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ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay i^l PRESS CLIPPING B0REAU 165 Church Street -New York LOS ANGELES, CALIF. H||?║Ai*D & EXPRESS Robert Mitchum tells Amusing Story of Visit to Psychiatrist T?╜M^^kMRRlSON CARROLL |f^|: more. The other is V ^^^.^^pRRlSON CARROLL One of IJolfii^wOTffs .frankest stars, Bob Mitchum, admits that, at the request of his family, he recently went to have \ a chat with a prominent Beverly Hills psychiatrist. Mitch told the story with apparent relish on the set of "The j White Witch Doctor," especially the part where the psychiatrist said to him: "Aren't you interested in what I charge?" if^llp To which Bob said he replied*. "No, if you charge $1000, it makes no difference to me. The family wanted me to come. Whatever your fee is, they'll just have that much less to spend.'* According to Robert, the medico finally advised him to go i on home, that he is much too normal to be fooling around with psychiatrists. * flj _ ?╜ fcfc' ^' tfjf There is. no reconciliation \ angle to her coming trip to j Mexico, Rocky Cooper tells me. j; "I simply want Maria to see her father at Christmas," de- I clares Rocky. "We'll leave on I the twenty-first to join Gary in Mexico City. We'll also 1 visit Acapulco, but Maria and I will be back here by Jan. 5 j L when school reopens." Rocky doesn't: believe that [j Gary is maneuvering for an ?√ß 18-month tax stay out of the j country, but I am inclined to think he isi ?╟≤t*?½a??M8KS makeup expert FranlcWest. more. The other is Westmore s ex-wife, Fran Shorc.Dont vforeet to sejj^contributions to the G.I. Phbnejfcd at Travis Air Base so:tn$boys can get free calls to -mat families over the holidayfe^orraine Cugat popped int^pbwn for a few days. Returns to Gotham on Thursday...Beverly Tyler and Bert Douglas at the Kings... Virginia Gray and Jimmy Cross at the Captain's Tahle. ..Overheard at Lueey's: "I need her like a bull moose needs a hat- rack!" TODAY'S*? U*Z Z L B \ What comedian and his wife have friends worried about whether their marriage will stand the strain on the comic's long stay on Broadway while his wife remains out here? ^^^ Judy ?·aria??T Harrison Carroll Finale for Tibbetts Finale to the marriage of I Lawrence Tibbett jr. 4gg 1 Patent Medicine Heiress Norma Hall apparently is due to oe written tomorrow when j Norma goe^to court to seek a* ' dWlttor^e^^^n Golden wUl the lads at home and ISpe to visit Ireland, Sweden and Spain. Piper Laurie has been using two standins in "The ^Golden Blade." One is Ginger Clayton, who was supposed to wed U. 1. |||||?║|n her first night out since ) I "the birflf ib^the baby, Judy Gar- j land was as happy as a kid at the Mocar^bo. She and Sid Luft J came off the floor, though, I after about half a rhumba. "I didn't know how weak I was," I laughed Judy. I ?╟≤ Missy G says she won't work ! again until July. Sid's "Man of I War" movie is supposed to start I. at Warners in March. * * * Han Toppings Here Dan Topping and his bride, r Alice, also were at ringside to p cheer the Continentals and Billy I Daniel's dance revue. The Top- | pings came out here so Dan !. could attend Pat De Cicco's wed- h ding to Mary Jo Tarola. Lana I. Turner, who is divorcing Dan's I; brother, Bob, stopped at the |i table to say hello. Lana was I with her French admirer, I Georges Saurel. She was trying I to avoid photographers but I some of them made shots, any- I way. ^K Ii Another new twosome at the I Mocambo was Pat Knigjit and I Lance Fuller. . |y'4|^f- P^jjllecently ailing Terry Moore I got bawled out by her parents 1 for touring the late spots%ntil. I i 2:30 ayem with English Actor |. Laurence Harvey, After attend- T ing the opening of the Sands , |i Hotel in Las Vegas, Teffy^wtifl 1 ^o WWiW^TSf^fo ballyhoo | Ij "Come Back?? Little Sheba." Her I mother will chaperone her on Ii the trip. He divu\ mone^BM donate sPg nist causfe, poor in No??. nistic Italian v added: "I'm got* present with wha^ " wonderful boss in\ liatti. "And then?" presseaQ? "And then," sighed TBgL. happily, "I'm going to. commue to work." I Young George Axelrod was among those who viewed the opening of Georgie Hale's sparkling little musical, "More About Love" at the Versailles. Axelrod had something of a personal interest in the proceedings. It was a sequel to "All About Love" which he had co-authored for last year's Versailles show?╟÷and he probably felt he owed some debt for last year's little friv- | olity for in that first offering as in' the new lone, the device of having principals think out loud about what is going to happen, (dominated. Axelrod went on to employ [this same device in a full length play?╟÷the [smash hit on Broadway entitled "Seven I Year Itch." Dorothy Lamour, celebrating her birth-i day in 21, told us she was appearing on Sherman . Bipngsley's ffibrte''xau.br showh% without being solicited: I^arniSgr!thaT"lt[ was the club's anniversary, she phoned! Billingsley and insisted upon appearing on the show, recalling that when no one thought she had much to offer in her early struggling singing days, it was the Stork Club boss who put her to work. * * * ???·-.'h*" Jean Rostand, son of Edmund Itostand who gave us "Cyrano," is a leading biologist in France. He is also notoriously shy.j This shrinking violet together with a dozen! other French notables distinguished for! their retiring natures have formed a group known as the Club of the Timid. Wheni it was suggested that in keeping with the r Parisian tradition, the new club should throw a.ball, Rostand said meekly: "I think, we'd all love treat?╟÷except that it's out ofj the question. We're all so shy?╟÷there isn't! one of us bold enough to become chair-1 man." * * * John Popkin, owner of the .Hickory House, is recuperating?╟÷but sad. An inveterate smoker, he's been'told to lay off] for life . . . What makes studio publicity 1 departments reach for ulcer cures. Danl Dailey has just completed a starring role in "Taxi" for 20th Century-Fox. Whereupon Mr. Dailey was interviewed for a fan magazine and asked to name his favorite dancing star. Did he ;name Betty Grable or Mitzi Gaynor, Tweritif^^&^darlings? Nope. He picked Cyd ChaJS||l M the rival j . Metro ... Most fascinating profiles in j Maurice Zolowtow's new l|i>ok, "It Takes j All Kinds" as certainly those^Kevoted toj Jeweler Jules Glaenzer and Drum Beater Jim Moran i.-1. . Exodus of Ttnost of the toyfeB^^byMiisers starts Mondays Headed for I opening of Jack Entratter's luxurious Las I Vegas Sands Hotel. Tgend of the times: tn the J iil'lMHUl JHc^, "Room Service" thel lads try to raise $15,000 to produce a show. I In Bernie Hart's forthcoming revival, the 1 I sum is changed to $50,000. ^ESTABLISHED^ "|Arclay 7-5371 PRjs^LlPPijG BUREAU 165 Church Stfjjjfc - New York LOS ANGELES, CALIF. NEte:' (A new gold rush to Las Vegas j! By ERSKINE JOHNSON lifrjj)J%E&Jj?·> r^ec. 17.-(Special)-Las Vegas now has its lucky 7?╟÷ Seven plusn gaiajjjihg casinos with built-in rooms, night clubs and swimming pools oh the fabulous Miracle Mile. The town's seventh big resorts hotel?╟÷the $5,000,000 Sands Hotel, ?╟÷this week rolled out.'flWHIWfflP1 pet and the green cloth with the white freckles to a packed house of movie stars, Broadway newsmen flown in on chartered TWA Constellations, rival hotel owners and the Lady Luck* mob. The Sands is in luxurious modern decor. Even the writing on the walls of the. little boys' room off the main lobby is in longhand writing baked into the polished tile. The words are spicy instructions for men only. The way money is being tossed around in Las Vegas' Gold Rush of '52, owners Jake Freedman and Jack Entratter should have their investment back in a couple of months" unless Pistol Packing Grandma, the L. A. bank robber, jumps her private reservation and The Sands, in fact, already are shifting. Plans are being blue-J printed for additional rooms, and | the dice aren't even nicked yet.' Jake and-Jack gifted all members of the press with $25 in silver dollars, but warned on a gift card: 'Tis said when such gifts are used elsewhere, the dice roll up and stick to the ceiling." , 'Tis said Johnson's cartwheels rolled back to Jake and Jack in a hurry. In the celebrity list for the lavish opening show .starring Danny Thomas were Terry Moofe, her mama, Ursula Theiss, with a handsome doctor instead of Bob Taylor; Judy Canova, Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante, Jack Beutel, Mrs. Jerry Lewis, Grant Withers and Denise Darcel, who 'tis said puts Tn?╟?_???╟?u ;?╟?e,+a?╟?* nf Tf.rnrlicb cm her jumps her private reservation ana i jjemse uaitci, wiW UI, 0?╜^ does it the hard way with the French, instead of English, on her j hotel's cashier. dice throws.