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SATURDAY ALL DAY JOHN BANNER (SGT. SCHULTZ) Meet John Banner, He Ate His Way To New Character By ERSKTNE JOHNSON HOLLYWOOD Jackie Gleason. at 234 pounds, has lost his title as the bicsest comedian on television. The new champ, at 280 pounds, is John Banner. Vienna Born Banner is the Vienna-born actor who plays the comedy role of Set.

Hans Schultz in CBS- TV's new Hccan's Heroes. Background of the show is is a World War German prisoner of war camp and Hans is a bungling Nazi sergeant. Banner "blames" his obesity on the Rood cooking of his French wife. Christina, who he claims is the world's best cook. "But of course." he adds, "I am a (Treat lorer of food Until I met and married Christine, how- 'ever.

I really didn't know how or what to eat. FOR Quality Processing I by KODAK I Bring Your Color to The Photo Shop 37 Eagl. St. 62-2079 TELEVISION--6 Until he met and married Christine, he laughs, "I was the leading man type I welched only 178 pounds." The story of the leading man who became a portly character actor because- of his wife's cooking was just one Ironic note to be found this day on the set of Hogan's Heroes. The company was filming camp compound scenes on a movie back lot where the city of Atlanta was built, and burned, for the "Gone With the Wind." Over the "southern" soil the Nazi flag now waved.

Over "southern" soil prop men also had scattered salt to double for German snow. For the winter scenes members of the cast Vere huddled in heavy wool overcoats and perspiration dripped from their faces as if they were meltinc ice. As Usual As usual in Hollywood, the shooting schedule calling for the outdoor winter scenes fell on one of the year's hottest days. The temperature was 89 decrees. John Banner's background is just as eyebrow lifting.

This jovial man now playing a Nazi had fled from his native Vienna to the U.S. when Hitler's army marched into Austria. In 1942 he joined the U.S. Army taking bis basic training at Atlantic Cky. While there he posed for an official army recruiting poster fwidelv used at Easter of a GT kneelinp in prayer in church with hands clnsoed and rifle on chest.

The accent John brought from Vienna hns mite the acting he learned in Zurich to German, Russian and French charncters. He has alwavs wanted to at- pear in a western because of his theory thyt many of the first set tiers i were Ge r- mon. some with heavy aacccnts some no knowledge of nt all. have tnlVM to many TV and movie and directors about he says. "Thev all agree with me but they all tell me, tMiNic wouldn't accept It I I wonder." NBC News Color Special to Examine America Beautiful "America the Beautiful," an NBC-TV News color special, will examine the "growing pains" of major suburban and urban areas and the nation-wide dilemma of deterioratine natural resources on Oct.

3, 6.30-7.30 p.m. The telecast will be narrated 'ay Chet Huntley and sponsored by Florists' Transworld Delivery Assn. An FTD spokesman stated that the program would help underline the need for action to implement the national bcautifi- calion program, a special interest of the florists' group. Reccnfe the Moral association pledged support to President and Mrs. Johnson's program to make America more beautiful, following a personal appeal by Mrs.

Orvillc Freeman, wife of the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. As a general theme, the NBC special will quote President Johnson's statement that "We must prevent urbanization and growth from ravishing the land. The nation is growing. We want that growth to be a blessing, not a blight." America the Beautiful" will document the changing of suburbia into a sprawling metropolis by investigating the effects of the automobile, the bulldozing of natural beauty, and the population explosion.

The program also will examine problems of air pollution, water contamination and the frustrations of city life in Detroit. Boston, New York, New Los Angeles and Dallas. City and federal officials concerned with urban renewal will offer views on controlling present urban-suburban decay and planning for expected doubling of city population by the end of the 20th century. Edward Logue. Boston's Redevelopment Authority chief, will be featured on the program.

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