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Page 22, the Daily Reporter, Saturday, October 10,1959 TV Look A head ttVAfM'MP A By BETTY JENKINS Daily Reporter TV Editor For those of you who reading Somerset Maugham's novels, a real treat if in store for you this month when his book "The Moon and Sixpence" will be used as a basis for a television dramatization. The telecast in color and starring Laurence, Oliver, Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Geraldine FUzgerland anc Jean Marsh, will be shown Friday Oct. 30, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. on Channel 3. Oliver, portrays the tormented genius, Charles Strickland, who at age 40 forsakes hlriamlly of three and a career as a stockholder to devote his life to painting.

Judith Anderson recreates the role, of a Tahitian matchmaker. Hume Jessica Tandy, husband and.wife,acting take the roles of Dirk Stroeve, the honest but spineless painter who befriends Strickland but cannot stand up to him; and Blanche Stroeve, whom Strickland steals and then drives to suicide. Maughman wrote the novel 40 years ago, some time after he heard the story of a brilliant French painter who had in 1890 given up civilization and settled in Tahiti. The artist served as the prototype for the hero of Maugh- man's novel. The video taping of "The Moon and Sixpence" involved the ing of minds of perflcctionists, one of which was Oliver himself.

A conscientious actor who tolerated no distractions, Oliver told a red shirted cameraman on the set during the last day of taping: "One of my failings is that I cannot concentrate in the presence of anything red. So would you kindly wear something else next time?" The production budget immediately jumped by the price of one sports shirt, size 17-35. A special problem was the paintings. At first, works by the French painter upon whom Maugh- man had based his novel were considered. However, it was finally decided that using the original paintings would be too risky.

Instead, 19 scenic designers were put to work studying the French impressionist's technique. They copied several of his paint- Ings and went so far as to recreate an enrite mural on the wall of the stage hut in which he dies. To make the London, Paris and Tahitian scenes true to life, prop men spent weeks scouring Manhattan warehouses and antiques shops for properties. They came back loaded with 450 pieces, ranging from a crystal candelier to an old fashioned player piano. Malone College at Canton will begin a new television series Monday on Channel 8.

The prop-am entitled "Science Theater" will be telecast at 7 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week. The pr or rams are designed to inform the television audience of the tremendous strides being achieved in the field of science. Eddie Albert will Quarterback a select team of celebrities supporting the 1960 March of Dimes, traditional fund ratelftg and cation campaign of the Foundation. In addition to person- nl appearances, Albert Will serve moderator for a series of radio and TV Interviews with celebrities from the entertainment Held In- eluding Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, Esther Williams, Barry Sultl- van and two JaM Immortals trumpeters Bed Nichols.and Jonah Jones.

Hollywood began its traditional support of the March of Dimes with participation In President Roosevelt's celebrated Birthday Balls In the '30s. Betsy Palmer, who has never before sung professionally, will vocalize a heartrending new ballad "He Needs Me" in CBSrTV's hour long Phil Silvers special "The Ballad of Louie the Louse," next Saturday from 8 to 9 p.m. Music is by Gordon Jenkins, lyrics by Nat Hikeh, producer of the original musical comedy as well as lyricist, writer and creator of Silvers' new character loan shark Louie. Jack Paar. will take his late- night program to Nassau in the Bahamas in November for the video tape origination of three telecasts of the show.

Hugh Downs, Jose Melis and the trio will accompany Paar. The programs will originate in the British Colonial Hotel, where a theatre hall will be redesigned for the Paar shows. The shows will have essentially the same format, however, Paar and the cast will go out "on location" around the city and show film segments to "illustrate life and activities the resort area. Army-Air Force Game Set For TV The Army-Air Force Academy football game at Yankee Stadium in New York on Saturday, Oct. 31, will televised in the Eastern regional area by NBC-TV.

TV time will be 1:45 p.m. (EST), 15 minutes before kickoff. As an Eastern regional telecast, the game will be seen in National Collegiate Athletic Districts 1 and 2, whcih include the New England and Middle Atlantic states. Kids In Spotlight Paul Henning will be producer and co-writer and Dick McDonough director of "Art Linkletter's Secret World of Kids" in the Startime" colorcast series Tuesday, Oct. 27, on the NBC-TV from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Art Lmkletter will be executive jrpducer and star of this full- Jour program. The show will be based on Linkletter's new book, 'The Secret World of Kids," to be published Oct. 27, and will ex)lore both the humorous and seri- aspects of a child's world. Linkletter will introduce children if Hollywood stars (including surprise appearances of parents as guest stars), orodigies, children rom foreign lands, and interviews with kids who "say the darndest HEARING SERVICE All Types Of HEARING AIDS Tie Clips Behind the Ear Eyeglasses Hair Style Place Your Hearing Problems. In The Trained Hands Of A Certified Hearing Aid Audiologist For Appointment Call 42552 BOULEVARD MEDICAL BLDG.

(Opposite Union Hospital) L.L. ROLLER Barbour Family Is Still Active By BOB THOMAS AP Movle-tV Writer HOLLYWOOD To many an American, One Man's Family was like his own. That's why the disappearance of the long-time radio-TV serial has caused a void In so many lives The saga jf -the Barbours dropped out' of broadcasting last Spring after 28 years on the air. Creator Carleton E. Morse estimates that between 25,000 and 30,000 letters of protest poured Into NBC.

He is still receiving 100 letters a week. "But NBC moved Into a new policy of radio programming." the veteran producer remarked. "Our show didn't fit into It, so we were dropped. Morse has suffered two serious Illnesses and has been limiting nis activities. He spends a great deal of his time at his farm on the peninsula south of San Francisco.

Anthony Smyth, who. played Father Barbour from the beginning, is near 80, but he still asks me' if the show is going back on the air," Morse said. Of the others, Page Oilman, who started as Jack at 14 and continued through th.e history of the show, is a living In OJal. Bornice Berwin, who was Hazel, is married to a San Francisco attorney. Russell Thorson (Paul) and Virginia Gregg (Betty) are active in television, as are most of the other cast alumni.

At least two of the TV cast have prospered since their One Man's Family days Eva Marie Saint, who played Claudia, and Tony Randall, who was one of her suitors. Hedisdn Continued Fate 15 Neighborhood School of Theatre la New. York. At the end of this first year there, he audl- Honed with 200 others for Barter Theatre Awacd, and won it. That gave him a Summer at the Barter theatre.

By working as a bellhop and waiter, Hedlson financed his second year at the School and graduated in 1953. For the next two years he lived from to- mouth, working it assorted sales jobs in the Winter and in Summer theatre. In 1956, David auditioned and won a role in an off-Broadway production of "A Month in the Country." This role brought him to the attention of 20th Century- Fox scouts. He was tested and sighed. Following his screen debut in "The Enemy Below," he a starred in "The Fly." Then he went to England for the t'tle role of "The Son of Robin Hood." Hedison Won the top role in "Five Fingers" after in competition with more than 50 actors.

After a long haul, the Providence boy who started life as a stutterer was on his way to being one of the top stars of Hollywood. Something else he has become away from any acting roles is a rapid-fire talker and a self-confident, relaxed man. He is a good tennis player, and expert water-skier, and likes the sport of lobster-trapping off Catalina, -using traps he rrlade himself. His hillside house above Bene- dict Canyon in Beverly Hills once belonged to Jean He to drama clflssei two nights week. REPAIR There Is No Substitute For EXPERIENCE and QUALITY FOR THE BEST IN SERVICE CALL 4-2615 UDRACH'STY Philco Sales Service 134 Fourth St.

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