Show Kati o By Dy LYN CONNELLY WESTERN x novels are as popular YV lar tar as birthday cakes Western movies are consistent box office once leaders And the air air- wares too are meriting and winning winning win win- ning adult appreciation with a western radio series The CBS radio program Is a dramatic hour half of suspense and excitement with all aU the elements elements ele ments that comprise any first first rate show western or otherwise And its it's entertaining listening is a western in that its locale Is the lawless West but the customary sagebrush seasoning seasoning season season- ing has been reduced to an atmospheric atmospheric atmos minimum Personable DIR Bill Conrad stars as a convincing U U. S. S Marshal Mark Dillon and author Les Lea Crutchfield can take a literary bow for having appropriately appropriately appropriately endowed his leading character charac charac- ter with more horse sense than trigger reasoning The episodes themselves revolve about the human problems of at the law enforcement officer on whom the western settlers rely for protection pro protection The re results are trenchant trench ant grown up western drama with little relation to the off at the the pass pass gun-gallopers gun who play primarily to kid audiences IDOL CHATTER CHArTER Paul Weston recently cut his record Dean De-an Martin and Jerry Lewis will trek to Rome and Israel after their London Palladium Pal Pal- engagement on June 15 IS Johnny Rays Ray's gyrations will be toned down dawn for his movie debut In All 11 of Me Jack Benny Denny will III undertake the two a theater theater thea ter package that Judy Garland nanny Danny Kaye and Betty Delty Hutton Button found so successful II He fie will open OileD a at a the Curan CuraD In 10 San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco cisco and go east from there Eddie Fisher expects to be mus mus- mustered cored out oat of the army In early May and New Yorks Paramount Theatre Theatre Thea tre is planning a date for tor Eddie to open there as soon as the big event takes place Meanwhile Eddie is still soli topping male vocalists InthE in inthe inthe the hit record department |