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4A The Columbus Citizen SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1952 Volunteer Performers Save Day at Night Spots s shows at two Las Vegas night spots when laryngitis ESTABLISHED 188ft BArclay 7-5371 ssswsassl EARL WILSON Jim Boyd, Millionaire, Gets Rake From Mom Jimmy Boyd, the freckled, 12- year-old Mississippi singer, wil make around $1,000,000 this year?╟÷ a nice round sum for a boy to have Mostly it'll come from that "Mommy Kissin' Santa Claus" record, movies and TV. But on Christmas, instead of playing with trains, he'll be appearing between halves at a Syracuse basketball game ?╟÷ for $1,000. His Mommy ?╟÷ not the one that kisses Santa Claus ?╟÷ but that kisses his Poppy ?╟÷ is that clear now? ouier days TO he'Tlhored. "BILL MILLER'S Riviera" ?╟÷ the famous night club just over the George Washington Bridge ?╟÷ may be torn down to make way for beauty. . %%iM: The N. J. Highway Commission wants, the site for the new Palisades -Parkway, 'Bin and his as- seeiatese sniffed audibly at a $750,- (000 offer, tilted their noses at $1,- .OOOjOOO, and regally quoted an appraiser who said it couldn't be replaced for $2,500,000^ I Condemnation proceedings coulc be started if they can't get together* Bill thinks the state wants to, give the site back to the rabbits and sayshe'll fight it, because he's determined to operate this year If gthe state wants beauty, why doesn't it keep those chorus gals there? They're purtier'n rabbits. $$$&?·-?√ß - *h*- 4 ?╟≤ ^BRING ME-'-a screwdriver, please," a customer-told a waiter in a cafe here the other day. a "A screwdriver? Is there something wrong with the table, sir?" said the waiter.. .who found out what way, that a. "screwdriver" is fa mixture of vodka and orange fjuice.- g lllp^i Bosoomph^ Denis- Darcel, the French-born Hollywood star, tells me she just bought a long, red, expensive Ferrari car (like Rossel- lini's). One strange thing about the purchase is: she can't drive.e.... | ?╟÷ travels with him. His manager, j Barbara Nichols, the Pal Joey Abbe Greschler, says in view of Bollface, was around town demon- him making $1,000,000 , Mommy jtrating what a well-dressed Mom- just increased his allowance 50 by should wear when kissin' San- per cent ?╟÷ from $1 a week to $1.50 k Claus. . .Rita Hayworth reports a week. jpain a "Broadwayites' paradise." lays everybody has breakfast* at 1 OUT AT the opening of theJJarid^J m. well, everybody she met, any- TTntel gambling spat in Las ySgas, Jay. "Jimmy Durante shouted: |ZSA ZSA Gabor is brilliant *in . "It cost $5,000,00C to build this le'new'"Moulin Rouge" film ?╟÷ place and are the bosses burned trtly due to a new color process, up! It took 'em four hours to get}} *^ - t even!" (Continued on page 16) make more money outside of films. In Las Vegas, there's a ranch called the D4C (Divorcee.) THE MIDNIGHT EARL?╟÷ Faye and JSkitch had another imbroglio (tiff) and Skijeh left the ginmill and; went home alone. ..Comedian Jerry Lewis, tired out and work- weary though so young, has considered canceling his next two TV shows to get some rest.. ..Irving Berlin, now in Sicily with his missus, is 11 pounds heavier and in refreshed health after that short hospital rest.. .Nancy Walker, the delightful comedienne in "Pal Joey," is expecting in the spring and will have to leave the show, of course. THE ANB?Σ≤??$ SISTERS were victims of the laryngitis epidemic in. Las Vtegas. Lay erne, right, forced to drop out of their show. The other two went on hut forgot to join in the grand finale. The Stan Were Speechless So Audience Took Over JIMMY DURANTE, right and his old sidekick Eddie Jackson, stepped in to keep the show going when Danny Thomas, the top star developed laryngitis. jmet on the Warner Bros. lot'tookiLaverne Andrews' voice left her the stage. x completely, Larangytis?╟÷natch. DENISE DARCEL added a bit to the bill. By MARY FRAZER Citizen's New York Writer LAS VEGAS, NEV., Dec. 20, ?╟÷An L-Botnb hit Las Vegas. The "L" is for larangytis. Perhaps never before in h'^egh has that occupational disease of show business ever loused up so many luminaries. Also, seldom if | ever have so many top stars [stepped in to uphold the "s how lmust go on" tradition in superla Itive style. I FIRST, the .magnificent n e wj ISands Hotel was blitzed. The l^arflSSfWfS'fcTi opened with a fan-] [fare of celebrities (a $218,000 loss Jat the lobby's games of chancel nuring the first six hours and tha [gaining' back thereof plus $200,00q on the black side of the ledger in the next six hours), has Danny jThomas as thgJloor show star, J With an SRO situation for thel second night hvthe Sands nitery] the Copa Room, Danny got lar-j jjmgytis. J So what happened? e*j SUCH PINCH HITTERSi^immyl Durante who just happened to nave his old side-kick, E d d i e| ITackson, along; the Ritz Brothers, ivho switched from natty brown1 suites to shorts; sexational Denise Darcel, done up in a gold gown and . one gold glove; Frankie (That's My Desire) Laine; Jane Powell, whose blonde beauty was offset, by a red Velvet jacket and wElte ermine collar; Ray (Young Man With A Horn) Anthony, whose recording "Slaughter or Tenth-av," hit a new high even without his band; and singer Cy Milano, a lad with an angelic voice whom ailing star Thomas AS IF OTHER niteries in fabulous Las Vegas didn't have enough to worry about?╟÷with $6. million of new competition, and new arrivals Jake Freedmari and Jack Entratter, Sands boss-men, in their midst?╟÷two other shows had to go haywire. Louis Prima, starred at ' El [Rancho Vegas,-had what was announced as "a silent heart attack" early, this morning. It was reported that he'd dropped out of the show, "on doctor's orders." So the show went on without . star there. i It was the famed Andrews Sisters opening night at the nine- week-old wonder of the desert, [The Sahara. Their hard-luck hit. S i s t e ri SISTERS MAXINE and Patty; carried on, after a fashion. But they got such attacks of jitters they forgot to join in the production number which concludes the show. The night was saved by a couple of interesting Knights in Armor. First, Spike Jones stepped up from the* audience, wearing his wife Helen's red sheared rabbit coat. The Ritz Brothers doubled down for the second show, and everything, including the production' finale, went off fine and dandy. J ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Chtirch Street - New York NEW YORK, N. Y. TELEGRAPH Circ. D. 47,745 DEC P ^ iQfflJSfi! THE MUSIC GOES 'ROUND ) AND 'ROUND: Louis Armstrong presented with a scroll for "capa ble efforts in bringing to the free s world of Europe a vital facet of the American cultural scene" by the New "England All-College Conference. Presentation was made last week at Bos ton's Story ville jazz nitery, where Satchmo is playing his first U. S. date since getting back from his | latest European junket... Incidentally, with Armstrong at Story- ville, Red Allen at the Savoy and Muggsy Spanier at Mahogany Hall, Beantown's gjazzophiles are having a field; day comparing Dan Richman Armstrong Honored For Giving Europe U.S..'Cultural' Slant set up a counter in the lobby of the Criterion, where "Hans Christian Andersen" is unreeling, to hawk copies of the Loesser songs from the movie. Pubbery is thinking of doing the same thing in other theatres when the flicker goes into general release. If the deal can be worked, operators ofj the houses' candy stands would | handle the sheet-music sales... j Jimmy Dorsey doing a series of j. One-nighters at Army and Airj Force bases in Texas... Fred Cole, 21-year-old brother of Nat "King" Cole, breaking into the platter field via Columbia's rhythm-and-blues subsidiary, Okeh trumpet styles*. .Erroll Garner, Records. Lad, singing in Chicago who follows Satchmo into Story- cafes, cut his first sides last week;, ville, reshuffling his trio, putting I at .the label's Windy City studiosfj Dave Bruebeck on drums andjf*" Wyatt Reuther on bass.. .Orkstel IRay |&thVny and his manage!,; iFreds-BenSon, opening their own! I pers?½ja^0#hagement office. First pact&e is^Srush Mary Mayo. Ra#. 'Sinatra, veteran radio musical director, debutting his own band at the "*w fifflfhnW1 g- Tim Yiirr ""*?╟÷v Music> Frank Loesser's publishing firm, L_i._:_ ?√ß-..,-.. ^ssss* ?√ß