TV Guide (August 20, 1955)

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CONFIPeNTIALUY.. by Sheilah Graham Rooster Reveille For Eve Arden; Liberace Plans To Widen Smile HOLLYWOOD . . . Eve Arden has moved into town from her ranch and taken an apartment near Our Miss Brooks" TV studio. “All the time I lived on the ranch,” she told me, “I never was awakened by anything. But here in the city I’m awakened every morn¬ ing at 5 O’clock—^by a rooster’s crow¬ ing!” ... A letter from Liberace, who is in Europe, says his TV series next season will be shot on a very extrav¬ agant budget, with bigger sets and more impressive wardrobes. And, he adds, even the Liberace smile will be bigger! ■ Jeif Donnell is perched on needles and pins, she tells me, waiting to learn about George GoheVs format for the new season. “I would like to know,"" she sighs, “if I’m going to he ‘Mrs Gohel" or Mrs. Aldo Ray."’ . . . George and the real Alice Gobcl almost had a vacation before George started his feature film at Para¬ mount. But after five days at a resort, they headed home. Says George, “You can play golf and sunm just as well at home—without traveling 500 miles!"" ■i I Love Lucy plans more travel¬ ing next season. Desi Amaz will move the show’s locale to his native Cuba . . . Ambitious to be a director, Desi has joined the Screen Directors’ Guild. And Lucy is confiding to chums that she may become a director, too . . . Gene Autry’s current whimsicality: he phones studio talent scouts, dis¬ guises his voice and says he’s a cow¬ boy from Oklahoma and needs to be discovered. It must be the hot weather. ■ The Jack Webbs are building a great big beautiful home in the Val¬ ley, despite rumbles of discord . . . Gary Cooper is looking for a good TV story . . . Dinah Shore’s two “spec¬ taculars” in the fall may each run 75 minutes . . . Ralph Edwards writes from England, “The BBC is doing all the work putting on my TV show (This Is Your Life) and very efficiently, too!” ■ Says British actor Michael Rennie, “I didn’t mind doing ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ on TV, but it drove me crazy having to say ‘Dr. Jay- kill’ after pronouncing it ‘Dr. Jeck-kill’ all my life!” . . . Blonde beauty Anita Ekberg, who ornaments the Warner Brothers Presents “Casa¬ blanca” series, held up production when her toy poodle came down with heat prostration. Finally, even the di¬ rector was applying ice packs to the pup—and to himself. ■ Art Linkletter asked a little girl: “Who would you most like to be?” “Marilyn Monroe,” she replied. When Art asked why, she explained: “Because she fills out her clothes.” NEXT WEEK; EARL WILSON Jeff Donnell: who she? 22