Show S E IO By INEZ GERHARD GERRARD ABBY LEWIS appears regularly on four NBC shows shows Road Road of Life Eternal Light The Big Story a and n d Storytellers Play Playhouse Playhouse house portrays cooks crooks young girls and old women with equal ease case She sometimes does docs do s two very different characters on 4 y ABBY LEWIS the same air show Abby gives the credit for this ability to her father tather who was a preacher and missionary in New Mexico when she was a child chUd She often tagged along on his missionary trips and afterward impersonated im im- impersonated impersonated personated the people shed she'd met that day The Goldbergs Gold which has al al- already already al- al already ready been on radio television and the stage and is now being made into a picture by Paramount wIll wil crop up next as a novel Gertrude Berg its author and star will write writ e the book Information Please granddad granddad- granddaddy granddaddy granddaddy dy dy of the quiz shows might better bette r have remained in retirement if J the th e programs heard since its return to t o the air are arc an Indication of what wha t we may expect That painful futile e effort eUort to be funny gets pretty tire tire- some In comparison with shows show s like NBC's Who Said That an and d American Broadcastings Broadcasting's Cliche e Club it comes out badly Tony Curtis Universal Interns International International contract actor has been made mad madea mada e a star by his fan tan mail and his re re- reception reception by the public on his per per- personal personal scoot appearance tours He stars in inThe inThe Ii The Prince N Was a s a Thief by b Theodore Dreiser The new March of Time As Russia Secs Sees It evaluates the opportunities for conquest as Stalin and his staff see sec them and shows shots why the Russians chose to take action in Korea rather than elsewhere It also shows what America is doing doln to meet the challenge in Korea and how United Nations mem mem- members members members bers are arc acting to check Sta Stalin lin fin and his Communist satel satel- lites Charles Paul composer composer condu c tor and organist on This Is Nora Nor a Drake has been invited to go t to 0 Europe this fall fall- fallas as guest conductor r for the London Philharmonic Or Or- Orchestra Orchestra 0 r- r chestra the Royal Danish Sym Sym- Symphony Symphony Sy m rm rr phony and the Concert du Conser Conser- Conservatoire Conservatoire r Orchestra Orchestra culmination culmination of o fifteen years of ot work in radio His Hi mood settings have paced dramatic c programs on all networks Barbara Hale on the set of ot Co Co- Columbia's Columbia's C a lumbia's lumbia s Emergency Wedding showed Larry Parks a and n d other othe r members of the cast and crew pictures of the presents her hus hus- husband h band Bill Williams gave her for to r her birthday They included one on six burner electric stove and a n d a large pile of ot imported tile for th the bathroom of ot their n new e w house lions last longer than mink said Barbara Betsy Drake was a model before she decided to go goon on the stage I Im Improbably Improbably m probably the only actress in the th e world said she whose pictures picture s can can an be found in abundance and all sorts of ot clothes in old Montgomery Ward catalogues Minnie Pearl Pear man man chasing chasing comedienne on NBC's Satur Satur- Saturday Saturday Saturday day night Grand Ole Opry Is In wide demand for personal persona appearances Minnie Is off oft ona on ona ona a tour of southern cities now with Mickey Rooney Connee Boswell and Roy A Acuff cuff Janis Carter and the four tour most beautiful girls from The Petty Girl movie are arc making a nation nationwide wide tour in behalf of ot the picture Janis doesn't appear in it It but Co Co- Columbia Columbia lumbia her studio considers her its best will good ambassador ODDS AND ENDS The Bob Hawk show one of the few tew quiz programs to be consistently among the top fifteen programs on the air air has been renewed by the cigarette sponsor for another 52 weeks ef et effective October 2 Don Ameche has been signed to replace Edward Everett Horton on Holiday Hotel this fall tall Though the More Morey expect a child in Jan Jam January uary and already have havea a son aged seven they arc are going ahead with plans to adopt a baby girl i |