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ML ten PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Calif. Herald Express (Cir. 338,078) - Ml 5 1953 ^rarty Guests Say Mario Expects To Dp 'Student Prince'in March 3.13*:/. By-HARR,S0N CARROLL ^Entertaining 6h a large scale for the first time in many months, Mario Lanza had 25 people to dinner the other night. It was Betty Lanza's first [ appearance since the birth of the baby. ^ Guests, who prefer not to have their names mentioned, say that Mario has gotten heavy again but was telling every- one he is all self to staW^She1 Student Prince" in March. At M-G-M, Producer Joe Pasternak says it's news to him. "However," says Joe," if he decides to lose the weight, to behave and to sing, we'll make pictures." s * * * As happens every winter, some of Hollywood's ski enthusiasts are showing up with broken bones. Readheaded Susan Morrow ] broke her foot In two places I at Snow Valley above Sart Bernardino. "Wouldn't you knOw it?" she wails. "Everybody else was dancing New Year's Eve and I sat there like a lump." Biggest worry for Susan, though, is whether the accident will cost her a film role. Oil Millionaire-Bob Neal, who is around here so much that Hollywod is like his second home, is the second Snow Valley ski casualty. Chipped his ankle in three places. He's making the rounds on crutches. With Liz Dailey, of : course, as companion. * * * {tributes Go Awry The Good Samaritan Hos- f tyital has had to telephone Terry Moore several times to f notify her of the arrival of ^'flowers from friends who didn't know she had postponed her tonsilectomy. *(I put if off the last time to do the Bob Hope show" says Terry. "I'm really going in ?√ß?√ß?√ß soon though." Never heard Terry sound so happy. She says that long time torch is really doused. * *?√ß?√ß' * j Vic Damone night was a ball for the patrons of Ciro's. Not only did they hear the regular act of Songwriter Jimmy Mc- jHugh and his five feminine thruslfes but they got all sorts of extra enlertainment from the audience. Connie Moore, Champ Butler ?╜and Vic Damone all sang from their tables. There was an obvious pause vDMihe middle of Vic's rendi- Harrison Carroll tion of "Don't Blame Me." Af- ; terwards, he brought the house down by admitting that he almost came out with a big sneeze. * * * On his next trip to England, Spencer Tracy will pick up a landscape by Winston Churchill. He admired it on his last f visit. Lady Rosemary Churchill, a cousin of the premier, writes that it has been set aside for him. Spence, incidentally, plans to be in England for a month. He goes over after he finishes "Fame And Fortune." * * * Looks Serious Bob Taylor took both Ursula Thiess and his mother to the Rose Bowl parade and game. And he dated Ursula again at the Mocambo before taking off on his ballyhoo tour for "Above and Beyond." Former Parisian residents say that Dany Robin, who'll play Kirk Douglas' leading woman in "The Girl on the Via Flaminia", has a beautiful face but that her legs would never win any awards in a beauty contest. While Bonita Granville and husband Jack Wrather are in Washington, D. C, Jack will seek TY-Jjfetion.... peioaits, for CorpW'llmtsti and Little Rock. Breaks Red Skelton's heart that he can't make the inauguration party. But Dr. Stanley Immerman says nothing doing ...that Red mustn't think about working for at least another six weeks. * *.. * ; Skipper Kurt Carlsen, his wife and two children, had to sign more autographs than they got on their visit to Warner Brothers to see movies made for the first time. Kathryn Grayson, Doris Day, Howard Keel and all the other players working in "The Grace Moore Story" and "Calamity Jane" were eager to have the signature of the gallant captain, whose vigil on his sinking vessel, *?√ß The Flying Enterprise," was one of the most dramatic incidents in recent maritime history. The skipper and his family were here for only a few days. * * * Actor Billy Halop was rushed to the Santa Monica hospital for emergency sur- surgery. ..Craig Stevens is back from New York and again is staying under the- same roof as wife Alexis Smith, but no reconciliation yet. Craig will do a TV show from Hollywood. * * * Las Vegas Twosome Yvonne De Carlo and Carlos Thompson saw the New Year in at the ^Mj.ft i.ltitrti01 ?Σ≤ Las Vegas...Nick Bllton and Mona Freeman at Lucey's... Writer John Grant, who works on Abbott and Costello TV fand film scripts, really can reminisce about the comedians. Twenty years ago he was a trouble shooter for the Mu- j tual Burlesque Wheel circuit . and once cut Costello's salary -J from $50 to $40 per week... j Marilyn Maxwell and Jerry j Davis at the Encore Room... I Jeff Donnell and Aldo Ray at I the Sportsmen's Lodge... I Tommy Noonan and Pete I Marshall, two very funny men, I open tomorrow night at Char- I ley Foys . . .Spade Cooley j records his first album of ] square dances for Decca to pe the (ght in phone feel old JUL Alliens PRESS CUPPING BUREAU Established 1888 L??S ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywood, Calif. Variety JAN 2 1953 jtfarilyn Ray had a conference with her lawyer before she skied to NY. J&.6. the^divorce^Qr separation instill o^|ie agenda ... The tourist season ^Qnffulfjjoof at CBS ticket* deslJ0bre everyone and his wife wants \n\rlth<?·&t thnkletter shbV. . .Tray! have jet plane service in Euror^^^y 'not hire? . . . And what haagpned to "Jet Pilot"? . . . We hear through the Cinerama grapevin<J|hat L, B. Mayer is now actively planning "Joseph And His Brethreif" . . . Robert Newton plays a pirate in the 50 half-hour vidfilms he'll ffrake in |he Caribbean with Raoul Walsh. "We can shoot 'em all in thlg and a'half months, then come back to Hollywood to make moviesg^says t$|Ftanned, healthy- looking Robert . . . Janet Leigh is getting fan mail and requests for signed autographs for her DOG. ^k=e SPrfRt NOTfeY 1 SANDS Las Vegas1,'Jan. l^-=Tne com- pelling roundelays of Lena Horne are presently and pleasantly gracing the Copa Room, the second Jack Entratter production in this new slot. As on the nights following the mid-December opening o?? this new Strip nitery, maitred Joaquin will be forced to stretch the regular seating capacity ot 385 into well over 400 per show. Few chantoosies command the pindrop attention Miss Horne so rightfully receives. Her starkly dramatic, heartfelt thrushing makes itself a vital factor in be- sieging any shells of tepid auditors , As always, gowned beautifully, MM Horne impressed both males , and distaffers by her appearance. Unleashing her sometimes subtle, sometimes unreserved savagery, she bends tablers to her every j phrase beginning with the stepped- up "It's All Yours," and the darkly toned "Haunted Town." The great old W. C. Handy blues, Beaie bt., receives a twinkle-eyed treatment * along with solid beat. Songstory m I Gallic setting, "Papa Don't Preach I . To Me," is pace-changer, moving I into the supercharged Island In West Indies." Opening measures ot I "Deed I Do," grab kudos, with <, windup a superfire round o?? mitts. | At show caught, husband Lennie j Hayton slipped into keyboard posi- I tion for stroking a soft background g for "Can't Help Lovin' That Man. I Ultra smart lyrics in I Love 1 o | Love," coupled with sexy embel-1 lishments set this one up as a new i and very much okay addition to tne g Horne repertoire. Begoff is the I fave, "Stormy Weather." Consolo & Melba scurry around I in okay ballrooming, but set oil 1 ohs and ahs when bubbles blanket the1 scene during their closing i m I Forever Blowing Bubbles terpo- gy. Copa Girls continue Good I Old Days," and Magyar routines ?╜ through this period, looking luscious and posing prettify. Arnold ] Ross has the 88 under ms expert j digits during Miss Home's session, i with Chico setting up fine beats on drums. Ray Sinatra orch masters everything without a hitch. WdL