The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 57

THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Sunday Morning, Jan. 21. 1 962 5-f TV Scout Reports hit, work. The show inevitably opens with a big close-up of the star or stars of the show. Karloff Bargain Didn't Work He's Back in Igloo Land Simpson Returns to Alaska After Recording Here 1 CARPETINQ DRAPERIES 2 l-fl (WOODBIN0RAPERY 520 W.

Thompson AL 4-721 Humor NEW YORK (At J. I. Ro-dale, a nature food enthusiast who has twice tried bis hand at message drama, is prescribing more humor for his own work. Rodale withdrew "Toinette," a musical that was generally panned by press critics, to rework his criticism of doctors and medicine. "What's I'm trying to do is add 40 laughs to the show," he explicitly reports.

A new production i planned when the revision is completed. their trademarks. One of the busiest in Hollywood is John Peyser and you can always tell SPECIAL SHEET METAL WORK Telephone AL 5-6607 130 CHURCH ST. I i When the casting was completed for the Westinghous? production of the original play, "Footnote to Fame" (due on Feb. 3 over-CBS), this is where they found some of the actors: Dina Merill was skiing in Austria.

Burgess Meredith was touting Japan. Larry Gates was fishing off Florida. And they all packed up their skis, cameras and fi.shing poles and dashed back to New York. Keep Moaning Among the "CBS reports" producers (there are six who rotHte on the show), the most trying part of the process is the last week. That's when all the film they've shot must be edited down to the allotted time, 56 minutes.

Ahd executive producer Fred Friendlv tries to ease the pain with a standard answer to their mournful cries: "Cutting is a great moment," he tells them, "because you know you are tightening and Improving. You are making something great out of something that was merely good." The producers listen and keep on moaning. Film directors like to invent little gimmicks which serve as most entirely In New York. But there was a solid reason for the move. Nina Foch was the star, and they were road-testing a possible series for her.

Incidentally this practice of using one series to kick off another one has become so prevalent they've even developed a slang term for It now It is Bald that the new series is a "spinoff" from the old one. Sold on Sherry Gunsmoke's producer, Norman Macdonald, is high on the acting of Sherry Jackson. Miss Jackson began her career as the oldest daughter on "The Danny Thomas Show." "Few child actresses," Mac-' donald told TV Scout, "have become successful as adult actresses. But I think Sherry will make it." It is now definite, official and positive. Dr.

Chick Hennesey and Nurse Martha Hale will be married on the last show of the season. Jackie Cooper, the star of Hennesey, says the program's creative staff decided Chick and Martha had better get married "people are begining to talk." The lure of good parts on good live dramas is enough to make actors give up their vacation. till iilillllilllil Illil) lllililllilll Vk, jf v4 TeV "1 I i vfuv CUSTOMER PARKING At Our MIF Location 131 4th South Across from Shelby Street Bridge Sherwin Williams Paints 1 PRODUCER George Schaefer of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, casting the forthcoming production, "Arsenic and Old Lace," wanted Boris Karloff for the leading role. Schaefer had once been an actor and, in fact, played Theodore Roosevelt in "Arsenic and Old Lace," with Karloff starred. Karloff replied to Schaefer's bid: "You understand an essential part of my contract Is that you play TR again." But Schaefer has quit acting for good.

Martin Balsam and several of his Broadway-trained acting friends were so fed up with the mugging and grimacing of Hollywood actors that they formed a new theatrical union Associated Face-Makers of America. Now they quietly give honorary memberships in AFMA to movie stars they feel are just acting with their faces. Fans of "Bus Stop" were understandably confused recently when one episode took place al 0 0 the the BRINGS TOGETHER 2 GREAT Jimmy Simpson "Jt's cod in Alaska sometimes, By PHIL SULLIVAN OINGER Jimmy Simpson shook the snow of this town off his shoes the filher day and went home Alaska. HHe hadn't planned to stay lwsiie anyway. He just came in to visit relatives in his native Cheatham County and to record four singles for Sat-urday.

So it wasn't the weather that drove him awav. "Why we have weather almost this cold In Alaska sometimes," he said, pulling his knitted wool coat Sullivan tighter against one of Nashville's recent winter blasts. "Sometimes goes to 30 below, but only for couple of weeks at a time." Jimmy, his wife, Marcene, and their 14-months-old daughter, Jadene, live five miles north of Anchorage. Besides making records, he la a disk jockey for runs a Saturday night country music radio show, and is construction superintendent StA. an Anchorage firm.

Reconsidered It Jimmy, 33, and Marcene, a native of San Angelo, Texas, vent to Alaska in 1956 after ie swore off forever from work-Jg in the oil fields. They arrived Anchorage with $40. He landed a Job picking guitar and singing in a night club and after playing the first night until dawn called it quita. He found oil well 70 miles north of Anchorage and went to work. 1 Near the oil well they home-Steaded a 160-acre lot beside a lake.

Jimmy pulled a house trailer onto the place with a bulldozer and they lived in the trailer for the six weeks it took him to fell enough spruce trees with an axe to build a house. "The first morning we sat down to breakfast in the new house, the bears looked in the Windows at us," 'said" Marcene. And they kept on looking." When Jimmy went to work for he radio station they moved to Anchorage. But they still visit their homestead now by a small airplane which can be equipped frith pontoons for landing on the lake, or skis when snow and ice cover the lake. The spruce house burned down last fall when some moose hunters went in it to get warm and overheated the oil stove.

They plan to rebuild. Recorded Here While in Nashville Jimmy recorded "Because of You" and Walking, Crying, Hurting," both pi which he wrote, and "Son, Take Your Time Going Down" and "Slttin on the Doorstep." He has previously recorded two of his own songs, "I'm an Oil Field Boy," and "Breaker of My Heart," and several others. One of his releases, "Alcan Run," has done well in Germany, he said, but has not caught on in Western Canada and Alaska, where the Alcan highway runs. "I haven't been able to figure out why a song about the Alcan highway would be so popular in Germany," he said. Proof of Place Columbia Records' purchase of Owen Bradley's Recording Studio confirms Nashville's rank as the country and western music capital of the world.

Although Columbia has done INGLEWOOD HARDWARE LUMBER CO. C.E. Appliances Super Kemtone Fiesta China Class Builders' Hardware Tools Lumber I2M Calljtin Rd. CA 8-2521 AND NAMES all its country and western recording at Bradley's for sometime, it was felt that the recording company needed its own studio to insure its position in this intensely competitive field. Since more and more top artists are demanding the "Nashville sound" for their recordings, the company that is shut out of Nashville is, for all practical purposes, out of the field.

Bradley's studio, sitting inconspicuously in a semi-residential section at 804 16th doesn't give the appearance of one of the nation's most active music making houses. It has a converted home for offices and a quonset hut for its main recording activities. Yet, many of the country's top hits have been recorded there. "We seem to get a peculiarly good recording at Bradley's," said Kenneth E. Raine, director of industrial relations for Columbia, who was here last week to close out the transaction.

"We want to continue this winning combination of equipment, engineers and musicians. "You get a good sound here. You get a good sound other Traveling Light COW I9I tY GtNHAl COW IM WOfUltlGHTSKSavtD tickings may not match but look at quality you get for these low prices! NOTICE In mmmmm 99 Your Choice MATTRESS OR BOX SPRING 19 Your Choice MATTRESS OR BOX SPRING Your Choice MATTRESS OR BOX SPRING Beesley's Too 4 mm nr "quality group In it's I mrm 43 "better Wc scooped mismatched WILL be brand new and It's what's Simmons Choose from rubber or Quantities are are many range up to We invite on mismatched last long at bedding group places, too, but there's something new and unusual about the Nashville sound. "It may be luck, or it may be mysticism. I don't know.

But it works, and it has worked over a period of time. It's no flash in the pan." Opry Stars Touring As usual, many of the Grand Ole Opry stars will be out on far-flung tours this week. The Willis Brothers will play five cities in North Carolina and Virginia; Cousin Jody will spend four days in Kansas City, George Hamilton will be in Louisville today. Grandpa Jones will also be in Louisville today and in Florida Wednesday through Saturday. Justin Tubb will be in Winona, today and in Aurora, Tuesday through Saturday; Cowboy Copas will be in North Carolina and South Carolina; Patsy Cline in Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri, and Ferlln Husky will spend most of the week in Florida.

Roy Drusky will be in Texas and Skeeter Davis in Texas and Florida. By the Sloanes Winners of All-in-One Coin Purse and Key Holders in Cappy Dick's winter skating scene coloring contest published on the comic section of THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Sunday, Dec. 31, are: Danny Roach, 12, 817 South Eighth; Randall Spencer, 9. 901 Sutton Hill Road; Tralece Rogers, 11, Rt. 2, Cotton-town; Mary Saunders, 6, Cordell Hull Hotel, Dyersburg; Brenda Stevenson, 12, Dechard; Cheryl Taylor, 9.

Rt. 1, Henry; Joanna Jones, 13, Rt. 4, Manchester; Neil Simmons, 8, Rt. 1, Doyle; Steve McDaniel, 10. Rt.

Wildersville, and Karen Clonts, II. 4S0O Bob Wallace Hunts-ville, Ala. Winners of the four national grand prizes in the same contest are Karen Beverley, 12, Dayton, Ohio; Bob Anderson, 11, Toledo, Ohio; Joe Proctor, 10, Louisville, and Sherrie Thomas, 11, Columbux, Ohio. Each will receive the Complete Home Library consisting of the 15-volume set of Childcraft and the 20-vol-ume World Book Encyclopedia. Included will be a wood rack to hold the books.

All the winners will receive their prizes by mail within a short time. "best buy group" LEE SENT JACKSON IN A FLANKIN6 MOVEMENT ABOUT WHERE THAT HAMBURGER JOINT IS NOW." FREE TO HOME PLANNERS FROM YOUR mm mm mm up every last mattress and spring we could find in these and discontinued covers. They all MUST be cleared they cleared at these low, low clearance-sale prices. Every piece is perfect! Who cares about ticking when the beds are made? inside that counts All are fine Stearns Foster or quality! These are names you know and trust! soft, regular, or firm models twin or full size lo-Jtpi innersprings in each of these "Fabulous Buy" price groups. limited, in many cases to 1 or 2 of a model but there different models to choose from in each price group.

Reductions 38. Some sold as sets only. comparison. We know you can't beat these "Fabulous Buys" bedding ANYWHERE. But don't wait for they won't these prices.

4 Valuable "Home Idea File and Guide for Better Living" To Help You Organize and SAVE YOUR HOME PLANNING and MODERNIZING IDEAS: COME EARLY! Quantities Limited Absolutely no reorders at these prices. ft Mail coupon beow 10DA Yl TFrFPfa III Phon AL 4-0611 (Ext. 281) or MAIL TO NASHVILLE COUNCIL FOR BETTER LIVING Smart to Shop and Thrifty, r- mj rimrmfciifc at 814 CHURCH ST. Within lh nt 24 Bionlhi. we plan toi (Weaie chck) bury or build a nw horn or moke major hom improvmnt rl.oi deliver lo vi your FREE B' "Homo Idea File end Guido (or Bllr Living" (or ui in our planning.

Mr. Mr. Street REDUCTIONS FREE PARKING IN FURNITURE CENTER LOT For Beesley't Customers up to SOUTHEAST CORNER BROADWAY blnl AVE City Phone We plan lo build I City ArM cy.