... from America Plans are just about completed by NBC-TV to bring Mary Martin to the screens next fall in a two-hour version of Annie Get Your Gun, which she played on tour several seasons ago. Miss Martin is booked for a ten-week stand in the musical ...

... frow America Ed Sullivan will celebrate his ninth anniversary as a television performer with a water spectacle show originating from the Marine Theatre at Jones Beach, New York. A new Wetfrii film television series, The California ns. has been purchased ...

... from America National Broadcasting Co. is planning a new television series of Western films next fall on a weekly, evening, hour-long basis. Under working title of Wagon Train. series is to be produced for NBC by Revue Productions, subsidiary of ...

... from America New York University is to con duct a regular academic credit course over television starting next fall. It is Comparative Litera turc, and will be offered in seventy-six daily half-hour lectures. To receive tne credits, viewer participants ...

... from America Bette Davis will appear in Foot note on a Doll. television drama. April 24, playing the historic r61e of 70-year-old Dolly Madison. Charles Bickford has been en gaged by NBC -TV to act in a new western drama film series, titled Boots ...

... From America Wilfred Altman Reports IT WAS Paddy Cbayefsky who told me: If Fred Coe goes (he is one of the most creative and highly respected TV drama cers here), we only have Herb Brodkin left. So I met 45-year-old Mr. Brodkin this week. A producer ...

... OFF TO AMERICA Frank Bunny Bower, who for the last six years has had his own band, previous to which he had two seasons wilh Harry Roy and played in many of the popular resorts in Britain, sailed last Satur day with his wife and three children for America ...

... From America Ernie Kovack's pantomime comedy television show was so successful with both critics and audiences that National Broadcasting Co. is intent on finding a permanent weekly programme spot for him. w w Milton Berle. leading American television ...

... from America Howard Selsher, producer of the TV quiz programme, Tic Tac Dough. stated in New York that he was leaving for England soon to put on a similar show over CTV in London. He said the British version would be titled Naughts and Crosses. ...

... News from America Hildegarde has been engaged as both hostess and actress for the forthcoming television scries, The International Show, which will film comedy. drama, and variety entcnainmcnt in different cities of the world. Telecast Pictures, Inc ...

... from America Playhouse 90 TV programme over CBS is negotiating for production of a play, Clash By Night by Clifford Odets, on June 13. This drama was presented in New York in 1941, and made into a motion picture in 1952. Winston O'Keefe, a producer ...

... from America Eastman Kadok Company is the new sponsor to take over alternate weeks of the Ed Sullivan Show on television beginning next fall. Continuing commercial backer is Mercury Division of the Ford Molot Company. Joining Mickey Rooney in the cast ...