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By MARY FRAZER Seripps-Howard New York Writer

NEW YORK, June 14—TV programs of the future will be mostly on film, made in studios, and released just like

the movies. Few if any “live” shows will be produced in theaters delight of queue-happy audiences who see a- show free.

What's more, they will be re-

Ken Murray

Films Are Coming, 4

Sure

TV Splurges In Chicago

CHICAGO, June 14—Television | is going on {its greatest splurge to cover the two Chicago political conventions in July. A top studio show uses four or five cameras in an hour production. For the conventions the! {three networks are moving in 61/ {cameras | One network will be able to give its audience 17 different)

leased for first, second and third.

runs, as are the flickers. And the emphasis will be on

' “interesting” shows, rather than ‘pure comedy.

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Ken Murray, the big fellow who parlayed his “Blackouts” into one of video's most successful shows, gazed into the puff of smoke from

his trademark cigar and predicted

;

E—Francie Lane.

By EARL WILSON The Times’ Broadway Columnist

“As long as ‘I Love Lucy’ is totally on film and is one of the top ‘TV successes, how can anyone say (filming ‘TV shows is not a suc|cessful “operation?” Ken demanded, during a backstage chat while his show was going through one of the five costly rehearsals it must have, each week, for a halfhour that's gone forever, once it's {presented » \d ” “WITH the idea of filming shows worked out properly, there’s no reason why we couldn't

NEW YORK, June 14—Pretty Francie Lane must be'},ve second run shows, even third wondering what possible advantages there are in being a

star.

Back in Indianapolis, when she was Frances Meckling

and lived at 5805 Carrollton Ave,

| |

)and fourth, after the first-run net{work performances. Different {sponsors for each.”

{stations open, now that the TV

the redhead was on a morning borhood found out I leave early,” freeze is off, there will be costs

show over Station WIBC and

another over WFBM.

She struggled to wake up In leave the house.

she said. “Now there's always a flock of them waiting when 1 Gee, that never

time, rushed down to the sta- happened in Indianapolis.

tion by cab, or hitch-hiking, sang] while half asleep and left the studio still a little groggy. Occasionally she'd miss a show through oversleeping. But now Francie is the singing star of a TV show that originates in flossy Radio City. So what happens? Same things that happened: in! Indianapolis, : “I'm ‘on a show called ‘Break-

fast With Music,” Francie told|1axed approach I had in the | WEBM-WIBC days,” Francie said. |

“We'ré on the air at 9a. m.| means a T2304. m. rehearsal. Duch. And on Saturdays I'm rehearsing' at 6 a, m. for an ex-

on at 8.” J » »

AND SINCE the show started

in December she hasn't missed a single performance. “I hate getting up in the morning, but I've got it worked out now,” Francie said. “I set my alarm clock for 7, and at 7:05 the door-| man phones me. “If the clock doesn't get me, the doorman does.” Of course, Francie doesn’t have to worry about hitch-hiking any] more. “The cah drivers in my neigh-

Laughs for Conventions |

There's one candidate who'll 14 get on

loom large in both the Repub-|

lican and Democratic conventions, come July.

Fellow name of Clabbercut.

Not exactly a dark horse. More nearly a confused nag who's just caught on to what will be going on in Chicago, and believes his “Avoidist” platform is just the ticket.

By way of Injecting a little levity into the serious and, un-| doubtedly, tedjous proceedings which will be shown to America| by video, American Broadcasting, Company has come up with] “Hummon” via Roger Price.

Hummon

“Another thing helps--I don't have to worry about putting on makeup at home. They do that at the studio.

lipstick. I feel. naked.” The program, headed by come-

dian Morey Amsterdam, is in- the same 50 cost $49,000. And someone who's simply interesting man who was arrested for being

formal and easy-going. ”

" = “WE'RE GETTING that re-

“If I'm very sleepy and forget bry lyrics, nobody: says very much about it, .-I#just make up new lyrics and keép going as though nothing happened. The audience is .very understanding about those early hours.” Something new has been added since those Hoosier days— Francie married TV director Kevin Joe Jonson in January. “I could shoot him,” Francie said In a wifely way, meaning she had no intention of doing any such thing. “I have to get up early and he just les there, sleeping away. He is even able to watch the show while he's still in bed, then he tells me how good it was, “That’s so aggravating. “But on week ends he has to get

{up early and then I laugh at him.”

Francie recently received word from home that her 18-year-old sister, Janet, is singing with a

{local band. { “And all the time I thought she

NEW YORK, June 14 — liked classical music,” Francie

marveled, “Well, if she's going

TV I guess I'll have to] teach her how to hitch-hike.”

* It's summer- :

: time...and

: the listening

+ |S easy:..

ino, sponsor can stand. Time \chrges will be trebled, and meanwhile, production costs are I

”

Ken scratched his crew cut! America,’ and pace the shows to velopments for commercials.

pale thoughtfully, cigar, and continued.

puffed the

| “In 1950, our network charges “After all, would you want| Six tombstones in Crown Hill o g for 50 stations was $18,000. It's|someone telling jokes or playing Cemetery today were among the We don’t use much, just a little neon going up, with the increased the piano in your living room for newest Indianapolis traffic vic{number of sets, and hence the a solid hour, or even a half hour? tims. They were knocked down

increased market, so that now

what's going to happen when

Ken Murray

| there are more sets and more stations?” Ken, who's in the big middle of a hassle between a $1,000,000-for-|10-years, plus a weekly produc{tion budget, deal with Columbia { Broadcasting Co. and a National | Broadcasting Co. offer, declined [to get personal about prices. » » » “I SIMPLY say something’s got to be done about the whole set (up, before the financing gets too {astronomical | “And another thing: We've got

“Otherwise, when all these new to plan our program with the in

{realization that it's ‘room enter|tainment,” not theater -entertain-

tment. If we'll just say to our-

dou- Selves, ‘We're guests in the living must be no interruption of major

lrooms of Mr, Mrs. and Miss

{the small screens, we'll

be better | off. .

“Wouldn't you rather have

|and pleasant?”

\scenes in a row without once re|peating. | There will be 95 name news commentators here, and 750 technicians. hs | The audience of 60,000,000 in| 34 states will be -the largest num-, ber to witness any event in his-!

ry. : The total cost of the whole shebang, including canceled net-!

_ lwork programs, has been esti-

mated as high as $15,000,000, Here is the setup for the Republican convention, opening July {7, and the Democratic session, starting July 21: ! ABC, CBS, and NBC have joined forces for coverage of convention sessions. Each will contribute men and cameras to the pool pickup. Three cameras will face the speakers’ platform, and three will

the crowd. It is expected daytime sessions! (Will run from 11:30 to mid-after-noon and evening sessions from {8:30 until anywhere from 11 p.m. ito 2 or 3 a. m. | The keynote speeches, nominatg, and speeches of acceptance

and an address by President Tru-

{man will come in the evening. _ Both parties made it clear there

{speeches or important floor de-

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date to National Broadcasting Company's Bob Hope, just signed | for the conventions. This week, | ABC hired Price—a long-haired, | bespectacled gent who's plied the trade of humorist and quick car-|

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out each convention day,

I'll draw graphs to prove how many adjectives were spent, and how many fans blew out the hot alr, and give vital statistics gathered from bartenders, ele¥ator operators, and people like that,” Price told me. 8 ” * ®AND TLL give the people Hummon',” <+*Hummon first came to life in y book, ‘In One Hand and Out e Other’ and he's practically Buman, now, with my book in its third printing. He comes from my home state, West Virginia, and he's not a Northerner or Boutherner. His party, the ‘Avoidist,’ is against complication, in fact, against anything that takes energy. “I've decided ‘Hummon' can't afford a smoke-filled room for his caucuses. He'll have to settle for a smoke-filled fire escape. But by the time the conventions

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