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Skin Diving TV Actors WIDESPREAD SPOBT of skin diving has captured adventuresome spiiit of television actors Steve Forrest and John Ericson Forrest is one of leading men on Loretta Young series and Ericson also is regular on TV. Forrest went to bottom of ocean off const of Catnlina for fish, but his first find (above) giant starfish. Later Ericson emerged with fish (below), and Forrest helped him feed smaller fish to his catch. Levenson, TV Comedian, Is Ex-Schoolteacher NEW YORK (UP)-- Snm Levenson marking his 10th anniversary an 1 1 hooky-player, looked balk today on his school- layi with inmglcd relief and regret "It wai just around this time of the year buck In 1946 that I decided to quit my job Tlldcn High School in Brookyn," recalled Lev- cnson "I a teaching Spanish nnd noting as a guidance counsel and making $3.150 year. "On the other side.

1 was pick- Ing up three four, five times that amount just working the banquet circuit And It was pretty pleasant work-- 1 walk Into a women's tea club after school for half-hour And collect $100 for just telling a few short order Right now. hc'j running "Two for the Money" on CBS -TV. "I look back upon my ai a schoolteacher with a little A wonderful life," said Levenson. "Emotionally, I'm not suited entirely to the life I lead now. TtM pace, I mean.

"But I like to write thU the big satisfaction I get out of being a performer--I turn oat my own material and. In a sonM, I'm published once a week," Large Lake Ottawa Canada's Gnat Slum hike, the second largest la the Dominion, is 300 long and about 60 miles wide. WAS getting oo rich i '-und Longest Word myself tipping principal It getting too embarrassing" Lcvenion. of course, became sn established i a In fairly Boston--The longest commonly used word In the English vocabulary Is usually acknowledged to antidlscstabllahmentarlam. 'Corporal Rusty' Battles Indians On Television and Books With Tutor NEW YORK (INS)--Twelve-year-old "Corporal Rusty" battles Indians and rustlers as hard as any man, yet he must go to school and study as hard as any youngster.

Once a weelt thousands of American children watch Lee Aaker In the person of Corporal Fusty, along with the fabulous German police dog Rin Tin Tin and James Brown, conquer the ABC-televised West. But they never sec him go to school, and thus seldom bcHcvc that he too must bear this youthful cross. The young hero Insisted In an interview, "I have to keep up my work even when I'm away from home In California. I have a tutor tor three hours every day. Its harder when you're not In o.

cltiss There Is no one to ask for answer." THE STOCKY, straw-hnlrcd boy was In New York recently for shows at Madison Square Garden rodeo, staying with his mother, Mrs. Myles Wllbour, Hotel Victoria und squeezing In schooling each day between breakfast, lunch tcrnoon rehearsal or matinee On film, he shows a mature earnestness In facing the perils of ad- venture and seeking the profits of outwitting the rcdman. Off screen he Is just the same about his cm ccr and his schooling, but the earnestness seems out of place and the maturity strange The baseball-loving boy, the gate-counting actor, the western hero and the school boy are all mixed together. LEE AAKER the boy was dressed In blue pajamas. He said: "What I would really like most Is to be a baseball player.

I play second on the boy's league team at home. We wore going (a a series gome, but it rained out and that was the only day I had time "This man promised to get me a ball signed at Ebbets Field I can't stand the Yankees. The Cleveland Indians and the Milwaukee are my favorite teams" THEN LEE AAKER the man and acting star added "Wo have boon breaking all records at the Garden Roy Rogers holds the attendance record, in 1947. But we are ahead so far on attendance each day. "After baseball I would like to act Acting Is a lot of Except on tours like the present one, he spends two weeks at his family's Inglcw'ood home and two weeks on location some 60 mllcj away.

When filming he works with a tutor to keep up his work and notebook. On return to classes he gives the work "to the teacher and he checks it" HIS BEST subjects arc "math, history and geography. I guess English is my worst," he admitted. "I can't make out what is a verb, a pronoun or an adjective "My marks ore a hair below the highest, In class," he said, adding with mature modesty, "It's because I work hard, I guess." Big Top Fan Originates 'Circus Boy' HOLLYWOOD CAP)--When he was a lad In Calgary, Canada, Norman Blackburn was a fanatic follower of the circus. Now he's having a ball with a circus of his own.

Blackburn Is originator of the "Circus Boy" TV show which took for "Frontier" on the 7'30 spot on NBC. An copro- duccr of the show with Herbert Leonard, he had to assemble a real working circus. Complete with big top, bldeshow midway and circus wagons, It has been assembled at Corrlganvlllc, noted site for film locations. Pausing from his enjoyment of circus lore, Blackburn told how he dreamed up the show, He said: "1 reflected on tho success of Rln Tin Tin. Why couldn't that formula be with a circus background? Instead of having an orphan boy being brought up In the cavalry, why not have one being reared In the circus? "SO THE set-up took form.

Our boy is 10-year-old whose parents were a artists who were killed In a fall To provide pathos, he Is reared by Joey the clown. There Is also the operator of the circus, big Tim Champion, who Is champion In every respect. "From there we can go Into all kinds of characters and locales. Because the circus travels, there Is no limit to the backgrounds we can use." His circus boy Is young Mickey Braddock, son of George Dolenz, who has a TV. scries of his own, "The Count of Monte Crlsto" The clown la Noah Beery Jr, and the clrcur owner Is Robert Lowory.

Instead of a dog pal, boy's friend Is Bimbo the elephant The In 1800. Hour Program to Tell Facts About Sun SHOW has stiff competition from CBS-- "What's My Lino" here and a Benny "Private Secretary" In tho East, But that doesn't worry Blackburn. "A lot of here think "What's My has pretty much run Ito course," he said. "As for Benny a 'Private I think they appeal less to kids than 'Circus Boy 1 i And after all, the kids who rule the TV set In most homes." He a that he thinks the show appeals to adults, too, especially those who, like him, feel nostalgia for the big top, which has apparently disappeared the American scene, alas. NEW YORK (UP)--OP Nov.

19 CBS will present a special hour- long color program entitled "Our Mr. Sun," revealing what science has learned about the sun Eddie Albert and Dr. Frank Baxter will be featured, along with the sun, of course. THE SETS for the musical version of "Tom Sawyer" which "The U. Steel Hour" will prcsent'Nov.

21 on CBS, will be designed by Thomas Hart Benson, on bf the country's leading artists. TV series, that Is --is now owned by Jack Wrather and John L. Loeb. Price was said to be (3,500,000, half a million more than Wrather paid for "The Lone Ranger" a while back. THE PIRATE galleon Sultana In the new CBS filmed scries called "The Bucaneers" has seen a lot of show business service.

It was the Hlspaniola In Walt Disney's film, "Treasure Island," and the Pequod In John Houston's movie, Moby Dick" THE NEW "Dragnet" series on NBC marks the sixth season for this Jack Webb show on TV. That's a lot of sleuthing THERE'S a $10,000 jackpot prize on "You Bet Your Life" this season. The Marx show, starting Its 10th year on NBC, will give that sum to any regular winner whose number comes up when a carnival-type wheel is spun. THE SEVEN new youngsters on ABC's "Mickey Mouse Club" this season are Sherry Allen, 9, Cleveland, Ohio; Eileen Diamond, 13, Los Angeles; Cheryl Hold ridge, 12, New Orleans; Charley Lancy, 13, Los Angeles; a Larsen, 17, Houston; Jay-Jay 13, Boston, and Margcne Storey, 13, Brawley, Calif. MILTON BERLE? He's Involved In the making of pilot films for a new adventure series entitled "The Man in the Trench Coat." SHIRLEY BOOTH has signed a CBS contract to star In two productions this season.

The first will have her playing Fcrle Mcsta, the famed Washington hostess a former minister to Luxembourg. That one will be on "Playhouse 90" shortly after the first of next year, THE "little giant" In NBC's musical extravaganza, "Jack and the Beanstalk" on Nov. 12 i ployed by Arnold Stang, erstwhile Milton Berle foil, OF the guest stars who will be seen from time to time on the new "Mickey Club" series arc Leo Jane Withers, Fess Parker, Judy Canova and Donna Atwood, A NEW a series "Odyssey," which will tell the story of "Man's adventures through the ages." The American Association of Museums Is cooperating in these hour-long live telecasts which will get started early next year, AS EVERYONE expected, Andrews of the stage's "My Fair Lady" has been signed for the lead in the Rodgers-Hammerstein musical "Cinderella" being written for CBS for use early In 1957. DO MONT Is the first to announce that it Is preparing for the manufacture of a one-gun color TV tube. Mass production should begin In about a year.

The tube wUl be available to all set manufacturers The present color tube a complicated three-gun affair that makes a lot of the Industry people somewhat less than happy. "THIS IS a transient hotel, so we have transient actors" is the way Buddy Hackett explains the fact that his new NBC comedy series, "Stanley," has a different talent lineup each week. THE 12-SONG score of "Jack and the Beanstalk," the spec that NBC will unveil Nov. 12, will be published by Chappell Music Co through a new subsidiary called Remington Music "Co The latter is owned by Helen Dcutsch who wrote the book and lyrics for the show. The composer is Jerry Livingston This is the first such move in behalf -of a TV show, although it has been done for Broadway musicals NBC'S "Tonight," now minus Steve Allen two mghts out of Its flve-a-week, has just entered its third year.

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