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Why can’t they get with it?” Well, take Betty Hutton. She was a smash hit at the Palace in New York and the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. All three major TV networks have been hot on her trail, but they are very reluctant to pay the kind of money Miss Hutton is demanding. At first blush, it would appear that Miss Hutton is overestimating her worth by a considerable degree. This may be true from the networks’ standpoint, but it isn’t from hers. Betty Hutton, as any Paramount ex¬ Judy Garland: Movies and personal appearance tours keep TV off her list. ecutive can wearily attest, is a per¬ fectionist. She drives herself like Frankie Laine drives a mule train. At Las Vegas, she knocked herself out, show after show, to the point where she missed two shows because of sheer physical exhaustion. Miss Hutton, in short, works hard and has a reason¬ able desire to be paid in kind. Danny Kaye has held out long enough to have seen what has hap¬ pened to those of his confreres who have long since taken the plunge. Essentially a variety comedian, Kaye could easily burn himself out in one fast year on TV. And once all that wonderful old material is gone, it be¬ comes a frantic rat race to come up with something new and fresh. To Kaye, at the moment, no amount of money is worth that kind of life. Kaye, further, takes the TV chal¬ lenge seriously. “I’ll go on when I feel it’s time for me to utilize this tremendous new medium,” he says, “but not until I’m mentally prepared fdi- it. After all, I can’t just bust into the thing willy-nilly. It’s too great a responsibility.” .As for Judy Garland and Betty Grable, they are about as far removed from television as it’s possible to be without moving to Singapore and hav¬ ing done with it. Grable, just recently out on her own after an adult lifetime under contract to 20th Century-Fox, hasn’t given so much as a thought to Betty Hutton: Networks are reluctant to pay kind of money she demands. the new medium. “All I’m interested in right now,” she says, “is a vacation.” Vacation, to Miss Grable, means camp¬ ing out at the Del Mar racetrack, where her horses win more money for less work than she could ever sweat out of TV. Judy Garland, a perfectionist of the Hutton school, wants no part of TV for the time being. And should the time come, it will be on film or noth¬ ing. “Every facet of any television show I might do,” she says, “would have to fit perfectly—story, network, time on the air, how many per year, and everything else.” When she fin¬ ishes her current picture, she takes to the road again with her own show. When she’s finished that particular tour, she wants to make another pic¬ ture. By the time that’s finished, it will be spring again. TV? Maybe next year. 6