Variety (June 1958)

RABlO-TEUEVISroKr Fund For Republic ; Continued from pase 21 i Niebuhr and with Dr. Erich Frommi and in those cases Daly said noth- ing. Daly retaliated by saying that the web had a written clause in its fund contract allowing it to der lete or demand revision on ma¬ terial that was considered libelous. The web veepee added that both the producer and the sponsor knew this, and then he contested the allegation that he .had allowe^ re¬ visions. or deletions in the Nieh- buhr or Fromm programs. He said no change in content as relating to libel and sensitivities was involved when those two programs were shot over., claiming that the deci- -slon to reshpot portions of the Fromm show and all of the Nieh- -buhr half-hour were carried off by Newsmaker because the shows the first time , around did not achieve a proper level of professionalism. Newsmaker and the fund said, for their part^ they consider one revision is like another. And both objected to, the last-minute entry of Daly into the matter, particu¬ larly after, they say, network rep¬ resentatives from legal and hews departments, had cleared the de¬ letions asked by Lodge. The Fund spokesman said that as it was explained to : him by Lodge’s office Daly told the. am- bassador he was w'illing to okay, one of the two changes asked for, but disagreed when the latter said the second change was essential to national welfare. Hutchins ex¬ plained ‘ earlier that the ambas¬ sador should not have been forced to say things he did not want to say and that the tv j^est received the assurance from hini that all re¬ mains would be “off the record” until Lodge okayed them. Newsmaker made this statement: **We have absolutely no desire to violate ABG network policy, but in this instance we were unable to determine that policy until too late. And, particulariy, the policy on the Lodge program is evidently inconsistent with the ^licy on pre¬ ceding .programs.” Contrary to the Weaver case in which potential libel Versus the web and Newsmaker (both insured by Lloyds), the Lodgia show was it case, as the network puts it^ of tiT^g to keep the ambassador from uquecjcessai^y deleting news¬ worthy and important statements. How Soon Tho TaiieT Cobtinued from paee 24 dais shouldn’t also be oii tape.’.’ He added tape wopld not replace film ‘Tor a long time.” • Tape ys. Film Unger said that for the moment producers cannot achieve -the! same effects oii tape as on film. However, he. held forth the hopie that in from “six months to two years” matters; Will. IrnptoVe for tape., ^ Lowendahl,. head of FPA’s labor committejC,. Was yinii^ed on the jurisdictional problems. He saw little trouble reihaining for FPA now that a “completely compete- tive and flexible” agreement has been worked out with the interna- tionaU Alliance of . Theatrical A Stage Employees. Chris yjfc^tine, McCann’s com¬ mercial chief, said 15 to 25% in savings, accrued to one account, .Westinghouse, by producing cer¬ tain Commercials on tape. He added that the “excellent. sound and picture quality; . ;. should have a tremendous effect” oh ad¬ vancing the use of; tape. FPA; in presenting the com¬ mercials themselves,; carefully omitted the names of the produc¬ ers on the program sheets that were handed around. Nonethe¬ less, who made what Was fairly common knowledge to the pew- sters. For one, Peter Elgar, a new FPA member, got across two superb blurbs for Zest. Either Elgar or: some director in his em¬ ploy managed to get abundant Transfilm presented: a new Chem- strand teleblurb which was a neat display of design and color. Tliere were other good blurbs out of the some 40 in aU, ' Eliott, opened the meetihg by indicating a “new note of Sophis¬ tication in the overall concepts of commercials . . . observe the mag¬ nificent; integration;; of music, sound and picture.” V G&GLibrary =SS Contihned from pace is Justice. Departineht action against alleged block-booking, pending in the Federal courts. .. Contract in dispiita was a tradi¬ tion^ one In the C&C operation, with the station buying the 740 RKO pix Under a 10-year licensing arrangement, paying , C&C in spot time to be utilized by international Latex. Additibhally, - the station Under the terms of its April 20. 1950 cOiltract, agreed to pay C&C about $45,000 in cash for prints and other services. Following a switch in ownership of the Asheville station, new man¬ agement declined, to make the re¬ quired. cash payments and. arbitra¬ tion proceedings were started by C&C in April of this year. Sky¬ way, combatting arbitration, moved in the N.Y. Supreme Court to challenge; the .entire contract, charging' block-bobking. The dis¬ missal of Skyway’s motion will now return the dispute. to arbitra¬ tion, as called for in the contract. Ownership of the staticn was acquired by ntotion picture the¬ atre operator Mitchell AVolfson of FloridOi who also operates WTVJ, MiamL ... ' Tela Followiiiis iSSSS Continuedi.. from page 35 sssss satisfactorily suspensefut 60 min¬ utes:.",- The airay of 16 principal players was uniformly convincing. In the major characterization, Kent Smith gave his role as the chief executive the proper presidential dignity; and as assorted military and political men, Addison Richards, Peter Han- s.en, Les -Tremayne, Richard Long, Dayton Lummis, Lyle Talbot arid Lavvrenco Dobkin came across well, as did all others involved, many of whom, however, had little to do. Walter .Graiiman, who has done his bit in makirig this series a mile¬ stone iii video history, did his cus¬ tomary fine work as director of this last live episode. ■ It’s to. be; hoped. that television finds time for . more such noble experiments as "NBC Matinee Theatre.” Tube. Climax , How to handle a docuihentary type of teleplay is still a problem that television’s best . writers haven’t been able to solve. David Swift, one uf the best, ran head-on into it irii “The Volcano Seat,” which he. adapted from a Sateve- post article about the crews that fly the Air Force’s jet tarikere. Basic yarn itself was interest¬ ing and . suspenseful, story of a tanker that sprouts a leak of its highly explosive jet. fuel which it can’t stop. Crew bails out, hut the pilot and copUbt, flying the plane in with tons of the loose fuel sloshing around the plane’s belly, attempt to bring it in with the aid of an improvised levelling indi¬ cator, soirie coffee in a small plas¬ tic container. . But swift’s attempt to personal¬ ize his drama ran into trouble. He set up a conflict between the crew and the pilot, an RAF exchange flyer, with the copilot resentful because he felt he. should have got¬ ten the commajid and the crew dis.dainful because they have to go through, their basic tanker train¬ ing again. It all comes out when the pilot proves his mettle, and everybody is one big happy family. Trouble is, this personal element of conflict was handled obviously and tritely in typical Grade B riiovie fashion. Because of the ..rather routine peisonal elements, the cast had to take second fiddle tb some excel¬ lent flight footage arid fine ac¬ tion sta^ng by. Swift, who directed his. own: teleplay. Michael Rennie arid Albert Salmi, were satisfactory as the pilot arid copilot, Patricia Cutts attractive as Renriie’s wife and Bernard Hamilton good as a sympathetic crew mertiben But Swift’s teleplay and direction were effective, only; In thote well-inte¬ grated .fihil.ahd liVe. action- suspense. sequences. Chan. Foreign TV Reviews Continued from page 35 bandr Albrecht Schoenhals, an old pal of her husband with whom she had an affair; Hans Lothar, her son, who spent years in prison, and Manfred Stefferi, another sou of hers, who’s seen only briefly. All turn in good performances, but this is Miss Bergnet’s play. Arid it’U be remembered because Of her. Foreign TV Followup . Sunday Night at The Palladium Two big American Vocal names headlined the layout of this As¬ sociated-Television program (8), and both won warm receptions. This was pne of the first shows in ATV’s series that did nbt boast a comedian, but the bill did not suffer as d result of this. First Yarik singer was Vic Da- mone, currently featured in Bri¬ tain’s Top 10 disk'hits, who made a subdu^, but nevertheless im¬ pressive showing. He opened with a solid arrangement of “Night And Day,” and worked through a good selection to close with “On The Street Where You Live.” Honors to producer Brian Tesler for cap¬ turing a good iptimate mood. Juanita Hall, making her Britain ! indie tv .bow, opened slowly with a couple of songs from “South Pacific,” but warmed up quickly when she switched to Duke Elihg- ton numbers. Miss Hall showed I great jazz style in “MOod Indigo,” “In My Solitude,” arid “Don’t Mean A Thing.” In the absence of a comic, apart from emcee Dickie Henderson, laughs were supplied by a noval puppet act. Pinky and Perky & Co. Routine has cute animals jigging to rock ’n’ roll. The Three Monarchs,. harmonica act^ now featured in the London Prince .of Wales revue, blew tlu-bugh a cbuple of ashy numbers and fooled a little for a good recep¬ tion. Henderson bandied the emcee job neatly and steered contestants through the now veiy dull “Beat The Clock.” Jackpot, still not won oil this show, stands at $5,040. Resident support from the George Carden Dancers and Cyril Ornadel orch was good. Baryi . Val Parnell’s Startime During her recent visit to Brit¬ ain, Sarah Vaughan appeared on Associated Television’s “Sunday Night At The Palladium.** She was a great success. To ensure a further hit, the programmers got the songstress to film another show for a future airing. Along about that time Florian Zahach was here too, and he was also roped in for an appearance. Final result when the program was aired (12) was a good 60-minute offering, with a nicely: balanced bill, marred only by occasionally poor film quality. Miss Vaughan pitched in with some great jazz singing and looked good too. Perfectly relaxed, she gave out with several . tbpnotch numbeni in her particular style. In¬ cluding ‘?If This Isn’t Love,” “’Teh- derly,” .“Not For Me,", and “Strangers Gan Be Lovers Again.” She was piarticularly good on the. last ballad and rated high praise.. ; Fiddler Zahach came over favor- ably vtith some fancy playing, bn Wednesday, June 18, 1958 - the fast “Runaway Romance,” and changed his style for a good ver¬ sion of “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face,” to earn warm mitis. i Singer Edmund HpCluridge, always , a popular addition to a British tv 1 bill, vocalized pleasantly on three e numbers, while, the King, Bros.^ a [> rhythmical vocal-iristrumental trio * with a neat routine, added weight , to the layout. Emcees Mike and ^ Bernie Winters, popular British 1 comedy duo, fooled around to rate 5 solid, yocks and handled the intros 5 well, while more comedy was sup¬ plied by an aero duo Les Mallini. Support fipm the George Carden Dancers, the Barney Gilbraith I Singers, and the Jack Parnell orch was praiseworthy. Bary. Jok Daly’s Two-Way , New Spread, but One Is Opdonal WiA Affjfiates Since ABC-TV got affiliates to ‘ accept the idea of a 10:35^10:45 p.ni. newsstrip by John-Daly under “ the American Hoine-P.' Lorillard 1 banner, the Web has been trying to decide whether to continue Daly’s - urisponsored 7:15 p.m. news .show. . Mter several weeks of soul search- ^ ing, the web has decided to con- ' tihiie with the early evening news , show next fall, but ori the basis j that affiliates don’t have to take it 1 if they don’t want, s The 7:15 sustainer^ according. to 5 the network, was demanded by - some of the affiliates, who have long used it for local consumption 1 in tandem with a local news rbund- 1 up beginning at 7 p.m. Web con- 1 Cedes that a great portion of ABC stations will not carry the sus- " tairier.. » Question of whether Daly will j front the sustaiuer . has riot been I answered;. There, is a good chance 5 that some other newscaster niay 1 handle the chore. One of the names 1 prominently riientioned at this s point is Don Goddard, a vet ABC 1. newscaster. 1 .. ■■. . ■ . ■ i V: . IT Greensboro. N. C.^Myrt Power, R the baseball-minded grandmother - who wori fame with the “$64,000 Question” and “$64,000 Challenge” g television shows, has joined tho s office staff and sales personnel of t Lesco Homes ..district sales office I and Power Construction Co. in I Greensboro. The former New e Yorker now lives here. ^ WHATEVER THE SHOW ^ HE’S THE GREATEST ! DOUG. ANDERSON a Currently: TliR Mogic Clowii* y For RONOMO TURKISH TAFFT oo g . Ch.nntI 5, Ntw York: Oundays •» 1t:M A. M. t COMPLETE MOTION PICTURE ® EDITORIAL SERVICE U Cemmarclal.^SMind Itc. Cvttin« room simco rental ovallaMo. a WEST-EFFECTS EDITORS y 3344 S. RbbomeO Ihrd., L A. 14 VE 7r4m CR i-9l2S BROOKS COSTUMES a Wm* (Uu f•..M.r•c.-T•LfV7•a( The Q-Ty gysiem of positive synchroniim- tipn used on nil nef- vooths (no service has ah exclusive on any gtation) Absolutely silent. 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