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Perry Como's Going To Have A Burr In His Side This Fall By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD Mason jar Como?" Perry Como's reign with Saturday night's most popular TV show is going to. have a Burr in its side this fall. Film star mond Burr starring as famed lawyer-amateur sleuth Perry Mason in Hollywood's first weekly one hour series filmed especially for home screens. The producer of the show, onetime movie actress Gail Patrick, and the TV division of the 20th Century Fox studio, which is filming the suspense adventures of the Erle Stanley Gardner character, are convinced Mason will par Como, but good. "Perry Mason" will start on CBS-TV a half hour before the rival NBC Perry Como show.

Once hooked with the clues of a one hour Perry Mason whodunit thriller, audiences, they predict, "just won't switch over to Como." But with star Raymond Burr, who has appeared in 90 movies since 1946, there is a more vital problem. Raymond Burr is wondering: "How long will it be before drop dead?" Every six days Burr stars in what almost amounts to a full- length feature movie. He's in 98 per cent of all the scenes. He rolls out of bed at 2:30 every morning, after about five hours' sleep. and arrives at the studio at 3:30 to be made up, to study his lines and to grab a cat nap before shooting starts at 8.

"It's killed any other existence for me," he told me, "and it may kill me. But if I can keep it up for three years I can retire for life. But, mister. I'll never do it again." Burr, best remembered for his district attorney role in the movie. "A Place in the Sun," and as the killer in "Rear Window." lost 100 pounds for health's sake a couple of years ago.

But now he's losing more poundage on a TV film diet. "I just don't have time to he grins. With show titles like "The Vagabond Vixen." and "The Crimson Perry Mason is the lawyer who likes to do his 8 own sleuthing and solves every case in the courtroom as the climax of each show. He uses brains instead of vio- New Faces For 'Hit Parade' By William Ewald NEW YORK, Aug. 28 IP "Your Hit Parade" will trot out five fresh faces this TV season.

And according to incoming band (leader Don Walker, the show will offer a new sound, too. Walker will replace Raymond Scott, who piled out the door along with Gisele MacKenzie, Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson and Russell Arms. Walker's crew will be made up of Jill Corey, Ginny Gibson, Tommy and Alan Copeland. Walker, the 46-year-old scorer of such Broadway musicals as "Pajama Game," "Damn Yankees," and "The Most Happy Fella," feels the NBC-TV show was due for a musical overhaul. "Up to now the policy on the show has leaned toward imitatthe record that made a hit out of a song." said Walker.

"The trouble with that was it was impossible in a TV studio to set up the artificial conditions that prevail in a recording studio. TV just can't gimmick up sound the way records "So, this season we're going to work for a different effect. We're going to try to get a closer coordination between the pro- DRAMATIST Sultry Tina Louise, whose "Appassionata von Climax" in the Broadway stage hit "Li'l Abner" was a far cry Lady MacBeth, will now try a dramatic role in Hollywood. She says the producers of the film version of Little Acre" think she's capable of emotion as well as sex appeal. She plays a "Baby lence and if you've ever been an comedian on his new NBC series.

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For Barbara Hale and hubby Bill Williams, once TV's Kit Carson, it means two TV shows in the family this fall. While Barbara teams up with Burr. Bill is costarring with Betty White in "Date With the Angels." They've been happily married for 11 years. "If our marriage can survive two TV shows," laughs Barbara, "you'll know nothing can bust it up." There's a $100,000 budget for each weekly film and, says "more enthusiasm than I've ever seen on any Hollywood set. The cast, the crew, everyone is pulling for the show's success.

The crew is giving it the best of Hollywood's techniques, and there's a. least one location in every show. "We're on a tight schedule because we didn't start shooting until last April and we'll have to have 39 completed by next May. At the moment we have more clues than shooting days, but think we can make it -if I Burr lives in Malibu Beach, good hour's drive from the studio, and he suspects "I'll be living in my dressing room before CBS wants Burr to resume his "Fort Laramie" radio series this winter and "I may do it," he told me. His only problem when.

"I guess," he laughs, "I'll, record it in my car on my way home from the studio." IN SALLY SERIES Those who may have missed Marion Lorne since "Mr. Peepers" left TV a couple of seasons back will be pleased to find her as entertaining as ever in the role of an eccentric matron in NBC's new "Sally" series. SEEKS TALENT Groucho Marx and "You Bet Your Life" had a couple of talent scouts combing the West during the summer to find some likely verbal sparring partners for the By CHARLES MERCER lin live shows the sound is im- NEW YORK (AP) Buddy Bregman, who will be musical director of the Eddie Fisher Show when it comes on NBCTV this season, biew up from Hollywood the other day and said: "I'll never do another TV show from New York. I don't like the climate of New York and can't play tennis here every day "Live TV has the only good music on television, but even duction and the music you know, so the music says what your eyes are showing you." The Hit Parade band (the same NBC house orchestra that Raymond Scott used) will sound different, too, said Walker. "I always score for TV and radio with a great deal of depth," said Walker.

"And I try for a wide sound, too. You're going to hear a lot of highs and lows from the band, a lot of brilliance. I don't like to waste notes, the idea is to have each one work. "And there's going to be a lot of comedy in the music. I like humor in music.

I like an amusing quality--it's the sort of thing I tried to get into 'Pal another show I Walker, a product of Lambertville, N.J., and the University of Pennsylvania (where he made his musical debut as the sixth member of "Lew Chapman's InterFraternity aimed originally at an accounting job. However, Fred Waring lured Walker into his stable as an arranger. After four years with Waring, Walker turned to Broadway where he scored 76 shows. In recent years, he also has worked on TV commercials. His most noteworthy effort in this linea musical miniature based on "Most Happy Fella' for a cigar firm -brought him to the attention of the cigarette sponsor of "Your Hit Parade." A student of the piano, pipe organ, sax, clarinet, flute and trombone, Walker will get one big break on "Your.

Hit Parade" this season he should have more interesing tunes to work with than Raymond Scott. Marketing unneeded articles is an effortless chore it you will but call perfect. The problem is a physical one in which a singer has to be too close to the band. I hope I can lick some of the probiens "In filmed TV you have the worst sounding music of all time. That's chiefly because it's canned, except on one or two shows.

The man who is hurting filmed TV music IS James C. Petrillo (President of the American Federation of Musicians) because he's put a five per cent of the cost of production fee on each filmed show that uses live music A spokesman for the American Federation of Musicians in New York said the tax goes to the Music Performance Trust Fund of the recording and transcription industry and is administered wholly by an industry trustee. The spokesman said Petrillo has not yet been shown another formula that will aid the cause of musicians as effectively. Bergman feels that filmed TV needs composers who would study their scripts and watch them being filmed and then compose or select appropriate live music. Bregman, a conductor.

composer and arranger who is considered one of the outstanding young talents of the musical world, feels that live TV has done much to encourage good music. At the age of 26 Bregman is the artist and repertory head of Verve Records and has just completed scoring the music for Jerry Lewis' first independent film, "The Delicate Vets $259 down plus closing costs Only $64.32 per month 3 bedrooms, 2 baths family room, 2 car garage deluxe view lots, wonder kitchens NORTHWOOD 34 quality convenience features Automatic built-in Waste King kitchen Up to 8,000 sq. ft. view lots ENOATH WOOD 0. VIA Drive North Saint Helena Hwy ad Road Tura 4 to del Home VA ROBERTS LIFETIME HOMES BEAUTY QUALITY Hurry LAST OF "LOW DOWN HOMES..