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Film star; MacRae in a scene from movie version of 'Oklahoma!', not yet released. me, but the program was so dignified I still run into middle-aged women who won’t believe I’m really Gor¬ don MacRae.” Actually, MacRae is a bouncing, brown-eyed boy of only 34. TTie son of an Orange, N.J., concert pianist and her manufacturer husband, he broke into show business at the age of 20 as an NBC page in New York and later became a vocalist with Horace Heidt’s orchestra. He is mar¬ ried to Sheilah Stephens, a former actress, and is the father of four chil¬ dren. Three of these—11, nine and seven years old—^made a guest ap¬ pearance with him on Comedy Hour, and their singing was an exhibition of undiscovered talent that should have impressed even Ekl Sullivan. I^ow that the season’s over, even MacRae willingly confesses that the Comedy Hour didn’t exactly turn out to be “It.” “All that traveling we did for remotes,” MacRae says, referring to jaunts he made to New York, Miami, Chicago and New Orleans, “could have been eliminated. The pro¬ gram didn’t match the cities, anyway. We could have done in Hollywood what we did in Chicago, and we could have featured New Orleans jazz in New York and nobody would have known the difference.” A week’s guest-substituting he did for Eddie Fisher convinced MacRae that TV is the place for a singer. “Putting one of those 15-minute mu¬ sicals together,” he says, “is easy. I could do it every day and I’d like to.” But not necessarily right away, he says. Just now he’s hoping for the lead in “Carousel,” another movie based—like “Oklahoma!”—on a Rod¬ gers and Hammerstein stage musical. Also, he says if he had his choice be¬ tween a TV show and a Broadway musical, he’d take the musical. “TV is here to stay, all right, and don’t let anyone tell you the money isn’t good,” he says. “But I’ve got the feeling it doesn’t pay to hurry. The later you get into TV, the better off you’ll be. Them’s my sentiments.” 17