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Congratulations ‘Cripple’ Comic; Marie Wilson To ‘Wise Up’ On TV? HOLLYWOOD . . . From too much hand¬ shaking at the Friars’ Club dinner for Burns and Allen, George dislocated his thumb. Groaned Gracie’s straight man: “First they honor me, now they cripple me.” . . . Marie Wilson’s TV follow-up to My Friend Irma will be a’series with a school-teacher back¬ ground. From “dumb blonde” to brain-truster? ... Another TV teacher. Eve Arden, of Our Miss Brooks, is planning some dramatic appearances this season. . . . Bedlam? That’s The Pinky Lee Show, just be¬ fore air time. When I stumbled into the milling mob. Pinky was having a three-way screamfest with a wigmaker, his agent and a man trying to sell a $15,000 annuity. ■ Jim Backus, Joan Davis’ TV spouse, tells about the TV star who gives her little boy every¬ thing he asks for. So one day he asked for a boat and she bought him the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth because, she said, "The Cunard people wouldn’t break up the set.” ■■ Tom TuUy is unhappy with his role in The Lineup and wants out. . . . They’ll be filming Jimmy Durante next season. . . . And George Gobel is putting out feelers to NBC for a similar deal. . . . George’s pretty warbler, Peggy King, who was sched¬ uled for a surprise appearance on the Feb. 17 Dragnet, is being tested by Paramovmt. She was imder contract to M-G-M—^but briefly, because of her resemblance to Judy Garland. Will Peggy’s TV career be affected when Judy starts her television show? ■ Ann Sothern has promised Max Liebman another “spectacular” in the spring. . . , Bob Cummings is in¬ troducing new evening shirts made of straw. . . . Funnyman Frank Fon¬ taine and his wife are expecting their 10th baby. . . . And I’m told James Mason now deliberately fluffs and freezes on Lux Video Theater, because he knows everyone is ex¬ pecting it! Zsa Zsa Gabor, sweet as pie, told me she has her own TV show on the fire. While filming re¬ cently in Germany, she said, the producer asked, “Are you sure we have the right Gabor? You’ve been working three weeks and no scandal.” Rehearsing a TV show with Jack Carson, she asked, “Dees ees supposed to be a funny line?” “Yes,” snapped Jack, “and if you understood English, you’d find it funny too.’” ■■ Dick Powell took son Ricky to his first movie, "The Glenn Miller Story,” co-starring James Stewart and Ricky^s mama, June Allyson. When Ricky saw Dick and June together, he screamed, "There’s Mrs. Miller with her new husband!” Marie Wilson: teacher? 22