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Flies High Third Time in HOLLYWOOD AP Writer TV-Rad- io NEW YORK— In the short his-- 1 tory of television few truly durable properties have emerged among them “I Love Lucy” “December Bride” and another dramatic property which has been a classic since it was written almost 60 years ago “Peter Pan” The original play was written and produced in 1904 by Sir James Barrie The charming fairy tale about the boy who refused to grow up was such a success with young and older audiences that it still is given a Christmas production every & r 'Butterfield 8' Features Liz - n London year In Title Role m? the film popular “Butterfield 8” starring Elizabeth Taylor Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher has been held over for a a few days at the Orpheum Thea- Now it looks as custom will li be adopted by American television On Thursday night of this week L':30-7:3- 0 MST)HVIary Martin will play poter on televtcicn fn iV third time since 1955 And this ter The play deals with6 the life of a girl who has been cruelly shocked in her childhood the result of which twists her life Miss Taylor plays this role Laurence Harvey who also is a bit mixed up in his marital status meets her and finds a love that is overwhelming Eddie Fisher plays the role of a composer who also plays an important part in the life of Miss Taylor in the film Others starred are Dina Merrill as the wife of Harvey Mildred Dun-noc- k Betty Field Jeffrey Lynn and Susan Oliver Medford Kay i time the delhtf”1 tat'on of the Barrie play has been cantnred in all oolo" on long- ITlSy again and again iss Martin already has been seen in the title role by many more m'lHons'of children and grown-up- s than were ever dreamed of bv the rreat Pter Maude Adams star of the 1905 American production Mary started training like an athlete months ago for the rigors or th r musical fantasy was schedule This complicated by the fact that she is also currently the star of a hit Broadway musical "The Sound of Music” in- - a most demanding part NBC howler made thing® as easy as possible for Mary They rented the Helen Hayes Theater right across the street from “The Sound of Muric” for preliminary For several weeks rehearsals the daytime fexcent spent Mary on matinee days of course rehearsing with the large cast of children and adults and then retreated to her dressing room across the street for 3 ry’riod before the evening be re-ru- n im rM ri frt 'rr!n two-hou- rt performance I was quite wor- “Quite frankly ried about Marv's strength holding out” confessed her husband executive producer Richard HalPdav “But after the first day's rehearsal Mary came out glowing danced through the performance that night and then announced it had been the most fulfilling day of her life” Mafy wearing sweater and stretch ski pants and resting during a rehearsal break nodded emphatic agreement ” hard work but it is she said “It has come like a tonic to me — I love the part of course and I’ve been playing in ‘The Sound of Music’ for a long time without a break Doing this show has been a sort of refresher for the other one too” Halliday who produced the adaptation of the Barrie play first on Broadway and then twice on NBC savs that putting on the TV program this time “takes as much serious planning and rehearsing as is ppt into a new play or motion “TVs exhil-erafting- picture" Fortuna-el- y Halliday wai able to round up many of the performer who had played in the previous versions including Cyril Ritchard the ferocious and bumbling Capt Hook One important new part to be cast is Liza hitherto played by daughter Mary and Richard' Heller Halliday now a growrvup college student There also will be a new Wendy the original young actress having outgrown the part In many ways of course the presence of so many veterans of “Peter Pan” speeded things up The producers also were aided by the existence of a kinescope of the A kinescope for the 1955 version benefit of those with a short memory is a film— usually fuzzy-m- ade of a live program but the only way to make a record of a show in those pre-tap- e days) “We’ve been rather impressed by the tempo and the timing of the demand At ta-i- i r? S' ' i ¥ n fljt ' WHY IT'S PETER PAN HOLLYWOOD ( AP) — A famous movie voice will soon come from a Mary Martin is making her third television appearance as Peter Pan this week Here she flies in to delight Wendy (Maureen Bailey) Michael (Kent Fletcher) John (Joey Trent) and all the big and little people in the TV audience who think it would be fun not to have to grow up — (AP Newsfeatures Photo) television dog Arthur Lake famed Dag wood of one of the movies' most profitable series “Blondie” is now producing and directing "Jimmy and Me" a TV series about a boy and his dog The dog was bailed out of a dog for floO and will talii in the P°u series A number of actors were tested for the voice but none projected the whimsical crackling voice of the great American underdog as did Dagwood show’ remarked Mary as we watched the kinescope of the cli- mactic battle aboard the pirate “We’re not planning to make any real changes but we certainly can do something about better lighting and camera work’’ The final shooting of the long pro- gram took place in NBC’s big stu- -dio in Brooklyn where almost unlimited space permits Mary’s breath-takin- g flying scenes to be completely uninhibited by the pros- cenium of wings of the usual stage And it is the flying scenes which require great muscular coordina- -tion and strength to hold a position in the air for which she had to train “I really love the flying part” says Mary “I look forward to it” e flying days areMary’s Pan” over with “Peter now on and tape safely successfully It is also probable that Miss Martin has received the last skillful from her husband' ministration the show” Mary recounted “Rich ard’s barber and the wig man were waiting for me at the apartment-shiThe barber cut and the wig man fitted me for something to wear in “The Sound of Music’— and he had the wig back Sunday for a Hitting “I hadn’t been to happy about REDS HAVE EXCUSE getting shorn again But once it was off I realized how free and TOKYO (UPI)- -If (Communist happy one feels with short hair” t China's new furnace at the Pao-toThe Hallidays incidentally are iron and steel works lags in d a most couple When production this could be the reason: “The superintendent” Mary’s contract for “The Sound of Music” runs out next October according to the New China news agency “is the former they plan to spend six months in their home in Brazil—and then shepherd boy Irdenbho” start rehearsals on a new musical play which is already in the works for a late 1962 opening ENDS “But I’ll miss doing 'Peter Pan Miss Martin insists occasionally” TUESDAY! p i w non-plan- Glad for a break Shirley came over and sat down with us I had previously met her when she made “Sheepman” Later we were joined by Larry and the fun began He had been called to the phone nearby and then asked Shirley to talk a minute Shirley took the phone “I know” she said “but why does he walk like a ruptured duck?” She let out her infectious laugh and so the conversation went “Who walks like a ruptured duck?” she was asked when she ! ’ " PORGY AND BESS” Technicolor Sidney Poitier — Pearl Bailey 1st time at Regular Prices Open 6:45 pm Academy Awa rd s Move Has Film Capital in Uproar conHOLLYWOOD (AP)-Big- gest troversy in town these days is the moving of the Annual Academy Awards from Hollywood’s RKO Pantages Theater to Santa Mon ica’s Civic Auditorium The Academy of Motion Pictures Cloarfield “HIGH TIME” I Bing Crosby M'Q-- Of 4t't twnt The Parkers have a home In Tokyo as well as in San Fernando Valley’ Shirley said they are going to build an apartment also in Tokyo as they spend so much time there STEPHANIE'S FUTURE know whether Stephanie don’t “I will be an actress or not but she mimicks me” she laughed and clasped her hands “If I can only get her a good agent!” Then she became serious “No seriously I won’t influence her at all I want her to be happy and do what she wants to do” As to being separated so much from her husband she said: “It’s 3 )f fX fr V 94n Z Tassfsy 1:00 PM All SEATS 75c WffcfWpSOQpr IH TMC COM TMT MH ITMUM '''4' J: Hal Wauis o ELECTRIC a They do the iob "em Ns tHt --Btoirr Twt RUBUfCI DtOVCT TCLU A ¥ $' '¥ " rX fW umumcBNT fC If COLOR I turnon v -- om 1 I w bv Box 6:3 0 Show 7:00 til g a L'JSTJZD19 CTTi? 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LAURENCE ttfht i s WHY CAN’T Matineo 2:00 p m Jimki'i S! tf": ? she has been in demand She is married to Steve Parker He' with their daughter Stephanie is in Tokyo at present where he isj producing some films They were planning to return home the first part of December "I had to go to Europe” Shirley explained “and we didn’t want to leave Stephanie alone so Steve took her with him I’m so homesick to see them I don’t know what to ORPHEUrll'11" ' TA CHAIRMEN!!! yVStWfy- contract immediately 'p ADMIRAL THEATER 5:25 7:45 9:55 p m PV- J- JlVT7T PARTIES f' dancer d ss Arts and Sciences claims the move is necessary because there is no hall big enough in Hollywood to returned house the affair The Pantages “Larry of course” By this time to install new 1000 seats she had an audience with all the scrapped for road the showing of equipment laughter going on Larry rejoined the group and “Spartacus” The Hollywood Chamber of ComShirley offered him a lozenge “Oh wild cherry” be said tak- - merce and others contend that the awards could be held on a sound Ing one “He’s never seen one of them!” stage at Paramount or any of the other studios that are located in Shirley howled Hollywood proper The Academy London-J was Because Larry however picked the Santa Monreared he was asked what he ica auditorium— only 10 miles away thought of American women —but couldn't have been more there He jumped up and shouted: “If if 1000 miles it had been they re like Shirley MacLaine let uproar Vine and from Hollywood me get away from here!” He pretended to run away and then came back “I think American women are verv lucky” he said “They are “ALL THE YOUNG MEN very beautiful and exceptionally a but bit charming— bossy” Allan Ladd — Ingemar Johannson “Of course we are” said Shirley War Drama “and I like it that way” All Over 65 FREE Sunday j But this time as rehearsals started Mary’s hair was shoulder length And most of it had to go “It was a Saturday night after uuu? I rust-haire- d was dancing in the chorus of Broadway’s “The Pajama Game” when Carol Haney really fractured her ankle and Shir ley went on in her place and won overnight acclaim Hal Wallace Hollywood producer saw her went back stage and signed her to a singer-actre- FUN BEGINS ms faKtnofing rrovi from th btginnmg ftatvrti at 1i15 2:25 Rodgers-Hammer-stei- Pan” blue-eye- " 5c barber in “Peter “I’ve had a few to deal with” he said “There was Liz Taylor in “Butterfield” but she ran away from me Then there’s Shirley She is all right but every once in a while in this- - serious film she’ll on me” spring a can-ca- n Shirley jumped up and said: “Shall we dance?” “No music” Ahd so it went until they were called for the next sequence M SHE'S LIKEABLE Shirley who is friendly likeable and completey fascinating is one for whom the old cliche— leading lady gets sprained ankle understudy gets part— paid off Just six years ago the Southern-bor- n West If you liked Shirley MacLaine in “Can-Can- ” or any other of her numerous films you should be around her in real life for 'a few minutes She’s spontaneous and a riot! Get unpredictable her and Laurence Harvey together and you’re really in for fun Elizabeth Remember Taylor’s lover in “Butterfield 8?” That’s Laurence ’or Larry as his friends call him They' had been doing an extremely tense scene in “Spinster” on the MGM lot where Larry kicked at the door of Shirley’s room and threatened to break it down if she didn’t open it It was a long sequence and there easily could have been a slip of dialogue by either of them They had rehearsed it well at the request of Shirley and Larry before the cameras rolled and then went into action The cameras rolled twice and it was a “take” This could have taken a full day as many such scenes do but with such superb performers as these two it was a matter of minutes Everyone was delighted j Mary started a long professional period which required a cropped hair-d- o way hack with “South Pan cific” when the core required her to wab that man right out of her hair I nightly and matinees on tage Then before it could grow back she started rehearsing to play a boy p i I I 1960 : j - 4 A far-sighte- -- DEC s wSSM 1955 -- 1 R SUNDAY MORNING OCDEN UTAH By Altai Pardo and asked him: “How come an Indian like you is playing a Hawaiian?” Said the extra long a veteran of Hollywood Westerns: “I just wanted to be on the winning side for once” By Cynthia Lowry ’ STANDARD-EXAMINE- (AP)-Spe- ncer Tracy cornered one of the ex-tras in - “Devil at 4 O’clock” Peter Pan : THE OGDEN ' CO-HI- imwmfmS 1 — "THE CROOKED CIRCLE" —n Cintmahtpt — ' 35c a |