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...Like a lot of veteran performers in the 50s, Wong found more work on the small screen than the large. She hosted a 13-week series, The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong (her Chinese name), for the Dumont network in 1951, and in 1957 hosted an ABC evening of film clips from the 30s trip to China, called Bold Journey. She did guest spots on The Barbara Stanwyck Show and Adventures in Paradise. In 1956 she got a long-deferred chance to play a role she lost out on in Hollywood: as the Asian blackmailer in Somerset Maugham...
...comedy. His model was Jack Benny, the radio comedian. Benny could pull a laugh out of a sour audience with only a pause and a stare, which was pretty daring for an aural medium. Dick Cavett, who would later write for Carson and host his own talk show on ABC and PBS -and who at 13 saw Carson, then 23 and back from Navy service in World War II, perform in a Lincoln church basement -says that Johnny's thesis at the University of Nebraska was on Benny and the mastery of comic pacing. Was it called...
...show, which for one night gave him the whiff of stardom when he substituted for the injured star; host of a short-lived interview show, Carson's Cellar, and a flop CBS skein, The Johnny Carson Show; then, in 1957, the gig that earned him fame, an ABC daily quiz program, Who Do You Trust? The Q&A portion of the show was negligible; it was Carson's fast, easy banter with his guests that got the attention of the NBC brass. Jack Paar, whose eventful reign as host of The Tonight Show had also begun in 1957, was itching...
...Koppel The Nightline king's contract ends later this year, and CBS is rumored to be interested in him. But would the ABC vet want the job? At least he wouldn't have to worry about competing with Letterman...
...DIED. RUTH WARRICK, 88, who made her film acting debut in Citizen Kane but went on to greater fame with a 35-year run in ABC's soap opera All My Children; in New York City. After playing Orson Welles' icy first wife in Kane, she had a middling film career before finding her m?tier as All My Children's overbearing socialite Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, who once barred a chauffeur from her library because he was wearing jeans. "You say 'Phoebe,'" she remarked, "and 50 million people know what you mean...