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Show BY INEZ GERHARD MOW that it's over, Robert Q. Lewis can draw a long breath and look back with pride on the terrific ter-rific job that he did from August 1 to October 1. He took over for Arthur Godfrey five morning shows a week on CBS and one television show, lasting an hour, on Wednes- vrr,. ROBERT Q. LEWIS day evenings. Godfrey's popularity made him a difficult man to fill in for, and Lewis was bound to be a target for a lot of criticism, just because he wasn't Arthur. Now they're saying that there couldn't have been a better man for the job. Lewis did his best, of course, but he wasn't worried; he's done too many outstanding shows of his own for that. Sonny Tufts carried a container like a knitting bag to the "Easy Living" set at RKO every day; it held a two-quart thermos of half-milk, half-milk, half-cream and another filled with soup and sweetbread mixture. It was his daily lunch. The father-son team of Walter Wal-ter and John Huston, which won three Academy awards last year, will be reunited in Horizon Pictures' next for Columbia. Co-lumbia. "Reminiscences of a Cowboy" will co-star Walter Huston and Montgomery Clift. John Huston will direct, and, following tradition, will be seen in a small part. It should be good; everything John Huston does succeeds. The cigarette company now sponsoring spon-soring "Ladies Be Seated" and "One Man's Opinion," with Walter Kieran, has shifted them from Mutual to ABC; they replace "Against the Storm," daytime serial, ser-ial, and "Queen for a Day." Cathy Lewis, "Jane" of "My Friend Irma," is back again after a long illness. Marie Wilson ("Irma") told me "sometimes I get sort of annoyed at Cathy, but I could forgive her anything, she's such a wonderful actress!" |