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Tee-feeing By Grem. V. What with sleeping off Thanks giving gluttony and one.thing another. 1 didn't get the TV Squint the past.week. Can't comment on what I didn't see, so let's look at what's coming up.

Barfly is one holiday (Thanksgiving) out of the way, when up pops another (Christmas.) CBS-TV has stolen the march on other networks with a lavish Yule schedule. Jackie Gleason kicked it off Saturday night when he introduced "Friendship Trees," a Christmas card scheme to brighten children's wards in hospitals. Gleason asked for Christmas cards to be attached to trees for the ill youngsters. He started the drive by taping his own personal card to the first tree. To Play Scrooge Fredric March will attempt to replace the late great Lionel Barrymore in a CBS production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Thursday, Dec.

23, 7:30 pm, on the Shower of Stars show. It's a full color musical version by Maxwell Anderson of the beloved story with original music by composer-conductor Bernard Herrmann. March will, of course, appear as Scrooge, the miser who rebuffs Yuletide greetings with scorn. Hisj late partner, Jacob Marley, is played by Basil Rathbone. Christmas Day, CBS winds up the holiday with a'special color feature at 3:30 pm, "Holy Night," depicting the story of The Nativity.

Speaking of color, KTVH, Channel 12, is now transmitting in color Lady," 11 am each weekday, and "The Bob Crosby Show," 2:30 pm each weekday, will be in color Dec. 1 and 2. Does anyone know of a color set in this area? I'd like a look at commercial color television. Have you been driven to the screaming-meemies by the song, "Don't Let the Kitty Get In?" If so, you may blame Hal Dickinson, one of the five Modernaires on "The Bob Crosby Show," CBS, 2:30 pm daily. He wrote the silly thing.

Dickinson explained the a Watson lady where the Mods used to do re- We all have, been listening to icse radio shows like "Meet the for some years now. I've even seen them a time or two on TV when visiting some weathicr icighbor. I suppose the shows serve some worthwhile purposes, particularly on TV where you can see the faces and get some idea of a politician's character, or whole personality. It may well be that the junior saviour from Wisconsin would have )lighted the scenery for years more than he now seems likely to Radio Report By Oscar Otalgia This Sunday's "KSAL Prcsenti" will bring student musicians and actors from Kansas State College before the microphones. The time is 6:30 pm.

Kanus University's weekly program over KNCK, Concordia, will feature a clarinet quartette, comprised by Joy Wuthno'w, Elaine Selden, Clyde; Mary Felt, Salina, and Bob i 1 Rocky Ford, Colo. Jean Harmon Bowman also will sing several vocal selections. Time is pm Sunday. The weather man may call this Indian Summer, but the Kingfish of "Amos 'n' Andy" on CBS has another idea: "After that last cold spell, if I Movies Jab At Television HOLLYWOOD MV-Look out, TV, here comes another satirical barb from the movies. This time MGM is aiming the satire with a new musical called "It's Always Fair Weather," starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray and Michael Kidd.

"We plan to do to TV what we did to the movies in 'Singing In I The explained Kelly, who is also co-directing the film wHh Stanley Doncn. "We'll go into the commercials, singing and otherwise, and have a little fun." Miss Gray, the Broadway star, will play a TV performer, and insiders say that it's a combination of Liberace, Ralph Edwards with maybe a little Belty Furness Sunday, November 28, 1954 Page G--The Sallna Journal thrown in. Kidd, the gifted choreographer of "Guys and Dolls," "Seven Bridges for Seven Brothers" and other top productions, is playing his first movie role in the film. do, were it not for radio and TV WM an Indian rd be making my showing the people what the All- smoke sjgnals wRh electdc blanket!" Don't forget--our Miss Brooks gets engaged Sunday night to Mr. Boynton, that shy and elusive biology teacher! Hear the shennanigans on KFH or WIBW at 7 pm it The Mutual Broadcasting Com- Wise One is really like.

But, for my own when "Meet the Press" comes on, I'd just as soon find a good bood or a magazine--and I I'll be far wiser as a result. It's tragic to say this--really tragic. For if you can't put a Senator or a Cabinet member on the same program with four or five knowledgeable reporters and come up with a show beneficial to the public, then what good is scientific advancement and speedy communication, anyway? You can play with that one at your leisure--let's go on to what 1 think's the matter with "Meet the Press" and the others. Reporters the Villains Frankly, I think the villains are dog food manufacturer, the reporters themselves, not the politicians. And the villainy is all in the questions they ask.

First of all, there's the "cosmic" question. I frankly think it's hopelessly inane to ask a man--no matter how high he is in government-- pany is beginning a series shows called The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin early next year. Maybe those in authority thought people were getting tired of human i beings as heroes and heroines. Whatever they thought, though, they certainly weren't trying to economize on actors. For they're hiring Frank Milano, one of radio's top animal actors, as Rin.

The sponsor? You guessed it--a NATURE GIRL--Lovely Jane Powell plays a well-muscled damsel in "Athena" now showing at the Vogue. Movie Menu 'Desiree' Is Story Of Naooleon's Lova day through Wednesday. "Tne Vanishing Prairie," a true "Desire" once loved Napoleon hearsing had a cat and everyj Bonaparte and the little general life adventure produced by Walt time they entered a door she apparently returned the and "The star- But ambition drove Napoleon to ring the cowboys of American and ruin and his love to another's i told by Tex Ritter. Starts Thurs- would say: "Don't let the kitty get in!" That's no excuse for the song, arms. Marlon Brando, much in the but that's what the man said.

I news thesc days because ot his ro- Another Modernaire, Fran Scott, has turned architect, designer and interior decorator. Scott and his mance, is seen as Napoleon with Jean Simmons as Desireee. The, i has been well received. Ntw' a a a day for one week. Royal to answer in two minutes whether he thinks war with Russia is inevitable or not.

The only thing more iane is to listen to the answer--a two-minute answer to that question couldn't be anything but worthless. Trap-Type Question And then there's the trap-type question, like this one: "Senator, do you agree with Senator Knowland's attack on the Eisenhower foreign policy?" That's the kind of question the reporters would ask a Republican, trying to trap him into deserting cither the President or Senator Knowland. The answerer, if he's smart enough to have gotten elected lo (he Senate, will say something so'general that no one will be offended--and no listener will be educated. It seems to me there are plenty March Is Marlon Brando Booster HOLLYWOOD Wl i March, considered by many to be the finest actor on stage or screen, believes Marlon Brando is tops. "I think he's the greatest," asserts March.

"I've seen everything he's ever done. He's the best since John Barrymore." March, of course, is not Ihe. run- of-mill movie actor. That's why his appraisal of Brando rings with! sincerity. It came up when a reporter mentioned that March's por trayal of the a i a in Bridges of Toko Ri" was Oscar! bait.

I "Thanks." answered March, "But Brando in 'On The Waterfront' is the fellow to beat for this year's academy award." What's the secret of good acting from one of the greatest? "Each part should be a 'think' part--an actor ought to research it and try to understand the feelings and motivations of the cbar- NOW thru TUESDAY f' Open 0:15 Start 8:45 Adults 6.c Children VKKK i t-i- TONITEthruWEDNESDA UK NEWESI mmmm mm M.G-M'S FIRST IN IN AUGNWCENT OF THE KNIGHTS ROUND TABLE TAYLOR GARDNER AN NE STANLEY CRAWFORD BAKER A A CAST OF ALSO TOWN THTT CAUED THE GUN-BARREl Of THE WOT nf topics which could be discussed acter he plays. Otherwise you're "Tin Naked Spur," with James i i a way a would con ibute to'Just a robot. a public understanding "No part is a straight part un- Hiway 81 Crawford Children Under 12 FREE Box Office Open at 6:30 Tonite and (ART COOPER -LOREm YOUNG WILLIAM MMAKSI OKI DUKKtA aH yfrp "at 7:05 and 10:30 --and- at 8:55 Plus Color Cartoon wife are building a $40,000 home! snow licl lnrou Wednesday "Desperate Howard Bul irs silly lo lislcn to the pro i you're doing your own auto- and Jane Qrccr. Sunday grams and dangerous to think youi biography. Every role properly in Northridge, which Scott planned from the very beginning.

He's never done anything like iti before. Pluto, Walt Disney's pup, becomes a TV star Wednesday, Dec. 1. On "Disneyland," ABC-TV hour- long Disney production. "Black Widow" is 20th Century Fox's first murder mystery in Cin- emaScopc.

Van Ileflin. a Broadway producer, is accused of the murder of Peggy Ann Garner, an ambitious young writer whose body is found i Heflin's a a Keel ithrough Tuesday. "Appointment in Honduras," with Glenn Ford, arid "Decamer- on Nights," with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jordan. Wednesday and Thursday. 'Baltic of Rogue River," with I are getting anything worthwhile out of them.

Here are some of the choice George Raft breaks the case with the aid of a ball-point pen and George Montgomery, and "Drivej Reports of the reception accord- Hf flin om he chair S(arls a Crook(1( eel the Disney show thus far have )Ursday fnr otle week Rooncy. Friday and Saturday baen excellent. The 1nte Sat show cnm KSAL shows for the coming week: One of America's best-known operettas, Sigmund Romberg's "The Desert Song," is scheduled for done is a character role." March surprises when he says he prefers the screen to the stage or television. "It was different in the early days when I was full of fire. On the stage, the poor actor has toj read those same lines month after jl Mickey Sunday at pm.

on the Chicago! month and treat each audience as id.iv and Saturday. a of the Air. i though it's opening night." On the sports scene, i bines two science-fiction thrillers, i Langlois has replaced Joey G' a "jsaticers, dello as the opponent for Middle- Atomic Monster" and weight Champion Carl "Bobo" Olson in the Dec. 15 bout. Giardello, the No.

1 contender for Olson's crown, was forced to cancel the title fight as a result of a leg injury suffered in training. Vogue Set, in French Morocco in 18.1. Drive-In Sons" tells of the Foreign; "Knights of (he Round Talilf." Legion and its deadly antagonists, in CinemnScope with Robert fighting native Riffs, lor. Ava Gardner and Mel Ferrer, "Is the Western World Declin- ancl "Rebel City," with Wild Bill! ing" will be discussed Sunday at "Athena" likes love among the soybean souffles. Jane Powell, in the title role, is a well-muscled damsel who has Edmund Purdom reeling.

But Grandpa, Louis Cal- hern, is a physical culturist and Second sports bulletin is the ove almost lost in the weight- ncuncement of collegiate basket-j lifting melee. Debbie Reynolds and Elliott and Marjorie Lord. Sunday through Wednesday. "Westward the Women," starring Robert Taylor and Denise Darcel, and "Apache War Smoke," with Gilbert Roland and Barbara Ruick. Thursday through Satur- Vic Damone support.

Now showing through Wednesday. iLof Of Hunters ball on CBS each Saturday beginning Dec. 11. Featuring Big Ten games, the "Track of the Cat," left by ai series will be carried 11 times over man-killing mountain lion, strikes! IT-II a 13-week period. No games arej to gllt people on a snow-jAfG I 00 scheduled for Christmas and New bound rancl in Northern Year's.

Before the cat is killed. Robert urTd MILWAUKEE MV-Wisconsm to- The opener pits Indiana against tip-off at 2 pm. Mitchum, a cowardly braggart, 10:30 am by the Northwestern University Reviewing Stand, with Prof. Arnold Toynbee, the renowned British historian, as the leading panelist. Toynbee is on a brief American ct Unusual From Goldwyn HOLLYWOOD Wl--Sam Goldwyn is always doing the unusual.

He announces that three members of the original New York cast will have parts in the movie version of "Guys and Dolls." visit. The Oklahoma City Besides Vivian Elaine, who will recreate "Miss Adelaide," Gold- Symphony, wyn has hired. Stubby Kaye and under Guy Fraser Harrison, may be heard from pm Sunday, with Haydn's "Military" symphony as the major work. "Four Slavonic Dances" by Dvorak also will be on the program. B.

S. Fully. Kaye again will play Nicely-, 'Nicely Johnson and sing the show-! stopping "Sit Down, You're Rock- in' The Boat" and Fully will play the Chicago gangster, Big Jule. Notre Dame at South Bend with and his brother William Hopper' taled llp a grim nf 17 hunlcrs i i i i die. A thirdbrother, Tab Hunter gets strength and courage and Next production on the Best i the Iove of Diana Lynn Broadway series is "The larts Thursday, phia Story," scheduled for 9 pm Wednesday, Dec.

8, CBS. Dorothy McGuire, John Herbert Marshall and Mary Astor are among the featured players. Miss McGuire will be seen in Katherine Hepburn's famous role of Tracy Lord, the priggish divorcee who, intolerant of the weaknesses of others, finds that she, too, is of lapses into a human being. Strand idead today at the end of the 195-1 season. Eight died from gunfire, seven were killed by heart attacks and two died of asphyxiation.

In 1953, weapons killed seven, eight died Seven Brides for Seven Broth- of heart seizures and asphyxiation ers," and "The Weak and Wicked," with Glynis Jphns. Sun-- 'claimed one life. Bing Thinks His Records Are Dull HOLLYWOOD UH Bing Cros-j by has a copy of every record he; has ever made, but he never plays them. "Somewhere or other," says the itar, of "White Christmas," in the Holmby Hills house or the Hollywood office or the ranch Nevada, I've got 'cm all. But; never play 'cm.

They'd be pretty lull stuff to me." He has made almost 900 records he first started recording vith Paul Whiteman's hand in 1926. His favorite is the "While Christmas" disc he made with John Scott Trotter's band in 1942. SIMMONS nnd Mlclmft Rennif "Denlrec" now Watmn. from Entire Program in CINEMASCOPE AT LAST THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCAIMED BEST-SELLER IS SCREEN IN ClNEMASo THE MARLON BRANDO-JEAN SIMMONS MERLE OBERON-MICHAEL RENNIE win CAMERON MITCHELL ELIZABETH SELLARS EVELYN VARDEN JOHN HOYT noOUCED IT DIKCttO tr KHtN AH IY MIAN BUUSTEIN HENRr KOSTER DANIEL TARADASH In lh of '-Tract, Hign.FuMty JTf SOUND COIN it TICHNICOIOI MOW SHOWING' Feature 2:00, 4:35, 7:35, 9:35 VCGLE MGM: YOUNG IDEAS Now Showing All about a rich bachelor, a handsome crooner--and seven gorgeous sisters with.such unconventional ideas about love. ItS THE NAME OF THE GIRL WITH THE BOOT BEAUTIFUL! JANE POWELL-EDMUND PURDOM DEBBIE REYNOLDS-VICDAMONE LOUIS CALHERN COLLINS WILLIAM Hi and LEONARD SPIGELGASS Sonus BOSH HUM and MICH MM PMogiaiW USIMAH COLOR Pnnl IK 1ECHNKOT PLUS COLOR CARTOON hi tht MAfe of DkKtiwul- STEREOPHONIC SOUND! VM rlHT IMI MMRtl HMHIll IMHKR mi MRI IMH um timni xnm STARTS THURSDAY! FIRST DOWN TOWN RUN! M-G-M's MOST ORIGINAL MUSICAL SHOW ever to crowd the huge CINEMASCOPE Eye-popping in COLOR Seven red-headed, red-blooded brothers meet seven beautiful blushing brides! JANE KEEL lOVMMKWfi UMS! with JEFF RICHARDS RUSS TAMBLYN TOMMY RAIL AM M-6-M PICTURE Now Showing CO-FEATtBE Story of Women in Continuous Daily From 1:30 P.M.

Adults 7oc Child 20c.