Radio: Glittering Exception

Above club fights, cooking hints, quiz shows, double-dome discussions, and the other knickknacks of television, TV fans love vaudeville. TV has brought it all back—from trained dogs to baggy-pants comics. Some of it is as drearily old-hat as the Keith circuit in 1912. But there are glittering exceptions. The hour-long Admiral Broadway Revue (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & Du Mont) is an example of good vaudeville.

Patter & Pace. In the brief six weeks of its polished existence, the Revue has climbed to a 50.6 Hooperating (bettered only by TV's two top attractions, Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey). Last week, it earned...

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