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12 i PASADENA STAR-NEWS !?╟÷?╟÷ Wednesday, May 27, 1953 UUllllllllllllltlltII!llllltl1llllll11IIIItllll11lllllllt1Ullll11II111111111f!Hll11IIIini1IllIIltllU1I1111!IlHH1lllinil1111IlllllI Coast to Coast By HY GARDNER :head f "* LAS VEGAS, Nev. A^^nscheduled"^|piosion took place here a few hours a|o in the shape or^L 112-pound- atomic personality identified by Jack EntrattllL as MTB- one?╟÷Miss Tallulah Bankh$M?? ; f ^ As the cigar and cigarettl^smoke mushroomed up into the air vents, following Taiu's n^^^t^^^^tj^16 Sands Hotel, there was no doubt in the>mivj^&Msm>^ewitnesses that the experiment was a success. . "I have spent half of my life in saloons," T|ihradmits, 1 ?√ß?╟?."but this is the first time I have been paid* for it." The j pay, incidentally, is reported to be somewhere around j $20,000 per week, probably the least costly of all the atomic experiments thus far. Wearing a baby blue satin gown, draped.:with transparent organza cape, Miss Bankhead chats informally-with * her fans, then explains why she wasn't hired to play the 4 Pinza role in "South Pacific.'? "Rodgersfe??,^he recalls, * ."thought my voice was too high; Hammersteinthought my I voice was too low. Josh Logan thought I f|?3$ no voice at * all." She then sings "I'll Be; Seeing N?╤^V ahW proves with i ingratiating humor that Rodgers, Haixabersteffi and Logan * knew what they were tailhfig about.^^fetiiaily," she says *at the end of her number, "my voice i^^as -bad. as it I sounds." She's right; while it isn't the'-pj|i$|o$ a voice you'd enjoy hearing in a canoe it could be " k^tflly ?√ß romantic in a rowboat with loose oarlocks. After singing, Miss Bankhead ^l^?? in^Kpnt of the curtain and re-enacts the classical c^gaatife'^pie penned by Dorothy Parker, '-'the telephone*&&?* Never, have we seen a nightclub audience, particj^^^^g with il&hy palms anxious to get into action in, .^i^j^l^tf^Sgi^o, remain so hushed and appl|ji?║:.so vigelll^^^E^^^Lr^. Always the s^erb .showman, Talli||aiiT?╜tianges the pace in breathtaking fashion by going into an original satire on gambling tiat's W6 adult for television, but custom- tailored for Vegas. f|fH?·<?·S mm^p Unlike the usual run of comedians,. Miss Bankhead doesn't just tell jokes?╟÷she acts them out as though she were doing a scene from a play. She's a real gone dahling and until somebody else comes along with a better description, from now on I'd like to refer to her as the Bernhardt of banter. l^??l^'^,,^''^''''''ff tfids|I$_fcia.' A fe %a!^^tched<f|pj.in av i?ding Ihem. ,28atfcii^??. Irtfguard wSt?·hed me une^ib^tor a while, Then he walke?Lover. -^-Wlfr ?? "BegTyour pardon* 'mister, he saiC^^jrfN.l ^Kfcff.i- %M\ I shewed my eyefe from the burning.?·Uri and looked up at him. ^is^. t't%PT; "Yeah?" "Ygteyeel. okay?" " he asked. "Why?";- a _mmm He JttB ??om one foot ^he^her. thought it ?╜as *?Σ≤drf??LSS?? I demanded. ^on/M told him sadly, -there's a story goes lwith^'?╤a.wn. -i ?║ i?╟÷ *?╜?╟≤ WOT,d TSt"^hL,happened," I hegan, "You will, son. You wi>l. ine.w by Doro. Ife^^i W ?mjust *ot de-jeweled. THEN IT HAPPENED "The guests were Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, ??Spike Jones and Htg *wifefTLouella Parsons, - Buddy Rogers, the Vic Orsattis and the John Carrolls. "About the time we were ready to break up, somebody mentioned Las Vegas. And Lucille [Ball said how she'd love to go there sometime. I Then Desi said: 'You mean dot, honee?'" The lifeguard shook his head admiringly. MSay," he told me, "yon sound just like him." I "Thanks," I replied.^ "Well, Lucy said she did [mean it and Desi said: -Lez all go. Ri' tow.' "John Carroll slammed his palm on the table and said he thought it was a hijiluv'n J? idea. But his wife?╟÷" "What'd his wife say?" M'*. ? "She,said* it was almefiv 3* o'clock in the (morning and he had laryngitis and not to be silly. They were going home." *V>- \ "What'd old John say to that?". &-v "He said he didn't care, it was still a hellav'n idea." "And what happened?" the lifeguard wanted to know. "They went home." I took a deep breath wd continued: "But you .know how l?║|is with the rest of us?╟÷anything for laughs "jgl "Sure," he said. "I know yOu Hollywood guys. [Real madcaps." '^mW "You mi^ht say," I admitted modestly. "Well, ^iyway,^ I went on, "Desi. said M Ltucy wanted to see Las Vegas, she "Was gonna see it. Then you know what he did?" "What?"]||||p "He chartered a DC-3." The lifeguard whistled through his teeth. "That's the way fpTlive," he marveled. "And you all went along?" g "Had to. Couldn't leave him with a whole empty airplane on his hands. Got here just a little while ago." "Boy," the lifeguard said, "just like you read about in the fan magazines. And now I that you're here, what're you gonna do?" j I yawned. "Wait for a tail wind," I told him, "and go home to bed." ESTABLISHED 1888 fQ BArclay 7-5371 &| PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU j 165 Church Street - New York MIAMI BEACH, FLA. I .SUN Circ. D. I 1.835 I *f e.2.5 ;l53..e... j V POTPOURRn Restaurant row gossip has it that Huey Young is inter-?√ß I ested in becoming a motel operator and anxious to leave the pressure ?√ß I of restaurant business to other . . . Sam Bosky, the popular maitre d' I I is touring the west and has sent color booklets from Knotts Berry ?√ß I Farm, Buena Park, Cal. where a steak house and chicken restaurant I I are featured. The statistics report pmeMother's day, 1952, 11,853 chicken! I dinn^rrV^fere served, 57,049$|Si<!pfe baked. Complete dinner $2. Happy I ?√ß Birth^^:^ Ginny Phillips (Mrs. Dr.H. A.) , . . Sophia Tucker scored I I with fp^'reviews again, this time in the Blue room of Seymore Wss'l ?√ß Rooseipit hotel in New Orleans .'. . Saxony hotel Pagoda room star! I Roily-Rolls, appears on the "Bruun "Over-Miami," radio program to-1 nightrin the Empress 110^,^6:45-7:00 ,^ "Stalag l|^tp be the new! lofferih^of the StudiO M Playhouse * . wSixty sii^sMMrem-from thel ?√ßDade Cduhty Kendall home were^gwlsts of CHe NatKwaWhfre'ry^trafCrliy Ifor a swim party and barbecue and waformelon luncheon ...' .Some ofl ?√ßthe funniest goings-on in the present couneitmanici^mfwii^n are 1 ?√ßmissed by the public. They take place before and aft^rtheir programs ?√ßat the TV studio. The campaigners get stage-frid^T or become | ?√ßwinded thereby .-being cut-off in the middle of tjpir limited prog ?√ßAnd you should see how they watch each othejrs preparations fj ?√ßprograms?╟÷and then catch the aside" common*! . . . Mary Heajl |Pe,ter Lind Hayes"'sobri^g with their act in "thjf Sands hotel in La/Vegas I Iwith Mary Raye & N^Pahd the Asia Boys do tlltl killUU IJl'UMHWHHPi ?√ßJackson and his Columbia Recording Ja/z artists will oQien Thursday night at Bucky Gray's Rocking MB Lfcunge _. j.ue Hired one dazzlers. ^.ovle camera can hide de- irects," he told me. "A night-club spotlight can't." The separation caused by their careers, Director Don Siegal is saying, backgrounded the break- ?√ß up of his marriage to Viveca I Lindfors. Now directing "China ?√ß Venture," Don told me: "No marriage can last when the partners are at opposite ends of the country ?╟÷ Viveca's career tool; ber to New York. The divorce is entirely amicable. There ifc no bitterness on either side." Mona Freeman's mother is poised for that ocean hop with daughter?╟÷another log on the fire that could spell marriage to Bing Crosby. Peggy Lee; who wrote the music and lyrics of her new record hit, "Who's Gonna Pay the Check?" wires: "My song is positively not inspired by the legal battle between Marion Davies and Charlie Morrison over the Johnny Ray party." Nancy Olson is forsaking Hollywood for a year or more./ When the stork delivers the sep^ end bundle this summer, she vmi settle down in New York/with l^=*bby Alan Jay Lerner. S '?√ß~^B_\ ! ?╓¬- _W-y