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I'LL BET GOOP TO HAVE ANN HOME, ISN'T IT, JUPGE YES, IT fe, ANP, AS VDO PREPICTEP, SHE TELLS ME SHE'S IN NO, BUT HE'S FLYING IN THIS TO 5PENP A FEW PAYS WITH US' VOU PONT SOUNP TOO HAPPY ABOUT THE YOUNG MAN THAT ANN'S LOVE WITH, WELL, FRANKLY, I'M NOT, fNT A MAN. 1 HE'S AS OLP AS AS A MATTER OF FACT, A YEAR OLPER THAN WHY COULPN'T SHE FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE CLOSER TO HER AGE LIKE BOB WILSON, FOR I TOLP RANPY HE SAtP, ONCE ANP HE SAIP, TTHE SUBSTITUTE "PAP, PO YOU KNOW NOT THE PEFINITION OF A GOOP SUBSTITUTE, tHARM 1 i AT THAT; PERHAPS THEY PONT HAVE QUITE THE CHARM THAT MORE MATURE MEN ANN IS AT THE AMVORT NOW WAITING FOR HARRY AMES TO ARRIVE ON THE THREE-THIRTY BUT YOU HAVE THE CAR, PON'T YOU? rt 1 5 5 YES, I TOLP HER I NEEPEP I MANIPULATE? THINGS SO THAT BOB WILSON OFFEREP TO PRIVE HER TO THE HOPING THAT THIS MATURE MAN WILL COME OFF SECONP BEST BESIPE A HANP- SOME YOUNG FELLOW LIKE THERE THEY THATS HARRY GETTING OFF THE PLANE THE ONE IN THE CAMEL'S HAIR COAT. WITHOUT A HAT-? That Abnormal Addams Family Has Real Heart Year Round By EDGAR PKNTON When the Addams Family series was in preparation, an ABC man gleefully described the show is a lucky." This brought forth an immediate re- aponse fro'ih David Levy, the creator and executive producer of the series, seen Friday evenings over the ABC-TV net. "Let us. keep record straight The are not monsters or outer apace types.

"The Addams Family may awm IWNMC "Mi dards of living, but thin Is merely because you may not (inform to THGIR concepts of culture and customs." Levy layi, "We may is- awe thai at me time the entire world waa populated by Addami type pecple. character! are the tail re- memben thfa Their tradition will be handed dvwn and sustained through The Ad- dami Family' and their ipring. "They are a happy family, full of love and aentiment; a glowing example of good living and togetherness seldom matched in modern society. "They arc financially 1 As Charles Addams expresses It, a distant forebear apparent- ly made a substantial 'killing' and the family has used the fruits of this windfall lo its best advantage." Levy, a long-time admirer of Addams' cartoon, and Addzms, himself, spent more than tw-j years working on the television project before it developed into the 12-minute "presentation" film that sold ABC executives on optioning the projected series. After Levy got Addams' consent to base a video seriev on the cartoon characters, he then prevailed on him to give them names.

So for the first time, the wife anil mother was'given'idphlity flii Mortkia's uncle was dubbed Fester; the little girl Wednesday; the boy, Pugsley, and the butler, Lurch. Granny became Grandmama so she wouldn't he confused with Granny of "The Beverly Hillbillies," another production. The cartMaM is giving names rclatlvei as they are written the scripts such as Mariicia's lumely cousin Melancholia, and a sister named Pyre- manla. Charles Addams reserved the right of cast approval and has. without exceptior), registorcc 1 hjs, delight in the performances of Carolyn Jones as Mbrticia, John Antifl's Jackie Coogan at Uncle Fester; Lisa Loring, Wednesday; Ken Wcathcrwax, Pugsley; Ted Cassidy, Lurch, and Blossom Rock, Grandmama.

The "forgotten man" In this Addams operation apparently is the producer, Nat Perrin, a reticent man with large movie credits who quietly pulls the strings at General Service Studios, Hollywood, which, once upon a lime, reverberated the antics of Harold Lloyd. Ferrer In Madrid Hollywood (UP1) Mel Fjr. Ca- will produce and direct briola" for ColurnMi in March..