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Show jr By INEZ GERHARD ABBY LEWIS appears regularly on four NBC shows "Road of Life," "Eternal Light," "The Big Story" and "Storyteller's Playhouse," Play-house," portrays cooks, crooks, young girls and old women with equal ease. She sometimes 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 impersonated im-personated the people she'd met that day. "The Goldbergs," which has already al-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-dy granddad-dy of the quiz shows, might better have remained in retirement, if the programs heard since its return to the air are an indication of what we may expect. That painful, futile effort to be funny gets pretty tiresome. tire-some. In comparison with shows like NBC's "Who Said That?" and American Broadcasting's "Cliche Club" it comes out badly. |