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TV Review
Raymond Burr As
Detective In Chair
By RICK DU BROW
United Press International
HOLLYWOOD <UPI> -Ray
mond Burr, who gave us so
many years of pleasure as
television’s “Perry Mason,"
showed up on NBC-TV Tuesday
night movie in the new role he
will play on video starting this
fall.
His appearance came in an
original two-hour film called
“Ironside,” in which be por
trayed a detective who works
from a wheelchair after being
shot. The production was a
preview of Burr’s upcoming
one-hour NBC-TV series of the
same name.
The veteran actor is a
heavyweight of the television
medium because his presence
and command fill the screen
with a personal authority that
transcends the trivia of most
video scripts.
And this fact wass all to clear
Tuesday night because, aside
from Burr’s personal contribu
tion, the presentation was
depressing in its appeal to the
cliche Hollywood reactions to
“Jazzy” contemporary life, the
younger generation and sup
posedly constructive views on
human relations.
The idea of Burr operating as
a detective in a wheelchair is
not without appeal, and one
hopes that the scripts and
direction in the new series are
on a more distinctive level. For
if there were two basic
elements that made “Perry
Mason” so enjoyable for so
long, they were impeccable
professionalism and unquestion
able good taste.
The constant moviegoer, by
the way, might recall that in
the film “Rear Window,” Burr
was the villain who tried to kill
A wheelchair-confined photogra
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pher (James Stewart) who
uncovered him as a murderer.
And years before that, Edward
Arnold sleuthed around as a
blind fellow who exposed bad
guys with the aid of a seeing
eye dog.
Universal Studios, which pro
duced “Ironside,” might do well
in the coming series to equate
believability with the madden
ing glossiness lor which the film
company is so well known.
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TV CAMEOS: Eileen Fulton
So You're Usa Hughes, Eh? Pow!
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EILEEN FULTON, born Margaret McLarty
In North Carolina in the not too distant past,
Is a petite brunette who became a petite blonde,
once sold hats in Macy’s, now has a skillful
case act in which she belts out songs with a big
voice, and Is too good an actress.
Eileen plays “Lisa Hughes,” a real rotten,
no-good, low-down villainess on the CBS-TV
dally soap opera, “As the World Turns”—and
plays Lisa so well that It once got her a sock
in the face.
“I was walking down the street in New
York,” Eileen remembers with a smile, “and
a woman came up and asked ‘Are you T.jgq
Hughes?’ I told her I played the role and even
got out a pencil, to sign an autograph. So what
happened? She hauled off and smacked me
right in the face.
“ ‘You’re mean, you’re rotten, you’re despic
able,’ ” the woman snarled, and walked away.
At first it depressed and shocked me—until I
realized it was one of the most sincere compli
ments I ever received. Os course, I hope every
one doesn’t go around belting me. I get lots of
women who Insult me and look daggers at me,
and HI settle for that.”
Actually, Eileen enters a small defense for
Lisa. “She has plenty of flaws, I’ll admit,” she
says, “but her Mg trouble is, she got married
too early and her philandering and gallivanting
around sterna, I feel, from the fact that she
wanted to get out and see the world and DO
things, and she never really had much of a
chance.”
However, Lisa even gets Eileen down now and
then. In the going -on - seven - years she has
played the role. Miss Fulton has quit the show
several times. “Once was after they made a
nighttime show based on it, called ’Our Private
Worlds,’ to buck the ‘Peyton Place* program,”
she says, “and I got mad when Lisa’s part was
kind of subordinated to others.” Shf smiles. “I
have to say immodestly that the show’s ratings
dropped a lot when I left,” she adds.
Sh* says she's continuing in the role now
because she has big eyes for nightclub singing
and movies “and unless you're working and in
the public eye, you don’t get too many of those
Jobs.” Eileen has a solid professional back
ground; she studied acting under Sanford Meiz
ner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and dance
with Pearl Lang and Martha Graham.
Her father is a Methodist minister in Ashe
ville, N.C., and even he is tarred a little by the
angry brushes of Eileen’s fans. “He gets letters
asking him how he ever could bring up such a
horrible girl as Lisa Hughes,” she says. “But I
think he's proud of me and maybe even my
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Here’s the mean, wltchy, sly Usa on the phone
— except, Eileen Fulton isn't that way at all.
brother is, although Lisa was a kind of dowdy
dresser, years back, and he still calls me
’Frumpy Fulton.’ ”
Eileen has one movie—“ Girl of the Night,”
in which she played a beatnik call girl—behind
her (’Tve see it 12 times’’), as well as summer
s.ock roles and some good off-Broadway por
trayals, including star billing in the long-run
ning “Fantasticks.”
But wherever she goes, Lisa follows her. One
episode of “As the World Turns” called for her
to go to Chicago with her infant son, and as it
happened, Eileen was doing her case act at
the Playboy Club there the next week. ”1 heard
one woman customer whisper, sotto voce, ‘See ?
I TOLD you she was In Chicago,’ ’’ Eileen says.
“‘I wonder if her husband knows she’s here V ”
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