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I Dialing Around 1 ,1. Five High Budget Shows Slated Today, Thursday By ROBERT E. STANSFIELD Toung Talent' Show Launched. On Channel 18 Last was the premiere date for a brand new Channel 18 "young talent" program. Ka-thy Godfrey is the hostess of the half hour show that will see youngsters from Connecticut and Massachusetts areas perform for Channel .18 viewers.

The youngsters range up to 16 years of age. The program is now scheduled to run for 13 weeks and will probably con 'M HAPPY SCENE William Warfield, as De Lawd, is accompanied by two of his angels, Vinette Caroll (Uft) and Hilda Haynes, in a happy heavenly scene from the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" colorcast of Marc Connelly's adaptation of his fable-play, The Green Pas-tures," on Ch. 10, 22 and 30, Thursday night, Oct. 17, at 9:30 o'clock IKjmWj.Ulfi 11,1 first ahow around her career highlights. Her high-f ashlon wardrobe geta considerable attention, too.

In 1880 the Italian Carlo L. renrini, under the pen name Oillorti, wrote "Pinocchio," the vehicle in which Mickey Rooney stars today as the little block-Jiead and Walter Slezak plays Gepetto. Lcrenzini's whimsey aimed to enchant children and perhaps give them an easily-remembered lesson in honesty. People generally have gone along with the author; but since June when TV production on "Pinocchio" began, the tale has become subtly antiseptic because Vaslia Frank, who created and staged today's simulcast, became ethic-conscious. As a result Rooney's snub nose will be garlanded with two inches of plastic schnozzle and will stay that way throughout the musical, although the original Pinocchio had a retractable gonk whose length varied inversely with the square of his honesty.

Fays Frank, who is sorry to have deleted the two-way stretch bit: It's bad morals in terms of contemporary social and psychological values. Lengthening the nose when Pinocchio lies is the equivalent of saying to a child, Don't lie because it will show if you But a responsible parent of today would say, 'Don't lie because it's wrong to The nose-lengthening consequence of lying is a superficial, physical, negative moral image (And besides, a retractable nose isn't the easiest thing to stage on live television, eh, Yasha?) Fran Allison (the Kuklapoli-tan) plays the Blue-Haired Fairy (whose prototype, now 90, lives in Florence, Italy.) Jerry Colon-na is the coachman Stubby Kaye, the town crier; Marty -Green, the fox; Mata, Hari and Imalda De Martin, marionettes; and Sondra Lee and Matt Mat-lox, cats. "The Green Pastures" is a fable play which won a Pulitzer Prize for its author, Marc Connelly. First produced in New York in 1930, it is a child's interpretation of Biblical events and was suggested by a Bradford's Southern sketches, "01' Man Adam an' His Children." When NBC presents it Thursday on the "Hallmark Hall of Fame," it will have an all-Negro cast of 60 headed by William Warfield as De Lawd, Ed-ilie (Rochester) Anderson as Noah; Earle Myman in the dual role of Adam and Hezdral, and William Dillard as the King of Babylon. Network releases disclose this sidelight on casting difficulties.

Aug. 28: and Cab Callo- That old High Budget is loose again. He strikes three times today and twice on Thursday. Today there's "Pinocchio" p.m. Ch 30), the fantasy about a wooden poppet who became a real live boy; the 1 Show" (8-9 p.m.

Ch 18), Bind Crosby Frank Sinatra musi cal spectacle that elbows F.d Sullivan off the screen; and Standard Oil's 75th anniversary program p.m. Ch 30) staged by Cyril KiUhard and bursting with big names. On Thursday there's Marc Connelly's own TV adaptation of his stage hit, "The Green Pastures" p.m. Ch 30), which may turn out to be the best home entertainment of all; and Mike Todd's sociable roundup in Madison Square Garden of 18,000 head of people p.mChl8, replacing 'Playhouse 90 Of late, Todd has teen doing little except sending out expensive beeps about his 80-day satellite. He'll be doing the same thing Thursday with the help of the "world's largest birthday cake" and a herd of entertainers.

The -week also brings four premieres two westerns and two "easterns" (a term that just lias to be coined to cover anything east of Catalina Island since 1910). "Tombstone Territory" p.m. Ch 8) Wednesday and Colt .45" p.m. Ch 8) Friday, have staked out claims in the already overpopulated cowboy field. Things are pitting so crowded in this division that if Wyatt Karp's trigger finger is off by a split second, he's liable to plug anybody from Clint Walker to Abraham Lincoln.

In fact, a grizzled old prospector who barely made it across the microwave band after spending eight-days without-video or audio, reports that the buffalos are nervous wrecks from trying to avoid stampeding cowboys, and that the cowboys are getting a bit edgy from tripping over exhausted Indians lost on the way to make a treaty with the FCC. He" says most of the boys feel the West has already heen won irrevocably and that "hat little business there is now easily be handled by Kin Tin Tin or possibly Andy Devlne. The two new "easterns," both on Friday, are the "Patrice Mnn-m1 Show" p.m. Ch 8), staning the Metropolitan Opera Finger in a live "pop" music find variety program; and the Frank Sinatra Show" (9-10 p.m. Ch 8).

After Sinatra's first week when Bob Hope, Kim Novak and Peggy Lee are guests, his musical shows will be 30 minutes although another live hour show is slated for February. For the 1957-58 season Sinatra, will have filmed 13 musical half-hours and 23 dramatic half-hours. Miss Munsel has Eddie Albert us an opener and will build the tinue longer, i lie children ap- I .1 1 TT I ppariiiii are not necessarily ama teurs nor are tlipy dyed in the wool professionals. The aim of the program, said John O. Downey, WUCT Program Director, "is to provide people of the Channel 18 viewing area with entertainment by local youngsters with the hope that the experience gained at Channel 18 will help them in the future, if they have th inclination." Miss Godfrey, nationally known television and radio personality, introduces each act and helps put the youngsters at ease.

She is well qualified for the task, eing intensely interested in young people and having had experience in a similar capacity at other stations. There will be an average of 8 acts per week. Parents requesting information on how to get an audition for their youngsters are requested to watch for Channel 18 announcement which wiil describe how auditions may be obtained. DISCOUNT PRICES Broadloom AND Jugs NO DOWN PAYMENT Up To 36 Months To Pay STORES AT 1488 Albany Av. Open Tuei.

I Thun. Till 9 P.M. 603 Pari St. Opn Fri. Till 9 Polttirnl AftvorlisPinrnt i d99 rasns OF INTEGRITY KATIIV GODFREY a civilian on a wide-ranging secret mission for the federal government in the West of the 1870s.

In the opener, "Judgment Day," Colt, who is a gun salesman as well as a government agent, demonstrates his side- arms and hiuits a renegade- white who is selling firearms to the Indians. "Tombstone Territory" is a series based on Tombstone, sheriffs' exploits as recorded in the Tombstone Epitaph, Arizona's oldest weekly newspaper. The first episode is "Gunslinger from Galeyville," in which a sheriff sets out to collect taxes from outlaws. Pat Conway stars weekly as Clay Hollister. Politiml Advprtisemnt way as the King of Babylon Sept.

16: 'Sugar Ray Robin-son will replace Cab Calloway as the King of Baby-ion (Robinson lost his welterweight boxing title to Carmen Basllio Sept. 23.) Sept. 23: "William Dillard, in the king of the King of Babylon, replaces Sugar Ray Robinson Other notes for today: Besides Bing Crosby and Sinatra, the "Edsel Show" presents Rosemary Oooney, Louis Armstrong, Lindsay Crosby, other singers and dancers. Standard Oil (of N.J.) has this cast: Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, Donald O'Connor, Jane Powell, Marge and Gower Champion, Brando de Wilde, Duke Ellington, Eddie Mayehoff, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Kay Thompson, Art Buchewald and Ronald Searle. The theme of the oil show is "The wonders of today and the promise of tomorrow," interpreted in song, dance, sketches, musical variety and a droll, 12-minute cartoon on the history of "energy" created by Searle, a British caricaturist and satirist.

In the JKmlnute class today" too. is "Wide Wide World" (4 p.m. Ch 30), which has its theme "Man Against the Mountains" and, taking live cameras into the Rockies, tells seven stories of men for whom mountains 'have special meaning: A stone cutter from Vermont, an Industrialist from Chicago, a dog breeder from Iowa, a musician from Hollywood, a doctor from New Hampshire, a miner from Texas, and an astronomer from Massachusetts. The "Colt .45" show stars Wayde Preston, a Jilm newcomer, who plays Christopher Colt, SUNDAY ON WHCT AT CHANNEL MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE Tonight Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders "STRANGE WOMAN" 1 1 I II I I llnnitirif 'M ntfiffit III TONIGHT at 6:00 18 CHANNEL 18 MRS. MADELYN C.

NEUMANN and DR. IRVING s. STARR CCC CANDIDATES FOR BOARD OF EDUCATION Presiding: MRS. MARION F. COOGAN (Former member of Board of Education) BLISTER PROOF NORFOLK HOUSE PAINTS PAINT AT DEMERS PAINT im MAIN ST.

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Oct. 13. 1957.