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PRIDE OF THE FAMILY P RIDE OF THE FAMILY cannot be marked down as one of the strongest entries in ABC’s new all- star program lineup. With Paul Hart¬ man, former nightclub and musical comedy dance satirist in the lead, the program is another in the long string of family comedies now inundating TV. The laughs in this one come from preposterous situations and Hartman’s wonderfully mobile face. The show suffers from the same drawback that has plagued too many other TV situation comedies. The situ¬ ations are contrived to the point of absurdity. Here’s a supposedly aver¬ age middle-class American family, where the husband and an old crony are found sword-fighting by the wife and kids. They immediately deduce that they are trying to kill each other. Actually, they’re just rehearsing for a revival of their high-school play. This is funny? Hartman, as head of the household, is playing the bumbling, good-hearted character that won him numerous fans in his Broadway reviews. He is a really fine dancer but the script, thus far, has not provided any op¬ portunities for his specialty. The way it looks, it won’t. Fay Wray, onetime movie star, is his attractive wife. She came out of retirement for this role, which is a pity because she deserves better. Natalie Wood and Bobby Hyatt, as their children, get away with then- parts because neither is too pre¬ cocious.— R. S. Paul Hartman: no chance to dance. FINE TUNING By OLLIE CRAWFORD J ULIUS LA ROSA launches own ca¬ reer as singer. Julius is the boy who started out as a humble $900-a- week singer. • He couldn’t remember the words to that Hit Parade song: “Be humble, don’t grumble.” • It seems that La Rosa lost his hu¬ mility, and now all he’s got is money. He found out that it pays to be humble, but it pays more to have an agent. La Rosa is a shy fellow, and he now figures he was shy about $2100 a week. • Julie could have landed a job with Planters, but he’s tired of working for peanuts. • Friend of ours is now ready for a TV career, having studied singing under Mario Lanza, acting under Robert Montgomery and humility under Milton Berle. He figured he was ready for a singing career after the surgeon took out his tonsils, ade¬ noids and backbone. • Julius got out just in time. He was getting dishpan hands from hanging up the wet tea bags. • When opportunity knocks, it’s only natural that Julius seize ’er. 23