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JUL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywood, Cal. Variety NOV 19 1952 fOP NITERY ACTS RESENT LAS VEGAS > RESORTS' PLAN TO REGIMENT THEM some of the country's top nitery acts, incensed at what they call the a "arbitrary" attitude of Las Vegas hotels, are considering a boycott of the desert resort city?╟÷the nation's biggest employer of live name talent. Explosive situation has been aggravated by indications that j Reno, another center for top name nitery shows, plans to follow the 5 lead of Las Vegas in setting down J rigid rules designed to eliminate booking raids. Most of the major talent agen- l cies are quietly supporting the entertainers' rebellion, but no open ' action is expected since the agen- [ cies must continue to do busi?╟÷;?Σ≤?Σ≤ in Las Vegas. ^^^ v- Work JKh^xe T^^^ Else Cuingr the respWment is recent actior/of LasLj^egas bookers faced witVnew pj^Wems by the opening fhe SajJcra Hotel last month and thfe schgpuled bow of the Sands. JtoteLnelkt month. To meet tneex- /pected bVoking hassle, the taleij^ ' complains^sthe bookers dividedjfp the existingHalgnt pool. UndewS " system, an act "belongs" to^iE cer tain hotel and cannot QjKy elsewhere in Vegas withouli'a written release. Latter mayja^t f orthcome, S^yen though aJaalJel has no plans tc^UmiwUiu cfCtior months. Should a boycott become effective, it would mark the first time in showbiz history talent has tacked an "off limits" sign on any city. "The actors have a legitimate gripe," one talent agency exec admits. "They feel they are being sold like sacks of flour and they see no reason why they should stand for it. As far as I'm concerned, I'll go along with them and not submit any act which complains. Npne of my acts will be dictated to by anyone?╟÷and I'm going to let, them play where they want." Whether the agencies will attempt to meet with Las Vegas bookers in an effort to abolish the system?╟÷or whether AGVA will be asked to intercede ?╟÷ still hasn't been determined. Salary Limit Try Failed Some months ago, the Las Vegas hotels attempted to put through a gentlemen's agreement on a salary limit, but the measure was soon short-circuited. The division of acts i*??*s??j3een as another move in this direction. Under the "allocation" system, salaries are als?╜pegged, thus creating an?? additional furore. Agencies point out that an act may have ?╟≤ l^en able to double its salary^sihee its Las Vegas appearance* The jrhotels, however, in theirJppforts to r keep entertainment budgets within certain limits, are trying' to enforce a ruling that an^ftt come back at its original. salaj^|||p Bookings now heingj||*ranged for the Sands, ancle tl|pp?║ahara's scrambling for talent, may cue a booker-agent meeting llfcnthe ne^ | future to settle the dismifl^L ^r ESTABLISHED 188S BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York DELAWARE, OHIO GAZETTE gBM&Circ. D. 5,440 TH9ffi ^;|EHIND THE SCENES In * * * * * * By HARRISON CARROLL* ?╤ ?╤ * * *| BOB ALREADY HAS TOUR MAPPED OUT FOR 1953 ?╟≤ H HOLLYWOOD ?╟÷ Here it is only November and Bob Hope already has planned a back-breaking tour for the summer of 1953. Robert paused long enough on the set of "Here T ..ilJ^...'.,., / Come the Girls" to reveal that, next June, he will appear at the North Rhodesia Rhodes Centenary exhi- ition as the first attraction at a huge theater which now is being built. The Queen Mother, "Elizabeth, will open the exhibition ,___ officially. Bob Hope Besides the above date, Hope will play engagements in other parts of Africa, Australia and Europe, winding up at the London Palladium. He'll do it all in eight weeks. ALTHOZJGH Beetsy Wynn was with Dan Bailey at the Encore room, she and estranged husband Keenan Wynn had a long talk later. After Beetsy attends a number of horse shows and after Keenan completes some GI entertainment tours, the two will talk again. "I'm hoping," Keenan tells me, "that, by then, Beetsy will have changed her mind and will be ready to come back tame.' PARAMOUNT was willing to give Bing Crosby plenty of time off from "Little Boy Lost" but Bing called Bill Perlberg and said, "I can't stand sitting around the house. I would rather come back to work." So Bing returned to the cameras and the boys returned to school. AFTER KNOCKING around Hollywood for so long, Mari Blanchard now is, one of the hottest film bets in town. Twentieth Century-Fox would love to buy her contract from U. I. Vera-EUen and Helmut Dantine, both in "Call Me Madam," also have discovered each other offscreen. They have been dating quietly at Fragcati's. The nur^ery^|f.the new Liz Taylor-Michael Wilding home has been^ painted yellow and white. Incj dentally, it looks as if Liz' Distributed D??phnj SONG WRITER HELPING RHONDA WITH NEW ACT I ?╟≤ family may be here in time for the I birth of the baby. Her parents al-*j ready have returned from the east \ and the s t a r's brother, Howard, j hopes to return from Korea in I time for Christmas. Six-foot, four-inch Howard Keel J bought himself one of those tiny I MGs. THREE ATTRACTIVE European film offers are being studied by Anne Baxter but the first j order of the day for her, now \ that she had finished "I Con- I fess," will be to take a 10-day I vacation in Acapulco with hus?╟?- I band John Hodiak. APPARENTLY, there's no end to Donald O'Connor's versatility. He'll soon publish a book of car"; toons called "This Crazy Busi-1 ness." The gags satirize the j movies and TV...ML It wUl be a\ four-week Florida holiday fo*\ Tony Martin and Cyd Charise after j they finish their^Paramount and' M-G-M movies. AT THE MOCAMBO on his j night off, Xavier Cugat tells me I Abbe Lane turned down a seven-1 year contract at U. I. and that he I still can't make up his min*d| whether to open a night, club ofj his own here. If he does, though,] it will be downtown instead of on j the Sunset Strip. . . . Signs indi-1 cate that Jane Powell's baby will I arrive early?╟÷maybe before the! shower that Georgiana Montalban, 1 Bunny Green and Dorothy Kin$s-| ley are giving her. . . . The main 1 thing holding up the filming of bis I life story, Jackie Coogan tells me, I is getting the necessary clearances I from people! who vj{ i 11 have I to' be mentioned I . iifcthe story. So j far, he has ob- j tained about | j|.a If.... Song writer Ray Gilbert \s helping J ^SSionda Fiem ^fj-sjbi-epare her *'^j|$ng act. She ||euLdn't do bet- Ifter.v'Ray did a ^wonderful job ft?½ his daughter, Joanne, who has been a sen- Sbut for Charlie 'Entratter wants Thomas at the ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CUPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street | New York SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. CAJLX-BTJLLETIN Circ. D. 154.593 ^iki N0V^i852 Harrison Carroll Assure Star Son Safe ffro'm Polio HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6.?╟÷News of the illness of her son, Johnny, brought Barbara Pay- ton flying back here from London last Saturday night. Tom Neal was on the same plane -but he and Barbara dodged publicity, in fact very few of their friends even knew of their arrival. It was feared at first that Barbara's little boy might have polio but this turned out to be untrue. He is much better now. I understand that both Barbara and Tom have offers for more pictures in England and that they will return there in May. * * * :':Jf?║^ Report here is that Frank ,, | Sinatra will stay only^fMght days with Ava Gardner on the Nairobi location of ^Mogan^bb.'* He returns to Hbllywfl^if,< I friends say, because he has his [heart set on landing one of the roles in "From Here to'"|pter- nity." | #< * If Jill Hollingsworth, the girl whose mother embezzled money to help) her wprla^Mrn career, had wanted to reitna|n in Hollywood, she had ther4$$$ of several jobs. Bryant'f^ called Jill's agentyg^S&rnfitfS Toub. Nils T. Granlun4t^sra?·; another who fcalled witdl'^p^ offer to help, i ?╟≤3?3| sfor*^ But Jill wanted to^j&e^&Jbp] her mother's Aide and^^@^|> Toub wisely counseled hert&?║^ this was the proper coyrsfcff*^ The thousands of expressions of sympathy that poured in over the illness and death of Dixie Crosby proved how she* and Bing aM their family- stood in the hearts of the world. All this affection, and her four sons, are as fine a monument as Dixie, or any other woman, could ask. ,.:?√ß'?√ß?√ß Jane Powell'4returri;to show business; after the birth" of the baby, probably &ill be In a February engagement ^|^ ?╟≤ the Copacabana inJNew York*V*\?║5: Isn't ailing dpigrle^Adrian about to sell his last?remaining Interest in the Wholesale fashion business? M . Lana Turner is fully recovered from her illness. She and Ricardd^fontal- ban started dance rehearsals for "Latin Lovers." j Picture won't go before the cameras ^until the twenty-fourth* * ." ?√ß?√ß* * Esperanza Wayne was among the Hollywood, contingent at the Tia Juana bull 'fights over the week end. Ironically, since her separation from John Wayne, his romantic fan mail has tripled . . . Ken Murray flew his barber, Roland Gel- bert, from Beverly Hills to the Sahara Hotel in. Las Vegas just to give hinr-ttpllBir cut. First time I knew you had to go out- ."M&$ *f.Las Vi|isTf6 get a trimming. * Frank de V&was the hero at "rfhe Jack Smftfa-Dinah Shore ishpwjat the CJ$J?·^#|d theater. ffihtgf. the^0M&&r;.'rosev th&U !:mike and staifcw^re caught py?·d pulled utfffefo the a*ir?╜ 'De?? Vol saw it* frof^ the, wfengs, rushed out on-stageT pu5he|t, Dinah away-Jpd caught ti^ ?√ß''n$ifce.. ' ' ' '?√ß' ?╟≤ -::- ?╟≤' *'?√ß x ym^^^eM^oy Jr's. illness is a flareup of his old nicer trou- Jt$$g|He goes to New York for an operation, but, according to brother Charley Foy, the surgery is nothing to cause alarm -. ,??. It's a five pound, 13 ounce daughter for the Cafe Gala's Jim Dolan and his wife, the former Beverly Stoner. They haven't picked a name yet . .. French ballerina Collette Mar- chand, who sat around for 18 months at R-K-0 and did nothing,; returns here from France in February for a ballet engagement and also ta plug "Moulin Rouge." # * # Don't be surprised if Pete Lawford signs for a Broadway musical comedy . . . Diana Lynn, who gets seasick when sh ffow6?o1'^ros at the ocean, has "Plunder o?· her scenes in at sea J Sun" on a boat Kathryn G^111^0 twosome: Thaw . . .S&*^?· Benpy singer Gr^rards^^^1*5 an<^ Bantam^ C o caynMat the ThoAas definit'/trnny Vpp-;jg> ?╜gy|r]s rTfopys Las 15 . X, , ""*"'" JJ^cember