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Rosemary Clooney Hands Tori [rome'ikE Martin Big Surprise of Year By HARRISON CARROLL __ Until an electric moment yesterday on the set, Paramount never realized the drama in its casting of Rosemary Clooney and Tony Martin as co-stars in "Here Come the Girls." Rosemary spilled the secret when she led Martin to a phonograph, put on a battered diso and played an audition record of "My Old Kentucky Home" that she made 11 years ago in Cincinnati when she Was only 13. Laughingly, she told Tony that she had sent him a copy of the disc with a, request for advice about her voice. And then topped it by producing 'the actual letter which she had saved through all the years. &'tij$[j^$i Tony nearly flipped whejfi he read: "If you insist on making an audition record of 'My Old Kentucky Home,' at least sing it straight. You have a good basic voice but you are making strange sounds with it." <; . U. I. is heating one of the biggest bath tubs in the history of the screen for Ann Sheridan's swimming scenes in "Vermillion O'Toole." It's the two and a half-acre lake on the back lot. l???ur steam boilers have been working three days heating over 4,000,000 gallons of PRES&j 2i?W. 19* St.,1SEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHetSea 3-88$Q-^ Cir. (P 2IL27& (S 2W98) Ann Sheridan Harrison Carroll J water toi?^''temperature in the high sixties. :'. *., * if. ,j?'$f\^' Joan Sets Day js^??/a| Nov. 12 will, be the wedding day for Joan Fontaine, and Collier Young. They'll say their vows' in a little church at Saratoga with only Joan's mother and stepfather as guests. After that, they will take the train to Chicago where Collier will be best man at his brother's wedding. Joan will keep her Paris apartment,. and pictures may take both her and Collier there later, I understand Joan will make no immediate attempt to persuade her ex, Bill Dozier, to let their daughter, Debbie, return and live with her. i * * * Due to the elections, Paramount made two endings to "The Stars Are Singing," which was finished last summer. At the tag of the picture, Maria Albefg^etti, an immi- t EASING CONTROLS j MGM Starting Work On 'Dimes' Subject MGM begins the filming today of this year's March of Dimes short subject appeal on behalf of the National ?√ß Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The company is making the short for the j 12th consecutive year. Starring Howard Keel for the second time, the short i will be the largest scale production in \ the series and will be made entirely at the Rancho Los Amigos hospital with 50 to 75 respiratory cases appearing on j screen. As in previous years, Harry . Loud will produce and direct the short under the supervision of Frank Whit- beck. Sid Sidman is unit manager for the film. Theme song for the film this year will be "Through the Years" with music by j Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Edward Heyman. Keel will do the vocals. Jeff j Alexander will score the subject and I conduct the full 50-piece MGM or- 1 chest?·3?╜-?╜?╜dchorus. j^hV"sh"$r^^^l be released soon with 1^1,000 prints^^yngsli^^iSimultane- /pusly for one vlfeek,^|wfc5tfghout the /yc6untrv- \ **&& Sands Rehearsals Start Rehearsals wrtheappening show at i the Sands Hotel in LalVegas will begin \ t#J^^S^&E^.^"yj?rfl Irtin<: under the \dTr^!orr^T^lrf'"S^atter. The show j st^rs Danny Thop*as. This CUpping From SEATTLE, WASH. TIMES grant girl, is supposed to rel ceive a call from the President One sound-track was record! ed: "Hello, this is Ike." Thd other, "Hello, thi?║ is Adlai." IPiifil * * * Aren't Charlene Wrightsmaw and Husband Igor Cassini (the] Hearst newspapers "Chollyj Knickerbocker") expecting a baby in April? When Jack Balance (the accent like in balance) was out here for Joan Crawford's "Sudden Fear," he lived at a valley] motel. Now that he has cornel back for "Arrowhead," he $jm\ taken a swank apartment at the Beverly Carlton. * * * Velos Coaches Luna M-G-M has signed famed Dancer Frank Veloz to coach Lana Turner for her sambas, rumbas and tangos in "Latin Lovers." Why, for hevvin- j sake? What Lana already can do with those Latin rhythms is enough to make your eyes budge. -'^^^S Ted Briskin and his bride, j Joan Dixon, have gone to Flor- j ida for a few days so he can I meet her family. Arthur Loew jr., invited Frank Lieberman to a party and Frank replied: "Shall I bring a name or somebody I really like?" | * * * The long expected Constance Smith-Bryan Forbes divorce suit probably will be filed (by Connie) when Forbes returns here in December to write a screenplay for Raoul Walsh. Connie still burns because Forbes told the British press that she had gone Hollywood. * * * '?√ß%$$$ Just back from Korea, Frances Langford and Jon Hall will hop to North Africa at Christmas to entertain more* GIs ...Jimmy Stewart and - Joanne Dru had to fly back In from the "Thunder Bay" loca-l tion in Louisiana but Jimmy's|J wife, Gloria, and John Ireland, who had been visiting the company, returned by train...Both Monte Proser and the Persian . Room already have called from New York bidding for Joanne Gilbert, who just made a sensational singing debut at the Mocambo. Ss^TT * * I j H1 Linda Home Soon Linda Darnell's chums wrong. She says she wil? back in Hollywood about twelfth. She'll return to It though, next year... Pe, Lee's ex, Dave Barbour, wt , Attorney William Spivak i\ _ .^_^^. 1 Paris that he is working at 1 sjeVE BROIDY, Allied Artists ;on serious music and expect! presicient, will have three admirals and (live in France for a year, ?· nava| captain among the high-rank- June Horne and her ex, Jac jng officers at the "Flat Top Cooper, were lunching togetl premiere aboard the at Scandia...Dolores Hawld Princeton in San D.ego, Nov. Uhe Columbia recording 1 Stan Jones has been signed by Pr^Q [opens at Giro's tonight. 1 T Frank Woods>tc?? ^ 'je^n " Uppert I Four Step brothers^id ^tairil0usicTrs\y LTfThefter^ho ' M?Σ≤?\ also composes and conducts M*": says he is lo| Robert Clarke has completed nis ing for 14 "^n-professioi starring role in Savoy's "Body^eauti- dancers to form the line 1 ful/' opposite Susan Morrow^ girls at Las VegaAsoon-to-opj Captain's Table picked upy a?╜E-j?╜Bs_ *_ u .. k options on Martht spouse, extending Jhe* gun to eight ^weeks gWf-?╤e?Θ╝S?╜-V-r^c'r#ing session \wrfn Decca today . . . lack ?√ß Er^-fiflgr,, fin""-^ eral manager of The Sands.Hotel open- I ing in Las Vegas on Dec. 1 5, arrives I here tonight for a two-day business I visit to check with agencies on talent I for the new desert hotel . . . Harry J Mines will assist Bill Peirce in.sthe handlingoOyjhJUcity .for ^'^ffliffn afreet ! .^lo-fireSSway . . . Producer Nat Holt has postponed the start of "Adobe Walls" at Paramount to Nov. 6 ... I Ian Carber and his band have been set I by CAC to play the Palladium here for j three weeks starting March 3. RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikF PRESS CLIPPINGS ?╟÷ 220 W. 19th St., N$$0&W$tS, N.Y." ! CIr7(D6^ I THisiCHppmg From HARfFORD, CONN. COURANT NOV 23 1952 Jrt3T0iTv^KArS HAPPENING: In U ylday?╟÷Lorraine \ardf, 21, of Kai .w waiwi, 4.1, ot Kansas City musfe photographer after spending the night like thi on the sidewalk. %ou have a press agent's word iwi rr: wanted fo be firstj'n line for a chorus job at Los Vegas' M vsawJtywood early vlsfer- nsasCdyrnusteredayawn7Jthe is on a rented cot / I Z PASADENA STAR-NEn V Friday, Nov. 7, 19;. TV ?√ß Radiologic i Macdonald Carey srairf [in New Series By TOM B. DANSON [ HOLLYWOOD. I wandered into NBC's Studio C the other i afternoon and was surprised to discover my good friend Macdonald Carey busy rehearsing his new radio show-r-"Jason and the Golden Fleece." After a brief ?╟≤reminiscing about our poker playing days in the South Pacific while in the Marine Corps, (Bougainville, to be exact), Mac said, "This is my first actual radio series jn almost 10 years, which rather surprises me when I stop to think that I. actually began my acting career via the Chicago and Manhattan soap opera circuit." In talking further with Carey. I learned that since his return I to the States and discharge from j the Marine Corps, he has con- ; jcentrated on theater and movie j I work, but feels that his new role as Ja'spn?╟÷a philosophical adventurer and owner of a 60-foot 'cabin cruiser, living in the French Quarter of New Orleans?╟÷is stood meat for any actor. Back again fo'r*a few more moments of reminiscing, with thoughts going to Neil Monroe an Australian major, and others in our semi-weekly poker "school." Mac made his first Broadway appearance with Gertrude' 'Lawrence in "Lady in the Park," but decided upon Hollywood after a contract had been offered him by Paramount. Here he made a number of pictures, including ^^^mmm. v..Wi ua joo ax lqs Vegas' new Hotel ypWL T>rfe gof tie interview but she'll have*W%ait. until some '0 other applicants are interviewed before she learns if she gets ?╟≤fob.?╟÷A. P. wirephoto. "Dr **-?╟? ~ uaKe a Letter [followed. any more top hits HAPPENING IN HOLLYWOOD: LorraiJ?║erie?║ ???· NBC anr^m^H? radf?? ._ ^?╟÷^ CHy musters a yawn for the photographer JCarey also plans to <StHfY??l* i sgffiewalk outsiaa a dlmce studio where she says she spent tlfmriosity about televisi?Σ≤ 7 5-s! fght, dressed like thft, on krented Army cot. It seems, and you hafnitial debut he'll r>nl?╜t^ -iui the word of a breathless pr|ss agent for all this, that she wanted JJoan Caulfjeld on NBCTV' ?╜u I ^ed for a chorus girl's job in the nJJywood Opening Nieht" nn ^! ^e got the. interview, but she'll.ha/17, and knowing; the ?╜i5 vV??Vri ^ WT are screened before finding outjdo, he'll come i^l^ X gephoto). -pfull house"' inrough with a j v^^^%?· II reM Friday, October 24,1952 I orld aircraft carr . Tha Awo more SaiLdi ?╟?__ '" . . \,lz:?╟? ^^kp8 Freedr/an, Houston Singer Carole Eichjrds at tl] weeg ._ . Mj owner|f The^ifl^ Encore Room; Micjey. Roone ^"?ng fe Las Vegas Deh. ., and a girl he introduced a Mocjernaires record tw(|sides for_Coral Elaine Mahnkin a#t' jSportl tonight . . . Sylvie S|. Clair, : men's Lodge; Mjfna Dell an! singsj^will play.afe#rn engagement Lester Deutscl^ft Bob Dalton' at theShamrock Hotel Houston, open ,%kL.Underst^TBarhara Payto?? ing Nov. 14. I * ha*S*?╜^E?╜!red a broad Englisli , *iiiiiiwiiiiiftitr^n^ 'accent in London. ^Aj^*/^jQ GLORIA MURPHY, Ann Sheridan's secretary, has been selected by the L.A. Fire Fighters Post No. 102, American Legion, to reign as queen over their Roof Choppers' Ball tonight at the police Academy in Elysian Park . iHgrvyn LeRoy will present the awards atf^morrow night's Horse Show in the Pan-P%^ific Auditorium . . . Audrey Dalton goes into 20th-Fox's "Nearer My Cod ni^Thee" in thef role Terry Moore couldnk accept because she is delayed in Muntsh appeMingj^Bss^W^sssJj en a TiokLtr^||p" ^. RJMBffTlhprt willl write and pmotJee Rhonda Fleming's I 20-minute singing/act for a theatre j tour ?╜?╜?╜. Elizefee# Talbot-Martin joins the TJRarles Watts troupe going to | Travis Air B^ethis weekend .,. -Jack Entratter wUnffke over the office space a"r553l H^lywood Blvd. now occupied bv Bob Wleiss, who leaves Oct. 25 for Euripe, afid will use it as a Hollywood liaison office for the Sands Hotel. Las Vegas, opfening Dec. 1 5~~:. '."Tne prize- winning Japanese fjIm ,41Xhe Life of Ohar^L.wyH^^iss-previewed Mo^ |*l1?a^night atTk^Nippon Theatre^,,,^^^ 1 REEVES' 1AS6N ^nas re/Whed 45m two weeks of pheasant hunting I Jn Idaho. The director is starting work /on the script of "Tale of the Red I Deer," which he will filrrpn England in Technicolor next FebruijS". . . Crasml Corrigan, Alibi Terhune, ytfh Andrews,, I Tex Terry, Carl Zeller, Elaine Zazette, I Carol Kamenis and models from the I Rosalie Burrow Agency will appear in | the continuous entertainment at the I annual Southern California Council of I Camera Clubs' Photographic Jubilee on E Sunday at the Corriganville Movie/rft Ranch . . . Seymour Felix will create'jy special dance routines for the Ritz I Brothers' full-hour show on the All I Star Revue over NBC, Nov. 22 . . . j Rosetta and Vivian Duncan reopen to- ( night at Arthur Lyons' Saddle and B Sirloin in Studio City after a four- month absence. The sisters are set for I an indefinite engagement. ?╟≤ BARBARA BRITTON, elected hon- .|( orary Mayor of Hollywood in a fund-J raising campaign under the auspices of\ the Hollywood Kiwanis Club with pro- I ceeds going to under-privileged chil- I; dren, will be inanlled by Kiwanis J| president Daniel Bofbright at a Knick- ?╟≤?╜] erbocker Hotel luncheon tomorrow ... I Hugo Fregonese will be interviewed by } next<?╜^eek^*s?fe?╜a&?·igstress-comedienne .'I "Fay D^#r1f^^p^S*<^^e Bar of-Mtsiislc'nB toji^roW^for. an uirNmited engage- n ^rent, replacing Noble stftel King . . . -'j-p Connee Russell has been spned for the W SandsHotel opening billfvith Danny m Thafiiaas-Jaeginrwrig Dec. if . . . Singer Guv Mitchells-'-u.K'^r't^ # the Palla- I 'd\htr\, 'has been set throirgh GAC for M eight days at the Pajjfnar Theatre, hi Seattle, starting Nov. Mi . . . Dolores M Hawkins, currently a^Ciro's, has been L signed to do a concert with Johnnie M Ray Dec. 10 iny^holulu and will open f Jan. 3 at th00over Club, Miami . . . p- ?╟≤Ab?╜ft#????r^mer is making a lot of com- |r; mercial exploitation tieups for his Brit- M ish film, "Emergency Call" . . . Vit- Jn'j. toKk>( Ga?║sman is getting a lot of press attention back ir\ Rome following his U.S.%kn debut in Shane-Tors' "The I Class mmf H W-D Monday, November 3,1952|:y/atching ;'The Adventures "of 'ere, m dl Wds ^ore'than l-wi JtakP w4haTre'th^ J??dy could j?╜?╜iMcu->up, graDbi toy pistol and began hammering! the screen wildly. By the timer DOROTHY ARZNER, who made Ifj11 reached Jody, she" had~kilied mark as a femme film director, noJ+Pe Picture and severely wounded is on the staff of the Pasadena PlaJthe Picture- tube! house College of Theatre^M^^Srl ?╟≤"rs^?-" '*?╜?√ß?√ß?· * ^^^summ heads the cinema and TV"'de^Wren]^,DUWN TV-RA . . . Rhonda Fleming repodsTto Par|Pilarlie Mo^risonj mount today for a Mar^h of Dim?╜^??anne Gilbert, .telefilm'being madfVndgr Dock Johi J?jk ltk Hollyj son's supervision . . ./Danny Thorrftlon results] headlines the first sh/w at the Sar|-fP??t at thj | Hotel, Las Vegas, opting Dec.wfeW j^aS Vega# by Ji ?√ß?╟÷"Ehtratter, generyf manager of f.'|^atta/also' owner I up additid^OrK " *~ iAI"""","ll""a?Σ≤* w .T7 iewest "find," 'ho started more ooathan the elec- new *?╟÷ "fered r t hotel is in NY lilting of New ??f fntrh?╜eSgS ? Won lyim^i^^1^ -^but talent for the initial'WhowT"He "retuplere's ole lfttle^Jpl SfCaba,na- next week to assemble a line of d wa.?╤,- thalks a**?* ?Σ≤ell on.her . . . James Barton is otrt^of thej| 9Hd her Moc P'tal and recuperating nicery"?s".'TJ '^^^e^r-H-rtpKi Moore and Richard Jaeckel of | for Leslie TowrT Wallis' "Come Back, Little Sheba"{ known as Boh/"^TTBatf*^ have been set by Paramount for rdaytime ?╟≤ 'Strinner fh ?╟≤ new' weeks of promotions here starting'Monday^ TallnT ur, coming day . . . James Young, who played has been' set for tl? Bankheadf male lead in the national comparPUl-Star Reviie?? * "3 ditionaIi" "The Moon Is Blue," has signed management contract with the Her- dan-SherreJI Agency . . . Joanne Gil - \bert has signed Buddy Bergman, who vjjWrote her Mocambo vocal arrange- ||ments, to compose and orchestrate igimilar chores for her first Paramount lilm, "The Big Song and Dance." es f^^his_jea^ Vegi ^ed gene> ?╟≤a??^^ ha? *T3 3nd ^m. pesert rant ax ll cabana. iWttt^n, cha J newest ??^d w(Tr 1 restaurants^ te_ st^assoc^ Qq^ J&~~