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ESTABLISHED 1S?>8 fiArclay 7-537! PRESS"CUPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York NEW YORK, N, Y. JOURNAL AMERICAN Circ. D. 692,509 -||3>39,550 0ECW952 IVete York Cavalcu&e, I iHE Central Press^Buheau (ESTABLISHED 1898) r^g^Q__ PITTSBURGH.PA Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette Along Prattle-Tattle Lane -By LOUIS SOBOL- "WTEEK-END qDD-ENDS: This was the JfY gayest Christmas for the department stores?╟÷all Chopping rec6rds broken.. .Now (it's Joan Crawford wl^o'd like a fling in a I Broadway legit. Norma Shearer is already studying s e j 1 p t s... Mexican Comedian Cantinflas fBl he visiting Manhattan | shortly?╟÷bu^i&t looking for work. He's i reputed to~$j|r,the wealthiest actor in the world?╟÷saich'to be worth close to?╟÷now hold I your breath-Sj&^OOOjQOQ. Move over, Uncle gMiltie...The most prized Eisenhower holi- 1 day greetings were those received by close friends and associates?╟÷bearing personally ( hand-written messages from Mamie and ! Ike on the formal Christmas card,,. | * " * * ililS Whitney Bolton's profile of Composer Bob Merrill pencilled in for a March issue of Satevepost ... To stimulate the pay- Iment of taxes' in a country where the I Citizens are notoriously allergic ta| forking 1 over, President Batista has issuecri, decree I that all tax ^delinquents, no matter how I many years in arrears, would be forgiven ^jthfitr-past d?·linnvu?·nci?·S-J?·-?·he^^ I their 1952 assessments. Then he added on } a slew of new taxes affecting autos and ['citizens who want to go out of the country M| . ; Dagmar and Danny Dayton may go [into the Paramount as a new comedy act... * ?╓¬ * Your reporter was laid up most of the week in a tussle with La Grippe so he had to miss I the premieres of "Stars and Stripes For- Ilever" and "Come Back, Little Sheba" but I our deputies came -back with glowing res'' ports of both new entries?╟÷with hallelujahs I for Shirley Booth's performance in the latter?╟÷and loud cheers for the nostalgic \ tunes in the former.. .Henry Holt is pub- i- lishing a book glorifying the famed Neiman- Marcus store of Dallas, Texas.. New trend I" in profiles?... Jack Entratter's_Uew.Sartds 1 Kotel,,hii^a^^||geave away thousands 1 of dollars tc invited quests to stake at the gaming tables. Gob it all back?╟÷plus!... j Joe E. Lewis is wmiing about his close i friend wfinS^mi^^ gal who looked like a ' siren?╟÷-arid now sotmds like one...California's Governor Earl Warren who has de- I cided he'll never be President, would like to settle for a federal judgeship...It's Lester o Lanin's observation. He remembers when ; it took sugar and spice to make a nice girl. These modern days, it takes six operations. Charlie Chaplin was squired around Paris by Painter Pablo Picasso whose pro- Leftish leanings are no secret. Chaplin will be the subject of Picasso's next painting... The West Side Rescue Mission on 42d st. features a juke box?╟÷sounding off spiritual ditties only.. .Want to book an organ grinder and his monkey for a private affair? Richard Somerville, head of the Union News Catering Dept. learned the fee for such an "act" is $75 an hour,. .Lina Romay arid Jay Gould have discovered each other in Hollywood.. .Triple A indorsement for a perennially fine show-"The Aldrich Family" now. on teevee and for 15 years on radio... Why authors want the tax law changed. Daphne Du Maurier was paid $75,000 for the movie rights to her best seller, "My Cousin Rachel" starring Olivia De Havilland. Because of her tax set-up, Uncle Sam took all but $5,000 of it...Christmas was like this, too. A coatless chestnut vendor shivering at 49th and Broadway in front of the men's shop featuring in its window a $395 cashmere coat... * * * A bow in tribute to the indefatigable Mrs. Preston Davie who is doing most of the work in connection with the 1953 In- . jiugutal heart dinner at the Waldorf Jan 9th7?rTihe four most colorful Christmas parties were Millie and Donald Tansill's Samuel and Rae Goldsmith's, Twenty One' and Toots Shor's. One of the highlights o the festivities at Shor's was the solo danc by Rozy Dolly Netcher . ??. . Veteran Colum nist L. L. Stevenson who announced hi retirement recently is ailing . . . Triple A Indorsement: Paul Schoenstein's enlight ening piece in current Coronet, "I Am a City Editor." * * * pHtti^ Two lads of department store clans wi ll wed within a week of each other. Billy Bloomingdale takes the altar trek with! Ethel Behrens, Feb. 14. His friend, Jay Rossbajch, Sophie Gimbel's son, will make Mary j&ppride his bride, Feb. 23...Ex-FBI ace, Gerard Tracy and his wife welcomed in Patricia-, >J.. lbs. 11 oz. as their most prize Christmas gift.. Broadway loses a colorfu citizeri i^bhe passing of 83-year-old James "Dinty" Hlbre. This was truly a man whose whole l^^fef^fltoed up in his restau rant?╟÷anqno cmfe wasJoo big or fahious t risk Jim's-^re'*p'r^^g $|pund with ni food. He once orlfp|d Sam<Jiafris and George M. Cohan ctiy|f'thfecestaurantttbe- cause they dared^^A^, ssMmtaid other condiments o$ ksp^lp fis$?║|?║%ad served them. Until hif "mftesj;, i^md to make trips into farming lislricts to buy his fowl and his eggs. He was a great old guy- and we'll miss him... The Drama Desk )rLocal Scrappings I "Bell, Book and Candle"' has P'^been booked back into the.N&on >6*; again ?╟÷ for the week of March P. It'll co-star Joan Bennett and Zachary .?·cott this time. . . Jean Bradley, Al Checco's recent bride, was. just tagged fori a featured role in "Maggie," the forthcoming musical version of James Barrie's "What Every [ Woman Knows." ... Jules I Pfeiffer, the producer of "Good 1 Nite, Ladies*" tossed a Christ- 1 mas party for the entire com lpany backstage after the per- Iformance Wednesday night. . . . ?√ßFrank Andrini's wife is in town for the holidays while, her. hus- Iband and his-brother, 'Lawrence lAndrini, areetouring the Eastern Jnight club belt.with %e%'>ct iMischa Elman, the world-famous .Violinist, on "Hadassah Speaks" over WJAS tomorrow afternoon at 12:45. . . .. Billy Eckstine goes to the new Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in February for -two! hveeks at $10,000 per. . . . Maxie '(Jerry and) Turk says the new' movie contracts' for glamour [girls will be carrying a new clause, making it necessary for (them to get studio permission before changing into men ; Ice Capades" Ancolor) break in the current Ipfe magazine. It shows the fly- mg ballet on skates. By HAROLD V. COHEN torial Writer Frank Hawkins, &tar Reporter Ray Sprigle and the man from The Drama ?√ßDesk. . . j, Denise Milan, of the + Good Nite, Ladies'? company, took an early a. m. bus up to Uniontown yesterday morning to wish her family a Merry Christmas and then came right back in time for the matinee. ....Best Christmas present 20th Century-Fox's C. C. Kel- lenberg got was word from his doctor that KeTj in perfect mm.mimm?·m&3?·. I KDKA sales manager1 Gfbrge Tons remembered hi^jAcre- taries, Gitipfa Johnson and Rosemary '??tleyr witiichrlsV f-mas corsaigjt made ol paper currency, |thje lucky A . g, Milton Sefewlrtz, whqlf play ing a role' Ins "Thx eefmsn On a Horse" ??t Jhe Playhouse, is really a^rsss-agent's dream ?╟÷ he owm a iiorse and has made 14 avat$|p-for pubiftffty pictures, ??', Joe Leiber has been wjjphig in Mipi| Beach for the|pl conpte drfmonths as secrecy to tlie Republican* State Gwnmitteeg; He?s apparently left the cafe' field for keeps. . ?√ß?√ß?╟≤?√ß*-.:-*.,g,*g'..- ( Two walls of Ect';and Wendy King's living room, are completely covered by greeting cards I from their "Party Line" fan]. . Estelle Herlick interviews Henry Sutton, one-time Warner Brothers manager here ^nd now in the dress business in New York, and his wife are visiting thejgpmy Litmans. Mrs. Sutton^uid Mrs. Litman ffe SisteJl*.-;' HoJ>te to hoi- iday wi^lifer fol^|PGraee White, ^jghnny jR^lis' long- time OT*Priday who now op- era t$m her own secretarial servie|?· In Los Angeles. . . . Therep^Jbig teevee deal cook- m?║ irllfev York for Comedienne figy Sinclair. . . . Mrs. VaW ^fe in a Christmas' : greeting ?╜j.Hollywood, asks - this corner^thank the many Pittsburghers who were sol kind to her when she was eon- ' fined to the Shadyside Hospital for two weeks with a fractured leg. She thinks our town must be Just about the friendliest community in the world. of j careful s d i eli ng which stripped him of 50 pounds. There'll be an all-Post- Gazette panel on Bill Burns' "Guest .to Ghost" teeveer next Addenda 'i1*flte Burke is returning to **^ .^e in "Life With Motne^^jhe opening bill (Januajippr ??f the winter season $Pthe Sombrero Play- house in Phoenix, Ariz. . . Aeting in as well as directing _eThe Intruder," with Margaret OBnen, has bem too much fe Eddie Bowling so he's withdrawing from the cast at the end of next week in Washington, D. C. Either John Randolph or Russell Hardie Wtt replace him. ?·M Elliott ?√ßSpit lias agreed to do the Wmm Ewell role in the Chicago ^plicate of "The Seven Year Itch" it won't he going there until next September, how- ever. kwJB^-' Drunkard" has just fengked up perfbrmance No +?·&'J" ^'Angeles. It opened thm July :$'m$M?Σ≤i in six OFhs. wilf--> Celebrate a 20th anniversary.- .- . .?╟÷Fame and s S^E?^> is "the new. title of Wednesday night, New Year's fSS'fafnS^11 ??* Ruth Eve. It'll be made up of Pub- h^.Vto ifc^SJ?1011 isher William Block, Cartoon- stars SpenS^ta& 7^????' st Cy Hungerford, Food Ed- Simmons ! M?Σ≤^ Gabel w jtorVeronicaVoipe, Chief Edig been engaged^ fofthe tSe'^el in "Monsieur Lautrec," Edward Chodorov's. play -about the French artist, which will be produced on Broadway by Arthur' J lif58^'. ?╟≤ ./^Beatrice Staright !\ 5fs joined Arthur Kennedy in fC, cast ofgthenew Arthur Wdler. dramat."The Crucible." ^!JL 3C?·?╟÷*^ .?√ßPtihiJEft:. Agent Turned Talent Seoul Billy Grady recalls a nightmare in a Prohibition nitery Honor Among ?╟÷- an interesting byline piece in the forthcoming 47th Anniversary Number of VARIETY Sands, Las Vegas, Makes Capital of Danny Thomas' 'Act of God' Laryngitisj Las Vegas, Dec. 23. The headliner roster here was decimated considerably last week when three names topping floor- shows were downed by illness. Major sufferer was Louis Prima who was forced out of the El Rancho show by a mild heart attack. Maxine Andrews (Sisters), at the Sahara, was out with laryngitis, while Danny Thomas was similarly afflicted while preeming the Sands. Thomas, however, managed to emcee the show. In his stead, one of the most expensive nitery lineups ever to gather at one time in any floorshow, Jimmy Durante & Eddie Jackson, Ritz Bros.. EraiaMe, Laine, Jane Powell,- Ray Anigphy and DenisejfE&arcel^ .who wei^eoK- vited to the opening festivities,. substitutedf^Coast regional director of the 1l|jteerican Guild of Variety Artistsil^ldie,-JHtife oimoi:WP' invited guesl^Qsfet&e Sands, gave the spot special dispensation permitting the ta^fe^substitutions for a $25 token payment to each performer. He ruled that Thomas' illness was "an act of God." (See ..?╟÷..?╟?+?╟? -fn?╜r and review^forfur-1