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This Clipping This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. DAILY NEWS LONS ISLAND ADVOCArt ....fe;23 19E By Gean BIG TOWN SMALL TALK: So long I I1 for a while. This is our farewell column I from Gotham before sailing on the I S.S. Constitution for The * Continent! 5 You 11 be hearing from us via a series I of European lelje^s whenever we get H a chance to sit down at the typewriter? I Have: a nice summer . . . They re pre-1 dieting stardom for 24-year old singer ?√ß Billy Fields who just closed at the! Town & Country. He's handsome as all I gil-out and sounds like T. Martin and 1 P. Como! . . . Here?╟╓s a bit of welcome J news for the theatre-bound who?╟╓d like I to dine in the midtown area. The-Sat-?√ß ellitefe 47th west of Broadway* opened I two weeks ago and it?╟╓s fame, living up ! to its name, is zooming! Built at a cost* of over $60,000.00, they-*serve dee-* Ilcious food, emphasis on steak, midst! most attractive surroundings. New own-1 ers, Stanley and Frank, already ?╟úhave! it made!?╟Ñ . . . The ?╟úOh Captain?╟Ñ play-! bill prints this credit: ?╟úMiss Susan John-1 son?╟╓s lavender hair-coloring formula! courtesy of Kim Novak.?╟Ñ . . . Although! the management is anxious for her to! continue, Greer Garson decided against! extending her ?╟úAuntie Marne?╟Ñ contract! beyond May 31st . . . All?╟╓s right with! the world: Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose flam-! boyant romance with Rubirosa was! once front page fodder, now on friendly! terms with Ruby?╟╓s wife, Odile, ending! a staring contest of many months .1 In a bid to assure a hefty percentage! of the lucrative prom trade, Jack Sil-1 verman has installed Julius La Rosa, the I well-known RCA-Victor recording star, I as headliner of the Old Romanian re- 1 vue . opening Wednesday, May 21st. 1 The Special engagement will last four 1 Weeks at Broadway?╟╓s largest show- ! place. Gary Morton will be the comedy I feature of the show . . . Donn ^rden, I new producer of the Latin Quarter re- I vues, is the largest employer of chorus | and showgirls in the country. Uses I them lavishly at the Lido in Paris; Mou- I lin Rouge in Hollywood; and theJQgs- I ert Inn, Las Vegas . . . The medic told I Dorothy Collins it may be twins . . . j This Clipping From GOTHAM GUIDE NEW YORK, N. Y. MAY 17 1958 Lou Walters By DANTON WALKER Incidental Intelligence On Thursday of next week Broadway?╟÷the traditional Broad-, way of song and story?╟÷will get another hypo with the opening of I Lou Walters?╟╓ new Cafe de Paris at Broadway and 53d St., on the! site of the for- ._______________ j mer 'Arcadia Ballroom; something that it is hoped will match in glamor the revitalized Astor Hotel and C. B. Dillingham?╟╓s old Globe Theatre (now , the Lunt-Fpn-tanne). It will be the first major nite club on the street (if we overlook a few flops, in-eluding the this same Lou Jules Podell Walters Variity Fair) since this same Lou AValters opened the Latin Quarter on Broadway and 46th St. in April, 1942. (Because of agreements that were part of Walters?╟╓ leaving the Latin Quarter, his name will not appear in ads and promotional pieces for the new place.) At that time show business took a dim view of Walters?╟╓ chances; the odd-shaped triangular building had previously housed the Palais Royale, Cotton Club, Connie?╟╓s Inn, Gay White Why and, for a time, a Chinese restaurant, the Palais d?╟╓Or. All had failed, through no lack of showmanship by such veterans as Sam Salvin, Ben Marden, Connie Immerman and George (?╟úScandals?╟Ñ) White. ^ ?╟╓A?╟╓ it Lou Walters?╟╓ new enterprise was a smash hit from not merely because of the great stars presented?╟÷Sophie Tucker, Willie Howard, Milton Berle, Ted Lewis, Belle Baker, Mae West, Frankie Laine, Frank Sinatra, Johnnie Bay, et al?╟÷nor because of the fast-moving, lively vaudeville acts; it was the continuous parade of beautiful girls, stunningly costumed, that made his shows unique and earned him the title ?╟úthe Ziegfeld of the nite clubs.?╟Ñ That was 16 years ago and the Latin Quarter still flourishes, though now under the direction of Donn Arden. Jules Podell?╟╓s Copacabana on 60th St., just off Fif"the only club to give the Latin Quarter serious competition. In many ways Copa shows are superior, but for opulence and spectacular glitter, the Latin Quarter ns still tops. Whether the new Cafe de Paris can match it remains to be seen; it ^ ^ Lou Walter*, born in England and a resident of Boston, where he arrived at the age of 15, feels he has been doing the impossible all his life. His first job as office boy in a theatrical agency led to his taking: a flier as a vaudeville booking agent, which terminated with the death of vaudeville itself. Down to his last 43 cehts, he gave this to his assistant, preferring to start again from scratch., His first venture in the cafe line was to take over the restauranll on top of the Bradford Hotel in Boston, which he parlayed into ^ success as a nite club. This led to establishing the Latin Quarter there, and later a cafe of the same name in Miami before tackling Broadway. Walters fancies himself as a picker of beautiful girls with talent and with reason. From the Latin Quarter chorus line emerged such stars as Arlene Dahl, Julie Wilson, Pamela Britton, Barbara Nichols and Inger Stevens, to name a few. if if it Walters?╟╓ new club, seating 1,200, promises such novelties as a swimming pool shaped like a giant champagne glass, a skating rink, ^?^ea^ure Slava, the Czech ice queen, and a two-hour international extravaganza, the lpst half of which will star Betty Hu^qn heading her own miniature revue. Watson Barratt of the legitimate theatre has done the decorations and Guy Kent the costumes* In anticipation of this competition, the Latin Quarter recently decorated and redesigned the interior at a cost of $150,000, introducing such novelties as electrically-operated bird cages in which the ensemble beauties could swing over the heads of the audience (shades of Zieg-feld!); a raig curtain permitting tropical water effects, etc. The visiting firemen expected during New York?╟╓s Summer Festival will have quite a choice of entertainment. Jack^boba* who formerly owned the^p^sa Mia, a night club on Second Avenue, 'has gone back to his first Jove and is now general manage^of the two Tress clothing stores? on Broadway and 39th St. and the other at Valley Stream 1*1..?╟╓. .The Russian Bear, at 139 EL 56th' Street, is observing its fiftieth anniversary and is featuring Lanya Kalbouss and His Gypsy Trio >in the Tanya Tarwid Cocktail ?╟ 'Lounge ... Autograph collectors Will find it worth-while hanging arotind the China Bowl Restaurant oh W. 44th Street... Former All-American athlete Tony . Lavelli, who now sings for a living, has had his Village Barn engagement extended ter the end of May ,. .Ben Chan is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of his: Oh Joy Restaurant* * .Johnnie Ray a world-wide tour, including rousing . engagements In Berlin, "London and Israel, to take over the top spot of Donn Ardep?╟╓s semi-annual revue, ?╟úInternational Holiday For Love,?╟Ñ at the L$fin Quarter, opening on Thursday evening.,. The Round- table, a new night club occupying* the kite of the defunct Ver- i sallies, at 151 E. 50th Street, now opens - daily for lunch but continues to provide dance music, for the late crowd...Shelley Berman,1 the Chicago comedian who does telephone monologues, has returned to The Blue Angel for his second engagement within a period of six weeks, after which he goes to Los Angeles for a repeat date, beginning June 26, at the Avant Garde, . ~4 vy .. -?√ß - 3$. ?√ß - ;u > I | v % George A: Hamid?╟╓s Aquacircus, which will combitte elements of musical comedy, circus, variety and water acts, opens Friday evening, June 27, at the Flushing Meadow Amphitheatre. Because Park Commissioner Robert Moses insisted: on having something different as a summer, attraction for the .aq^atia - amphitheater where Ell mtt Murphy?╟╓s Aquas^SL. previously held ' forith,. Mr. Hamid, showman extraordinary, has devised a new format, utilising the large pool and stage with the brand of circus for which he is j famous. Hence the new term Aquacircus, Three revolving stages will be used with the action brought closer to the audence via stages extending into the pool. There will be sensational variety acts, some of them imported from Europe, a line of 24 beautiful girls; called the ?╟úThe Manhattan | Rockets?╟Ñ, singers, comedians, specialty dancers, a large bfc^esjgi tfa, trick and fancy divers repre-p senting universities from low a ;, to Florida, a host of zany divers,, and many other attractions. f| Each performance will wind upp with a, sensational fir?? works dis-i play, all under the personal su*; per vision of Mr. Hamid?╟╓s prodii-. cer, ?╜Hal Sands, who has been presenting entertainment units for! variety and picture houses since ?╟╓ 19301 Dorothy Conova will eborecu \ graph and stage the dances. 4 | 1 The present plan is to have J performances seven nightsaweek | at 8:30 P.M., with no matinees j since the pool is open daily to the: public until 5 P.M. Priceiu will range from ninety cents gen** ?╟╓ eral admission to a $2.36 top* yRJue Murder At St. Trin|an^,?╟Ñ; baled on those ?╟úfemale * human form?╟Ñ created by famed cartoonist Ronald Searle, Will have its American premier?? at the Baronet Theatre following the current engagement of Vanya.?╟Ñ y . Starring Joyce Grenfell and _ Terry-Thomsa, with Alastair Sim as. ?╟ Miss?╟╓ Fritton and featuring' Sabrina, the new comedy follows the ?╟úawful schoolgirls?╟Ñ on a whirlwind tour of Europe as they strike terror in the hearts of ordinary human beings, and leave in their wake a trail of broken (literally) bodies. In the new Launder and Gilliat production, the ?╟úmonsters?╟Ñ .become unwittingly involved in a ?╟≤diamond robbery, while at the same time trying to snare a wealthy Italian Prince in marriage, with no holds barred. ?╟úBlue Murder At St. Trinian?╟╓s?╟Ñ features in the east George Cole, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Barker and Richard Wattis. The film, produced by Sidney Gilliat and directed by Frank Launder, is being released in the United States through Continental Distributing, Inc.' jSjji HHi ;ry Tyy