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THEY HANDED HIM A CLARINET AND STEVE'S GOING TO KEEP IT HOLLYWOOD (ff).—Steve Allen may or may not win . an Oscar for playing the title role in “The Benny Goodman Story”—but he’s learning to play the clarinet. Steve studied eight weeks in order to handle a clarinet properly while pretending to play the solos recorded by Benny himself on the sound track. He revealed last week study. ißfeyoß.- &#** >: . v that he intends to keep up the , "P^4' tPhesK his TV *3l Mr in • Allen, of course, is an accomplished pianist as fans well know. -’ll “Ihave to fill 10S minutes with entertainment on my flve-times-a-week television show,” said Steve. "The more Instruments I can play the better off I’ll be.” fact, before '- Allen also plays the organ and tuba. In sSp ; play part r,:, y\ many lessons on the clarinet, he was able to of the sound track music—the scenes in which Goodman, as a boy of 10, practices his first music scales. ON THE AIR & ¦" a ’ , - I&.3& £ JM? ~ %'¦¦; *r E1 f f.< I : 1 1 tM%| I ' . Ethel and Albert Summer's Best ' ' ' i" 11 ril ll | IMII * \ E^l 111 1 lVlVil f I 111 By BEBNIE HARRISON Hour,” though I’m not too ,•.««> n enthusiastic about it. It’s the In Just another week or two, program that is as miserable summer of kind of a another good as its guests, and so far, TV will be miserable ancient they’ve top flight. history. been . SPECIAL STARS FOR SPECIAL SHOWS Do Ihear wave upon ** * * Among the television events will be the romantic comedy, “The King and wave of cheers? week’s It began bravely enough, Best New Weekly Drama Mrs. Candle,” which will be bedecked with an original musical score and color TV. you’llremember, with a stout- Show: “Windows”. (CBS-9), It willbe seen tomorrow night at 8 on “Producers’ Showcase” over WRC-TV (4). hearted declaration from one Friday. Off-beat writing plus Cyril Ritchard, the hard-working salesman here, plays the central figure, a TV executive that there’d be good production values char- deposed king making his way as best he can in the United States. no sloughing off this summer. acterize this “Person to Per- Full steam, ahead, fellas, and son” replacement. The half- you’ll be sorry if you miss one hour play field has become memorable minute of it, this moribund and any efforts to bossman said. break way from that Holly- . jf? NBC did continue its sched- wood star format rates a nod. ule of Spectaculars, and for *e * * bringing us the summer’s one Disappointments: (Not best show, “HieFour Poster," enough room for all)., Cronyn with Hume and Jes- The Sid Caesar Replace- sica Tandy, deserves at least a 1. mgLf:! *** • <• applause. And for ment: The fans have been ¦ round of extremely patient but the "Wide, Wide World,” second a show just doesn’t haVe it. The long burst. writers are Just getting around Allthe Same to supplying Phil Foster with But when it comes to "re- more ' sympathetic material decorate another of the color shows of peats” and makeshift little and the season is practically VENUS DANCES—Janet Blair will summer replacements, NBC, gone. the week. The singing and dancing actress will play the Venus role in “One alas, was no different from 2. And Here’s the Show: Touch of Venus,” W)-minute “spectacular” to be seen Saturday night at 9 over CBS. Or ABC. Or WTTG. (4). Jonathan Winters’ brilliant WROTV Before the advent of the be- mimicry winning dazzling and the hu- new season, which of Sherman. S (WMAL-7) for demonstra- promises pip, mor Ransom a to be a Ithought Sabotaged by adolescent stag- tion of how the solar system I’d try to summarize the sum- ing. good affects the earth. mer season, the and bad Johnny shows, this 3. Carson. He is Eartha Kltt and the Mar- and came up with de- list. See if you agree. pleasant, attractive and iners will be on Ed Sullivan’s Best Weekly Comedy Show: livers lines well. Main trouble: show next Sunday. (CBS-9, Most of his lines have been Ethel and Albert. at least a - Mondays.) around the circuit Trans Atlantic Televiews half-dozen times. (3:30. This is a summer replace- WTOP-9, between Whiting movies) ment “veteran”—but there’s 4. Those Girls. The THIS IS YOUR will feature an inter- same old situation comedy guff wmm view a girl. been a terrific Improvement with midwest Carol new Edlcr, a Marshall Scholar in over the years. with a cast. London. ... She’ll report that Peg Lynch was clever 5. Musical Chairs. I like PULL-OUT SECTION “Although it may take a bit enough to capitalize on early Johnny Mercer, but not this longer to get to know an Eng- criticisms, expand the show much. TELEVISION GUIDE lish person . once you get to include more characters, 6. Front Row Center. Star- WEEKLY to know them, there’s a cer- and has gotten to be almost studded claptrap. pin- tain closeness and intimacy uncanny in her ability to ** * * THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C. about it that you don’t find at point the humor in the every- Best Novelties: “The $64,000 SUNDAY. AUGUST St. IMA home." day lives of her married Question” and the Dunninger E-7 * ?• ? couple. Peg’s dialogue some- show. CONFIDENTIAL: That 1927 times sounds as if she were ** * * taking Paddy Rolls Royce driven by Janet lessons on Only steady ray of light in i mKKL Words to the Wise Leigh in “Pete Kelly’s Blues," Chayevsky’s tape recorder. She summer TV firmament were lines, though, which brought Jack Webb to delivers her own regulars (hour dramas, Ed something Paddy the Washington Friday, is a movie and that's Sullivan, discussion shows) veteran.... It has been driven can’t do. that happily continued their MISS RUSSELL APPROVES—RosaIind Russell will make her “in person” televi- Off hoping Gin Really Pay past pictures by long I'm CBS can find in such operations and gave us at least sion debut tonight at 8 on Ed Sullivan’s “Toast of the Town” over WTOP-TV (9). spelled Sonny en- ago Dove, another spot for “Ethel and the release of her Reprise: The words when Fox visits the stars as Billie Co- one show a day or night that The occasion willbe a star-studded hour-long tribute marking correctly by Gloria Locker- campment. rinne Griffith (now Mrs. Albert” this fall. we could look at without some- one new, that ** * * newest film, “The Gold Rush.” This is so in fact, the photograph man, 12-year-old Baltimore Mrs. Winnifred Cameron, of George P. Marshall) and Dor- in the house remarking—- Observatory, othy Weekly Musieai here was rushed right from Miss Russell to you. The penciled “OK, RR” in the junior high school student, in the Naval visits MackalU. Best New “But I’veseen it before!" Hideaway” HARRISON Show: “The comer is mute evidence that she had just exercised her star’s prerogative to her march to the 88.000 the “Phantom's at BERNIE Frankie Lalne ** * * category “The 64,000 Ques- approve or disapprove all still photographs. on goodness for tion” last were: And thank week Steve Allen! then the theater and our To $512: Coyote, dinosaur, friends, and he’s such a sports chinchilla, hippopotamus. $1,000: plenipotentiary. Television Arlene Has Everything, fan I have taken to baseball Today's Programs on CBS Wants and the fights. Come April 15 $2,000: gingham, taffeta. in New York, you either have $4,000: minuet, waltz, ma- Live 'Spec/ to be interested in baseball, or zurka. Sunday, August 21, 1955 For a Including Ambition bury yourself.” $8,000: antidisestablishmen- WtC (Ck. 4)—1«, Cirtna Clreil; 11:11, Wlttk Mr. Wiiirl; 11, Cirtla * Riack WMAI (tk. 1) HIGHLIGHTS 1:41, “Riril »*«rltl”s No The “Home” lady also dearly tarianism 11:11, Tktltir TIM. WTOP (Ck. D-SiM, Wkit Yaw Traallai: But He Says great Broadway, Back- f, ti Th WaMar?: I N Him CkrlftlM lili'lN;11. Itwiik CnwnitT Kiwi 11:11. Mr MARGARET McMANUS play on and loves her own home, a small Remember Professor (s)—Look Up produce wards? That 28-letter word is 10:30. WTOP and Ink Up Ml Live: 11, Os«tM Milt Ftaiaatu 11:11, Will lilt Hickick. HOLLYWOOD. CBS has have my husband it.” - NEW YORK.—Arlene Fran- gem of a Manhattan town Live: Story of young Bing Crosby Reasonable enough ambi- still the high point of his vau- woman 4) fWMAL <Cli. 7) WTO? (Ch. «>! been trying to talk cis was having her hair washed. house in the Seventies, a nar- life ease join P.M iWiC ICh. WTTG seem, deville and night club act, and who left of to »'« «,tw* ">•*» «*» **< T« doing at least one “spec- Wearing a yellow bathrobe, tions. it would notwith- row, four-story white house, Quaker "work camp” in I M Nnilnin into standing of I never caught one of his uinitnrm Faraka . ~ TV. green polka the achievements bright orange awnings •*» I,u tacular” live on But he’s and the and white with Mexico’s Indian country. H SMli) Fliykaaia f,itt ’ CutMl Ciniral just the present. a doorway, shows in which it wasn't vol- U;11 dot shoes she had worn and formal with 2:00, (s)—This Is the .4S (mya . - }_” having none of that talk. It show, The only television star ap- grille unteered.