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12 THE POST-STANDARD. N. Saturday, October 23, 1965 Grad ree River Directo nan Sullivan With By Nevart Apiklaa Finnan in, producer, director and choreographer of dinner- theater musical shows at Three Rivers Inn, spent "three long years" on television ending last June as special assistant to Ed Sullivan. 'I worked with talent as a 'good-will ambassador says Syracuse University graduate who studied drama under the late Prof. Sawyer Falk.

After graduation from Syracuse, Finnan started summer theater touring companies in his native Plattsburgh and the Adirondack Area and during winters worked on the Ed Sullivan show. With the night dub business in an ailing state, dinner theater was originated in Meadowbrook, N. several years ago, and Finnan went there last Christmas to dance the role of "Tulsa" in "Gypsy" starring Marian Marlowe. That's the same part he played in his own production here, doing a spectacular "fire dance." As a producer, Finnan is out of his time being a "modern Ziegfeld" who believes in lavish shows. In the opening at Three Rivers he decided that the drowning of the Wazlr on stage should be quite realistic.

The fountain with water spouting of it became known among the cast as "Finnan's it worked. Then, two days before the opening of "Gypsy," someone remarked how nice it would be to have Christmas effects in the burlesque scene. Finnan immediately went to work and rigged up Christmas Tree headdresses on the chorus girls and they walked on trailing electric light cords the most spectacular display was when the red, blue, green a yellow lights twinkled over their heads. One of the favorite of the stars who appeared on the Ed Sulivan show was Ginger Rogers. During a dance number Finnan filled in as one of the male dancers.

She later remarked: "I'll be working for you some day." Finnan met many another star during those TV years including the Beatles, Jimmy Durante, Nureyev, Frank Sinatra, Jane Powell and Ann- Ma rsret. even more an actor than being extremely aware of camera angles. He appeared for rehearsal wearing a cloak and his longish hair in a hair net. Then there was the actress Ann-Margret who was extremely nervous and asked Finnan to help her on stage. When she took off the stole covering her gown, it appeared that she wasn't up to the "no cleavage" rule of the show, but it was too late.

"The Beatles are talented gentlemen," he said. "They take their success as a big joke but it has gone to the a of many similar groups." A native of Plattsburgh Finnan's father was a noted hotel and restaurant man in the area and his stepmother, uncle and aunt still live in Lake Placid. He also has a Mary Margaret Finnan. His father is a first cousin to Ed Sullivan and at one tim Tommy's father and Sullivan were roommates in New York city. "After my father passed away, I called him uncle," "West Side Story," opening his cousin, Ed Sullivan, to attend one of the performan ces that week.

He recalls that Nureyev was said the young producer. Finnan, who received his spoof on a guitar-swinging sin- training here, did "Rose Tat- ger, Conrad Birdie. too," "The Boy Friend" and And for his acted in all musical revues and weekend extravaganzas at Syracuse. And he directed the Syracuse Musical Comedy production of "Brigadoon." On the Ed Sullivan show he also acted as Scout" as does everyone connected with Ed Sullivan. The Sunday Sullivan show is rehearsed two days, Saturday and Sunday, he said, with special rehearsals for parts of it.

The dress rehearsal is 2:30 p.m. Sunday and it's the first time that Sullivan sees the whole show. 'He likes to work with a live audience and checks audience response at the dress rehear- sel. Acts remain or may be eliminated from the show, as late at 7:30 p.m. He has the final say on which acts go on." "Sullivan himself is always seeing shows and scouting talent, FJnnan said.

"His true personality doesn't come across and he's much friendlier and more at ease in person than on the screen. But he's a very keen showman." In the current "Bye, Bye Bridie" at Three Rivers the Ed Sullivan show figures in the Among members of the New York repertory group there's Jan Perry (Mrs. Tommy Fin, TT Nov. 2 Finnan is expecting an lso a Syracuse Umver sity graduate, whom he met on double dates while they were undergraduates here. Former President Dwight D.

Eisenhower will give his views on national and world issues on the premiere of "The MtcNeil Report" on NBC-TV tonight, to be carried 7 to 7:30 p.m. on Channel 3. next week the tower for WCYN-TV (Eductaional Channel 24) will be hoisted onto the tower of WNYS-TV in Pompey. News from Channel 9 for 3:30 to 5 p.m. today ii that Bud Ballou will have a "Battle of the Bands." Among local rock 'n rollers competing will be Sam and the Twisters, tht Coffins, the Strangers, the Twilighters and The Kids, PEOPLE: Tallulah Bankhead will cohost the Mike Douglas Show the week of Oct.

25, at 4:30 p.m. over Channel 9. Edgar Bergen and his 19-year-old daughter Candice, will captain the teams on ''The Match Game" 4 to 4:25 p.m. Monday through Friday on NBC-TV. Helen Hayes will re-enact a scene from the play "Harriet," on the Ed Sullivan Show from 8 to 9 p.m.

tomorrow on CBS-TV. Henry Morgan will substitute for Steve Allen as emcee of "I've Got a Secret" from 8 to 8:30 p.m. Monday on CBS-TV because Allen has announced his candidacy for nomination for the U. S. House of Representatives at next month's primary elections in California.

This is being done because of possible question of the "equal time" provision of the Communications Act. Hal March, Danny Dayton and Ann Corio (real-life queen of burlesque) all of whom have appeared on stage in Syracuse, are filming a burlesque sequence for "Trials of O'Brien" for future presentation. "Trials," starring Peter Falk, who will be in Syracuse next Saturday at Syracuse University, will move to a new time slot, Fridays at 10 to 11 p.m., effective Dec. 3. Tommy Finnan III and Jan Perry, his wife.

On Today's Radio Dial WSEN Noon to 6 p.m. Saturday in the Country. WSYIt 1:15 p.m. Football, Holy Gross and Syracuse. WFBL 2:10 p.m.

Football, Notre Dame and Southern California. WSOQ 5 to 5:30 p.m. Charlie i Show, Convent School. WOLF 7 p.m. to midnight, Fred Winston Show.

WNDR 6 p.m. to midnight, Bud Ballou. WHEN 10 p.m. to midnight, WHEN Dance Party. On Sunday's Radio Dial WSEN 9 a.m.

to noon. Country Serenade. WSOQ 1 to 2:30 p.m. Polish Polka Jamboree. WFBL 1:45 p.m.

Football, Buffalo Bills vs. Denver. WSYR--2 to 2:30 p.m. Monitor, singer Dorothy Sarnoff tells of her new business venture, "speech cosmetics." WNDR 6 p.m. to midnight, Jim O'Brien.

WOLF 7 p.m. to midnight, Bob Brooks Show. WHEN 10:30 p.m. Face the Nation. Gemini Events Listed by Time The anticipated times for events to occur, according to the tentative timetable of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for October 25 are: The launch of the Atlas- A 11 a.m.

EDT; launch of the Gemini-Titan 6, 12:40 p.m.; the Gemini- Agena rendezvous, 6:20 p.m. On October 27, splashdown of the Gemini-6 capsule is scheduled for approximately 11:45 a.m. EDT. Live TV to Offer Recovery i Of Astronauts via Satellite Live television coverage of the recovery of American as- ronauts at sea following a spaceflight will be attempted for the first time during the coverage of the Gemini 6 flight by the multi-network television- radio pool. The Gemini 6 flight is scheduled to be launched Monday, Oct.

25, and is planned for no longer than two days, with re- well, viewers will be able to see live scenes of the astro- covery scheduled for either Oct. 26 or 27. Live television coverage of the recovery operations, made possible by the cooperation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and tht! Department of Defense, will originate from the Navy carrier U.S.S. Wasp. If all goes TODAY'S WSYR--Channel 3 WHEN--Channel 5 VISION WNYS--Channel 9 Networks Have Individual Methods Ready Gemini The three networks may be-simulate Walter M.

Schirra's Sign- On. GJG Sign On. Movie: "Masterson of Kansas" (1954). George Montgomery, Nancy Gates. (B Farm Report.

Kangaroo. Hi Kids Popeye. Lone Hanger. Heckle and Jeckle Funny Company. Tennessee Tuxedo Leave It to Beaver.

Secret Squirrel Mighty Mouse Shenanigans. Underog Linus Beatles 11 12 Top Cat Tom and Jerry Baron and Buddies. Fury. Quick Draw McGraw Movie: "13 (1960). Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow.

Sky King. Bugs Bunny Lassie. Milton the Monster My Friend Flicka (c Hoppity Hooper Gaddis Cartoons. Rocky His Friends. College Football USC vs.

Notre Dame. (9) Movie: "The Brain That Die" (1960). Jason Evers, Virginia Leith. Afternoon Playhouse. Bud Ballou.

Battle of Bands. NFL Countdown. Movie: "The Tanks Are Coming (1951). Steve Cochran, Philip Carey. a a a Invitational Golf Tournament.

Movie: "The Adventures of Marco (1938). Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone. Saturday Evening Television Slattery's People. GD Jimmy Dean. Scherer-MacNeil Report.

(Premiere) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower is interviewed. Flipper, Jackie Gleason. Shindig. Host is funster Ed Wynn.

8: (HMD I Dream of Jeannie. King Family. Get Smart Smart and Agent try to invade an Indian reservation. (3) Trials of O'Brien. Cloris Leachman and Monique Van Vooren are guests on "Good-by and Keep Cool." Lawrence Welk Mwte.

"Stalag 17," (1953). Here's the big daddy of prison camp films blending high drama and low com- 8:3 edy. William Holden, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss and Harvey Lembeck. The Loner. Hollywood Palace Milton Berle is host.

Jose Jimenez and A Lane. Gunsmoke. Big Bands. News, Weather, Sports. Movie, "The a i Hand.

(1943.) Science-fiction. Peter Breck, Kent Taylor and Rod Lauren. (D le, "Marjorie Morningstar." (1957). Natalie Wood a Gene News, Weather, Sports. Movie, "The Man in Half Street" (1941).

Nils A and Helen Walker. 1 i coverage of the astronauts' recovery, but individually they have new techniques ready to make visual the complicated maneuvers. NBC television (Chacnel 3, will present continuous coverage of the flight starting at 10 a.m. Monday and continuing through the first docking attempt, will utilize displays in the NBC News space center. The first display will be used to explain how changes in the speed and orbital paths of the Gemini capsule and Agena target vehicle will bring the two objects together in space.

The second display will be a visual i a i of the maneuvering in space of the two orbiting vehicles as come together. NBC has a full-scale replica of the Gemini capsule, as well as a full-scale model of the new Agena vehicle. Throughout the flight the exact positions of the and Agena spacecraft will be traced by means of lights on a giant Mercator projector map as they pass around the earth. A three- dimensional representation of the positions at any moment will be provid- by small models positioned over a large topographic globe. CBS News (Channel 5), has an automated Gemini capsule mock-up with "astronauts" and cameras aboard, built by McDonnell Aircraft Corp.

The capsule mock-up will be able to land Thomas P. Stafford's crucial docking maneuver with an Agena rocket, and a camera in the nose of the Gemini will show i the sight the astronauts are seeing. In addition, CBS News correspondent Walter Cronkite will anchor coverage from a newly designed "space center" in a color studio at CBS in York. Pictures drawn by computers are a the new, highly sophiscaled electronic techniques and devices of the ABC television network (Channel 9) for the GeminiTltan-fi space mission, A constantly changing visual display, created by IBM computers, will be keyed to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reports of the events in space. The computer- drawn pictures will simulate the meeting of the manned Gemini spacecraft with the Agena, the maneuvering and and the docking.

And, with the aid of these computers, ABC- TV will show viewers not only what is happening in space, but what could happen. SUNDAY DAYTIME TV Sign on. This is the Life. Faith for Today. Catholic Hour.

QQ Farm Report Christopher Program (D Film. Canada, Travel. (D MoTte, "In Society" (1144) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Saint's Double (140) George Sanders, Bela Lugoft. Catper.

Lamp Unto My Feet Anntt OaUey. 11: Look Up and Live. Camera Three. Bullwinkle Navy Log. (D Discovery '15.

Syracuse Bowling. GD Movie, "Escape to Burma" (IttS) Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Ryan. Woody's Workshop. 1145-CD Fashions at Lunch- Football, Browns vs. Gianti.

aad Answers. Sec. of State Acheson, Pro a Broncos vs. Bills. (D Hawaiian Eye.

3: HMD Roller Derby. 4 Range Rider. Championship ing. GD Cartoons Wild Kingdom (D Mister Ed. (D Porky Pig.

Movie "The Hurricane" (1137) Dor. oihy Lamour and Jon Hall CD Amateur Hovr. To explain further the unprecedented docking maneuver, ABC will use scale models of the Agena and Gemini spacecraft. ABC News anchorman, science editor Jules Bergman, will also use a fully equipped, exact replica of the Gemini Instrument panel, to demonstrate what is happening in the spacecraft. Syracusan Seeks Teen-age Crown Seventeen-year-old Christina Laurel Brown, Miss Teen-age Syracuse, will vie for the title of Miss Teen-age America on the Pageant which will be broad- Sunday Eftning Television "Korea: The Linf Hostess 7: HMD Lassie Hedy Lamarr is guest of "The Flight of the White Stallions." (D My Marttan Helen Hayes, Duke Eiiinfton, Myron Cohen, Smothers liratners, Vargas Btttet work from II to 11:311 p.m.

Friday, carried locally by Channel (D ttwfe A Farewell to Arms Tragic love affair between a toMier and a nurse Airing World War I. Rock Hudson. Jennifer Jones, DeSica, Elaine Stritch and Christina, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Joseph Brown of 211 Snyder won the local contest sponsored by E.

W. Edwards and will be accompanied to Pageant Week in Dallas, by her mother. Her father it an artist at WSYR. She will be introduced to the nationwide teteriiiofl audience by TV hosts Bud CoHyer. Allen LwMen and Marilyn Van bur.

She will perform In two big production numbers written for this telecast by Gary Lambert During the telecast she will be nauts; Navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Air Force Maj. Thomas P.

Stafford, as they are returned to the cairier in the splashdown area in the Atlantic Ocean. The feasibility of live television coverage from the carrier sea via satellite was demonstrated in recent tests carried out by the multi-network pool, ITT and COMSAT in cooperation with the Department of Defense. The pictures will be picked up by television cameras aboard the Wasp. The signals will then be transmitted to the Early Bird Communications satellite over the Atlantic by transportable earth station installed aboard the Wasp by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. From the satellite-the TV signals will go to the Communications Satellite Corporation's Gemini recovery ground station at Andover, Maine, and then, by land line to the TV pool for distribution to the television networks.

Members of the multi-network pool are the ABC Television and Radio Networks, the CBS Television and Radio Networks the CBS Television and Radio' Networks, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the NBC Television and Radio Networks. CBS News is producing the downrange recovery coverage for the pool. NBC News Is overall pool producer for the Gemini 6 flight. NBC News correspondent Bill Ryan and Mutual Broadcasting System correspondent Campbell will be the pool reporters aboard the Wasp. ABC News corespondent Wally Bruner will be pool reporter aboard the destroyer Jonas Ingram.

In addition to the live television facilities, also aboard the Wasp will be TV tape and Jiffy processing equipment. The latter will be used to quickly develop film of the astronauts being lifted out of the water by helicopter, if they do not land near the primary recovery vessel, which will be telecast from tke Wasp. The transportable earth station on the Wasp consists of a 30-foot antenna section secured to the carrier's deck and a 30- foot communicatios van located one deck below the antenna. An earlier innovation in the coverage of the recovery of the Mtronauts by the pool was presented during the Gemfni 5 flight in August. At that time, still photographs showing the astronauts arriving on the re- within minutes by means of ITT's VTDEX system, which used normal voice radio channels.

This system will also be aboard the Wasp for the Gemini I recovery. Christina ferry HIM. "Tbt Cast ftf Oscar HomoOta. aa--yp WacfclMl SWa ftfcv Aflfcy GD Camera. IB: HMD Wlnt's My Line? vJJ 11: IS--CD Harris Heater James serenaded by Frank Sinatra and the A.

M. Sinfinf' If. dorinf telecast, the Cadets judges decide she is the Tf our is one i semi-finalists, she EDUCATION REPORT Education Panorama, the cap- suit radio report about achooli and coUefti, wlH bt carted ia Syncoae tkJi fafl by ttttfeii W5YR. IV JH-mimite report will be part of Wonafl'aWorM and will be introduced by Kay Russell daring her Monday broadcasts sonctinw between 11:31 and 11 a.m. CROSSES Ht MILLION "My Fair Lady." the Warner of the seven who best combines intelligence, nwttoft picture which cel-d will also do taler.t poiw and appearance JCrated the first anniversary rf! "DeaUi for I a solo performance of her talent; she will be crowned as the new wnrM premiere Ort.

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