By TED GREEN • • • Harry Belafonte scored raves in his 45-minute TV appear ance on John Reed King's KDKA-TV show last week . . . Harry THE BOSS IS AWAY Hershfield came in for a four-day visit on the show . . . Johnny Ray, Miriam Makeba, Charles (Bridge Expert) Goren and Eddie Arcaro rounded out the week . . . Keep your eye (and ear) on youthful, My boss, Jack Douglas, is off on another publicity tour. Valentino-type Nelson Sardelli, who's knocking 'em dead nightly However, he promised last week in this space to quote at the Chateau Madrid. He is up for a shot on "Talent Scouts" and the reaction of the critics to his new series, "ACROSS we understand, Ed Sullivan is interested in spotting him on one of his upcoming stanzas . . . Attention radio-TV program producers THE SEVEN SEAS." So, in Jack's absence, here are You are missing a good bet if you don't contact this pillar as chair- some of the initial reactions, quoted exactly as they were man of the radio-TV liaison Committee for the Newspaper Reporters printed in the trade press and the newspapers following Association of New York City. Qualified newspaper men are avail- able for your panel shows. the West Coast premiere last week: ft ft ft ft " "ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS' promises a new professional dimension for travel shows that com- petitors will find difficult to copy." • • • Lovely lark Jean Martin, in readying her bow Friday at the International. Her act was created by Sid Shaw, who is also —HANK GRANI The Hollywood Reporter arranging details of reissue of her LP, "Please Be Gentle" . . . Ted • Lewis, opening Oct. 2 at Roseland Dance City, will have increased "Jack Douglas is still the cheapest way to travel." CBS wires from that ballroom by special arrangement of Lou Brecker . . . Pretty singer Judy Scott, a former protege of Jerry Lewis, re- —PAUL BAESSLER Los Angeles Herald-Examiner cently met backstage with Jerry when he hosted the "Tonight" show. • Look for the talented Judy to return to the home screens with her "Unquestionably the Czar of the travel-adventure favorite comedian . . . Milt Moss, who is a comedian's comedian and empire." a Kay Korwin client, has begun a daily children's show on WPIX —TERRANCE O'FLAHERI V . . . Vincent F. Albano, Jr. Chairman of the Executive Committee of San Francisco• Chronicle the N. Y. Republican County Committee, predicts record TV and radio expenditures for political broadcasting this Fall. "He originated the travel-adventure TV trend back in 1954." ft ft ft ft —FRANCIS MURPHY Portland Oregonian • • • • Meet: Harold M. (Bud) Austin, Goodson-Todman executive "America's great VideoVagabond" VP, New York. He joined G-T in 1955 as sales director and was —TOM O'LEARY promoted to VP before attaining his present position last year. Prior The Catholic Monitor to his association with G-T, Bud was national sales director of NTA • VP of Official Film and Telefilm Enterprises. He had just begun hi- "It appears that Jack Douglas may have another own packaging company, Austin Associates, and was producing two winner with 'ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS.' I'm pilot films for NBC when Bill Todman suggested he sign with G-T. looking forward to this series to add a dash of dif- Substantial changes have taken place at G-T since Austin joined the t ference to the usual Friday evening programming." firm. Back in 1955, G-T had "What's My Line?," "I've Got a Secret" —RICHARD O. MARTIN and "Beat the Clock" on the air. "Two for the Money" had just been The Salt• Lake Tribune canceled. It was subsequently resold and there followed an array of hits bearing the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman logo. "The Price Is . "Jack Douglas is to television what Rand McNally Right" went on daytime and subsequently at night. "To Tell the is to maps." Truth" also made its debut. In the meantime, the G-T film operation —TUBE began to function under the aegis of Harris Katleman, the West Variety • Coast executive VP. In a four-year period, many film shows were sold, including "The Web," "Jefferson Drum," "The Rebel," "One "Television's most successful producer of travel- adventure films." Happy Family" and "Philip Marlowe." As G-T continued to swing —ALLEN RICH into high gear, they added such other hits as "Play Your Hunch," "Say Valley Times When" and "Password." * ft ft ft ft "Undisputed leader in travel films for TV." —L.ARKAY Radio-Television Daily • • • Irene Ryan, who co-stars with Buddy Ebsen in "The Bev- erly Hillbillies," winds up with the least glamorous TV wardrobe of the new season. CBS-TV plunked down $34.50 for her entire ward- We're told that there have been numerous other favor- robe! . . . New title the Paul Henreids pinned on her 1962-'63 season able notices, but since we have not actually received the of dance parties for children sounds like a TV special, "The Wonder- tearsheets, we are unable to quote from them. ful World of the Young." . . . Ralph Curtis, well known tenor, makes his fourth appearance on American Musical Theatre . . . Monsignore re-opens for the season tomorrow with a series of TV parties hosted — ROBERTA LARSON by Joe Franklin, Ethel Thorsen and Horace McMahon ... A tip of the Stetson to: Robert Goulet, Dick Powell, Shari Lewis, Rita Hay- Advt. worth, Ponci Ponce, Mickey Rooney, Charles Boyer, Alfred Hitch- cock, Natalie Wood, Jack Kelly, Elroy Hirsch and others who are giving time to tape a special recording for the Arthritis and Rheu- matism Foundation's national 1962 November campaign."