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cJilL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Calif. Mirror 3 (Cir. D. 215,006) JUN 1 1 1953 <*-- EDITH XtWYNN'S '^(BUCHANAN GETS RAVES Groucho Marx was operated on yesterday at Cedars. Not serious. He's okay. Maggie McNamara, who hasn't started her new 20th-Fox deal yet, is on suspension already! Details anon. "Band Wagon" is bowing around the country, with raves for Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse and Jack Buchanan already recorded in many spots. Some will undoubtedly hail Buchanan (a huge hit in the film) as "a new find." Forgetting (or never having known) that this seasoned actor-dancer was a top stage star 25 years ago! If you caught lithe and limber Jack on that Bob Hope TVer, you'll scarce believe he's 61. Yep, 61 years young! And about to sign with Metro to costar with F. Astaire and Gene i-wvivtv Kelly in a future musical. GWYNIf A chum of ours kidded Buchanan, '*You don't dance like you used to." Jack laughed, "I don't do ANYTHING like I used to!" This brings us to an item In the papers headed, "Man With No Vices to Celebrate 90th Birthday." So Russ Landi asked, "How?" j> *?√ß* Piper Laurie should stick to pictures and quit making phony quotes like, "I never go out with movie people." Her steady dates, Producer Leonard Goldstein and Actor Carlos Thompson, may or may not be amused by such piffle from Piper. John Agar again treads the "comeback" trail when he stars with Cleo Moore in "Bait" next week. Hugo Haas produces. Back east they've named ^^t^M^^J^L.'. Denise Darcel "Miss Adver-1 tising Essentials." (When | it comes to essentials, De- | nise has 'em all!) Wish we could have lent | an ear to that duet Louis \ Armstrong and Robert Mer- \ rill sang at J;he Sands in j Las Vegas last nigM. A fuming flash from George Sanders and Zsa Zsa Gabor (forecast herein) is due any edition ... It's also any edition for the new baby at the Huntington Hartfords. f? * | Sid Luft tells us he puts j his "Man 0' War" before cameras in two weeks, with ! Sterling Hayden as the hu-11| ma-Ae^p^f. ?·e can be ^ ^^ . cV>ma S8 jo ZT-" <K ffot waif'"m 9f ?╜?╜ Jj **?╜?╜ ;4roH ^%,?·?·*?Σ≤???╜* Poo* ^S-amaaLwE^^a fq pa,o^ JUL PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco :Mm' Portland - Seattle. ; Los Anqeles, CafifjT Times i^-'&w (Cir. D- 399.393 - S. 770,054) jun |?║ \m \ j&DDA HQWER , Gene Nelson tb Test for 'Oklahoma!' Film l Billy Rose, wants' him for a i *how. Orson could make plenty of the old long green ion reading tours, such as. j Charles Laughton makes in : our country. MEET TI|K PEOPLB* While Hollywood frets arid I stews oversew processes of I film makyfe touring live shows are- 'bringing hack LvaudeviflkSSr ever'y, stiap?Θ╝ i and form. Paul Small has ac- | auired the night and supper 1 club rights for "The Student Prince," which he'll send on the road with a streamlined version and cast of about 50 people. The show opens at the SandsHotel in Las Vegas and pfufis trying to pry [While Hedda Hopper i??%w?╜Y Hollywood news is being pre- pared by ner staff.] Gene Nelson will oe". the first actor to he tested for the WiU Parker role in "Oklahoma!" and Damay Scholl, singing star of '^op Banana is being interviewed for the part of Curly. This makes #1 Teresa Wright . news because the picture -M being shot in yet a nm screen process called Magna* The film used will be 65..)??p. linteters wide rather than the usual 35. This method is expected to eliminate blur and fuzziness sometimes evident in other wide-screen processes The company producing the picture is headed by notable show-business names: Joe Schen&f Mike TodcU Os^" Hammerstein, "Richard Rodg- eS and Arthur Hornblow Jr. Teresa Wrigbt goes to i Engl&Sd next month for a pieture titled "Monsieur Ri- iois," which Has as its male "Sr tbe French actor, Gerard :PhlUp?╜- Both Giynte Mm and Ann Todd will also likely I be in tbe film. Teresa tells us it's an episodic picture dealing with the women in the life of one man. She's thrilled pink at the script. M'NAMARA'S BAND Maggie MeNamara has been tested by Henry King for the feminine lead, in "King of the Khyber Rifles, j with Tyrone Power. Maggie proved herself a star in her fi>st picture, "The Moon Is Blue," but she is such an to- dividual that care must be exercised in casting her. _ The cast and crew of "River of No Return" will have to live on a train during its entire shooting schedule in Alberta, Canada. The roads -in. the location are so bad that motor vehicles can scarcely set'over "tSlsfc but the railway runs within ?· fe# auMt- of the spots where the. picture will be made. Orson Welles has written his foster father, Dr. Maurice Bernstein, that he may soon be returning, to America. Gordon MacRae loose from Warners to headline it. i " Lloyd Bacon has even a more original idea. He's send- , ing Bill Ching on tour to read the movie script of entreat Me Not" for college audiences before starting the picture. WHERE THERE'S SMOKE Our item anent a movie exhibitor saying to Ginger Rogers that producers used to make bad pictures and now they only made bad pictures faster certainly stirred up ^ tempest in a teacup. ?╟≤Bjbfc- Breen Office . called^ flrlrto "register a protest. Then Exhibitor Harry Brandt wired: "Never in the history of the motion picture industry have so many fine, wonderful productions been released." He pointed out "Moulin Rouge," "Salome," "Younf Bess," "Man on a Tightrope, "Call Me Madam," "Hans Christian Andersen," and ' "Peter Pan" as examples. Let it be said, Mr. Brandt, that the original statement came from .neither us nor Ginger, but from an exhibitor who makes his bread and butter from showing pictures. It seems an unhealthy sign when, any industry can't take criticism, analyze its errors and take measures to correct them. We are not knocking Hollywood, but if we're giving the public what it wants in the way of pictures as a steady diet, why all the hue | and the crying in our studios? WELCOME HOME Danny Thomas, on his way home from England, is stopping for a visit to his,home town, Toledo, O., and from there will ?√ß?√ß journey to Detroit for the Ford's 50th anniversary celebration. Whether he likes it or not, Dick Powell seems destined to be a director instead of an actor. He's had directorial offers from three studios since the release of "Split Second." . Closed sets always irritated Richard Carlson, so, now that he's turned director for "Riders to the Stars," he has on his sound-stage door a sign: ?╓¬'Open set. Admission by permission of anyone." But there's still a hitch there for the general public. One first has to get on the studio lot. ?√ß sOliyia de Havilland's little son%aS taken -aboard a Navy ?╟≤%hip and;dmed^With a commander, who hadTfKkld near lenjy's ' age. He-picked up the lingo fast, because the first thing he said when he came home was, "What's f05 chow? J* [Released by Chlewo'TWbun|gJ.Y^ew. 1 Syndicate, inc., iao.* <jlllen s PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 Ug ANGELES. gan^Francisco PoMand ?╜ Seattle LosAngeles, Calii ; Mirror (Cir. D. 215,006) ^FREEDOM' VACATION WINS ONE IN THE SUN Cliffttrd.^enrfis didn't win a prifce *i4 JTlj^Mirror's Vacation Jacket'contest, but his letter was so unusual it was printed because it touched an off-beat chord. But he and his wife, Dorene, are going to have a week end on the house at The Sands in Las Vegas. "My vacation is probablyjiot the kind of a vacation that you wired The Mirror. "We will do everything in our power to give him a vacation that will wipe a little of the hardship he has experienced from his mind." Today Dennis and his wife are packing for that week end ft Las Vegas to see the shows land to relax in the sun. -MIRRORPOTO WEEK END ON THE HOUSE Clifford, Dorene Dennis. want people to write in about,' wrote Dennis, who lives'M 2911 Allesandra^. "But I Iig^l I am justified in writing about this yr?·m?·?·on of which I am so proud.r^K Helped Freedom "My vacation was not # fishing trip os9p?a trip for joy. It was a vacation during which I hope I helped bring freedom to this freedom-loving country we live in'.;.- "The place of the vacation was Korea. Our address was 1st Batt., 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. "The onlylisWs I canlgive people who win NOT take vacation similar tqj^nune is, buy U.S. Savings ^fenas and serve your country so that our children to com^?╜p??flive in freedom and peace." Jack Entratter of *Th-e Sands famed Las Vegasr' LULUi I 'hotel "It would be a pleasure to take care of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis for a week-end vacation -here at The Sands," Entratter