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Show By LYN CONNELLY K UNIQUE TV film series based on the leeendry of New York'i Algonquin Hotel, meeting place ol Jie theatrical greats of yesteryear, U1 soon go before the cameras . . . Doug Fairbanks, Jr. has supposedly sup-posedly agreed to portray his dad in one . . . That great "Cyrano" of radio, screen and television, Jimmy Durante, had our English cousins rolling In the aisles when he opened at the London Palladium. You'd never imagine the steel strike could affect symphonic music, but it has . . , U.S. Steel has not yet Indicated it will sponsor again the NBC Symphony this summer sum-mer . . . The network feels It may have to put the program on itself ... Variety quoted Margaret Truman Tru-man on her father's TV tour of the White House . . . Asked her opinion of her dad as an entertainer, she quipped, "With three networks, how could fie miss?" PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: Billy May revives an old favorite in "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" aod does a nice Job of It . . . Back offers "Honest and Truly" . . . Kay Starr follows her "Wheel of Fortune" success with a ballad right up bet alley, "I Waited a Little Too Long" . . . "Me Too" is on the flip side . . And another revival Is the always popular "Just Because" done this time with good effect by Jlmmj Wakely . . . Reverse has "Forgive Me." COLUMBIA: Frank Sinatra, probably the most prolific of the waxers, has a unijue record In "Feet of Clay" backed by "Don't Be Afraid to Go Home" ... "I Ain't Lazy I'm Just Dreaming" isn't a protest, it's a new song and one that Sammy Kaye's recording , is likely to boost places ... A cutie called "Winnlpesankee" is on the reverse . . . Louis Prima does his own special brand of singing on a new disc containing two new songt with equally odd titles "Bas-U" "Bas-U" tad "Oab-Dahday-Dab." |