January 1, 1950

Sunday January 1, 1950 ~ (CBS) "This is Show Business" will have as guests Gloria Swanson, famed movie star of yesteryear; Rise Stevens, Metropolitan opera star; Billy Gilbert, comedian; and Helene and Howard, comedy dancers, along with regulars Clifton Fadiman, George S. Kaufman and Abe Burrows.

Sunday January 1, 1950 ~ (NBC) "The Philco Television Playhouse" Melvyn Douglas, the famed cinema star will play the leading rold in a dramatization of "The Strange Christmas Dinner" on the Television Playhouse. The story concerns a modern Scrooge who refuses to close his store on Christmas day when Douglas enters as a stranger and changes a lot of things.