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lect money. Benny, however, made him his summer replacement. “It was the top,” Paar said. “Where could you go from there? I did 18 shows and won a closetful of awards. The show was picked up in the fall and ran 13 weeks.” Then Benny dropped the deal. (“He doesn’t own any part of me now”), and NBC gave him a contract. He worked Take It Or Leave It. He did some pictures for RKO and 20th Cen¬ tury, playing the part of Marilyn Monroe’s boy friend in one. “I was never cast right,” Paar says, “I was always the fast-talking, fast¬ acting press agent or something. Not my style.” Cast for the morning show: Paar, Miss Adams, Richard Hayes, Pupi Campo. Magic tricks, cute sayings: Paar's daughter Randy, 4Vi, gets in act. Things started falling apart. “The depression hit Hollywood,” Paar says. “Budgets fell and it was tough to sell comedy. I had been doing cold satiri¬ cal bits on the shows and Jack Paar wasn’t coming through.” The broad-shouldered, good-look¬ ing comic was out of work for a year and a half. He sold his big house and his two foreign sports cars. “We lost everything,” he said, but he had enough to live on for two months when they hit New York. He took a quiz show at CBS, the patter caught on and he was given a half-hour morning spot, later can¬ celed for an evening show. The suc¬ cess of the morning show no doubt led to the more ambitious evening program, despite the fact that so far it is only a summer replacement. As a matter of fact, Paar proved that peo¬ ple were watching the daytime pro¬ gram to the satisfaction of even the most skeptical network executive. It seems that Paar once asked his viewers to call the organization that makes rating surveys of TV shows. Nobody had ever called him on the phone, he said, to ask what he was watching, so maybe the ratings weren’t accurate. He says the listeners swamped the company switchboards. Paar’s life is wrapped up in his Bronxville home and family. “We live like hermits,” he said. “I’m one comic who never went to Lindy’s.” Paar’s new evening show is being sparked with songs by Betty Clooney (Rosemary’s kid sister) which go with Paar’s humor like ham with eggs. In addition, the permanent cast includes singer Johnny Desmond, orchestra leader Pupi Campo, held over from the morning show, and Jose Melis, a piano virtuoso. 17