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2-TfNTERTAINMENT, JULY 5, 1963 Kevada Stete Journal and R*<nc Evening Oazetl* W|E^Y CALENDAR m FRIDAY, JULY 5 CARNIVAL ?╟÷ Third Annual Carnival, Deer Park, Sparks, Todoy through Sunday, Noon to Midnight. AUTO RACING ?╟÷ Reno Stock Car Racing Association, ?? p. m., Time Trials, Lemmon Valley Speedway. RODEO ?╟÷- Squaw Valley-North Lake Tahoe Stampede, Squaw Valley, Today through July 7. SUNDAY, JULY 7 ARCHERY ?╟÷ Lake Tahoe Archers Gold Arrow Shoot, Lake Tahoe. MONDAY, JULY 8 GOLF ?╟÷ Sparks Nugget Golf Tourney, Today through July 10, Washoe County and Hidden Valley Courses. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 SHOOT ?╟÷ Grand Pacific Trap Shoot, Harolds Gun Club, Today through July 14. pI Billings ?╟÷ Movies, Clubs CLUBS CAL-NEVA LODGE, Tahoe Celebrity Room: Joey Bishop, Tommy Sands, Donn Arden Show Girls, Matty Malneck Orch. ?╟≤ Lounge: Dave Burton, Freddie BeH and Roberta Linn with Bellboys. CRYSTAL BAY CLUB, Tahoe Novelties, Frankte Fanelli with Ree Bru- nell, Sawyer Sisters. GOLDEN HOTEL Buddy Greco, Helen Boice, Johnny Bach- emin, Frank Verna Four, Availables, Notables. HAROLDS CLUB HARRAH'S, Reno D kes of Dixieland, Nick Lucas, Tunes- men, Toy Lovello, Lou Styles, Red Coty. HARRAH'S, Tahoe Sc.'th Shore Room: Lawrence Welk Show. Lcunge: Woody Herman Orch., Brothers C:stro, Jimmy Wakely, Bobby Sherwood wltii Phyllis Dome, Pep Tones, Wager & Carroll. HOLIDAY HOTEL N-.aaka Nua and His Royal Hawaiians, Esquires, Harry "Woo Woo" Stevens, A'ichael Kent and his Singing Violins. HOLIDAY LODGE Set Carson Orch., Enola. MAPES HOTEL Kay Stevens, Art Mooney Orch., Yacou- binn Company, Lucky Starr, Joe Karnes. NEVADA LODGE, Tahoe NORTH SHORE CLUB, Tahoe F3JMADONNA ~ *'F>aree Ooo La Lai" with ?╟≤tlce, Wick 8. Brand, Al Smith-Turner Singers & D WAGON WHEEL, L Fvilion: Juan Esquivel O er3, Country Gentlemen. Diamonds, Frank Moore Psge Show, Senators, C Rlnard. Top of Wheel: Orch., Ron Rose. THE AVAILABLES, five be< rently proving a smash hi in downtown Reno. Headli Also appearing on the con enne Helen Boice, Johnny the Notables. SPARKS NUGGET Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, Eddie Peabody, George Arnold Singers and Dancers, Foster Edwards Orch. THEATRES CREST GRANADA Current: "Savage Sam" and YeMcwstone Cubs. EL RANCHO DRIVE-IN Current "It Happened at the World's Fair," "Rififi in Tokyo," and "Queen of the Pirates" Opening July 7: "Giant," "Summer Place" and "La Parlsienne." MAJESTIC Current: "Bye Bye Birdie" with Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke. MIDWAY DRIVE-IN Current: "Bud," "Misty," "Gunflghf at O.K. Corral," "Day the Earth caught Fire." Opening July 7: "Road to Hong Kong," "Notorious Landlady," "Bache* lor Flat." Vic Darnone (Continued from Page 1.) he decided to switch from making sounds to making quips. His act com'bines peppery mixtures of gags, satires amd imitations, interspersed with professional licks on old faithful, has trumpet. His engagements have included ..top. night spots from New York to Las Vegas and on tv shows here and in England. Highlighting the top-name acts is a covey of chorines who star in a lavish theatrical production, staged by Donn Arden. The orchestra is conducted by composer JAMES DARREN, romantic young singing star of motion picture and recording fame will take his first bow before a Reno audience this week when he moves into the headline spotlight in the all new State Fair Frolics that opens Tuesday in the 7th foor Fun Room at Harolds Club in downtown Reno. Darren enjoys national popularity for a recent series of hit pop records and for his starring roles in several Columbia motion pictures. His latest role was a lead in "Gidget Goes To Rome" and prior to that he starred in "Diamond Head," "The Guns of Nava- rone,'' and "Gidget Goes Hawaiian." NEW ADDITION to the Mapes fine lineup of entertainers is Holly Winters, sensational vocalist featured with the Art Mooney Orchestra and Show now in the Show Room and the Sky Room of the Mapes. WRITERS SIGNED LYWOOD ?╟÷ The writing of Willard and Mary Will- n has been signed by pro- Ben Schwalb to work on the icript for the picture, "Gun- picture, to bee filmed in col- l CinemaScope, will star Au- FROM BACKSTAGE: Great big congrats to BUI and Jim Tomerlin on opening of their Golden. And pooh-pooh to the skeptics who rumored -v they'd never make it . . . Spot is a beautiful addition to downtown Reno, ' and the Golden Door bar is already a hit. Seating's small, but the to-"; getherness is big. The Carnival Room also rates the superlatives, ditto;"' for the talent, headed by Buddy Greco, who's now doing more vocaling-/"'-:! than 88ing. He's tops on both . . . Frankie Fanelli (now at Crystal Bay .' Club) mucho happy. Talking a deal with Vincent ("Ben-Casey") Ed-;; wards, who just closed at the Cal-Neva Lodge, for a spot on a vidseries - Edwards is planning for this fall . . . Frank Sinatra and Jill St. Joh^ also among the celebrities in to audit the Fanelli show . . . Lucky Sta' follows his U.S. debut at the Mapes with a DOT recording sess ^ Hollywood. Starr wraps it up here next Monday . . . Kuban Cos?╜aeks,r. opening Tuesday at Harolds Club with James Darren, have been rehearsing in the Fun Room daily all week-?╟÷not used to Reno's thin ozone;/$ you know . . . The Characters come into the Wagon Wheel Juily 11 with wild new material. Ask for their comparison of ''Madam But*erflyM: and "Chicken Little," and their new "theme song." ?╟÷ STUFF AND THINGS: Mickey Rooney and Nick ("The Rebel") AdamsJ are forming a film co., with plans to do a comedy on the ''kookieji goings-on" in a Nevada prison, which prompts Spouse Ruth to wonder-; if erstwhile bordello op Joe Conforte, now a Nevada State Prison guest; will be lensed bankrolling the crap game down thar, as he does in real life . . . Johnssy and Jeanette Van Dyke, with an assist from Jiggs'%. Keeling, gradually returning the favortte-with-locals status to the El Rancho Cocktail Lounge and Bar on S. Virginia St. They've dressed; up the place, have Harry Garland (recent of the Town and Country^ Bowl) showing his talents at the organ, and offer a free swim (in the" adjacent pool) to their regular . . . Word's out that Jufly 20 is the target date for the Riverside unshuttering . . .Les Conklin (be of the fur store of the same name) got tMs request (honestly) via the mails: - "Please send me some information on the care and feeding of a mink stole." Memo to Les: please send same to this dept. Spouse Ruth wants- to go into business . . . Davis & Reese, now on a nitery tour with the-' Ethel Merman show, inked for five weeks at the Golden, teeing off % Aug. 4 . . . Case you've missed Clark Brown, the personable assistant floor ?√ß mgr. on the 7th floor of Harolds Club, he's off for treatment of? a back ailment. ;% CLUB HOPPING: To accommodate his many fans, Lawrence .WeM* Harrah's Tahoe) will do three shows this Friday and Saturday nites "'"?√ß . . . He sells a lot of corn, but there's few singles in the nitery biz v- who can capture an audience like Harry "Woo Woo" Stevens at the % Holiday. Other p.m., on learning the mother of a woman in his audience was having a birthday back in Maine, he arranged a tone hook-up, sang "Happy Birthday" to her from on stage . . . Johnny Oilman has exited the El Borracho in favor of booze-blending at the Bavarian Inn in Fuiton Alley . . . And Bob Mooney, ex of El Bobo, is now mgr. of Club 99 on S. Virginia, pouring the juice on the suing shift, which makes mate Nancy happier, what with her coektailing the same hours at the Mapes Coach Room. "Now," sez she, "we won't have to leave notes for each other" . . . Speaking of cocktail waitresses, the gals at the Primadonha showroom (dressed in enticing briefies) get as much attention as the more-briefly-clad nudies on stage . , . Not to be thwarted by the busy season at Tahoe, Wagon Wheel casino mgr. Ray Netf and shift mgr. Joe Kowalchuk (the Izaak WaJtons of the club) are propping a pack trip?╟÷via helicopter?╟÷to Raymond Lake,^ high in the Sierra, to try their luck with golden trout. FOOTLITES: New local vidshow On the horizon. Beginning Monday, the Alan Abner Showcase will be aired on KOLO-TV as a 45-minute variety show (beginning at 11:15 p.m. cm Mondays), with live entertainment, personality interviews. Here's for much luck, Alan . . . Need a copy of the home skeds for the Reno Silver Sox or the San Fran Giants? Then pick up a carton of Velvet or Crescent milk. The info is printed thereon. Idea was from M. J. (Bud) Watkins, sales mgr. for Velvet Crescent Inc. . . . George Rock postcards from Denver to remind he'll open at Harrah's Reno on July 11 . . . Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy (current at the Sparks Nugget) slated to open at the Fairmount in San Fran on July 18. It marks the first time for the act to play the city, which happens to be Peter's home town ". . . Nick Lucas, at Harrah's Reno, has been nominated for national board member at large in the upcoming AGVA election later this month ... Gesba, new dancer with the Yacoubian Co. at the Mapes, is worth' a look-see. The Ya- coubian troupe has cut two albums of their authentic Greek music, one for MGM, other for Warner Bros. " J POSTSCRIPTS: Tally of Harolds Chub bus tour activity in and outta =teno for last eight months shows staggering total of more than 4,000 treks delivering more than 150,000 visitors from all over the West. And ots of 'em are seen carrying packages from local stores as they board for home?╟÷so aai Reno benefits . . . Despite the snow storm on opening lite, Freddie Bell & Roberta Linn packed 'em in at the Cal-Neva Ledge lounge. Among applauders were Vinee Edwards, Ford & Reynolds, Sidney Millers. They lock up this Sunday, head for a Sahara bow on Tuesday in Vegas . . . Wagon Wheel at Tahoe has added 24 more slot machines, making total of 935, largest number for any casino in the state. Club also licenses 44 games, five keno counters . . . Jerry Grayson, direct from the Playboy Club circuit, is the new comsc in the Art Mooney show at the Mapes. And Mooneys new singer, Holly Winters, Is a real looker?╟÷with talent . . . Charles Mapes celebrated his birthday test Sunday with an old-fashioned roundup at the ranch of his brother- in-law, Bill Walker, in Wellington. And here's a; belated Happy, Happy, Cnarles . . . Johnny Denis & Netta Rogers, regulars at Harrah's, cutting more single d?╜sks and albums, elated with BDlboard giving their "Folk Hits of the Sixties" the top loido?╟÷four stars.