Dear Dead Lady

Stay tuned for Nero Wolf. This Sunday marks the premiere of The Big Show on NBC. Not just any big show, it's The Big Show. NBC's hour and a half of comedy, music, and drama. The Best of Each.

The Big Show will be heard every Sunday afternoon over most of these stations, with Talulah Bankhead as mistress of ceremonies. Your stars for this Sunday's broadcast include Jimmy Dorati, Fred Allen, Ethel Merman, Frankie Lain, Mindy Carson, Meredith Wilson, Danny Thomas, and hosts of others. All this and to Lula too. No wonder it's the big show. My boss is the smartest and the stubbornest, the

fattest and the laziest, the cleverest and the craziest, the most extravagant detective in the world, Nero Wolfe. It's the adventure of the case of the dear dead lady, with that brilliant eccentric private detective Orchid Fancier and Gargantuan Gourmet, Nero Wolfe, starring Sidney Green Street.

Nero Wolfe had just come downstairs, having tended to his precious Orchids. He was, as usual, seated in the library, which served as the office. He just dialed a phone number, and, with his eyes closed, was leaning back in his specially built chair, which was big enough for two, but not two of him.

Mr. Hasbro, this is near the Wolf. Oh, yeah, Mr. Wolf. I was just about to ring you. I have needed two pounds of duck liver. I do not, of course, refer to the commercialized Strasbourg-Bethé.

Well, I appreciate the order, Mr. Wolf. But next, my cookfritz informs me that we require three fine fat geese. Look, Mr. Wolf. You might add 12 cases of beer, a butcher of Vermont, Apples green for stuffing and a gallon of Marquise, a patrice, a Roman oil.