Show T GE N 10 87 By INEZ GERHARD I ABBY LEWIS appears regularly I Ion on four NBC shows shows Road Road of Life Lile 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 case She sometimes does two very different characters on r rABBY 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 im- im impersonated personated the people shed she'd met that day The Goldbergs which has al already al- al already 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 dy of ot the quiz shows might better have remained in retirement if the I programs heard since its return to toI the air are an indication of what I we may expect That painful futile effort to be funny gets pretty tire tire- some In comparison with shows like NBC's Who Said That and American Broadcastings Broadcasting's Cliche 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 hist re re- reception reception re- re reception by the public on his per per- personal personal personal appearance tours He stars in inThe inThe inThe The Prince W Was a s a Thief I by Theodore Dreiser The new March of Time As Russia Sees It evaluates the opportunities for or conquest as s Stalin and his staff see them and 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 are acting to check Stalin 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 the London Philharmonic Or Or- Orchestra Orchestra Orchestra chestra the Royal Danish Sym Sym- Symphony Symphony Symphony phony and the Concert du Conser Conser- Conservatoire Conservatoire re Orchestra Orchestra culmination culmination of fifteen years of work in radio His mood settings have paced dramatic programs on all networks Barbara Hale on the set of Co Ca- Columbia's lumbia's Emergency Emer ency Wedding Weddin showed Larry Parks and a n d other members of the cast and crew pictures of the presents her hus hug husband husband band Bill BiB Williams gave her for her birthday They included one six-burner six electric stove and a n d a alar large lar e pile of imported tile for the bathroom of their new n e w house last longer than mink said Barbara Betsy 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 be found in abundance and all sorts of clothes in old Montgomery Ward catalogues Minnie Pearl man chasing comedienne on NBC's Satur Satur- Saturday Saturday Saturday day night nl ht Grand Ole Onry Gory is In wide demand for personal appearances Minnie is off on ona ona ona a tour of southern cities now with Mickey Rooney Connee Boswell and Roy Acuff Janis Carter and the four most beautiful girls from The Petty Girl movie are making a nation nation- nationwide nationwide nationwide wide tour in behalf of the picture Janis doesn't appear in it but Co Co- Columbia Columbia Columbia lumbia her studio considers her its best good will ambassador ODDS IND TD ENDS The Bob Hawk show on of the few quiz programs to Oe consistently among the top fifteen programs on the air has been renewed by the cigarette sponsor for another l other 52 weeks ef ef- effective effective effective October 2 Don Ameche has been signed to replace Edward Everett Horton on Holiday Hotel this fall Though the Morey expect a child in hi Jan Jan- January January January uary and already have a son aged seven they are going ahead with plans to adopt a baby girl |