Steve Allen tours Moscow and reports on Soviet life
Hollywood star Steve Allen and family toured Moscow for a week as tourists. He will present impressions on his syndicated show beginning Oct 1, aiming to reveal American ignorance about the USSR and promote more contact with Soviet people. He notes Russians faced harsher times under czars and that many "Russian" practices differ from communism.
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Television Highlights Tonight on Channels 2 5 7 9 and 12
TV tonight offers a mix of film and comedy. On Channel 2 and 12 at 7:30 the Outer Limits presents a tale about a meek college instructor who discovers how to destroy the earth. Channel 5 airs Executive Suite with William Holden and June Allyson. Channel 7 and 9 feature Lucy benefiting a charity, Danny Thomas Show opens its new season, Hollywood and the Stars profiles, and The Andy Griffith Show starts its season about a small town sheriff.
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Cleopatra
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Joseph Cotten
Andy Griffith
Hollywood
Garland TV Show Uneven Yet Entertaining Debut
AP reports Judy Garland’s CBS variety hour mixed nervousness with lively singing and dancing. Donald OConnor offered strong support while Jerry Van Dyke’s extended monologue sagged. Earlier, My Favorite Martian debuted as a witty fairy tale about a Martian scientist crash landing in Southern California.
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Judy Garland
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Donald O'Connor
Jerry van Dyke
Miss Garland Slim
California
Spoon River Anthology Opens at Booth Theater
Broadway awards a top tier production of Spoon River Anthology adapted by Charles Aidman from Edgar Lee Masters. The cast includes Betty Garrett Joyce Van Patten and Robert Elston with Naomi Hirshhorn Hal Lynch and others. Simple staging with minimal props frames a graveyard narrative of 70 plus vignettes.
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mid-America
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Charles Aidman
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Theater West
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Betty Garrett
Robert Elston
Joyce van Patten
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Naomi Cary Hirshhorn
Hal Lynch
Poles Rush To Put Cash Into Banks
In Warsaw crowds line up at the Polish Savings Bank and main post office as rumors spread of a possible currency changeover. Depositors bring large sums, hoping bank deposits will be redeemed at a favorable rate, recalling the 1950 revaluation.
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Manslaughter Charged After Fatal Auto Crash in Moundsville
W V A P reports 23 year old Jackie Huffman of Sardis Ohio dies when a car crashes into a bridge on West Virginia 2 at Moundsville city limits. Driver Gary Haught 22 from Sardis is charged with manslaughter. Passenger Vincent Reusser from Sardis is treated for minor injuries.
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Gary Foster Haught
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TV Notes Highlight 1960s CBS and NBC Premieres
Ray Walston plays a tech savvy invisible mind reader in a dry style, while Phil Silvers underperforms in his CBS con man comeback. CBS debuts include a Friday Great Adventure theme with a Confederate submarine drama, and NBC counters with Hollywood and the Stars profiling Humphrey Bogart. Lucille Ball Danny Thomas and Andy Griffith begin new Monday fortunes.
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