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TO PLAY NASTY ROLE ET HOWDY FOLKS/ "It's a mortal sin to direct the dirty films of today" says Director John Ford, 4 Oscar winner who's directed more than 40 odd years now. Just honored in Texas as "Mr. American Cinema". . ."Curre.nt films and current stars do not compare with the earlier ones"! Bravo!! Makes me go back to my "autograph book" craze when at the late Tom Mix' home, Jack drew a cartoon of himself, with pipe in mouth, and wrote: "Needlessly, Utterly - Tediously - Sincerely . . . and NUTS it was! Appreciation for past efforts goes to Lawrence Wein- garten, after 42 years producing- at MGM and signed there again! . . Going to the Cameo Room Party tonite?. . .Johnny Da-, is 'vew Year's Eve Party he always celebrates ?╟÷ and what fun. Gladdy's buffet (free too) is something and I'll vouch for it! See ya! George Jessel, in a wheel chair, refers to himself as "Jewish Ironsides." . . Lee Marcus, going great at Jack Callies restaurant . . . Dancer Onik Sanakian who's performed before Royalty abroad, but had 2 perf or-' mances at the Assistanc League Playhouse ... A' shame too, for many at the Metropole restaurant down the street a way, were trying to get tickets. I settled for a great steak and Crawford, Mason Duo, for entertain^ ment. . . Was with Mrs.- Ric ard Whiting and enjoyed tb/e "Attitude Adjustment" co< tail hour . . . Learned th Tiny Tim is making a record of Shirley Temple's hit tune "Good Shin Lcllypon" writ- Relief Fund, to another charity. Wonder what prompted 1 Producer Ernest Lehman's decision? How could a promise made months ago and | cleared, be changed! A whim? ?· Ever try being in two places at the same time? Sybil Brand seems io . . . I Phil Adams invited Ernie and Donna Borgnine to Belgarde. j He's Donna's brother . . . Harry Lewis put his 16 year I old to work at his new Ham- | let near the Academy which g opened this week. . . Bilt- more Bowl opens . . . Howard j Feld ups and left sister (Mrs. | Schiller of Pink Pussy Cat) for a yacash in Israel . . . Jim McGoffin did a 'bang up' job at the new Security Bank I opening. Home to Petula" Clark, I who's such a hit in MGM's' "Goodbye Mr. Chips", is a $250,000 chalet in Switzerland where she, husband [ Claude Wolff and two daugh- [ ters moved, from Paris, j Honest! Save your pennies - the Circus is coming to the Forum. . . Everiy Brothers a hit at the Troubador . . ,! Dave Barry signs a 2 year pact at International Hotel Vegas/ but no date to I The elegant and! excTCTTTfT"Pzazz -- And All That Jazz, Baby" that'r the title) opens at the Vegas Desert Inn on the Dth say Donn Arden who stages, and Frank Sennes who produces. Two of the starring variety acts will be the Yiip Brothers Junior (4) and that :iir.<?;- ing six-foot duo Edward Whiting and Barry Mom oe. Mala Powers, enroute home from a European promotion for "Daddy's Gone a Hunting" . . . "You Know I Can't Hear When The Water's Run- | -1 A *-u?? Galler Nude Innovation For Desert Inn, Vegas i For the first time the Desert Inn, i'Las Vegas, will house a show with |j nudes. I Donn Arden will create and stag-e ; and Frank Sennes will produce a Irevue, "Pzazz Up! And All That Jazz, Baby," opening July 9. Score 'is by James Harbet and Leonard I A.delson. Lyhley JustQuits Smoking the part. But Aldrich said no ?╟÷ he wrote something into the script to account for the arm being in a sling, sent out a call for four nude showgirls for its big nr ^evue, j "B??SSfcsBU?╜d?╜All Tha. . azz ..! . Baby," they expected maybe a: dozen hopefuls. Almost 100 showgirls showed By DICK KLEINER HOLLYWOOD ( N E A ) ?╟÷j Every actor has his, or her, own tricks of the trade. Carol Lynley has one ?╟÷ when she has to plav^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ a nasty type, she quits smokingT A commentary on our times ?╟÷ She smoked her way through when Las Vegas' Desert Inn i up for the tryout, "The Maltese Bippy," the Rowan and Martin spooky comedy. But, next, she's playing a mean hooker in "Norwood," with Glen Campbell and Kim Darby. "I'll quit smoking when I do that," she says. "When I don't smoke, I'm always very nervous, and that helps when I'm playing somebody nasty." Carol Lynley on marriage: "I was divorced five years ago. Obviously, I haven't rushed into marriage again. That first time, I was 18 when I married ?╟÷a real child bride ?╟÷ and it wasn't a good experience. Maybe marriage between two consenting adults would be a good thing ?╟÷ but I've never tried it." - * * * . Speaking of marriage, before! Elizabeth Ashley and George j Peppard broke up, Liz was a guest on Chuck Barris' new quiz, ! The Game Game. That one has i its guest contestants go through j some psychological testing, and Liz was quizzed on how good a mate she was. She tested very low. Another marriage item ?╟÷?√ß Warren Oates and V i c k e r y Turner, the English actress he met while he was doing "Crooks and Coronets" will get married I in the Bahamas shortly. Oates is a surprising man, in some ways. He has done mostly westerns ?╟÷ the Stoney Burke series was his springboard, then "In the Heat of the Night," a southern, helped and his next film "Barquero," could make him a major star ?╟÷ and yet he's far from the cliche-western type. "I would have liked to have lived in the '20s," he says, "and gone to Paris and hobnobbled with all the American expatriates there. I have a yen to write ?╟÷ I did two pages of a novel and started the third, but ust stared at that blank piece of paper for three days." Oates comes from Depoy, in Muhlenberg County, Ky. As a boy, he earned money by worming tobacco (picking worms off the tobacco leaves and dropping them in a can of coal oil) for 25 tents a day. He picked 'strawberries for two cents a quart and helped unload sand cars for 25 cents a day. He makes more than that now, and seldom comes in contact with worms. Unless you count agents among the vermivore. Some nice stories come out of Hollywood, indicating that we have our share of good-hearted folk. Ronald Fraser, the gumdrop- faced English actor, was cast in Bob Aldrich's "Too Late the Hero." He has been with Aldrich in "The Killing of Sister George," and the producer- direcjtfr likes his work. Anyway, Fraser borke his arm. He offered to resign from Los Angeles, Calif. Mexican American Surt (Circ. 2-W. 101 - 10,000 free) JUN26 1969 JIL Est. 1888 ]Pzau'70^ Desert Inn pn July 10 i LAS VEGAS, Nevada ?╟÷ The Desert Inn began rehearsals for its new million-dollar plus super spectacular "Pzazz 70 Snd All That Jazz . . . Baby" which will world premiere at the plus Las Vegas resort hotel on July 10. The cast of the Frank Sen- nes-Donn Arden production is, now so large that each group of performers is wearing an identification "uniform" until they become personally recognizable by Arden and his creative staff. And, what uniforms!! The showgirls are rehearsing! in bikinis. The distaff dancers are outfitted in midriff leotards, and the girl singers are [wearing their mini skirts. There are no standard re-| hearsal clothes for the hand- [ful of male members of the cast. Harvey Warren's sets are nearing completion and although the Desert Inn has a stage larger than any theatre on Broadway, they are overflowing beyond the confines of the hotel building and a temporary shelter has been built to protect them. 'Pzazz 70" production numbers will focus on the most exciting eras of different American cities, opening with Las Vegas today and closing with a salute to Duke Ellington's New York in the smoldering tempo of time when the Cotton Club was king.