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Show A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE Thursday (See page Funny Thing Happened On Ihe The White House Jack Paar stars and Elliott Reid, Tom Lehrer, Plaza 9 Troupe and the Buster Davis Singers are featured in an entertain ment special which takes a satirical A Way To and musical examination .of the American political scene (Color ) Lehrer, piano-playin- professor at BEST ON RECORD Bob Hope, Dinah Shore and other leading showbusiness stars will ap pear on "The Best on Record" color special on the NBC Television Net work Monday, May 16. 9 p m Channel 2 The program will feature perform ances by some of this year's winners of the recording industry's Grammy Awards, including Roger Miller, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Bill Cosby, Duke Ellington and his Band, Petula Clark, Jody Miller, and the Anita Kerr Singers. Special guests Tony Bennett and Robert Goulet will sing Grammy Award winning num bers. , HOLIDAY ON ICE "Holiday on Ice," ABC-TV'- color extravaganza starring Milton Berle as master of ceremonies, many of the world's ice skating champions and a battalion of international beau ties, will be presented Saturday, May 14, 7.30 p m Channel 4. Interspersed with Berle's very special brand of comedy, the color spec the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. moonlights rather success fully singing his own .satirical com positions in nightclubs and on record His albums include the best seller. "That Was The Year That Was." An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer" and "More of Tom Lehrer " He also appeared on and wrote for "That 13 for comment) Was The Week That Was." Singing and dancing will be p formed by the talented Plaza Troupe and the Buster Davis Si ers. Davis, who is choral director NBC TV's "Bell Telephone Hou will serve in a similar capacity the special Monday Hope will open and close the show with monologues, and Dinah Shore will present the Golden Achievement Award to Duke Ellington Other winners performing on the TV Special and their award winning numbers are Cosby, with a selection from his album, "Why Is There Air?" Petula Clark, singing a number from her album, "I Know a Place," the "Best Contemporary Female VoBill Performance." cal Jody Miller, singing "Queen of the House," the "Best Country Female Vocal Performance " Duke Ellington and his band, play their albu "Best Inst mental Jazz Performance, Lai ing a selection from "Ellington '66," the Group." The Anita Kerr Singers, witl selection from their album, "We Mancini," the "Best Performance I a Vocal Group Special performers Tony Benn and Robert Goulet will appear "The Best On Record" to sing Gra my award winning numbers. Benn will sing "The Shadow of Yc Smile," the "Song of the Year, a Goulet will sing the title song fr "On a Clear Day, cited for B' Score from an Original Cast Sh Saturday will feature such world re nowned skaters as Anna Galmarim. world professional champion of 1965. Marianne Althammer and Karl Heinz Kramer, world professional skating team of 1965, Jonny Holiday, the chimpanzee billed as "the greatest tacular in the world," and the comedic ice antics of Hami Brown, ice-skate- r the Peacocks, and Hugh Forgie a Shirley-Marie- . Highlights of the colorful icetravaganza: "Holiday on Parade": Presenti - the International Hol'lcers, t world's finest skating ensemble frc twelve different nations, in a slit faultless precision routine. |