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ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York DAL?·AS,TEX. / TIMES HERALD r Circ. D. 139,247 - S. 138,409 JUN 26 1953 On the Scene- Film Out, Debbie To Rest ?╟≤ . . Kaye Trio Will Return By Virgil Miers ?√ß&$& Tbe Times Herald Amusements Editor nW^0 ?Σ≤5 SCENES: Debbie Reynolds has been S222fi thfi?ews hj*e (wherejshe stars, in the Musicals' nrnf J ^ar5 } that Ri$*> <allinS off 1 Planned production of Gentlemen Marry Brunettes." Debbie, who | was to begin work in it immediately after the Dallas show, fhT+f?Σ≤ ?╟≤ ^J1?? Vac?tion in three years- She'll spend IhV n HuJ r?od at a fam??y get-together, but in | three weeks she'll be on the road again with the play, TV^MrLng?-lHer ne?╤ film now is "Hit the Deck'' at fmm w^? T W-,; Juane Wyman gave us a surPrise ^11 %?·SL+er Beverly Hills home Thursday to send best wishes along to the troupe, headed by Aldo Ray, that arrives here IS 2 J? !?5ald.Jane's, Aldo's and Ray Milland's film, Lets Do It Again" at the Palace. "But I can't say I wish l were there, Jane said, "because the papers here have been reporting your heat wave. My husband (Band Leader Freddie Karger) and I are staying* in our own back yard this summer." She's just finished the film, version of Edna J? erber?√ß s So Big,' and goes next into a remake of "Magnificent Obsession," with Rock Hudson. \V.3wfc ?╟≤ ?╟≤ Bulletin Board: The Mary Kaye Trio, which has shot to further cafe stardom on both coasts since last here, returns, to the Baker Hotel Mural Room July 30 through Aug, 12. The three instrumentalists and vocalists, who have|fe1v?╜-time TV appearances, record for Capital. They, fofiowJBetfejgeilly, who opens Monday, and the*??ornan BrSffierCoueI July 13. 1^111 mm:- ?╟≤?╟≤ ?╟≤ SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: Film Comedian Wally Brown in town to make a Friday night appearance at the Lakewood. Country Club j and Saturday and Sunday shows at the Greater Dallas Club ... j A Dallas spot turning down an offer to have Martha Raye as an j attraction. It wanted Martha, but oooh, the price to pay . . . Joe jE. Lewis declaring he's not worried about future finances. "Whirl- away died a few months ago and left me all his money" . . . Tallulah Bankhead, on Bette Davis' imitation of her: "Well, I've always managed to make a living for both Miss Davis and myself" . . . Madeleine Foy O'Donnell taking a house in California | with her brother, Eddie Foy, Jr. . . . Galveston bulletining that Bingo is Back. ?╟≤ ?╟≤ ?╟≤ Er& TossinS Bouquets: To Alice Pearce (voice and all), for her comedy now in "Best Foot Forward" at the State Fair Musicals ... To Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling, for their inspired miniature musical at the Mural Room . . . To the Victor album, "Les Chanteuses de i||Place Pigale." Featuring two voices of France: "Suzy Delair a$3 the dramatic Nila Cara, and songs like "Laissez-Vous Faire'I?║Let Yourself Go), "Place . Pigalle," "Beguin" and "Maladie d^mour" (Love Sickness). I THE SHOW-GO-ROUND: Robinson Stone (the Winsocki Dean I of Dallas' "Best Foot Forward") will be seen on screens later this [year. He has the ocarina-playing mute role in the filmization of Ithe stage hit, "Stalag 17" (as he did on Broadway) . . . Valerie JBettis has told her family here that "Let's Do It Again" (the film ?√ß now at the Palace) m$ tether last picture for some time. Her ?√ß next stage assignment .'i#$B$be on Broadway in October in 'The 1 Frogs of Spring" .- ts^gkSk Jeffreys and Robert Sterling, who M close tomorrow night at the Mural Room, will have little time for ?√ß future night-club enga|eineifs (with TV and stage chores keeping ?√ß them busy), but have:&i^^954 promises to New York's Waldorf- ?√ß Astoria and Las Veg^^nds w?t.aT.juwii' Tex Beneke and his | orchestra start an enga|e$ienttomght at Memphis' Claridge Ho- ?√ß tel .' ?╟≤ . The Glenn Fcfiitpleanor Powell) went through Dallas en I route to New Qj||ah|* firajih where they sail today for South Amer- ?√ß ica. He will make "The Americano" in Rio, and Eleanor goes along I "so there'll be novaiPEration runiors started" . . . It's definite I that both. Daii^lCaye and Gene Kelly will be in MGM's musical screen version of "Huckleberry Finn." On wide screen, with color, I the title will be "The Boy From Missouri." (Screen play is by Alan I Jay Lerner, who wrote "Brigadoon" and "Paint Your Wagon."} ... I Sudden thought: Dallas will find it has a theme song of its own "in the coming Musicals' show, "Kiss Me, Kate." It's in the first act, and it's called "Too Darn Hot." /THE original _ itfOMEIKF /?√ß?√ß PRESS CLIPPINGS ^ 220 W. 19* gj NEW YORK U, N.Y. TskvCHelsea 3-8860 ^.;{D 7,147) THE ORIGINAL _ DomeikE IP* PRESS CUPPINGS M 220W 19thSt.,NEWYORK:il,N.Y. 220 w-^ela^Ielsea 3-886O ijti&CUpping From DAILY VARIETY HOLLYWOOD, CAL. Cir. (343,809) This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. SILVER SCREEN cJiiii JUH 291953 \u?½m Wb?½> k. . TB/SiRMY ARCHERD GOOD MORNING Aunt Cissie and Uncle Pat: Ann Blyth called from her honeymoon to make certain THEY had weathered the wedding OK. Watta wonderful gal . . . And, while Ann and Jim are honeymooning, day and night guards are posted at both houses to prevent pilfery of the gifts . . . After "The Long, Long Trailer," it'll be a long, long time before Lucy and Desi make another film j?╟÷ '55, the earliest . . . Eastern sources report L. B. Mayer will definitely leave Cinerama, perhaps even before this week's over . . . Aiy Khan is due in Saratoga next month . . . Hey Pete-Smith, didja know those three 3-D shorts which you made 15 years ago and which Metro re-released abroad nave already grossed over a million bucks? . . . Although "Kiss Me Kate" comes in four days under schedule, it doesn't look like Kate Grayson will go to Madrid for the Hilton Hotel opening. Her mother's too ill . . . Cinema- Scope's first effort, "The Robe" was also shot with a second, 16m camera. "Oklahoma,v3Pfco be done in Todd-AO's process, will have a 35m camera grinding alongside. "Oklahoma" will be filmed in ?╟÷ Idaho . . . Metro turned down Bobby Van for the Ed Sullivan show . . . Treat at the rushes: The casement cloth which covered the 20 slave girls in "Demetrius" turned out to be tres transparent under the CinemaScorch lights . . . Sign on the Coast highway: "Little Bavaria ?╟÷ specialty Southern Fried Chicken." From Southern Bavaria, of course. With Cy Howard and Gloria Graihame at Chasen's who wants to sit home and watch wrestling on TV? . . . After "Hell And High Water," Bella Darvi darts back to Paris for two months to tell her pals about gai 'ollywood . . . Rock Hudson and Jane Greer are neighbors at St. John's, where they're co-scarring after their appendectomies . . . Peggy Lee, also there, expects to leave Wednesday and may stay an extra week at Ciro's to make up for lost time ... At Cedars: Leo Spitz and Bill Goetz, under observation . . . "Madame Butterfly" will be sung in Japanese at the Greek this summer ?╟÷ all but the two roles done by Burl Dean Smith and Frances Barnes. This we gotta hear. It's almost a pleasure to get a parking ticket in Beverly Hills. The I gendarmes include a self-addressed, postage-free envelope with each citation so you can pay without delay . . . And the Beverly Hills Hotel \ phone operators were going nuts while both Ed Sullivans were basking j there . . . Bob Merrill and Mai Zetterling got together during his Hollywood stay. Bob, successful in Las Vegas, plans two annual three- I week dates at the Sj|jidj^*. . Had the pleasure of introducing Danny Thomas, Universal publicist, to Danny Thomas, universal comedian ... Greer Garson gets a gold lame bathing suit in "Miss Baker's Dozen." Next thing you know, Greer'll be playing Las -Vegas . . . Cole Porter's taken a 10-year lease on a Brentwood home . . . Suzan Cabot's 'oppy 'cause her option's been picked op . . . Look for H. Bogart and Warners to call it quits in spite of the fact he gets $175,000 per annual picture. I Now in "The Caine Mutiny," he may do "River of the Sun" at Columbia I as his next. Vittorio Gassman goes to Italy for six days after "Rhapsody" to make J arrangements for his Italian company to play here next March. His I mamma will a|so come over at that time to see the bambina . . . Betty I and Charlie O'Curran drive up to Vegas Friday to prepare for her July I 7 opening at the Desert .Inn . . . And after three days in town, Mickey I Rooney leaves Wednesday for Southberry, Mass., to play a week at I the Frolics, then two weeks at the Chicago Theatre before starting I "The Big Top" . . . Scott Brady cancelled English plans to do "The I Wrestler's Honeymoon" when the contract called for a year's play date I . . . Lori Nelson joined the injured knee brigade when she fell during I a dancing lesson . . . An aspiring technical adviser applied for the job I in "King of the Khyber Rifles," saying, "I've been handling Khyber I rifles for 40 years." Ow's that again? . . .. Both Twentieth-Fox and I Republic have registered "The Black Widow." So, somebody's gotta die.; I * * * %?w$St'i Perc Westmore will make a mere $8,000 for six makeup lectures in I Japan this November . . . And brother Frank heads to Indianapolis after I "The Glass Web" to see Paula Karr. And the reason may be matrimony I . . . Why don't the so-called Strip night clubs take a tip from the Bar I of Music where you get two top acts for your money . . . The new I Eastman super-super speedy film will save Uncle Darryl a lot of money I in lighting his sets . . . Marlon Brando's taking chirping lessons ?╟÷ dead I serious . . . Mike Pate hopes the role of an Apache Chief in "Hondo" I does for him what Cochise did for Jeff Chandler . . . Lance Fuller, long | absent from the bistros, pointed his return to the Mocambo with Kath-1 leen Hughes . . . When asked what part she will play in Maurice 1 Schwartz's "God, Man And Satan," Maralou Gray answered: "The | shiksa." I y<C Johnson had eight suits hanging?·n I pitala and previewed his act for the boys. Incidentally, that's quite a record Van has rhnlked uv ior himself. In the past xy I" fears He L made 40 blood donations to the American Red Cr0_^- ___} I ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle (C! Chicago, III. Herald American . D. 543,656 - S. 894,909) JUN 1 9 1953 <ymXFSKELTON takes Georgia and the children with him when he opens July 14 at the Sahara in Las Vegas. For two weeks' work Red gets $32,500. Not bad! But, of course, that includes salaries for other members of his act. In addition to all that cash, Red gets a gift of a trailer dressing room. On the same bill with him will be that lovely young singer, Anna Maria Alber- ghetti. Same week in Las Vegas. Betty Hutton opens at. the Desert Inn, and Milton Berle at The Sands. BOTH DUKE WAYNE and his director, John Farrow, write from Carmargo, Mexico, with enthusiasm about Warners' all-media camera. Says Duke: .> "I feel that 3*D is sort of like a stepbrother?╟÷it's something like my acting- no one seems to like it but the public. Look at the grosses on 'House of Wax.'" Farrow also has been won over to the new "monster." bH Michael Farrow joins his father on location, and the two oldest Wayne boys, Michael and Robert, already are there to spend time^with their father. Duke adds: "Can't say I wish you were here?╟÷it's 105 in the shade!"