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The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia • Page 11

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D. JONES GOAL GO. TV I PERRY MASON: "The Case of the Lover'i Gamble" tonight at on Channel 6 i involve an art student's job as secretary to a lecturer who she thinks Is plotting to do away i his bedridden wife. DR. KILDARK: Sarah needs the insurance money, elderly seaman Jamie Cousins decides to DRIVE-IN THEATRE PETiftSBUBG-HOPEWELl ROAD NEXT TO FT.

LEE Shows 7:00 10:15 Dave Clark In Shows :45 PRESTON FOSTER in CARE THE INCREDIBLE GO WITH Coming Sunday Tony Curtis Wild Wonderful Jane Fonda In Joy House slop his hcnrf hy usinft yoga exercises. On the air at 8:30 on Channel S. BEWITCHED: Bored te- cause Damn's lied up at the office, Samnnlha agrees to go lo lunch with her mother. They lo go to lunch in Paris, On air at on Channel 12. DEFENDERS: After taking I-SD, mentally emotional Robert Kraft commits suicide while experiencing a reaction.

Dr. Byron Saul, who's Been treating Kraft with the drug, is charged wilh manslaughter. On the air at 10 on Channel 6. CANCER RESEARCH ATHENS, Greece (AP) Columbia University has decided to establish and finance a medical unit for cancer research at King Paul Hospital in Athens, health minister Andrew Kovevis announced. The university also will grant scholarships to Greek doctors vvilljng to specialize in cancer research.

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TIL SOLD Ladies Auxiliary Will Have Homemade and Cakes For Sale He Wants To Be Star This is Sean Garrison, an actor who makes no secret of his desire to be a success in Hollywood. "I hope to become a box-office commodity," he commented. Currently, the handsome Irishman is playing the romantic lead opposite Jean Seberg in "Moment to Moment." (AP Wlrephoto) Irishman Looking To Be Box Office Commodity By BOB THOMAS vuj'ij lie OulVlt J. 11 HOLLYWOOD CAP) Ready was the way to live." for another Sean? This film star named one is surnamed Caribbean and all over, taking Garrison, and out at Universal jobs at everything from bowling City they're saying he has the pin-boy to sponge fisherman By same stuff as the Sean called 1955 he had landed in California and was working in a furniture Connery. No Bondsman The handsome Irishman is playing the romantic lead opposite is Garrison, and tile factory.

jw kcjcvioiuji. aitJ UJU aJKi Jean Seberg in "Moment to Mo- ended up as film librarian at ment, directed by Mervyn Ler oy. The new Sean possesses a simple ambition: "I hope to become a top-office commodity." His candor is refreshing after the wave of method actors who parrot such claims as, "I want only to give good performances; I don't want to be a 'movie star'." most cases, the public obliges them. Sean Garrison is a different type. He hopes to achieve the heights in Hollywood, with all the power and glory that go with being a star.

Such ambition is only natural in a fellow who was earning his own living on the sidewalks of New York at the age of 9. Scan figures he received his performing skill from his mother "She was from the old country (Ireland) and she could spin a great story." His father died when the boy was 5, and Sean soon became the man of the fcimily. "By 9 I had by own shoeshine box," he recalled. "Business was pretty competitive among shoeshine boys in Manhattan, so I had to discover some way to build a better trade. I found it one day when a man asked me to sing a song while I gave him a shine.

I sang 'Home on the Range' and he gave me $1.20." Sean knew a good thing when he saw it, and soon be built an entire repertoire of songs, even combining with a pal on duets. "I did my best business on holidays," said Sean. "I had songs for each of them 'My Buddy' for Memorial Day, 'Mother Machree' for Mother's Day, and so forth. I'd go from bar to bar singing them." He gave up his sidewalk opcr- atics after a few years and worked on a dairy farm in upper New York State. At 15 he cut out, figuring high school was not for him.

"I was filled with dreams from books I had read by Richard Halliburton and Jack Lon- LOW PRICES ON GOOD USED REFRIGERATORS And TELEVISIONS Easy Terms "We Service What We Sell" FRIENDLY TY Furniture Appliance Center Dial RE 2-4000 11 W. Washington St. don," he said. "I figures that So he drifted south, to the A friend suggested he try for a job in television. He did and The Thursday, February 18, 14 fllakt NEW having my best a r--I've very lucky!" exclaimed Red Buttons, who's not a braggart, but was just feeling happy.

was leaving for Hollywood to play the actor's agent in has two pictures waiting for release: "Up From the Beach," made by Darryl Zanuck in France, and "Your Cheatin' Heart," the Hank Williams story. "And I did a 'Ben Casey 1 TV show, called 'Journey's End and Lover's Meeting'--that's a quotation from Twelfth Might--that they've moved up to March on the schedule so it can qualify for an Emmy," Red said with even more enthusiasm. "I play a teacher whose wife gets a brain tumor and there's a mercy killing. It's the poignant thing I've ever done." But Red is still primarily a comedian. We were at a party at Saul Brown's.

There was table talk about the boom in interfaith friendship between Catholics and Jews. "It gives me an idea for a comedy routine," Red said, jotting notes. "Now that Catholics and get along fine, we should now promote friendship between Protestants and other Protestants, Catholics and other Catholics, and Jews and other Jews. That'll be the day!" The Jet Age: Sammy Davis flies to Puerto Rico next Sunday --his day off from "Golden Boy" --to do a dinner and supper show at the Club Tropicana at Hotel El San Juan. The charge to see him at dinner is $27.50, with drinks extra.

As the jets get swifter, we'll probably see our stars winging to London and Tokyo for a Sunday night show. (And they used to think the Catskills was a long "Somebody open a dance spot for older peopfc and call it the "Slipped Discotheque' (Eugene Raskin). "Understand Frank Sinatra and Joe E. Lewis now a a shot- glasses" (Sol Weinstein). Culture Corner: You know all about things like Delia Robbia, the Florentine 15th century terra cotta, otherwise you wouldn't be reading an intellectual column like this.

Chuck Landis, operator of a Los Angeles stripteasery, the Largo, figures to name one of his strippers "Delia Disrobia," with the come-on, "You've seen Delia Robbia ware, come Delia Disrobia bare." You probably won't read about it in the society columns but there's a bitter feud raging between NY hostesses who steal ABC. But he later landed a contract at Warner Brothers and for a year galloped from one television Western to another. Soan returned to New York, worked a little, starved a lot i wuu sieai f.1 Ot0 ety foreign TM vie Celebrities jobs ncluding Santa Glaus at each other-for parties. Some- Gimbel He started to click in limes one faction crashes a par- plays and was discovered in the ty, kidnaps the celebrity for the road by next night, and bars the rival marriage. "We had such surviving, there was nothing left O'Toole ccwj'lar for us," he said sorrowfully.

i i uai Liic i I Vat meanwhile lost his from attending. Wonder which faction'll get Daliah Lavi, the a rough time "Israeli Sophia Loren" and Peter jj this week from London We hear the "casting couch system" is back on a big TV show. Everybody's talking about it. Latin Quarter Mgr. Eddie Risman departs Broadway soon to take a big job at the Las Vegas Stardust.

He'll be missed; he was a greater talent-discoverer and star-maker. Secret Stuff: Alan Jay Lerner's Friends report he's ecstatic about new settlement with his wife Micheline. Arlene Judge flew in from LA for her son Dan Topping marriage to Kiki 01- sen at St. Ignatius. You'd be amused at the big names of two skaters, male and female, who couldn't get served at the Sherry- Netherland bar the other day because they were in sports clothes.

"French" Trydelle, Mrs. Marty Allen, will soon announce she's taking a leave of absence as Reservations Office Mgr. at the Hotel Concord, after 20 years, to help her husband with his booming career. Ash Reznik, the ex-basketball star, here from Las Vegas recently on business, with his daughter, Dina, 4V4, suddenly got an important summons to a late afternoon conference. Lacking a baby-sitter, he phoned a close friend and persuaded him to baby-sit, and saying he'd be gone only an hour.

The confernce extended to 5 hours. When Reznik returned, his daughter was gleefully looking at comic books purchased for her by the baby-sitter--Joe Louis. THE MIDNIGHT EARL. Marcello Mastroianni took Mrs. AI Strelsin and other friends to Trude Heller's where several women unabashedly asked him to dance with them.

He shyly declined, saying in his limited English that he'd dance with those he came with. Charlfon Heston gave a private dinner party at Luchow's for "The a Story Ever Told" entourage. He popped into a phone booth and remained interminably. Comedian Jack Carter, noticing his long stay in the "He's probably detained there painting the ceiling." (Referring to "The Agony and the Ecstasy" in which n--as Michaelangelo -painted the ceiling of Sistine Chapel). Star reporter Merriman Smith, recovering nicely from his illness, leaves the hospital shortly Benay Venuta's romancing with Alan Silverback, VP of TV at 20th Century-Fox.

Johnny John ston, a singer far ahead of his time with the gittar, returns to the saloons soon, opening at the Living Room. Sandy Dennis ol "Any Wednesday" was accepted by Actors Studio. Our Funny World: Johnny Knapp, "The Sophisticate of the Rinky-Tink Piano," who's from Cincinnati, is so attached to his piano, he takes it with him wherever he travels, ail 80( pounds and 100 years of it. have the distinction of having the only rinky-tink piano attached to WEEK-END SPECIALS! WHILE THEY SHOP MOORE'S EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT 'TIL 9 P. M.

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"People ask me if I give haircuts. I say, 'No, but on the late show you get Marcello Mastroianni went backstage at "Funny Girl" to meet Barbra Streisand, who gasped and squealed: "He's real, he's real!" George Harrison, one of the remaining Beatle bachelors, wrote to singer Mary Wells: "I guess you heard the news about Ringo. And now there are two of us left!" Richard Rodgers told Pat Suzuki, now at the Copa, he wants to i another B'way show with her. (She was in his "Flower Drum Director Richard Quine says the crash course in English taken by actress Virna Lisi "How to Murder Your was very successful: "Her tutor now speaks perfect Pianist Peter Nero appeared on the Soupy Sales TV'er, and comic promised he wouldn't toss a pie at the musician. "What's the matter?" Nero 'Don't you like me?" Noel Coward said at the Brasserie he'll spend more time at his Jamaica estate, where the weather is always fine: "I'm one Englishman who is going out in the midday sun." TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: The kids who were once born with silver spoons in their mouths are now born with transistor radios in their ears.

WISH I'D SAID THAT: Joe Cavallaro, just back from Spain, reports the cafes there are so romantic that even the married couples hold hands. REMEMBERED QUOTE: "If "Police Depjrtnwnr? my husband just himself to deith!" MIKES DRIVE-IN HOPEWEIL ROAD 7329963 PETERSBURG VA you have half an hour to spart, don't spend it with someone who hasn't. "-Anon. EARL'S PEARLS: A H'wood actor complained that he has terrible back trouble: "Back taxes, back alimony, etc." Singer Dick Roman overheard this in a doctor's office: "My wife telk rae I talk in my sleep. What should I that you earl, brother.

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