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WILLIAM GOETZ will make his TV debut next year when he makes 2 one-hour specials on the "Life of King David" both to be filmed on location in Israel and presented over ABC-TV for the 1960-61 season. ... If and when Merv Griffin does the new Goodson-Todman music series next February, his singing partner will be Chele Graham. . . . They're really ABCooking these days. Looks like David Susskind may sign to produce several ABC specials next year and another important item deals with the strong possibility of that outfit going to Stockholm next summer to film or videotape Ingrid Bergman as the star of Stringberg's very dramatic "Miss Julia." . . . Ambitious as well as talented is Zel deCyr. The clever actress-announcer-mimic, who did the "voices" of 59 different subjects in 1959 merely wishes to "voice" commershills of 60 people in 1960. . . . Titled "The Four of Us," the January 20 episode of the "Bell Telephone Hour" will co-star Ethel Merman, Beatrice Lillie, Ray Bolger and Benny Goodman. The full hour of special music will be maestroked by Don Voorhees with Bill Hobin, producer-director. . . . Lot of interest around Madison Avenooers in the pilot of new teleseries, "The Gringo," produced in Mexico by (William) O'Dwyer— Gorton Productions and starring as "El Gato" (the cat) George Givot. The half-hour program is produced by Ronnie Gorton and is packed with adventure, romance and comedy. . . . Hubbell Robinson expected back from the coast about mid-January. . . . Former screen star Jack Mulhall is now field rep for Screen Gems. . . . Bobby Darin and Connie Francis, who'll guestrill on the "Ed CBSullivan Show" Sunday will feature a duet bit in addition to their solos. . . . Dave Bader's "Christmas Letter" rates a prominent place on your desk ALL YEAR AROUND. . . . The titiantressed Maureen O'Hara has a date with stardom in 1960. On Thursday, Jan. 7 she'll portray "Mrs. Miniver" in the "CBSpecial Tonight" TVersion of the World War II drama; in the Spring she goes into rehearsal for her first Broadway musical production, "Christine," book by Pearl Buck and music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster; recently signed to record for RCAVictor, her initial album, "Love Letters From Maureen" has just been released. . . .
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It's been a long time since we referred to the song-bird of the south as Kate CBSmith but the musical merry-go-round has made a complete cycle and the fabulous Kate Smith-Ted Collins combo returns to the BUI Paley menage— right back where it all started 27 years ago. A new wrinkle in the situation-comedy type of TV fare will be unveiled next Fall TVia ABC when Screen Gems will present "The Flagstones" a halfhour program in complete animation and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The characters will speak and act as contemporaries but the setting and times will be in the prehistoric age. . . . Jean Bartel, "Miss America of 1943," whose appearance in a Hong Kong Nite Club caught the eyes and ears of the producer of the "ABCounterthrust" teleseries of the Orient, starring Tod Andrews, has been signed for one or more of the 39 episodes. . . . "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," the Rexall TV Special which will be NBChannelled Sunday, Jan. 10 (8-9 P.M., EST) will feature the most impressive roster of stars in many a moon. Included are Gary Cooper, Lucille Ball, Gloria Swanson, Jimmy Stewart, Teddy (Mickey's son) Rooney, Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Marion Davies, Francis X. Bushman, Ramon Novarro, Ricardo Cortez, Walt Disney, Bill Daniels (cameraman for all Greta Garbo films), Tony Perkins, Venetia Stevenson (daughter of Anna Lee), Liza Minelli (daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minelli), and Mrs. Anna Bauchens (editor of all Cecil B. DeMille's epics.) Here's a whopper of a "Hopper" that should earn some Hooper. . . .
Audience Board, NAEB loin on Programming
From THE DAILY Bureau I HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29. The National Audience Board and the Naional Association of Educational Broadcasters in a reciprocal arrangement have joined together in a comhion effort, directed toward the mutual goal of aiding programming in television, it was announced by Peter poelet, NAB president. Joint affiliation resulted as an aftermath of the iNAEB's convention in Detroit last
jjnonth, to which the NAB sent two
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J The NAEB becomes the 59th major iiorganization to join the board in attempts to evaluate television programWing on a depth-opinion basis. In its aaffiliation, the NAEB will participate in the reviewing of programs as a sipublic service to all parties interested pn specific programs. Hereafter, according to Goelet, whenever the NAB makes a survey of a program, the findings of the NAEB will be included.
Franken Named Head Of NTA Ad-Pub Dept.
Appointment of Jerry Franken as executive director for advertising, promotion and publicity of National Telefilm Associates, Inc., was announced by Oliver A. Ungar, presildent of the company. NTA is a subsidiary of National Theatres & Television, Inc.
Franken, who had been NTA's director of publicity, was formerly director of public relations for Television Programs of America, Inc., a radio-TV producer; radio TV editor of The Billboard and on the staffs of Variety and The New York Times. He will headquarter at NTA's home office in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Martin Roberts will continue as promotion director, Alfred E. F. Stern as publicity director, West Coast, and Harry Algus, publicity director, East Coast.
CBS Affiliates Meet
In Washington Feb. 29
A special conference of executives of the CBS Television Network and CBS Television Network affiliates will be held at the Hotel Shoreham, Washinton, D.C., Feb. 29 and Mar. 1, it was announced by James T. Aubrey, j Jr., president, CBS Television Network. Aubrey said that the purpose of the special meeting would be to examine the television broadcasters' role, their public responsibilities, and how best those responsibilities can be fulfilled.
Invitations to address the CBS Tele
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Schoenfeld Slates 25
Twenty-five new short subjects in color will be released during the 1960 season by Lester A. Schoenfeld Films. Ten will be one-reel, 10 tworeel and five three-reel. They will be issued at the rate of two a month. January releases scheduled are "The Blue Peter" and "Queensland Playground."
RCA 1959 Profits Up 29%: Sarnoff
The Radio Corporation of America's sales for 1959 increased 17 per cent over 1958, and profits after taxes increased 29 per cent, RCA chairman David Sarnoff reported yesterday.
In a year-end statement to the company's shareholders, General Sarnoff said RCA's business volume for the year reached an all-time high of about $1,375,000,000. Profits after taxes rose to some $40,000,000 from $30,900,000 in 1958. Earnings per share of common stock increased to approximately $2.65 from $2.01 in the preceding year.
All Operations Show Gain
The improvement in earnings, said the RCA chairman, reflects "increases in virtually all of the company's major operating units, and the cumulative effects of a corporate-wide cost-reduction program." He said that during 1959, for the first time, RCA crossed the "break-even" line and began to earn a profit on the sale of color television sets.
"Trends during 1959," said General Sarnoff, "give every reason for confidence in the continuing growth of RCA's business, as well as of the electronics industry and the national economy, in the emerging decade of the Sixties.
The RCA chairman said that sales of color TV sets climbed steadily during the year and have been running at a rate of 30 per cent ahead of the previous year.
"During 1959, for the first time, RCA crossed the 'break-even' fine and began to earn a profit on the sale of color sets," he said.
Cites Popularity of Color-TV
"In the color broadcasting field, a large number of advertisers are already sponsoring color programs on NBC and are presenting their commercials in color. It is expected that as sales of color sets increase, substantial advertising support will be available for additional color programs and color commercials, because of the tremendously greater impact of color over black-and-white, both in programming and commercials. This will bring about the classic upward spiral of increased advertising support leading to increased color programming and in turn to color circulation, until color television becomes established as a basic program and advertising medium.
"We look for substantial progress in color television during 1960 and further progress in the years to follow."
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