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TV TIME- ANSWERMAN Ventriloquism Future Bright, Claims Practitioner Nelson I I Jimmy Nelson with dummies Danny O'Day and Farfel. sd1 WW A BURR Scheduled for Sundays. How come a tired, worn-out show like "What's My Line?" stays on the air? It cant be fan mail. Or maybe John Daly owns the network. N.

McIL, ML Morris, 111. The long-lived panel show owes its existence to two things: First, and most important, is it gets the ratings, and, second, it's an inexpensive half hour to produce. Please tell me the name and the theme song of the "No Time for Sergeants" series. N.J., Grand Rapids. It is called "Original Theme." If you have a question on any tv program or actor, send it to TV Time Answer Man, in care of The they go back home to England and you never hear of them again." Jimmy has had to change his act as the popular styles of comedy have changed.

"Fifteen years ago, you could do a stand-up act of one-liners," he said. "Today, people listen to the lines and expect something more subtle. I think comedy albums have done that. "Incidentally, in working with Danny O'Day, I no longer refer to ventriloquism. I'm still a ventriloquist, but Danny and I are really a two-man comedy act and our material is written that way." I hear that Raymond But has decided to give up "The Perry Mason Show" and, since there will be one to take his place, the show is going off the air.

Is that true? D.N.W., Elmira. No. The CBS-TV network has announced that Ray will be back for at least one more year of winning al bis cases. His time slot has been changed and he will probably face "Bonanza" on Sunday nights. What is Captain Kangaroo's' real name and is he married? How many children does he have? S.D.Y., Schenectady.

Bob Keeshan, who was also ClarabeDe the Clown on the old "Howdy show, is married. He and his wife Jeanne, have three children: ael, 12; Laurie 10, and Maeve, 8. My hnsband and I are having an argument about the tv series, "Arrest and Trial." He says John Larkht played the prosecuting attorney and I say he didn't. Who's right? M.R.M., Padncah. You are.

That was John Larch battling Chuck Connors. Please tell me what previous' acting experience Ed Ames, who plays Mingo on "Daniel Boone," had. P.T., Baltimore. Ed, after studying acting following the breakup of the Ames Brothers singing act, appeared in the off-Broadway production of "The Crucible," was in "The Fantasticks," and had a co-starring role in the national road company of "Carnival." He has also appeared in many network tv shows. I say that William Fraw-ley of "My Three Sons" has never been married; my mother-in-law insists that the was married to Vivian Vance and she divorced him so she could marry another man.

II.C, Grand Rapids. Miss Vance and Mr. Fraw-ley were only married on tv. BUI was married many years ago, but the marriage ended in divorce many years ago. Do BUI CnDen of "I've Got a Secret" and his wife have any children? C.S., Elmira.

No. When was "Password" first televised? Was Allen Lad-den its first moderator? J. Worcester. The show had two premieres. The daytime show started on Oct 2, 1961, and the nightime version began Jan.

2, 1962. Mr. Ludden has been with the show since its beginning. Please settle an argument for ns. Did the actress Elizabeth Ashley appear as the young detective's girl friend each week on Naked R.W.W., Baltimore.

No. That was Nancy Ma-lone in the role of Paul Burke's steady girl How many years did Chock Connors play big league baseball? What position did he play and with what team? H.F.K., Grand Rapids. Chuck was with two teams In the majors. In 1949, with Brooklyn, he was used as a pinch hitter, once, and in 1950 he went to bat 66 times for the Chicago Cubs and hit 239. He was a first baseman.

Ed Wynn Proud of Looking Ahead to Future By HAROLD STERN NEW YORK "If the ventriloquist is good, the basic ventriloquist act is ideal for television," said Jimmy Nelson. "But at the moment, there isn't a single ventriloquist with a show of his own. "Shari Lewis is off. I don't have my show any more. Paul WincheH is off.

And Edgar Bergen is appearing as an actor. "Bergen and I differ violently," he continued. "He feels ventriloquism has had it. I don't, and I don't do just kiddie shows. The bulk of my work is before conventions, tough adult 'audiences, and they love the act and the novelty.

"I don't see ventriloquism on the way out at all. But I think it has to be properly presented. Given that presentation, there's a great future for it. That's what I tell kids when they've mastered lip control: 'Now go out and get yourself an The truth of the matter is thet Nejson has a vested interest in the health and future of ventriloquism. On sale, providing him with a ready source of income and recognition, are a model of his Danny O'Day dummy (now 20 years old) and an LP called "Instant Ventriloquism," sold separately or as a package.

At the moment, sales of the album, released just before Christmas, have gone over the 60,000 mark while the dummy, available longer, has sold several hundred thousand. His career is in such high gear he had to consult a typed out itinerary to remind him where he was going next. "I'm due back in New York for another Entertainers, then Philadelphia for a Saints Sinners A'vard, and then back to Hollywood for a tv Academy dinner. I keep going like this because the last time I visisted my doctorI go every six months he said to me, 'Ed, just keep doing what you're Skelton's reprise of his old classics gave a number of pro-pie at CBS the idea that Ed Wynn should do the same a cavalcade dating back to the stage and through vaudeville, radio, movies and television from the Perfect Fool and the Fire Chief to some of Ed's classic straight acting roles of today. "No thanks," Ed Wynn SUITS PRESSED 'SCOUTSHONOR.

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You watch them, -hear their names, promptly forget the names, smiled. "I could never recapture those days. I don't want to recapture them. They were exciting but I don't look back there's too much ahead of me." The open suitcase the airplane tickets testified that at 78 a man can have a future if his name is Ed Wynn. MidUnrf Cliirg PIm Specials Saturday-One num FISHING Monday One Automatic 12 Reg.

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It was decorated with tiny pearls and it was small enough to slip through the lapel button of his tuxedo coat "I wear it like a lodge pin," he beamed, "because I cherish it above any award I've ever won." That was a heap of cherishing, because at 78 Ed Wynn probably has won more awards than anyone in all of show business. The miniature halo The Hah) Award had come to him from the organization known as Operation Moral Uplift "For 62 years of clean entertainment," the old comedian explained and you could see the proudness in his eyes. He fished the halo from a velvet box in his suitcase which was open on the divan of his temporary dressing room at the CBS studios here and be laughed: "I'm practically living out of a suitcase again. How about that for a young fellow of 78? And now about this?" he added, unfolding a newspaper page with four large advertisements for new movies and the name Ed Wynn appeared in all four of the films. He had dressed for the taping of the Red Skelton Show on Tuesday, in which be introduced Red for a cavalcade of Skelton classics.

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