Radio: Come of Age

When TV first became mass entertainment three years ago, nobody had a very clear idea what to do with it. "We started out on TV peeking through a keyhole at a Broadway revue," says Max Liebman, producer of Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). When Liebman put on his first TV revue in 1949, dancers practiced in a bare room off Broadway; skits were worked out in cubbyhole offices and washrooms. Liebman's show went on the air without a camera rehearsal and from the stage of a theater. Curtains opened & closed...

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