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Show Peak at the Stars . . . By LYNN CONNELLY BOB HOPE, already committed to a number of fall TV stints, is being paged for a flvea-week daytime radio series as well ... It depends partly on Bob's willingness willing-ness to work that hard . . . Those readings from the Bible by Charles Laughton for video viewers appear nearly set, with the actor scheduled sched-uled to start the series in time for another Christmas broadcast . . . NBC Tfias paired Tony Martin and Marguerite Piazza for a musical songfest due to take the air this autumn ... TV films of the coronation corona-tion of Queen Elizabeth will be distributed here by British producers pro-ducers in an attempt to crack the U. S. market. Margaret Truman cut her European Euro-pean trip short in order to be back in time for another appearance on the Jimmy Durante show this month . . . CBS may do a film repeat re-peat of a network telecast of last winter, in which Adlal Stevenson matched wits with the Quiz Kids . . . The work of H. G. Wells and Mark Twain have been acquired for television . . . Several replacements replace-ments are being considered for the ailing Fred Allen in the new quiz show the comedian was slated for in the fall . . . Herb Shrhier and Ray Bolger are the leading candidates candi-dates for the spot. IDOL CHATTER Robert Young has solved the problem of how to do a weekly broadcast while touring the country coun-try in a stage play . . . He flies the cast to where he's appearing and puts the show on tape ... A survey just completed shows that since the advent tf TV, 3,500 film theatres thea-tres have closed their doors . . '. Will Rogers, Jr., who bad to be coaxed to do the movie story of his famous father and then agreed to i make it only if he was not an noyed further by movie producers, has EUddenly done an aboutface . . . He's reported signed for a TV film deal, with other film jobs pending . . . The greasepaint In his blood was just too much for him. Doug Fairbanks, Jr. has organized organ-ized his own video production company com-pany abroad, with NBC contracting as the outlet here for Doug's offerings offer-ings . . . ABC-TV is considering a unique sports series. |