TV Guide (June 4, 1955)

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TV Teletype* NEW YORK Bob Stahl reports: Hour-long version of 'Three for the Show," Broadway musical re¬ view, will be telecast by CBS Wednesday night, June 22. Starring will be MARGE and GOWER CHAMPION, HARRY BELAPONTE and The Voices of WALTER SCHUMANN . , . JACKIE GLEASON trying to sign THELMA RITTER as his mother-in-law in The Honeymooners next season. * *"TF NBC planning to preview its projected Wide, Wide World series on Producers' Showcase Monday, June ^7- Live pick- ups will be made i'rom Mexico, featuring CANTINFLAS, the famed Mexican comedian, and from the Shakespeare Festi¬ val at Stratford, Ontario. « « « NBC's Sunday, June 19, "spectacular," titled "Remember 1938," will be a cavalcade of show-business events that year: ETHEL BARRYMORE starring in "White Oaks," OSCAR LEVANT playing GEORGE GERSHWIN'S "Rhapsody in Blue," etc. GROUCHO MARX emcees and GORDON JENKINS conducts. If the show is good, NBC may do others based on specific years' events. * * * Another summertime spectacular on NBC will be a musi¬ cal variety show from Hollywood Saturday, July 2, in conjunction with Universal-International and starring JEFF CHANDLER, PIPER LAURIE, MAMIE VAN DOREN, TONY CURTIS and AUDIE MURPHY. * * * Various movie studios bidding for GORE VIDAL's "Visitor to a Small Planet," telecast recently on TV Playhouse . They see it as a starring vehicle for ALEC GUINNESS or DANNY KAYE ... A telefilm version of "Robin Hood," starring RICHARD GREENE and filmed in England's Sherwood Forest, set for CBS Monday nights in the fall . . . Broadway comedian MENASHA SKULNIK, recently on T he Martha Raye Show , may do a telefilm series next fall based on ‘"The Education of H*y^m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n." * It * HENRY SALOMON, producer of Victo^ at Sea , working on a new documentary series for NBC about the Communist menace, titled The Red Nightmare . . . DICK SHAWN may be handed his own starring situation comedy series. « « * Kinescope repeats of best Elgin Hour and Center Stage shows will take over the Elgin time this summer, starting Tuesday, June 28--but under another name, not yet set . . . Dottle Mack Show moves to Thursday nights In July, replacing ABC*s Pon d's Theater . * * * Make the Comiectlon , new Goodson-Todman panel show, replaces Justice for the summer. Whether Justice will return next fall is not yet certain . . . Singer JILL COREY, who started her career on DAVE GARROWAY's Fri¬ day night show last year, added to the cast of CBS* Orson Bean Show this summer. •Trade-mark, Teletype Corp. Continued on Inside Back Cover