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19c Office Ph. or 248-7145 Warehouse Ph. 479-3119 SHOWBEAT Bad Time Slot Worries "Mannix" By DICK KLEINER do. HOLLYWOOD-(NEA)-On the Mannix set, watching Mike Connors and Gail Fisher make their hit CBS show: Mike sits with a coffee cup permanently in his hand. He describes himself as a coffee addict.

He gets up every morning at 5, works out, showers, leaves at 5:30 to be at the studio by 6. He breakfasts and shaves at the studio, is made up at 7 and is on the set at 8. By then, he says, he's already had three or four cups of coffee. He doesn't leave the studio until 7 at night, at the earliest. "Weekends," he says, "I'm a basket case." Everybody around the set is worried about the show's new time slot-Sunday night, opposite NBC's Mystery Movie and ABC's big Sunday night movie offering.

To counteract that pressure, they may do something to the show-move the show away from Los Angeles more-and Connors feels that, after six years, "it's time to do something else--but not too Todd Mason, Mike's good-looking assistant and stand-in, hands the star cigarettes from a pack in his attache case. "I've been with Mike years," he says. "I love his wife and mother. He and I fight just enough to keep the job interesting." He says Mike's hair has a natural curl in the front, which comes out if there's any have to use a hot comb to keep it straight." Mike memorizes lines on the set. He is a quick study and says there's plenty of time between setups to study the script.

This lets him spend his evenings with his family. rather than memorizing lines, as so many other actors Vince Barnett Heinz Hosts Native Son One of Pittsburgh's most pale beside another less known distinguished and most in- pastime. teresting native sons is com- Vince Barnett may be the ing home. For a week, at least. greatest professional practical To describe Vince Barnett as joker of all time.

The only one of the last remaining char- challenger to that title would acter actors of Hollywood's be his father, the late Luke Golden Era which he is Barnett, also of Pittsburgh, doesn't quite tell the story of who made the term "ribbing" the former Siggy Malone, of famous. The "put-ons" perPittsburgh's Edgewood sec- petrated by Luke Barnett are tion. still legend in Pittsburgh. But Born July 4, 1902, Vince his son Vince extended that Barnett has over 300 film cred- legend into the highest politiits to his name. But he began cal, literary and military echhis film career on the other elons of the United States and side of the camera, writing England.

He was a professcreenplays for the two-reeler sional imposter. movies of the late 1920's. That Elaborate schemes, with was after his stint as a New Vince Barnett as the imposing York actor in Earl Carroll's character were dreamed up to Vanities, but before he wrote test the humor and the temhis own Broadway play, "Sleep per of no less that Winston It Off." Churchill, George Bernard It seems like a full life. But Shaw, General and later Secreit's only part of the Vince tary of State George C. MarBarnett Story.

And the rest of shall, and Air Corps Chief of the tale makes the man more Staff "Hap" Arnold, to name interesting in real life than just a few. most of the characters he's Posing as a newspaper recreated on stage and film. porter, Barnett had the intemAn alumnus of Duquesne perate George Bernard Shaw University Prep School and in an indignant rage with his Carnegie Tech, Vince also hap- insulting interview in a Beverly pens to have qualified for the Hills hotel. As a vacuum cleaupcoming Indianapolis 500 race ner salesman, he called on a long time ago. He was rac- General Arnold's home, stewing cars in the days of Barney ing ashes on everything, only Oldfield; flying planes not too to shrug.

his shoulders 'and long after the Wright brothers. leave when his cleaner But even these accom- "wouldn't work." plishments, risky as they were, Arnold recovered and joined One of Mike's great fortes is his ability to listen well on camera -he better than most actors. He says he's been working on that ability since he noticed how good Spencer Tracy was at listening. "I had a brief conversation with Tracy when I was doing Tightrope," Mike says. "He said he and Kate Hepburn always watched the show and he told me how important listening was--and I've never forgotten what he said, I watch every Tracy film I can." Dr.

John DiMond CHIROPRACTOR NUMBNESS IN FINGERS? Many occupations are inducive to spinal pressure, such as carpenters, plumbers, mailmen, bookkeepers, teachers, engineers and many others. There are 26 moveable bones in the spinal column. A carpenter, for instance sawing board, cramped his spine out of line across I the shoulders. This created pressure on nerves that carry nerve energy to the fingers, elbow and wrist. When the displaced vertebrae were adjusted, the numbness in the fingers left.

The cause of the ailment was removed: Remember numbness or pain in the fingers or hand may be your problem, but it is your chiropractor's specialty. WHY BE SICK WHEN YOU CAN BE WELL? 450 NORTH 9TH ST. INDIANA, PA. By Appointment Phone 465-6751 We Accept All Cases Regardless Of Ability To Pay, FREE SPINE X-RAYS TO THOSE CASES BEING PAID FROM THE FAMILY BUDGET There was a problem. Every week there is a scene in the office, with Mike and Gail Fisher talking.

This is always tough, because it has a tendency to look the same. Mike wanted to make this one look different. He called. for the prop man and said he. needed a sandwich, that he would be eating lunch in the office for this show.

He asked for ham and cheese. The prop man came back and had a sack of -but no ham and cheese. "They don't have ham and cheese on the truck," he said. "I've got ham salad, egg salad, tuna salad." "O.K.," said Mike. "They all look alike.

I just hope I can get through the scene in one As it turned out, he had to go through the ham salad and half the tuna salad before the scene was in the can. Mike and Gail were discussing the bad time slot. "I wish," Mike said, "that I hadn't committed myself so heavily financially this year- would have walked off. I sat in Hawaii three days debating whether to quit or not. But my tax man says I better work another year." (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) But to the fun.

He placed Barnett as a "waiter" for a private dinner being given for the hygienic and puritanical General George Marshall, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Marshall's patience met its first test when the "waiter" served his soup with his thumb in the bowl: again, when the soup was set down so hard a geyser of broth flew into the air. Apologizing, the "waiter" began coughing asthmatically on the health-conscious General's person. But the final blow came when he slipped an envelope of cash into the straightlaced Marshall's pocket, a "bribe" in front of everyone, to commission the waiter's incompetent son. There are more, many more tales of the Barnett "rib." But there is also a serious, less publicized side to this impish actor, writer and sportsman.

He was one of the first active members of The Navy League, a citizen's lobby that helped keep America prepared to the extent that it was in World War II..