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S-7--TY MONDAY thru FRIDAY DAYTIMES "JACK AND THE KANSTALK" Joan Doc. 19. Jo, Hal Holder, who plays show ha role In "Jack and the Beanit ilk" Monday, playi the of mother. i 10 tongt. Jack and Beanstalk Monday, Dec.

19 With Joan Roberts By BIIX KYKRS NEW YORK Joan Roberts, with her blonde hair swept up and back, is slipping quietly and comfortably into middle age. Twenty years ago she was the darling of Broadway, the Laurie erf 1 And then effortlessly, by her choice, she gave up the theater for a hus- SHOP THE EASY A at Whitney's VveragrShop i 57 Ashland Stroef Dial 6 6 3 8 8 8 1 band, a son (now a Georgetown University student) and the quiet, obscure life of New York suburbia. Personal Life First "My personal life came first, and that was it," she said on a rare visit to Manhattan. "You can't be in the theater and do well in it unless it is your whole life. You have to be totally immersed in the business or you had better forget it." Last year, she was tempted out.

of her sheltered life viKe Center, N.Y., to play the mother in a local television special of "Jack and the Bear-stak." She did it for a lark, she said. To her surprise, and that of her fellow Prince Street players, the show witii 10 songs by Jim Eiler and Jeanne Bargy, was selected this as a CBS-TV network offering. It will be shewn Monday, Dec. "19. But this doesn't mean Miss Roberts plajis to resume her career.

AUhough she daily takes dance lessons keep trim and healthy," she will inform you) she has tun.ed lier back on a lot of big time offers. She said "no" to an offer to star in "Hello, 1 in London and she wouldn't even i "Mame," the Broadway hit which rejuvenated Angela Lansbury's track record. Records Album "However, I haven't'just been keeping my mouth 1 she said. "I did do something recently which I've wanted to da for sometimt'. I recorded an album called 'Joan Roberts Sings of Faith, Hope and Love' for Aardvark Records, the same outfit which was so successful with The White Sisters of Africa." Miss Robei'js is proud that one of its tur.es is "Tlie Star Spangled Banner" and that she sings verses of it.

''I sing it s- it will stop a any she said. It's doubtful, however, that from the new album in any way match the out- success of the original album After all these years, she and Alfred Drake still receive checks totalling $10,000 or more each year. ''It's a tidy retirement sum," Miss Roberts, TV Questions And Answers CRAZY IS MISSED Why isn't Frank Fontaiae Ml The Jackie Gleason Show It aeenu like an entirely different program now. Mra. May- Bard Bakken, South St.

Paul, Minn. Fontaine was dropped this season so Gleason could return his old sidekick Art Carney. If the show looks different it's because it is. Most of the programs are devoted to The Honeymoor.ers. Evidently it has worked.

Glca- son's are the highest in years. DUBBED KOCK 'N' RfKX -Do they ever pantomime the syndicated pop music on Where the Action is? Terry and Lui, Clewiston, Yes. The practice is widespread. Most musical shows' that are on tape or film (most of them are) have their singers dub their voices so that the sound is right. WHAT'S 1IER HOME? Where was Arlene boni and whal Is her nationaHiy? Sally Johnson, Miueapoln, Minn.

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