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The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune from Chillicothe, Missouri • Page 7

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Filled TV Is 'too Cold' for Ray Bolger's Feet By DICK KLEINER NEW YORK (nea) Bucking the present trend toward filmed TV is Ray Bolger. The fantastic dancer's new NBC-TV show, "Washington Square." is as live as you can be. Lnst season, he had a filmed half-hour. why the change? "I found film too cold, too slick." Kay Bolder Donald May Bolger. "We'd work and work en the shows and get everything: perfect dances, perfect lighting, perfect photography.

But somehow it wasn't warm and hu- rean. "On my first 'Washington Square' show I slipped and almost In Hollywood, we would have done the dance over. But the slip was realistic and and I think it makes for better entertainment." Bolger thinks that television has should more kinship with the staye than with movies. "I always think of flat actors and round actors," Ray says. "Movie screens are flat and the actors are flat, like they've been rolled out under a steam roller.

But the TV screen isn't look at ic closely and you'll see it's either concave or convex. So TV should have concave or convex actors, but certainly not flat -mm actors." His new show, as he sees it, is a new kind of entertainment. Me calls it a variety show with a thread or a story. And he thinks "it may be the dream format that Pal Weaver used to talk about." As long as it's gat enough of Bolger, it should suit anybody. Anything for art, even dusty bare feet.

That could be the motto on Piper Laurie's coat of arms, because the lovely blonde is out to prove that she's a real actress and never mind the cost. She heard of a role in a GE Theater production, "The Road That Led Afar," which seemed like something she could get her teeth into. So she made an appointment with host Ronald Reagan and showed up In old clothes and no make-up. as befitted the part of a girl from the hill country. "That's great," Reagan said.

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at Oakland. Mr. and Lord Prewltt spent His brother. Earl, died in 1925 manv fnends. actors.

Florence Eldridge and Brad- Sunday even.nu with Mr. unci Mrs. ford Dilltnan. This is why the Noniliui Boyle. stage was Invented.

Mrs. Charley Burgess entertained the Protherp Busy Bees club Tues- Rumors around about a feud be- I Uveen two of ABC's top Law- i Russell Prewltt spent Monday Wclk and Ted Mack. Welk even ins with Mr. and Mrs. Lor en introduced an amateur gimmick Prewitt and sons, one of his shows and Mack, MC of Mr.

and Mrs. Nelson Washburn "The Original Amateur I Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. thinks 'the field should be left to Mark Eckert. This' may come as a distinct rti appointment to some girls, Cadet Charles Thompson is an ii postor.

The cad. As each chapter of the "West i Point" series opens, this Thump- son knave comes on for 30 seconds or so and introduces the story. He's tall and handsome and girls have taken to writing to him. care of West Point. They figure he's a cadet, all cadets must be single, ergo, he's single.

It turns out he's an actor named Donald May. And he has the effrontery to be. married. With a 2 v--year-old son, yet. Not only is he not a cadet, but Donald May is a former Lt.

in the Navy. Deceit piled on deceit. He was born in Chicago, grew up in Texas, Oklahoma and Cleveland, and started acting in a kindergarten play at four. He went to drama school at the University of Okla and Mrs. Davie Cm Wednesday wllh Mrs lmp.renush.ic.32.

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Snide shopped in Trenton Mr. and Mrs. Booth Pike of- Dut Moines spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs. O. L.

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