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1 ?√ßjSIMB SEMBHI- m I Eve Starr?╟╓s Inside TV mmm New Private Eye Will Enter Scene STARR REPORT: ?╟úPeter Gmm,> is the somewhat coy title of a brand new fnyst^'Fy-aSventure series concerning the life and times of a private eye. Actually, the original title of the series was ?╟úGunn For Hire/?╟╓ but this was objected to by Paramount, which once made a movie tailed ?╟úGun For Hire.?╟Ñ As played by Craig Stevens. Peter Gunn is quite a refinement of the old radio and early TV school qf private eye. Come to think of 8, Gunn isn?╟╓t a private eye at all. In fact, judging from the pilot episode, it?╟╓s difficult to tell what be is. His name is Gunn and he?╟╓s fori hire. Always, of course, on the cleaner side of the law. He is a handsome, tall and rather slender man with dark, close-cropped hair, who wears a nicely tailored narrow-lapel suit and doesn?╟╓t own a trench coat. He is nicely spoken, too, and treats the English language with a respect rarely accorded it by the run-of-the-mill hero. Gunn?╟╓s hangout is a neighborhood ginmill known as Mother's and presided over by Hope Emerson, a salty character actress whose rough exterior covers heart of pure spun gold. Naturally. TV.q cntoHaimyieftf at Mother's consists of a small modem jazz combo, which affords the series iis quite-different background music, and a girl singer named Edie Hart, played by Lola Albright, jj Miss Albright has been in Holly 1 wood for some time now and 1 knows her way around the sultry jj romantic angle of the screen, jj As Edie, she plays a girl on the H make, in love with Gunn and H doubtful that she will ever be || able to pin him down to a daet H at the marriage license bureau. m ~ She sings (quite well, too), makes m passes at the hero and sometime^ 1 is even helpful in getting Gunn out R3E m of the kind of scrapes such characters have to get themselves into in the name of entertainment. I am not at all sure that Stevens is going to be able to carry this load for an entire season. The truth of the matter is that he looks entirely too much like a nice guy, and, as Leo Durocher has so often pointed out, nice guys finish last. Stevens, whose advantage over Durocher h that he has script writers,, will never finish last. But you just don?╟╓t quite believe it when he takes on two strong - armed thugs on a stairway and tosses them both over the bannister. But that?╟╓s a quibble. I think the viewers are gping to like Peter Gunn. Stevens (married to Alexis Smith) will appeal to the women, Lola (Recently unmarried from Jack Carson) will appeal to the men and the modem jazz combo will appeal to the teenagers. As for the show itself, you still can?╟╓t beat that grand old story-good guy beats .bad guy and justice triumphs. * * CUFF NOTES FROM GLITTER GULCH: The Las Vegas^Strip is flipping over the new St^pdust Ho-tel?╟╓s Club Lido de Paris revue, and while much of the giant ?╟úspectacular?╟Ñ consisting of the undraped world-famous Bluebell Girls will never be seen on television, many of the Parisian specialty acts will be appearing from time to time on both Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen?╟╓s variety shows. The tremendous French. Revue staged by DonnAnto , reveals the exciting Jacqueline DuFief in a fancy figure -skating ice show that is most unusual in dance sequences and special effects. The ice stage disappears noiselessly in a matter of seconds to make way for an on-stage Aquacadel complete with gorgeous mermaids and mermen, an astonishing feat that is unsurpassed in night club revues in the past. Televised, this alone would be a standout entertainment and a welcome change for the weary-eyed Western fan.l|| There are ?╟ fireworks, Neapolitan^ street scenes, on succeeding?½ stages that disappear as if by||| magic, breath-taking lovely young||| women, beauties of the hats, shoes, and talcum powder brigade. The entire 90-minute show isi a fast-moving, magnificent contri-. bution to the world of entertain-* jment. OC. 1958. Genera! Features Carp.) Tim Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. SUNDAY, MIRROR arnr-nii ?╟÷ ?╟÷ ?╟÷ ?╟÷. . . _ ?√ß LEE MORTIMER Poor Man's I am a poor man?╟╓s Townsend Harris in reverse. A Barbarian who entertains the Geishas instead, I am, apparently, carried on the rolls, but not the payrolls of the major potion picture studios as the Official escort service, to take visiting Oriental film stars of the feminine persuasion on the New York nightlife rounds. Especially I those making American debuts such as Eiko Ando, or Ando Eiko | depending on how you look at it. That is how you may have hap-j pened to see me with the tall and \ willowy Japanese maiden who is j getting such great raves for her 1 first movie role, opposite John j Wayne, in 20th-Fox?╟╓s magnificent | ?╟úThe Barbarian and the Geisha?╟Ñ j now at the Paramount. MISS ANDO was Very forunate indeed to draw two sessions of my personalized and personally conducted New York Confidential tour which is only reserved for VIPs (and pretty SlantTEyed Sadies). Due to circumstances beyond my control, she only got to see three places?╟÷but the. very best mind you?╟÷the fiddles at Chez Vito, the gaiety of thelHar-wyri and El Morocco in a|l its brilliant Fall plumage. Miss Ando gave up at 10 ofi our first datev She said it was from lack of sleep. It must have been. I was my usual scintillating self so it couldn?╟╓t be me. In the six days she had arrived in the States from Tokyo, a thoughtless press department had whisked her to half a dozen towns, with a full 18-hour schedule of press interviews and TV appearances in each. So I ga^e her another chance a week later when she came back | to New York after another whirl I of the country. This time she 1 held out until 11, which was an b improvement of an hour at that.! I feel very sorry for Eiko-san. 1 She is being flown son\e 30 or 401 thousand miles,'and given only a | few hours in the one place she I wants to see, visit and shop in. \ Despite her sleepiness, she was | impressed by New York. But she j is missing so much more that IJ have promised to show her (and jj a lot of other guys have too) if 1 20th-Fox relents and ships her! back here before sending her I hom.e. This is a reward I think | she deserves. So do I. I HAVE PROMJgED to takef her to the Latin Quarter to seel I Donn Arden?╟╓s amazing revue and j to ^ eatcl Joe w she-any? I r sqm And chui care 11:30- 2. CAMERA THREE?╟÷?╟úNotes Front 4. AMERICAN REPORT?╟÷?╟úDrought* 7. THIS IS THE LIFE?╟÷?╟úin Liner 11:45?╟÷11. THIS IS THE LIFE?╟÷?╟úOne Fa) 11:55-r- 2. HARRY REASONER WITH THE fi 9. NEWS HEADLINES 12:00?╟÷ 2. EYE ON NEW YORK?╟÷Bill Lef 4. THEY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVB 7. THE CHRISTOPHERS?╟÷?╟úSclencl 9. ORAL ROBERTS?╟÷?╟úSickness At 13. GAS HOUSE GANG?╟÷?╟úMr. Mui ?√ß ?╟÷ji m % RFYIPY uPof ?╟╓r^rr o oe 5c 25 all l if 1 i.