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j>HIJLAi>ELPH.A PA /INQUIRER SEPfpWSB rT^?╜t of Hollywood Music Publisher Turning to I HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 11 U.HE name of Irving mills is as T sociated with the publication Xedthe Mills Picture Corp S great artists in the world of music as. its stars. ^:^-&_C*i -But this is only the begirmmg inf the Mills-Company's activities, he said "We also plan to assemble greatstars of the ballet world. 1 At Debbie Reynolds' baby showier, Mala Pow- vww?Σ≤maKmm. I ers, looking like \ a dream in a pink summer gown, told' me lthat she isf working close j to my hofcse on ?√ßMafcle driven ;*T am plaly-g I ing with James Best in 'A Man Oh "*?╟≤ M??.??r" cycle,'" she said, "and all the scenes pre the scenes arcajgW- *f>svmw being made at> ^BglE reynoids j the home of JoJifg^sg] , |Corwin. Who do you think Elvis Presley,] ithe wiggly one, has been secreily'| and quietly dating? Young* actress I j Natalie Wood, no less. He took her | I to dinner in the "terrace room at| the Beverly <Hills^Hotel. ' j Says Natalie: "This is no ro-| |mance, believe me. I just happen! to be one of liis many admirers and I il enjoy being with him" I Snapshots: Jeanne Crain was es- 1 corted to the Jules Stein party by i | Orin Lehman, son of the New York banking family. He was on crutcjl-1 es .... Rhonda Fleming held hands with James Hill all evening...Had! ino chance to ask Lori Nelson, who I looked very pretty with blonde hair, j about her romance -with Bob Peter-1 son, Wealthy young publisher.-B^tJ talk is that.it's very seriousdJ&J Frank Sinatra's JSagtds opge||ig ] promises to be a gaTaTlK5fr.1Reser- j vations have been made by Lauren j Bacall, Kim Noiak, the Leo Du-j rochejs, the Nelson Riddles, Jimmy Van Heusen and Mr. and Mrs. Wil- jliam Goetz. '-Ta&M^'* ^^JEtLf^^^RSONS Hollywood Daily Reporter HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. SEP 13 1956 / Buddy Baer got a job with Berl Berry's auto agency on Wilshire . . . Lola? 1 Fisher, Julie Andrews' "My Fair Lady" understudy, arrived to test for Para- f I mount's "Tin Star" . . . Jack Benny laughed so hard at George Burns at a formal j party he busted his cummerbund . . . Fox, hitting on all six, is fixing to roll six! ... Evelyn Keyes went to South America. Are you reading, Liz Taylor? . . . j Happy Palace opening to Judy (Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot) Garland . . . Luther* Adler and ex, Sylvia Sidney, will co-star in "A Very Special. Baby," legiter fo^j which Ezio Pinza was pencilled pre-heart attack . . . Paramount changed "The ! j Joker Is Wild" to "The Joker." Can the theory be they think there aren't enough j I poker players? . . . Bob Cummings, busy with TV, bowed out of "Three Brave j Men" . . . Whatever happened to Betsy von Achdulieber? . . . Lita Calhoun's ; doctor ordered her to bed after she overdid the swimming bit. Baby's due Valen- j tine's Day . . . We've got three words for Ernie Kovacs, the TVibrator: funny, | : funny, funny . . . Vet bandleader Ted Weems retires tonight when he winds hisj New Orleans stand and picks up a new career Oct. 1 as a Memphis deejay . . . j ! Weems' alumni include Marilyn Maxwell, Perry Como, Country Washburne, I Elmo Tanner, Red Ingle, among many others . . . Modern Screen editor David I Myers and bride check in at the Beverly Hilton tonight . . . Happy birthday, Claudette Colbert, Carole Mathews, Scott Brady . . . "Giant" preems on Broad- ! way Oct. 10 and here a week later . . . It's official. Marguerite and Harry Bela- \ fonte blew it. She's supposed to file . . . Don Loper is preparing a line of tyke togs for well-bred brats . . . Joan Blondell, who plays Eleanor Parker's brandy- soaked allt in Bryna's "Lizzie," got a fancy package and a note yesterday, her first day of shooting, from Bryna topper Kirk Douglas: "A bottle of brandy to let you know we don't fake anything in our productions." '?╟≤ Kim Novak, Lauren Bacall, Irving Lazar, Louella Parsons, Dorothy Manners, Cole Porter and others of Frank Sinatra's friends flip to Las Vegas tomorrow. Between them they've reserved 31 3 rooms at the Sands, where he opened last J night . . . There'll also be some pre-celebratingof Miss Bacall's birthday, Sunday j ... Cliff Robertson was Joanne Barnes' Mo beau . . . Mara Corday helped Dick Long opPP/e his birthday at the Bantam Cock till it crew . . . Eldorado stag: Jessl Barker . . . Herb Jeffries opens a month's stand at the Waikiki Biltmore Oct. 15 . . . Fifi D'Orsay and Jack Gordon will reopen the Melody Room as Chez Fifii D'Orsay ... In the language of O'Casey's Joxer, "The Opposite Sex" gave itsj I Pantages previewers a terrific belt in the kisser. They howled! . . . Phyllis and : Rock Hudson hosted a homecoming hoedown for George Nader upon his rft"rrtfl 1 from japan ancL_____\'5 "loe Butterfly'g^***^ ...v^arah Churchill and Tony Dexter, just finished in "The King and I" at Sacra- c^rin^SWand full-of praises for each other, two'd at the candlelit blacktie party fpVffe&jKJI by Isabel and Eugenio DeSilva in the court of the Shoreham . . . Party E. 'fOT*tfuis Estevez was a gasser . . . Carmen Considine and Lloyd Pantages are hosting another for the same gent, same site, tomorrow . . . Stu Martin arrived in civvies, kicked himself twice turned around and went home to change into | his tux while Angela Greene and Spencer Martin went up to Diane Meyer's Shoreham suite and hustled her into her bustle and down to the party . . . Among the forecourt foregatherers being Mary Pickford & Buddy Rogers, Claire Windsor, Cesar Romero, Jon Hall, Nacio Herb Brown . . . Also Queen Nazli of Egypt, greatly disturbed over the Suez situation . . . Plus the Riad Ghalis, Raquel Torres, Renee & Ed Ashley, Lita Grey Chaplin and Pat Longo, who told us they've set the date: Sept. 22 . . . Margaret O'Brien and Decca's Dick Kallman were kicking a few old Chinese gongs around at the Traders . . . Betts and Al Bloomingdale bust loose with a 10th anniversary brawl tonight ... Richard Egan is getting to knowwww Susan Morrow, getting to know allII about her . . . Blabbermouth Bit: Lois James, Bill Tracy's ex, and Bill Brilliant, a deux at Eldorado . . . Talked to I Susan Kohner at the Academy screening of "The Last Wagon." She's leaving f Monday fo Utah to join "Trooper Hook" . . . Frank Sinatra}? Sanck't^pener flipped some 1 1 00 customers at two shows. Another big mob jaifrfmeSFme casino later for closeups of the Thin One, Spencer Tracy, Leo and Laraine Durocher, Ray Bolger . . . Ricky Lane opens at Ciro's tonight, Yom Kippur eve. Velvel, Ricky's Yiddish dummy, refuses to work. So Ricky will use another dummy named Moriarity . . . After their Grove stint, Rowan & Martin open at Chicago's Chez ; Paree Oct. 1 2 with Patti Page . . . They've been doing things with fishnets and Gloria Pall in a local photo gallery that Ike Walton never dreamed of . . . Reminds us of the late Jimmy Savage's four-word review of "I'll Be Seeing You." Jim wrote: "Oh, no, you won't!"