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Dwight Newton Hollywood March 13, 1 9 Section II I S. F. Sunday Eaminer Chronic! nnniiiiiuiiiiiiiitifBftnifflnniininii'iiiiiiiiiniiiuiiiiiiJiiinuiiiiiiiinnnnni Kaiser TV A Dressing Down by Mitchum 71 By DOROTHY MANNERS Bf0 On the Way 1 yo. .1) ,1 eyes fill, his shoulders heave, a he-Camille cough seizes him and he splashes out a huge sneze. This eruption takes care of the moment and a certain chummy silence falls over Bonnet, Mitchum and me.

I guess it's up to me after all I'm the press pro so I say, "I hear you're going to Vietnam when the picture's over." "Vietnam? Yes," says Bob, removing his shirt and baring one of the most famous pin-up men's torsos extant Again the shoulders heave, the cough blasts off, the giant sneeze erupts. "You seem to have a cold." I venture meekly, and add, senselessly, "It's an acid condition, you know." THIS SEEMS to hit home. He rises and pulls off his pants, revealing white silk shorts, and subjecting himself to a heck of a draft until he can find another pair of trousers. "An acid condition," he muses nonchalantly. "I've got post-nasal drip, stream ing eyes, a cough like a seal, and enough antibiotics in me to explode, and it's an acid condition.

That's as good as anything, I guess." "Maybe you don't feel like talking today," I sug-gest. At this, public relations expert Bonnet looks like he's down to his last relation. "Talk?" croaks Bob. "Sure "I'll talk. What do you want to talk about?" "About?" I repeat, crazi-ly, "Oh-how's the picture coming along, maybe, or your trip to Vietnam, or your off-screen image as a sort of unpredictable "Image!" says Bob.

"I hate that word. All I am, I am up on the screen there's nothing else." He'd found a pair of pants and was zipping them up. BONNET returned to the living, half way, anyway. "She means, Bob," he interjected quickly, "that people sort of recognize you as an off-beat character, and there's not much you can do to keep people from Identifying with you and liking you." "God help la-toned Mr. M.

couch, wheeze, katcboo, katcboe, they identify with me, they ought to be In Jail." He gets me a diet drink. Bonnet a harder drink and himself a harder one yet. "You shouldn't drink that more acid," I gasped, forgetting. Acid or not, down it went I stood up because I'd rather run out of subjects. "Sit down," said Bob.

WELL, WE batted a lot more silence around for about 10 more minutes, interrupted only by coughs, wheezes and sneezes. And then I came up with. "WelL ou'll sure be big in Vietnam." "Vietnam?" says he. "Oh yes. I'll probably be bigger than Bob nope." "Bob Hope!" I shriek.

"Sure," said Bob, a great big wonderful Bob Mitchum grin spreading over his face. Hope is only a hero. I can be the start of germ warfare!" And on that happy note we said "Goodby." MOiion pisturo louor Htirmt Mdlmo tarvlc HOLLYWOOD-If anyone asked me to name the one actor no woman inter-viewer should miss as a feature subject, I'd say Robert Mitchum without at second thought. It goes like this: A nice public relations man named Ted Bonnet calls for you at your horn in a chauffeured town car (charged to th "Eldora-do" company a movie being made by Mitchum and John Wayn for How-ard Hawks at Paramount.) After waiting around an hour for a rehearsal to wind up on the set, the scene now shifts to Bob's dressing room, an elaborate suite consisting of living room, kitchenette, dressing room and bath-all befitting Mitchum's star status. FOR OPENERS you can try, "How are you, Bob?" Removing hit makeup, he glances your way in tha mirror and says, "How am I'm fine." Suddenly, his iiminnniiinmiiminnmmimmimmimniniiiHiimmmimiiniinmnimm The next, new San Francisco television station quite likely will be KH JK, Channel 44.

The IIJK call letter stand for Henry J. Kaiser, the well known titan of steel, chemicals, cement and 57 other active enterprises Including broadcasting, the Johnny-come-lately of 60 Kaiser Industries. Mr. Kaiser the Industrial Merlin of our age. Everything he touches turns to aluminum.

Midas never had it so good with old fashioned gold. If Mr. Kaiser had entered television In it formative) years, KBO might now be a broadcasting symbol as famous as ABC or NBC. Meanwhile, it behooves us to become acquainted with Kaiser Broadcasting. Its properties at the moment embrace one radio station, two TV stations In operation, one TV station under construction, one awaiting construction and one awaiting FCC approval.

THE RADIO STATION is KFOG-FM right here in Ghirardelli Square. It was a forgettable station named KBAY until Kaiser bought it and changed the handle to KFOG. K-FOG? K-Shame! But the management held firm, declaring, "San Francisco fog Is not bleak like New York fog or London fog. San Francisco fog is romantic." Under Pete Taylor's program direction, KFOG has gone through a personality phase, a flirtation LWiiifWii Failure Who Won't Quit Out of the Slums to Become a King 1 Bobbie is In his 15th year. Andy is 11.

King's aspiration is to be to them the warm wonder his father is to him. KING HAS 15 persons on his payroll, including relatives of whom he expects no more than endorsement on the back of the check. Harry Adler's name Is on the office door, but not Alan King's. There's a reason. Adler is his manager and partner.

When King was a kid, Adler took $2 out of a $20 theatrical fee, and Alan hollered. "The $2," said Adler, "is going into a annuity. If you don't like it, get yourself another manager." The more King earned, the more Adler stuck into the retirement fund. It falls due next year and Alan King will get a check for a quarter of a million dollars. The kid doesn't feel worthy to share billing with Harry Adler on an off ice door.

In BUSINESSMAN ALAN KING The school drop-out turned to burlesque with "good taste" music and an affinity for the pop charts. It is now mated to "a more mature and adult sound," meaning pop music as interpreted by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, John Gary and cohorts, all blended in a sea of respectable instrumen-tals. Example: "Michele" is a large number with the Beatles. On KFOG it is performed by the Hollywood Strings, do-re-mi-fa-solfeggio. The staff announcers are the aforementioned Pete Taylor, Ernie McDanlei, Jim Shyman, Bruce Jensen and famous Frank Fry for whom Kaiser formed a key club to commemorate the time Frank locked himself out of the studio on the midnight to 6 ajn.

shift The KFOG manager is bouncy Bob Somerville, a San Jose State College graduate who labored 10 years in the KNTV, Channel 11, vineyards. He says, "And then I met Dick Block, or, subtitle, 'How I learned to work harder than I believed RICHARD C. BLOCK IS the Kaiser Broadcasting serving as vice president and general manager. Dick also bloomed dynamically in this invigorating Golden Gate atmosphere. He was traffic chief for KOVR, Channel 13, when KOVR covered San Francisco.

He became sales promotion manager for KRON, Channel 4, and then he winged westward to run KHVH. The call letters stood for Kaiser Hawaiian Village Hotel. Suddenly, there was excitement in the land of poi and money. KHVH leaped from nowhere in the ratings to a 50 percent share of audience. Dick had blocked the opposition.

Mr. Kaiser listened to Dick Block's further broadcasting ideas. They were positive and elemental: Dispose of the Honolulu property (Western Tele-stations bought it) and acquire ultra high frequency (UHF) television stations in all the major mainland population centers that the law will allow. Mr. Kaiser listened to the proposition, put his "OK" stamp on it, and, before you could spell p-e-r-m-a-n-e-ivt-e, Dick was ensconced as king of a Kaiser company.

HIGHER THAN an avocet flies, Dick reigns from an expansive, elegant office on the 28th floor of Kaiser Center, overlooking Oakland's Lake Merritt, one of the world's great bird refuges. From Dick's lofty aerie one has an osprey's eye view of cackling Canada geese, whistling swans, buffleheads, pintails, ruddy turnstones and brown pelicans. It is an ornithologist's heaven, but Dick's aerie eyes are on his farflungj television investments: WKBD, Channel SO, Detroit, on the air 14 months; WKBS, Channel 48, Philadelphia, on the air 6 months; KMTW, Channel 52, Los Angeles, now under construction with a pay television franchise attached; unnamed Channel 68, Boston, for which he is seeking a permit; and KHJK, Channel 44, San Francisco. The latter is still in limbo for towerful reasons. "KHJK is granted to a Mt.

San Bruno site," Dick advised me. "If a tall tower were granted to Mt. Sutro and the engineering conditions favorable, we would naturally want to move there. On the other hand, the same would apply for a tall tower on Mt. San Bruno.

Moreover, if no tall towers are approved, or if approval seems to be far into the future, we would build on San Bruno as presently engineered." Supposing a tall tower is approved after he starts building his little one? "Well, it's like this," he said. "You end up with a lot of egg on your face." whom he calls brothers. It was natural that he should fall In love with the only girl in the neighborhood who had a car: Jeanette Sprung. Her family manu factured stone monuments. They took one look at him and began to chisel one on the house.

is 33, married 19 years, and has two sons. (teas wmsmsmijC RUGGED ROBERT MITCHUM "People who identify with me ought to be in jail" Newton's Best Bets For Sunday TV A.M. 1:00 5 Camera Three: "Guitar from Three Centuries." Young concert guitarist discusses and illustrate! the history of the classical guitar. 5 Face the Nation: Rep. Melvin R.

Laird, Wise, chairman of the House Republican Conference. 10:30 5-Bay Window: "The Science of Spying." Harold Lipset, private investigator, discusses and demonstrates techniques of spying. 7 Discovery '66: "Discovery Goes to Japan." 11:30 2 Baseball: San Francisco Giants versus Cleveland Indians in exhibition contest from Phoenix. First "live" Giants telecast of the season. 7 Next Question: Interview with Erwin Canham, Christian Science Monitor.

P.M. 12:30 4 Meet the Press: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey is the guest on a special hour-length program. 2:00 7 Page One: Interview with Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty. 2:30 4 Vietnam Senate Hearings: Taped highlights from Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on U.S.

policy toward Communist China. Program features testimony from Prof. A. Doak Barnett of East Asian Institute of Columbia, and Prof. John K.

Fairbank, director of East Asian Research Center at Harvard. 5 Sports Spectacular: Swimming and diving championships, Ft. Lauderdale, women's soft-ball championship tournament, Stratford, Conn. San Juan Capistrano Handicap from San Juan, Puerto Rico. 7 Issues and Answers: Interview filmed in India with India's new prime minister, Mrs.

Indira Gandhi. 4:00 4 Sports in Action: Speed skating championships, Lake Placid, N.Y.; Portuguese style bullfighting from Portugal. 7 The American Sportsman: Fishing near Penas Bay in Panama repeats of lion stalking in Africa with Robert Stack, and tuna fishing in the Bahamas with Bill Carpenter. 4:30 5 Twentieth Century: "Synanon in Prison." Rehabilitation program at Nevada State Prison conducted by members of Synanon to help drug addicts. Project consists mainly of free-for-all group therapy.

From TV Key: "Scenes from one of these sessions are so charged with drama, they make most movies on prison life pale by comparison." 6:30 4 Bell Telephone Hour: "Music of the Movies." Ray Bolger hosts Robert Merrill, Constance Towers, Andre Previn, Ann Miller, Gloria De-Haven, Peter Marshall and Judi Rolin. A sentimental must for movie musical fans. 7:00 9 Profile: Bay Area: "California's 1966 Taxes and Budget. Repeat from Thursday. Walt Disney: "Run, Light Buck, Run." A beautifully photographed nature hour with an antelope.

8:00 5 Ed Sullivan Show: Pearl Bailey, Wayne and Shuster, Jackie Vernon, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the Emerald Society Police Pipe Band, the McNiff Dancers, ballerina Nadia Ne-rina, magician Johnny Hart, the tumbling Three Kims. -Sunday Showcase; (PREMIERE) "Under Milk Wood." A 90-minute dramatization of the Dylan Thomas play written in verse. The sunlit streets of a small Welsh village seem to come alive with the songs, gossip, hopes and despair of their inhabitants. Performed by Conservatory Theater Company. Danny Thomas Special: Kay Starr, Eddy Arnold and Bobby Vinton hi a country-western show crammed with singing and energetic square dancing called by folksy Pat Buttram.

7 Sunday Night Movie: "Carousel." The Rodgers and Hammerstein version of "Llllom" starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. Music: "Intolleranza." Two-act symbolic musical drama by Luigi Nono concerning war, intolerance, colonialism and Fascism. (Repeat from Friday.) Dwight Newton. What was the real sin in her life? Too much or not fill t. IteA By JIM BISHOP The cold man follows the warm cigar off the elevator at 67 West 55th Street and down the hall to a door which says: "Harry Adler Agency" and, underneath, "Roban Productions Inc." Ha walks in like the proprietor.

He is. His name is Alan King. The country knows him as a first rank comic. The offlca knows him as a businessman. Ha knows himself as a lousy, father.

Onstage, he stands In a white-hot spotlight alone, talking in nervous bursts through his own cigar smoke, sipping whiskey and moving from one frustrating topic to another: airlines irritate him and he once stood in front of the wheels of a jet because ha couldn't get a seat. He was finally accommodated in the rest room. "I couldn't find a seat belt." DOCTORS: "Medicine is different today. You're dying and you have to tell your symptoms to the answering service." Religion: "My family is Jewish. I'm not good at religion, but when my grandfather got off the boat at Ellis Island somebody saw the beard and said: 'Hello, Rabbi' and grandpa said to himself: 'Obviously, that's the business to be in." Almost all the funny men coma out of quasi-slums.

King, who was born Irwin Kniberg, grew up under the Williamsburg Bridge in New York. His deepest affection is reserved for his father, a leather goods cutter who regards himself as a failure. WHEN KING walks Into that 55th Street office in New York, he thinks of himself as a failure who refused to quit. He was a school dropout at 13, and a burlesque comedian the same year. He played semi-pro football and got his block knocked off.

He was a middleweight club fighter. One of his opponents was a kid named Buddy Hackett. Alan King was doing well until Hack-ett's second said: "You win if you can draw blood." Hackett says: "So I went out and bit him on the chest." A lie. King tried Major Bowes Amateur Hour and lost. He drew a band together and played In the Catskills for a man who had changed his name to Gratis.

"When you work for Gratis," Alan King said to his audience, "you work for nothing." Fired. IN HIS ACT, King claims to have six brothers one a doctor. He grew up in his grandfather's house, with a sister Anita and six cousins enough ivi -rmyonr I -Think "I found yogis the wife-but lY of yourself I don't mil for once! Let me fX7 VJ share your life!" yorr "ickr LAST 2 PERFS. TODAY! MATINEE -r 3:00 UNSINKABLE MOLLT BROWN I TONIGHT at 8:00 A ROSS HUNTER Production LAN A TURNER Starts TUESDAY at 8:30 2 WEEKS ONLY! Technicolor THE WEST COAST PREMIER! dlmnc ra-J Cyril RiTCHARD kCw Joei wit i I trcik-A hhinim nnKS.ir.mn winr wratii JOHN FORSYTHE RICARDO MONTALBAN BURGESS MEREDITH CONSTANCE BENNETT i KEIR DULLEA DAVW N0 USA" CUT. $tfwptbf JEAN HOLLOWAY-OntcMb DAVID LOWELL mCH-fIDyROSS HUNrtR-A Ross Huntef Eltee-Uniwryl fidwt THE flOAB OF THE rsirains The Smell The Crowd With ALL-IROADWAT CAST! STARTS DAXCE NOTATION nd Modern Dance Technique 14I.0HT Br WEUAND LATBROP For Information Call or Writ Pt er Wright Creative Dan Inc.

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