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Show By INEZ GERHARD 71 BBY 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 ' V ; 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. Tony Curtis, Universal - International Interna-tional contract actor, has been made a star by his fan mail and his reception re-ception by the public on his personal per-sonal appearance tours. He stars in "The Prince Was 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 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 members mem-bers are acting to check Stalin Sta-lin and his Communist satellites. satel-lites. Charles Paul, , composer-conductor, and organist on "This Is Nora Drake," has been invited to go to Europe this fall, as guest conductor for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Or-chestra, the Royal Danish Symphony Sym-phony and the Concert du Conservatoire Conser-vatoire Orchestra culmination of fifteen years of work in radio. His mood settings have paced dramatic programs on all networks. Barbara Hale, on the set of Columbia's Co-lumbia's "Emergency Wedding," showed Larry Parks and other members of the cast and crew pictures of the presents her husband, hus-band, Bill Williams, gave her for her birthday. They included one six-burner electric stove and a large pile of imported tile for the bathroom of their new house. "They'D last longer than mink," said Barbara. Betsy Drake was a model before she decided to go on the stage. "I'm 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 Saturday Satur-day night "Grand Ole Opry," Is in wide demand for personal appearances. Minnie is off on 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 nationwide nation-wide tour in behalf of the picture Janis doesn't appear in it, but Columbia, Co-lumbia, her studio, considers her its best good-will 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, effective ef-fective October 2 . . . Don Ameche has been signed to replace Edward Everett Horton on "Holiday Hotel" this fall . . . Though the Morey Amsterdams expect a child in January, Jan-uary, and already have a son aged seven, they are going ahead with plans to adopt a baby girl. |