NBC to Replace Mother on Peter Gunn Show Cites Cost
The column condemns NBC for dropping the character Mother from Peter Gunn and replacing her with Minerva Urecal as a younger, more seductive version. It notes changes at CBS with Tom Tully’s The Lineup shifting to an hour and introducing a sexy secretary, while Westerns and mysteries embrace more adult content to capture younger viewers.
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Mrs McComb Signs for Broadway Comedy Role
Mrs Malcolm McComb of Hollenbeck Avenue known as Jane Moultrie signs for a Broadway production of Cheri by Anita Loos adapted from Colette. The cast includes Kim Stamey and Gerard Philipe. Robert Lewis directs. Broadway duties will keep her from The Wizard of Oz at Kate McComb Playhouse opening October.
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The Boy Friend Opens in Stockbridge
A Berkshire Playhouse review praises The Boy Friend as intimate and nostalgic. The production credits include Sandy Wilson as author composer with John Conklin costumes and William Francisco directing. Performers such as Arden Shaw Ted van Griethuysen and Hortense appear as the cast while Bearcats provide the pit ensemble. The reviewer notes the show captures 1920s fin de siècle charm and urges audiences to see the lively, tender revival.
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Sue Hawes
Thomas Griswold
William Prancisco
Berkshire Playhouse
London
Stockbridge
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Berkshire Drive-In Timetable of Evening Features
A compiled timetable lists showings at Berkshire and Pittsfield drive inns with titles such as The Tattered Dress Night Passage Born Feckless John Paul Jones and The Five Pennies Modern Times North by Northwest Written on the Wind Battle Hymn Have Racket Will Travel and Legend of Tom Dooley with multiple daily start times and note that the County timetable is on Page 18.
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North By Northwest
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Tom Dooley
Hollywood relocates west as film crews chase open spaces
Eviction waves push movie makers farther from Hollywood. In Los Angeles and suburbs the booming population forces location shoots to move beyond the San Fernando Valley once the heart of westerns, now crowded with homes and development.
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Hollywood
UPI
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
Policeman Writes Broadway Drama About Mafia Ties
New York City policeman Gene Radano authored The Apple Doesn't Fall set for Broadway. The drama, winner of a 35300 prize, follows an Italian American mother discovering her son is linked to the Mafia and the underworld.
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New York
Gene Radano
New York City
Blind Children Star in Gibson Play The Miracle Worker
Four visually impaired girls cast to portray blind students in William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker. Rehearsals underway in New York with director Arthur Penn guiding lines by sighted prompts. Anne Bancroft set to play Annie Sullivan opening October 19, as able actors also join the cast.
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