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The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 3

Publication:
The Post-Crescenti
Location:
Appleton, Wisconsin
Issue Date:
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3
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SAVE $15 NOW! I Wednesdoy, May 30, 1956 Appleton Posr-Crcsccut 3 Comedians Become Skittish TV Laughter No Joke, Now Serious Problem I SALE STARTS TOMORROW CONTINUES FR1. SAT. MOII. OPEN 'TIL 9 P.M. EVERY MONDAY FRIDAY DRESS SRTS Laughter is getting in short supply on television.

It's no joke, there's a serious problem. Television, in the last six or seven years, has chewed through material which took sure, amusing conservation like Charlie Hanson. Jingo's Jewels: Murrow visits Rocky Marciano, retired heavyweight champ, Friday for the third time on "Person to Person" Medic" "has contracted a fatal disease. Sponsoritis "Meet Millie" though is recovering from the same ailment Joseph Cot-ten's "On Trial," a new series, replaces "Star Stage" on NBC- 1 years to de velop. Audi i have applauded, then tolerated and final-ly become Jingo I CV Powerful Mower with 4d.

Ingin, BIG SWEATER I 1 wnawinm tote mm. SALE Cardigans bored with comedians and their routines. In other days these same funny men would have lasted lifetimes moving about vaudeville theaters. And they would have changed their scripts seldom. The old pros who grind out scripts have been overworked by weekly shows until many have dried up.

Some hv tried skipping from show to show, one type performer to another, to stave off the inevitable. Most veteran comedians ration their appearances, trying to avoid the once-a-week pace with the high mortality rate. Others have slunk back to nightclubs and theaters after ratings sagged and sponsors turned aloof. NBC has gone so far as to start a school, both for comedians and writers. Of 12,000 writers who applied, 15 were picked for the school.

Of these, nine had material accepted for top shows like those of Hope, Caesar and Gobel. With things the way they are, it looks like we'll be seeing lit TV this fall. In the latest "TV Index," WBAY-TV acknowledges Jingo's report of its trouble with the o'clock news segment "The Talisman," Apple-ton High school newspaper, carries a letter to the editor in its latest issue which takes to task critics of Elvis Presley. David Van Wyk, the writer, urges everybody to hear all Presley's records before judging Mr. Burlesque for themselves.

Jack Carson is ready to sign for a fall comedy series NBC-TV probably will make a teleseries of Fulton Oursler's "Modern Parables" WBAY-TV will start color broadcasting of some network shows in the fall Burl Ives and Francis L. Sullivan are being considered for the title role In "Nero Wolfe," a detective series planned for fall on TV. Tonight's fight ought to be a lulu. Pastrano and Speiser at New Orleans A spectacular about the life of Stephen Foster is being planned by NBC-TV "Reader's Digest" has been cancelled for fall Warner Brothers plans a TV series of the life of James Dean Producers of 23 Bowery Boys films are asking SI million for the lot of them. Reg.

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