Evening star. [volume], March 08, 1959, Image 195

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
"Star
WASHINGTON. D C
PaMbM by THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER CO., Woshbgtoa 3. 0. C„ Tsbphsas Uecth 3-5000
Hh ■, , £ *bH^^^bL -mA 49
21 Bk . \kJßpflf9 • /■ W
' t , '‘ V # 1
■ - i: 1
a tMS&d
V BBP w^
11 (%,
HA i
m, 'mm
ACTRESS AT WORK —Frances (Mrs. Edgar) Bergen reports that she enjoys this sort
of work as a regular on Yancy Derringer. And if you're trying to figure out what sort of
work it is t the Indian (X. Brands) is warning Yancy (Jock Mahoney) in sign language
that Madame Francine has a knife. —Wide World Photo.
Coyer Story
A Pleasure to Behold
, By BERNIK HARRISON
BUrTVCrttla
I’ve never been able to figure out what that
cigar store Indian is doing in CBS-TV’s Taney
Derringer—and, come to think of It, I’ve never
been able to figure out what Yancy is doing
on TV. But about Madame Francine, well, ring
a-dlng-ding.
\ Watching Frances Bergen, in or out of that
rob, is a pleasure.
We first met her out of the role—as Mrs.
Edgar Bergen, hostess to a bunch of famished
critics on a long-ago press Junket to Los Angeles.
Frances and her famous husband were living in
a secluded home which they nicknamed “Her
CONTENTS
Week of March t-March 14, 1959
Corsr Story (Franc** Icrgoe) I
TclsVoa Mailbag 4
This Weak'* Program* 6 35
lads* of Shows 004 Slot* 36-37
wervepnHM ••••«*«••
This Wash ia Maria*-. 39
This Weak ia Sport* 39
Thit Wash far CbiMroa 40
This Week's Cairn Shaw*—— 40
This Wash's PahKc Affairs 40
mlt’s Rest” And I recall a massive living room
with a high celling criss-crossed with Spanish
beams, and Celeste Holm, but that’s another
story.
“We left it sadly about'a year ago,” Frances
was saying, “It was such a big place to keep up.
We now have a small home that’s more con
venient to everything, in fact. Just a block or
so from the Beverly Hills Hotel. Our neighbors?
Well, there’s Kirk Douglas, George Montgomery
and Doris Day."
Frances, by the way, is no stranger to Wash
ington. She came here with Edgar, Charlie,
Mortimer and the entire retinue about four
Caatiaaad oa Next Page