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The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 57

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Whiz Kid Rob Strom THURSDAY EVENING TELEVISION TV rigffadip Makes It $80,000 THE VANCOUVER SUN: THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957 15 GALLANT COP MAILS TICKET LONDON (BUP) Mrs. Joan Stuart-Smith, a pretty brunette, had a ready answer "when a policeman stopped her for speeding. 'tPlease let me go," she said, "I'm going to have a baby." The startled cop let her go and she just made it to the hospital in time. But he wrote down her licence number and mailed her the' ticket 10-Year-Old Contestant Looks Like Good Bet to Hit $256,000 By JIM GILMOEE Vancouver Sun Entertainment Writer Switching on all channels Charles Van Doren, who single-handed yanked Twenty One Into the top ratings, is still much in demand. Crack New York i CBt'T HOMO-TV KtNG-TV KTNT TV KVOS-TV I -Jannel Channel 4 Channel 8 Channel Channel II Muggins Crand die Mickey Cartoon Autry- 7 Onry Mouse Special, Rogers Spotlight Mickey Cartoon Theatre SpotllghK-; Mouse Special' Autpy-Roii Call Ray Milland Wild Bill Newl MnvU MiV" Call Ray Milland Hlckok News E1 Mu SiaiSeU" "fe iitSiL rK ltl t' iwir" Slnah Shore UM Rosemary Bowling 44iTime Out Newi RUey, ciooney Bowling 5-00 Jane Wyman Tou Bet Circus Time gob Broadway 8:1 Jane wyman Your Uf Circus Time cummlngi Thea5 i max Dragnet Whlrlyblrda climax aimtx i45Climax Dragnet Whlrlyblrda feiiSax CllmS Death Wire Service oimax Climax, 1 ilSf.

relerv ce Climax -i :80 Jack Ra Ernie Ford Wire Service The Hoa- Frisco Bear sjjackle Ernie Ford Wire Service tesl Frlsra Bt Vlde0 Code Three "the WaFTii Theatre Code Three Mostes" the Air Video Today "The News and 10:46 Hour Theatre "Ma from Hotte.s" "Satome? Dakota" "One MaW "Where ShT ir'liPlff "Man Irora Journey" Danced" 1l.f?l.w.5u, Son ghJ Dakota" "One "Salome, llj45Fabianor Tonight "Man Man's Danced" Yard Tonight "irom News Tonight Dakota" News News News 18:48 columnist Hy Gardner inter T. CHEK-TV, CHANNEL 6 -PROG RAM BCHEDEtE Movie; 3:35, What's New; 3:45, Film Featurette) 4:00, Matinee; Howdy Doody; 5:00, Maggie Muggins; 5:15, Tales! 5:39 Lone Ranger; 6:00, Old Don Window? ISe8sPorUi Weather and Community CHEK; 7:00, Island Sports-maJ: Xl30' Toay; 8:00, Jane Wyman; 8:30, I Search for Adventure! 9:00, Dateline Europe; 9:30, Jackie Rae; 10:00, Wrestling; 11:00, CSQ News and Sports; 11:30, Sign Off. TV Wants Tired, Worn Housewives NEW YORK (BUP) If you're a tired, bedraggled, beat, downtrodden, neglected, worn-out hank of housewife, TV Is looking for you. You'd be a dandy for commercials. The man to get in touch wjth is Henry Brown, 44 East 53rd Street, New York City, an agent who casts human beings in those midget TV sagas devoted to the virtues of soup, soap or what have you.

viewed him Monday on NBC's Tonight Also slated to answer Gardner's sometimes very pointed queries in near future are Martha Raye, Robert Merrill, Xavler Cugat, Abbe Lane, Salvador Dali and Robert Harrison, Confidential magazine publisher. Hugh O'Brian, really cashing in on his Wyatt Earp success, spells Jackie Gleason March 30 Comic Ernie Kovacs, summer replacement for Sid Caesar, will make hfs movie debut in a straight dramatic role in The Mad Bull Don't know quite what to make of 10-year-old Robert Strom, who has socked away $80,000 on $64,000 Question, other than that he looks like a good thing to go all the way to $256,000, if he lives that long Emcee Hal March revealed Tuesday how the "Question" FRIDAY TELEVISION As Brown tells it, TV is in a bad plans to build viewer interest and higher rating: Instead of lumping from one "plateau" to 'ABBE LANE on Hy'i list way for R-E-A-L people. People who look like you and me well, anyway, you. It seems several sponsors have passed along the word to ad agencies that many of the actresses used in TV spiels don't look honest-to-goodness-for-real. "Now some of the casting direc tha next, contestants climb theladder rune-by-rung.

It'll be two tnore weeks until whiz kid Strom even reaches $128,000. Kay Kyser has turned down two TV "bids to lure him out tit retirement Gary Cooper may star in a weekly western text fall on ABC Believe it or not, Kathryn Grayson will tors at the agencies are getting iot sing a note in her new Lone Woman series. I Pamela Brltton is Arthur (Dagwood) Lake's sixth wife real panicky-like. They want people who look believable. And believe me, this tendency is be Others have been Penny Singleton, who made the 38 Blondie notion Pictures.

Alice White, Ann Rutherford, Fatrlcia van ginning to spread about the only STARDOM TO UNEMPLOYMENT in three years was blow on chin delivered by fickle TV viewers to comedian Red Buttons. He illustrates financial blow to Japanese actress Miyoshi Umeki as he tries comeback as actor with her in AP Wirephoto. Cleve. Lake's real-life wife, and Florence Lake, his sister commercials left for the high-fashion girls are cosmetics," said Marlorie Lord will be Danny Thomas' new TV wife starting Brown. CBTJT KOMO TV KrNG-TV KTNT TV KVM TV Channel I Channel 4 Channel Channel 11 Channel 1 8:001 TicTac Telescope Valiant Ldy.

9:15 Dough Telescope Love Life I It Could Telescope Tomorrow :45 Be You Telescope GuidT Light 10:001 i Home Queen's Elsa- 10:15 Home Movie 'Lanchester 10:80 Home Queen's As the W'ld 10:451 Home Movie Turns 1 11:001 The Price Queen's Our Miss 1 11:15 Is Right Movie- Brooks 11:30 Tennessee Community House 11:45 Ernie Ford Workshop Party 13:001 Matinee Wunda Big Payoff Llberace 13:15 Theatre Wunda Big Payoff Llberace 12:80 Matinee King's Bob Crosby Life with 12:451 Theatre Kamera Bob Crosby Elizabeth 1:001 Queen King's Bright. Day Movie MueT 1:15 for a Kamera Sec. Storm Secret St'at 1:80 Day King's Edge of Matinee i 1:45 Romances Kamera Night Matinee 200 Comedy King's Pantry Matinee ,2:15 "To Be or Time Kamera Playhouse Matinee 2:80 Not to Be" Truth, Con- King's Pantry Matinee i 2:45 "To Be or sequences Kamera Playhouse Matinee 8:00 Not to Be" Cookbook "When the Gary Moore Matinee i "To Be or Quiz Bough Gary Moore Matinee Not to Be" "Sis Breaks" Gary Moore Variety Hopkins" "When the Gary Moore Playhouse 4:00 Open House "Sis Bough Gary Moore Variety 4:15 Open House Hopkins" Breaks" Gary Moore Playhous 4:80 Howdy "Sis Stan strike It Variety 4:45 Doody Hopkins" Boreson Rich Love of Lift Grand Ole Mickey Cartoon Autry- Opry Mouse Special Rogers i .8:80 Roy Rogers Spotlight Mickey Cartoon Theatre Rogers Spotlight Mouse Special A-R Theatre Hood Ray Milland Annie News Mov. Mus Hood Ray Milland Oakley News News 0:30 Sports Deadline Early Beat the Beat the i News Dateline Edition Clock Clock 1 7:00 Almanac Cavalcade Studio 57 The Lineup Code Three' 7:15 Almanac of Studio 57 The Lineup Code Three 7:80 1 Search for Sports Rln Tin Tin Frontier My Little 7:45 Adventure News RinTin Tin Frontier Margie 8:00 On Trial Blondie Jim Bowie West Point Science 8:15 Oh Trial Blondie Jim Bowie West Point Fiction Captain Crossroads Zane Grey Life with 8:451 Family Grief Crossroads Zane Grey Father Chevy Show Treasure Mr. Adams- Readers' Chevy Show Hunt and Eve Digest I 9:80 Country Chevy Show The Vise Playhouse O.

Henry 9:45 Hoedown Chevy Show The Vise of Stars Playhouse 10:00 Terry Dale Men of Stage 5 "Sleeping Lineup 10:15 Terry' Dale Annapolis Stages Tiger" Lineup 1 10:30 Robert "Homicide Today "Sleeping Newe and 10:45 Cummings for Three" "Florian" Tiger" "Thunder 11:00 News; Sp'rta "Homicide "Florian" "Sleeping Rock" 11:15 "Tales of for Three" "Florian" Tiger" "Thunder 11:30 Hoffman" Tonight "Florian" "Sleep- Rock" 11:45 (Part I) Tonight "Florian" ing "Thunder 12:00 "Tales of Tonight "Florian" Tiger" 12:15 Hoffman" Tonight "Florian" News I 12:80 (Part I) News News hext fall. The Republicans and Democrats poured a staggering The requirements for Brown's DO0 into television and radio during the 1956 U.S. presidental stable are simple he wants neat, clean-looking attractive girls in the elections campaign Pinky Lee will star in a 39-program series entitled The Perils of Pinky. 3U's. Politicians to Invade Homes In TV Election Campaigning REVIEWS Odyssey's The Diary of a Roman GI, patterned 7 Newsmen after Bill Mauldin's Second World War Willie and Joe, was very tlever and amusing Katherine Cornell and Charles Boyer In Hallmark Hall of Fame's There Shall Be No Night were iuperb in the late Robert E.

Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning Win Awards OTTAWA (CP) For the first time in a federal! election, television kleig lights will take their place on the play. TORONTO (CP) Seven hustings this year. Canadian newspaper men were TONIGHT 7:30, Ch. 2 Football star Al Pollard calls Time Politicians, still a little uncer named as winners of the eighth Out tain about how to make the jump from the election stump to the TV annual National Newspaper 8:00, Ch, 2-6 Jane Wyman stars in Married to a Stranger, Awards for work done in 1956. studio, are nevertheless anxious to about a smalltown wife regarded with suspicion by neighbors.

Awards: make the best use possible of this Editorial writing Andre Lau- new way to reach the people. rendeau, Montreal Le The prevailing view was ex Tonight's Top Radio Fare Radio highlights tonight: Bob Hope KOMO, 8:00. Citizens'. Forum, "Are easy payments too easy? CBU, 8:30.. United Nations, report from the UN KOMO, 9:00.

Nightbeat, interview with actress Helen Hayes and a talk Spot news reporting Bruce pressed by Solon Low, Social Larsen, Province. 8:30, Ch. 2 Climax presents Don't Ever Come Back. A man Is released from prison after the guilty person confesses. 8:30, Ch.

11-12 Eddie Albert, Steve Forest and Maureen O'Sullivan star in Climax' Let It Be Me. A man becomes worried when his protege nabs promotion after promotion, and decides to do something about it. 9:30, Ch. 11 Emmy Award winning Playhouse 90 stars hirelv Booth as Perle Mesta in the life story of the famed Credit leader, in an interview: Feature writing Ralph Hick At least you can reach a great lin, Chatham, Ont, News. many more people through TV Staff corresponding Ken than you can through weeks of MacTaggart, Toronto Telegram, travelling." Spot news photography Ted CHEK-TV, CHANNEL 6-PROGRAM SCHEDULE FRIDAY 2:20, Movie; 3:50, What's 4:00, Bay Matinee; Howdv Doodv: 5:00.

Discoveries: 5:15. Children: 5:30. Roy Rogers: The pattern of political TV Jolly, Amherst, N.S.. News. Washington party-giver.

Ch. 2 Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony will be performed by the. Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ethel Stark. by Prime Minister St. Laurent broadcasts in the coming election Feature news photography- Old Timer; 6:10, Don News, Sports, Weather and Community CHEK: 7:00, Bob Cummings; 7:30, TV Heuse Party; 8:00, On Trials fi-an Pnnff S-amllu- Q-ftn.

nrnnhifv P-SO fnlintrv Hnpdnwn- 10:00. MnviM campaign, before the vote antici CKWX, 9:05. Call Me Corny CJOR, 9:30, Gordon Sedawie, Province. 10:00, Ch. 4 Jan Sterling and Catherine McLeod co-star in pated in June, has not yet been Cartooning James G.

Reid- 11:00, CBC News and Sports; 11.10,. Sign Off. Wayward Journeys in B.C., a Lux Video Theatre's The Great Lie. Two women love the same set. ford, Toronto Globe and Mail.

Victoria grandmother tells of man, and when he is believed killed complications set in. At the last election in 1953, when her trip to the north country 10:00, Ch. 12 The German V-l and the first use of jets are TV was still a limited "factor, the CBU, 10:15. featured in War in the Air. Civil Defence CBC was prepared to offer free- St.

Laurent Calls for Boldness for Centenary time election broadcasts to the political parties but they decided Tests Planned WASHINGTON. (AP) The CHANNEL CHUCKLES against it. Division of CBC free time Logger Struck by Snapping Cable Has Been 'Asleep1 for 502 Days among the parties this year-is ex Latin American U.S". will hold another week-long war drill this summer-Operation Alert 1957. gest "some way of setting up challenging and adventurous pected to be based on a formula to be worked out at a meeting goais ior ianaaa cemenary.

Films at Cathedral Canada again will take part among the parties and the CBC. but its activities will be limited The final years of Canadat first century and "the shining HAMILTON (CP) Prime Minister Laurent says that Canada should complete important national projects for all the world to see during the celebration of her centenary in 1967. He did not spell out whafhe had in mind but said he hoped on some future occasion to sug to border areas since Canada A CBC regulation prohibits po Keith Hillyer, of Toronto, will address an interdenominational litical parties from buying time will hold its own exercise in on either radio or television. May. Simulated attack targets youth gathering at Christ siory 01 ner secona will establish this nation as the world's greatest land of opportunity, he said.

will not be announced in ad Church Cathedral at 8 p.m. Fri vance this year. day. Trip far Churchill Mr. Hillyer will show pictures PARIS (Reuters) Sir Win UNION CONTRACTS CALL FOR BAGELS, BEER ALBANY, N.Y.

(BUP) State labor department reports agreement has been signed by a Teamsters local and bagel manufacturers in New York City which permits all employees to take home two dozen free bagles (doughnuts) at the end of the working day. Another Teamster contract with a brewery permits unlimited free consumption of beer during specified periods of the day. ston Churchill will go to Dun- taken on his recent tour of Latin America as a member of Tor 502 days Josef Byl has been living in a world no one else can enter. Josef, who is 27, is completely unconscious in Southpines Hospital, 325 West Fifty-ninth. He's received $20,000 worth of medical care.

He has a special nurse. But his chances of recovery are rated at almost zero. His long sleep started Oct. 29, 1955 when he was working at Beaver Cove logging camp near Alert Bay. A cable snapped and struck him en the head, fracturing his skull and severely injuring his brain.

His constant companion has been nurse Marie Scheving. kerque June 20 to attend the unveiling of a memorial to the an international Christian youth team. The Baptist Youth British soldiers who died during Chorale will entertain. the evacuation in 1940, wartime premier Paul Reynaud said. A.

Ff Hollywood Surprised She talks to him constantly but At General in Midst be never answers. Most of the time Josef sleeps. Sometimes he opens his eyes and utters a few unintelligible sounds. I Chewing I'lfllllnf HeipsYou xy; I Relax jrMpiiM HOLLYWOOD (AP) Most of Hollywood was sur Doctors say Josef might live for Drised when President Eisenhower nominated James Stewart to be a brigadier-general in the U.S. Air Force years in his present state.

Medical bills are all paid by the Workmen's Compensation Board. Josef's mother came to B.C. reserve. from Holland for five months to Speaker Explains Existentialism be beside her son but all her ef forts to restore him to conscious ness proved useless. An authority on a philosophical theory that has swept France, will speak at the University of B.C.

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GRENIER. MONTREAL Even his co-workers weren't aware that Stewart had remained active in the air force, in which he rose from airman to squadron commander in the Second World War. That is typical of Stewart He has refused to capitalize on his military career for publicity purposes. Oddly, his nomination was announced the same week his new film about flight pioneer Charles Lindbergh was opening in New York. But Stewart had nothing to do with the timing.

He will, in fact, make no utterance that isn't in keeping witH his quiet dignity. Probably it is this integrity froth on the screen and off that has made him one of the most popular film stars in the world. He is Dr. Richard Popkin, associate professor of philosophy at the State University of Iowa. Dr.

Popkin will explain Existentialism, which stresses that nothing matters but the in plans to make the 1958 an nual mid-summer Scandinavian "the largest ever dividual. held." Elnor Broderson, of 318 Tenth Street, New Westminster, was named chairman of the Committee at a meeting of the Scandinavian Central Committee in the Swedish Hall, 1320 East Hastings. DEODORANT 1 Oeom 'A Jhi TvV lt Vy vkVvV -If yTrZMl perspiration and odor lXV vLv 'jfl for a full 24 hour or il0li5iC double your money backl 9 HowoVyoo'BsfoyJODORONOrslOOOtetYeeto (V VANCOUVER GIRL MAKES HIT IN NEW YORK SHOW NEW YORK A pretty blonde who was brought up in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Toronto Is making good on Broadway in an important supporting role with Walter Pidgeon in The Happiest Millionaire. Diana van der.Vlis has won fame here on one short season playing the -tomboy daughter of an irresponsible millionaire who teaches her boxing and keeps alligators for pets. Her biggest thrill in the year she has been with The Happiest Millionaire company was on the how's opening night In Toronto.

Diana said she was more terrified on the Toronto opening than she was at the New York first night.

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