HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1959 "
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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."
'DENNIS THE MENACE"
Loretta Young Whirls Back Onto TV Screens This Fall:
Total U.S. capital now invested
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By VERNON SCOTT
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HOLLYWOOD UP1 Loretta
Young, her skirts twirling, whirls
back onto TV screens this fall
with one of the few surviving dra
matic shows.
Part fashion show, part drama,
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Elvis' Mother
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MEMPHIS (AP) - The mother
of famed rock 'n' roll singer Elvis
Presley died in a hospital Thurs
day of an unexpected heart at
tack. She was 42.
Presley, home on emergency
leave from the Army, was asleep
at his $100,000 mansion when she
died. His father, Vernon Presley,
43, was dozing in her hospital
room on a cot.
Elvis, called from home, sank
to his knees beside his mother's
bed and wept. His - father also
broke down. It was, a family
friend reported sadly, "quite an
emotional scene."
Mrs. Presley was admitted to
the hospital last Saturday for
treatment of jaundice and a liver
ailment, hepatitis. She was not
considered in dangerous condition.
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
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without having people wonder
whether I've aged overnight or
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I he reduction, fourth in five
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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,
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ing engagements has dropped re
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