FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 1, 1955
Televising Circus
Tremendous Task
NEW YORK “The Greatest
Show On Earth” played the na
tional living room circuit Tuesday
night lor the first tme and ddn’t
lose a spangle or an elephant.
As smoothly as it appeared on
your television screens over the
NBC network, that’s how smoothly
the specially constructed program
of important acts of the Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and Bailey
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Circus was run off in Madison
Square Garden for one hour before
an invited audience of about 5,000
The only uncooperative mem be:
of the cast was one medium-sized
elephant that refused to join the
fore-foot-mount formation line
with its fellow In the finale and
instead stood glaring at John Ring
ling North in the official box as
though demanding a raise ih hay.
COLORS GALORE
| “I can’t find a thing to say ex
cept that it was just wonderful,”
the circus owner said after it was
all over.
“It couldn’t have run more
| smoothly,” said Alan Handley,’ di
j rector of the program who had
1 been working toward this supreme
moment since last November.
It was really a shame that every
one couldn’t have had a color TV
set for this one. Myles White, who
has dressed the big show for years,
has really outdone himself this
| time in a tasteful riot of colors,
j The center ring, where the lions
of Paul Fritz worked, is covered
with yellow-colored wood chips.
One of the end rings has a blended
purple-white covering; the other
has a pink covering. The track
around the arena is finished in a
greensh shade. The stage on which
the clowns blew up the kitchen
stove has a white geometric design
painted on black. ——
Those huge letters of the alpha
bet covering the walls of the arena
in endless chain were in many
colors on rainbow backgrounds.
Fifteen minutes before the show
went on the air at 8 pun. EST, the
dozens of circus people in the
opening “spec” were lined up n
place, burdened by their heavy
aostumes. They scarcely imoved
until the show went on the air. The
lions moved down the chute from
their steel w r agon into the barred
arena while the parade was going
on.
CAMERAS “CATCH" CATS
A TV camera was riffht up
against the bars photographingb
Fritz and his “cats” throughout
their act.
Ten cameras were scattered at
varicLs points around the arena,
alon# with a number of huge TV
spotlights to augment the Garden’s
own high-powered lighting system.
Two large vans moved an NBC
control room crew and equipment
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SENIOR KNEEPANT LEAGUE PLAYERS Pictured above
are members of the senior Kneepant league. The league has games
scheduled twice each week, here In the ball park. Pictured, from
left to right, front row: George Lee, Buddy Godwin. David Coats,
Charles Tripp, Donald Bass, Jimmy Jordan, Fred Newton, Jimmy
Lamn, and Willie Tart; second row: Herman West, Harry Britoon,
Studio Lot To House
Television Stages
HOLLYWOOD —UP'—Signs of the
times! At least one major riiovie
company is spending $2,500,000 on
rebuilding a nostalgia-filled studiq
lot to serve nothing but television.
20th Century-Fox’s famous West
ern Avenue studio where Janet
Gaynor and Charles Farrell team
ed for “Seventh Heaven” and Ed
mund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and
Dolores del Rio made movie history
with “What Price Glory” has been
dormant for close to two decades.
But not anymore.
Today, the 13-acre Studio lot
which lost its usefulness after the
company moved to its modern stu
dio city half-way. between Holly
wood and the Pacific Ocean, is
buzzing with activity.
Huge stages, empty and silent
since the late 1930’5, are being cut
in thirds to become television
stages. At least one sound studio
has been turned into a television
to the Garden for the temporary
setup.
As soon as the show was off the
air at 9 p.m., the Garden attend
ants began shooting the crowd out
side and NBC picked up its lights,
cameras, monitor TV sets and con
trol equipment and went home to
Radio City.
For outside was another crowd,
waiting to get in —for free to
see a complete dress rehearsal of
the entire circus that started at
10 p.m.
Tonight: The seasonfs official
opening. Marilyn Monroe on a pink
elephant. Sorry. No television.
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theatre for audience participating
programs.
Harold Lewis, a company repre
sentative assigned to manage Hol
lywood’s latest contribution to tele
vision’s future, estimated that 10
television shows will be produced
■on the lot simultaneously.
“We’ll have 15 stages,” he said,
“each averaging 10,000 square feet
of floor space, and one double-size
theatre. Our studio will be unique
in that it will be the first specially
patterned to television needs.
“Thus our sound stages will have
one third less depth than the con
ventional movie stages because in
television you don’t use long shots,
just medium and close.
rFOX ALSO TO PRODUCE
“The stages will hold sets that
telescope kito each other. A bed
room set, for instance, could be
pushed into a living room set and
so on. In the morning, the com
pany would shoot the bedroom
scene and while the actors were
out to lunch the bedroom walls
would be pulled out to reveal the
liVfife room. ’’Mei-iSlon! demands
speed and expediency and that’s
what they’ll get.
“Plus economy. Where movie sets
are 15 and more feet in height, our
sets won’t exceed 10 feet, which is
all you need when shooting a tele
vision film.”
Lewis, to whom the television
film technique is an outgrowth of
the early two-reelers he started out
with 32 years ago. has ordered
$300,000 worth of modern lighting
equipment, $750,000 worth of scor
ing and dubbing equipment, 10 re
cording channels, 10 cameras on
dollies and other paraphernalia
.that will make the 20th Century-
Fox television subsidiary “the
greatest television film studio In
the world.”
The studio will open its gates to
television producers in mid-June.
It will hold 10 self-containing units
which if working at full capacity
could produce a total of 680 half
hour TV shows per years.
Hmfrever, Pox won’t be merely
playing landlord. Plans are afoot
to produce at least one SIOO,OOO
one-hour color film per month for
a commercial TV sponsor. The com
pany is considering orders for other
shows that would use Fox contract
players, existing props and even
old story properties. Starlets on
Ronnie Wade, Billy Carroll, Robert Lee, Billy Hall, and Harold Aus
ley; third row: Joe Tart, Jerry Bass, Paul White. Kenneth Wil
liams, Jimmy Conn, Joseph Norris, John Johnson; fourth
row: Bill Jernigan, Jimmy Jones. Joe Thomas, Bud Hudson, Jimmy
Mattox, Louis Godwin, Jr., and Jackie Sturgill.
Sabrina, London
Actress, Calls
Scotland Yard
LONDON—Sabrina, a blonde
star built like Marilyn Monrooe—
only more so—is also having nude
picture trouble.
The honey blonde Is so upset by
it all that she has called Scotland
Yard’s vice squad with the tearful
plea: “Stop them publishing pic
tures of me iq the nude.”
The tough vice squad boss. Detec
tive Superintendent Steve Glander,
gallantly responded “I will not rest
until I have the full collection on
my desk here before me. I am
treating it as a matter of priority.”
A DAGMAR TYPE ACT ON TV
Sabrina (real name Norma Sykes,
daughter of a fairly well-off Man
chester couple) has been vowing
British male TV audiences for the
last few months with a Dagmar
type act, and her 39-inch bust
(Marilyn measures 37).
When Norma came to London
three years ago she was sweet 16,
bravely trying to became a
model after two years in the hos
pital with polio. Things were tough
and the only work she could get
was posing for art photographs:
But a girl has to eat, so Norma
posed in the hopeful belief that no
one would recognize the undraped
model.
Then early this year top British
comic Arthur Askey wanted a really
curvaceous dumb blonde for his TV
show. She didn’t have to act, she
didn’t have to dance or sing, she
didn't even have to speak. And the
studio payroll will get their first
chance of acting in these television
productions.
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„ TELEVISION WINS NEW
POPULARITY
From the moment Norma now
Sabrina—displayed her charms on
a TV closeup. Englishmen crowded
closer to their sets. Next time the
Askey program came on, the Brit
ish Broadcasting Corp. estimated
that its male audiences almost
doubled.
Within days Sabrina was being
offered contracts so fast she could
not keep count. From the $2 fee
she got for her nude poses ’ she
jumped to S2OO-plus for fleeting
appearances at fashionable charity
shows. Society photographer Baron
asked her if she could find the time
to pose for him, and she is sched
uled to start her first film any
moment now.
Then someone told Sabrina that
the value of those almost forgotten
nude poses had gone up steeply
too—just like Marilyn’s famous cal
endar.
DIDN’T WANT TO ADMIT
Sabrina threw a tantrum. “I
was only a kid of 16 when those
were taken,” she sobbed. “I was
not going to admit defeat to my
parents and ask them for my fare
home. I will do everything I can
to stop" them from being circu
lated.”
So she called on Detective Super
inttendent Glander, and he has
promised cooperation, particularly
if any of the pictures “come outside
the category of art studies.
Moral for well-endowed blondes:
Never post nude; one day you may
be famous.
SAN FRANCISCO IP Mrs.
Genevieve M. Agnew, a landlord
was indicted for interfering with
the mails after fluorescent powder
dusted on letters mailed to Miss
Joyce Gast, one of her tenants,
was found on her hands.
The letters, which Miss Gast said
were taken before she read them,
were from airline pilot William Ag
new, Mrs. Agnew’s husband.
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LODI. Italy IP Authorities re
ported today that two farm work
ers have been charged with cutting
the tailS off 39 cows because they
got mad at their boss.
SPRINGFIELD 111. OP) Stale
Rep. Ben Rhodes admitted to his
colleagues that he was hurt when
they defeated a bill he sponsored,
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said,.“but you didn't have to be so
1 ornery.”
DETROIT lift William P. Ut
•ter, 47. told the judge he passed a
red light because he was trying to
escape a fire in the front of
his car started by a fallen cigaret
ash.
The judge sentenced him to 10
days in jail or $l5O fine.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. <IP Mrs. '
Jeanne K. Davis, confessed Wed
nesday that she wrote 55.000 in i
worthless checks- using her ex-1
husband's name, in hopes he would |
learn of it and come back to Mil- I
waukee
CHICAGO dpi - Russian farm- |
| ers who will watch a major league
baseball game when they visit Chi
cago in August may not under
stand what’s going on.
Officials so far have been un
able to find anyone who speaks
Russian and also knows baseball
well enough to explain the game.
HOLLYWOOD iiP Actress
Barbara Stanwyck was hospitalized
in nearby Santa Monica today wi fV i
a painful back injury resulting from
a fall down a flight of stairs at
her home.
Her physician. Dr. George W.
Ainley Sr., said preliminary x-rays
taken after the accident Wednesday
indicated Miss Stanwyck did not
have a spine fracture as was first
feared. A complete examination was
j to be made today.
I CAMP KILMER N. J OP Taps
; will sound for Camp Kilmer to
night.
The post named for poet Joyce
Kilmer who was killed in action
during World War I will pass to
standby status at midnight despite
the efforts of local residents to keep
it open. i
Kilmer was the temporary home
for more than 5 million men and
women who passed through here
to and from overseas assignment
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OXNARD. Calif U" Film star I
Loretta Young rested comfortably j
in St. John's Hospital today follow- }
ing surgery for adhe
sions which have kept her in bed
since mid-April.
Attendants said Wednesday’s two
hour operation was a success and
the actress was expected to re
cover rapidly.
HAVANA Cuba (IP President
Fulgencio Batista said Wednesday
night former President Carlos Pna
Socarras may return to Cuba
“freely and he wishes”
if he ends his alleges subversive
activities.
Prio is now’ living in exile m
Miami, la
If Prio ends his. “subversive
plans,” Batista said he may' re
turn “with full - guarantees as a
citizen and resume his political acr
tivities if he wants to do so.”
Prio has been charged by| a Cu
ban court of masterminding an
anti - Ba tisln underground and a
warrant for his arrest issued.
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