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Springfield, August 9. 1951 B6 SundayNew Smart Kookie Knows How They Crumble Alaskan Drama Placed On Warners' Schedule HOLLYWOOD Warner Bros, is pushing plans for production of "Ice Palace," a motion picture drama about Alaska; and announces the signing of Richard Burton, Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones for starring roles In the large cast. The film is based on Edna Ferber's novel and will it. A 7 -f -T jukeboxes along with Kookie kom-ic books and Kookie combs for drugstore counters. But at least 26yearKld Edd Byrnes, who is Kookie.

is smart enough to know how Hollywood cookies can crumble. He doflf-n't want to be swept into" a. dustpan and be carried out as a has-been before he's 30. "I want to be sure," the likeable. not-Kookie-at-all-really Edd told me, "that.

Edd Byrnes is around when Kookie is gone." The big" giant step comes next month when Edd. minus comb and the Kookie chatter of, TV's "Sunset Strip" steps onto big screens as a sensitive young western hero worshiper in the Warner Bros, movie, "Yellowstone Kelly." He was in six films before he took comb in hand, but if the teen-age dolls noticed him, they didn't flip until he parked the Byrnes body in Dino's parking lot. In the western film, which also costars Clint Walker and John (Lawman) Russell, there's "an outside chance Edd could cause such a new riot in the drive-in set that Warnei, Bros, would retype him as a western hero." If this thought has occurred to him, Edd didn't mention it but "Kookie Out West" would be, in some quarters at least, a horrifying thought. Now, not wanting to get lost as Edd Byrnes, he's even toning, down the "like crazy, man" lingo in the TV series. Hollywood writers can go overboard on a good thing-and they did.

Grins Edd: "We've been cutting some of those crazy words right on the set. It's a little too much when I go through the whole show." Which he's been doing for the new seasons-two starring films already in the can. A year as the leader of the Delight Brigade has put Edd at the top of the Warner studio fan mail count (5,000 letters-a week) and the fan magazines are drool-ling over -him to the point where he can hardly wait each month to discover, for the first time, some new "inner secret." "It's a drag" he winces about some of the titles. He just bought a Hollywood hilltop home but itw ill not be the mad pad you will be reading, about. It may sound like Edd, a New York lad who became movie struck on his first mouthful of popcorn, is also combing money out of his hair.

He isn't. In the third year of a Warner studio contract, his his agents argue, doesn't 'inflect his box office wallop. His agents are reported to be "making progress' on this subject right now at the studio adjustment desk. Meanwhile, Edd is doing all he. can to comb Kookie out of his hair, for tomorrow and the day after.

HOLLYWOOD With his cast swarming with graduates of method-school acting. Director Richard Bare announced on the set of "All God's Chiidern'Mhat he was anti-method acting. "In this film," he said, "we'll all try, to be just actors. The picture stars Rita Morena, Mark Damon Gerald Mohr. CHANGE TIME TO MONEY INVESTED THIS WEEK EARNS FROM THE 1st.

HOLLYWOOD (NEAi-Now guess who would like to comb "Kookie" out of his hair? "Kookie." that's who. The leader of the Teen-age Delight Brigade. He doesn't want to lend that comb he wants-to give it away. It may take a little time and doing the disc jockeys are still spinning "Kookie. Lend Me1 Your Comb" and no' "Kookie Mad Pad" is coming to radios and CILLIOZ "Holiday for Lovers" at 1:00.

3:04. 5:08, 7:10, 9:15. TOWER "North by Northwest" at 1:20. 3:55, 6:35, 9:10. FOX "Hercules" at 1:05.

4:10, wesuxmnu ai 5:55, 8:55. LANDERS "Say One for Me" at 2:20, 6:00. 9:35. "Gunfight at Dodge City" at 4:25, 8:05. Tony Curtis to I'lay Kuss Colombo on TV HOLLYWOOD "The Russ Columbo Story," once planned as a movie and now becoming a one hour telefilm starring Tony Curtis, is a good solid clue to some new behind the scenes Hollywood thinking.

Today's film company will make the show, in color, for an NBC January special. Curtis will have a name cast, with Gary Crosby reported ready to play the role of Bing. After the TV show, Tony will have the right to release thefilm as a "movie" in the foreign market. FOX Kevin r.Moorhie) Corcoran tries to out-maneuver his older brother who has turned into a dog in this scene from the comedy fantasy, "The Shaggy Dogi" which returns to Springfield for a week's showing at the Fox, starting Wednesday. The picture stars Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagcn, young Corcoran, Tommy Kirk and the fabulous Shaggy Dog.

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Kearney We Never Close Dial UN 2-7242 Ribs Complete Dinner Biggest Annual the 1 August 15 through 21 Event in the It's the i rm is unhappy about your job?" and when he said he wasn't, the next question was "Why not'i What's wrong with you?" "These guys are pretty lucky half of them never did anything before," Bromfield exclaimed. "Dick Boone is not beefing about his job. "Half of these are spoiled little kids who got their money too fast. Bromfield has taken the coffee-and-doughnuts route.to success, and he, does the summer tour witnout salary oecause ne sure it helps his ratings. I "I was in a show, with Walter Houston," he said.

"I'll never for-1 get him telling me that I was just starting my career and he was about ending his. He said, 'You'll probably do just about everything, as I have. There'll be things you hate but there'll also be things you'll really love." Larri -spoke up- again. "Tell about the two girl fans in Boston." "Oh." said Bromfield, "these two girls, Joan and Helen, tele phone operators, got on a. bus in Boston and came all the way to Hollvwood to watch us shoot a TV film.

"They walked all the way from their hotel to the they sat on the set and they even held the script. I asked them if they didn't want to go see some other shows they said they didn't." "They didn't even want to see Rory Calhoun or Rock Hudson," Larri said. "Did they know about you?" I asked Larri. "Oh, sure, they call me up when he's on tour to ask how I am. Of course, they are telephone operators!" TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Watching the bride rush out of church with the bridegroom she'd a girl acquaintance said.

"And she's- the one who advised me to play hard-to-get with him!" 'WISH I'D SAID THAT: A bachelor said he was looking for a girl who didn't smoke, or drink, or have any bad habits, and his friend Said, "What for?" EARL'S PEARLS: "When raising rabbits, you quickly get double your bunny back." The great mysteries of life include the puzzle of why the hotel walls are always so thin when you're trying to sleep and so thick when you're trying to listen earl, brother. TACOS A Folded crisp tortlll with meat, alad. and (rated cheese on top "The Mexican sandwich" Try them today 35c ea. 3 for 98c Mexican Food I not hot with pepper. The hot sauce served on the aide to be used as you desire.

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Phone TV, 1-1000. Open til 11:10 pm. at 1 dancers, learn at WALKER'S 2ll'i W. Walnut Ph. UN 6-7361 STUDIO AIR CONDITIONED sfliKra K3rt7 I ill LI nearly all good By EARL WILSON LAS VEGAS I've been sitting around a swimming pool here with a television widow, pretty platinum blonde Larri Thomas.

Her husband, John Bromfield. the "U.S. Marshal" on TV, tours the country two months a year, lecturing to high school students on safety, or meeting with his sponsor's dealers and she stays at home, meaning Philadelphia, or Hollywood. Only John's more rabid fans know that Larri is a gifted dancer who was on Fred Astaire's Emmy-winning show and is in the Bing Crosby Debbie Reynolds movie, "Say One for Me." But the tour was over and both John and Larri werehere at the Desert Inn, where Larri insisted that she wasn't at all disappointed at not traveling with her hand; some husband. "If an actor is attractive and virile, and his wife goes along with him on tours, standing at his side and glaring, it takes the wind out of the sails of his admirers," Larri said.

"I don't know what pleasure the wife could get out of these Ihinoc anvwav Rrnmfipld com mented. "She'd never have a normal dinner -irtl vnii An is talk About the takes you to midnight." Larri. in a white bikini, sat up on the beach chair. "I did a tour with 'Guys and Dolls' as a Gold-wyn Girl," she said, "and it. was hard work even though I had all the best of it.

"When they asked me to be one, I said, 'I have very expensive appetites, and I like to make long-distance "They said I had a Chateaubriand for two very night. But they jangled us up every morning at dawn and we never got time to change our girdles. Rest periods were usually four minutes between taxis." Bromfield, 'a South Bend boy and a distant cousin of the late Louis Bromfield, and formerly married to Corrine Calvert, feels that his tours have given him an excellent cross-section of TV tastes. "I think Westerns are slipping," he said. "I can feel it.

I had a feeling for a while that we were going to have cops and robbers coming in. If somebody could come up with some good idea, they'd give Westerns a lot of trouble." Bromfield quickly explained, of course, that "We'xe not Western we're modenu adventure. "We don't have any horses," he said. "We use station wagons. Unless we have to go up in the mountains to get the bad boys." Larri said she had fairly definite opinions on the show and that if she made the tour wnn nugru express mew at the wrong time.

"And I like to organize." she Studio crews are already in the' 49th state establishing bases at Point Barrow, Petersburg and Fairbanks for a shooting start. "Ice Palace" is Burton's third, picture in a row for Warners, as he also starred in "Look Back in Anger" and the just-completed 'The Bramble Bush." Ozarks 1 1 mm i IFAIE3 Enter tainmeiit You'll 'want to see Worlds largest motorized Fabulous Sky Circus with these famous attractions midway daring performers wi nit it said, "I'd be telling everybody how to do everything when i was none of my business. "When I have gone atong, I've wound up loaded down with guns and badges and pictures it's like being. a valet." Suddenly, she remembered the "Guys and Dolls" tour, painfully. "One of Marlon Brando's fans leaked her fountain pen all over my white fox stole!" Bromfield.

whose "Cochise" series is also running on TV, is a little annoyed at some of the Western aojors for constantly complaining that they want to do something different. On this tour he was asked, "Are you one of these guys who Tully Turns In JLY Badge He Pockets $50,000, Steps Outpf Series By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD AP i Tom Tully has turned in his San Francisco police" badge "and cashed our for $50,000. Thevgruff, able actor no longer will be ferreting, out hoods on "The Line-up," the CBS crime series. "I didn't like the new setup," he said, "They wanted to put me and Warner Anderson in supporting roles. After five years as stars of the show, I didn't think this was right.

I had no objection to using new people, if it was handled intelligently. But they were killing the whole idea of the show." "The Line-up" ran into trouble last season from the fast-moving "77 Sunset Strip," an hour-long whodunit that opposed the Tully-Anderson sleuthing in many time zones. CBS decided to ftftht fire with fire and expanded "The 1 Line-up" to an hour for the fall. "I didn't want to go on an hour show unless if was done in big style," Tully added. "I suggested moving the locale to different parts of the country.

One story could show Andersort in Washington, D.C., working with the FBI while I was pursuing the same case at the home base. San Francisco. Or I'd be in Boston and he'd be in San Francisco. "They seemed to like my idea, and the authorities in the other cities offered their support. But then the network fell for some poll taken in the East.

The poll said that we couldn't compete with "77 Sunset Strip" unless we got some juvenile leads. "After five years as star, I wasn't going to.be carrying papers in the background. I told them 'No, thanks; I'll quit while I'm So he settled his contract for 50 grand. He still retains 25 per cent the 183 half-hour shows that he made. Hunk of.

Love' ABC 5-7-5 Blue Sammy Turner, Big Top. 6-12-3 Sea of Love Phil Phil- lips, Mercury. 7- 0-1 The Three Bells. The Browns. Victor.

8- 5-8 Waterloo. Stonewall Jackson, Columbia. 9- 0-1 Whafd I Say. Hay tharl-es. Atlantic.

10- 4-8 Tiger. Fabian, Chancellor. 11- 10-3 It Was I. Skip Flip. Brent.

12- 11-2 What Is Love. Playmates, Roulette. 13- 103 Sweeter Than You. Ricky Nelson, Imperial. i 14-4-4 Hushabye.

Mystics, Laurie. 15- 13-9 My Heart Is an Open Book. Carl Dobkins, Decca. 16- 0-3 High lJopes, Frank Sinatra. Capitol.

17-6-14 Battle of New Orleans. Johnny Horton, Columbia. 18- 15-4 Ragtime Cowlwy Joe. David Seville, 19- 0-1 Broken-Hearted Melody, Sarab Vaughn. Mercury.

20 0 5 M.T.A. Kingston Trio. Capitol. ff FUN' FOR i THE WHOLE ft A FAMILY Big-car auto racing Auto thrill show Stock car racing World championship rodeo with Rex Allen Exhibits You'll want to see the exhibits and 1 competition in the Women's" Divisions: Baking Sewing Cooking Knitting Canning Crocheting AND MANY OTHERS Elvis Slays Atop Disk Lisi AgrieuUimil Competition You'll want to see the finest livesock and farm products in the nation on display and in competition For fun, for entertainment, for education for the whole family ix. With His 'Big CHICAGO AJPU Elvis Presley's Rock-and-Holl shouter, "A Hunk of Love" heads the Unit-, ed Press International record survey of the top 20 tunes for the second straight week.

In second place, up a notch from third, was The Drifters' "There, Goes My Baby." Dinah Washington's oldie. "What A Difference A Day Makes," holds third place, In fourth place was Paul Anka's "Lonely Boy," beginning to sag in 11th week on the chart. Directly behind came "Lavender Blue" in fifth and "Sea of Love" in sixth place. The top 20 tuns included (numbers indicate position this week, position last week, and number of weeks in survey M0 A Big Hunk of Love. Elvis Presley, Victor.

2- 3-9 There Goes My Baby. The Drifters, Atlantic. 3- 9-8 What a Difference a Day Makes. Dinah Washington, Mercury. TO THE 0ZASIE( August 15 through 21 Springfield, Mo.

4 211 Lonely boy. Paul Anka, i.