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JjOS ANGELES, CALIF. MIRROlf-NlilW^ Circ. D. 25I.3M- I h i. It ^ll O 3 DEC 18 1956 1 Zi&kmJohnsm] EXCLUSIVELY YOURS Anne Bancroft's stormy three-and-a-half-year mar; riage, now headed for the divorce court, left her.vowirig I From now on there will be only.four men in my life?╟÷| my father, my agent, my press agent and my analyst." 'The Italian movie cutie| from the Bronx (real name Anna Maria Italiano) insisted she was serious despite hubby Martin May's divorce charge of "extreme cruelty" against HER. She] hopes to have the marriage] annulled. "Men," she told me, 'just I adore trying to destroy me J Men in general try to destroy women?╟÷they love to! i ANNE BANCROFT Now only four men. stamp on them. I know these four men are only out to] help me." "I Hate Men" Anne, who zoomed to stardom at 20th 'Century-Fox in movies like "Tonight We Sing," "Demetrius and the Gladiator," and "The Kid From Left Field," is a kid from left field, and admits it. When there was debate at Fox over her name- she starred as Anna Marno in live TV before coming to Hollywood- she shrugged her shoulders and said: "I . don't care what my name is. There's no name that can describe me except maybe Tempest Storm and that's already taken." Anne.doesn't have a business manager "because there's only one thing you have to know about money?╟÷ how to spend it." But there's an analyst in her life, she says, "because he helps me MUSICAL VERSION of Betty Smith's novel, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," will have its West '-'Coast premiere tonight on.Play- ersf Ring stage with Cijgrtes Br a swell and Kitty Kover ' among featured players. know myself. He plays wit! my thoughts instead of mjl emotions." a '?√ß?╟≤ Between movie *ol^.i Anne emotes on TV, starring in January in I "So Soon to Die" on "Playhouse 90." * * IPl Josh Logan may not hi joshing about it, but ha tested the new film sensatiorJ Carroll ("Baby Doll") Bakeij for the film version of 'Picnic"?╟÷and turned her down| ,.. Mike Todd's asking $250,- 000 for TV showings of a| special documentary he made about filming "Ar undj the World in 80 Days." One! prize shot shows, the entire] population (7200) of a Spanish village lined up to be costumed for a bullfight se-l quence. \* * The Las Vegas famous forj its night-club entertainment! topped itself over the week! end with Jerry Lewis, Danny! Thomas and Frank, Sinatra! cOstarring in the same show! for Jack Entratter. It was, a one-night performance! celebrating. the fourth ahni-l versary of the SandSwHJWT-l and it took airtight. The! last of three shOwf ended at 4:30 a.m. Jerry, Danny and Frank, cut a giant birthday cake onf stage but the capers they Sm busted every laugh and ap-! plause meter in town. An electronic counter in the lob-i by identified the'10,000,000t^ visitor to the Sands, then blew a fuse trying to count heads in the jam-packed Copa, Room. Among the stars pres-i ent: Lucille Ball, Joan Caul- field, Marlene Dietrich, Mitzi Gaynor, Esther Williams and! Peter Lorre. Danny, who has a life- j time starring contract j at the Sands, explained how it happened. "lljMs contract they won," he kidded, "on a hard eight." But the costarring team ofI Jerry, Danny and Frank won I only more friends for the Sands on its fourth birthday. is * "Plastic surgery" on star] portraits painted occasionally for film scenes gavel Jeff Donnell a laugh. She; asked a studio artist if the? portraits were presented to stars after filming. "Heck| no," he said. "We save 'em and gave 'em new faces. 1 once made Mike Wilding out! of Rex Harrison and Joanl Fontaine out of Gene Tier J ney." Gloria De Haven to d ill to George Gobel. Whi e iri Florida she telephoned her famous pop, Vaudeville Stan Carter De Haven, who was in^ Hollywood, and asked him, How would yOU like, toj work with jne in my new night-club act?" 'J|k?-> There was a long periodl of silence on Carter's end ofj the phone and finally Gloria! said, "Dad, dad, what happened? This is long-distance ?╟÷answer me." "Sorry," came! back Carter. "I'm na?·king,H jNiSW WBK,N.Y. POST CircD. 372,583 -S. 247,755 SEP 13 B58 jl ^?║Bj| Ifflwill Ed Sullivan "Button Up' The Inside on the *nside_. ?╟≤ ?╟≤ g , confides a "I?· Jackie Gleason^ults .^tonvfdifierent from o1;her| friend, "it'll be because he wants tobe dfflere SUans-and quit it ?Σ≤*^ft^ 2$ each flffl and Liz Taylor, who've been alt over signing b may marry in Gay N'Orleans . . 1*?·**^ puroch ^| Red Buttons to ^.fl^sinatra-s roturn toghe Laij Vegas Spencer Trac^ ganged to F^S |^, over lor the JSS^kWu' see me any time!).. _& NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. I JOURNAL AMERICAN ! Circ. D. 653,991 - S. 855.W SEP 8 1956 -^ HOLLYWOOD HIGHLIGHTS: $100,000 Paid For Play-to Get Jayne Mansfield By LOUELLA O. PARSONS Motion Picture Editor, International News Service TTOLLYWOOD, Sept. 8.?╟÷Finally, after mo^tatf try- Hollywood Daily Reporter '_% HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. &IG 29 1956 By MIKE CONNOLLY The TV webs claim 65,000,000 viewers are spending an average of 1 8 hours ] <ind 20 minutes weekly looking at TV . . . Lila Lee's son, Jim Kirkwood, Jr., will fplay Roz Russell's nephew Pat in "Auntie Mame" . . . Polly Rowles is also set, same show, as Vera the actress. Barry Thompson will play the Man-of-Distinc- ?√ßfrion-type publisher . . . Lucky Strike is coming out with a filter-type tip ... Catholic Digest is profiling Richard Egan . . . Fox is prowling a property to co- j star those two hot blondes, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield . . . RKO rented Columbia*Ranch because it has a swimming pool?╟÷for a pool sequence in "I Married a Woman." Will Diana Dors get dunked? . . . Glenn Ford will do Bob I ^ranch's "Garment Center" . . . "The King and I" has earned back half of its I total production cost . . . Ella Fitzgerald is waxing Evie Johnson's "I Need No I SQther Love" for Verve . . . Ellie Kent, ex-wife of comic Lenny Kent, and Colum- J bia producer Jonie Taps were married last night at the Little Church of the West 1 in Vegas . . . Today Larry Weingarten starts his 30th year with MGM . . . Happy birthday, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Autry, George Montgomery, Milton Weiss Carol Channing's parents head out Monday for Boulder City, where Carol.and Charlie Lowe will wed . . . Tab Hunter's business manager won't let him build non-income property on the lot he bought so Marlon Brando may buy it . . . lHappy memory: That wonderful sequence in that wonderful "War and Peace," j 'when Mel Ferrer says of Audrey Hepburn: "Dancing with her is like dancing with j [springtime!" . . . Most memorable of the many memorable thespstints in "WCrP" : Miss Hepburn's windup, when, in a few seconds, she reprises all the sadness and j |joy, all the tears and laughter, of the entire picture. Salud, Audrey! . . . Harry j [Kurnitz is scripting "Silk Stockings" . . . MGM, which called off "Les Girls" a j ifew, days ago, is moving ahead with it again . . . Movie marquee in 'downtown JLA| "Come in and Relax?╟÷'The Werewolf and 'Earth vs. Flying Saucers." ?╟≤ Laurence Olivier arrives Jan. 1 for Hecht-Lancaster's "The Devil's Disciple" , HHL is angling Liz Taylor for Judith, the gal Monty Clift woos in "Disciple" -but who sticks to her spouse, Burt Lancaster ... Liz returns from Kentucky tomorrow, followed next week by Monty Clift . . . "Disciple" will be shot on the Goldwyn lot. . . All this we pried out of Harold Hecht and Jim Hill at the H'wood Derby yesterday . . . Plus the fact that HHL has its sights set for Lancaster, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and Katharine Hepburn for its big one for 1957, "The Way West" ... If this keeps up, HHL will become as well-known throughout the world as those other initials, MGM and RKO! . . . Lancaster and Tony Curtis nixed Arthur Miller's "View from the Bridge," at the Huntington Hartford . . . Aside to Sybil Brand: The lad who had you and those other dolls flipping in the commissary is a NY actor named Jack Bradford . . . Nancy Sinatra, Jr., is ia salesgirl at Jax. They call her Junior . . . Junior waited on Silvana Mangano, Uho bought a load of Capri-type pants . . . Dick Quine will be upped to producer bt Columbia because of "The Solid Gold Cadillac" . . . Incidentally, Fox story Editor Arthur Kramer is the guy who sold Col on "Cadillac", for Judy Holliday. JHe was on the Gower lot at the time . . . Mike Curtiz caught that funny, funny Sue Carson at t^^nds^,. . Sylvia and Ernest Truex are selling their Long Island home and movingouthere . . . Jacques and Maria Sernas are house-hunting too I. . Dennis Hopper will p.a. for "Giant" . . . Estelle Harmon is coaching Marisa Vavan for "Antigone." Beams from NY Sept. 1 1. Claude Rains co-stars ... Big |>ke in China ?╟÷ the one about the chap who goes into an American restaurant Ind opens up a Crackerjack box that doesn't have a fortune?╜message in it. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. MBfeT PRESS Circ. D., 36,600 - S. 26,867 AUGjfe 1956?║1| \Lee Mortimer pll ?√ß--?√ß i About Broadway! ^??Sfndly T,Mtts A5"oss the Drink: Carl Foreman one of the characters who says he's "blacklisted" in Hollywood is hViL like I SgLL??artionDpakwo0n Ehttrtgh) " L??nd0n' iSThrf jFSLtoi ?╟≤FedU$ ?·sk Me' *?. Tell You: The Coonskin Kid's fullname is Carey ?·^ ^ frLm,miderWarld ^ a "Carey" is an tafo?·n?·11 squealer, came from a man named Carey who was slain bv Irish patriots for blabbing to the British, and since then the term h?· Sate? ??Ver ^ WOrW' th??Ugh M wVuse it knowTowYt HOLLYWOOD Sri a p- shots: Mother-in-law trou^ ble is said to be the reason j for the Mary Murphy-Dale Robertson split. However, most of their friends believe the separation is only temporary. Ringsiding at the opening of Frank Sinatra at the ^Sands was Spencer Tracy, makmg one of his very few nightclub appearances. He was with Laraine Day and Leo Durocher. Those who attended the opening said that Frankie is more relaxed than he's ever been. Kini "Novak didn't make the opening, but she motors to Las Vegas today in Frankie's car. She won't fly./.;=?√ß?√ß' Sorry to hear that Walter O'Keefe, actor and TV emcee/ is in Good Samaritan Hospital. * ?╟≤ ?╟≤ <ff>% .STABUSHED im BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU ??65 Church Street - New York St. IQU1S, MO. SEP 16/957 PHILADELPHIA NEWS I Circ.-D, I57i9gj SEP 14 19! Earl Wilson Nuptial Plans fpan Atlantk I NEW YORK. Bj Lushest wedding { Party ever held may be 16-year-old Margie Fnedland's to Irving Cohn in Miami Beach Dec. 29. I ^Iff16 flies to Paris first to be iLi ?╜ ?·?r a *2'500 adding gown bv Christian Dior. Her pop, ?╜aimirl ? Y chairman of Pood Pair, engaged Sherry's to rustle up a snack f?Σ≤ 700 guests. Margie asked Laul rence Welk's mob up to tootli for dancing. | Bill Foerst, the party geniuJ who handled the Grace KellM homecoming, will furnish every thing but the clergyman. J?MACK,E REASON quits ISX-ftxt?ear'" confldes a friend. L-*. because he wants to bei I different from other comedians ???╟÷and quit it before it quits him" ??VJS^ Ed SillIivan signing tied Buttons to clown regularly? . ?╟≤ . The Leo Durochers and Spencer Tracy ganged to Frank Sinatra's return to the Las Vegas ?║&nds=but, wow-ee-wow, Kim, ?╜ovaK's~a-kimmin' over for the I weekend. (Kim up 'n?╜ see me any ! time!). ) *n rSLDfata from the D?sert (Las Vegas that is): Diana Dors refused tLTalvevtStlnTZa^lat th?^^to ^t tWs: In EnSd wS^rw^wadssrthe Sands casino^n Mt?TSs! KIM . Vegas weekend CHICAGO, ILL. AMERICAN rc D. 527.621} -5,802,691 Midnight Earl / BY EARL WILSON NEW YORK, Sept. 15.?╟÷We rode but to the | garden spot of the universe (next to Ohio),! meaning Brooklyn?╟÷and found Jerry Lewis per-1 fectly calm in his Town and Cour y .dressing room, except that he'd cut himself with an electric razor and was bleeding. "Only a jerk, like me can do that!" he saidJ We courteously agreed. On stage he was cool and hilarious. He's come far since last winter in Miami Beach when he was so depressed he thought of quitting the business. He's worth going to Brooklyn to see unless you live in Alaska, and if you live in Alaska, well... Jerry'll be playing Alaska. He. got Sophie Tucker, Isabel Bigley and | others to sing "Harvest Moon"?╟÷but Hal March balked. Hal grinned and said, "You wanted to do I a single?╟÷so do a single!" Spotting Eddie Ffcher with his mar. Milton I Blackstone at an NBC party for George Gobel, I asked Eddie of rumors he's buying out Blackstone. "A lotta poppycock!" he proclaimed. Aside, I asked Lonesbme George, "Where's spooky old Alice?" George: "I put' % a chain on her and tied her under the sink." ?╟≤ ?╟≤ ?╟≤ The Phil Silvers dropped in on tfolly Bergen and Freddie Fields to watch TV. "Phil | doesn't have a set," Polly said. "The baby, I expenses, and all."...Hy Gardner landed f another TV spot.... Emmett Kelly?╟÷a father f again this month?╟÷will clown at nine St. Louis 1 Hawk's pro basketball games this season and I ?╟÷shades of John Ringling's private car!, ?╟≤?╟÷ I "commute by plane from Sarasota." Rocky Marciano's learning judo in Miami S Frank Sinatra (great in "Pal Joey") vows to be J back from Monte Carlo for the Robinson-Basillio | igawl.... Sherm Billingsley's romancing Jesse j ?√ßSteaijn. ewhft's -Writing fivp arti>lAg ahniit Kim J NEW YORK CITY^Tv POST ' ??2ji9-011 -S. 258,545 pfiEPi^lasegM louella Q. pqrsons Peck to Make m Movie in Madrid iv"siii, 1U56, International News Service *?-???╟?,.?╟?., .- in Part sfrtatly pJoWbit?dP tl0B ln' whols ?? HOLLYWOOD. Seat. 14-The first of ih?? JlL * MUbtui^w: Tin Pan Alley in Philly Hearing That Fisher Lad 1 fi 6y Eerl Wilson Guys & Gels & Gags & Gossip . / ^5e miIsic Putolishing guys are all flocking to Philly to see Eddie Fisher's triumphant return to his home town They have great faith in Eddie's appeal to the teen-agers . . . and, incidentally, whatever happened to all the eirl recording stars? , I "R??S?· Cl00ney> Jo Stafford, Kitty Kallen used to monopolize the records-now the boys do it," exclaimed one music guy thi?·am Eddies piling people into the Latin Casino, making a zillion disc jockey appearances, and getting ready for Blinstrub's in Boston and the new Tropicana in Las Vegas. He and manager Milton i Blackstone are hitting It off fine. ?½0k "He just needs a record," somebody said. *"^W "DON'T WE ALL?" wailed ?√ß ?√ß one of' the publishers. ' g" !$H| ABBE LANE'S SUCH A. HIT* fp with the Xavier Cugat TV show %lfl now and her movies that Coogie-Ji^ ?╟≤says, "^^^a switch! She used >Jfv | to work ifts^ie. Now I'm work- %?M% ;in' for li^^fe .-Phil Harris had ffil ja severe kidney attack and Alice fc^ |ra.ye wa^pfehty worried for a pll |few hours. gAnd Anna Maria %?·|S jAlberghefti arrived in town sick %fi?· . d mDean Martin's big opening as f^'M a. single at the Sands in Las r%$ Vegas tonight will be attended by jg?║ j Bing Crosby and such celebs. WS$