The Daily Reporter from Dover, Ohio • Page 17

Short Circuits guest star Kevin was a great deal of confusion on ABC-TV's "The Rifleman" set recently when Joe Lewis, directing "The Shattered sode which airs Dec. 4, called mrt "Kevin." McCarthy and Chuck Connors looked around Joe Ihen learned that Chock's real name is Kevin Connors. Nippy mornings hold no chills for Connie Stevens of ABC-TV's "Ha- wahan Eye." While waiting to go on camera Connie wears woolen fSwoY 3 C0stumo a PP for the warm climes of Jack Benny plays a dramatic role in Lewis Reed's teleplay, "A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To The Game," filmed for broadcast later in the season in the Wednesday night "Checkmate" series on CBS-TV. Benny plays a show business celebrity who has to duck a killer's bullets during festivities at a New Year's Day football bowl game. Alan Young's mail box at his San Fernando home has become a repository for fan mail for a horse, since the premiere of Young's comedy series, "MLs- ter Ed," Sundays on CBS-TV.

Neighborhood youngsters write notes to the talking horse of the series, and depend on- Young, as the horse's "owner," to deliver them. "I always tell the kids that Mister Ed said 'Thank says Young, "But sometimes wish they'd write me some fan mail too." ABC-TV emcees Jack Bailey for a Jack Narz and Bob Clayton a began their dramatic careers playing villains. Bailey played heavies in tent shows; Narz played 'em in the "Space Patrol" TV and Clayton was the mean- ie in Jerry Lewis' movie "The Bellboy." "Thou Shalt Not Fear," a book of sermons in verse authored by ABC-TV's Bud Collycr will be published in January. "Smokcy" is the name friends call Rory Calhoun, ABC- TV's "The Texan" star. The nickname is a carryover from his days as a forest firefighter in Northern California.

Master magician Mark Wilson is seen by more people on each broadcast of "The Magic Land of AUaKazam" Saturdays at 11 a.m. on CBS-TV than saw the great Houdini perform in entire lifetime, according to the program's researchers. When viewers Jay North and teammates in action in Van Gogh Is Special On Friday A special full-hour color program retracing the life of Vincent' Van Gogh in the artist's own words and through his drawings and of them filmed for the first will be presented on NBC-TV Friday at 9:30 p.m. Titled "Vincent Van Gogh: A Sclf-Portrait," the program will be sponsored by the Lincoln- Mercury Division of Ford Motor Co. It is one of 6 special programs to be produced by NBC News in the 19G1-G2 season.

The program will feature Lee Cobb, who will speak Van Gogh's words, and Martin Gabcl, who will do the narration. The 2 actors will use voice-over-film techniques and will not be seen on-camera. This will be the first documentary to draw on the hundreds of revealing letters written by Van Gogh, most of them to his brother Thoo. It will also use scores of Van Gogh's canvases and drawings from museums and private collections in this country, in Europe and behind the Iron Curtain. ADDED TO BIG SHOW The Brothers Four have been added to the cast of "Home for the musical variety special starring G'ordon MacRae, Patrice Munscl, Carol Haney and Al Hirt, to be presented in color on NBC-TV Thanksgiving Day at 5:30 p.m.

"Dennis and the Barbara Stanwyck and Lloyd Bridges will co-star in "Star Witness," story of a famed actress whose efforts to defend her daughter when she is accused of murder collide hcadou with a crusading district attorney, on "The General Electric Theater" Sunday at 9 p.m. on CBS-TV. Page 17, Tuscarama, Saturday, November 11, 1961 PeeWee League" on "Dennis the Menace" Sunday at 7:30 p.m. on CBS-TV, they w'll actually be seeing.the Bobcats of the Studio City (Calif.) Little League, divided for purposes of the drama into 2 teams named the Bears and the Tigers. North, who pilches and plays infield, had a pitching record of 5 wins and no losses and a batting average for the past season.

Dan Sheridan, who appears regularly as Jake, the bartender, in ABC-TV's "Lawman" series, is a much decorated Australian hero of World War II. Sheridan won the Australian Military Cross, the Amac Military Medal, the U.S. Silver Star and the French Croix dc Guerre for gallantry during campaigns in North Africa, Syria and' New Guinea. Joe Feeticy, porjular Irish tenor on ABC-TV's "Lawrence Welk Show," is stepping out these days, During rehearsal breaks, the singer is learning intricate dance steps from the show's new dancing couple, Barbara Boylan and Bobby Burgess. Jack Lescoulie Has Offbeat Parts, But He Finds All Fun Offbeat assignments seem to pop up persistently in Jack Lcseoulie's career.

Jack's first theatrical job more than a score of years ago was the role of an offstage elephant in the Broadway play, "Achilles Had A Heel." In his new television series, NBC-TV's Jack Is slated to be the voice of a rhinoceros on the Sunday show at 6:30 p.m. To be sure, there is a differ- ence in the 2 parts, and not merely that a'rhinoceros is not the same kind of animal as an elephant. When Jack made his stage debut, he was supposed to trumpet like an elephant. His stage directions called for the expressions of gentleness, illness, recovery from same, insanity, the regaining of sanity and whatever noise an elephant makes when he finally becomes tame. On "1, 2, 3 Jack Lescoulie, speaking for a rhinoceros, will sound like Jack Lescoulie.

During his 9 years on NBC- Texan TV Schedule Expanded ABC-TV's "The Texan," the outdoor adventure series starring Rory Calhoun and currently telecast Monday through Friday, 1111:30 a.m., will be expanded to include Saturday afternoons, p.m., beginning Jan. G. Set against the romantic background of the Old West, "The Texan is the saga of fabled Bill Longley, a rancher and cowhand roams across the state of Texas as a man opposed to lawlessness. "The Texan" is a capsule por- trait of events which took place in Texas in 1870's. Indian uprisings, wars between cattle ranchers and homesteaders, disgruntled Civil War veterans, and philosophical pioneers, will move across the screen and provide the adventures for Bill Longley.

Rory Calhoun is well suited to the Longley role. A rugged 6- foot-3, Calhoun worked as a logger in California's redwood country, as a hard-rock miner in Nevada and as a cowpuncher in Arizona. TV's "Today" show, Jack had his share of oddball bits. He once interviewed a penquin in the Bronx Zoo. (Jack asked the bird what brand of cigaret he smoked.) Another time he wrestled with Herbert the Walrus.

(Jack lost in 2 falls.) As the co star of "1, 2, the new educational entertainment series for children, Jack figured he was through with that sort of "nonsense." He plays a kind of "Dutch uncle" to 10- year old Richard which would certainly seem to be a dignified role. So what happened? The third show in the series was about the U. Treasury Department, with young Richard imagining himself a Secret Service Agent capturing a counterfeiter. And who played the counterfeiter? Jack Lescoulie, of course. The very next show was a Halloween adventure in which Richard visited a haunted house and met a ghost.

The sheeted figure turned out to be who else but Lescoulie? But Jack, a haapy go lucky fellow, doesn't mind these offbeat parts one bit. "I hope the children watching "1, 2, 3 Go!" get even half as much fun out of it as I do," he says. JACK LESCOULIE Harpo Marx Toys Harpo Marx, in a rare television performance, will star as silent emcee and viewers' guide through "The Wonderful World of Toys" on NBC-TV's full hour "Du Punt Show of the Week" Sunday at 10 p.m. The show will be presented from 12 different locations in New York City's Central Park. It will mark the first TV production to originate entirely from the largest municipal park, in the United States.

Central Park has 840 acres with an assessed valuation of $500,000,000. The program will present "music and dancing and singing and comedy, people who entertain and people who are entertained by toys," and will showcase thousands of toys, ranging in size from rubber balls to giant 7-foot stuffed animals. Harpo, one of the 5 Marx Brothers, is a native of Manhattan. He earned his nickname and learned to play the harp after being fired as a pianist in a New York City saloon more than 50 years ago. NBC Has ExclusiveTrask Pact Diana Trask, the attractive young Australian singer who was an NBC-TV talent discovery last year, has been announced by Mort Werner, vice president- Programs, NBC.

The new 5-year agreement with Miss Trask gives NBC exclusive rights to her performances, Werner said, but will also entitle NBC to loan her out for other engagements. Since she was first signed by NBC as a result of NBC's ex- panded talent discovery program early last year, Miss Trask has won a big following as a fre- qent performer on the "Sing Along with Mitch" color programs (Thursdays, 10 to 11 p.m.) She has also had a succession of highly successful personal appearances in clubs across the country. Miss Trask came to the United States In June, 1959, after an outstanding success in tours and appearances in her native Australia..