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Page 15 ifM George Scott a Bill 4 guished actors including Mel vyn Douglas as Deputy Governor Danforth and ritz Weaver as the Rev Mr Hale Henry Jones Cathleen Nes bitt Will Geer and Tuesday Weld also are in the taut drama Scott who believes that plays and movies should tackle vitally important subjects jumped at the role As Proctor he comes to the aid of his wife and thus becomes in effect one of the accused anything to me a sociological he said is the interaction the effect of the mob on one man and vice versa the loner against so Being a loner and doing a lit tle feuding comes naturally to Scott He is a descendant from a long line of Blue Ridge Moun tain folks He smashed up a sound stage on his first film venture Hanging and most of his performance ended on the cut ting room floor He has had a long running bat tle with the Motion Picture Acad emy of Arts and Sciences Sev eral years ago he caused an up Dana dances with Abbe Lane on Las Vegas show premiere Television and nntlan World Herald Radio Schedules OMAHA NEBRASKA APRIL 30 1967 Show at Vegas Bows Monday A fourth television network will take a bow Monday night when the United Network Company begins airing its first production a two hour variety show from Las Vegas Nev The network of about 115 stations claimed for this late night Monday through riday pro gram includes Omaha Channel 3 Although the taped show is beamed toward competition with with Johnny and Bishop both of which end at midnight Channel 3 will tele cast the Las Vegas extravaganza from mid night to 2 a following the Carson show 4 Co Hosts Studio facilities for the Las Vegas entry in the showroom of the Hacienda Hotel on the Strip were finished only several days ago Talent will come chiefly from performers at 10 hotels who will do their television stints during off hours There will be interviews and entertainment segments from the pools golf courses dining rooms at the inns and from near by Lake Mead and Mount Charleston James Nichols a key figure in the United network said the series will have comedian Bill Dana as a permanent host as well as vari ous rotating co hosts There will also be a permanent repertory company of three men and girl Members in clude Ann Elder Joanne Worley and Cully Richards Program planners intend to throw in audi ence participation segments beauty contests new star talent a Thursday night abbreviated soap opera and a special table The United Network Company is a succes sor to the proposed Overmyer Network The original Overmyer is a Toledo 0 industrial ist who moved from a mammoth warehouse operation into television He remains the larg est stockholder in United United is headed by Jack McGlothin an Abilene Tex oilman and William Garvey of Wichita Kans Programming and sales head is Oliver Treyz In the 1 Treyz and Robert Kintner guided ABC TV into full competition with CBS a 1 nilu ana coeen jyewnuist race accusations in niuiui inmui a uidma a uc about the Salem witch trials on CBS TV Thursday Actor Stars in Miller Drama THAT angry actor George Scott who has seldom been seen on television since the de mise of the one season series Side West will come back Thursday night in a meaty role for one of this year's finest dramas The CBS presentation of Ar thur powerful drama about the Salem Mass witch trials of 1692 will take the place of a movie and be given two and one quarter hours Scott will have the starring role of John Proctor a farmer in the dour New England com munity plagued by hard living long bitter winters and the threat ot Indian atracK The oart of wife drab God fearing woman who is falsely accused of witchery will be played by Colleen Dewhurst who in real life was third wife They were recently di vorced Miss Dewhurst like Scott has chiefly a stage background and has played a far ranging variety of roles The cast nther distin News Planned At the moment United is short in program ming It has announced plans for an animated series on the Bible and a daily 90 minute Unit "roar by turning up his nose at ed Press International news program an Academy Award nomination The deal with individual stations on the for a role in He i Las Vegas show calls for the network to pay objected to the commercial as for the production for the cost of delivering pects of the awards the program via telephone facilities at roughly $110 per mile per hour Mellowing United will sell roughly two thirds of the commercial time The Omaha station will sell It possible that Scott is inel 1 five jp second spots over the two hours HJ VV Illg ill L1C 1 1C 11 CIO VI LVU Cl I VC that being broke would never drive him to live permanently in Hollywood But in his latest motion pic ture in which he plays a fugitive from police in lim lam he admitted that he liked the finished product even better than the script and he described the producer and director as very interesting intelli gent young Scott got a late start in the theater After a four year hitch in the Marine Corps he enrolled at the University of Missouri to study journalism He tried out for a drama pro duction for won the role and soon turned his back on journalism He was a staff actor at the Stephens College Plavhouse in Columbia Mo be fore he headed for Broadway and Host theater success rr LhT Jfc' 1 4 1 11 av i 1 ML to 'z 7 5 Jr i p' Vv ME i 4 ft wZ Hl ft ft ujrBr v' ft ft! ft 4 17 ft ft Ekmi i vJ ftftftft '111 ft.