five-month series celebrating NBC's 25th year as a radio network. On the opening program, Veteran Announcer Ben Grauer interviewed Bandleader Vincent Lopez, whose orchestra was the first on the network air, and the recorded excerpts from the past quarter-century included a joke by Ed Wynn, the first news flash of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt proclaiming the "rendezvous with destiny...
...Doodles Weaver Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBCTV) features a rubber-faced comic addicted to such Ed Wynn mannerisms as puns, hand-flutterings and funny hats. The opening show, interrupted by Milton Berle's 22-hour TV marathon for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and by filmed commercials for Lysol and a deodorant called Etiquet, was a melange of sight gags that didn't quite come off, monologues and studio interviews. Three burlesque comedians and Singer Marion Colby, billed as "the girl with the most beautiful legs in TV," take over when Comedian Weaver's energy begins...
Four Star Revue (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Ed Wynn...
Cleveland got off to a terrible start, highlighted by Bob Lemon's failure and Luke Easter's injuries. Now Lemon has recovered completely, Bob Feller is at his best in three years, and Early Wynn and Mike Garcia are pitching well. Easter has regained his health and his batting form. Rosen, Doby, and Hegan are starting to hit. Bob Avila is becoming an excellent second baseman. The only weaknesses are at short and left, where Ray Boone and the usually extremely reliable Dale Mitchell have started very badly. Only six games behind Chicago and four behind New York, the Indians...