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In a show from 1949, Milton Berle makes an entrance in a chariot, declaring "Isn't it terrible what you have to go through for a lousy $15,000 a week, and telling topical jokes ("The Greeks had a word for this, and if you don't know what it is ask President Truman"). Guests include Ethel Merman (who sings "I Get A Kick Out of You," "I Got Rhythm," "The Varsity Drag," and a duet with Berle on "Friendship"), the three-man acrobatic act Las Scottos, actor Keye Luke in his first television appearance making his first television appearance (Berle: "You've never appeared on a comedy television show before?" "No, I haven't--but someday I hope I will"), pitchman/comic Sid Stone ("tell you what I'm gonna do"), and tap dancer Teddy Hall. The highlight is a salute to songwriters featuring the work of Irving Berlin (EASTER PARADE), Jerome Kern (SHOW BOAT), Rodgers and Hart (THE GIRL FRIEND), Rodgers and Hammerstein (OKLAHOMA), Sigmund Romberg ("Stouthearted Men"), Victor Herbert ("Kiss Me Again"), Cole Porter (NIGHT AND DAY), George Gershwin (RHAPSODY IN BLUE), and including performances by composers Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer ("Love Somebody," "Candy"), Charles Tobias ("Time Waits For No One," "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree"), Maud Nugent ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady"), and Lou Brown ("The Best Things In Life Are Free," "Sonny Boy," "The Birth of the Blues," "Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries," "Roll Out The Barrel," and "Good News").
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