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Walter Winchell In NewYork and Hollywood ?╟╓ * I Blau About Town The Prime Minister of a South-Ameri- can nation has Lost His Head over a local lark. She will lose hers when his sus- picious Mrs. arrives any plane with a machete ... Bing?╟╓s son Lindsay is That Way about Barbara Diane Fredericks, which both re- portedly deny. But she is taking Catholic instruc- tion . . . Penny Morgan and Joe Bigelow, ex-Va- riety critic, were wed re- cently . . Don?╟╓t invite Sammy Davis, jr., and process servers from Dan- ny?╟╓s Hideaway to the same party. Allegedly over a $2300 tab . . . The brave police Sgt. (fatally stabbed on the Bow- ery) might have saved his life it he had come in with his nightstick to knock the weapon out of the assassin?╟╓s paw . . . Louis Prima and Desert Inn producer Donn Arden are at war ... Kim Novak takes buttermilk baths. Wmchell The Washingtonews: White House in- siders buzz that Major John Eisenhower may enter big biz in a top job . * . If Sen. John Kennedy becomes Prez one of his top cabinet appointments will be a Roose- velt. FDR, jr? . . . That the House Payola Inquiry employs a staff sec?╟╓y named Pa- ola (w.w.?╟╓d Dec. 28th) was confirmed by the AP Jan. 5th ... The U. S. Ambassador to Peru?╟╓s dghtr Lilia Lyon is a copy girl at the N. Y. World-Telly . . . Rep. Oren Harris (investigating payola) has a scoop. A new name in the Max Hess mess. An alleged $7500 fee. nettching, who handles public relations for swank jeweler Cartier?╟╓s. N | Sen. J. Kennedy, te heal, sold all his stock and financial interests to his broth- ers. He?╟╓ll inherit over 10 million one day . . . Ed Wynn, the star, still owns over 5 blocks of Park Avenue real estate. Bought it 20 years ago . . . The phone phirm has a new pint-sized phone that you can carry in a pocket (while walking streets) equipped with batteries to receivei calls. Doesn?╟╓t ring?╟÷-it buzzes . . . Top Red com- mies met secretly at Portland, ote. . . . Approximately 85 per cent of all Commun- ist Party members in Florida reside in the Miami area . . . Pennsy and Delaware commies hold a secret state gathering on the 30th and 31st . . . Harlem numbers players played Number 493 (the winner) last Monday afternoon. The total deaths for the holiday weekend (reported Mon- day midnight) were 493. The players are still in agony . . . Red Barber, sports re- porter star, is an ulcer victim at Mt. Kisco Hospital . . . Why isn?╟╓t it called The Mobfia? m Time mag?╟╓s current essay on brothels in Amsterdam, Holland, shocked and dis- gusted many Time staffers. The news- papers ignored the story . . . Russ Tam- blyn of the moom-pitchas has tumbled for Marcia Ford .. . Three B?╟╓way musicals are up for capital-gains sales. Asking price: Two mill . . . Roger Touhy?╟╓s book collabbfer, newsman Ray Brennan, has a round-the-clock bodyguard at his home . . , The New Yorker, we hear, offered its drama critic post to the Trib?╟╓s TV oracle, John Crosby, who politely rejected it . . . Betty Forsling, former Newsweek staffer, is betrothed to L. A. Harris jr., Dallas dept, store exec. They wed in the spring. ... There?╟╓s a New Year?╟╓s Eve poddy still raging at 18 East 65th st. ?╟úWorcester, Mass., Jan. 5th: Dear Mr. Winchell: You have a reputation for being a champion of the downtrodden. We ap- peal to your sense of fairness to disasso- ciate yourself from ABC?╟╓s The Noise of | Death?╟╓ to be televised the night of Jan. 14th. It is about a ?╟ Mafia?╟╓ slaying in Chi- cago. We have asked ABC and nine spon- sors to withdraw from The Untouchables?╟╓ series. On behalf of The Order of Sons of Italy in America, we ask you to cham- pion our cause and have ABC delete this telecast which slanders millions of Ameri- cans through the use of the word Mafia. Very truly yours, A. A. Marcello, Nat?╟╓l | Chairman.?╟Ñ Definition of Mafia (according to Thom- dike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dic- tionary, page ?╟  476): ?╟úA secret society of criminals.?╟Ñ In short, Mafia couldn?╟╓t mean law- abiding citizens. Wm Pairzy Boats Dept: Count Felix Fostel of Rome and Dee Lewis of Mimi?╟╓s Dance Studio at the Fontainebleau (Miami Beach) ... Dody Goodman and tv pro- ducer Monty Morgan having amourvelous time at Cafe Grinzing ... Look mag?╟╓s Peter Maas and viewtiful Jane Mercier at the Assembly. She?╟╓s a stunning bru- Governor Rockefeller?╟╓s supporters are not disbanding. Going underground (with or without his knowledge) planning to make Nixon their target in the next 6 months. They figure that if Nixon is un-?╟  popularized, Rockefeller will be drafted, etc. ... Luke Carroll, popular with the Herald-Tribune staff, will resign. Others may also quit. They expected he would get the big post that went to another ... Elvis will be home in 60 days, girls . The Yugene Smiths (he?╟╓s the star pianist , at the Embers) have discorded after ten years .. . H. Ford II will spend more than $250,000 for dghtr Anne?╟╓s coming out party June 19th, 1961. Meyer Davis?╟╓ crew will shpiel . . . Tuesday Weld?╟╓s quote: ?╟úBoys my own age are creeps;?╟Ñ . . ?╓¬ No, they aint, they?╟╓re infants! Latin Quarter, N.Y. (FOLLOWUP) ?╟úSky High?╟Ñ is still big, boffo and a nymphic forest of Arden. By Broadway standards, it?╟╓s worth about double the $6.50 minimum- meaning that for, say, approxi- mately 25 bucks a couple, there?╟╓s hardlier a beefier or lustier enter- tainment package around. Every- one and everything is provided for -?╟÷inner man, inner pleasure, and internal revenue. (Uncle Sam?╟╓s gotta live, you know.) Returning to the LQ lists after a long gap are the Bernard Bros., global gadabouts who?╟╓ve made an exciting career out of cavorting to disks. Save for one or two pieces of material new to LQ precincts, the act is the same?╟÷perhaps the most superlative of its kind. Prob- ably the top entry for most of the customers is the vivid enactment in song and shenanigans of Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr?╟╓s ver- sion of the key arias in ?╟úThe King and I.?╟Ñ It?╟╓s a winner that begets continual applause. As per usual, George Pierce is brought onstage for the chatter and panto post- scripts which, even if overlong, bear the stamp of overall excel- lence. Balance of layout, marking the Quarter?╟╓s and producer Donn Arden?╟╓s temporary shelving of Gallic themes in. favor of interna- tional exotica, is in the rousing, visually resplendent LQ tradition. Of the holdover acts, magico Chan- ning Pollock registers with his pigeons and playing cards. It?╟╓s a slick, no-waste-motion turn and surefire pleaser. The Gimma Bros. (5) are competent, goodlooking acrobats who generate near salvos with their, three-highs that are I dissembled ~ and reassembled; but they can cut or jettison their old- fashioned, sub-grade hokey comedy between tricks. In a featured spot of ?╟úAct 7,?╟Ñ just before the finale, the Kimo Lee Dancers (3) churn up a Hawaiian storm with attrac- tive Olena going allout on an Island route (cooch dance) while her fine looking male partners (Kimo and Tonu) run through other types of calisthenics as pre- sumably practiced in the 50th state. On the production * side, Kitty Dolan and sexrshooting cowgals stand out. and 'm other segments, Don Dellair, Tony Franco and Ruth Shepard, who carry out the Pony Sherrell-Phil Moody-Lenny [Adelson words and music, with these and the other troupers bear- ing the elegant Freddie Wittop costume getups. If Donn Arden is the hero back- stage on the production side, the hero back of the performers is Jo Lombardi, handling the baton for the long and intricately-cued E. M. Loew-Ed Risman romp. Buddy Harlowe lures the hoofers to the stage for the dansapation turns. Trau. ?╟╓ I fissi mt 11 1 mm DESERT INN Las Vegas.?╟÷Louis Prima and Keely | Smith return to the big room of the spot in something of an elaboration on their lounge act. As the act now stands I some fancy production numbers, obvi- | ously concocted by Prima, who pro- duced the entire show, slow it up. With a nautical theme, Prima has| named the show the ?╟úS.S. Hep Boat,?╟Ñ which finally ends up on a smooth course after some rough going on an act called ?╟úThe Revival.?╟Ñ The program bills Prima as the cap- tain, Miss Smith as the captain?╟╓s lady; Sam Butera as first mate and the Wit- nesses as deck hands. Show opens with ?╟úWhen You?╟╓re Smiling,?╟Ñ as Prima and the deck hands march through the audience. Keely scores best with ?╟úBe My Love?╟Ñ and ?╟úAll Or Nothing At All,?╟Ñ then dresses as a farmer fbr her hillbilly ver- sion of ?╟úDon?╟╓t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes.?╟Ñ ?╟≤ The whole crew really starts swing- ing with ?╟úHold That Tiger,?╟Ñ ?╟úSibone,?╟Ñ ?╟úRomance With Finance?╟Ñ; and ?╟úCon- fessin?╟╓.?╟Ñ ?╟úFascination?╟Ñ blends into a dance number and ?╟úHucklebuck?╟Ñ becomes a jam session just before the finale. The show runs smoothest when Louis and Keely are doing what they know best ?╟÷ singing and clowning with the Witnesses. It stalls when they get out of their element by trying those fancy production numbers. Only time will tell if their move from the lounge to the ?╟úbig?╟Ñ room was a right change. ?╟÷ Colin McKinlay. BMWSMWWi