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Show The New Fall Shows Annie At Valley Music Hall T.H.E. Cat ( See Cover ) Each week from now through September The Guide will feature a number of the new fall shows, beginning this week with THF Tat t!h.E. Cat, a half-ho- ur series starring Robert Loggia as a professional bodyguard who relies on agility action-suspen- se and wits to keep his clients alive, premieres cm NBC Television Network, Channel 2, Friday, Sep- tember 16. T.H.E. Cat (Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat), a former circus aer-iali- st and, reputedly, a onetime will undertake cases each week that fail outside the normal province of the police. Usually his clients will be marked for death with only T.H.E. Cat standing between them and their would-b- e killers. The series is set mainly in San Francisco although T.H.E. Cats cat-burgl- ar, business jazz musicians will be enlisted to play in the Casa del Gato. The camera work will feature wide angle effects much in the manner of the movie 'The Ipcress File." An American agent in East masquerades as his an extremely wealthy ly layboy, after the latter is et sec-the to death by shot police. This is the springboard for the in developments ispenseful ermany mis-ken- Vs ,VR Geberal Frank Savage in 12 ABC-T- Vs O'clock High," has the stellar role of the American agent, Peter Murphy, who mas- querades as the deceased millionaire, Mark Wainwright. His ar is Dany Wynter, as co-st- Marks aristocratic widow. Murphys charade is the crux of the whole thing. The suspense will hinge on his desperate effort to stay alive while in the guise of Mark Wainwright. Peter realizes that ifhes exposed, he's expendable. Eva Wainwright knows that Peter is not her husband, but she keeps his secret to retain the Wainwright fortune, which is willed to Mark's Roger Barry (Alex Davion). half-broth- er, may take him to dis- tant places. True to his name, T.H.E. Cat will become truly active in the night hours. His 'office will be a murky nightclub called Casa del Gato. 'T.H.E. Cat" will utilize special music and cinematic techThe music will be in niques. the 'cool Jazz" vein and noted BC-T- tirely in color in Europe. Robert Lansing, who star red as MAN WHO THE filmed en to be WAS," Pistols N Petticoats 'PISTOLS N PETTICOATS," comedy Western series in color starring Ann Sheridan, will make its debut Saturday, September 17 on the CBS Television Network, Channel 5. This is the glamorous Miss Sheridan's debut in a weekly night-tim- e television series and marks her return to Hollywood, she won fame as the Oomph Girl" of motion pictures. Pistols n Petticoats" is the story of three generations of the Hanks family, whose home is on where the outskirts of Wretched, Colorado, in the 1870s. Ann Sheridan plays Henrietta Hanks, a lady as adept with firearms as she is attractive. 'Annie Get Your Gun," which opens at Valley Music Hall on August 22 and continues through September 3, is a true-to-lshoot Jem musical about a rags to riches girl who became one of the greatest women marksmen the world has ever ife -u- p-bang known. Playing the role of Phoebe Oakley Moses(Annie Oakley) is Miss Dorothy Collins, the star of the former radio and television show 'Your Hit Parade." Anne She starred in the VMH production Sound of Musi(f last year. The part of Annie's real-li- fe hus- Frank Butler, is played by Utahs Art Lund, Broadway star, who also will make a return visit band, to VMH. He is completing a hit run as Prof. Harold Hill in VMH s ' The Music Man," and has previously appeared in the theatres Unsinkabie Molly Brown," as Leadville Johnny Brown. Miss Collins has starred in a number of Broadway shows, including 'Oklahoma " Showboat," Brigadoon and others. The role she plays was adapted from Annies real life by HerIt bert and Dorothy Fields. traces the life of Miss Oakley who was born on a farm in Darke, County, Ohio, in 1866, through the show sharpshooting career with Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, which made her famous. Miss Oakleys husband, a sharpshooter in his own right, never equalled the crackshot achievements of his wife. Her -- gunfire antics netted her a $1 million estate before she died in 1926 in Dayton, Ohio. Her husband died 18 days after she did. 'Annie will be performed each night, August 22 through September 3. at 8:15 p.m. each night, except Sundays. Matinee performances will be given August 22 and September 3, at 2:15 p.m. G-- 12 |