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VARIETY * §/29/57 Residuals Faster Than % Coin From Pix. | Nabe Ste Z, who tees off his own telefilm series on ABC-TV Oct. 18, that his principal fund for my three children and Nancy.” Sinatra. tion to set up a trust fund for em, and this is the one way I n do it. It takes longer to get ur money back from pictures in ich you have a participatiog.” natra has a 259% piece of “Joey as does director George Sidney, Be owns 65% of “Johnny Conchd,” ie United Artists film which cdst 864,000 and has grossed around 1,500,000 to date, he revealed, Sinatra said he didn't fear the possibility of over-exposure via a ty series. “I can’t believe, that if you de a geod job—assuming th pictures I’ve done have been suef, cesses—that doing tv on top o! that and giving the viewers a show. of calibre will hurt me. If 1 did one: running character, I’d be killed. But we have a change of pace, and we're going to hang our hat on versatility. We're not going to try to fool the audience; we will give honest performances, “There's been talk I make too many records, but they sel]. And everytime we put out an album, each one is an entirely different : kind. V'll go from swing to ballads, and so on. J think the same thing | will hold true in tv. 1 will be in 18 . musical half-hours and 13 dramatic ' - two apectaculars,” he anid. . ,. Sinatra’s $3,000,000 deal with | AEC-TV is a record bu et for any half-hour series, even allowing | | for the ‘fact that figure includes ; the two apex,:-. t a 5 Sroanb lea 7 et, ved ¥h Sinatra sald he; hopes ‘td shoot - (vB : day: or-20 at: the outside, #1t: be done: Our. theory’ ia'It's Tice | i 3 ¥ rincipal reas or entering weekly ty! sweepstakes was the residuals involved—"so. that I can set side a trust tos The latter is the former Mrs. | i fi Star, currently working in “Pal Joey” Cc i id “ ' D've been looking to get into a past. oey”_at Columbia, said = For = and Dinah Shore to do a satiridal version of “Joey.” He will also utilize the apee to plug his series, which tees off the following week. _ For his musical shows, Sinatra is negotiating for Peg: Fage, Sammy Davis, Jr. Dan Dailey, Artur Rubinstein,’ Bi Crosby, Phil Harris, Nat (“King”) Sinatra’s Nancy and Tina, will appear in twe ': or three musical shows individually as performers, he added, mS Sinatra will direct at least a | couple of the dramatic shows. “T intend to go in that direction gn movies, too,” he added... f- plans to negotiate ‘*'¥ shows, and will host 10 dramatic | American Tobacco Co. for the shows. In addition, I will star in [ ices of Jack B yee the 10 peed but ‘not: star Sinatra's first ty chores for he was just preat<*: ABC-TV will be a spec aired Ott. § woe ee $e someboay: iy 18 from Hollywood. Bob Hope has Swifty Morgans /at-a0z- ay been set, and he is negotiating for- Taber Te) Wrist natin ase. ‘ . Patti children, Frank, . enny to appearf on FBi_ LOS ANGELES ALL INF TION CONTAINED HERET} 18 UNCLASSIFIED fF bene, DATE Lah OE py SAP,