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?√ß This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. DAILY NEWS This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. -JOURNAL AMERICAN 1 the knight watch or Incidental Intelligence Donn Arden Lisa Rose JThere used to be a saying, ?╟ Once a chorus girl, always a chorus girl/ implying that a chorus girl had neither intelligence nort ?╟ ambition. That may have been true in the days of. high button shoes and pink tights, * but nothing could be further from fact today* Now, we have trouble keeping girls in the line because most of them are too intelli-gent and ambitious to stay t h e r e.?╟Ñ The speaker was Donh Arden, w hV?╟ú1.??d a y probably employs more chorus girls than anyone in show business and is kept constantly on the move lining up revue talent for the Latin Quarter in New York, the?╟ Latin; Quarter in Miami Beach, the Desert Inn and Stardust in Las Vegas,j the Moulin Rouge in HollywdW and the Lido in Paris. As you know, plenty of beautiful girls had meteoric rises from the chorus |ine?╟÷Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Audrey Hepburn, June Allyson, Arlene Dahl, June Haver, Janet Leigh and Lena Horne,^toj mention a few?╟÷but, they were originally picked for their smgmgj or dancing ability, not their brains and acting talent. ? α ? α ? α % , ?╟úToday, with the studios cutting down on term contracts, a girl has to have more than a beautiful face and figure to be groomed, for stardom and most of the girls know it. At the Latin Quarter here 75% of the girls are taking outside coaching and training for botn< TV and the theatre, and watching those beauties parade semi-nude you would hardly suspect that nearly every one of them could make a good living in some other line of work in case Hollywood doesnt beckon or they fail as dramatic actresses. For example, Tanya | Corlette, ?╟ the Girl in the Shower/ is the daughter of the ow er of | the largest sheep station in New South Wales, Australia, and for a time worked as receptionist at the Australian consulate in iNew j York. Shirley Forrest, an honor student at the University oL Penn-J sylvania, majored in languages and after graduation taught at a Philadelphia high school for a year. Recently, between auditioning for TV shows, she gave private tutoring in German. w w ? α ?╟úPeg Lynch, a blonde beauty from Georgia, graduated from LaGrange College and taught English and literature in a local high school two years. Pat Farrell graduated from Washington High m New York, worked as a clerk at Metropolitan Life and this summer studied sociology at Columbia University. And so it goes. Not all the girls are on such a highbrow level, of course, but this gives you an idea. The most unusual chorus girl I have ever known, and the one with the most imposing background, is my assistant, Lisa Rose. Lisa is pretty and shapely (37-22-35) but after auditioning m Las Veg;as she worked only twice for me as a dancer; she had just too much executive ability. As head captain of ^the ensemble her duties are so numerous and exacting that I have given her an assistant, Joan Artus. However, Lisa will be a featured performer in the show which debuts in October, starring Jane Russell. W ' w w ?╟úLisa's dad, Herbert Rose, headed a bureau in the War Produc-: tion Administration during the Roosevelt regime, which might I explain her administrative ability. An aunt, the former Nancy 1 Larned, was a noted Ziegfeld beauty, hence her turn to show busi-1 ness. Lisa was born in Los Angeles, entered the University of 1 Maryland at 15, graduated at 19, then took courses at Northwestern 1 University arid the University of California, -which gave her the 1 necessary credits to enter the Sorbonne in Paris, where -she studied 1 French, Italian and Spanish. When not working at psychology, she I took lessons in modern dancing from Jack Cole and ballet from | Batalirna Schneider in Chicago, where one of her fellow students || was Kim Novak.?╟Ñ At the Waldorf By GENE KNIGHT mHAT?╟╓S A BEAUTIFUL FINCH-HITTER Claude I Philippe, a vice-president of the Waldorf-Astoria, secured to appear in place of Edith Fiaf at the .^opening of the Emipre Room on Thursday evening. lA star replacement, she also can sing, dance, act. 1 Young lady I'm writing about Sis Marguerite Piazza, who has I registered most successfully at ithe fashionable supper clubs, ithe opera, the concert halls and Ion television. I remember with 1 pleasure her engagement at $ie | Cotillion Boom a few seasons ?║ago. , Miss Piazza has rearranged 1 her schedule at short notice to | fill in for Edith Piaf, who was i to have performed. Miss Piaf f was injured in an auto accident % in Paris on her way to fill this booking. ^ There?╟╓ll be dance music in % the Empire Room by Emil f; Coleman and his orchestra, ?√ß?║ with Bela Babai and his band f| alternating. Maitre d?╟╓ Louis 1 will be in command at the door lias usual. , The April in Paris Ball Com-| mittee is sponsoring the gala I premiere dinner as a benefit i for the French Hospital. Louis Molinari (better know as Gigi of the Waldorf) will be on hand, of course, to make certain everything is up to the Waldorf standard. Came the Shawn MAKING HIS BOW as a | Latin Quarter headliner, Dick Shawn, bright new young satirist, opens a five-week date in that Broadway showplace Thursday night. He?╟╓ll star in Donn Arden?╟╓s big revue, ?╟úInternational Holiday for Love.?╟Ñ Shawn has brawn. And brains, too. As evidenced by the fact that Shawn has shone in a flock of TV spectaculars; made a dozen appearances with Ed Sulivan; panicked ?╟╓em at the Paladium in London. Also scored at the Tropicana in Las Vegas; Chez Paree, Chicago; the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. New, too, at the L. Q.?? starting Thursday night, will be the Morlidor Trio, Continental contortionists. Martha Errolle is being elevated to a featured singing role. The four other acts top-lighted in ?╟úInternational Holiday for Love?╟Ñ-are being held over by managing director Ed Risman, I?╟╓m happy to report. Jo Lombardi and his orchestra play for the show and dancing, with Buddy Harlowe?╟╓s band alternating. BALLET LEADER ?╟≤?╟≤?╟≤ Lucia Chase is co-director, with Oliver Smith, o?· ?√ß the American Ballet T h e a ^ e Which opens its gala Fall season this evening at the Metronolitan Opera House. At the Town House FOR THE FIRST TIME in its history, the Town House will offer a program of entertainment, commencing Thursday night . . . The man and wife team of Monny and Claire LeClaire wil present their styl ings on piano, violin, accordion and in vocals . . . That gala reopening of the Hotel Plaza s Persian Room tomorrow evening is almost sold out, I m advised ?╟≤ . . And no wonder with Lisa Kirk, the chanteuse as the attraction. From the Stork Club, Del monico?╟╓s, the Madison, Cotillion Room and popular Long Island resort clubs come Joel Shaw and his orchestra to open at the Hotel Edison?╟╓s Green Room this Thursday evening V ?╟≤ . Billy Reed?╟╓s Little Club is open for lunch, dinner, cocktails, after-theatre supper . . And it?╟╓s no strain, believe | me, to listen to Ralph Strain I at the piano here after dinner.