* SHOW * SHOW ach of the Four Star Revue shows is The Wynn humor is built on "sight" differently designed, but it's doubtful gags, bizarre inventions, and intimate that anyone really designs a Durante delivery that lets the audience in on the show, not even the Schnoz himself. His jokes, plus Ed's own contagious chuckle are a case of spontaneous combustion. The after he tells one. Even for first rehearsals fellow who tears up the piano and throws he gets into the mood by wearing one of his hat all over the set has the cameramen his fantastic hats, an outlandish coat, and on the run, and it generally takes all five a pair of ancient blue pants. Wynn keeps cameras to follow him around. Eddie five writers busy, one or two more than Jackson, old -time buddy from the vaude- the others use, but he's always the sixth. ville days of. Clayton, Jackson and Dur- A minimum of three cameras cover all ante, teams with Jimmy for nostalgic bits, these Wednesday programs, with some- and as many as sixty performers have times a fourth in the balcony and a fifth appeared on one Durante show. Like the nosing through backstage. There are us-. other three comedians, Jimmy starts wor- ually six dancers and four showgirls, but rying about his next program the minute each comedian's show has its own group he walks off the current one. His problem of girls and special choreography. Dancers is getting songs. Schnoz's verdict on TV: rehearse forty hours. General rehearsals "Dat box? It's molder on my mater'al!" run about two weeks before telecast time.

* SHOW * SHOW Your quartet of Wednesday night jest- Jis natural for a Hollywood actor to ers includes a sad -eyed Syrian who think in terms of screen treatment, so took the name Danny Thomas from the that's what Jack Carson uses on his first names of two of his eight brothers. show. There are no curtains that part and Danny mingles story telling, comedy close. The cameras cut from one scene sketches and musical numbers with senti- to the next, just as it's done in the mentalizing and philosophizing, in a way movies. This is situation comedy, with that sets him apart from the other three a complete new story every time, the same highly individual comics in this mid -week characters running through all. Jack, as NBC -TV lineup. Like the other programs, the central character, is the big, well - however, Danny's has the help of some meaning guy who gets into as much trou- 400 workers, counting the scenic and cos- ble as if he went out looking for it. Regu- tume designers, truckers, engineers, stage lar cast includes March and Sweeney, crew, props, make -up and wardrobe, Betty Kean, the Honey Brothers and Jack musicians, cameramen, writers, script girl, Norton. Technical problems are different directors, producers and performers. Pete from Hollywood's, such as lighting, which Barnum, supervisor of production, sums is more intense and less contrasting. Jack up his job this way: "Where could you -find finds the lingo much alike, except that the four guys more wonderful to work with ?" movies' mike boom is a boom mike in TV!

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