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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1958)
Inside TV New Western Film Points Way For Better Fare on Television VI STAKE Br EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD - STARR RE PORT: It'i taken the movie peo ple to come up with an "adult Western" which should give the television people pause for thought. Filmed with a tongue in one cheek and. a gun in another, it's cauea sneep man" (a title as dull as the pic ture Is funny ana exciting) and stars Glenn Ford as that vary familiar character, the stranger in town. It also stars Shirley Mac- Laine, who fortunately bears no resemblance whatever to any Western heroine ever before seen on the screen. Ford is cast as an unabashed superman, a soft-spoken, reason: able-minded man who only wants to go about his business peace ably but . whose great crime is bringing a herd of sheep into cat tit country. It la one man against an entire towa, bat It Is played for laughs and the laughs are long and rich. AS a lone example, he deliberate ly picks a tight with the towa bully la order tt establish the fact right aft the bat that there Is no point In anyone else's picking a fight with HIM. He. picks the fight by strolling late a restaurant, stirring the bully's coffee with the lighted end of a cigar, flicking the wet ashes into the tally's face and Anally sticking the cigar lata the man's mashed potatoes. The fight that ensues Is a classic spoof ea the Westers two-maa brawl. Now, I found this to be a thor oughly entertaining picture, and it occurred to me that there must be room for a similar venture on TV. The small screen next season- will have something like 21 Westerns crawling across its little glass face, and so far as I can make out not a single one of them is being made with laughs in mind. You get the general impression from these cut and dried epics that the entire West was utterly lacking in humor. Which is too bad and "anyway, I don't believe it. TV producers, it seem to me, should take a kick at "Sheepman" and see what a good Western laugh looks like. They might even come up with a new idea, and that would be phenomenal. The1 medium right now could stand a phenomenon or two. We haven't had one around since Elvis Presley joined the Army. AFTER MANY LONG years of wrangling aver legal entangle ments, "Tarzan" Is about ta burst forth as a full-fledged .TV Show. The familiar Jungle here, who has appeared In na fewer than SS pic tures, every one af which has been a moneymaker, will be refurbished somewhat for TV. The "Me Tar saa, yet Jane" dialogue will be dropped. For that matter, Jane herself will be dropped eventually. The new owners at the property, a financial syndicate, have ambi tions plans far the Juagle man and are convinced they can tarn It late the mast exciting adventure show an the air. Yen eaa look for the official aaaotn cement la an other three or four weeks, but ta all luteals and purposes the deal Is set and "Tartan" la an Its way. JACKIE COOPER IS now in New York selling his "Skippy" series, and he Just might have the big hit of next season under his arm. The pilot film is a warm, heart-tugging little show done without pretense, and establishes Cooper right here' and now as a superb director of children. The performance he has drawn out of 7-year-old Stanley Livingston has to be seen to be believed. Stanley IS Skippy, just as Jackie himself was 28 years ago, and with any kind of luck at all this youngster can be the star of 1958-59. (Copyright IMS, General roaturw Corp.) African to Speak At Portland Church PORTLAND im " The Episco pal archbishop of Capetown, South Africa, will speak at Portland's Trinity Episcopal Church June 10. He is the Most. Rev. Joose de Balnk, who has gained wide at tention for his opposition to the South Africian government's ra cial policies. ! He will be introduced by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Statesman, Salem, Ore.. Fri., May 23, '58 (Sec. t)-l5 Boy Slays 2 Honor Students, Clouds Graduation Plans (Picture ta Wlrepbota Page.) ALBION, Neb. Iff A teen age triangle slaying that left two Al bion high school honor students dead and a third seriously wounded clouded plans for grad uation Friday In this stunned northeast Nebraska town of 2,132. Jerry Sherwood, II. one of the victims, waa to have delivered one of four commencement talks pre pared by honor students, then re ceive his diploma ana a untver sity of Nebraska regents scholar ship from his father. Lynn Sher wood, retiring president of the Albion school Board. Sup. of Schools Gail Sims said commencement exercises will be held as scheduled but the tradi tional student speeches, including Jerry Sherwood's speech: "We might have a chance" will be dis tributed in printed form Instead of being delivered. Jerry and Diane Zaruba, 17, a junior honor student, were fatally shot Wednesday evening as they were getting ready to go on a church picnic. Authorities said Kermit Keeshsn, 17, a Junior, fired the, fatal shots, then shot himself in the bead. He is ex pected to recover. Dep. Boone County Atty. Ray Medlin Sr., said Keeshan will be charged .with first-degree murder. Medical records showed Kee shan fell from a bone, apparently without injury la 1953. In 1956 he was seriously injured in an auto mobile accident. He suffered a convulsion in 1955, thought to have resulted from the fall, but examination failed to re veal anything serious. An Omaha physician said, however, the youth has been under psychological cart and study during different periods since 1955, and that a brain wava test in 1955 showed physiological brain changes. Portable Phone Made MOSCOW un Soviet engineer Leonid. Kuprianovic is credited with inventing a portable 18-ounct radio-telephone. The labor news paper TrUd aaid it is capable of reaching any Soviet telephone number and of receiving even Sputnik signals. But you can't buy the gadget. It a not In production. CtntWnstd teaks. One Ufe-Twe Worlds Christine Hotchkiss. an American housewife, waa born in Poland. In Sept 1939 when Nazi bombs began falling in her family's garden she wu 19. What's it like to go back after 18 ears to the house now behind tin Iron Curtain where you were born? ... In June Reader's Digest you get a rare, personal account of communist life as sht found it. Get Junt Reader's Digest at your newt stand now. 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