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LUCY'S DREAM OF NECKLACE IS NIGHTMARE 9 necklace of Oriental pearls nearly makes an unsuspecting swindler MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1959 Plays First Dramatic Role Georqe Burns Stars I 'Platinum On Roclcs7 Veteran show-man, George Burns, plays the first colorful career when he por straight dramatic role of his trays retired vaudeville exciting life of jewel thief, I A I ill ft. f' suspense-comedy bir "The Electric Theater' bunday, November 29, Martin" (George Burns) is confronted by his attorney-son 1 1 ON PLAYHOUSE 90 Martin Gabel (left) and Fran-chot Tone will star in "The Hidden Image" on Playhouse 90 Thursday night on Channel 5. 'The Hidden Image' Set On playhouse 90' Thursday; Tone, Gabel Ca-Starj In Play of guest star Robert Cummings, a DauDpr oi Fred Mertz. a basket case of Ethel, a bachelor of Ricky and a shambles of Japanese-American relations, in "The Ri- -cardos Go To Japan," second of this season's "Lucille Ball-Desi Araaz Show" comedy hours, Friday, Nov. 27 Channel 5 at 7 p.m.

-When Ricky accepts a personal appearance tour of Japan, Luey and the Mertzes accompany him on the trip. Left to their own devices in a TrvVvn hnfpvl rrwim Hi a "crirle make a fascinating discocvery. By the very simple, subtle technique of ripping a hole in the paper waU, they learn that their next-door neighbor is Robert "Cummings, in the Orient to make a film. After recovers from the Kniirk5t ca 'tin onnvont inn oil Via agrees to take Ricardos and Mertzes sight-seeing and gives them some tips oh Japanese bargains among them, a good price oh Oriental pearls. Ricky sticks to his guns and refuses to give Lucy money for the purchase, insisting that her $1.93 necklace looks just like the real thing.

Lucy is not about to give up so easily, but there's just one little problem, where to get the money for the bargain pearls. Typically undaunted by this minor set-back, she enlists an unwilling Ethel in a scheme to "borrow" (Continued on Page Six) i A CLAUS Ed Wynn will star in the pre-Christmas story of the on 34th slated for Friday, Nov. .27, on Channel 4 at 6:30 p. m. Cast Listed For Roles in Miracle Play Ed Wynn, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy will star in the "Miracle On 34th Street" colorcast Friday, Nov.

27, on Channel 4 at 6:30 Also appearing in the pre-Christmas story will be comedian Orson Bean, 10-year-old Susan Gordon, Loring Smith, Larry Web- er and Hiram ShermahT The storyline concerns Kringle who is hired as the Santa Claus for Macy's department store for the Christmas season. When Macy's does not have the toys whiclw children request, Kringle sends them to Gjmbels and other stores. To complicate matters further, Kringle (who has a snow-white beard and a belly which, shakes' like a bowlful of jeliy) really believes -he IS St. Nicholas. Also involved in the story are a widowed woman, executive (Miss Healy) from Macy's toy department and a young lawyer (Hayes).

This season marks Wynn's 56th year in showbuslness and one of the busiest in his career. Franchot Tone, Martin Gabel, Nancy Marchand, George Grizzard and Frank Maxwell have been signed star in "The Hidden image" on 90," Thursday Channel 5 at 8:30 p.m. "The Hidden Image" is the story of presures brought to bear on an apparently incorruptible man and is an'examination of the power Tnlifie ftf a TnaiArp1ption cam paign. HOLLYWOOD ON TV performer who turns to the in "Platinum on the Rocks' "Henry" (Fred Beir) with for years he has been engaged in the exciting pastime of stealing jewels from the rich and spreading the returns over his "family's needs and to the poor and needy. Staggered over the filppant disclosure of his fathers shady past, Henry weakly hears his father affirm attendance at the anniversary dinner party to be hosted by Henry's senior law partner and is stunned when Eddie jokingly in- cfuires about the jewelry his hostess will wear.

At the crowded dinner party, a nervous Henry detects his father fraying the wires of a "piano lamp and is horrified when Eddie reveals a plan to Have a try, at the house safe during the evening. Asked, as usual, to entertain for the guests, Eddie takes his place at the piano and a series of surprising events happen. Featured in the cast are Milton Frome as a psychiatrist, Frank Wilcox as the senior partner, Eleanor- Audley as Eddie's wife: and Kaye Elhardt as the wife of son Henry. Sidney Lanfield directed for producer Harry Tugend. 'CAGE' HOLDS NO FEAR FOR HIM NOW There is "a room at Paramount Studios called "The Glass Cage." It's anr-auditioning device-with a one-way glass- viewing window.

The actor' can't see the people who are watching him and it's enough to start the butterflies in even the brash ones. Nick Adams, the'n struggling for his first break, had his inning' in the glass cage and from the look on his agent's face, afterwards he figured he'd struck out "They said there's nothing for you right now," the agent reported. "What did they really say?" asked Nick quietly. The agent couldn't-look him in the eve when he, replied: said you stink and ought to go back to Jersey City," Most neophytes would have deflated with a loud pop. But not the rough-hewn son of a Ukrainian coal miner.

"It just bugged me into working harder," Nick said. That was several years ago, and as the Wheel of show business fortune often spins, Nick, is now oc-cupying a big office at Paramount, star and co-owner of ABC-TV's newwestern series, "The Rebel." He occupies the dressing room once used by William Holden. And the glass cage holds no awe for him now. And the guys who thumbed him down? "Long gone' mused Nick, without rancor. an investigating report disclosing his father's exorbitant spending in excess of his retirement income, Eddie agrees that it's "pretty crazy arithmetic." Eddie blithely reveals that, bored with retirement from an active show' business life, Dobie, Buddie Plot To Steal Mascot Dobie Giflis and his beatnik buddy Maynard Krebs hope to jinx their rival school's chances in a football game by stealing their mascot in "The Old Goat" on the CBS Television Network comedy series, "The Many Loves of Dobie Tuesday at 6:30 on Channel 5.

Dobie is convinced that his scheme will not only break his rival school's long winning-streak, but will also make him 'a hero on campus so that he can have his pick of a date for the big game. Dwayne Hickman stars as Dobie Gillis, Bob Denver plays "Maynard Krebs. Also featured in the cast are Robert Padget as Randy, Joan Aldrich as Lola, James Charlie Wong, Ray Hamilton as 1st Guard, James Skelly as 2nd Guard, Joel Crothers as Ted Nelson, Margie Regan as Geo, Joan DuPuis as Ohristable, Richard Betts as a Romney Tree as Vivian and Milton Frome as a policeman. Are Rigged RIGGED FOR SURE John Vivyan, Who plays a gambling ship owner, is' happy to admit that the games are rigged on TV's "Mr. Lucky." It's all part of the plot.

Fairaired roulette player with him is unidentified. i if -y fa )Jt -v V- aHu i 1 niV in Hi i iMiiiaiiiiiiilliiliii i ifii i "ii ii j-j i rn Iijiiiii il It was written by David Karp, author of the controversial "The Plot to Kill Stalin," which opened "Playhouse 90's" 1958-59 season. In "The Hidden Image," Tone portrays Avery Yarbrough, scrupulously-honest administrator and a serpent of political wisdom. Gabel plays George Barrow, a prominent businessman and the aloof Yarbrough's only personal friend. secutive villian roles inv telefilms and.

would be playing them yet; ne says, if Blake Edwards, who created "Peter Gunn," hadn't been look-ing for a Cary Grant type for his new "Mr. Lucky' series. Still a bachelor at 36, he explains: "I'- can say 'No' in six languages." It just dawned on Harry Koylan, the producer of a local Los Angeles TV show called "Children Should Be Heard." One of his panelists This Guy Admits The Shows erly Aadland. Well, she's still being heard. By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (NEA) Talk about crooked TV shows, today I give you the star of one who not only admits "rigging" he's happy about it and' in the first two weeks on the air the audience doubled.

John Vivyan, the new-on-TV-this-year "Mr. Lucky" (CBS, Saturdays plays a 'gambling ship owner with an eye, on adventure and beaumui wtn, can't wait around for Lady Luck on a three-day shooting schedule, Every week Vivyan lets a fellow at' his poker table win" $1,000 as "protection money." The prop man deals hinTfuli houses and royal straights," Mr. Lucky grinned. On another show, Vivyan "won" at a dice table. "Loaded dice," he confessed.

"Man, we're really crooked." The film series is based on Cary Grant's character, in the 1940 "Mr. Lucky" movie, A big handsome 6-foot-3 fellow, Vivyan studied acting on a GI loan in New York and became a pro on live" TV, in George. Gobel has returned to those "sly Gobelisms" for 'his very-other-we ek TV show this year. It's sort of a "new-old" Gobel for his sixth time around. But the little comedian has junked "whimsey" and "warmth" which writers and directors tried to give hihj last season and the year before VWhimsey and warmth are ny pet peeves," says George.

"When a writer comes to me with whimsey and warmth these days, I have only four words to say: "Where are the jokes?" (Continued on Page Six) summerstock and on the road in stage plays. Since 1957 he has played 25 con-.