New Shows

Recital Hall (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC-TV), as the name implies, is not really a conventional TV show at all, but a half-hour recital filmed as a concert hall audience sees & hears it, without comment, commercials or trick camera work. Following Pianist Gyorgy Sandor, the first soloist: Baritone William Warfield, Cellist Leonard Rose.

General Electric Guest House (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is an expensive, hour-long blend of variety acts with a charade-type quiz. In the first show, Pianist-MC Oscar Levant was in his usual sour mood, but his trademark insults seemed more neurotic than funny. Among other guests, Isabel Bigley (Guys & Dolls) and Cornelia Otis Skinner gave performances which a panel of "experts" (including Actress Binnie Barnes and Theatrical Producer Herman Levin) managed to identify.

Bob (Elliot) & Ray (Goulding) (Mon.-Fri. 5:45 p.m., NBC) are two comics from Boston's WHDH, relaxed but not tired in the TV manner, who moved into New York to give blunt, deadpan satires on soap opera, commercials (man-eating mulberry bushes) and "our contemporary way of life," all backed by hysterical organ music. Their spoofing and imitations are pleasantly homemade, but done at a professional pace.

Pantomime Quiz (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV) is The Game (charades), Hollywood-style, which means that the participants do not lounge around like their quiz panel counterparts in Manhattan, but get right in there pitching and mugging. Such regulars as Jackie Coogan and Adele Jergens, and such guests as Virginia Field and George O'Brien, take turns plugging their latest pictures, then enacting the words of a quotation for the rest to guess.

American Inventory (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-TV), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's survey of U.S. economic and social problems, opened with an impressive cast --Singer Gladys Swarthout, General Motors' Charles F. Kettering, Judge Samuel Leibowitz, Baseball's Jackie Robinson, ex-Budapest-Prisoner Robert Vogeler--none of whom seemed at ease with a pompous script.

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