The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 43

The ge" -Radio Guide, February 20-2C. 1.970 Page Four Peter Wyngartie most wanted HAPPY HOME TO BE AGAIN TV personality Never has Australian television lined up (hopefully) so many engagements for one visiting television personality. When Peter Wyngarde the off-beat crime novelist Jason King of Department arrives in Sydney tomorrow (Friday) he will be besieged by producers of panel shows, variety programmes, and crime drama. v. the dual role himself.

After his release, he returned to school in England and, avoiding dramatic school training, went into repertory, attracting critical attention with a portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac for the Bristol Old Vic. Cont'd P. 7 Rod McLennon, the new compere of Showcose 70, will open the first show by singing the title song from the Broadway musical. The Happy Time, thereby corrying on the tradition created by original compere Gordon Boyd. After the pro The colorful personality with the drooping, mandarin moustache is being brought to Australia to give tangible support to the Channel Seven Network Revolution (Promotion), which has been showing Department in all capital cities.

He has already stated that he will make himself as available as much as possible to the Executives are hoping he will guest star in Homicide, make his singing debut in the Tommy Leonettl Show and appear on a panel programme during his stay. He is expected in Melbourne on Sunday, March 1, and will be interviewed in This Week (HSV-7, 10.20 p.m.) that night. Another definite engagement for him is in the first Mike Walsh Show for the year, on March 5. Born in Marseilles of Anglo-French parentage. Wyngarde's father was a diplomat who travelled quite considerably during his early life.

The family was in the Far East when World War II broke out. and Peter, who was left in the care of friends in China, was arrested by the Japanese and spent part of the Guess which show A- have done anything just to be involved. It was a great occasion." A valuable engagement during his eight years in Britain was his stint at Danny La Rue's London nightclub. "1 took over from Ronnie Corbett, and did just what he did only taller." Ma hlhw mtmn 4 Back in Melbourne as compere of showcase 70, McLennan was greeted at Essendon Airport on Sunday by his sister. Kay, and brother, Donald.

Apart from a number of important roles in stage musicals. Rod has done a good deal of TV work overseas. One appealing assignment was to read Norman Lindsay's children's classic. The Magic Pudding on C-TV's Jackanory programme. Tho only Victorian act in the first edition of Showcase 70 is the vocal and instrumental quartet.

The Goliards, comprising David Brown, 20, Bryan Patterson, 18, Mark Lawrence, 20 and Andrew Thompson, 18. The boys met at Carey Grammar School. They will pre-s the medley. Music, Music, Music, and I Can Hear Music. Crawford Productions' executives are discussing the possibility of featuring former Showcase compere Gordon Boyd in a television production.

"We'd be delighted to use him," a spokesman said this week. family were seen recently in an edition of Homicide, titled Johnny Deod Fella. war in an internment cam p. While in the camp. Peier, a nephew on his mother's side of the noted French actor Louis Jouvet, turned to theatre to pass the time.

He adapted Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the stage and produced it in the camp, playing FIATS CAFFS etc. Jrl JsPr father boxer Division 4 Which means that Rod was comedy feed and singer. "Everybody goes to the club." We are unlikely to see female impersonator Danny La Rue in Australia.

"He has turned down Las Vegas and refused an offer to play Mame on Broadway." Sydney with his wife Ella and their 1 0 children. Most of the Williams 3 gramme irom aiv-u at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, February 23, Rod will "sit back, look at the tape and then offer some ideas." The versatile entertainer arrived home from Britain on Sunday, leaving little time for production conferences before the first show is taped this evening. However, he has one idea bubbling along. He would like to include a "potted musical" as the finale to each show.

This is how the BBC children's show, Crack-erjack finishes. Rod has been associated with two series of Crackerjack and he concluded 20 editions of the show just before his return to Melbourne. During his recent time in London, he appeared in the Phoenix Theatre tribute to Noel Coward on his 70th birthday. "I was virtually in the chorus. I would throw his around Another play in the series will be an adaptation of HAL PORTERS play, Eden House.

The ABC expects to screen the productions about the middle of the year. ABC radio's KEVIN A RN ETT, one of ou personalities picked to accompany the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on the vacuum cleaner (the others are Barry Jones, Sue Donovan and Brian Crossley) has received an embossed golden certificate from a listener that states he is fully qualified to play a vacuum cleaner as an instrument. The vacuum cleaner accompaniment is part of A Grand, Grand Overture by English composer Malcolm Arnold which the MSO will perform in the Melbourne Town Hall on February 28. Bindi's plays in ACTRESS od model Lynda I Moor mokes striking figure in, of all things, the next episode of Skippy. Titled High Fashion, the episode will be seen from GTV-9 7 p.m.

on Monday, February 23. Lynda I ploys a model girl who is bitten by snake at Waratah Notional Park. NOW YOU CAN ABORIGINAL actor Harry Williams ploys the part of Harry Jackson, on Aboriginal contender for the Lightweight Boxing Chompionship, in Where's Lefty? edition of Division 4, from GTV-9 at 8.30 p.m., Tuesday, February 24. Williams, who has mode a number of TV and film appearances in documentaries, drama series and commercials, is the father of Bindi Williams of the Waobindo Animal Doctor series. Bom at Corowa in NSW, he has been acting eight years.

He now lives in YOLK HOME OK OFFICE CAN LOOK AS AS BEAUTIFUL AS THIS Hired to weight The Channel 9 network is awaiting the arrival on March 5 of LORD LAYTON (name adopted for professional reasons), who has been booked to draw attention to network programmes. Who is he? He is a Sydney-born professional wrestler who has been operating in America for the past 20 years as wrestling commentator and after-dinner speaker. The network will use him as a wrestling commentator as well as back-up personality in its Tonight-type shows and panel games. He is 6 ft. 5 in.

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