Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

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Reader bonus monthly viewers* -guide Who's who in TV Eleven-year-old Butch Cavell, who's one of the most in-demand child actors, claims that he'd rather be a shortstop than a thespian any day. But these days Hutch Butch sees more cameras — both TV and Cavell movie — than baseball diamonds. He has the distinction of being the first child actor to be tapped for the movies from television. Butch was born in New York in 1939 and his real name is Maurice, which he hates. He entered the Children's Professional School when he was four-and-a-half and his first pro performance was a year later as the little prince in the Theatre Guild's road production of Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale." Video drama fans have seen Butch On Philco Playhouse, Studio I, Ford Theatre and Mr. I. Magination. He has black hair, brown eyes and thinks New York Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto is one of the greatest men alive. When Roy S. Lanson, at the age of two — which was before he could talk — picked up the then current Irving Berlin hit, "Snookey-Ookims," it was nothing Snooky iess than inevitable that part of the title Lanson rub off and remain with him. Almost as inevitable was a singing career. Snooky went from boy soprano to the smooth baritone Your Hit Parade fans know with only a slight pause for the usual voice-breaking period in adolescence. Snooky, who also does the Lucky Strike singing commercials, was a vocalist in his home state of Tennessee on Nashville's station WSM (he was born in Memphis) , a fact which has caused him to be known as the Crosby of the South. Now a Yankee, at least by residence, Snooky lives in a three-story Colonial in Stamford, Conn, with his wife and two children, Ernie and Beth, and commutes to NBC studios in New York. 68