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...girl in a bright-beaded dress sang a ragged version of Secret Love and then went into a tap dance that showed more vigor than precision. When she had finished, she stood, thin-armed and anxious, staring toward the control room where Director Lloyd Marx and Associate Producer Wanda Ellis were judging the auditions for the 1,000th performance of the Original Amateur Hour...
Skip the Gong. Over the past 20 years Director Marx and Associate Wanda Ellis have listened to more than 400,000 such hopefuls. Each week Wanda Ellis weeds out the worst of the contestants, and then Marx and Producer Lou Goldberg join her to pick from the survivors six acts to compete with the winner of the previous show. All worked for the famed Major Edward Bowes until his death in 1946. They formed a partnership with Bowes's lawyer and Ted Mack, the current master of ceremonies, to create the TV version of the show, which has been...
After studying a generation of amateurs, Wanda Ellis concludes that the current crop has more poise and knowledge than its predecessors: "There used to be so many cases of stage fright-contestants would freeze up, cry, faint. That seldom happens now. And today's amateurs know a lot more about music; often the oldtimers didn't even know what key they sang in." Other changes: today, there is more pop singing than classical, and TV has brought a boom in pantomimists and interpretive dancers. Oddly, the number of comedy acts is steadily declining. The only thing Wanda Ellis...
...Wanda Landowska at Home (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). The famed harpsichordist interviewed...
...each lira as if it were the last of the species: he never uses the Premier's special railroad car, has dismissed his police-escort car, recently borrowed a tiny Fiat for a vacation trip instead of using his gas-greedy Alfa Romeo. With his wife and daughter Wanda, he lives in a simple apartment in Rome's newest apartment-house district, sometimes visits his old (77) mother, who still lives near Biella among the effects of a half-century ago. She consented to have a radio and a telephone in her house only because her visiting...