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TV From Gale Storm's Having Man Trouble Just Can't Hold One, Bosses Won't Let Her By CHARLES DENTON 7 -C -ILL! I I HOLLYWOOD Gale Slorm is having man trouble. Can't hold onto one! J' Which would be a juicy morsel of Gossipville cocktail chatter were it not that, for practical purposes, Gale is securely and serenely espoused to insurance man Lee Bonnell and the mother of four bounding little Bonnells. Her wooing woes are strictly professional, the result of unfortunate from the romantic viewpoint restraints of her CBS-TV series and the fact that several million viewers are maintaining a neighborly watch on her spinsterhood. can't get married on the show because then I couldn't keep my job as entertainment director on an ocean liner," the winsome Miss- Storm explained, patiently enumerating the barriers to bliss in the hope of discovering a loophole. "And I can't have a regular boy friend, either.

If we did that, it would eliminate romance except when I was supposed to be in the boyfriend's port. I'd be unfaithful to him if I got involved with other men on cruises, you see, and we couldn't have that. "So," she sighed with something less than genuine remorse (the show ha. never been out of the top 20 in the ratings, romance or no romance) "we have to get rid of each man at the end of each show. I lose more men that But losing male admirers is only half of Gale's problem.

The other half is THE WAY she loses them. Her bosses take the atti tude that she would appear too fickle if she loved 'em and left 'em. Hence they love her and leave her instead. It's enough to give a gal an inferiority complex. "They tell me it's better for the show that, way," she pouted, "but I'm not so darned sure about that.

Sometimes I think it's just something the men around here dreamed up to keep me in my place!" Tris Coffin, in town on a short leave from leading "26 Men" around the Arizona landscape, reports that, for a guy who achieved his first video fame as the corpse who got up and slowly walked away on a show, his future is sunnier than a Sahara summer. "26 Men" is now beaming in 193 U.S. cities and nine overseas markets, and the angular, silver-thatched Tris is a part owner of another series he and his producer-pal Russ Hayden plan to film on the exploits of one Colonel Kosterlitsky, a wandering Cossack who becomes a New York policeman, professor and, finally, head of the Mexican Rurales, or rural federal police. In addition to which, Hayden is -planning to star Tris in a feature flicker about his TV character, Tom Rynning, founder and chief of the Arizona Rangers whose colorful career extended from soldiering in the Spanish-American War to heading the Secret Service in San Diego, during World War II. Wily Stratagem Susan Hayward and her well- Fabray has decided against doing six shows with Dinah Shore.

Danny Iomas will do an hour-long Christmas season special, "The Night The Baby Was Born," for CBS. Jon Hall plans to build a resort on the Hawaiian Island of Maui when he gets time out from his new series, "Malolo of the Seven Seas." Dan Dailey, always TV shy, is scanning pen-pal Joan O'Brien's "The Remarkable Mr. Harrison H. Harrison" as a possible special. Ziv Productions and CBS have budgeted $4,000,000 for their "World Of Giants" series about a man only six inches tall.

Three new series in the works at CBS tell a story in titles "Peck's Bad Girl," "Pursuit," "The Lawyer" and "Juvenile Court." Think you have recession blues? Consider the plight of TV actresses in this era of the horse opera! Colorful Guests Visit -Steve, Eydie Tonight Tony Randall, star of the musical "Oh Captain!" which has just ended a Broadway run; Miyoshi Umeki, who won an Oscar for her supporting role in the film "Sayonara" and singing star Mel Torme will be guests on "Steve Allen Presents Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme" tonight (NBC-TV Network colorcast, 8-9 p.m., EDT.) They will participate in a skit with Eydie and Steve, a Japanese production number and other features to be announced. Eydie's solo songs will be "Guess Who I Saw Today" and "Johnny One Note." Lawrence will sing "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "And This Is My Beloved." Their duet will be "Come With Me." Band leader Sammy Kaye, who has wandered in and out of TV several times; to say nothing of years of radio appearances, will wander back into television this fall. He and his orchestra will be presented Saturdays from 10 to 10:30 p.m. by ABC in a program entitled "Music From- HAVING MAN TROUBLE? Yes, but only in her TV career. In private life, Gale is the happy wife of insurance man Lee Bonnell and the doting mother of four little bounding Bonnells.

i. formers who is a hit whether she goes on or no. 4 If Judy does her stuff, she's sensational. If she takes the air in the middle of an aria, she's front page news and priceless publicity for the place she's playing- Either way, you can't lose, unless, of course, you're in the motion picture business, where temperament equals delay, and delay equals a deficit. Cross Currents George Burns is revising his Gracie-less fall show for NBC to make room for plenty of "name" guest stars.

Lawrence Welk is buying race horses ah, one; ah, two; ah, three of 'em. Liberace is running ads for iresh vocal talent for his upcoming ABC daytime concerts. Milton Berle, laboring like a bricklayer over his NBC show, insists he will trade no guest appearances this Ditto Gale Storm, and Nanette 9x9x'b" Thick Random Confetti Tile 6 CAN BE USED ON WOOD OR CEMENT a If -Mk vVf 'Wl fc heeled husband, Eaton Chalkley, are forming a production company and may film a television series in his ancestral home state of Georgia. Insiders say the story behind this is one of the oldest in show business. The Chalkleys reportedly are having marriage vs.

career problems, and this stratagem would keep Susan close to the family mansion and away Movietown, which Eaton shuns like arching Through Georgia." Plans For Ritchard Henry Jaffe, executive producer of the "Shirley Temple Story Book" and slimmer "Chevy Show," plans to Cyril Ritchard in a series built around "The Magical Monarch of Mo," by the author of the "Oz" books. Jaffe, the cerebrum behind many of TV's top offerings of recent years, will make one "Monarch" film for the "Story Book" lineup this coming season and then use it as a "pilot" in peddling the series for next semester. Mutual Admiration Here we go again Betty Mutton is telling friends that Louis Prima and Keely Smith, once candidates for Milton Berle's fall show, will join her crew when she launches her series on NBC early next year instead. Betty and the Primas form a mutual admiration society. In Las Vegas, where all three are appearing at the Sahara Hotel, Betty spends her spare time watching Louis and Keely cavort in the lounge, and they take their "breaks" watching her bounce in the Conga Room.

Garland's In Demand Despite her temperamental didoes, half the producers in the land are panting to get Judy Garland's name on contracts because she's one of the few per Covering HOME INSTALLATIONS 'is T.II,KS-.:..K Asptiilt Rubber Vinyl Wan Cognltr Tap Frw EtlimalM tXcaraling FLOOllING SUPPLIES ja 7-int HM Nw Britain Av. GUN-LOVIN' PALS: Wyatt Earp's (Hugh O'Brien) friendship for Doc Holliday (Douglas Fowley, left) makes the marshall a suspect in a robbery in "Wells Fargo vs. Doc Holliday," Tuesday night, Aug. 19, on Channel 8. Th.

Courant TV Week, Aug. 17. 1958.