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18 11 5 a a a a a a a a a A Page 20-C- THE INDEPENDENT Long Beach, Calif. Sunday, Oct. 16, 1949 Video Leads Stage Star To Contract Warde Donovan, the Broadway musical star, been "discovered" in television and signed to be the singing star of the MutualDon Lee network's "Ladies womens audience participation radio show which goes to the West Coast skein of 45 stations each -day morning at 11. The handsome curly -haired Gael won fame at" the Copacabana in New York and is now closing a smash six weeks at the Hollywood Florentine Gardens. Educated at Oxford, he received his vocal training in Milano, Italy, and made his American debut at the Pasadena Playhouse, After three years service in the navy he resumed his career in New York with his own show over a transcontinental network.

He al80 did summer stock. He was then starred in the sensational play, "Toplitzky of Notre: and in Romance -opposite Anne Jeffreys. season as leading man at the Newport Casino Theater brought him to Hollywood under contract to Culver Productions, His new contract is attributed to televisions where he appeared for weeks in a KTSL video show. "Piano where he was seen by Larry Hayes, "Ladies First producer. Donovan's 6-foot, 1-inch stature Want A TV Job? VIDEO CALLS FOR TRAINING By ERNEST FELIX.

(Personnel Director, ABC Western Since the announcement of KECA-TV some months ago, an avalanche of. letters. telephone calls, applications "and inquiries have come into the personnel department-all of which, basically. asked the same question: "How can I get into television?" Mrs. Florence Schiro, our ABC personnel interviewer, has almost talked herself hoarse the past year in answering these queries.

We conservatively estimate that this department is about three times as active as it has been in the past. We have found that some people do not realize that television is a very technical business. Once you eliminate the engineering personnel, the artists, musicians, program people- creative and productionyou find that there are very few jobs left secretaries, stenographers, clerks, receptionists, guards, telephone operators, etc. The technical and production positions require experienced personnel. There are very few engineers on our staff who have not had at least 10 years experience in radio and television, college degree, or (both.

Some el our production personnel have been in show business, rad did, motion pictures and television for 20 years or more. The perfect answer, of course, is the person who has had experience in all of these categories, All of the foregoing has to do with the "interesting" part of television, and the personnel for these departments dis and boyish smile have captivated large women audiences! HE SINGS, TOO! Pagan clowning with blonde Evilyn Hetzer gets baritone Warde, Donovan in the mood for Don Lee's "Ladies First" show. is admirable for. a top what, white tie and tails. His figure, interviewed and Mired by the program and engineering managers.

There are many jobs, however, that are necessary to keep the wheels moving and the operations running smoothly: the administrative personnel, clerical help, maintenance men, guards, telephone operators, carpenters, electricians, mail clerks, typists, mimeograph operators, publicists, promotion men, In my opinion, any position in television is We are close to the activity that we invariably find everyone from the mail clerks up are keenly interested in their jobs and accept the challenge of television. We all want to move up to a better job. A number of our people in the foregoing categories are taking extension courses at the universities to prepare them for openings which might occur as time goes These, people are on the right track. They read everything they can get their hands on about television. They have television receive ers at home.

To sum it all up, as one applicant said after requesting considerable Information over the telephone. You mean there has to be an opening before. get a job!" The answer is yes -very defipitely! BIKE HIKERS A was a contestant. on the Bob Hawk CBS quiz. Hawk asked how things are en.

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90-1468 iT SKY TIE Hollywood's tie with the skywaves of television is symbolized by John Wayne in his best Ghost Riders pose. Wayne's westeras are current Don Lee video fare. Sky Ghosts Haunt Screenland Those ghost riders in the Holly- wood sky are Video waves! For months "Screenland's moguls have been haunted bys the spectre of doomday of TVemptied theaters, For this reason, virtually no flight "screen features have been released for the television screens, which have depended on shorts, travelogs, well-aged westerns and a scattering of imports. But it won't always be that way. Tomorrow Hollywood will be cooperating all down the line with are the new medium.

Talent Served Up reached. Serial Queen's Career Began at 9 Not many young ladies of 22 can boast a past as colorful as Teri Keane, featured on "Marriage For Two," heard over NBC, The daughter of a newspaper- man and an opera singer, Teri launched her own career in show business at the age of nine, in an auspicious vehicle, "Show Boat." Also to her credit are five additional Broadway shows, including "Swing Your Lady" and A For the last few years she has concentrated on radio, playing leading roles in two other daytime dramas besides "Marriage For Two." In the first place, Hollywood has a king's share of exactly the sort of talent which nationwide network TV will The studios figure to get their cut in from lending their stars to video. In the second place, large-screen television in theaters is deemed a natural for big sporting events, political conventions and campaigns and major sensations. Some experimentation along this line has already indicated favorable reaction. For example, the Ezzard Charles-Joe.

Waleott title fight was televised from Chicago and shown to a sellout crowd in a New York theater. Filmdom is looking into the posal of entertaining patrons with viedo while they wait for Theater System The Society of Motion Picture' Engineers: has filed with FCC A proposal for a whole new television system for the nation, devoted solely to projection in theaters. Zenith Radio Corp, is developing another answer- phonevision. It would showing of new on home TV sets. the signal would be relayed the telephone system.

The viewer would pay $1 to see the picture, profits being split by Hollywood, the phone company and the telecasters. The filmmakers are stepping up plans production of 30-minute and 60-minute features for telecasting. It is no coincidence that many major television studios are owned by film corporations, suggesting that Hollywood may make the terms when the final compromise between the movies and video is are.