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HOLLYWOOD Dan Jenl<ins reports: Should be a decision any day now on MGM's suit against JACK BENNY for bu^lesquing’‘Gaslight'. , BENNY made the film last June for his TV show but has had to hold it up pending the outcome of the suit. ... One reason DANNY KAYE isn't doing any TV: He'll gross $700,000 for 1953 alone, not counting a percentage of his latest pictures. * * * BING CROSBY is advising everyone to appear on tele¬ vision no more than six or seven times a year . . . EDDIE CANTOR is through with the Comedy Hour after this season. His already announced series of 39 half-hour films will be of the variety type, with CANTOR as the host-emcee, and will be simulcast for radio . . . EDGAR BERGEN has signed to do four hour-long shows for Kraft next season, in addition of 39 hour-long radio shows. * * * JERRY LEWIS' Christmas card was inscribed: "A gift has been sent in your name--to King Farouk". . . . DESI ARNAZ has reached the thinking-out-loud stage on his plan to expand I Love Lucy to a full hour for the 1955-56 season. . . . The best and funniest pilot film this writer has seen in a long, long while is MICKEY ROONEY’S "Hey, Mulligan"- warm slapstick in the hands of a master. ... The HAL ROACH lot is predicting overnight stardom for SALLY ANSFIELD of the new Rocky Jones* Space Ranger film series, due to start on the air this month. * * * CBS has no less than 11 new shows in the preparatory stage for next season, including a half-hour dramatic series starring GINGER ROGERS. . . . The RITZ BROTHERS are planning to make 26 half-hour TV films in Mexico City this spring. . . . NBC has replaced EZIO PINZA's i* Bonino with 13 weeks worth of SPIKE JONES. * * * SARA BERNER's radio show of several seasons back, "Sara's Private Caper," is now the subject of serious conversation at NBC-TV . . . MARTIN & LEWIS will produce 26 half-hour variety films for TV, using unknowns. LEWIS will direct but neither comic will appear in the shows. They hope to get started on the project this month. . . . EDWARD ARNOLD will serve as host-emcee of a "new" dramatic film series to be called Your Star Showcase^. The block of 52 shows actually will consist of 43 re-runs and seven new films. * * * MARJORIE LORD has been signed as the Lever girl and will portray the women's page editor in the Big Town film series as well as handle the commercials . . . JACK WEBB to vacation in Honolulu early this year . . . HOWARD DUFF making a Ford Theater film which he hopes will also serve as a pilot for a series of his own. 14