TV Guide (July 9, 1955)

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‘Ramar’ Disillusions A Stowaway: Liberace Nixes Mixed - Up Piano HOLLYWOOD . . . Jon Hall, star of Ramar of the Jungle, found a six- year-old stowaway in his car. The boy told him he wanted to go to Africa with Jon—^until Jon convinced him that “Ramar” doesn’t really go to Africa himself, just sends a camera¬ man there ... A fan, making a piano-shaped headboard for Liber- ace’s bed, put the black keys in the wrong order and wired Lee; “That will be OK, won’t it?” Lee wired back; “Oh, no! I could never sleep, think¬ ing all the time there was a wrong type of keyboard over my head!” ■ The youngsters in Hollywood are singing a new song these days. Goes like this: “On top of Old Smoky, all covered with snow, I saw Davy Crock¬ ett kiss Marilyn Monroe.” Bi Bob Crosby will do a Climax! show, he told Betty White: to wed? me, “just to prove I can get on nighttime TV.” . . . Bob’s daughter, Kathy, who has made guest appearances on Bob’s show, along with Bing’s boy, Gary, is out-drawing Gary in the TV fan mail department, four to one . . . There’s a husband in Betty White’s near future. his show only once—when Jack Benny, Groucho Marx and Art Link- letter appear for a contest . . . Jimmy Durante has two sets of towels in his Beverly Hills home. One set says “His” and the other is marked “Nose.” ■ Futures; Don DeFore is working out a new television series. Doctor in Buckskin, the story of Marcus l^itman . . . NBC wants Jim Backus for the role of ‘^Hubert Updyke,” richest man in the world, who drives around in a huge car, tossing little ones to hitchhikers . . . Bob Cummings says he’ll sing on one of his TV shows. ■ At Red Skelton’s go- ing-away party, he told pals, “I’m leaving one-a- week TV for the quiet¬ ness of six-a-day vaude¬ ville.” . . . After 78 films, Jock Mahoney is through with Range Rider, but adds, “I still have the public appearance rights, worth $100,- 000 a year.” . . . Charlton Heston, host of the Martin and Lewis-produced Variety Hour, says Jerry told him, “Only death will part me and Dean.” Bi Johnny Carson, CBS’ answer to George Gobel, is planning to inter¬ view a man on a tranipolin (a taut mat acrobats use), while both of them bounce up and down. Johnny tells me he’ll use name stars as guests on ■ When Milton Berle was in Hol¬ lywood recently, he spotted Gobel s conductor, John Scott Trotter, and asked: “W’jiat’s with this ‘Uncle John’ business? Me—Uncle Miltie’—Vm the original uncle. Stealing from me, huh? — that’s a switch!" NEXT WEEK: EARL WILSON 22