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TV Teletype / continuio f»oM ^agi s BING CROSBY has agreed to star In two hour-long shows for CBS, to be telecast during 1955. The network also gets one-time rebroadcast rights on the shows- First of the programs, to be produced by RALPH I£VY, will be filmed In March; second. In June or July . . . ETHEL BARRYMORE and RONALD REAGAN will co- star In a GE Theater film, "Prosper*s Old Mother," - * '* ♦ HUMPHREY BOGART can't do "Petrified Forest" for ^st of Broadway, after all; CBS belatedly discovered that the ROBERT E. SHERWOOD play Is the property of NBC. So BOGART will do something else for his $20,000. * * * RED BUTTONS wants to switch to film next year, and to situa¬ tion comedy along with It . . . PEGGY KNUDSEN, the April Adams of the first So This Is Hollywood show, has been set as a regu¬ lar. She's the dau^ter-in-law of JIM and MARIAN JORDAN (Fib¬ ber McGee and Molly) . . . BETTY WHITE, temporarily off the NBC daytime air, will be back before too long . , . MARTIN and I£WIS do their second Comedy Hour of the season on Feb. 6, [ WASHiNGT^ Florence lowe reports; MARGUERITE PIAZZA, beauteous Metropolitan Opera star who rocketed to TV fame as a regular on NBC's old Show of Shows , Is mulling a half-hour video show of her own, but not a stral^t singing program. MISS PIAZZA, who displays a keen comic flair In her night-club act, launched recently In a Washington hotel, wants a situation comedy, with some vocalizing. « » « Look for a rush of military documentaries on your video screens In 1955- Marine Corps Is likely to lead off with Its Uncommon Valor series, with GEN. H, M. "HOWLIN' MAD" SMITH, USMC retired, as narrator. Series, produced Independently with official Marine cooperation, Is set to go on a syndlcated^basls. More ambitious Is likely to be CBS' Interpretation of Air Force history In a weekly series. Conquest of the Air , scheduled for next fall. It will follow the lines of NBC's successful Victory at Sea, Including blg-name narrator, top musical talent and a first class producer . . . Navy Is prepplng Its own TV hlStoiy, and the Army has a show up Its sleeve. Uncle Sam Is supplying all necessary film from the Pentagon's vast archives. Another member of the Firestone tire family, which pioneered good music on the airwaves, may soon be mak¬ ing TV news: ELIZABETH FIRESTONE WILLIS, daughter of HARVEY FIRESTONE, JR., and wife of a White House aide. MRS. WILLIS, who has composed music for Hollywood films, has been launching new tunes for Washington dance bands. Her latest, "Under the Starlight," Is reported a likely candidate for her father's Voice of Firestone .