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HOLLYWOOD Dan Jenl<ins reports: Two more TV shows are about to follow the Dragnet lead. Both Make Room for Daddy , with DANNY THOMAS and JEAN HAGEN, and Dear Phoebe, the new series starring PETER LAWFORD, will be expanded next spring into full-length feature pictures . . . Blondie , the comic strip, is now in produc¬ tion at the HAL ROACH lot, with PAMELA BRITTON and HAL LE ROY in the leads . . . HUGH O’BRIAN, after two trial runs on The Loretta Young Show, has now been signed to do eight more. , * * * ANDY DEVINE will succeed the late ED MCCONNELL in the Smilin' 1 Ed's Gang film series, which now becomes Andy's Gang . . . LOUELLA PARSONS starts production some time this month on her own series of film shows. See H ollywood . Her first pilot, made three years ago, never got off the ground. FLORENCE HALOP stars in Meet Millie . Meet Millie airs opposite Make Room for Daddy. Make Room for Daddy is agented by GEORGE GRUSKIN. GEORGE GRUSKIN is married to FLORENCE HALOP. End roundelay . . . The Oct. 12 Fireside Theater presentation of JOHN VANDERCOOK's "The Reign of Amelika Jo," is probably the first all-Negro show ever to go out over a network . . . The second may be "Carmen Jones," now being planned as an NBC "spectacular." * * * JACK BENNY’S four head writers have just signed up for their twelfth year with him, one reason why the comedian is so consistently good . . . PHYLLIS COATES plays opposite STEVE DUNNE in CBS' Professional Father pilot film . . . MARY SHIPP, of the late My Friend Irma , will appear on Kraft Theater, Robert M o ntgomery Presents and U. S. Steel Hour in the next two months. , * * * The two-hour, four-network "Light's Diamond Jubilee" show, being produced by DAVID 0. SELZNICK on Oct. 24, will originate from CBS' Television City. Set to date are HELEN HAYES, JENNIFER JONES, GUY MADISON, JOSEPH COTTEN, THOMAS MITCHELL, WALTER BRENNAN and young BRANDON DE WILDE. KING VIDOR will direct portions of the show, which will be roughly half live, half film. BEN HECHT, an old SELZNICK hand, will do some of the writing; VICTOR YOUNG, the composing and conducting. "Lend an Ear" will be done as a Chrysler Shower of Stars musical . . . Columnist ERSKINE JOHNSON'S Hollywood Reel , just about the first TV film show ever to go on the air, is having its narrated sound¬ track updated . . . That living "statue" you'll see on an upcoming Ray Bolger Show is GLORIA PALL. WOW! 4