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PERENNIAL STAR — Dinah Shore is once again thrilling television audiences over NBC-TV. Another
of her special shows is slated for this Saturday at 10:35 on KFAR-TV, Channel 2. On the program, Co
penhagen and Paris are the settings ..as Dinah goes ..to town.
WHITE HORSE BECOMES SCENE STEALER
If there’s anything an actor
hates worse than a bad review,
it’s a scene stealer.
A guy who crowds in front of
the camera, gets most of the
laughs and captivates the audi
ence with his uninhibited charm
can obscure the rest of the cast.
But veteran comic Alan Young,
who doesn’t like being squelched
by a big ham anymore than any
other actor, is willing to forgive
Mr. Ed.
Ed, a white horse-turned-star,
has stolen a lot of scenes from Alan
with his wisecracking and impromp
tu antics in CBS-TV’s “Mr. Ed”
television series. Yet Alan grace
fully relinquishes the spotlight.
Ed Hogs Show
“Sure Ed hogs the show,” Alan
admitted, “but he’s not an ordinary
scene stealer. Ed has carried me
along with himself to success in
this series.
“It’s been a terrific privilege for
me to have such a gimmick going
for me and you’ve got to have one
for situation comedy on TV today
—if you hope to survive.”
Alan acknowledged that an actor
works with an animal, especially
as a co-star, is usually taking the
biggest risk in show business.
“Everybody loves animals,” Alan
said, “and a loveble old nag like
OUT ON TOP — Bis Ed is shown
on top, with Alan Youns play
ing second fiddle, as he does each
Sunday at 6:30 on KTVF, Chan
nel 11.
Mr. Ed can make a monkey out of
you in front of the camera.
“Ed is a ham. When I speak my
last line in a scene, he often over
laps with his mouth action. (A
man’s voice is dubbed into the film
to give the illusion that Ed is talk
ing.) If he doesn’t like my jokes or
dialogue, he turns away in disgust.”
Bumped Aside
"And many is the time that old
Ed will bump you aside or swish
his tail in front of your face while
the camera is rolling,”
Alan said the fan mail demand
ing pictures and autographs of Mr.
Ed is “really amazing.”
“Many kids regard him as a gen
uine personality, equipped like a
human being when it comes to
thinking—and they’re just about
right,” he said.
“Mr. Ed is believable because he’s
treated as a human actor. He has
his own dressing room (or a fancy
studio stable) is fed his oats at the
same time the rest of the cast eats
lunch and is given his cues by
handlers who do his bidding. And
no actor on the set gets more atten
tion from producer-director Arthur
Lubin.”
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Modern Movie Version Of
'State Fair' Sparkling Fun !
Like a fascinating and beautiful canvas of American life
filled with memorable songs and dances, Rodgers and Hammer
stein's “State Fair” will entertain and delight people of all ages
when it opens today at the New Empress Theater. This 20th
Century-Fox CinemaScope-DeLuxe Color extravaganza co-stai’3
such outstanding and fresh talents
as Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela
Tiffin, Ann-Margaret, Tom Ewell
and marks the return of the won
derful Alice Faye to the motion
picture screen.
The multi-million dollar Charles
Brackett production boasts the
magic chemistry of all the right in
gredients that make for a truly en
joyable experience. The story of a
middle class American farm family
who go to the great “State Fair’’
has been endowed by scenarist Rich
ard Breen with plenty of fun, ro
mance, sparkling dialogue, excit
ing sjjhrts car racing sequences
and lilting production numbers.
Pat Boone, who has endeared
himself in the public's heart with
his singing, acting and writing, por
trays “Wayne Frake,” a farm boy
with a yen for hot-rod racing and
a pretty girl; while singing sensa
tion Bobby Darin continues to sky
rocket to stardom as a screen per
sonality in the role of a fast-talking
Easterner who undergoes a change
of character when he meets the
“sweetest gal on earth.”
Lovely Ladles
The lovely ladies who bedevil
these boys are rising young actress
Pamela Tiffin and popular record
ing star and dancer Ann-Margaret.
Miss Tiffin, who scored in “Summer
and Smoke” and in Billy Wilder’s
“One. Two, Three,” plays “Margy,”
the sunflower that melts Darin's
hard-hearted exterior.
“State Fair” is her first musical
and marks her hinging debut. Siz
zling beauty Ann-Margaret portrays
“Emily,” the girl who's been around
and almost feels she has found
“true love” in the arms of Boone.
Veteran comedian Tom Ewell
plays “Abel Frake” and the role
returns him to the type of charac
terization he delineates best.
To many the star of “State Fair”
will be Alice Faye, who plays
“Melissa Frake,” Ewell’s wife and
mother of Boone and Tiffin. Once
the “Queen” of the 20th Century
Fox musical comedies, she can give
a song bounce and spirit, and when
she sings to her daughter, “Never
Say No (to a Man),” everyone is in
for a welcome surprise.
Distant Traveler
Has Special Gift
On Twilight Zone
A traveler from a distant place
accidentally lands in a small Mexi
can village and tries desperately to
convince its inhabitants that he
wants to make friends in “The
Gift” on Rod Serling's “The Twi
light Zone” Friday at 9:30 on KTVF,
Channel Eleven.
Geoffrey Horne stars as Williams,
the man whose aircraft crashes in
the hills outside the village, con
vincing the police there that he is
an invader.
When Williams is wounded in a
chase, he takes refuge in an alcove
over a cantina where he shows
Pedro, played by Edmund Vargas,
the special gift he has brought
with him.
SINGING STAR — Pat Boone i;
one of the stars of “State Fair",
which opens today at the New
Fmpress Theater. Boone portrays
the part of farm boy Wayne
Frake.
“State Fair” (marks the debut a*
Richard Rodgers as a lyricist for a
motion picture. He has written
words and music for five new shov -
stoppers, “This Isn’t Heaven.’’ “It’s
the Little Things in Texas,” “Will
ing and Eager,” “More Than Just a
Friend’ and “Never Say No.”
Also included are such Rodger;
and Hammerstein favorites as “It
Might As Well Be Spring." “Our
State Fair,” “That's for Me,” “Fall
ing In Love,” “It’s a Grand Night
for Singing” and “Isn't It Kinda
Fun” tone of the lavish production
numbers which features Ann-Mar
gret).
Camera Features
Confused Expert
On Abstract Art
A self-styled “art expert,” a small
boy who discusses outer space and
youngsters learning how to wink
are introduced by host Durward
Kirby on “Candid Camera" Sunday
at 10 on KTVF, Channel Eleven.
Allen Funt, creator of “Candid
Camera,” arranges to have a man
posing as an art expert in a gallery
explain the meaning of three ab
stract paintings to various people.
In the midst of the explanation, the
expert decides he is holding the
canvases upside down. Then, te
add to the confusion, he inter
changes the titles of the works.
A series of sequences shows Torn
O'Malley of the “Candid Camera”
staff asleep in several public
places with signs on him requesting
passersby to awaken him at speci
fied times. i
Harvest Of Hate ]
On ‘Casey* Slioiv 1
Eddie Albert guest stars as Gena
Billstrom, a tycoon who has a seiz
ure during a board meeting, oa
“Ben Casey,” Wednesday at 9:33
on KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
Billstrom strikes an associata
during the seizure in “Harvest oJ
Hate,” and the man, Henry Kessler,
dies as a result of the blow. Tha
district attorney demands that Dr,
Casey release Billstrom for triaL