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Died. Herman J. Mankiewicz, 55, cinema writer-producer (Oscar winner, with Orson Welles, for Citizen Kane), elder brother of Writer-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz; of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...
...Curiosity Shop (Victor LP). Stagy old recordings, dating from 1911 to 1929, that should bring mist to many an eye. Among the performers: Maurice Chevalier (Valentine), Helen ("boo-boop-a-doop") Kane (I Have to Have You), Marlene Dietrich (Falling in Love Again), Fanny Brice (My Man), Gloria Swanson (Love). Added features: monologues by Will Rogers, De Wolf Hopper and John Barrymore...
...with the butt of a revolver. But moments later, 54-year-old Actor Tracy leaped nimbly to his feet, disarmed the gunman, wrung a confession from a stubborn young woman, and breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful, bumbling police department. As he does regularly on Martin Kane, Private Eye (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC), Tracy last week triumphed once again over television's singularly inept underworld. What's more, he had time and breath left over to plug the products of his sponsor, United States Tobacco...
...playing in Jed Harris' Broadway production of The Traitor: "I went into '21' one night and here were all these people standing around, not even drinking, just watching Milton Berle. I decided right away that this was for me." Last May the leading role in Martin Kane, which had been successively filled by William Gargan and Lloyd Nolan, fell vacant. Says Tracy: "They opened negotiations with me and I jumped at the chance." He almost regrets that he has made a rule never to tell his salary, because "the people I'm working for are terrifically...
...left Hollywood after more than 20 years was that he was tired of being typecast as a newspaperman: he was the original Reporter Hildy Johnson in Front Page. But so far, the role of TV sleuth still interests him. He can even see fine distinctions between his TV Martin Kane and the Martin Kane he plays on radio (Sun. 4:30 p.m., NBC). "On radio I usually pack a gun, and my relation with the cops is snarling and antagonistic. On TV, to get a gun, I usually have to take it away by force from some crook...