SEPTEMBER 11, 1961 NEW YORK ROUNDUP HOLLYWOOD ROUNDUP TV Opera's 3 -Cornered Hat: Successful negotiations CBS -TV has complied with the request of Television between the Metropolitan Opera and its musicians have Producers Guild to run producer credits directly adjacent insured another live N.Y. opera season, but WOR-TV N.Y. to those of writers & directors. TPG Pres. Ben Brady de- will still go ahead with its weekly series of 12 full-length. scribed the CBS -TV policy as an "open-minded understand- musical films titled The Golden World of Opera starting ing & recognition of the producer's justifiable claim for Oct. 15 (Vol. 17:35 p12). In fact, WOR will give N.Y. contiguous credits." lovers of the art another serving in the form of live. Jack Benny's guest star lineup on operatic broadcasts on Saturday afternoons over radio CBS -TV for the coming season includes Mr. & Mrs. James Stewart, WOR. Emanating from the Met, the 20 -part radio series Ray- mond Burr, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Mickey Rooney, to start Dec. 9. Ziv-UA, which plans still an- Jane is scheduled Morgan, Victor Borge, Phil Silvers and Shari other operatic series, has yet to find a N.Y. buyer. ,Lewis. MGM -TV production executives are conferring Screen Gems' new animation process, Tri-Cinemation, with ABC-TV and NBC-TV top brass regarding possible co- & talks life -like dolls via film (Vol. 17:36 p10) that walks production deals on 1962-63 pilots. will imitate the Marx brothers-Groucho, Harpo and Chico-in a new TV series. The brothers will be visually Third Man Corp. has acquired all rights to produce represented by the dolls, and the sound -track will carry The Third Man series from NTA. The latter will con- voices similar to those of the wacky trio. Screen. Gems tinue as distributor. Ex-NTA executive Vernon Burns is hopes to lure some of the writers of the Marx Brothers' pres. of Third Man. old movies to work on the proposed series. Screen Gems has signed independent producer Herbert WBC will contribute several "suitable programs to B. (Naked City, Route 66) Leonard to a new long-term WUHF, the federal uhf experimental outlet for N.Y. which contract . Warner Bros. is filming 28 TV segments dur- is due to begin telecasting next month. Among the pro- ing September, a record for the studio. grams being considered are the 15 -episode Reading Out Loud, Dimensions 3, Children and God, the C. P. Snow- Format Films has added 55 employes to its staff, now Edward Teller debate series Reaction, and Career, a co -pro- numbering over 160 ... Darryl Hickman is up for the lead duction effort with Stanford University. in Selmur Productions' pilot of Young Love, a comedy. ABC Films opened 5 new foreign sales offices last Goodson-Todman Productions will pilot Days Ahead, week. The Great Britain Div., centered in London, will a situation comedy. Producer Jerry Stagg has signed be headed by Don Angel. The Northern European Div., Arthur Weiss to script. headed by Mrs. Margaret Jansson in Paris, will have sub - Filmways offices in Frankfurt and Stockholm, and a Rome office, Inc. has signed producer -writer Paul Hen- top -manned by Hugo Londrini, will supervise the firm's ning to create & produce a new TV series, one of 8 the Southern. European, operation. company is planning. Producer David Susskind seems to have a soft, spot for Wolper Productions signed bullfighter Jaime Bravo to presidential themes. Currently at work on a 26 -episode, 60 - portray himself in its "Story of a Matador" episode of its min. Harry S. Truman series (Vol. 17:24 p9), he last week The Story Of series for Ziv-UA. purchased TV -motion picture rights to "The Making of CBS -TV bought 27 Blue Chips, the post -1950 movie the President," the Theodore H. White account of the 1960 package, from M. & A. Alexander Productions Inc., for campaign. Susskind plans a 90 -min. documentary for an showing on its o&o stations. early 1962 network slot. Add Syndication Sales: Official Films sold its package Jaybar Enterprises Inc. has been formed by producer- writer of 4 off -network series (Peter Gunn, Yancy Derringer, Jackie Barnett for production of TV films & movies. iVire Service, Mr. Lucky) to 12 more stations, upping the Four Star Television has signed Hugh O'Brian to star 7 -week sales total to 43 ABC Films scored 3 new in "Up Jumped the Devil," segment of Dick Powell Show. sales for its off -network reruns of The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp, upping the market total to 25. Revue Studio producer Dick Berg signed Clair Bloom to make her telefilm debut in a Checkmate segment. MGM -TV has announced that it will now enter the tape field with 2 shows in association with producer Harry Henry Jaffe Enterprises has moved its production of- Anger. A comedy called The Crazy Club and a game show fices to 8736 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. titled You Don't Say will mark, MGM's first production efforts in Manhattan. People: Peggy (The Hathaways) Cass has begun a 10 -day national tour promoting the Screen Gems series MGM -TV's 30 -picture package of post -1950 features which debuts on ABC-TV Oct. 6 ... Donn Munson signed has been sold in 34 markets and is now "approaching the as producer -writer for Keyhole, Jack Douglas series for million in revenues," reports syndication $2 mark total Ziv-UA . Lloyd Rosamund named story consultant at A. The includes sales dir. Richard Harper. package "The Warner Bros. TV; he will also develop TV series . Ray- Bad & the Beautiful, "Lone Star," and "Battle Circus." mond Massey, co-star of MGM -TV's Dr. Kildare series, People: Peretz W. Johannes has joined Talent Asso- recovering from minor surgery . E. W. Swackhamer ciates -Paramount Ltd. as associate producer of the Harry named associate producer on Hennesey . Peter R. S. Truman series . .. Ed Montanus has been named MGM Brooks, creator of the Goodson-Todman project, Days TV Central TV sales mgr. to head the new Chicago office. Ahead, named its associate producer. www.americanradiohistory.com.