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PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York DAILY REPORTER HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. JUN 1 1953 EPOBIER OLLY ?╟÷ SI __^_^_^_^_^_^_^_mi. By MIKE CONNOLLY | The Duchess of Windsor, who is not welcome in England, is wearing the fabulous pearl necklace willed by Queen Mary to the Duke of Windsor . . . Leslie Caron is the Indian gal in "Rose Marie". . .Geary Steffen told jane Powell he won't give her a divorce and asked her to think it over . . . Didja know Steffen and Gene Nelson were once buddies in the same Sonja Henie ice show? Nelson's name was Gene Berg in those days . . . Garbo asked Salka Viertel to find her a Malibu hideout . . . There are some "art poses" of Tab Hunter floating around, all shot when he was hungry, etc. (See Marilyn Monroe biog) . . . One of Bob Hope's birthday gifts was a girdle . . . We heard about Judy Clark being out of Jimmy McHugh's Grove lineup but what happened to Bunny Bishop? . . . Louis Calhern and Sammy Cahn are pouring for Phil Silvers' post-"Top Banana" preem tonight . . . Ingrid wears the pants in the Rossellini family and don't be touted elsewise! ... Boston Pops is recording the "Can-Can" score... Leo Spitz returns to his UI I desk today for a spell but goes back to Cedars shortly ; for another slicing . . . Queenie Smith starts agenting with the Helen Ainsworth Agency today . . . Treva Davidson and Spec McClure plan tying the knot when their new house is out of escrow . . . Yes, Hedda, the Chicago Trib sent a photog to cover the Coronation . . . Lou Smith, ex-Columbia flack chief, unveils an indie publicity office hereabouts soon . . . Bing'll be back June 24 . . . After her European stint Anne Baxter will close her H'wood home and take an apartment in NY . . . Chrissy Jorgensen, that Danish doll, dragged her hips into Finocchio's in Frisco last Thursday night to catch the show there and created no stir at all . . . We don't believe Shirley Temple's spouse will okay either a picture or stage appearance for her. m Dagmar's upset about the plot of Judy Holliday's "A Name for Herself." It's about a dumb blonde who becomes a TV star . . . Rodgers & Hammerstein are close to signing Katie Grayson and Gordon MacRae for the Scarlett and Rhett roles in their tuneshow, "Gone With the Wind". . . Magna Theatre Corp.'s deal with R&H is for two pix, "Carousel" and Oklahoma!". .. Gogi's LaRue, a Gotham casualty, will reopen in the fall as Maxim's with Louis Vaudable of that so-wonderful Maxim's in Paris at the helm . . . Harpo Marx's props were stolen from a Palm Springs POLICE benefit . . . M<a**uel Rojas stagged at the Mo but danced every dance with Mitzi Gaynoj^fSSw|^am Morris bought Nanette \ Fabray's contract from Paul Small bu, I . . . MGM tested Steve Reeves Friday f I Elsie Ferguson is heading for a summer \ from four months of supperclubbing . I It cartons & cartons & cartons of CraveTn Vegas don't carry Tallulah's brand . . . Tor thru-Monday ... New gadget automatica ... Post time is tomorrow night at the Mocl|g||py | from Vegas . . . Martha Raye called off her se\ sf Nick Condos and took off with him on a second remain the best of friends Williams' "Athena". . . ;gy Lee limps in today emissary to LA for ?╟≤conists up there in lunday are Sunday- \kes. Real nervous .ewis comes clean tance suit against . Maggie Truman I is giving up singing for politics. She'll run for Congressw?╜SrTTan from her Missouri I district . . . Martin & Lewis are ticketed for two weeks at the NY Copa opening I Sept. 7 . . . Dennis Morgan's 18-year-old Stanley won the state 100-yard breaststroke championship at the El Segundo swim meet . . . Joan Crawford gave a dinner guest the shakes by wearing the diamond eyebrows she wears in "Torch Song". . . Hope & Skelton & Benny better move over, Cole Porter was that good on "Jukebox Jury" Saturday night. The kid rocked us . . . Somebody's been J calling frantically with an item that Fox is changing "Titanic" to "Mr. Belvedere Meets a Mermaid." m Clare Boothe Luce quit smoking because Italian women resent it . . . Para- mount's problem is Guy Mitchell. His legs are too short . . . Does Joe Castro I reverse the charges on those daily transocean calls to Doris Duke? . . . Upon his k return from Europe Sam Goldwyn will set up an organization to reissue pjx and, I handle TV shows. Junior Goldwyn will produce the TV output . ^#ful Mantz, Ii Lowell Thomas, Jr., and a camera crew are stranded in Cairo awaiting the settle- 1 ment of the Cinerama stew. They're in the middle of round-the-worlding with I a Cinerama camera . . . Newsreel cameramen are being instructed to frame their | shots for wide-screen projection . . . Kurt Kasznar dropped 1 5 pounds to please '?√ß.?╜[' his spouse, Leora Dana . . . Cuff note quotes: Barbara Stanwyck?╟÷"I never go to Jp rushes because I would only look at me, so why go?". . . Paulette Goddard?╟÷ m "Nobody on the screen fascinates me as much as Paulette Goddard. I'm probably __ my greatest fan, bar none". . . Ava Gardner?╟÷"I'm always very interested in I what Lady Astor has to say about mass-produced movie stars. She's generally I amusing and provocative". . . Francoise Rosay?╟÷"I am 62 years old today and m perhaps God will take me soon and allow me a wonderful long, long rest" (!!) B . . . MGM is testing Charles Nelson, a 19-year-old baritone from Kansas who b?║ opens a two-weeker at the Sands June 10... Barry lones is. back in. town and ?√ß that, makes a gal we know, y&rv.?√ßhapia^-'" PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York McCLUSKY, N. DAK. GAZETTE Circ. W. I-.707 H JUNW'M53;T I WHAT Pat Hardy's being so quietl Iabout on Las Vegas springboard I I isn't quite clear,-bttf wEo cares? ^_^Ji PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York I DAILY VARIETY ^ HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. JUN 4 1953 The Las Vegas Strip : By BILL WILLARD : YOUNG & TRES GAY: Marlene Dietrich came to view Tallulah's smashing success at the Sands ?╟÷ the same nitery to be scene of her local debut when the act is ready. Marlene enthused to Rosemary Glaon^y^ljbout Vegas: "It's the most wonderful town ?╟÷ like Paris kf-fif?>^e%^ar!'' . . . Rosemary ringsided with Bee Allen and Dick Chsbpell -^iCmhe Thunderbird for James Melton's second night. But Melton wasn'lwjtoging, just skippering the show while Dorothy Waren- sjijKfi'subbed xw?·. him . . . Desi & Lucy (those jackpotters of great pt|??o||y breaks)^ also weekended at % ands for i ITnbthe: falu view, while vantage fclift applauded fhe meantime, with Nick the r John Fliorea's ovei poif?·l?·jMdi(|gomery mign?╜ly ^L . In Talu jbun^Jljy^selJ' Greek %& ran?·, camera r&jr illustration of Richard Donovan's four-article Collier's series on life and fortunes of the famed gambler. For kicks, she was I showing Nick how to win at roulette, came away with a bundle after twice winning on No. 13. THEY WENT THATAWAY: Memorial Day traffic was hardly heavier than any other big week- ! end span. Hotel ops blame it on | lack of extra day for getting away . . . Millie & Beldon Katleman arrive in Manhattan today, launching Beldon on the prowl for El Rancho Vegas talent . . . Gen. Ira I Hamilburg, biggie in^the local racing clan, now , in Boston visiting his teenage daughters. He joins the Katlemans later this month for a junket to Hawaii . . . Sam Tucker of the Desert Inn chair- mans UJA dinner come Sunday at Jewish Community Center, with \ Jane Powell trilling cavatinas ahd I Stan Irwin emceeing . . . Wilbur I Clark back in town from Beverly j Hills, where he's been in throes of exhausting physical checkup I . ?√ß. . Former showbizzers seem to I like Vegas for settling ?╟÷ viz.: Al Quodbach, now owner of a down- I town cocktailery; Marv Kay, who I just opened a war surplus mart; I Jack Garn, headmaster of Desert Inn Men's Shop; Harry White, mix- I ing his novelty trinket saleswaring I at Desert Inn shopping center with I producing many Variety Club shindigs; Aurelio (Joe) Gallo, I nephew of Fortune Gallo, currently busy as a different sort of impresario at the Pioneer Club, and I Eddie Fox, of vaude hoofing team Chaney & Fox, now talent chief and director of Silver Slipper, Last Frontier shows ... Sammy Lewis zoomed in for quickie talks with Maxine Lewis on upcoming Flamingo tab revue, "Follow the Girls," abetted by Willie Shore, Rose Marie, Continentals . . . Cy Howard and Gloria Grahame a heads-together duet at El Rancho Vegas . . . Rudy Burns, AFRS producer-writer, made her hegira to huzza Talu at the Sands before joining her husband in Paris . . . And still another writer, Bud Pearson, hopped into and around town for ganders at all Strip epics . . . Gene Murphy is sure no one will believe this story, but he swears it really occurred. Globe newspic syndicate, while shooting a layout of Marquis & Family chimpanzee act in the Desert Inn casino, had one of the simians drop a dime in a slot machine for a flash, when up clanked three bars and a jackpot! The Inn wants the thing hushed from gimlet-orbed state gambling officials because the chimp is a minor?╟÷only 14! ET TU CESAR: Cesar Romero's contract with Last Frontier is in a strange agentry mixup. He wants more loot than original contract price which poses a ? for the nonce . . . Joan Blondell's date at the Last Frontier is also causing contract hassles ... El Rancho Vegas will hire a cute femme lifeguard this month ?╟÷ blonde 5 ft. 2, eyes-of-blue Jean Fogarty, formerly of Arrowhead Springs . . . Heiress Melody Thompson exited her NY cafe sassiety haunts to loft here for weekend "secret" whirl of Vegas joynts . . . Sahara's new manager is Robert Glenn, for- merly of the Chase, St. Loo . . . I He gets down .u , Desert Inn's manager Carl Wil- I liams sighs a brief goombye from I putting up madding crowds for I a f'tnit bash at Newport Beach I . . . And on subject of such keep- I ers of keys, a switch comes as ] Chuck Brown, asst. manager of the A I Sands, is paged to head a $1,000,-11 000 dollar mountain resort to be If | built near Pittsburgh. They usually I get 'em from other spas to head I | multi-million dollar setups here.