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JUL ens ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York DAIfi^ REPORTER HOLl#WOOD, CALIp far 2519S3 ?║|_ [ Talliilu^STiilK For Las Vegas, And/M's a Natpral Both Ways has confessed to practically every has added one more. Now, for the \ joint. And it's a natural both ways. PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywood, Calif. Reporter (Cir. 6,821) phen Las Va^as.?╟÷Tallulah Bank! I experience within the huma^peri| | first thjne, she's shi Bankhead's the Jj|gndjs_J^otgJ mart , experienSl^frflpHsaloon?╟÷\r_df first ?╟≤.sional experience, :iting 30-mi ainment fresults are It's an Tee of en- p, and the ise. Tallulah as 5he need make no erthis date, there ^anything she can't do. you can expect her to band down to Sunset & rillo playing trumpet. Therefs hardly any category that best I fits MissfBankhead's cafe performance. j She doesn't sing-well, certainly, and . her dancirtg-vtfould even scare off Ar- I thur Murray, and you know what he'd do for a customer. Yet, there is always I her high humor and great personality. I With those attributes she could prob- I ably read the telephone directory and I make an exciting production out of it. I And maybe some of it is the phone I book ?╟÷ who knows? One isn't always terribly conscious of material when J Tallulah is on, for she is always the I consummate artist ?╟÷ always certain, I always uncanny in her timing, always with a feeling for knowing when to pick up her audience, and then lay them down again. Some of the. material is quite good, most of it very good. She sings, she hoofs, she emotes with the dramatic intensity of?╟÷well, Tallulah Bankhead. Unique Singer As a singer, she's unique?╟÷a femi- I nine basso with an unerring sense of off-pitch. She probably hasn't been on pitch since sjsi.rooted the Giants to the pennant. When she asks her p ano | accomp, Dean Fuller, for a chord, you're hopeful that she doesn't use it to strangle herself. But what makes I these extra-curricular activities so pal- I atable is her self-kidding; there is I never any pretense, in her dancing and ; singing, that these are practiced arts I for which she is getting $20,000 a 1 week at the Sands. She sums it up aptly 1 by stating that she was told she d'dn't I have to be good for the cafes?╟÷just j versatile. And all she has to tok really, I is Tallulah ?╟÷ Tallulah of thejjlantern I jaw and lowered eyelids; Tallulah of j the flip rejoinder; Tallulah with her I great facility at the quick transition, 1 from comedy to drama. These make her distinct in a businesswhere there j are so few jafrsonalities who can take I over a stage, and hold it every moment 1 they're on. Jj She has the customers wrapped up I from the first moment she domes on I with those one-line jokes, and it does- I n't matter whether they're nickel- I pushers from Yucca Flats or blue- I chip bettors from Texas ?╟÷ she's got 1 'em. Her reprise of Dorothy Parker's j 'Telephone Call" might not be suit- I able for cafes in any other hands, but 1 here, nevertheless, is a dramatic five 1 minutes that sends her through the emotional wringer?╟÷and the audience j as well. Her most hilarfous routine is her . I finale, and it's really the clincher. It's* a Wedlock-Snyder piece of material about a gal's first experience in a gambling casino, and Miss Bankhead's timing is great. The bill also includes the fast-stepping Clark Bros., who go over big with their breakaway stuff just preceding the headliner; Hi, Lo, Jack and a Dame, three guys and a gal with special-material songs; plus Ray Sinatra's house band, which plays a neat show and also: for the dancing. Cus Schirmer, Jr., did a neat job of staging Miss Bankhead's half-hour, and Joan Edwards and Lyn Duddy supplied the incidental musical numbers. ?╟÷Nat Kahn. due?^0^1,?! *** Hu?╜on ^ow lulv S>Z^e!d Painted Desert ^om ?Σ≤l&_tlMm just under ^e wi~ Jkm?&kr.^ are toi.i, ffif "^^'F~' ?╟≤???√ß?√ß?√ß?√ß?╜?? aie roiling to ft'and .Jstall movable stage J rebt I Why is Walter K, I special deputi I guards? Asj f courtesy 01 I is c'onvertj I nightclub I entertaKmc with the dol grinned bos] ! were fired on the contrjty, TKe every weekendY tourist volume Quintet will be Blondell in "Girl Cra^ musical hits the FrohW room next month. A comic^^M ?·2 , KnUTf,. ?╟≤ ?╟≤ .-.DPinky ^eCandStEve^n| juneg29 O T??PS" White?Σ≤" fJrel .er aL " {-P^otes from the Fron-1 Sr^e^-^fonowe^yj JUL lens PRESS O-IPpjng Biffin Established 1888 L<>S ANGELES P,5in ^cisco Portland - Seattle New York -Nl y^ W' rid Telegram grTp%?╟? (Cir. 369,328)-** Fwsaer Copa n^plger Jajk Entiitter, in town for last-minute I conferee^ wit^?╜??lu5>Banl^ead cofcerning her Las Vegas saloon act premiere n^TO sands, reports alfamed actorTSemilly lost five teeth in 'k'tim'amS^ISMm^ Mispladed the suitcase containing the porcelain ijpep he usespi picture!. . ^y. Olivia DeHavilland -brought apig JF nurse J&r her son f Ben on her current European! picnic, corfvincffig^cjfwood she intends to stay for summer film-! ing* ?√ß * ?║ ' cire???╜P>ox office is tile best in years, some analysts figure, dp to elim^ation of the kidd of competition it used to get! from Wfshingtj|F . . . The most comfortable way to taxi across town infceairasallffic, Bill Cullen suggests, is to bring along a couple of sand^-1 mm mm mv omirr RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikF PRESS CUPPINGS ?√ß* 220 W. 19* St- NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Cir. (D 541,485) (Sat. 274,941) This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN , MS-1353 -New York?╟÷Day by Day Limited Edition ?╟÷j By Frank Farrell?╟÷?╟÷?╟≤?╟÷ Frank Farrell Patricia Morison is limiting her summer bookings in "Kiss Me Kate" to two weeks in St. Louis and two in LbufeffileJl^er father and mother are seriously ill. . , . Vic Damone tells pals he won't) be marrying Mona Freeman, or any other gal, for the next four y^|r#. That's a sentggee he's imposed on: hi^ffiH to recoup what professional achievement's^ aad to postpone while in the Army. . ^^ Bronx Boss Ed Flynn has told asso ciates he dojilfesee how t^pspmcratic party can avoid /flwjpirout primary fight in all five boroughs. . V ^ Alice Faye and fhn Harris have given their'^pltone protege, ^^^^^^.Bonhell, the leave-home-^^ra^make-good treaipgnt. Got the 23-year-old llpy Orleans ^-'&'Jftt|vi^1 rival Hal Mclntyre's band. . .X^^Jo^ly Mercer, who wrote "Arthur Murray Tattgh^r^8; etc.," is penning a new musical signature for the danceman's-forthcoming summer TV-ing. . . . Margaret O'Brien is the latest Hollywood sight ready to be heard in Manhattan musical soun^-., ^ill try recording popular songs here. ... A much publicized Cinderella would like to rid all files of scanty shots from her haa^daiCAThe glanv our photog unhappily advises negatives 'wei%4e$|f>6yed loria^ago in trimming to save storage space. Bed Buttons had planned a longer vac: are 10,001 reasons "why he wants to play Less than two years ago Sands boss Jaca^nJ^tter made he shared with a lot of other pub owners. Atcopacabajjk manager at the time, he didn't think Buttonsjwas ^e^rayio7_4^' Red's weekly payoff at The Sands wiWhe $t0*f It isn't merely Van Johnson thaw has a flogflFof Hollywood agents in. an uproar vying for his 10 perceljL. JgawThas leaked that MGM wants him under five-year contract folfWahillion. .- . ?·jj t>on't be surprised if the CIO comes all-out for Judge Sam Leibowitz for Mayor. . . . Chateau Madrid's new import from Mexico, the Rivero Quintet, projects mambo- tempo music in motion that wakes up the house like Kay Williams yelling "Jubilee!" .;'?√ß ; . Now that the "Ruby".|jane has reached best-seller heights, the theme from the Jennifer $ones film of the. same title will be enhanced by? about $400,000 .in gross intake! ?╟≤. . . Earl Wrightson, who yodele(^||i^feinently plfes rival TV hookup, will replace Donald Richards^^^^ radio*^^Cusic in the Air." . . . When Chateaubriand i^^p&tant begins its vacation next week, one partner will ^mffis&ie^m^%nv a score of French kitchens, comparing poulet al'Mmagi^^p^other delicacies. Host1 Alix Hounie will get away froiffii' al^fjp^ifep chow &$$&. Adiron- jiacks. 4%' $F I Inevitably 3-1?? cools^Vrecjeption wiir be1 in those 42nd St. grind huases. Who waxrts tof^^'-With specs^on? Kenneth Gordon, the Queens 'j^Mjpif' $ho took his t&X major bow at the age of 12 with NBC Symw^yriand grew up to be a GI, figures he played for more than 20C$00 ears in Korga^tincluding those of Syngman Rhee and Gen. VanfJ^eti^Sjaims Bach, Bee-j thoven and Brahms, almost match bop ?√ßXn.^^^ity among front-1 line troops because "there's somethin^^^e^" pid soothing about' classical music* in a bunker that's uhder^afef^^e." ^B . The Gaspipe and Fiddlers group wa^1^-nw$t popular on last) week's Hudj^n boat ride of the Queens'*Boi$j}gh. .-Employees Assn.J since the Gaspipers' stateroom had the cobilw^er and heartiest singing. Mllde up of chauffeurs who drive borough officials around! the G&F got its name about 20 years ago from an expression thea directed at anyone who griped about his boss; "Take the gas pipe-/ or go play a fiddle." 3'M'C?╜f^' Johnson cJlLL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywood, Calif. %i Reporter ?√ß*' .?╟≤ .(Cir. 6,821) REVIEW SANDSyj^S VECAS ^ Las Ve^^P*r5ne thing the neweV ^arjiis^m proves is that musicallyJ . .k'T'erJ^ar/ audiences are growing up ^ u-^LjTeJ-fTe cash customers can whists bnThdot and howUo the jive of touis Arrrfstrong, and then cheer and stamp their feet and hold Metropolitan Opera star Robert Merrill for repeated encores, then one might say American audiences have become mu- [ sical adults. Jack Entratter has mounted a handsome production with neat choreography by the eight Copa girls and four new chorus boys; by the dancing Cer- neys who delight with grace and rhythm under effective light patterns. Kotund Satchmo was greeted at packed second show opening night with great fanfare. He tooted his horn aplenty and vocalized much better than his imitators who have recently been hitting Vegas. Armstrong gets capable assist from top specialists: Marty Napoleon, piano; Cozy Cole, drums- Trummy Young, trombone; Arvel' ?/ i ' ^ass; Barney Bigard, clarinet; Velma Middleton, vocals. A jam session brings out every man's particular I talent and ovations for each strained I the rafters. Satch gravels with "When I It s Sleepy Time Down South," pitches to Jimmy McHugh in the audience I with | Can't Give You Anything | But Love, Baby," then socks across the New Orleans boogie version of I Bucket's Cot a Hole in It." Big and I buxom Miss Middleton comes on to I sing "Here's News for You, Baby" and I Mamma's Back in Town," She amazes wistb adept dancing climaxed by split. Armstrong assists on trumpet and vocal of their platter success, That s My Desire." t I This marks initial cafe appearance of Merrill, and he opens with "Matti- nata," "Falling in Love With Someone then sings "I Believe" so feelingly that he emphasizes the impres- 1 sion that this ballad must take a lasting I place in American music. Merrill's < change of pace is smooth as he U swings into "Figaro" from "Barber of f Seville. Encores demanded b|Bpen- W 'HI! night audience, comprising to a \ great extent a glittering Hollywood \ crowd; included "Some Enchanted J Evening, with a terrific imitation of Hmza; Sorrento," "Old Man River" and the "Whiffenpoof Song." Orch leader Ray Sinatra rates raves as Merrill s accompanist. This package will have no trouble drawmg 'em. ?╟÷Bob Clemens-