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RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikF PRESS CLIPPINGS ?╟÷ 220 W. 19th St, NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 This Clipping From VARIETY NEW YORK, H. Y. TALLULAH BANKHEAD (^ V Songs, Comedy, Dramatics ?<5 \ i 32 Mins. n^JV Sands, Las Vegas A Tallulah "BSITkhead as a night\ li club entertainer and as a New Act I \ are among this year's major the-1 atrical surprises. But the biggest I surprise of all is that she fits so I well into both. As an act, she's in I the best vaude tradition; as a I nitery entertainer, she's no freak. L I In fact, sfte's a top attraction for I ?╟≤ any class boite. in this country?╟÷f I and all other English-speaking j countries where she's known?╟÷and ; she has probably opened an in- ?╟≤ come field for herself that will surpass anything that she has yet experienced. She's getting $20,000 a I wee^j^re for three weeks, and that'l^lset^4)est wage to date in any fiaUCf^| J|??j^y^e standpoint of perform- anOT^pia^to repeat a cliche popular'SlFvliier place of debut, Tallulah's aMs* e She runs ,the full scale j of her 82-minute turn and, except for her questionable singing, han- ?╟≤ dies herself like a topflight saloon veteran.-.; Wedlock & Snyder wsote for her i an appropriate and very funny monolog on gambling and she delivers it.^gth. the aplomb and expert timing, aiffHiough she's been trouu- ing the material for years. Up ahead, and to prove her position as one of the leading dramatic actresses, sjfcgfejield spellbound her opening night audience with an edited, five-minute version of Dorothy Parker's elassic "Telephone Call," a tear-jerking soliloquy of a' blues-ridden, forsaken dame. This material would ordinarily seem most itubious for nightclubs, particularly in the far west, but the artistry of her delivery carried it unfailing||r and brought her a near ovatjpa from a capacity crowd. Miss Bankhead opens her act with some funny patter about herself and their does two songs, "I'll Be Seeing You," which doesn't fit her voice or her act, and "Bye, Bye Blackbird" which, because of a I jazzed up, personality delivery, .in- J eluding some inexpert Charleston J stepping, is passable. At the finish of her turn she sings "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You," but she would be better off just reciting it, even though it was her j NBC "Big Show" theme song. Her piano accomp is Dean Fuller, whom she intros as a promising composer, and her act was staged by Gus Schrimer, Jr. Although coiffed in her typical rag- a-tag style, she's been gorgeously and smartly gowned for this occasion. Scho. _4 RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikF PRESS CLIPPINGS ?√ß?√ß 220 W. 19* St., NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 ThisClipphig-^'rom NEW^TOfeKTll. Y. Sands. Las Vegas Tallulah Bankhead . (2), Hi, Lo, [Jack & The Dame, Clark Bros. i (2), Copa Girls (10), Dick Beav- ' er, Virginia Hall, Bill Damian, i Joy Healey, Ray Sinatra Orch [ (11); no cover or minimum. j Bankhead is banknite for thel Sands in Vegas. Tallulah, who 1 looked like the biggest gamble ever i | taken Mrl&fcr gambling town, paid | off opeBm&#igiit. (20) like a hard-1 way 4. Contrary to some pessimistic f eeling, 'Bafekhead is not only box- office, ?ppiif&?es to be socko as I an enlertaijtTeV'in a medium which has hetemW^ been completely strange to ne^fthough she's quick to admit-^^ no-stranger to sa- I loons th^pffres. WtaliliilPlegit star is more fully | covereofSii^ef New Acts, a department a|Sp. S&ange to her, this size- up can%-%*ish her off with just Ithat. Tlprllnithern belle of Broad- \ way an^t&e husky voiced hoyden | of sout^erfi society came into Vegas wSflfwo strikes on her. One j was a severe 'attack of shingles, \ brought ?╜|_by nervousness over her : first niterE*PPearance, which made j it problefptical that she could go on at tSl opening performance. Second was the obvious attitude of a number of casino competitors Ii that Jack Entratter would fall fiat fon his face with this offbeat $20,-! 000-per-week booking. The fact; that these rival casino ops were in j I the audience at the preem didn't j ! make it any easier . . . nor was , there any question of it being kept j secret, since Entratter stuck tm&J chin way, way out by flying out the press, from east and west, to cover Tallulah's opening and tell j ithe world about it. As a ^feilt, Vegas, which has . become the synonym for the atom bomb as -Ipl as the galloping dice,t expected to see the biggest bomb I of all laid in the Copa Room of the i Sands Wednesday night. This made ; the legit star's performance all the , i more remarkable and exciting. She j ! confounded the pessimists and gladdened the optimists with a 32- minute turn that ran the gamut; j of song, comedy and dramatics ... and was exceptionally and surpris- jj \ ingly entertaining most of the way. I What could have been a disaster is | i instead a bonanza for the Sands. r Entratter is backing Bankhead] on this three-week date with fine j j acts and production. Hi, Lo, Jack I & the Dame, standard quartet, are ! vocally appealing with several j numbers. They hold attention and set a nice mood. Stepping up the] pace are the Clark Bros., a pair of whirlwind sepia hoofers who indulge in some amazing rhythm dancing acrobatics. They're also highly entertaining in some take- offs on w.k.s, notably "Pinza and Satchmo Armstrong. > ; Working through the show are Ithe Copa Girls, 10 well-costumed, shapely beauts whose eye-appeal is far greater"than their dance-appeal; Dick Beaver and Virginia Hall, who nicely sing the production numbers by Joan Edwards and Lyn Duddy; tnd Bill Damian and Joy Healey, the Cdpa's okay house dancers. Opening night Tallulah paid particular credit to the fine back- stopping of Ray Sinatra's 11-man crew, and it was well-deserved. jShe also gave public thanks to the help and support give?½ her pre- i opening by Peter Lina Hayes & Mary Healy, who headlined the previous Sands presentation. Scho. cJilL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 SAN FRANCISCO Los Angeles Portland - Seattle Woodland, Calif Democrat (Cir. 4,167) Earl Wilson's Column Comments on The Coronation By EARL WILSON LO*f2|Q^V/You'll probably be distressed9mfrn that most of the ladies going tfo Queen Liz's big- show today will be wearing last year's tiaras. '$_?·*?√ß?√ß I strolledifnto Cartier's, hoping to see a Maharajah hocking county or two to pick up a diadem for his Maharanee. "Some business, eh?" I 'asked s salesman?╟÷for the joint was crowded like Broadway Saturday nig&l "Be a good bloke and don^t |r$ to pull my leg," he said. "But all these people?╟÷!" "All tradespeople here trying to sell us something," he sniffed, "or somebody who's come in to get an old tiara cleaned." The diamond industry is frank lly worried about people not having the decency to buy a new tiara for IG-Day. Although there'll be something like $70,000,000 worth of ice in Westminster Abbey?╟÷not counting the Crown jewels?╟÷if it's all last year's or year-bef ore-last's diamonds, it may give the Corona? tion a bad name. So the diamond people have a sales technique. They're pointing out that the 1953 model tiaras ?╟÷ the "convertible tiaras"?╟÷are superior to any out-of-date old tiara you may have picked up last year. * y* * "You takes this $20,000 tiara," one salesman pointed out to me, "and you can take it apart. "You can break it down into three necklaces, two bracelets, two earrings and five clios ?╟÷ a dozen diamond pieces in all." The Queen, by the way, will .Ac be wearing a diamond necklace' mif the actual crowning ?╟÷ becauy^it would undoubtedly be in the Ya^. when her chest gets annointed with' oil. "Her chest has to be bare, ydi} understand," an expert on sucft* matters informed me., ?╟≤"So if she wears a necklace int$[. the Abbey, she'll have to park f^ somewhere. "Otherwise, there'd be, a lot of unbuttoning and all that sort of thing." N .'JH Diamond earrings, of course, she can wear?╟÷they wouldn't be in the way of the chest-annointing. And she plans to wear "the George IV," a diamond diadem. The annointing of the Queen's chest, it was, explained to me, is to be accomplished with great discretion. "The Queen is not considered a woman," I was told. "She is a sovereign and therefore not merely feminine/' By a coincidence, there's a woman in London now who won't be in the Abbey with all this ice, although she has as much ice as many of them ... in fact, she's the Queen of Ice ?╟÷ Sonja Henie. England has no Marilyn Monroe?╟÷btf|4 friends of M-ara Lane are nominating her. A Hungarian brunette who re- f Mala powers sem^fe^ Elizabeth Taylor, she formwlir was a Conover model in N. Y. She says she's 22. * "Not much younger than Zsa Zsa says she is," I said. "Yes, I know what Zsa Zsa says-?╟÷and I know what people say," retorted Mar^e Sir Winston "Chy^hill was at a vity dull play. Hfgijifr behind sat ^ob Goldstein of N. Y. and Hollywood, who obsej^ed that Sir Winston quietljjL^jflok off his hearing aid, stuck it^bi his pocket, and .snoozed. I asked King Peter of Yugoslavia about the attentions being paid to Princess Margaret by his cousin, Prince Nicholas. "Su^jjgjps'evpie were to marry him ?╟≤hoWlwPutd that make Tito and Churchill feel?" ?√ßVery awkward!'' thought the young King. Omaha's Julie Wilson had dates with two Maharajahs. When she happened to mention ml a London journalist said: "Maharajah-dropper!" ' M?m-'?·' Taffy Tuttle, the' s Broadway showgal whom we brought along to the Coronation, was strolling down the strand and heard this: "Did- yo'U hear what they put on those Coronation seats?" "No! What?" "Bottoms." Bob Musel, well known London correspondent,- formerly on Broadway, was one of the writers who took part in the terrible Coronation jam "covering" inside Westminster Abbey. As he put it, "We had a drawing to see who went into the Abbey?╟÷ and. I lost." WtWw^ # * ?╟≤ * The average London newspaperman had been weary of the Coronation for some time. Last-week I asked one how he expected to see it. He said: , "With a bit of'good luck I expect to see it in about a fortnight after it's over, on film." MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y* ?╟≤ Margaret Truman smiled ?╟÷ but didn't deny it this time ?╟÷ when asked if she'd run for Congress from Independence. . . . Washington's learned of a July meeting between Peron of Argentina and Vargas of Brazil. Kathleen Winsor, just divorced, said at Majors Cabin, "This is the first time in years I've been single and didn't know a single interested man". . . . Aren't Maxwell (21 Club) Kriendler and beautiful Lala Karr planning to wed any day in London ? Tani (or maybe this one's Dran) Seitz plays one of the sexy twins in the Mickey Spillane movie/ "I, the Jury." | The N. Y. City Center's fund drive didn't go high enough ?╟÷ it may affect the fall. season. . . . Selefne Walters, once linked with the Shah of Iran, has been around Paris with ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia. Jack Carter and his wife were together again at Lindy's. . . . Jose Greco gets lOG's apiece for two dance concerts at "Hollywood Bowl 'n July. . . . Red Buttons and Kitty Kallen go into the Sands in Las Vegas July 29. A play-writing duo is sore at a songwriter who grabbed all the publicity in the movie they did together. . . . Myron Cohen's taking flying lessons. . . . Mala Powers is due here next week. One reason: to see Vie Damone. ?╜ . . Fred Chandler, the canvas heir, gave a showgirl Ceri Kane a BIG diamond. Note from E. W.: "In Paris I was introduced to Joni Mulder of Pasadena, visiting France because she won a beauty contest. I exclaimed, 'I was one of the judges who chose you in New York two weeks ago!'" She said, 'Thanks for a lovely trip.' " * * * 'Jii^illiili Earl's Pearls ... Producerism, via The Three Suns: "The trip to Europe is wonderful. If you ever go there, don't miss it." * * * Wish I'd Said That: "An optimist is a guy who belieyes tomorrow's prices won't be higher than today's." Today's Worst Pun^ai^rmy-Dor- sey tells about the new medical discovery, frozen bandages ?╟÷ 1 they're for cold- cuts. -^ Taffy Tuttle told Vivian Blaine she doesn't waste much time buying garters?╟÷just ^ses snap judgment. Jack E. Leonard figures he'll make a million?╟÷he sells Life Sav- rs at theaters showing "Titanic". . . That's earl, brother.