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Show UfifSr"--'-- -' - -' 1 By LYN CONNELLY BC IS SAID to be trying to lun t " Danny Kaye from the TV hold ( out ranks and spot him on the net work . . . Other video moguls, benl on signing Danny, are reported offering of-fering him a fee the size of the U.S. mint . . . WilliaiY if Keighley, pleasant voiced narrator a the "Lux Radii Theatre", has beei telling friends thai this year marki his last on th show ... If Keigh ley retires, Cecil B. DeMille may be back in the spot he BOB HOPE once occupied . . . Tom Mix may ride again, on video film that is, if the famed Western actor's estate okays a deal now reported in the talking stage. Two networks hope to sign veteran vet-eran actor Thomas Mitchell foi shows having a rural slant ... It set, he'll emerge as either a country coun-try editor, doctor or lawyer . , There's a chance that Bob Hope may play Helsinski, Finland, this summer when the city is crowded with Olympic Games' athletes and spectators . . . Well, Bob always quipped that his nose would make a good ski jump . . , Dick Powell may be doing two TV shows nexl season one dramatic, the othei variety.. - . . ... .-, ... . . . PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: Two Ion g-playtng records that are worth adding tc album collections and that take less room than the ordinary albums, al-bums, are Bob Crosby's Bobcats playing such tunes as "Once In a While," "Pennies from Heaven," "Maryland, My Maryland," "Fidgety "Fidg-ety Feet," "Ostrich Walk," and "Magnolia Street Parade" . . . The other is "Keyboard Cocktails" featuring Chuy Reyes playing such favorites as "Yesterdays," "While a Cigarette Was Burning," "Blue Moon," "If I Had You," "I Surrender, Sur-render, Dear" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" . . . Both records are real lush. In singles, Capitol has some excellent ex-cellent material in Maggie Whiting's Whit-ing's latest disc, "My Ideal" backed by "Moonlight in Vermont", and Jimmy Wakely's "Goodbye, Little Girl." |