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_g THE ORIGINAL _ RomeikE ?√ß* PRESS CLIPPINGS M 220W.19thSt.,NEWYORKll,N.tf. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Cir. (D 331,853) | 567,298) This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE EARLY BIRD Coast to Coast =By HY GARDNER= Coast-to-Coast PniftWk Howard Hughes investing several more mfl!ton#&3 fijciiease production of F-98 guided missiles at hipSFucson,ArigOiiajyplant. I. . . Now that Polly Adler's "A House ^t a 16m#^oile has j been published it's interesting to look back and reallik'tftat we Shad her all wrong. She didn't like her type of woj^^^je was j just gathering material for [book! . . . The new 300 room Hilton Hotel in Turkey will be less than ten miles from the Iron Curtain. . $ . Jean Pierre (Aumont, encouraged by the reception accorded jhis singing emcee ^chores on "Your IShow of Shows" ]may invade the [salon circuit in a [similar role. ... [Lew Nelson claims that traffic laws have become so rigid J that he saw a _ ^^^^ fellow tossed 30 Hy ^m***" feet .into the air by a car and by the time he came down he' was arrested for leaving the j scene of an accident! . . . j Eagle-eyed readers remind us [that they didn't stop minting silver dollars until 1935. Accordingly, we're picking up i J1924 silver dollar and turning it over to Margaret Truman <^4 was the year of her bir^Pf] the family's collection of 'luj_jb silver dollars will be complpl. . . . Janie Powell gets the mm in the M-G-M musical adapt!- tion of Stephen, Vincent Benet's story about seven bachej|I brothers, "Sobbin' Women." . Incidentally, the August issue of "Filmland" almost got caught with its printing plants down. Two of its top stories concern Janie Powell and her husband, Geary Steffen and Jack Webb and his wife, Julie. Beneath both articles are boxed apolo- 3 from the editors noting' that both couples are contemplating a separation "as we go to press." I . . They're now Crediting this to the late John j Barrymore and W. C. Fields, though it was probably uttered by another character who liked to take a nip every other tuck. "I have read so much lately about the bad effects of drink ing that I have finally decided to give up?╟÷reading!" ?╟≤Jfi?║8$!; Gene Steiner, bat boy for Leo Durocher's Giants, will resume his career as actor after the season is over. The fifteen- year-old already has two Broadway shows to his credit, "All My Sons" and "Season in the Sun.' He'd rather be a big-league ball- jplayer, however, which is the (way Leo feels about some of his Giants these days. . . . The (Women's Army Corps has ac- epted the theme song from Rosalind Russell's "Never Wave! at a WAC", movie as its official) WAC marching song. However, they've asked for ahd received permission to write a new set .of! lyrics. . . . Denise Darcel and] Jack Milliken at Carman's Louis Petite. . . . Chilean wine king Alfredo Ruiz anl Andrea Moore, the - teevee emote^^xpect^'to make it a June warier, if they] haven't done_fj/_r%^__r~_ m&_ Folks Tjtv-filUaO Hq\ she took an overdosev#%leeping, pills, was supposed, t$3iy!to Miami Beach that same afternoon, Before1 marrying Bob Strong, ex- Giant pitcher and garment manufacturer, the striking brunette was a showgirl at the Beachcomber and a constant companion of Joe E. Lewis. Hef alleged suicide attempt might have been the result of a letter j from England from her mother, who just learned about the breakup of her marris|g?·. ... Betty Kean doesn't I have to worry about whether she'll be able to obtain any bananas in London for the five-second laugh she gets when she eats part of her costume. The moment Betty and Jane stepped off their' B. O. A. C. plane at London Airport they were met W the Brazilian Ambassador^TOo handed them a bouquet $l?║bananas?╟÷ enough to take care of their entire engagement at the Palladium. . . . We thought we were seeing a ghost when Swifty Morgan introduced us to Nick the Greek in Las Vegas. "Aren't! you dead?" we asked. 'T don't| think so," the notorious gambler replied, "that was another Ni$ the Greek who cashed in f [ftiips in Europe; I'm still in tl game!" Broadway photographer Mur- ray Korman has. formed an independent movie production company called ARCO Productions with John Arent. Korman says he's negotiating with RKO as the releasing studio and that Maurice Cor^W^JDrderly 13" will probablfbe^lWr initial opened a^he ^raftoff was so fcgile ball ship that he! honed Jack venture. Greco originij Waldorf Bud I pressed with| artist's showml immediately ; tel ___?╟? Entratter in Las^lpis suggesting he hire the ac$|Drl|he Sands. "What am I going^^dl^i!K*'4 guitar player?'' Entra^er^iked. Jose opens at the rivaHg_aftara early in July. . . . Gre< cidentally, has been talking wrl Howard Hughes, he told us atl Toots Shors, about the idea ofj his playing the old Doug Fair' banks role in a remake of "The Mark of Zorro." In the mean; time he's strolling around town wearing Howard's old sneakers. Understand the Fordj Festival, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the old gas buggy on June 17 and 18/ will cost something like $100,000 for talent alone. Some of the stars lined up include Greco, Danny Thomas, Martha Raye and Ed ward Arnold. . ':mw Pal Joey] Adams sends along a pocket edition of his latest joke book, accompanied by a note reading: This is -a book of the monthf [selection?╟÷but who can make any money selling one book a month!" i?·M ; John Payne JINGLx. ^^ mounts OloNi^ s a grand mar- ?√ß?· shall of Hendomdo week's finale I' parade Sunday . . . His Flamingo 1 fortnight begins Thursday . . . Rex th Allen, Eddy Arnold, Carolina Cot- I ton also polish spurs for marshall- II ing divisions, with localite Rex 1 Bell in his usual key position post Kg time . . . Thunderbird gets Rex I; Allen and Sons of the Pioneers j Thursday to vie with Sahara's I Eddy Arnold for ye olde ki-yippee I spirit of Helldorado ?╟÷ and Silver H Slipper now spots the Cotton gal through this week only . . . Joe E. I Lewis, at El Rancho Vegas, makes a concession to pioneer revival days by wearing an old Swifty ] | Morgan tie. ' HEAT'S ON: Fires blazed along the Strip last week, razing the Last Frontier's rodeo corral and Thunderbird's warehouse. Over $75,000 worth of Kathryn Duffy Dansations costumes were destroyed in the warehouse inferno. Oddity: Fire started in the corner where costly "Ritual Dance of Fire" costumes were stored, and a batch of Hawaiian grass skirts weren't even seared . . . Hank Henry, Silver Slipper's top banana, getting nibbles from CBS-TV for comedy series wanting a combination Wallace Beery-W.C. Fields type . . . Blanche Cooper of Cooper Sisters, headlining at El Cortez, capsizing everyone with her satire of typical French chantootsie moaning sexy double-talk to tern ditty "Detour" . . . The* j Helldorado's beauty paradj day is "Movie Titles," \vi?·hJL?║st Frontier spending $4,0(W grab at the Grand SwJejJfetaies, floating "Greatest Showjfojr Eafth" ... Rhonda Fleming ajf meaSaiiialw I making poses for MoJpjfi Screen, I also looking over sdfife of hei I pending nitery bow . f Jf Jack Enj I tratter has been in i dling with Tallulah help form her packa; I day's opening at the I will pick up tabs foi, I rooms, food and liquoi mm____________m I underwriting of casino amusement I ?╟÷ when NY columnists descend I for Tallu's first cafe splash . . . I Desert Inn's big opening tonight I headlines Jane Powell, with Darvas I & Julia earning big letters on the marquee . . . This is Janie's first I nitery date in Vegas, although she |i performed at a Variety Club benefit last year. NOT SO GEORGE: With both Gene Nelson and Marguerite Piazza nixing a Sahara safari with Christine, July 14, the dancer and Met- opera thrush will co-headline for the two frames after the JOrgen- sen doll vamooses . . . Meanwhile, search goes on for acts to surround Christine, with Three Suns, Romo Vincent mentioned as possibles . . . [ Gordon "Manhattan Tower" Jenkins bundled his wnole gang at the | Thunderbird for a trip up-Strip to yock at Silver Slipper s special late show Sunday ?╟÷ a neat parody of the Jenkins' work entitled "Mc- [Carran Tower" . . . David Rose wafted to Vegas for talks with Flamingo Starlets in setting up JJiam hui fnkhead for ThJ^ Ifeds. ptel flare, Wat no flashy choreos to his tunes after I he opens with orch and acts May I 28. SHOWBIZ IS: Richard English I moseys back to So. Calif, hacienda I after jotting notes about Marge & J Gower Champion for Satevepost I feature on dance teams. He also 1 began compiling Vegas showbiz j info for another piece to be spot- I ted in that same mag, having Wil-1 bur Clark (Desert Inn, Colonial I House) as central interest, andi f'rinstances Joe E. Lewis. Hank I Henry, Maxine Lewis . . . Danny Shapiro, in town to eander hisl special material for Estelita, shop-l ped for sevens at the Sahara, but! '"""" wound up with soft 17's at 211 Grant Withers in high gleel aftJfc* frau Estelita's debut and! cli_K at El Rancho Vegas. Mrs. Wipers' cheering section includedl T Victor Mcbaglens, the Fredl irgers (Jane Wyman), Pat Ner-I ?√ßy, Mousie Powell and sis, Max-I e Lewis, with more viva la Es-I ^lelita's, Duke Wayne and John! Ford, expected in this week . . .1 Desert Inn gets an offbeat showl sometime during the summer when! Lucky Strike Hit Parade's TV unitl invades this territory . . . Hall Roach, Jr., arrived for confabs with Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy about a telefilm series, and the Hayes' agent, Lou Irwin, week-! ended at the Sands to read the script . . . Fifi D'Orsay signed for long termer at Silver Slipper beginning in mid-June. Eddie Fox will build a French revue showcase . . . Phil Foster, confronted by a noisy heckler at Last Frontier, pulled a switch on the old gag. "I have to be here," he squelched, "but you?" . . . Joyce-Niven, the luscious muchly publicized blonde Copa gal with nine assorted minx, missed the Army bus when Sand- show moved out to Desert Rock for an afternoon benefit last week. She promptly hailed a cab, skimmed 75 miles over the desert to make curtain time. Fare set her back $28, but she refused Brig. General Wm. Bullock's offer to pay the cabbie, and Sands boss Jake Freedman's silver in recompense. "Mv fault," she chirped. "So * ' ?╟÷ I'll hock a mink!" s Jake _?√ß npense. |?║|] o what H m mm Ik herald tribune - Monday* may 25, 1953 LAS VEGAS, Nev., May 24,-rThiS' undoubtedly is the only commvtttJ^JJft, America where xbJT^cal classified columns carry ads opering^'baby-sitting service oil a twenty-four-hour basis. No pra3$Jeiiy|2fe trying to win that new pair of shoes baby needs; the bif^fi#a||,che is having enough left to buy yourself a pai^ Sydney Smith ** EARLY BIRD Coast to Coast ^ HYmiRDNERs of sox.v Cooley, tb^':'3i?║$fee charmer, here for the 3&^^y|Bason, while her isoon 63C*^p|$B,-. Lee Coolexy.<he prod tf4'|li|i^e Perry;t|C$0!N>. show), va^tions in Central\pS?r* r'&nother New Y o rjfee r making-^Ipfefe her temporary residence is Lota Kriendler, wife of the 21 ClUb-ife- presario, H Hy Gainer Kriendler. Ironic that after being wed for twenty years the number twe^sr-orfe] proved to be the stoppei Bill Willard, who splits his time between colui#iing and playing straight man to formfli; bu?t' lesque comic Hank Henry in the saucy but funny Silver Slipper revue, is writing a book fbout Las Vegas characters^itled Snake Eyes." He claims it's fiction but admits that *&ny resemblance to anybody either living or dead is better o||gp When Lt. francisek Jplsclsfe the Polish flyftwho escaped the Commies ancf turned his MIG over to the American authorities, visits President Eisenhower on Tuesday, he will have a surprise gift for, Ike. Relaxing at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Jarecki was so intrigued by the battery of one-armed bandits that he is taking a miniature dime replica machine to the President. This is the tip-off. If Ike puts one dime into the machine, it is automatically fixed] for him to _get" the jackpot. Incidentally the miniature is also, a toy bank. The report that Jarecki fell in love with a redheaded Flamingo chorine was a J veryinteresting publicity stunt. assignment will be offered to General Omar Bradley upon his retirement in August... Esther Williams, awaiting her third child, spends her afternoons instructing blind children in how to swim . . . Swifty Morgan gets laTj^tute postcard every week from Virginia Hill calling him "Pa" and- signing it "Me." The key female figure in the Kefauver probe is now in Spain. When you hear a blood-curdling scream in an R K O picture the chances are you're hearing the scream let out by Fay;Wray hi the recently revived horror film, "King Kong." The studioj dubs in a recording of the shriek whenever a new star can't pass a scream test. . . . Dan Dailey always greets you like he just ilcame the father of a set of boy twins?╟÷big grin from ear to there. . . . Van Heflin, who looks less like an actor than you do, celebrated his eleventh wed ding anniversary-by buying his Wife a lace dress designed exactly the same as her wedding town . . . Gen. Walter Be- flel Smith, whose homburg was swiped at a recent meeting of Washington dignitaries, may be amused to learn ithat King Gus- tav VI had his hat snatched while shopping for something to read in a Stockholm bookshop, Joan Crawford is living in back of the store during the shooting of "Torch Song." Reason she's camping a few hundred yards from Stage 5, she tells me, is that it gives her a chance to sleep until 5:30 a. m. dally instead of having to wake up at| 4:45 a. m. "Besides, Cliquot, my French poodle, isj so used to the hydrants here at Metro." ^at3i M vne & Hat major piano concerto. Joe E. Lewis, a six-alarm fire| at El Rancho Vegas,.bought a| piece oipLas Vegas Park with what h^ would have lost if he| hadn't sworn off gambling temporarily. The" track opens.on1 Sept. 4 under the reins of Lou Smith, the Bostonian prexy of Rockingham. Joe's newest crush is a gorgeous Chicagoan with tha. naughty ^&ifc4uce name of f!^Sa^ffy_^^__ S<3i|May raii"^poj^Bj|lulah BankMad and ask^ps^b she was.-i$jafc?· th Las ."^|W "I'm inf&l^iipfoyeiil^!^ John BarrSfA'd, "sh$m&TTor a garptW^iaDint," .|'iv^$ipor of Ta$(i#a?·i ?√ßankheS^T'^psonal #l^^h?·i^when your phbifre the 5|y|g^Io|^opei^^r^^pswer t^ood^al^it^^f N ?√ß A| ^Mv96d cllb cauejf Strip City E^fe-V^re IcAyWfed .4$?· Blue] |$H__ip$lrr slpW^^t^^veredl wr MaJp-lFf. Zolo*ii^.*aiiping; at fc^everly ^l$fei^te^between mteiw?╜lSB#0^?╜N^el'Mar tin ^M.l^WlSf^nd^taile Stewart] for three ''sai#?╜*usfaaps articles! in^TheSatinl^^lSrening Post.'" Newl^t3ip^#^hairman of] the Joint Chie#(Sof Staff, Ad^ miral Arth||rW. Radford, turned down an offer several months ago to become civilian public' relations head of an important] cement firm. There's a possi- bility that the $75,000 per year! Now that Dom DiMaggio has] followed Joe's footsteps into re^ tirement, a: restaurant angel is] interested in backing a DiMaggio] Bros, chain of restaurants in Ne$ York, Boston, Hollywood, etc. Dom DiMaggio's Cafe on the Beach in San Francisco hw long been in operation. . Mary McCarty tagged for Jane] Russell's next movie . . . Charles Laughton willcomplete six read' ing. engagements in the West] Indies, then sail to England to] make "Hobsoa's Choice." . And Marlene Dietrich leaves for France to make a movie* in 3L?╟÷ meaning she'll perform her role in three languages?╟÷French, German and English. Dietrich's "Time for Love" CBS radio ?╟?_.. .series will resume in the fall.. she addefjLeo Guild's new book, "The Bachelor's Joke Book," was published just as he was getting a] divorce. Seems to me that's carrying a joke too far. So much building going on in Las Vegas that when Jan Murray got to town to play a date at the Sahara he' told the cabbie to return to the airport?╟÷that he'd come back when the town finished. ... f* ?√ß >5 Doors ftxii 10:45 ??.W-K A . ????^ '" ""- nat1r tmM