TV Guide (September 3, 1955)

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TV Teletype* NEW YORK Bob Staht reports: Only one new show, of all this summer's newcomers, hit the Top 10 rating list for August, according to Trendex. That, of course. Is The 164,000 Question . Others are all established oldies. First five; |d 4,000 (Question , I've Got a Secret . Toast of the Town. Two for the Money and fl.fi. Theater] - - » f ^ - Toast of the Town , Incidentally, passes Into limbo as a title this month. Show henceforth will be The Ed Sul ¬ livan Show . . . DICK SHAVfN already signed for eight guest shots at #12,500 each. Under SULLIVAN'S new guest policy, SHAWN can't do any other TV work. * * * Universal doing a movie of "The Clown," with HENRY FONDA slated to repeat the role he created last season on G.E. Theater . . . And Theater Guild, which produced "Seventh Veil" for U.S. Steel Hour, hopes to present It on Broadway, again with DIANA LYNN. - * * * MAX LIEBMAN lined up "The Great Waltz," starring PATRICE MUNSEL,as his second "spectacular," Saturday, Nov. 5, He's signed ANNE JEFFREYS and ROBERT STERLING to star In "Dearest Enemy" later . . . Others on the LIEBMAN roster are ALFRED DRAKE, vriio will do two shows; GALE SHERWOOD, two; TYRONE POWER, at least one. « « * The term "situation comedy" has fallen Into such disrepute even the networks now shun It. They're calling 'em "comedy dramas." At least, that's what CBS terras JANIS PAIGE's new show. It's Always Jan. * ♦ * Ex-Notre Dame coach FRANK lEAHY comes out of retire¬ ment Sept. 29 to headline a new syndicated telefilm pro¬ gram, Football Forecast . He'll predict winners of each Saturday's top games arid explain football Intricacies. HOLLYWOOD Pan Jenkins reports: BING CROSBY will do MAXWELL ANDERSON'S "High Tor" as a Ford Star Jubilee for November. It will be a musical version. In color . . . JUDY GARLAND refused to take a 15-cent bet that she'll do a second TV show before the season Is over . . . Dis ¬ neyland starts Its new batch of films Wednesday, Sept. 14, with an hour-long version of "Dumbo." * * * HEDDA HOPPER, after her outing on the Colgate Variety Hour , wants no more of the medium. "It will kill more people than heart disease," she says flatly . . . NBC wants HELEN HAYES to kick off the first of Its dally, hour-long dramatic shows, now titled NBC Matinee Theater . * Trade-mark. Teletype Corp. Continued on Inside Back Cover