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Makes JUNE 17 23, 1961 THE TV JOURNAL 11. Holiday Lodge Series Tuesday Debut Holiday Lodge, the first filmed TV series for comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, starts Tuesday at 9 on the CBC-TV network. To the comedians, this represents the culmination of more than 20 years of hard work as a team. Canadian audiences have witnessed the growth of the specialized W. and S.

brand of humor from the time when, as 14-yearolds, they put on a show for their Boy Scout troop in Toronto, through their radio show days which started with hints for housewives, to the polished one-hour specials they have been doing for the past seven years on CBC-TV. Now, with Holiday Lodge, American audiences will be able to join in the fun. Though Wayne and Shuster are no strangers to Americans--over the past three years they have appeared more than 30 times on the Ed Sullivan show--this will mark their first regular show on American TV. With Holiday Lodge, audiences will probably notice slight change in the Wayne and Shuster humor. This will be their first situation comedy series, and though they selected it because it presented an opportunity for their brand of satire, this will be the first time they are not writing their own material.

The comedians have been offered TV series since their first appearance on American television. All were turned down until they saw the script for Holiday Lodge. "We just couldn't. see how literate slapstick comedians, as -we -like to describe ourselves, could fit into a situation comedy," they say. "In Holiday Lodge we can see possibilities for satire, and we're working them in." They feel it's totally impossible for them to write the Holiday Lodge scripts.

"Let's say we're re-writing them." says Shuster, "and even that's a change for us." The format of Holiday Lodge, as conceived by writers Hal Goodman' and Larry Klein, has Wayne and -Shuster as recreation directors at swank lodge at mythical Lake Holiday, California. Playing the hotel's receptionist and The pilot film of a proposed half-hour series starring comedian Alan, King will get an airing on the CBS. network Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. (EDT).

Oddly enough, this- one-shot will be The show presents. King as husband, father and suburbanite rather than as a show business personality. Monologues about his home life have been a staple in King's night club routines. SERVICE CALL $2.50 ANYWHERE IN OTTAWA Work Guaranteed Warranty FREE ESTIMATES COMMERCIAL TELEVISION 176 Street CE2-6540 Burt Lancaster Doesn't Want to Succeed 'Greats' Wayne's girl friend is curvaceous Maureen Arthur. The rest of -the cast will change every week as new "visitors" arrive at the hotel.

Maureen Arthur has been the feminine foil on TV shows with some of the top comics in show business, among them Garry Moore, Ernie Kovacs and Steve Allen. The changeover from live to filmed TV is described by Wayne and Shuster as almost. frightening. "We. have to change our gestures and our mannerisms.

For that matter, we're even changing our personalities to a degree," says The two hope Holiday Lodge will be a smash success, but they don't plan to cut their throats if it isn't. "There are too many people involved in a TV show for us to state categorically that we're going to the best show on the air," Wayne says. "We have great faith in. Seymour Berns, our director. By the same token, we have to have great faith in the film cutters, and.

the wardrobe people. and the makeup men, They all know what they're doing. Sometimes we're not sure." A penchant for purple is paying off for Sheb Wooley, who penned the popular "Purple People song and more recently "Skin Tight, Pin Striped, Purple Pedal Pushers." Wooley, who doubles in talent as trail scout Pete 'Nolan in the "Rawhide" series admits that "purple is a color which inspires me. "It also has taken me out of the red and put me in the black," he adds. The actor-composer.

reports that he wrote both songs while on the "Rawhide" set. He has composed other songs under the same conditions, 'he says. it a penchant for purple." he comments, "but purple seems to be my peg for a song. "Of course, I'm not the only person who has found inspiration in the cofor," he adds. "Paul Francis Webster wrote and the great Peter De Rose wrote 'Deep I haven't got a- patent on the color." Are there 'any other purple' tunes in the offing? "After 'Skin Tight, Pin Striped, Purple Pedal Wooley asks, "what else could there be?" Purple Took Him Out of Red Into the Black 1 HEADACHES? NERVOUSNESS? Have you tried Chiropractic See Your CHIROPRACTOR By JAMES BACON HOLLYWOOD (AP) Burt Lancaster, who once thought acting was for sissies, sits atop the Hollywood -heap today rich, famous, winner of an Academy Award.

But Lancaster, a rugged maverick in a town where most follow the herd, is still an enigma to many in Hollywood. And the 47-year-old actor couldn't care less. He might- seem: the logical successor to Gable and Cooper but doesn't want to be. and Gable are the greatest heroes the screen has ever known," explains Burt, "so great that they were bigger than life. I'm a realist.

All 1 ask of a script is that be true to life." That tips off Burt's versatility of character on the screenan alcoholic, in "Come Back, Little Sheba;" an evil columnist in "Sweet Smell of Success:" the lout of "The. Rose Tattoo" and the phony revivalist of "Elmer That role won the sixfoot-two actor his first Oscar. He had come close once before in 1954 with his performance in' "From Here to Eternity," which the New York film critics called the best that year. TWO FAVORITES Those two pictures are his favorites of the 33 he has made since hitting stardom in Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers" in 1946, his first picture. met Lancaster before that was released.

The late Mark Hellinger introduced us in Chicago. Hellinger, who shared Burt's contract with Hal Wallis, produced, "The Killers" and predicted; Lancaster would, become onelof the screen's greats. My reaction was a suggestion: that he would have to shorten his name. He called himself Burton Lancaster then. "There's only so much room on a theatre marquee," said.

"How can they get Burton Lancaster and the title of the picture on there together? "MUSIC'S MOST 'GLORIOUS VOICE" Hammond Organ studios 1337B Wellington Street PAS-4501 PAS-1959 in Ottawa's West End REWIRE FOR SAFETY AND ADDED POWER ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Industrial, Commercial and Residential LICENSED-10 TRUCKS Glebe Electric CE2-1741 1160 BANK ST. "Get a name like Tom Mix or Bob Hope," Hellinger took the suggestion seriously. Through the years Lancaster never lets me forget. After the recent Oscar awards, he greeted me in, mock seriousness: "What do you Should I change my name?" VERSATILE STAR Lancaster's current projects give an insight into his versatility. In "The Birdman of Alcatraz," he practically does; a one-man movie portraying convict Robert' Stroud who has spent most of the last 51l years in solitary confinement with birds his only companions.

Burt is emotionally involved. with Stroud's case because the self-taught lifer has become one of the world's foremost authorities on bird diseases. He interrupted filming that one to portray a' Nazi war criminal in "Judgment at Nuernberg." An then there's "The Young Savages," hard-hitting movie about the venile gang wars in New York's East Harlem. For Burt, the location filming, was a homecoming. He was born in New York slum.

"I'm luckier than most lactors," Lancaster says. didn't come to Hollywood until I was 32. You might say my abnormal days were over before I came here. The very young; -people who strike it rich in Hollywood are intoxicated with the excitement and glamor. Hollwood has never bowled me over." SIMPSONS SEARS ATTENTION All CHANNEL 13.

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