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...Screw, Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deekes), but otherwise ran up an awesome string of flops. Many of the less ambitious series fared no better. A total of 55 shows will not return to the air next season, ranging from Love and Marriage to Bat Masterson, from Desilu Playhouse to the John Gunther show. The only new series in 1959-60 that really clicked in the ratings was Dennis the Menace, based on Hank Ketcham's comic strip about a sort of Public Enemy...
Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Lloyd Bridges rolls the Runyon dice as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls...
...Masterson, he resembled the television character in only one respect: he used to bat disorderly types over the head with a heavy cane he sometimes carried. Otherwise, he was a cautious fellow who hid behind a piano in a bawdy-house when a gunman was on the prowl, later bought a gun in a New York pawnshop, filed 22 notches in the handle and, as a reporter for the New York Telegraph, set about making his own myth...
...eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs 3,500 people, uses ten Hollywood sound stages where it produces more syndicated shows (32) than any of its competitors. Ziv charges $35 to $3,500 a week per show (depending on the size of the viewing city), grossed $42 million last year...
...Cuban women, the virility of Cuban men and the fame of Havana as a city of tradition and culture as well as of rum and rumbas, manned their typewriters again last week. This time the assault was on film: the sequence in Guys and Dolls that shows Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and friends living it up with Havana bawds and bravos in a lowdown nightspot...