TV Guide (May 21, 1955)

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TV Teletype* NEW YORK Bob Stahl reports: In a new move to trim JACKIE GLEASON'S Saturday night audience next fall, NBC Is considering starting Its new hour-long PERRY COMO show half an hour before GLEASON—at 7:30 EST. GLEASON, In order to buck COMO, had already reversed his plans by putting his half-hour Honeymooners show In ahead of the DORSEY BROTHERS' show, which he will produce. * * * GLEASON'S Saturday, June l8, show will be a repeat of his finale last season, featuring all the people behind the cameras—JUNE TAYLOR, producers, writers and the rest , . . You Are There will have Its biggest cast on May 29 for "fhe Assassination of Julius Caesar” — 15 principals and 50 extras. # « * Casting call for this week's Studio One (GEORGE.M. COHAN's 'Pigeons and People") Included six pigeons that could "coo on cue ... SAM LEVENSON signed to replace HERB SHRINER this sum- •"er on Two for the Money . . . MITCH MILLER, Columbia Records' bearded chief, will be orchestra leader on CBS' ORSON BEAN show * * * JO STAFFORD, who loses her Tuesday night time after this season, may turn up as a regular star on some big CBS musical program next fall . . . The network has no future plans for JANE FROMAN, who will concentrate on night-club bookings and occasional TV guest shots. * * * PAT CARROLL set for appearances on three upcoming Jimmy Durante Shows . . . PAULETTE GODDARD liked TV so much when she co-starred recently on "The Women'' that she's now seeking her own telefilm series . . . ORSON WELLES and MELVYN DOUGLAS are other stars now seeking more TV work, either with their own programs or as guests on dramatic shows. * * * In another pre-performance sale of a TV play to the movies, M-G-M has paid 150,000 for WILLIAM ALTMAN'S Operation Home," a comedy about GIs' returning home after the war, scheduled for Studio One May 30. ALTMAN Is the show's associate producer . . . Gunsmoke, the new Western series, takes the RAY MILLAND time next fall. * * * All questions for $64,000 Question , which starts soon on CBS Tuesday nights, will be made up by New York University and Col¬ umbia professors. A contestant will have to answer 17 questions correctly to win the Jackpot.. . . CBS didn't like the new audi¬ tion film of The Aldrich Family and dropped plans for the show * MICKEY Rooney's telefilm show, canceled after this season, goes Into local station syndication . , . FRED¬ DIE BARTHOLOMEW, one-time movie star. Is the new dir¬ ector of Welcome Travelers. 'Trade-mark, Teletype Corp. Continued on Intide Back Cover