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THE HOUR GLASS ~ Draped bloomers and longwaisted bodice made a fashion debut during a special pre-season showing of 1953 bathing suits at The Sands. Doing justice to Designer Rose Marie ReidJ||^5hpurglass silhouette" are Copa Girls, Barbara White, Bobby White and Mona Stevens.J^Bjirfcara^ models a tiffany white deiustered satin topped with multiple rows of iridescent *^^^SLiB^>bby wears a white deiustered satin lastex suit, glamourised with black ei^b^^gp^^n^^cross its bust line and draped bloomers. 3. Mona shows an econy black i^y|^^j??n^| jgpliaving a nylon net ruffle across the bodice dotted with rhinestone sequini Cir. (D 20,665) This Clipping From MUNCIE, IND. PRESS FEB 1 I Man-Hating Part Is [Next for Marilyn Monroe By LOUELLA O. PARSONS NEW YORK (INS) ?╟÷ A man hating role for Marilyn Monroe" Come, come, come! Yes, that's I what she'll play in "The Last Man f on Wagon Mound," taken from a [ story by Margaret Sitts. She will [ have with her Mitzi Gaynor, Debra ;?√ß Paget and Jean Peters, all of whom I play frontier widows who hate, \ should I say the "stronger sex' or the "weaker sex" until a wounded i. desperado shows up. Three guesses ; who,gets him. ; Raymond Klune has been named '; executive producer of 20th. I i really can't take all these pictures j being announced for Marily Mon- I roe seriously. If she does them all 1 she will be white haired and 80 by the time they are made. WHEN GARY MERRILL finishes "Blue Print for Murder" he'll ask 20th for time off to do "The Fragile Fox" on Broadway. For obvious reasons, Gary would like to do a play in New York during the same time Bette Davis is there in her hit revue, "Two's Company." "The Fragile Fox" will be pro-j duced by James Russo and Mike Ellis, who are behind Bette's show. They brought it from the estate of the late John Garfield, who had planned to star in the war drama himself. WHEN I SAID that Ginger Rogers was going to marry Jacques Bergerac everyone laughed at me and said it's just another of Ginger's] romances. Well, she did the deed] as you probably read. When I got back to my hotel after the theater I found a wire from Ginger. Earl j Blackwell introduced them in Paris. Ginger is such an all right gal I can only hope this marriage will make her happy. .She certainly has had stars in her eyes whenever I've seen her with this man who is tall, dark, handsome?╟÷and young. IT ISN'T Charles Simonelli nor is it Leonard Goldstein who is the man in Piper Laurie's life. He is Richard; Ellerd with whom Piper went to school. Earl Wilson tells me that } I brought them together by writing a story saying she had always liked Richard and wondered where he was. "Then" says Earl, "Richard wrote to Piper." SNAPSHOTS OF New York and Holywood collected at random: Miriam Hopkins tells me she'll be in Phoenix Feb. 16 to open "Hay Fever" at the Sombrero Playhouse before taking the i Noel Coward Comedy on tour. Lana Turner's birthday was Sunday and she isn't saying what Lex Barker gave her?╟÷but I hear he climbed a lot of, trees (Tarzan moola) to pay for it. Hold everything, Las | Vegas,: Tallulah Bankhead is boolied into the Sands Hotel early in May! Lo'WPTHfS^conversation between Jack Benny and Bing Crosby playing golf in Palm Springs. Jack asked, "Do you ever watch TV, Bing?" to which Bing replied: "Watch it? Like a snake charmer| watches a cobra!" The Richard Burtons are "babysitting" with little Portland Mason while the James Masons are in Europe. Before this, the Burtons "baby sat" with Jean Simmons while Stewart Granger was in Jamaica. Long distance romancing with Kirk Douglas or not, Pier Amgeli is dating George Morte, manager ofj Stan Kenton's band. Laraine Day, Leo Durocher, the Harry Ritzes and the Harry KarlsJ at a ringside table at Ciro's listening to the Mills Brothers. Across the street at the Mocambo, Kay Thompson is dragging 'em in jl -although Zsa Zsa Gabor puts on/ just as hectic an act ringsiding. / That's al ltoday. M