Evening star. [volume], November 18, 1956, Page 4, Image 143

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News of D. C. Studios
Coast-to-Coast Salesman
By SHEILA GALLAGHER
Matthew Warren, best known to Washing
ton viewer* as WTTG —5's newscaster, Is becom
ing an Increasingly familiar figure coast to coast
... He does the commercials for Martha Roun
tree’* Press Conference (Sundays, 8:30 p.m.,
WMAL—7) . . . Warren Is the only announcer
doing live commercials on a network show
which originates from Washington.
WMAL—7's singing guitarist, George Hamil
ton IV, Is booming his way to the top of the
success ladder . . . This Sunday he will appear
on the Steve Allen Show . . . November 25 takes
him to Cleveland for a stint with Bill Randall
(known as the hit-maker of the Midwest) . . .
On November 30 he moves Into the Casino
Royal for a week’s engagement, and then on
December 21 he heads for Brooklyn’s Paramount
for an appearance with Pat Boone.
Bob Dalton of WTOP has been working a
seven-day schedule for more than two years ...
He’s reports he's finally arranged things so that
on Sundays all he has to do is work for his wife.
. . . John H. Secondary author of the novel,
“Coins in the Fountain,” is heading up the news
operations here for the American Broadcasting
Co. ... He will be sharing an office at the
WMAL Studios with Weatherman Louis Allen.
. . . After three years on the night side Steve
Hollywood Report
'Hot Iceberg' on Air
By SHEILAH GRAHAM
HOLLYWOOD (NANA). Anita Ekberg,
called the hot iceberg in Europe, will be person
to-personed by Ed Murrow in December—from
Hollywood, with husband Anthony Steel. . . .
CBS is after tireless Terry Moore to star in her
own telefilm series. . . . Red Skelton is negoti
ating to buy his Playhouse 90 TV starrer, “The
Big Slide,” to make into a movie a la his “Public
Pigeon Number One.”
British Actor Michael Wilding, spinning
with the rumors and the divorce from Eliza
beth Taylor, is forgetting some of it in work—
he’s rehearsing now with Joseph Cotten for one
of hi* On Trial filmed video shows.
TO date, Universal-International is the sole
major studio to say no to all tempting tele
vision offers for the backlog of pictures. “We
don’t want tto compete with ourselves," a top
a
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TeleVue
Cushing (weekdays, WTOP —9, 6:40 p.m.> is
getting accustomed to daylight. . . . WRC—4’s
Weathergirl Tippy Stringer named “Miss Re
gent” . . . It’s her fifth title since January ’56.
. . . David Schoenbrun back in Paris after a
vacation in time to celebrate his 10th anniver
sary with CBS News ... His new book, “As
France Goes,” scheduled for release by Harper
Brothers in early '57. . . . One viewer considers
that WTOP’s Eddie Gallaher and John Douglas
are the “most impeccably dressed men on
television.”
WRC’s man-about-town, Gene Archer, has
now taken his place as a member of the Red
skins Board of Directors opposite president of
the organization, George Preston Marshall, and
Veep Milton W. King. Archer noted that
although he’s been associated with the club
since 1939 (almost as long as the Redskin great
Sammy Baugh) he was “quite amazed” when
the appointment was announced. “My duties are
very light,” he said, “but even so I certainly
didn't expect anything like this. I guess they
just needed three people to vote on things.”
Jim Simpson, WRC—4’s sports commenta
tor, leaves for Australia this Saturday to cover
the Olympic Games so rthe NBC network. . . .
Pretty Dorothy Cole is now subbing on the Mark
Evans Show for Angela Bayer.
executive explained. . . . Gene Autry, 20 pounds
lighter, is shooting 26 more Annie Oakleys for
his Flying-A Production C 0.—102 have already
been shot! From this and his five other series the
cowboy star and his company make more than
$3 million a year. . . . Abbe Lane and husband
Xavier Cugat have contracted to produce 39
half-hours in color, titled Around the World
With Cugie and Abbe. . . . Jerry Lewis will be
all over the video screens this week end. He
has been overworking and his doctor has
warned: “Slow down.”
Sheldon Reynolds, filming the Milton Berle
adventure series, has got himself engaged to
Nicole Millinaire, a very beautiful lady who works
in his office and helps with the TV decisions....
And from a friend of Berle’s comes this puff:
“Milton looked so young, 25 years old at most,
that Sheldon had to do some reshooting to make
him look older.” Nice to have friends.
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 0. C