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HOLLYWOOD Dan Jenkins reports: FRANK CAPRA, after one year and $250,000, has completed the pilot film, Our Mr^ Sun, for AT&T's proposed new hour-long science series . . . Truth or Consequences starts on NBC May 18, replacing FRED ALLEN . . . NBC is putting $2,000,000 into a new color studio to be built at the network's Burbank plant here. Studio will be ready by the end of this year. * * * The Dragnet feature picture, now in production at War¬ ners, is loaded with radio actors . . . Halls of Ivy, starring the RONALD C0LMANS, is budgeted at $50,000 per film, making it one of the most expensive half-hour shows yet . . . The Comedy Hour, already renewed for next year, will alternate between comedy and musical comedies, latter to be done out of New York. EDDIE CANTOR and DONALD O'CONNOR leave the show, with DURANTE, MARTIN & LEWIS and ABBOTT & COSTELLO thus far set to return. * * * Sign of the times: actress PAT CROWLEY appeared on more than 50 TV shows before finally making her debut on radio . . . IM0- GENE COCA's dilemma: whether to do eight or 10 live one-shots for NBC out of N. Y. next season or 39 half-hour Mi dge films out of Hollywood. On a long range basis, the Midge series is by far the better deal for her . . . Former Notre Dame coach FRANK LEAHY will do a weekly quarter-hour sports film for ABC-TV in the fall. ♦ * * The new Lassi e film series goes into full production May 17 . . . EVE ARDEN, who already has adopted three chil¬ dren, is having one of her own come September . . . That hour-long CBS Saturday afternoon wrestling "show" is being dropped as of May 1--nobody wants to buy it ... As predicted here some time ago. DICK POWELL will be head of production for RK0. TV can lead a man anywhere. * * * WALT DISNEY's 26 hour-long shows for ABC next season will be made up of four different series: Frontierland. World of Tomor ¬ row. True Life Adventures and Fantasvland. For the remaining 26 weeks of the year ABC will offer 13 This Is the U. S. films, with JOHN DALY, and a 13-week summer show not yet picked . . . NANETTE FABRAY will headline five of MAX LIEBMAN's new Your Show of Shows^ They threw a surprise farewell party for RICHARD (Walter Denton) CRENNA on the Our Miss Brooks set--and, he promptly signed up for another season . . .It's true, by heaven, ABBOTT now weighs more than COSTELLO . . . SONNY TUFTS to do 52 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe films . . . REED HADLEY is his own competition here on Thursday nights, appearing simultaneously in Racket Squad and Public Defender. 14