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...desire to settle old scores gave a crusading fervor last week to the first Ed Wynn Show (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). With blood in his eye, veteran Comic Wynn was out to challenge the TV popularity of brash Milton Berle. Wynn's feelings for Berle, whom he can scarcely bring himself to mention by name, range from lofty superiority ("I've yet to see something original from that man") to pitying scorn ("He'll be the D.W. Griffith of TV-nobody will give him a job in a couple of years...
...Wynn had promised to bring to TV "something old and something new, but nothing borrowed and nothing blue." In his opening telecast, there were a few borrowings (e.g., the ancient gag of casually lifting an outsized dumbbell from the straining hand of a strongman), and one skit, if not blue, verged on the off-color (Wynn coyly repelling the advances of Singer Gertrude Niesen...
...Wynn Show (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). New rival for Milton Berle...
...dizzy foolishness of this sodapop operetta is made more foolish by its opulence. Every good thing about it is lavishly doubled or tripled. There are two prodigies and two frustrated opera-singer parents kicking them up to stardom, two comics (Jules Munshin and Keenan Wynn) and two imperturbable renegades from the fine arts (Ethel Barrymore and Jose Iturbi). Among the players, only Thomas Gomez (whose portrait of a tenor warming up his tonsils spoofs both tenor and script) seems to be having any fun in the machine comedy...
...Corey Wynn's freshman tennis charges ended their season yesterday on an unhappy note at the Soldiers Field courts by losing to the Dartmouth freshmen, 5 to 4. This brought the season to a close with an eight and three record...