8-2 Tele-Visions BY THORTON KANE
Last ww»k NEC devoted 90 minutes to proving tbat magazines and television don't mix, and, incidentally, that Henry Luce can't act. This may be comforting to many of us who are glad to discover there is something Mr. Luce can't do, hut "25 Years of Life" was wasted air time-as far as entertainment was concerned. The show, widely touted as a brilliant review oL the You can become an "over past 25 years as recorded in Life, had a most impressive night success" in Hollywood, cast. Among the players were Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Peggy all right, but if the mop flops Cass, Fredric March and some top-flight singing and danc the wrong way you become ing groups, plus a closing song fe.st starring Mary Martin. an "overnight hasbeen," too. Hope's opening monologue was funny, Sid Caesar and Ask Dick Davalos. Peggy Cass made the best of two inferior skits designed Dick started acting when to contrast family life today with that of 1936. Fredric he was'five, worked his way March did a good job of narration of Life still photos and up through school produc Mary Martin's solo and her duet with Hope were pleasant tions, became a .dancer, fin to the ear. ally got his break in pictures, Unfortunately, throughout the show, Henry Luce, the rising to the role of Jimmy man behind Life, Time and Fortune, kept intruding into Dean's brother in "East of the proceedings. In every instance, he managed to put a Eden." damper on any hilarity the professional performers had A few more picture suc been able to produce. cesses and he found himself With the start of a series of still pictures from Life, playing an important part on with narration by Fredric March, the really distressing Broadway in "View from the portion of the show began. An example of the difficulties Bridge." inherent in transferring interest from printed to broadcast Then Skidsville. media, the pictures were dull, too well remembered and "It took me a year after provoked nothing more than a yawn. that to get back to work," A bad show all around, "25 Years of Life' was fur Dick says. "They said I was ther damaged by a visit from the Seven Astronauts. Not too typed; I was a has-been even Hope's clowning could enliven th'e interview! of the overnight." Astronauts and their wives. To get out of the rut, Dick BATTERED top hat, floppy bow tie and baggy sweater are tht> We can only hope that this is the first and* last show used his period of unemploy trademarks of zany comedian Soupy Sales as he preside* «ver of its kind and that we will not be subject to 26, 27, 28, etc., ment" to learn to act instead the "Soupy Sales Show," Monday through Friday, beginnin9 years of Life, Time or Fortune. of just being an actor." March 13, at 5 p. m. over KABC-TV. Channel 7.______Gradually, he fought his WELL WHADDYA KNOW KTLA'n next "City at DINNER GUESTS cent dinner guests at T h Night," March 22, will showcase "The Changing Fare of way back to a career. "It's not the first break Mr. and Mrs. Vincent E. Polynesian Restaurant in L. A./' with the xpotlight on L. A.rchitect Wclton Beckett. Benstead of Torrance were re Walteria. . . . NBC will resume major league baseball April 15. . . . that counts in show business," Dinah Shore wants to piny it straight in Noel Coward's Dick now advises new comers, "Brief Encounter" and air it in place of her March 2
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