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Hollywood Report That Jerry, That Dean

By SHEILAH GRAHAM series In the fall, Guns of Destiny—stories of famous gunmen and their guns.... Australia’s HOLLYWOOD. Jerry Lewis and Dean Ron Randall is back in Hollywood and hopes to Martin willpull down $1,200,000 from NBC next stay as M.C. of a show. He was very successful season for four one-hour television shows. This emceeing in London.... Red Skelton has filmed through is the highest ever for such a deal. . . . Vic enough shows to see him his ‘‘Public Damone has signed with for Robert’s Pigeon Number One” movie at RKO. last TV show this season, May 29. Phyllis Kirk is off to New York for two

. Linkletter, Ralph Edwards is cooking up a new big months of teeveeing . . Jack Art’s audlenfce-participation show with Hollywood’s oldest, is off to Munich for a spell with Radio

. . Bill Leyden as its master of ceremonies.... Dick Free Europe. . Sir Douglas Fairbanks, playing Shawn, tabbed by CBS for a series, said no a hairdresser in a telefilm about a murder in a

. . the hands of a top Mayfair thank you, hed rather make movies. . But hair salon, uses usually a Jane Wyatt of 's Father Knows coiffeur stylist. . . . Raymond Burr, Best is delighted she is starting a new batch heavy in movies and TV, gets his first romantic Ster- of 39 half-hours. “Most people complain about role on TV’s Climax, Thursday—with Jan television, I love it,” said the original “Shangri- ling (8:30 p.m.—WTOP—9). la" girl. Her son, incidentally, is now a fresh- Next season will De the first time in eight man at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. years that will not be seen in your Dewey Martin is filming a new teleseries. home on a Tuesday night. He’ll do only four Cavalry Patrol, with more than a million in shows, with tw’o-month intervals. (Released by NANA) its budget. ... And Ralph Bellamy starts a new

News of D. C. Studios But Still Faithful What did NBC’s George Gobel learn from days, 7 p.m.) reports that he almost turned in his exhausting junket to promote his first film, his golf clubs when he saw Sam Snead rack up Under the a 62, 64, 64 in successive rounds Green- "The Birds and the Bees”? . . . head- three at ing of revelation—that’s his word—comes his ex- briar. ... To square things away, Jim took his perience with a group of autograph-hunting wife on for a fast 17 holes "and managed to you beat her quite soundly.” bobby soxers in Philadelphia. ... “But never Saturday Cindy Lou Dahl (WTTG, show up on my Nielsens.” George teased. ... An This intelligent young lady pointed out to George weekdays, 6:30 p.m.) will help lead 2,000 Boy that a teen can never admit that she doesn’t Scouts in a Den Doodle parade. Cindy says “They tell have a date on Saturday night. . . . Not even to she’ll be doing kind of a snake dance. a and I’m is . always I can’t ride horse, sure no one a survey researcher. . . “But we’re me watching you wherever we are, George,” she going to carry me.” added. AFTRA, the union that radio and television WMAL’s new announcer, Bob Pickett, hails performers belong to, has a new honorary mem- from , is 5 feet 11 inches, weighs 165 ber called Elmer. Ventriloquist Alec Houston pounds, and has red hair. When asked if he (Jimmy Dean, WMAL, weekdays, 6:30 p.m.) says had a good TV appearance Bob suggested that that even though his better half is a “wise guy when it to we ask “an objective, preferably impartial, third with a mind of his own” comes voting party observer—l can’t tell you that!” in AFTRA, “He’s likely to stick pretty close to Donna Douglas (WTOP, weekdays, 2:15 p.m.) my decisions.” is being forced to farm out her “perfectly gor- WTOP’s announcer, Bob Dalton, says that geous” 140-pound Great Dane. “He has simply the most frequent complaint listeners have outgrown the neighborhood,” Donna said. “I against his clan runs as follows: “The music knew he’d get big, but I had no idea he’d get as you fellows play comes in too soft, and the com- big as he is.” mercials you read come in so loud they almost Sportscaster Jim Gibbons iWMAL, week- knock us out of our chairs.”

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