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This Clipping From LOS ANGELES, CALIF. TIMES... THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE By LOWELL E. REDELINGS Joltings of a Journalist "Allan?╟╓s All Stars?╟Ñ is the ti?? tie df the album Steve Allen soon wilt have in release?╟÷nil his own compositions. (Oddly, Allen can?╟╓t read mUsic; plays entirely by ear!) He?╟╓s auditioning local talent for his TV show, soon will move into his new house in the Valley. Terry Gibbs and the jazz quartet badk Allen?╟╓s numbers in the new album, which contains his favorite ?╟úBallad Impossible.?╟Ñ . Current Newsweek has ft spread oh new talent in Hollywood, mostly young actresses, such as Diane Varsi, Millie Perkins, Hope Lange, a. . Extras working in - Walt. Disney?╟╓s ?╟ ?╟ Third Man on the Mountain?╟Ñ at Zermatt, Switzerland, had a field day. -Up to 300 were needed {daily; almost everyone that applied was hired?╟÷at $8.25 a day. . , . MGM actor Keith Larsen | squired Cindy Robbins, young beauty in U-X?╟╓s ?╟úThis Barth Is Mine/?╟╓ to Flagg-by-the-Sea. Dean Martin?╟╓snewtux, tailored by $y. Devore, is a sensation, Martin unveiled it on Bing?╟╓s TV show this week, and now Pat Boone, Tommy Sands and Jimmy Rodgers are reported ready to follow suit, (It?╟╓s of gray, mohair, with gray ruffled shirt and ruffled sleeves, and , black pearl studs), ... Steve ! Cochran and actress Anne Bradley an item at George Lint?╟╓s Kowloon. . , . P i a ni Buddy Noble is quite a hit | the Malibu Sports Club tb I nights. . . . Peggy Lee has structed her agent to find | a TV series format that J 1 me only.?╟Ñ . . ,KThe party at: I California Racquet Club f< j Gordon MacRae, . celebrating 1 his new ?╟úThe Secret?╟Ñ record-; ing, brought out Doris Day, Ben Alexander, Joe Stafford, Mel Torme, IJick Adams, and artist Trudy Philion, wearing a stunning white gown that caught the eye of all present. . . . Actress Lyn Thomas?╟╓ gift from bridegroom architect Jules Sal-kin: A home in her favorite * (Mammoth Lakes) ski area. Joe Pasternak is trying, to ; talk Steve Allen into playing | his life role in Joe?╟╓s contem-% plated film biog. . . . Actress Jeanne Baird, back from two j months in Europe and Africa , is doing a ?╟ú26 Men?╟Ñ TV episode j in Phoenix. . . , Gary Crosby j and Betsy Duncan looking star-I ry-eyed at the Captain?╟╓s Table. 1 . . , Lou Costello will be Hawaii 1 bound Sept. 2?; on his return he concentrates on the radio revival of ?╟úIt Pays to Be Ignorant.?╟Ñ ?╟≤ * ?╟? Earl Holliman an<-Ziva Rodann on a seafooc?╟╓ j ?╟úkick?╟Ñ at the Manhattan Beac^ V House. . . . Pianist Brandy Brandon has some special pia-nistics cooked up for the ?╟údo-! ings?╟Ñ Monday at Art Williams?╟╓ Eldorado when three-time OsJ car winner Ned Washington is . honored guest during Songwriters?╟╓ Night. . . . Lindsay & Crouse, for their neW stagej comedy, ?╟úTall Story,?╟Ñ are' searching for a 6 foot 4 Ath-1 letic male, not more than 23, for a lead role. Background material, with a photo, should be sent to Emmett Rogers, 234 W: 44th St, New York 36. . . . Gene Nash, Capitol vocalist, and Barbara Whiting a combo at Art Williams?╟╓ Caribbean. . . . Raymond Massey landed the coveted Dr. Zuss role in Arch MacLeish?╟╓s new play, ?╟úJ. B. opening on Broadway Dec. 11 under Elia Kazan?╟╓s direction , y . Vocalist Christine Callas and John Lupton dining at Bit of Sweden. . ?╟≤ . Julie Harris?╟╓ new play, ?╟úThe Warm Peninsula,?╟Ñ opens a nationwide .tour Oct. 29 at Wilmington, Del., comes to the Biltmore here Jan. 13-24. \ . ' Keely Smith?╟╓s vocalizing and comic cut-ups on George Gobel?╟╓s TV show;; brought an avalanche of film,: TV, and supper-club offers. * , Sally Haines, Bert Wheeler?╟╓s ex,?╟Ñ and TV exec Bruce Pierce a cozy pair at the Cafe Cali- -fano. . . . Duke Lloyd tossed a bon voyage party for his Eu- < rope-bound parents (the Har-; old Lloyds) at the Steinhouse, Pacific Ocean Park. *. . Sandra Giles among the film-colonyites discovering that the BuMichki Maria Alberghetti will dazzle you blind with the fabulous gowns she will wear as star of ?╟úWrinderful World;?╟Ñ Donn Ar~ den?╟╓s new $250,000 revue opening Oct. 9 at FranlrSgu^^ Moulin Rouge. . ^*W8fflcer is au-; ditioning for his next showy ?╟úPaint Your Wagon,?╟Ñ at North Hollywood?╟╓s Sawdust Theater, j I Moment Nanette Fabray has her baby, she and hubby wilt move into a larger place, thej former Dinah Shore residence in Beverly. . | . John Lindsayj well-known architect, and June Lockhart at the Red Snapper. . .. One of the best records I?╟╓ve heard in some time is ?╟úBanjo; Mania,?╟Ñ featuring Paul Martin, headliner at the Flamingo-Air-! port -Hotel on Airport Blvd.| here). The handsome man who! dated songstress Pat Sherwood at the Wild Goose (Toluca Lake) was Rian Fitzroy, British film writer. ... Inyites are ??utf for KABC-TV?╟╓s , Black and White Ball at the Palladium, Oct. 6, with Bing Crosby, Donna Reed, arid Walt Disney >t?? be among the honored guests. rJ j . Grant. am Cafe News: Marilyn Maxwell at Moulin Rouge dorita MARILYN MAXWELL MERRILL SPARKS By ABE GREENBERG Blonde and curvaceous Marilyn Maxwell, fresh from a dual starring stand in Las Vegas, opens a new bill tomorrow night at Frank Sen-nes?╟╓ Moulin Rouge . . . aided arid abetted by Dave Barry, one of showdom?╟╓s top humorists. _ Marilyn, co-star of J?½wy Lewis?╟╓ ?╟úRock-a-Bye Baby, is the first female headliner to grace the hoards at Sennes?╟╓ showplace since the appear ance of Betty Grable last April . . . Dave Barry, who shares billing with Marilyn, is a perennial favorite of cafe society here and back East and is a raconteur of note. , . . , They?╟╓ll be supported by Donn Arden?╟╓s famed revue an<T"The Dick Stabile or chestra. Jf * * Beverly Hills?╟╓ newest luxury hotel, the Beverly Crest, is scheduled to open within the next 10 days, according to owner Joseph Bulasky ... the new $1,000,000 hostelry oil Spaulding drive at Wil-shire, with interiors designed and furnished by Albert Par-vin & Co., will feature a Vene tian restaurant, cocktail lounge, drive-in garage and swimming pool , .. there are 90 guest rooms. Inn-Side Stuff. .* Beginning today every Monday will he Songwriters?╟╓ Night at Art Williams?╟╓ Eldorado on Sunset near La Brea . . . first per-I sonality to he feted is Leo Robins, renowned composer : of such hit tunes as ?╟úThanks I for the Memory,?╟Ñ ?╟úLove in Bloom,?╟Ñ ?╟úLouise,?╟Ñ ?╟úBlue Ha waii,?╟Ñ etc. u, . Songstress April Ames has joined the th?╟úr)ptitp Excuses- Brea, Spike Jones and the; missus, Jane Russell and; Hugh O?╟╓Brian with NancyJ Sinatra . . . Across town in1 Santa Monica, guffawing at the antics of Buddy Lester and Ben Blue?╟╓s zany show, Frank Sinatra with Pat and Peter Lawford, June Allyson and Dick Powell, Molly Bee with Dwayne Hickman and jerry Lewis and his frau ???╟≤ Thomas and Rogers, famed dance team featured at the Chateau Ballroom, were signally honored lastweek when they were invited to put on an exhibition for the Dance Masters of America at the annual convention in Long Beach . . ; That?╟╓s pianist Mickey Freeman who is making group singing a popular pastime in the plush Crest Ij Boom of Pike?╟╓s Verdugo Oaks'' restaurant in Glendale ... Jill St. John and Lance Re-ventlow holding hands at dinner in Phil Aim?╟╓s Moongate restaurant at Panorama City . . . incidentally Phil got the idea for his dinery from an actual moongate used as a prop in C. B. DeMille?╟╓s picture ?╟úThe Story of Dr. Was-sell?╟Ñ .. . according to legend] you leave all sorrows behind when you pass through a moongate . . . Christine Car-rere chatting animatedly with Mama Rosa at La Rosa?╟╓s restaurant ... Frankie Ortega?╟╓s popular comho now featured in a return engagement at Harry Rubin?╟╓s Melody Room on the Strip. ? α ? α ? α .. !, Vegas Views... Petite Anna | Maria Alberghetti a sizzlin surprise at Wilbur Clark?╟╓s Desert Inn disclosing, a trim pmrof gams, and a torchjr singing style in addition to her usual classical routine] .. Red Skelton, clowning and wowing the audience at The iiviera, but also proving him ieTr?╟úa great pantomimist m Lis ?╟úold-man-at-a-parade?╟Ñ bit| . Satchmo, that Armstrong ,an, brings Dixieland jazz ??ack to life at The Sands, j*Vhile magnificent Marguerite ^a-/.7.a turns in a sock per- This Clipping From WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY NEW YORK, N. Y. * I/sepiIIm. Night Clubs By BEN SCHNEIDER Lisa Kirk Opens At Persian Room pj Lisa Kirkl opened a returnl engagement ati the Persianf R o o m o f t h el Plaza last night. I Miss Kirk scoredi a sensational I success here last I year. In herl current engage -1 ment she is sup-1 ported by a male | LISA KIRK quarte t. Tedi Straeter and His orchestra plays for the show arid j for dancing, I Latin Quarter Headliner Dick Shawn, comedian, takes I l over the headline spot at the Latin 1 I Quarter tonight and will continue 1 for five weeks. He succeeds Ro-Iberta Sherwood in the star role j I of the revue. Opening Tonight Joel Shaw and his orchestra has i opened an engagement tonight in the Green Room of the Hotel Edison. This Clipping From V * *! i i *. * NEW YORK, N: Y. o71SB8 AUG LQ Woos Jane Russell ^ iLA ttTArlrC J3 V Deal is in the works for Jane Russell to open at the Latin Quarter N. Y , on. Oct. 14 when a new show comes in. New layout wulbe produced by Donn Aj^n with David Hays designing the sets. letter did the sets for ?╟úA Winter s Tale and ?╟úHamlet?╟Ñ at the Stratford (Conn.) Shakespeare festival. Another act signed for this layout is magician Marvin Roy, current at the SjteiUSLLas VeSas* ?·