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COCKTAILS FOR TWO — and a stroll on the beach with lovely Gloria Dannora (Tuesday Weld) seem
innocent enough to Adam Troy (Gardner McKay) . . .until he’s shanghaied aboard the Dannora yacht.
It’s a family affair, and a “Velvet Trap” for Troy, on “Adventures In Paradise,” Monday at 9:30 on
KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
HENRY FONDA TOP STAR IN CBS SPECIAL
“The Good Years”: 1900-1914.
“These years were good be
cause, whatever the problem,
people were sure they could fix
it.”
So says Henry Fonda in “The
Good Years,” a 90 minute CBS
Special Friday at 8 on KTVF,
Channel Eleven.
Few Americans in this giddy
time. Fonda adds, cared where they
were going. It was enough that we
were on our way.
Solutions to problems in “The
Good Years” differed, of course,
Fonda explains. “But everybody at
least had a bold plan, no matter
how cockeyed, and couldn’t wait to
try it.
“They could be called the confi
dent years, the buoyant years, the
spirited years.
Full Quota
“Troubles? We had a full quota.
Fearful ones, such as the murder
of that good man, President Wil
liam McKinley. Frightening, as the
attempted murder of his successor,
Theodore Roosevelt, and paralyzing
as the earthquake that struck San
Francisco."
To review highlights of “The
Good Years,” Producer Leland Hay
ward assembled a cast including
Lucille Ball and Mort Sahl, in ad
dition to Fonda. The three stars,
together with such well-known per
formers as Margaret Hamilton and
Alan Bunce, and a company of sing
ers and dancers, recreate incidents
from “The Good Years” via comedy
and dramatic sequences, "black
outs” and popular songs of the per
iod.
Also prominently featured are
the contributions of designer
photographer Charles Eames. These
include non-literal representations
of the San Francisco earthquake and
the financial panic of 1907. Eames
works mostly with pictures, posters,
cartoons and assorted artifacts typi
cal of the time.
Other Portions
Other portions of the program will
recall:
The digging of the Panama Canal
and the fight against yellow jack,
inauguration of the income tax, the
Wright brothers flight, the popu
larity of nickelodeons, development
of the electric light, invention of
“the vertical bath,” the great im
migration from Europe, attitudes
toward art and labor, Horatio Al
ger and the dream of every red
blooded American boy, suffragettes,
and the as-yet unheeded voices from
Europe of Einstein, Freud and
Lenin.
Other historical persons recalled
include J. P. Morgan, Carrie Nation,
Sandow, Walter Reed, Fran Lloyd
Wright, Henry Ford, Billy Sunday,
Robert Frost, Eugene V. Debs,
Learned Hand and John Jacob As
tor.
A. J. Russell adapted “The Good
Years” from the book by Walter
Lord. Marshall Jaison co-produced
the program which was taped in
New York. Franklin Schaffner di
rected.
The Royal Ballet' Coming
To Motion Picture Screen
Lovers of the dance are in for an extraordinary treat this
Wednesday at the New Empress Theater where the film presen
ation of the world's finest company, “The Royal Ballet” (“Sad
er’s Wells) performing three outstanding bailees will be shown.
tne mm, sponsored by the rair
banks Symphony, will be shown at
7 and 9:15 this Wednesday only.
Tickets are priced at $2.50.
Produced and directed by Dr.
Paul Czinner and released by Lopert
Pictures Corp., the Eastman Color
film stars Margot Fonteyn in Act
II from Tchaikovsky's “Swan Lake,”
Igor Stravinsky’s "The Firebird,”
and a new ballet by Frederick Ash
ton and music by Hans Werner
Henze, “Ondine.” Michael Somes is
partnered with her in the numbers.
To make the film, the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, had to be
turned into a film studio. In twen
ty-four hours, using 11 cameras. Dr.
Czinner shot a film which would
normally take three months to
make. It was filmed on two Sun
days and one night after the normal
performances were ended.
Memorized Movements
For months previously Dr. Czin
ner went to every performance of
the ballets he filmed and memorized
every movement in them, down to a
flicker of Fonteyn’s eyelids.
“The Royal Ballet” represents the
highwater mark in Czinner’s at
tempt to perfect a method of film
ing great productions. For five years
he worked out this way of filming
ballet.
Tasmanian Devil
Is Big Villain On
Cartoon Program
Bugs Bunny discourses on the
food value in carrots, but can't
seem to change the rabbit-eating
habits of the Tasmanian Devil in
“Do or Diet” on “The Bugs Bunny
Show” Monday at 5:30 on KFAR-TV,
Channel 2.
Bugs cites Daffy Duck as an ex
ample of a healthy carrot eater, and
even offers Daffy to the carnivore
from Tasmania. The crafty Bunny
manages to induce the non-stop
eater to return to his home.
In a third escapade, he invites
the Tasmanian Devil to watch Fog
horn Leghorn try to best an intelli
gent chick named Ekkhead Jr.
Mel Blanc provides the voices,of
the cartoon characters.
Gangster’s Son
Guns For Ness
Luther Adler, as bootlegger Gus
Kroner, and Michael Ansara as
Charlie Stuben of the notorious De
troit Purple Gang, guest star in a
drama in which Eliot Ness makes
a new' young enemy, the son of a
slain mobster in “Nicky,” on “The
Untouchables,” Tuesday at 9 on
KFAR-TV, Channel 2. Robert Stack
stars as Ness and Walter Winchell
narrates.
Ness tries to turn the young man's
enmity to his own advantage by
having the lad lead him to the in
ner circle of the bootleg distillers.
It seemed a tragedy to Czinner,
who has divided his talent equally
between stage and film studio, that
many of the greatest stage perform
ances should be lost when the final
curtain comes down.
He felt that with film he could
capture the performances of the
world's greatest artists and intro
duce them to vast audiences who
would never otherwise have the
chance to see them.
TOP BALLERINA — The world’s
foremost ballerina, Margot Fon
teyn, in a scene from ‘The Fire
bird,” one of three ballets shown
in “The Royal Ballet’’ in Eastman
Color. Fonteyn, also appears in
“Swan Lake,” Act II and “On
dine.’
William Bendix In
Role Of Retired
Marine Top Kick
William Bendix guest stars as a
hard-bitten, tough Marine Corps
sergeant whose retirement triggers
Paul Templin into preparing a
family magazine article on him in
“Sergeant Kolchak Fades Away” on
“Follow the Sun” Tuesday at 7 on
KFAR-TV, Channel Eleven.
While researching his story on
the much-decorated Marine, Tem
plin learns that Kolchak is a ser
geant major whose bellow’ strikes
fear even in the hearts of stal
warts. He also discovers that the
unmarried sergeant’s home is run
by a comely Japanese housekeeper.
Tamiko, and that his combat record
in tw’o wars is unequaled.
After his first article is printed,
Templin continues to be puzzled by
Sgt. Kolchak’s reluctance to discuss
his past. When Seigo Tachikawa ap
pears on the scene, the sergeant's
secret is disclosed.