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AMOS IS POLISHED, UPRIGHT AND GRAND! — Grampa McCoy persuades Ilassie to teach him to
play the piano — which he does before th? end o f the episode, “The New Piano”, to be seen Wednes
day at 8 on KFAR-TV, Channel 2, when Walter B rennan stars on “The Real McCoys”.
EACH LEADING LADY CASTS LOVE SPELL
“I fall in love with every one
of my leading women,” says
Anthony George, handsome star
of CBS-TV’s “Checkmate” ser
ies.
His co-stars on the show have
included Joan Fontaine, Nina
Foch, Eleanor Parker, Diana
Lynn, Very Miles, Dina Merrill,
Anne Baxter, Barbara Rush and
Laraine Day.
“Every week, I tell myself, ‘This
is the most wonderful woman in the
world,’ ” said George. “One of the
hardest parts of my job is getting
down to business.
“Unfortunately, most of the gals
are married,” added George, who
isn’t.
The 36-year-old actor, who was
born in Endicott, N.Y., said:
Women Friendly
“Most people think these glamor
ous women are stand-offish, but
they’re not. They want to be warm
and friendly. It’s just that people
are afraid to approach them.”
He admitted the show prefers ma
ture women to the 20-year-old types
that other series and movies use.
“Look,” he said, “I’m not 20 years
old. These mature women are much
more sensuous and beautiful.
There’s nothing worse than the 50
year-old movie actors playing oppo
site 20-year-old girls. For me, one
of my biggest wishes is to play op
posite Lana Turner.
“You take people like Vera Miles
and Eleanor Parker — they’re so
much sexier and more appealing
offstage than on. They are full
women."
Although George’s big success has
come in the last two years on
“Checkmate,” and before that on
“The Untouchables,” it was no over
night deal. He first came to Holly
wood in 1949 after serving in the
Air Corps during World War II.
No Contract
When he arrived here, he didn’t
have a single contact and wound up
selling men’s furnishings in a de
partment store. Then he landed
some little theater parts, as well as
movie roles.
I stayed a couple years, he re
called. “Like the thousands of
youngsters who come here every
year, I knew what I wanted to do
—but not how to get it. So I went
back to New York and worked on
TV there.”
More professional, he returned
to Hollywood but was here only a
month when a severe attack of
hepatitis put him in a veterans’
hospital for a year. But while in
the hospital, he met actor Robert
Mitchum, who encouraged him
greatly.
“Word had come to me through
the interns,” said George, “that
Frank Sinatra and Mitchum were
coming to the hospital to get back
ground for a movie they were mak
ing called ‘Not As a Stranger.’ The
people at the hospital knew I was
an aspiring actor, so they promised
to guide Sinatra and Mitchum to
me in case they wanted some tech
nical advice about how it was to
be there.
Big Tournament Of Roses
Parade Will Be Seen Here
More than ten million real flowers, 60 elaborately decorated
motor vehicles, 200 horses and 3000 people moved slowly past a
battery of CBS Television Network cameras on New Year’s Day, in
the 73rd annual Tournament of Roses Parade, which will be tele
cast in Fairbanks this Sunday at 3:15 on KTVF, Channel Eleven.
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silver trappings at more than $3,
000,000, bore movie and television
stars (including Eric Fleming, Clint
Eastwood and Paul Brinegar of
“Rawhide”), and the cream of the
nation’s horsy set.
Every square inch of every float
was covered with real flora and
fauna. The flora consisted of flow
ers, ferns, moss and greenery. No
artificial plants were used. The
fauna consisted of people only. The
only allowable animals were arti
ficial animals made of flowers.
Growing of plants for the Tourna
ment of Roses Parade was strictly
supervised, to assure that no arti
ficial colors were introduced to the
blooms used on the floats, even by
coloring the water with which the
plants were irrigated.
Flower Theme
Each float’s theme conformed
with the parade’s basic theme, which
this year was “Around the Wojrld
in Flowers.”
Each year more organizations,
companies, cities, states and nations
try to enter floats in the Tourna
ment of Roses. This year, more
than 200 applicants sought entry.
The number is limited to about 60,
so that the parade can pass a given
point in two hours.
It takes six to ten weeks to build
a Tournament of Roses float. Be
cause of the use of fresh flowers,
much of the work is crammed into
the last few hours before parade
time.
Mrs. Isabella Coleman has been
building floats more than fifty
years, starting with the time she
decorated her own buggy and won
second prize.
Parade Horses
Horses appearing in equestrian
entries are all parade horses, a
breed instantly recognizable to
parade officials.
Saddles and trappings are heavily
embellished with inlaid silver, so
elaborate as to cost up to $50,000
apiece.
Spectators began arriving the day
before in an estimated 500.000 au
tomobiles. Traffic was handled by
Pasadena’s 150 policemen augmented
by more than 1000 additional police
from neighboring cities, mostly
from Los Angeles. Pasadena Police
Chief Clarence H. Morris directs
Cat Crime Wave
In 6Naked Town9
Thieves are tipped off that
Hoagy’s Alley on Officer Dibble’s
beat is to be used by a TV series
for a warehouse robbery scene and
decide to move in on the action in
“Naked Town,, on “Top Cat”
Wednesday at 8:30 on KFAR-TV,
Channel 2.
T.C. talks Dibble into playing a
character part, but the robbers give
him a “walk-off” role—before the
TV crew arrives. The fate of the
innocent TCers—to be or not to be
jailed—is wound around Benny's
yen for alarm clocks.
their activities from a helicopter
hovering over the city.
Many people camped in the streets
overnight, respecting the blue
painted “honor line" which marks
off the space reserved for parading.
Many brought folding chairs or
boxes as seats; stepladders or plat
forms were banned.
Ronald Reagan and Bess Myersoti
were host and hostess for this year's
Tournament of Roses Parade cover
age.
Dr. Casey Saves
Alcoholic Derelict
From Skid Row
Robert Ashton, an alcoholic dere
lict. is salvaged from a flop house
by Dr. Casey and put on the road
to rehabilitation with useful work
in the hospital laboratory in “A
Memory of Candy Stripes” on ”Ben
Casey” Wednesday at 9:30 on
KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
Vincent Edwards and Sam Jaffa
are co-starred in the series, respec
tively, as Casey and Dr. Zorba.
Franchot Tone guest stars as Ash
ton.
Casey is called on the carpet for
his unorthodox action when stu
dent nurse Ann Muller spies on
Ashton making critical lab tesas
and reports to the hospital authori
ties that Ashton's alcoholism has
caused him to make an error which
could cost the life of Neil Bates,
an accident victim.
Mel Squad Man
Wounds Athlete
On ‘New Breed’
Lt. Price Adams seriously wounds
a 17-year-old honor student and
athlete while on stakeout duty with
Officer Joe Huddleston at a liquor
store in “The All-American Boy”
on “The New Breed" Saturday at 8
on KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
The police are severely criticized
by friends and associates of John
ny Crafts, the wounded youth, and
the newspapers also put Lt. Adams
in a bad light.
Complicating the investigation,
officers report that a paraffin test
made on young Crafts’ hand is nega
tive, proving that he did not fire
at Lt. Adams. Also, the spent bul
let supposedly fired at the Metro
politan Squad leader cannot be
found.
JOBY GOES DRAMATIC
Joby Baker, who played a comedy
dole in “Gidget Goes Hawaiian,”
will turn to the serious side in his
next picture. He'll portray an intern,
in Robert Cohn’s “The Interns.”