SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1968 TV CAMEOS: Lloyd Thaston By MEL HEIMER VAUDEVILLE is dead, repertory has only a faint spark of life in it, nightclubs have thinned out- and so, wherever TV producers congregate, they ask one another "Where's the new talent for television coming from Lloyd Thaxton has an answer: from TV itself, where else? are 15 network variety show's announced for the fall say's personable Thaxton, "and if they don't find some new faces for these programs, we'll be seeing the same ones over and over on all 15.1 As host of "Showcase which NBC is offering as its summer replacement for Jerry Lewis (why only summer, Lloyd is doing his share in uncovering newcomers to the magic eye. Originating from a different city each week. the show is giving opportunity to lots of fresh new acts but. Thaxton is quick to point out. it's not amateur night.
THESE ACTS are profes-: sionals," he says, never, had national' TV exposure. They are pros who are pre-selected by our talent scouts, and the best of them all will be on a one special on Sept. 3. Our biggest thrill is that producers of next season's variety shows already are snaring some of our And so they are. The Craig Hundley trio showcased its jazz sound on "Showcase and was booked immediately for the Johnny Carson show, and comic George McKeldy was signed for a fall Dean Martin program.
New Talent for TV? It'll Grow Its Own 5 AN 357 6 2 van SEYMOUR DAILY TRIBUNE, SEYMOUR, INDIANA PAGE SEVEN ACTUALLY, THEY checked out. 3,500 performers to get 40 acts for the summer series. "Even if you had staff of Thaxton sighs, "you'd probably never get to see every act. It took us three months to pick the 40 acts we chose. Maybe if 'Showcase' is extended past the summer, we can get to use more of them." Lloyd is a native of Toledo, Ohio, where he started with a TV show featuring a piano and a parakeet named Sanford.
"I did skits and interviews and even sang a little," he says, "but the parakeet got all the mail." A GRADUATE of Northwestern, he turned to radio announcing because he wanted to get into show biz and "didn't consider myself talented enough to be a performer," a blunt diagnosis that some other announcers would be wise to remember. During the five years of the Lloyd Thaxton Show, our boy built a solid audience between the ages of 15 and, say, 25. That audience today is now in the 20 to 35 range, and allows the "Showcase" producers to fish for commercials that sell products: costing real money, such as cars and TV sets, rather than greasy kid stuff going for 29 cents a tube. Distributed by King Features Syndicate TUESDAY, WAVE-TV 3 WHAS-TV 11. Louisville Louisville Morn.
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