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Jack Benny Says He’s Nearing 40; Durante Will Use Miranda Program HOLLYWOOD . . . Jack Benny, pereni- ally “39,” reports he positively will age one year on his next birthday— Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. “I’ll turn 40,” he says, “with a big celebration on the show.” . . . Jimmy Durante will use the filmed television show with Car¬ men Miranda, completed the day be¬ fore she died. Only one line will be cut—Miss Miranda’s com¬ ment, “I’m out of breath,” near die end. . . . Now that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are back to¬ gether, Dean will get more of the lau^is. ■ Michael O’Shea heard some of the crew com¬ plimenting co-star Jimmy Dunn on how young-look¬ ing he is—and the fact he hasn’t even one gray hair. “Sure,” interrupted Mike, "he blackens his shoes ev¬ ery day, too!” ■ Betty Hutton won’t sign for more than one Betty Hutton: “spectacular” with NBC for the fall. “I want to see if they like me before I do a series. This one I’ll do on my own, with no interference. It’ll be a vaudeville show like the one I did in New York and at Las Vegas.” . . . Diana Lynn refused the Joan Caulfield part in the revamped My Favorite Husband. “I don’t want a series,” she explains. “I love doing the one-hour shows.” . . . Sheree North was tossed off a coast-to-coast interview program when she arrived sans make-up when the show was one-third over. ■ Ekldie Albert and wife Margo are preparing a new “Mr. and Mrs.” TV series about a couple who run a boarding house for out-of-work actors. . . .Marie Wilson dreamed she was a contestant on The $64,000 Ques¬ tion. “I won the $64,000,” she says, “and raced to the bank for my money, only to find I had a rubber check. I woke up screaming!” . . . George Gobel may have an entirely different TV family this season. Peggy King wanted more money and format changes could divorce him from his TV wife, Jeff Donnell. ■ Art Linkletter will be commuting between Hollywood and New York for his color spectaculars. ^ . . . Eve Arden, now film- ing a full-len^ feature based on Our Miss Brooks, needed some students who looked like students for a high school scene, and de- on her own. cided to hire the real Mc¬ Coy. “After interviewing all the kids in one school, I found them all too young. I had to use my own (fairly grown-up) TV pupils.” . . . Cirouc^o Marx told me he was exhausted from so much traveling. “You intend to settle down?” I asked. “To settle up,” quipped the comedian. ■ Jim Backus, who portrayed Joan Davisi’ husband in I Married Joan, says he’s looking for a sound-proof booth like the one on The $64,000 Question. "For my mother-in-law.” Next Week: Earl Wilson 22