Show 4 E N 10 By INEZ GERHARD GER ABBY LEWIS appears regularly on four NBC shows shows Road Road of Life Lite Eternal Light The Big Story and a n d Storytellers Play Play- Playhouse Playhouse house portrays cooks crooks young girls and old women with equal ease She sometimes docs does two very different characters on ABBY LEWIS the same air show Abby gives the credit for this ability to her father who was a preacher and missionary in New Mexico when she was a child She often tagged along on his missionary trips and afterward im im- impersonated impersonated personated the people shed she'd met that day dby The Goldbergs 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 crop up next as a novel Gertrude Berg its author and star will write the book Information Please granddad granddad- granddaddy dy of ot the quiz shows might better have remained in retirement if it the programs heard since its return to the air are arc an indication of ot what we may expect That painful futile effort eUort to be funny gets pretty tire tire- some In comparison with shows like NBC's Who Said That and American Broadcastings Broadcasting's Cliche CUche Club it comes out badly Tony Curtis Universal Universal- International International International contract actor has been made madea a star by his fan mail and his re reception re- re reception by the public on his per per- personal personal personal appearance tours He stars in inThe inThe inThe The Prince Was V a s a Thief by Theodore Dreiser The new March of Time As Russia Sees It evaluates the opportunities for conquest as Stalin and his staff see sec them and aud shows why the Russians chose to take action in Korea rather than elsewhere It also shows what America is doing to meet the challenge in Korea and how United Nations mem mem- members members members bers arc are acting to check Sta Sta- Stalin Stalin lin and his Communist satel satel- lites Charles Paul composer tor and organist on This Is Nora Drake has been invited to go to Europe this fall as guest conductor for tor the London Philharmonic Or Or- Orchestra Orchestra Orchestra chestra the Royal Danish Sym Sym- Symphony Symphony Symphony phony and the t e Concert du Conser Conser- Conservatoire Conservatoire Conservatoire Orchestra Orchestra culmination culmination of fifteen years of ot work in radio His mood settings have paced dramatic programs on all networks Barbara Hale on oa the set of ot Co Co- Columbia's Columbia's lumbia's Emergency Wedding showed Larry Parks a n-d n other members of ot the cast cast and crew pictures of ot the presents her hus hus- husband husband husband band Bill Williams gave her for her birthday They Ibey included one six burner electric stove and a n d a large pile of ot imported tile for tor the bathroom of ot their new n e eV w V house last longer than mink said Barbara Betsy Be tsy Drake was a model before she decided to go on the stage Im Improbably Improbably Improbably probably the only actress in the world said she whose pictures can cnn be found in abundance and all sorts of ot clothes in old Montgomery Ward catalogues Minnie Pearl man man chasing chasing comedienne on NBC's Satur Satur- Saturday Saturday Saturday day night Grand Ole Opry Is in wide demand for personal appearances Minnie Is off on ona ona ona a tour of southern cities now with Mickey Rooney Cornice Connee BosWell and Roy A Acuff cuff Janis Carter and the four most beautiful girls from The Petty Girl movie are making a nation nation- nationwide nationwide wide tour in behalf of 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 quiz programs to be consistently among the top fifteen programs on the air has been renewed by the cigarette sponsor for another 52 weeks ef effective ef- ef effective October 2 Don Ameche has been signed to replace Edward Everett Horton on Holiday Hotel this fall tall Though the Morey More expect a child in Jan January uary and nd already have a son aged seven they are going ahead with baby girL plans to adopt a |