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Jlllens PRESS CUPPING^" Established 1888 i LOS ANGELB??^^ 'V San France* ^Portland - Seattle^ jfrNew York, ffiRJ (Cir. 5,17*1 % urn 8 1953 Television -Radio wjf/^i ^,/ff, pinky Herman^ ARTURO TOSCANINI, en route annual vacation,-wjtll resume f:~ grams) Nov. 2. . ... Helen. Chapman comedy, distributed by Consolidated! j this month for a rest and a bit m x v _ the program is Todd, son-of Ros#e Karns. . will do but one two-week stint at Hie Sands Hotel [ ing his summer hiatus, with pie restr"i$ef _ Milan, Italy, for ?√ßNBCasts (14 pro- V & Jill" situation 1 head for Gc 9 lelen^'s opposite ih "istei. Television' Las Vegas duj September to do 26 programs for fcick. Forma^will remain as m : with Allen Roth again the conductqk for the orihestra. . . . Todi (Rootie Kazootie) Russell has just cotwpleted theAarration and chirp| ing of the first two kidisks of the new^i^Mijrf^fy Mouse" series foif Victor's Bluebird label. Background musu^T5yrNorman Leyden's orkl . . . Consultant-producer Peter Arnell will add to his "Wheel of Fortune" CBStint two additional TV programs he's created. "I'll Buy That," a five time^^.-vsEfeek:;4(ll :00 to 11:30 A.M.) audience participation show with Mike Wallace emceeing, will tee off June 15th, while the panel-audience-part, "Take A Guess," with John K. Ml McCaffery as moderator, .bows into the Thurs. 8 P.M. spot. . . I Jeanne Cagney has been added to The "Queen for a Day" troups and Elliot Jacoby, formerly chief arranger and conductor at Mutual! 1 will compose original music for both the ^iopmd TVersions of the I eight-year-old program. ft.... mm ft I Tin Pan Alley is still talking about the annual outing which I tookrplace atTFred Waring's estate in Shawnee on the Dela- I ware last Tuesday, which 300 songpluggers, recording A & R [ heads, singers and artists attended. The music men put on an impromptu show which literally knocked Waring off Sjisfieat. But what this reporter wishes to stress is the mutual respect, sympathetic understanding and admiration that I exists and has existed for the past quarter J century betweeiLFred Waring and the music boys. Other TV and radio biggies may well emulate Fred's attitude toward and treat- I ment of these musical couriers, contactmen, [ song pluggers, or call them what you will, I the lads whose pockets are filled, not with ! f ' * j \tf* ^f^.'y ; dreams but with professional copies. ... In j fl?W bL^W"^^ conjunctioriffcvith the celebration of New York's 300tlfenniversary, Dynamic Films is Fred Waging preparing to shoot a special film for American Air Lines, titled, "Invitation to New York." Directed byj|be R. Bobker, this reel will be the first I to use Eastman Kodak's new 35mm. color stock with Art I Ornitz on the camera. Pix will be developed idl^)#^5 and! 16mm. for theatrical^ion-theairical and TV use?║^k -M 'ft. ft BBD&O rates a low bow for the excellent... of President m Eisenhowers 'fireside chat' to the people last week. The*. Stat em Dep't haj^rranged for a kinescope to be shipfiPtjFPth "Sn^hd for I re-telecast there. . . . Have some imjiy: The la%t $,ve notes heard \ on the "Lucky Strike Hit Parade" are identical with the musical \ sign-off that Jack Benny formerly used when he was selling J-E-L-L~0. And besides, Benny today also sings the prgfces oft that cig. . . . Here's a real oddity. Last Sund$?║L^ay{^^Questions" masterful moderator) Jackson bracketed his live "Philco TV Theat^'cnannouncing with a filmed spot spiel for Bulova Watch immediately preceding and following %he Philco pitch for a most unusual triple play. Back in 1931 David Ross announced a back-to-back commercial for Jarmun shoes (9:30 to 9:45) and Woodbury soap (9:45 to 10 P.M.) (How does he remember such details?) ft ft ft LOTS A DOTS Gloria'Sanson, star of CBS TV firm seriel "Crown Theatre," will pen a b$xg on "Gloria Swanson, glamour gel of the movies." . . . Upon completion of his current "Burns & Allenr series, Fred (next-door neighbor) Clark heads for TV and Broadwal shows here. . . . Tom & Helen Slater (he's the "Luncheon At Sardi'l #1 Man, expect another visit from Sir Stock in Aug. . . . Bob Quigley, TV's triple threat ace|p producer of NBC TV^hewest daig half-hour quizzer, "On Your Account,"-which will be ?╜*R?║taining until July 1 when Tide will pick ujfdbe MonAVed.- and Fri. tabs. Host will be Win Elliot with Larry White of B. & B., director. L%S VEGAS, Nev.?╟÷To find Jack Entratter wandering around this incredible, slot machine- | happy town- in a cowboy suit is just about the I same as discovering, at the age of 8 or 10, that jj there is no Santa Claus. That is, the world is not I as you were told it was. Disillusion is complete. For 12 years, you found Jack Entratter right | inside the door of New York's Copacabana, of I which he was manager, part-owner and whole- | genius. Tail and bland and deceptively calm (he | has the temper of 10 men, fierce and wonderful, | but keeps a curb rein on it), he was never seen except in aj dinner jacket. You were quite sure he had formal pajamas^ Black tie was his badge of honor; gleaming satin lapels he was never with- Mel Heimei/' J Yet here he is?╟÷in a cowboy suit. And enjoying it. Enjoying jfe^^he wistful,, brave manner of any transplanted New Yorker (alljot uj| wither on the vine and die if we are kept from Times Soui$e to& long), but enjoying it, obviously. You eye him suspicious^ and he looks back at you brazenly and says, flatly "I'm making jam home here. I'm here to stay." Leaving^ New fSTork out of it, which is absurd, Mr. Entratter has quite "af' mse mlpoint. He is here now as part owner and general manasprjpf vjhst. must be one of the world's lavish hotels. It is called The Sm|fl, it cast $4 million cash (apparently in Nevada you can't do any Wmf-term.tmahcing of a building housing a gambling joint), it has mstf 2(90 rJoms spread roomily around handsome grounds and it is ck|sefb6 beifig the last wbrd in luxury, to coin a phrase. It has clasp] aa/they fsay in Lindy's?╟÷but, which undoubtedly interests Jack Entfraff?║?· mo^e, it makes money. Big money. THlf TH1??: jh iJ FABULOUS, BAWDY VILLAGE that is growing with monstnous^swiftness, like some lavish plant life tripling itself ever two hours, and Jack became sold on it in November of 1951, when ^^^^ Vup rrom-Pakn Spra^gs^-where. -he ^was vacationing, for a 24- hour \M.t. / LaterL bafck at the Copa, he was talking one night with Jake Freedman, tlWrexas oilman, gambling impresario and horse owner, and Jake mentioned that he might start up a fancy inn and gambling hell in Vegas. "If you do," Jack told him, "count me in." And Jake did and Jack was. Always an astute judge of nightclub entertainment ("Hah," he grinned today?╟÷"let me tell you how I booked Ray Gilbert, Joanne Gilbert's father, and Sidney Miller, Donald O'Connor's television partner, into the Copa as a comedy team. Greatest flop in New York's history."), Jack has been gopig for the big names here, and ringing the bell. TODAY HE WAS IN A MOOD FOR REMINISCING. He remembered how Peter Lind Hayes 4nd Mary Healy played 19 summer weeks at the Copa?╟÷"first summer we ever made any money"?╟÷and how Martin and Lewis were the biggest things ever to play there and how he signed Johnny Ray, virtually unknown, and went into the kitchen and said to partner Jules Podell "Well?╟÷I just booked an entertainer who's either going to be the greatest item in show business or who they'll run out of town. Maybe they'll run me out of town, too." He talked of the Copa's prettiest girls in his time?╟÷Donna Lee Hickey, Lucille Bremer, Jackie Lee, Paulette Hendrix?╟÷and how June Allyson, who was a Copa chorine, "was never exactly beautiful, but was real cute." NOW HERE JACK WAS IN LAS VEGAS, beginning to be called the Ziegfield of the desert, knocking them dead behind the scenes in his professional way?╟÷and 3,000 miles from home. Yeah, what about that ? What about New York ? "I miss it," he said. "I'd be a liar if I didn't say I did. You know what I miss most ? The moving-around?╟÷you know, going to the other saloons to check on the entertainment, running up to the ball games, going to the fights." He waved his hands vaguely. "You know?╟÷the moving-around. I don't get it here. And"?╟÷he grinned?╟÷"I don't gamble. I don't smoke or drink, either. Isn't this a fine place for me to be?" m| I h 2-3797* .^^^ miCAN pping Service Inc. ssau Street Tork City -AMERICAN I orh Cavalcade: |irich for Nite Clubs? . By LOUIS SOBOL ?√ß pen ia_M. s nogjjF InapTm night IfRAGMENTS: Marlene Die- But-'ready to accept an invita- :ri at the .Sands Hotel in Las ving Red ButUttlS""Engagement. gfi&red the same wage as. La ma. the vicinity of $20,000 per l|er Pidgeon wants to open in^ ty play next season- tipts. Incidentally, he is bn. Kkholders in the new night Jfck outside of Ottawa. Ditto fe\ ..Vivien Leigh's medicos Bfchat she abandon her career?╟÷ Ble girl continues to go off into |pf melancholy. ..Big rhubarb inducers of the play which never loadway ("Rise By Sin"). Her- S* is suing Co-Producer Trudi S$41,000 for closing the play in Dn. Trudi decided it was no use acritics murdered it there... * * * lition to threats, Judge Irving wis had to fight off the inter- ieas of some close friends who l'gh he was the one who sen- RRosenbergs, wanted him to in a leniency plea to the Presi- Hs fantastic that they should Memah$-<--ttut they did.. .There been such a sensational draw in Jrof Bill-Miller's Riviera as Tony Martin is probably the greatest attraction in night spots today, records wherever he appears, pause the gals blow thefr tops -*-as well as most of the colum- I higher military post in the r Lt. Gen'l. Emmett "Rosy" ???╟≤ '.'-?╟≤ n* *|* *i* ^^sK*J'. Leeters make it a day at the Monies Track on the 24th?╟÷will !> via, boat.. .It's nice .to become fhile you're still alive. A salute lazing Ben Hogan.. .AGVA has now decided that cruise direo&ars should become members of the ^p^ffi, because they function as emcees;"^^^^ Also it plans to get tough T&Mwwt^p. resort athletic directors, dance|^^ii|cfors ahd even owners who emcj|%-3fiftie?║kfhey hold union cards.. .A hilarious:!s^|irfe on all the super-duper Hollwo^^^^p^de pictures opens Friday i^p|^^|ft^fi. It's an Italian film, "d^Negffi^JSt4irring Italy's Marilyn Monrd#^ilv^^^impanani. One of the Romanl.Tp&tht^l^quen^ makes Cecil B. DeMipe*s aq||i^p offejpLgs look like bird^V-Mths.. .Maxie Rosenbloom tossed $3QJf00 do^^e drain?╟÷-p|e. salary he would nave gottefeioir a year's^ tour, in the roa4y^OJnPf>:J5|^fe"Guys and Dolls" under a new cod^tct?╟÷because he insisted the managemen^ftpi^owed hira'SBOO on his last one (b^rtise of a bookkeeping error). When ;Jpr bowed out,: me cast chipped ' ip-'fQfj&fari elaborate wristwatch. Maxie, deepl^ouched, in^'s^S/it was "a small token eft^ir afflictlpqgfe'. ?╟≤ ?√ßfe*.. * * ?√ß v-fptii Triple ,A Indorsements: ^fack Durant, the atomicisfifcmic at the Latinfi^|rter.,. _ ?·acj& .G$$piah's jscooperoo covej$j|1i the return trills feci of ArthurGSgpey (stole the beaf right from under th^#bston reporting aces) .j. .A thrillin^Kok, "The Singer Not the Song" by AijIlfcErskine Lindrop?╟÷about| a heroic; j^Kfe;3and a gangster.. .Alwjays a favor41^Wtfng place r-Little Venicp in .the 'J^Ke-?╟÷where ?½pbtty McFarlane deliyerrj^^^ and ac- . c#dion concerts. with^esBSntrees.., Sarah Vaughan's ColUBibi^lJem: "Blues Serenade". ..;;iif - _ ; .-?√ß Wf?- -* ?╟≤.*-Sp- f;igm Sugar Ray Robinson and his wife invade Paris again rie^Konth.. .Two so- called family ijiags fold with the current issue...Just heard of a quickie studio in Hollywood?╟÷oujfc with 2y2 D pictures... |