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ond showing Of a telefllm are
considerably lower than the
original salaries.
One program, Burns and
Allen" will have a summer
series combination. A set of
repeats will be followed by
some new films now being
made. These in turn will be
followed by another set of old
films before the comedy duo
returns for the fall season.
Groucho Marx, for the Sec
ond consecutive summer, will
be replaced by himself, q 13-
week series of repeat films
called 1.-THE Best of Groucho."
He was one of the few doing
this last year, but this year it
appears that that was a band
wagon he was riding on.
II Married Joan" and my
Hero" among the NBC-TV
situation comedies, will repeat
shows. Among the dramas
doing the same are "Fireside
Theater," Ford Theater" and
"Dragnet." big Story" will be
replaced by Doorway to Dam
GER" which may or not be old
films under a new name.
Unique Repeot Series
A unique entry Cat this
point) in the rerun field is
Ralph Edwards This Is Your
Life" A live show during the
regular season, its summer re-
placement will be a series Of
telescopes of past This Is
Your Life programs.
Costs also will be cut on live
television shows. Jackie Glea.
son, for instance, will be re-
placed on CBS-TV's Saturday
night lineup by Larry Storch.
Mr.. Storch is a talented fel.
low, but he is less expensive
than Mr.. Gleason. So is the
Arthur Murray Dance Party"
which will take over where
and when Ken Murray and
Alan young stop on CHS.
Strictly musical replace
ments, placing less strain on
the program department and
the budget. include Du Mont's
"The Music Show" and ABC-
TVS Music at the Meadow
brook" and Opera VS.. jazz"
The latter, a Monday night
replacement for Hollywood
Screen Test" started last week
and was we'll received.
One sponsor who seems to
be moving against the trend
is the one paying the bills for
Scott Music Hail." which
shares the Wednesday-at-8:3O
niche on NBC-TV with "Caval-
cade of America" 1t has lined
up a pair Of special musical
attractions for June 8 and
June II, while Star Miss Patti
Page will be vacationing.
Noted Comnosev
Robert Russell Bennett has
been hired to act as host on
two programs devoted to the
"best in recent Broadway
music" He will have the help
of Robert Simon, lyricist and
music editor of the New York
er for "a years, in selecting
music and preparing continue
ity.
Mr.. Bennett, as you hardly
need to be told. is a distin-
guished modern American
composer. He also is a top
orchestrator, and arranged the
scores for such musical sue
ceSses as oklahoma" South
Pacific" "Show Boat" kiss
Me, Kate" and king and l."
He also orchestrated that su.
perior Richard Rodgers score
for NBC-TV's Victory at
Sea-"
Singing for Mr.. Bennett on
the June 3 program will DO
Leontyne Price, singing star Of
"Porgy and Bess," and her
husband, Baritone William
Warfield. Their featured num-
Der will be the "Bess, You Is
My Woman" duet from George
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess."
Other stellar names are yet to
be announced.
A New York spokesman for
the Music Hall" sponsor was
on the phone the other day
expressing considerable en-
for the two special
They would be, he
said, an answer to the critics
there Is little or no
good music on television.
This probably Is not pre-
;isely the kind Of good" music
'ome critics have been clam
)ring for. but 1t does seem to
oe q step in the right direc.
ion. Anyhow. the sponsors
nan said. If these two shows
meet with audience approval.
here undoubtedly will be more.