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Show By LYN CONNELLY CURT MASSEY, who started his "Curt Massey Time" musical as a summer replacement, began his fifth year on -the program recently . . The five-a-week musical mu-sical started on the CBS radio network net-work and since has included the full Mutual net and Radio Luxembourg Luxem-bourg in England . "Mr. Peepers," Peep-ers," lovable television character played' so poignantly by Wally Cox, may soon be heard on radio, too . It is still in the talking stage but there are several spon- sors expressing some interest . . . Loretta Young's telepix series for a soap sponsor gets an early start on the fall season, hitting the full NBC-TV chain on August 30 . . . The series is titled "A Letter to Loretta." Jack Webb resumes shooting "Dragnet" this month and, in rapid rap-id order, will do enough shows ta carry him through November 1954 . . Country Washburne, musical director on "Curt Massey Time," has turned down two offers of-fers for one-night stands with his band this summer in favor of a vacation during August. PLATTER CHATTER: CAPITOL: Composer of the highly successful "High Noon" has come up with another unusual ballad bal-lad that should win some acclaim . . It's called "Return to Paradise" Para-dise" and Nat King Cole does a very creditable job on it . . . "Angel Eyes" backs it . . Clime Stone revives a 20-year old-timer, "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town" and it still appears . Reverse has "The Bunny Hop" . . . Bob Manning follows his fine debut with "It's All Right With Me" and "All I Desire." Still on Capitol, the always dependable de-pendable , Jane Froman does a good waxing on "If I Love You a Mountain" from June Haver's last movie, "The Girl Next Door" . . . Back has "My Shining Hour" . Molly Bee, talented and popular youngster, has a good disc in "I'll Tell My Mommy" with "The Doggie Dog-gie on the Highway" on the flip. |