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AD.gCvi, iTTrfir NJT M06T- A PAN6, IMS TrlE PASITINS WITH NCl'.'OM i00, MA50S HAr-reNSTHAl H-IT'S JJST FKES SCMETdLE ft THAT TH& ' THE NEXT COUPlB -"Ag:N ONLY Or VsEEKS. SO ThAT n A9 THKEe - THAT 15,1 ;7 tfJN5 AMDTHEE I we'd 1! SETTLE- - ,!.) FuJ3g ,.,r, 2l By Wilton Scruggi By Merrill Blosser i It T LEI'S ' r LITTLE WLUAM EWALD SAYS: Most Pilot Films Are Too Horrendous For Even TV ' By WILLIAM EWALD UPI StaH Writtr NEW YORK ITI One of the more mystifying handicrafts in the entertainment business is something called the TV pilot film. The pSot film is a sort of sam ple, a swatch of a proposed scries peddled around by its makers in hopes of landing a TV slot or sponsor, preferably both. Much of the lime these hopes die aborn ing some pilot films, like one made by Orson Welles a couple of seasons back, are too imagina tive for TV; most are too horren dous for even TV to consider. Last spring, for example, pla toons of pilots were marched around sugarplum-land equipped with all manner of toothsome ti tles. Some of them: The Ivy I-ea guer, Skagway, Shotgun Slade. Kitty Hawk, Claudia, Theodora. Confessions of Willie, My Name is Savage, Caballero, Johnny Eager, Johnny Staccato, . Johnny Midnight and Johnny Ringo. Only a few of these will be seen on TV this fall. This is all a kind of roundabout way of getting into Tuesday night and the debut of a new CBS-TV series. Adventure Showcase. The series will only last four weeks, but during that time it will give viewers a chance to look at some genuine non-reruns, a quartet of pilots that failed to get off the ground. The first of these was piped on board Tuesday night and it was quite obvious why it didn't make it: It was wretched. BOATING IS FU1I See us for the best in models. Kits Motors Accessories Hobby Shop 1113. Adams 1 DAILY TV L0G 2KREM y KXLY f KHQ TV " ft TV O TV WEDNESDAY S:0 Fighta Nf Sparta Silent Srrvlre S.'lS " Dour Edwnrda " " Captain Grief Front Pag-e 6:45 Hemmlnuway Newa 7:00 New-beat Keep Talking U.S. .Marshal 7 15 Mm m 7:30 African Patrol Trackdown Price la Right ' 7:46 " m m 8.00 Ouie & Harriet Millionaire Dave King :15 I SO Donna Reed Show I've Got a Secret Bat Maaterion i 8:46 " 9:1)0 Accused L'-S. Steel Hour This la Your Life :1S " " .no How To Mnrry " Wagon Train :4I A Millionaire " " 10:00 NlRhtheat Nlflit Kditlon 10:15 Jack l'aar 4 Most Feature " 10:10 " News 10:46 " " I.ate Movie 11:00 " ' 11:15 " " " 11:S0 Channel 2 Theatre " " 11:45 " " THURSDAY :00 On The (So Dough Re Mi :15 8: SO Sam Ivensnn Treaaura Runt 1:46 H - 00 1 Love Lucy Price Is Right :1 :30 Top Dollar Concentration :4B " m 10:00 l-ove Of Life Tic Tac Dough ton " 10:3a Search for Tomorrow It Coutd Ba You 10:46 fiuldlng Light ' 11:00 K renin Kaniera Coffee Oltlb Theatre Queen For a Dar 11:15 " " " 11:30 Pantomime Quia ,. Court nf H:,5 'llmnn llcletlona 13:00 Music Bingo r".n Smoot Vounu Dr. Malone , Industry on Parade - 13 .10 Romper Room v World Turna From Theaa Roota 13:45 , " 1 00 Dar In Court For or Worse Truth or Conaeq. 1 IS 1:30 Oale Storm Show HotiJepartr County Fair 1:45 " t 00 Heat The Clock Hl J'ayoff Matinee on Six Mo Who To Tou Trust Verdict ta Toura 1:46 " 1:0) Am. Handstand Rrlahter lay " S-16 Serret Htorm " S S0 " Edite of Night 8:41 " " Our Oang I on Popeya Cliff Carl Show 1 Led Three Llvea 4:16 4:30 Tea Time Matinee Four Thirty MoTla 4:46 " " - 6:00 8upernian " " 1:15 " " 1 11 Mickey Mouse Club Song Shop " 6:46 " " Huntley-TtrlnMey Thil log it mad up from Information! by Talevitlon Station and it accuracy cannot be guaranteed by the La Grande Evening Observer. Its innards centered around a gentleman improbably n a me d Brock Callahan who had once dabbled in football and then moved on to higher pursuits like private detecting. The episode was a stuefying slab of tedium, one of those things in which a be wildering array of people gallop in and out of the plot, pummel in K each other at odd moments and mouthing that bizarre jargon that is heard only within the bar barous precincts of private eye adventures. I seem to recall one exchange that went: First guy "They're clean as a hound's tooth." Second guy "I've known some pretty dirty hounds." The acting was geared rather suitably to the proceedings, shut tling somewhat uncertainly be tween lethargy and torpidity." I won't name the guilty. The Channel Swim: Our leader, Elvis, after he's sprung from the Army on March 24, will receive a reported 100 thousand dollars plus 25 thousand dollars expenses for singing three songs on the special ABC-TV Elvis Presley show next spring. Properties set for the NBC-TV Rexall specials next season in elude "Jenny Kissed Me" on Jan, 17 and "Holy Matrimony on March 13. Dinah Shore and Perry Como will trade NBC-TV guest shots next season. CBS-TV's The Last Word ticks off its 100th tele cast Sept. 27. Mickey iHooncy's nine-year-old son, Teddy, and Teddy's mother, Martha Vickers, will star in a new situation comedy, "The Bab- bysitters," which Music Corpora tion of America will back there's a possibility that Alan Young will star as the father in the show. ABC-TV's Pat Boone has set ud a new subsidiary of his Cooga Mooga Enterprises to handle his records it'll be called Agoom Agooc which is Cooga Mooga spelled sdrawkcab, oops, back- wards. Tom Poston who has been in-again-out-again as emcee of NBC-TV's upcoming Split Per sonality, will pilot the audience participation show after all when it debuts Sept. 28. Redding Selected For Trial Judges Meeting PORTLAND (UPK-Charles W Redding, justice pro tern of the Oregon Supreme Court and pre siding circuit judge for Multno mah county, has been selected as a delegate to the National Confer ence of State Trial Judges. The national meeting will be held in Miami Beach, Fla., Aug 24. Other delegates from Oregon are Circuit Judges Alfred T. Sul monetti, also of Multnomah coun ty, and Val D. Sloper of Marion county. Observer, La Grande, Ore., Wed., Aug. 12, 1959 Page 6 ' Side' Glances HI' rf E I1..2JT" T t ut Not ! t-"-, 8-3 - ' "I'll declare, Sadie you do have a knack of making a resort hotel seem like homo!" ' FINANCIAL BRA WL DOOMS i CAREER OF By VERNON SCOTT UPI StaH Writer HOLLYWOOD (UPI' It took a couple of guys in grey flannel suits to accomplish what a hun dred swordsmen failed to do stab TV's "Zorro" in the back. Following its summer re-runs, the flashing sword and masked heroes of "Zorro" will be no more. The show - has been dumped. While Zorro's fights were gen erally over a fair maiden, or in defense of honor, the behind the camera brawl was strictly finan cial. In a three-way battle among Disney Studios, ABC-TV and an advertising agency, Zorro's sword was as ineffective as Huntz Hall at a summit meeting. Victim of the rhubarb is Guy Williams, the dashing, muscular leading man of the series. He is out of work. Ratings Are High "I could understand if the show was being dropped because of low ratings," Williams said, touching the corner of his natty mustache. "But our ratings and fan mail are higher than they've ever been. .,."But I'm told the program costs $52,000 per segment, which is a pretty hefty bankroll. ABC and Disney didn't 6ec eye to eye on the costs, so it was decided to forget the whole thing." How will this affect Guy? "For the' moment it .means I'm not working except to tour the state fairs and rodeos. But Mr. Disney is considering me for a lead role in a new movie, 'Gold,' which also might be made into a TV series. Grateful to Series "It's about the California gold Artist's Life ACROSS 1 Animal artist, Bonheur 5 Flemish painter, Sir Anthony Dyck 37 Three-toed sloths 38 Soaks hemp 39 Scottish 1 portraitist. Sir Henry 41 Soft in 8 Dutch painter, paintings Frans 12 Level 13 Anger 14 Century plant 15 Glade (comb, form) 16 Grab 17 Italian sculptor, Leone 1 18 Peaceful 20 Solar disks 21 Requisite 24 Fat 28 Italian painter, Santi 33 European blackbird 34 Card game 35 Feminine . appellation 36 Pseudonym of Charles Lamb 42 Stair part 44 Primeval . deity ,, 48 Italian .. medalist, Vittore 53 Verbal ' 54 Bustle 56 Native metals 57 Greater quantity 58 Slight bow 59 Roster 60 He lived 905 years 61 Golf mound 62 Cereal grains DOWN 1 Italian painter, Guido 2 Above 3 Sprinkling I Z t f j 1 j 9 I0 ll iz it S if I ii zi jo in Ts ft n ?i - Tl ft ; qo ii . Tl u tl Hj ji It? " 18 t fO fl ft Hill ml hi 1 L TV'S ZORRO , rush in 1850, with most of the ac tion taking place in San Fran cisco. "I'll miss Zorro as a charac ter, but after two years of play ing the role there wouldn't have been much in the way of new situations for him. Naturally, I'm grateful for the fame and money the series brought me, and the bright future it opened up. "Before the show the area of my oblivion was vast. I couldn't find decent roles. Now I'm thought of as super Spaniard." Cocksure of himself, Guy doesn't believe in worrying about the future. He's convinced he can play other roles without being identified as Zorro. Becoiras Children's Hero "Maybe I could have survived another season of Zorro without becoming too closely associated with the role,"' he grinned. "So I'm half glad, half sorry the pro gram is going off the air. "We still have 11 weeks of re runs ahead of us. But I'm look ing on the bright side. Being on the air 52 weeks a year is tre mendous exposure. For all I know, the cancellation may have saved my career." In addition to earning a fat sal ary from his acting chores, WU liams found some satisfaction in becoming the hero of unestimat ed millions of kids. About a year ago his son, Steve, 7, discovered what his father did for a living. The word got out. "Steve's a big man now," Guy said. "Travels only with 11 and 12-year-olds." Gold was discovered in California on Jan. 24, 1848. Answer to Previous Puzzle 4 Presently 5 "Mona Lisa" painter, Leonardo da 6 Brazilian macaw 7 Pen point 8 Lame 9 Toward the sheltered side 10 Diving bird 1 1 Oriental coins 19 Suffix 20 High mountain 22 Retinues 23 Dutch measures 24 Sheaf 25 Mr. Lugosi 26 Iroquoian Indian 27 Thick slice ' 29 Demigod 30 Arabian gulf 31 Grafted (her.) 32 Scottish miss , 34 Raw silk weight 40 Sculptured ornament 41 Three times (prefix) 43 Aftersong 44 Heavy volume 45 Metat 46 Edible rootitoclc 47 Drinks 49 Alone 50 Melody 51 Bird's home 52 Hops' kiln 54 Emmet 55 Female deer j,uiv, C. AJL.IXI IS A J A sH sjc Trajl! k. a n e gl .E St5Ta i J S. V A ''i-l-M&r4 TE 5 M Q I E M- "UTBSft A V br IM P fcW Ep ATE g. e BTaIl-eUe h.a a gig El N AtoTpJSJpjT N T A W Qi-E KlETgjg N T IZ. 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