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DEVERE (DEE) ENGELBACH (1910-1983) worked in the radio, music and show business industry in NYC. He was the Director-Producer of "The Big Show" , a successful Sunday night radio show for NBC in the early 1950's at the advent of television. The show was housed in NBC's newly acquired Center Theatre which had a 3000 seat capacity. It had a forty-four piece orchestra and a sixteen-voice choir presided over by Meredith Wilson who went on to write "The Music Man". The show prospered and at one time or another most of the elite of the entertainment business appeared on the show including the following: Groucho Marx, Gary Cooper, Bob Hope, Ethel Barrymore, Robert Merrill, Marlene Dietrich and Louis Armstrong. DeeVere is favorably mentioned often in Tallulah Bankhead's autobiography that was written in 1952. Tallulah was Mistress of Ceremonies for "The Big Show."
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