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Hoc. Sunday. Nov. 19, 1950 DETROIT FREE RE 8 8 Mr. Benny, I Must Admit, Kept 'Em Awake 45 Minutes r.r That doesn't sound like much of a framework for 45 minutes of television but it hung together remarkably well.

Mr. Benny's character has now been so well established that you anticipate the cigarette vending machine, and the pay phone in the living room, the laundromat he operates out back. Mr. Benny has become in millions of homes a sort of eccentric uncle whose curiosities are eagerly awaited by the rest of the family when he comes to dinner. MR.

BENNY'S writers, a very shrewd bunch, know all about this anticipatory glee they hold the gag back as long as possible, then Mr. B. says: "WELL!" And the joint explodes. I'm not altogether happy about these attempts to reconcile a radio format with television but I must admit that, if I were in Benny's shoes, I'd do the same. BY JOHN CROSBY NEW YORK Jack Benny' television debut, about which I'm awfully late in commenting due to circumstances completely sort of a cross between what Mr.

Benny has been doing on the radio these many years and what he does annually at the Paramount. In short, it was an exploitation of the Benny radio character, a personal appearance, and sort of an exhibition of Benny's very real ability to hold the center of the stage. IT OPENED with a sight gag Benny's violin case flailing about the inside of a bus as he attempts to get off and got under way with Benny himself in front of a curtain discussing his niggardliness. As a concession to television, the bulk of the show was set In a living room, where Mr. B.

displayed his stinginess successively to Rochester, Mr. Kitzel and to his guest, Dinah Shore. within my control, was a personal triumph for Benny but not much or a triumph for television. Benny carried the 45-minute program on his own capable shoulders without the assistance of Mary Livington, Dennis Day or Phil Harris his formidable radio team. He did have the help of Rochester, rather minor assistance from Don Wilson, and a leg-up from his old friend Mr.

Kitzel Just how he managed to get through 45 minutes with such scant clothing is beyond my comprehension. But he did. The show was Crosby 1 1 -1 til -4 is 1 tfif BY BILLY ROSE NEW YORK One of the actors I recently interviewed for my television show was a young fellow named Bill Ferguson I'd seen In the "South Pacific" chorus. Show Business Isn't Too Tough, I Hear hour later the three of them came into the chop house looking for me, and the next morning I was on the stage of the Shubert. "CUTE STORY," I said.

"There's more to it," said Bill. "A columnist heard about what happened and wrote it up, and as a result I got a couple of television nibbles. Then the nicest thing of all happened. "One night Margaret Truman came backstage, and after congratulating Pinza and Mary Martin she asked for the Bill Ferguson she had read about. You see, we went to the same high school in Independence, and broke into singing together in the Baptist Church." "Did your wife get to meet the President's daughter?" "Not that evening," said the youngster, "but she did a few days later when Miss Truman came around to our apartment to see the new baby." "IT'S BEEN NICE talking to you," I said, "but I'm afraid I can't use you on next week's show I'm looking for someone to play a sad, miserable little man." "Still with the show?" "No, I left it a few months ago to try my luck at television." "Show business is a tough racket," I oracled.

"I haven't found it so," said Bill. "Matter of fact, ever since I got to town it's been one good break after another. Incidentally, your friend, Dick Rodgers, was responsible for the first one." and dancing, so we tried out for the show together. Only one of us, however, got picked Evelyn." "Doesn't sound like too good a beginning." "It wasn't," said Bill, "but we figured there wasn't any point moping about it the important thing was not to be separated. So when the show went up to New Haven to break in, I went along with it and, as luck would have it, I landed a job as waiter in Casey's Chop House.

"IT WAS THE best thing that could have happened," the youngster went on, "because a couple of days before the opening who should come in and plunk himself down at one of my tables but Mr. Rodgers. "He recognized me, and when he quizzed me about what I was doing in a waiter's get-up, I told him I had taken the job so as to be near my wife." "The story seemed to tickle him, and when he went back to the theater I understand he held up a rehearsal to repeat it to Oscar Hammerstein and Josh Logan, the director. An "WHAT DID RICHARD do for you?" I asked. "Well," said the youngster, "it started Roue when Mr.

Rodgers and Mr. Hammerstein were holding auditions for the chorus and bit parts in 'South Pacific' My wife her stage name is Evelyn Colby also does some singing Comic Benny: First, then explosions li MiLwl i 4111 Ksrst FOR TV TONIGHT TELEVISION SERVICE ft CALL elevisson TRIYATE LIFE II HENRY VIII" Ml Highlights of the Week KAY-BEE APPLIANCE CO. 19139 Umoi Dl 1-2500 Billie Burke in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment." GJl Charl Laughton SUXDAV, NOV. 19 1:00 p.m.

WXYZ-TV: World Adventure Series: "Fantastic Siam." 1 Maria Obaron I W.ndi. Barria 9:30 p.m. WWJ-TV: Robert A I Robert Donat iHl TONIGHT, 8:30 P.M. Montgomery Presents "The can-terville Ghost" with Cecil Parker, Margaret O'Brien; WXYZ-TV: Crusade in Europe: Chapt. 8 "Operation WJBK-TV: The Goldbergs.

30 p.m. WWJ-TV: 'Do We Have a Sound Foreign Policy in Latin America?" with leading experts on inter-American affairs. 00 p.m. WJBK-TV: Tommy Quinlan, Coach Lou Little of Columbia, Coach Herman Hickman of Yale on Celebrity Time. MONDAY, NOV.

20 7:30 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Tom Drake on Hollywood Screen Test. 8:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: T-Men in Action: "Case of the Queen of WJBK-TV: Video Theater: Franchot Tone in "Goodnight Please." 8:30 p.m. WWJ-TV: Jussi Bjoer-ling, tenor; WJBK-TV: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.

9:00 p.m. VVWJ-TV: Lights Out: 8:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Free Press reporters quiz Wayne's Dr. Henry on Press Conference; WJBK-TV: Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town with Victor Moore, Jerome Hines. Victor Borge, Sarah Vaughn; WWJ-TV: Fred Allen.

8:30 WXYZ-TV: Four Star Mffie: Charles Laughton, Merle Obfron in "Private Life of Henry VIII." 9:00 p.m. WWJ-TV: Walter Brooke, Haila Stoddard in "I'm Still WJBK-TV: Music by Fred Waring group. 10:00 p.m. WJBK-TV: Roberta i i SUNDAY NIGHT 11 P.M. WWJ-TV FULL LENGTH MOVIE JEAN HERSHOLT i The Beloved DR.

CHRISTIAN in I 10:00 p.m. WJBK-TV: Studio One: Glenn Langan, Mabel Talia-' ferro in "The Floor of Heaven." FRED ALLEN TUESDAY, NOV. 21 6:45 p.m. WJBK-TV: of vs. Oklahoma A film.

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CARNEGIE INSTITUTE "MELODY FOR THREE" presented by RESTOKRAFT The Noiseless MATTRESS Tucker on Cavalcade of Bands. 3:30 p.m. WWJ-TV: Today with Mrs. Roosevelt and Gen. Lewis Hershey.

4:00 p.m. WJBK-TV: The Web: Conrad Janis in "Fit to WWJ-TV: Dr. Tingfu Tsiang, Chinese UN delegate. Meets the Press. 4 :30 p.m.

WWJ TV: Hopalong Cassidy; WJBK-TV: Alan Young with Connie Haines. 5:30 p.m. WJBK-TV: People's Platform: "So We Need an Excess Profits Tax?" debated by Herman Steinkraus, former president U. S. Chamber of Commerce; WWJ-TV: Gene Autry.

6:00 p.m. WWJ-TV: Quiz Kids. 6:30 p.m. WJBK-TV: How to make old movies demonstrated by Mr. I.

Magination; WWJ-TV: of vs. Northwestern, film; 7:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Paul Whiteman Revue with Anne Jeffreys, Bibi Osterwald. 7:30 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Showtime I7.S.A.: Geo.

S. Kaufman's "If Men Played As Women Do" with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Everett Horton, Lee Tracy, Morey Amsterdam, also Kay Thompson. Duke Ellington; WJBK-TV: This Is Show Business with Arlene Francis, Herb Shriner, Richard Tucker. WD 3-2114 408 Park Ave. Bide.

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Model H2445R stands 40 inches high, is 28 inches wide and 252 inches deep. EDITOR'S NOTE: Look next week for another report on the latest products of the television industry. 7:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Jack Van Coevering presents films on duck and goose hunting. 8 :00 p.m.

WJBK-TV: Family Playhouse: Hiram Sherman in "Three Men on a WXYZ-TV: Game of the Week: Army vs. Stanford; WWJ-TV: Carmen Miranda guest of Milton Berle. 9:00. p.m. WXYZ-TV: Tales by Billy Rose; WWJ-TV: Firesidf Theater: Irene Vernon, Anthony Caruso In "The Love of Mike." 9:30 p.m.

WXYZ-TV: Can You Top This? WJBK-TV: Suspense: Francis L. Sullivan in "Justice Has Been WWJ-TV: Circle Theater: Richard Derr, Augusta Daloney in "Perfect Type." 10:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Life Begins at 80; Danger: Iris Mann in Borderline Affair." WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22 8:00 p.m. WJBK-TV: Arthur Godfrey and His Friends; WWJ-TV: Jack Carson; WXYZ-TV: First Nighter: "Sweeny Todd." 9:00 p.m.

WWJ-TV: Betty Caul-field, E. G. Marshall, Ethel Grif-fies in "The Romantic Young WXYZ-TV: Don McNeill TV Club with Arthur Lake; WJBK-TV: Somerset Maugham Theater: Arnold Moss in "Lord Montdrago." 10:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Wrestling; WJBK-TV: Boxing. THURSDAY, NOV.

23 4:30 p.m. WJBK-TV: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy with Diana Lynn. 8:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Stop thn Music with Bert Tarks; WJBK-TV: George Burns and Gracie Allen; WWJ-TV: Groueho Marx. 9:00 p.m.

WWJ-TV: Hockey: Red Wings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs; WJBK-TV: Richard Hart as Ellery Queen in "Human WXYZ-TV: DonAme-che on Holiday HoteL 9:30 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Arlene Francis hostess on Blind Date. 10:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV I Cover Times Square; WJBK-TV: Ralph Edwards' Truth or Consequences; WWJ-TV: Martin Kane Private Eye.

10:30 p.m. WJBK-TV: Airflyte Theater: Ann Rutherford, Otto Kruger in 'The Doll in the Pink Silk Dress." iith DUKE ELLINGTON Edward Everett HORTON KAY THOMPSON 1951 Jackson 14" TV with black rectangular tvbe 199.95 "1 ON i i i FREE PRESS GUIDE TO DETROIT RADIO STATIONS Attend! A Sunday Matinee, Today: "DRUMS" starring Sabu Raymond Massey 2:30 p. m. presented by Studebaker Dealers WXYZ-TV Channel 7 American Broadcasting Company Are Printed as Issued by the Stations Listed and Are Subject to Change Without Notice. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1950 Highlights in CAPITAL Letters rVedwcad in coop ntinn 1 2 12" TV 149.95 7" Console TV 239.95 16" TV with automatic 3 speed radio-phono.

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WXYZ-TV: Ann Rutherford on 20 Questions; WJBK-TV: Peggy Wood as Mama. 8:30 p.m. WJBK-TV Ralph Bellamy, Man Against Crime. 9:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Pulitzer Prize Playhouse: J.

P. Mar-quand's "The End WJBK-TV: Magnavox Theater: Dumas' "The Three Musketeers." 10:00 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Betty Furness on Penthouse Party. SATURDAY, NOV. 25 1:15 p.m.

WWJ-TV: Princeton-Dartmouth; WJBK-TV: WXYZ-TV: Yale-Harvard; WXYZ-TV: Football. 6:00 p.m. WJBK-TV: Jack Gilford, Danny Scholl on Star Time. 6:30 p.m. WXYZ-TV: Bill Daniels' Bowling and How.

7:00 p.m. WJBK-TV: Andy and Delia Russel on Morton Downey's Star of the Family. 8:00 p.m. WJBK-TV Ken Murray Show; WWJ-TV: Jack Carter Show. 9:00 p.m.

WWJ-TV: Hociiey: Red Wings vs. Chicago Black Hawks. 11:00 p.m. WJBK-TV: Arthur Murray Show with Rudy Vallee, Andy and Delia Russell. Chicken Thief Leaves Culls MARIETTA, O.

(U.R) Robert R. Glass, associate county, farm agent, got the worst of it in a 60-chicken swap. A thief took prize New Hampshire reds from his chicken range, leaving culls and otherwise worthless chickens. Melody Time OO Charlie McCarthy H.P. Baptist Ch.

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