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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1958)
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1959 " PAGE J A Cohen Looking Forward To Long TV Writing Career By CHARLES MERCER , NEW YORK (AP) While many1 television writers are looking to other fields because of the decline of live drama, Larry Cohen looks forward to a long career of writ ing for television. You can't beat youth. A month ago Cohen was 21. To day he's 22. Tomorrow Kraft Mys tery Theater (NBC-TV) will pre sent his second TV drama, a thril ler entitled "Night Cry." His first script for Kraft, "87th Precinct," an adaptation of an Evan Hunter novel, is being developed into a TV series for the coming season. Cohen is the first successful writer I've met who doesn't know how to use a typewriter. He's bought one, however, and is work ing at it. But he's far from being the first iuccessful writer who was told by his college professor of creative writing that he couldn't write. "I felt real bad about it," he said reflectively. "He made me feel so sure I'd never be a writer that after I graduated I started looking for a job as an office bny." He went the rounds of television offices trying in vain to get an of fice boy s job. The last office he visited one day last September was Talent Associates, the highly successful producer of heaven knows how many TV dramatic shows. Nothing doing, the receptionist told him. At that moment, as in a Horatio Alger story, Al Levy ine president of Talent Associates, happened to step off the elevator, happened to hear his request for a job, happened to like his ap pearance, happened to ask nun, "What have you done, boy?" "I told him the truth," says Cohen " 'Nothing,' I said, but like to write.' " Levy gave him a story idea and told him to try a script. It surely was his lucky day. When he reached home he found that NBC had telephoned and finally ac cepted bis application for a job a page boy. bo ne went to worn for NBC at $42 a week while try ing a script for Talent Associates. When he finished the script, he took it to Levy, who told him it was all wrong. But he had talent, said Levy, and so Talent As sociates would try to teach him some TV techniques. Today Levy says, Larry s TV scripts, when first submitted show that he still has a lot to learn technically. But he has something much more Important than technical know-how, which he'll pick up in time anyway. He's very inventive and creative. He has a talent for thinking up won derful situations and ideas. He really is a writer. Today, Cohen, who has quit his job as a page boy at NBC, feels a little lost. "I'm still living on a $42 -a-week scale," he says. "Who knows when I might be back earn ing the same salary? This is a funny business." 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Her soldier son, drafted into the Army a few months ago, was granted emergency leave from Ft. Hood, Tex., at the request of Mrs. Presley's physician. hlvis was devoted to his mother. Early in his career, when the golden flood began, he insisted on his parents living in luxury and comfort. Elvis is the Presley's only child. He was born a twin. His brother died in infancy. Hubby Vetos Get Together HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Actress Wanda Hendrix was reported im proving today after collapsing in her attorney's office. Miss Hendrix was talking to her estranged husband, wealthy sportsman James L. Stack Jr., by long-distance phone yesterday when she apparently went into shock, her physician said. She was taken to Cedars of Lebanon Hos pital. Miss Hendrixs attorney Oscar R. Cummins said she had been trying to see Stack for weeks about their separation. A call was made between Stack and his attor ney in Reno, Nev., and Miss Hen drix and Cummins here. Cummins said the 29-year-old actress asked about a reconcilia tion, but Stack refused to discuss it. Miss Hendrix screamed. clenched her fists and slumped in her chair, the attorney said. She was immediately hospitalized Her physician said she soon came out of shock and is "pro gressing very well." In Reno, Stack's attorney Rich ard Blakey, said: "It sounds more like a case of bad histrionics than a bad case of hysterics." Miss Hendrix and Stack, brother of actor Robert Stack, were mar ried in 1954. Her marriage to ac tor Audie Murphy ended in divorce in 1950. Loretta's program, moves Into its sixth year on the air. When she began her series the video waves were loaded with dramas. Since then such stalwarts as "Robert Montgomery Presents" Kraft Theater," "The Jane Wy- man Show," "Schlitz Playhouse," "Cameo Theater," "Studio One" and "Climax" have disappeared, leaving only five or six survivors. Sylphlike Loretta credits the up beat" quality of her sh,ow for its longevity. "Downbeat, morbid stories are not wanted." she explained. "We always have complete shows with answers to problems, not questions. There's usually a moral, too. The actress has portrayed every type from slattern to saint during her five years on the air. But de spite her fine performances, many feminine viewers tune in to see her extensive and elaborate ward robe. . Thus far Loretta has made 180 trademark entrances, flaring her skirts and generally behaving more like a fashion model than an ac tress. "It started by accident, just like Dinah Shore s big kiss at the end of her show," Loretta said. "On our first program the director thought my dress was so pretty I should show off the back of it as well as the front. "Actually, I don't really twirl at the beginning of the show. I sim- Actor's Wife Gets Divorce SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)- As far as his wife is concerned, success has spoiled Rock Hudson. Mrs. Phyllis Hudson, 32, was granted an uncontested divorce from the actor yesterday. Afler he became a big box office star. she testified he grew sullen and sometimes wouldn't talk to her for weeks at a time. "Sometimes he would slay out all night and when I asked him where he had been, he would say, None of your business, she nd. Mrs. Hudson and the 32-year-old actor were mar'ied in November 1955. She was once secretary to Hudson's agent. Under a property agreement she will receive a $35,000 home and $250 a week for 10 years. She charged mental cruelty. Comic Levels Beat Charge KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany (AP) The U. S. Army says it is making a thorough investigation of an entertainer's charge that an Army major beat him up. Timmie Rogers, Negro comedi an and master of ceremonies for a troupe touring Army installa tions, made the accusation against Maj. Leonard Bailey of Salt Lake City, Utah, a veteran of 16 years Army service. Rogers claimed that Bailey, on the night of Aug. 2, accused him of being late for a show at the olficers club in Kaiserslautern and struck and kicked him. The entertainer reported the in cident to military police that night and later was treated at the Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden for broken ribs. An Army spokesman said ap propriate action would be taken when Rogers' charge had been checked fully. "We want to see that justice is done, and if such a thing occurred we certainly regret it very much he added. Bailey could not be reached for comment. ply turn around and close the door. Some of the gowns are loaned to me, others I keep. Right now I have closets bulging with clothes. It's every woman's pipe dream to wear a new and beautiful dress every day of her life. They like my show because l m able 10 ap pear in something spectacular ev- COMIC ILL SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)- Night club comedian Mort Sahl is undergoing tests at St. John's Hospital for possible infectious hepatitis. ery week. "My entrance is a fortunate thing. After the audience has seen me well-groomed, I can wear hor-1 rible clothes, wigs, ugly makeup" and false noses during the show without having people wonder whether I've aged overnight or something." DOORS CPEN 6:3Q P. M. NOW SHOWING! rat01 i INDER1 LM.I 0 I tOMIOf-100 THisisiovr . A DM II WIJM YOUt J CINDfMUA f 4 CINDUEUA WOW $OHO rf Luy Tfct true-lrfe fantasy OPEN DAILY 7:00 K0DAYK P. M 'I, THUNDERING OUT OF UNKNOWN SKIES- The Super-Sonic Hell-Creature No Weapon Could Destroy 1 THEY DEPARTED AT 0600 HOURS SOW Will TOUCH AND SOW Witt SOfT , W! IMTU SOUS HBOC All , Most Horrifying Hell-Creature flat tm Menaced All Mankind! ..and bltndtd eourogt and thtir cowardice to Tight an tnomy lor 72 nightman hoursf ii DAN! Vl HELL IN KOnEA' II THE FLYING MONSTER prim by TECHNICOLOR Faoture Tlmtft: 7l40 A 10:45 RONALD LEWIS -STEPHEN BOYD VICTOR MADDERN Shown At 9:20 Only Our Next Attraction - SATURDAY ONLY- Britain Dips Sank Rates LONDON (AP) - The British bank rate was reduced today from 5 lo 4'j per cent. I he reduction, fourth in five months, will mean cheaper loans and free circulation of money in Britain. It is a further sign of continence on the part of the Con servative government that it has inflation under control and that Britain's hard currency reserves are in good shape. The new rate is the lowest since February li)55 and compares with a rate of 7 per cent imposed last September when inflationary pressures were at their peak. The bank rate is set bv the government - controlled Bank of Kngland and represents the inter est the bank charges on money it makes available to other financial institutions. Since the Bank ol England is the keystone of the sterling bloc's banking system, changes in the rate carry over to other sterling banks. Reducing the rate makes money cheaper to borrow all along the line and is a spur to business activity. SuvdA TODAY! DOORS CPEN 6:30 P. M. At certain times, a man could hang up his gun. Will his own father gun him down on "Gunman's Walk?" Alimony Payment Ordered Cut LOS ANGELES (AP) Superior Court has ordered singer Allan .lones' $1,500 monthly alimony payments reduced $500. Actress Irene Hervey divorced Jones last December alter a mar riage of 20 -ars. The singer then married Mary Florsheim Picking, shoe heiress Jones, behind in alimony pay ments, said his income from sins ing engagements has dropped re cently. Ik Ivan heflin tab hunter -j rr-,"u- 'A 179. - m t i torn- r.-.vi Males have a higher death rate than females through all ages of life, the disparity being largely due to male susceptibility to acci dents and heart ailments. 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