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Advance Tips on Shows: As summer re¬ placement for Your Hit Parade, which goes off for eight weeks, a new adventure- mystery drama series j called Assignment: Man j Hunt will debut over 0 j51 on Saturday, July 14th, j, j at 10:30 p.m. ... A big **S one-hour Monday- through-Friday daytime dramatic variety show Langford starring Don Ameche and Frances Langford wiilstart Monday,Septem¬ ber 10th, over 0 at noon.... CBS is said to be talking to Rosalind Russell about a daytime video show. . . . The NBC-Tele- vision Opera Theater is planning to present eight hour-length operas in English next season—one a month, beginning in Septem¬ ber or October. Among the offerings may be one now being written by Gian-Carlo Menotti, if completed in time. Its present title is Marianne and the Gypsies. ... The Somerset Maugham TV Theater, now on 0 from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. on alternate Mondays, will for eight weeks become a weekly half-hour presentation from 9:30 to 10 p.m. starting July 9th. . . . When Robert Preston does a five-weeks substitu¬ tion starting this Friday for Ralph Bellamy on Alan Against Crime, he will play the detective’s brother. ... The Comedy Hour will have a 44-weeks run next season, be¬ ginning Sunday, September 2nd. Martin & Lewis and Eddie Cantor will do the bulk of the programs, being scheduled for 11 each. Several will be done by Tony Martin. The stars for the remaining dates will be irawn from other NBC-TV luminaries. . . . The first of the Fu Manchu series will be seen July 16th on Lights Out. . . . Recital Hall makes its debut over 0 on Sunday, July 8th, from 8 to 8:30. Opening it will be William Warfield, baritone featured in MGM’s forthcoming movie, Show Boat. All-Star Game: The annual All-Star base¬ ball game, this year being played at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, on Tuesday, July 10th, will be carried on 0 and Q begin¬ ning at 2:15 p.m. Casualty Department: Maria Riva, Mar¬ lene Dietrich’s daughter, fell and suffered a painful head cut in the studio just before she was to go before the cameras on Danger. Several stitches were required, but the young trouper held up her hand and said stoutly, “Not until after I do the show.” She performed her role as if nothing had happened. ... A more extensive casualty was Susan Peters, star of the daytime Miss Susan. She came down with measles on Sat¬ urday, June 16th. The directors and writers thereupon were forced to rewrite an entire week’s programs. . . . And a third medical case has been Jackie Gleason. For several weeks he has been a patient at Doctors Hospital in Manhattan, under treatment for a vitamin deficiency and to shed excess weight. He’s already lost about 30 pounds. Short Takes: CBS is now definitely in the TV set manufacturing business, having bought Hytron Radio and Electronics Corp. . . . Lloyd Nolan has signed a three-year B T contract to do the title TfcPV'*'' role of Martin Kane, IHn Private Detective, start- ing August 30th, re- H placing William Gargan, who has left the show Gargan to p Ut together his own detective series. . . . Bing Crosby still has no definite TV plans, but this summer may make an experimental telefilm. . . . Last week we gave the name of Jerry Lewis’ mother as Monica. Should have been Rae. Sorrv!