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ijrilli ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Calif. Times (Cir. 399,393) M PDA HOPPER Annsjplyth in 'Indian who Will Sing Love CaW Ann ^asfythg wHo always wanted to do musicals, should get plenty of opportunity now that she's switched from Universal-International to Metro. Her first, doubtless, will be "The Indian Love Call," a remake of "Rose Marie," with Howard Keel. That will make nice teaming. The film is to be shot in Glacier National Park next May. Gloria Grahame hardly knows which way to turn to start the new year career- wise. She's supposed to do "Prisoner ot the Harem" at Columbia and "Water Hole" at 20th, both scheduled to start on the same day. Twentieth has priority; but Gloria, who's getting wonderful notices for her character part in "The Bad and the Beautiful/' hankers to play a glamour girl just once. The Columbia film would have, her playing a harem .princess. In addition, Paramount is trying to snare her for another picture, and, she's been offered stil] a fourth, which will beshot in Germany. A MATTER OF QUALITY I called Joan Crawford to see if she were going to play the part of the captain's ?√ßWiteg in "E^om Here to Eternity." She said, "I'd like to do the picture. Negotiations are pja^tosress. But nothing has David to play the famous organ at the Paramount Theater from 7 until 9 a.m4^hen the place opened for business. Dad made it to the theater for a couple of concerts, then gave in, and let the younger generation take over on its own! It was a sort of farewell outing for father and son, as Dana goes to Ceylon for "Elephant -Walk'Vne^t month, and David ent^s^Mi' military service. Pine and Thomas have sure got themselves some actors for "Sarigaree;" and I do mean Tom Drake, John Sutton, Charles Korvin and Fernando Lamas. With this a> raysof men, more love' scenes are being written into the story for Arlene Dahl and Patricia Medina. JUST IN CASE I Lalo Rios, the young Mexican carpenter discovered and put in pictures by Pine and Thomas, is established as an actor, but he won't let. go of that hammer and saw. He's had his carpenter tools in action, helping Preston Stur- ges remodel his theater- restaurant for the opening of "Road to Rome*' tomorrow. Chuck Connors, first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels, is another nonpro headed for. a j film career. He had a nice part in the John Wayne picture, "Trouble Along the Way." Warners liked the job; so he's getting a feature role in "Sulu Sea," with Burt Lancaster. After that film, Burt goes to Columbia for the role of Sgt. Warden in "From Here to Eternity.". -f^to As a sort of, professional reverse, Carl Post, former piano concert player turned film publicist, is returning to the keyboard. He'll begin a series of concerts at the Wil- shire Ebell Theater here on Thursday. His specialty is Bach. ?√ß "x^^iS^^k Marie Windsor is joining he cast of "The Grace Moore itory." She plays a tempera- k mental musical-comedy star who tries to get Kathryn heaved out of the theater. SINGING IN THE RAIN! I phoned Vic Mature to check a story one rainy morning last week; and his wife Dorothy explained ^that he was out playing O<olf with the two dogs. "In this kind of weather?" I exclajhed. "He's got a special pair of rubber boots" with spiked soles for golfing in the rain," Dorothy explained. "As for the dOjgg, I think he's teaching thein to caddy." Edgar Bergen, via Charlie McCarthy, roasted the pants off Sam Goldwyn at the Screen Publicists Panhandle Dinner; but that didn't faze Sam one bit. He's going on the air for more of the same on Jan. -18. On the program Edgar and Charlie will do a take-off on "Hans Christian. Andersen." George R'aft is the next of our stars to return to the night-club circuit after long' absence. Sammy Lewis is putting a show together for him and George will open at the Flamingo in Las Vegas in March. Naturally, he'll feature the dancing that made him known before he entered pictures. SECRETARIAL SERVICE! Want "My Friend Irma" in your office? Well, Marie Wilson is offering to work a day a?· a^g^^taa^r'tO" the one who contributes most in the March of Dimes campaign. I'd like to see the state of the office after that. Hildegarde Neff and Director Anatole Litvak, once a very close item, seem to have taken up where they left off. TheyVe been seeing each other in Paris. , Danny Thomas, having finished at the Sands Hotel in jLas Vegas, heaTtTeast for a j series of night-club engagements, including a month at the Copacabana in New York. He's not expected back here - [for six months. j .j?· [.[Released by Chicago Tribune-N.Y^I^^ tt-?·?╟÷M\ Syndicate. Tnr; . lost -* <Jlllen s PRESS CUPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle New Y^jIrc'Y. World Telegram St The Sun (Cir. 369,328) i^Jilli ens I URSULA THIeSS/ DANA ANDREWS. In Hollywood Miss Br^n, Ewell WaMfed for Pifure By ERSKINE JOHNSON. h HOLLYWOOD/ Dec 29.-^n- j>jfefe i>?╜*?Σ≤ ???? *?· /Assa Brown and Tom Bwgl willM?Σ≤**,*^* and her new fhe film vemon of their Broad- jwos^p,^,, .^ Iway "comedy hit, "The Seven Rear'Itch," if producer Alex Gottlieb succeeds in buying the movie bights. But first Gottlieb has to tome up with a treatment that bill pass the film censors?╟÷and that could take seven years. _ Dick Contino's Christmas cards feature a photograph of himself- in his army uniform! . . . Comin I'round the mountain notes. Para- Imount will ballyhoo "Road tp Bali" with seven specially filmed ItV trailers, more indication that (Hollywood is hitting the road to ?√ßtelevision Ursula Theiss, in the mob at the opening of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, spiked thenTOtege- to-Bob Taylor rumors. She told Le: "We're not going to be mar ried because we like each other Itoo much." ?· , ?╟? ,,aQf "Abbott and Costello Meet Irantain Kidd" opened in Chicago P^SSes^he film should be their biggest money maker Gilbert Roland and Dolores be'l Rio are huddling about a fo-starrlng film to be shot in Mexico City. 'TWOS Jt-UUipaMj, ?√ß??">- .?╟÷ - movie, "The Star," just previewed in Hollywood, are in the cheer league. fc?╟÷ ?√ßP?╜**Ia* Dana Andrews has lined up his second film to follow "The Sea Devil" in Europe and will sink some of his own money into the untitled project, which concerns the first air raids on Berlin during. World War II. The three Andrews kiddies have keen enrolled in a school in Switzerland forithe duration of the 18 months that Dana's staked out for himself as a member of Hollywood s income Tax Exemption Club. Now that Arch Obolers three, dimensions "Bwana Devil is a financial hit despite critical wails, it can be told.,that his last film the science-f ic&cln "The Twonkey, I is still on the shelf. "Distributors say it s not commercial," Arch groaned; I sbtow it and they say, 'But where s the monster?' I'll Just l**.1* .?√ß** ?·?√ß the can until the time is ripe for it. They said that my early science fiction yarns for radio> werent commercial but one of them has j,,.* hart its 200th performance. PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Phoenix, Ariz. Gazette (Cir. 43,679) DEC 22 19 HOLLYWOQP Humphfey Bogart Will Miff! 52nd Birthday Qhrisfmas Day By SHEILAH GRAHAM HOLLYWOOD,Dec. 22 (NANA) ?╟≤Paul Douglas is insisting on going to Korea in a commercial plane. Doesn't car'e"Ior' the army machines. IjpP^KeV,^ Tom Kelly, 'the photographer who took the Marilyn Monroe nude calendar picture, tells me he's talking to his attorneys re the Monroe calendar trays. "I'd like to make some money," Tom says, adding, "AJJel'm getting is a reputation for being a nude photographer." Marlene Dietrich ~*its, i the 50 mark Saturday . . . and Humphrey Bogart will admit to 52 on Christmas Day. Nancy Valentine opened With quivering fingers an India cable from her maharaja of Cooch Be- har. But all he craved was a recording of "Manhattan" and "Wish You Were Here." . . . and if you want to know why Nancy doesn't cut the cbrd and divorce the guy, cherchez her bank account. Cooch sent her $30,000 last year, via a Scandinavian bank. JEFF DONNELL and Aldo Ray merge early in 1953. , . 'Tis rumored that Hildegarde- Neff isn't coming back to Hollywood. . Y, Neither is Valentina Cortese. Connie Moore was at Warners recently to discuss the role Ruth Roman refused m "Blowing Wild." However, her husband, Johnny Maschjp, says: "I'm not her agent, but1 Connie's not the type." He'd rather see her in "Calamity Jane." Barbara Pay ton plays a housewife!?╟÷with Sonny Tufts?╟÷in "Run piant of "Moulin Rouge," and rushed it to the Johnston office to learn if the can-can can pass the censors. He's keeping his fingers crossed. y ZSA ZSA GABOR hopes to popularize the black silk hose she wears in "Moulin Rouge," and the producers have just spent -$3,000 with Photographer Wally Seawell on Gabor's gams. Peggy Ann Garner, tired of long- distancing Pat Nerney in the middle of the night from New York, flew to him.. I believe she loves him. . . . Jack Dempsey and Joan Olander resuming at Ciro's. JOHN IRELAND'S sister-in-law, Randy Robeson, is a showgirl in the new Sands Hotel at Las Vegas. Wish w^feretneregnulf'too much to do here. . . . The Robert New- tons throw their first big party during the holidays in the big house Bob bought from Bogart. And, dust off your pandas!?╟÷Humphrey is tossing a housewarmer in his new Holmby Hills home. . Hand-holders at the James Stewarts' affair included Rocky Cooper and Pete Lawford. Audiences are going for "The| Hoaxtersgy^iie anti - Communist documenta||!yjjui a big way. Dore Schary rahg^yfilm last weekend for 200 members of the American- j Jewish Cbmfj||il. . . .jfeelt#kh- \ dall has s i^^^'C^S^hrMm&s show for tfie^pr-to i^^if^Rn-ri aid Colmkn?mmtt1&#fod\;:&nd Nat Cole. . . . Barbara /j^Pting and Jackie Myers have called the whole j thing off( JUL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 SAN FRANCISCO Los Angeles Portland - Seattle Las Veg^s, Nev. Morning Sun (Cir|C53l) JAfl H 1953 drur^jejrJIndshed his solo, looked ;e?╜f8d his collection of musicians id masked, "Who done that ?" DOJTS w/sfiU/Ray Sinatra saw m. guy *at the Sands" plunk; dovm $10,000 to anot7T5r,s"$|fJK?Z Ibettiitig that Danny Thomas coul'I. ?√ßhold 'his audience in rapt atterf ?√ß tion toti! midnight of New Year'lg Ishewf. He won his 10 grand. J ?╟≤ >/,3 =??/3S \Jn Una Sam Goldwyn will guest on Ed- i gar Bergen's CBS show Sunday to I get in a few plugs for "Hans I Christian Andersen." I Society of Motion Picture and I Television Engineers will hold its j next meeting, Jan. 20, at the Film- | craft TV Theatre on Vine St. | Robert Hutton, Gloria Blondell, j Tom Dugan, Sid Saylor, Frank I Marlowe, Charles Williams, Phil I Tully, Lois Hall, Don Dillaway and I Norman Leavitt have been cast for I supporting roles in "Blackout," I latest "Mr. And Mrs. North" episode toplining Barbara Britton and Richard Denning. Alan Young show, which tees off on CBS-TV Feb. 15, will be filmed, but will be followed by j several live programs until the comic has a solid backlog of vid- CBS is networking Ray Sinatra's orch from thft Sands. Las Vegas, Saturday night as the second in a series of three programs from the spot. Nflrki T.imo^ gy^s ??" "TTr>|W. wood" On Television" over KLAC- | TV this afternoon. Val Grund, who at 25 is one of the youngest maestros in TV, will direct the music on the upcoming Ken Murray show. David Broek- man, originally set, will come out from NY only to score Murray's recent film. Grund was arranger on the Murray show during its sponsorship by Budweiser.