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
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