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Eight Pantagranh, Bloomlngton, July 3-9, IOCS Battlefield Filming Impresses Visitor Adam Leaves Bonanza; Others Happy By GEORGE SPRAY small, very fragile projectile, sometimes of wax they are used for the splattering effect IIOLLYWOOD-It looked like any war torn countryside as HOLLYWOOD (AP) All Is and sometimes capsules, Canteen Nearby Ernie Kreiling, Pantagraph's serene at old Pondcrosa as Hollywood columnist, and The capsules are used to kick "Bonanza" plunges into its sev walked down the back lot of up dust. Or, if a person is shot enth year of filming, without the services of Pernell Roberts, and blood must appear, the capsule may contain a dye that stains the clothing when the Long the dissident member Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. The earth was barren of grass and shrubs. A few dead trees were scattered around. An abandoned, bombed out capsule shatters.

of the Cartwright clan, Roberts pulled out when Ms contract As we watched the action un fold, Ernie and I were moving railroad station was at our about the battlefield and sip ended last season. That left Lome Greene, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon to mind the I WV left. The tracks were torn up and a gondola car lay on its ranch. They're managing quite side and twisted. ping a soft drink purchased from a mobile canteen parked near the front line.

While standing In the sun watching the war being revived, well, says Mike Suddenly we found ourselves It a heavier work load for the three of us this said the actor, the handsome series star Vic Morrow ambled over our way in his battle dress, minus helmet. Little Joe of the series. "But it's worth it. There is harmony In the midst of machine gun fire. The Germans, up on the hill to the right in their sandbagged foxhole were firing upon the Americans.

We had stumbled onto the "Combat" set. As the cameras ground, se on the set now, Vic's primary concern at the moment was his first feature Mike, the youngster (age 28) of the Cartwrights, and his co-stars were awarded a raise for length motion picture which he had produced and the final the new season from $4,500 to scenes had just been shot for it. 10,000 per show. Plus pay ments for replays, ries star Vic Morrow, riding In an abandoned German halftrack, started toward the Germans with the .50 caliber machine gun spitting fire all the way. Americans on foot ad He also noted that he had been signed to direct three of the "Combat" episodes for this coming season.

When directing, he said, he didn't like to ap The new contracts extend for another six years. If options extend "Bonanza" to a full doz vanced behind the half track en years, the surviving trio pear in the film himself, ai- with their M-l's barking their, though this was somewhat of a could well be millionaires. protest to the presence of the problem since he was written "It's great for an actor to Germans into about every script have that kind of security, Landon said. He had personal doubts that the series would go It wasn't too much longer before the director once again called for Vic back in front of Hollywood personalities are noted for their variety of pets, but one of the most unusual pets is Miles, the pet penguin of actor Tony Dow. Tony has only had the 9-pound bird for two months after spending much of his spare time digging a pool for the bird.

Pantagraph Phot Interesting Afternoon What we were watching turned out to be one of the most interesting afternoons I have the full route, since NBC may one day become anxious to the cameras. As he ambled back toward the action, he cash in on the lush syndication ever spent on a Hollywood mo market. The economics of tele local supermarket now." And at vie set. vision are such that it some the Brown Derby, I might have times pays to take a series off Two cameras were used to capture the action. This is not Jessel on Nationwide Hunt for Talent Jackie Gleason has signed noted.

the network to profit from re But the marked difference muttered, "War is hell." Two More New Shows For Fall plays in the daytime or on local is the limited time you have for stations, George Jessel for a nationwide But I think we're good for a little while more," Mike said, talen hunt for "The Jackie Gleason Show: The American usually done. As the action was recorded from the two locations the halftrack advanced across the ground marked with foxholes and bomb craters. The machine gun continued to belch fire and the Germans, some hiding be yourself. My dressing room is comfortable with a refrigerator and stove, and I spend more time there than I do at home." Petticoat Junction had just This has been our biggest Scene Magazine," which re year in the ratings. Even if we turns for its fourth season on "Gidget," a new comedy se lost 20 per cent of our audience, we'd still be No.

1." CBS in September. Jessel, as Gleason's good-will What is being done to explain hind the dead trees and others in foxholes on the ground be finished shooting for the season and Bea was on a two month's break. "But I've been going to the studio almost every day ries starring Sally Fields as one of America's most well known teenagers, and "The Big Valley," an exiting drama of the absence of Roberts? gan to "die." "We won't kill him off; that anyway. There's mail to answer would be too hard on the kids in early California starring Bar for example. I get more mail The Germans on the hill were also being "killed" and one fell over the sand-bagged foxhole and rolled down the ambassador, will travel to major cities in the United States in connection with auditions of top local talent.

The city represented by the talent will be given a national salute, coast to coast on "The Jackie Gleason Show." bara Stanwyck, Richard Long I the audience," and Peter Breck, will join the "He'll just be Mike said, off teaching now, of course, and they're real ABC TV Wednesday night'school in the East somewhere. schedule in the fall. We 11 manage. slope. The general scene recorded, letters that often require a thoughtful answer.

And we've been auditioning for two girls to replace Pat Woodell and Jeannine Riley who are leaving the director decided to try it A CLOSER LOOK after the unrelenting grind year after year, and after assuming the new reoonsibilities-and re- the series. So it hasn been much of a vacation yet. "Another major difference in Petticoat's Aunt Kate again, this time with a camera mounted inside the half-track. Again the action was filmed. Tree Explodes Then the close-ups.

The cameras closed on the Germans wards-of stardom, I wondered if Bea Benaderet would ever again want to be involved in a having your own series is the Gaining in Stardom interest you take all the roles, in all aspects of the production. It used to be you did behind one of the trees, com ing out with their guns blazing, only to be "rubbed out" by the By ERNIE KREILING "Why, there's Kate of Petti Americans. your part and forgot about the over all picture, because it didn't concern you and you couldn't do anything about it As the camera recorded the close-ups tiny charges planted television series. In Hoiiywooa, the answer is usually a resounding, "No!" Bea Benaderet, however, answered matter-of-factly, "Why not? They've been the story of my life." And throughout the discussion of what it's like to become a star, she didn't once use the words "star" or "stardom." And that's a sure sign you're talking to one. coat Junction," squealed the ample, middle-aged lady from Sandusky, Ohio, as she thrust a pen and pad at Bea Benaderet.

We were sitting in the Brown anyway. But as the lead you suddenly become interested and involved in everything that goes in the limbs of the tree began to explode. For the viewers this will look as if the bullets are on." Derby discussing the subject of stardom when this pure example of it occurred. Color for Fall Next year will bring some Bea wrote a warm, personal changes in Petticoat Junction, and it's these new developments actually striking the trees. One of the soldiers was wounded in the skirmish.

The make up man came over, placed a bandage on his leg and then applied some chocolate syrup so the dressing would appear blood-stained. Since the series is not in color, blood would photograph dark and note for the lady and her more bashful friend and we continued our discussion of what it that have eaten Into her "vaca tion." Aside from replacing two of the daughters, Petticoat Junc tion will be In color, it one meant to be the star of her own television series after several decades of playing support of the programs to which color chocolate syrup is a cheap sub ing roles and doing voice char- r- acienzauons. Bea Benaderet can be a valuable addition. The Shady Rest Hotel, decorated in Early American Awful, doesn't exude the charm in black and white it will in color. The rural "it was the surprise of my ONE PAIR SCISSORS SHARPENED ALL THIS WEEK WITH THIS COUPON Adults Only! life," she said, "when Paul Henning asked me to play the stitute to the real thing.

The special effects people in Hollywood are really the "realist" of any series. It is their actions and their talents that put the real look into an otherwise mock adventure. The bullets that splatter when they hit the tank, the dust that setting and the Hooterville Can erly Hillbillies, created Petticoat Junction largely with Bea Benaderet in mind. (Two years ago Paul Henning told me, "I lead in his new series. Although probably no Holly non Ball can also make color worthwhile wood personality has spent as couldn't get rid of the idea of many hours in our homes as After many years of working Bea Benaderet, she never in radio and TV series (Gertrude Gearshift of Jack Benny's achieved star status in the pub someday building a series around Many Changes program;" Blanche Morton, Gracie Allen's neighbor, who "There are many things that is kicked up by bullets as the soldiers advance this is the work of the special effects department.

Compressed air is used to fire noiseless gun that shoots a change," she continued. lic eye, although for years she's been regarded as a performer's star withm the industry. Finally in 1963 Paul Henning, creator-writer, of the Bev- outlasted four TV husbands; the "There infinitely more public voice of Betty Rubble of the recognition. I'm very big at the'Flintstones; ad infinitum,.