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JUL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 SAN FRANtJISCO Los Angeles Portland - Seattle Alameda, Calif. Times-Star (Cir. 7,722) JAfl z - mi # / y,s ANG bureau /dblished 1888 SANPRANCISOO Los Angeles Portland - Seattle J)?·C Z 2 1952 Broadway Beat our gifl BROADWffi/BjjgLEflN BOA!) , Blond^2l/nour girl Edith fcark has ended her marriage to Alvin Sinclaf the Texas oil man?╟÷after just three weeks I a bride. She's back in New York from Dalll, but will pack soon for the Reno six weeks. I. . Olympic decathlon champion Bob Mathiasls; having happy holidays with actress Debbie Teynolds in Aca- pulco, Mexico. .A national ladies' magazinl has signed ex- Queen Narriman to write a seies of articles on her life with Farouk. (THAToiiht to be itranger than fiction!) . . . Jerry Dspvif a writer, is Joe DiMaggio's new competition hi Marilyn Monroe's affection. . . . The Donald fo'Connors (Gwen Carter) can't seem to iron lit their troubles. Friends fear the unhappy linouncement will come any day ilow. . . . Palette Goddard and Erich Maria Remarque will Ike their romance to Paris in January. * * *| Friends of Joy Skylar, thejshowgirl, gave, her a surprise farewell jpjjty/thelother night before she flew to Flo^kgbaii^er^it the Clover Club. The shindig was such a bi|* success she missed the plane! ... A recently married cafe society blonde may be dragged intoehe Jelke vice headlines before the trial is ovea Monica Lewis, who opens ft the Persian Room next week, will dance as wil as sing-^an innovation in fir night club l&reer. . , . Gloria DeHavenejJid Marty Kimnll have put their grande pgiion on ice. .; .Intimates say Bing Crosby iJpnteresteftin enc&wing a home for homeless/boys in California?╟÷Ime modeled along the lines of Father Flanafm's world-famous Boys Town? * * * l iW*M0^i Ava Gardner, who has purcjased a house outside of London, wilt move in-twith Frankie, according to present plans?╟÷as fsoon as she completes her African, picture-miring. . . . Hollywood is facing a terrible sho|tage;: real Injuns for Westerns. AH the genuine Redskins are beginning to snub extra workuor colleges and infpitry. . . . The applause fon Connie Russell?╟÷ at$JJHSan(^Hotpl in t,?s Ve lis?╟÷can be heard all the w4ay back in Manhattip. They say she look^^vine and sings like a d|l. AcfOT^Eq&ity won't permit Rosemary Harris to star in the new Sam and Bjlla Spewak play to be drected by Jose Ferrer. Rosemary is the By Dorothy Kilgallen English beauty whose appearance in Moss Hart's unsuccessful "Climate of Eden" was hailed by the critics. The ruling on aliens requires her to wait six months before doing another show. Quote-of-the-week prize goes to Corrine Calvet and her husband, John Bromfield, who gave their managers gray hairs whei^e^ ^disappeared" for three days in Mexico. The studio checked every hotel there, couldn't locate them. When the pair finally showed up, their explanation )vas|a casual, "Oh, we were out driving." College basketball hasn't seen the laj||sjt^he unpleasant headlines. The next news wi^feature officials, not players, in the hot seat. - ^SThe current TV prediction: fifty million anteto^ on American roofs within five years. . . . f|f|^new Miss Rheingold (Mary Austin) gets ;lffi|pfirst big break when Paramount wains thJBcreen test cameras on her Jan. 5. "1 * h * *\': Have you noticed? There?J|Stoerver"heln less talk about male candidates ins, the A&adenay Award. Everyone is booming S||rley Booth for the feminine honors, but none of the debates waste much time on the strongerhs^SyJjK; Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, long residents of England, are considering filming 'ah.series for showing on TV screens inf^C^fc&^fSij^ates. It would have a "Yanks ia^fl^^^^ne. . . . Peter Lorre is taking a ribbi. g .froifr* his pals. He's been taking singingjH^isimvg'fessons?╟÷ and the secret leaked oi|P^^e icmMqjd bogeyman would like to reform^ra^e Brcjsi$way musical comedy stage. * 9 Jim Kimberly, once a jio^voted sw||n? of Ginger Rogers, flew into Gothafrojust to spend the holidays with Audrey MeadOwfe of the Jackie Gleason show.... Georgie Hale,' director ofpbeg Versailles musical, is bedded wit^rpfedrisy. |d*fpftil be a legal separation for Ashtiany Ein*d, kitt: o^vthe Shah of Iran, and former cover girl/Kathleen Maloney. He has left for^Teheran. ' The Toppers at LegRii^n^ieu are one of the success stories of the bistro season. A new act, they're in their 16th wee^ <jt a club with one of the toughest audiences 4^'ywhere^Sf^there'S TV talk of Sophilvilptl. <foihg her own series in 1953?╟÷a show recteifl^f famous musical comedy songs and scenes. Sg^ Sands 'Smash Hit' Lee Mortimer Writes The following column by Lee Mortimer is typical of the thousands of words of praise about the I'ands Hotel sent from here by some of the nation's top-flight columnists who covered the opening. By LEE. MORTIMER Before I slipped away to the premiere of the fabulous Sands Hotel' in likewise Las Vega's', "1 pTBJTflSed Lou Walters I'd case the desert for new faces for the Latin Quarter. I now report finding one of the most sensational little groups I've ever seen. But firsJujei^nit-me-to. tell you how it happened. The Sands' wonderful floor show stars Danny Thomas the inimitable comic. Danny claims he has no voice, with which I disagreed .Jput he sings nine songs in Paramount's forthconJS ing "The Jazz Singer." Twice Danny gave pleased Sands' patrons a preview of what they wilf^bar when the picture opens at the Broadway?╟÷Paramount next month, then he blew a gasket in his throat and lost the voice he said he didn't have. This was embarrassing, indeed, considering he <was being paid twelve and a half grand a week for this highly publicized opening, and had won 47 more at craps. There is a tradition in show business than when such happens to an actor, I mean getting sick, others pitch in and help. In recent years t?·e union throttled msieli such JpOd will. However, Jack Irving national AGVA czar and Eddie Rio, West Coast czarmne, were also cuffo guests of the Sands Management, along witiLlOO scribes and thei# Wives, or Jftee versa, so the union graciouslfl waived melryle, and the show went on .with volunteers. I iwfioot sure it I correct % tjansferibed the names of tftesi| unknown youngsters who pitchel | in but they read something sliji I Jimmy Durante, the Ritz Broil Frankie Laine, Jane Pbwell,' De? nise Darcel, Eddie Jaekson and Ray Anthony. I may say their ad libbed, unrehearsed performance was the most thrilling in my experience. Though aiHiif; Danny Thomas still got into the act as emcee. The Sands' great house revue included Connie Russell, magnificent thrush; Lou Wills Jf., unbelievable terp, a dozen oomphy Hollywood wrens and the fine music of Ray Sinatra. He's the talented Sinatra. I figure Lou Walters can buy this package for a mere hundred grand a week. In a town famous for fantastic resorts, the new Sands tops them all. Jack Entratter brings a big time, big town New York touch so far lacking where ninety percent of the play comes from jaspers from nearby Southern California points. The senior partner of the glittering Sands is Jake Freedman, Houston's colorful gambler, oil man and improver of the breed of of horses. He is of the old or Ravenel school of gamblers, and even here in a state where wagering is not only legal but practically compulsory, Freedman is without peer a&.ik expansive operator and gracious .host. The Sands also proni_|fe.to get in addition to dominq^players from JNj^f .York, a big J^lping hand frdft* Hollywood. The opening g^^ip contingent included such ap!^?·pike Jones, jjHelen Grayco, m$ula Theiss, Terry Moore, Nan Grey, Faith Domer- gue, Jack Beutel, Judy Canova, Donald O'Connor, Pat Hardy, Donna Lee Hickey- and June Ealey, as well as the pinch hit ters^ listed above, an indicatioil the film industry considers itself! 'outjof the doldrums. The boysl aadtsgals are again in playful m||od. % *f *i|he Sands, which is the most jtSSfting place I've yet to visit, is a cinch to be a smash hit. All omens prove' it. Plus the star's ill- ^tessr the light blew out, and it ?·auj2d for three days. With such lucjlfor the opening^this has to bejfee biggeSfrgiuecess in history. Tpe Jinx seemed epidemic in La%,Vegas. A few minutes after thef^Rttz Bros, concluded their bemsfit for Danny Thomas, they got J. call that the Andrews Sisters Wouldn't go on at the Sahara. Then came an S.O.S. from Louis PrimsRat El Rancho. But the topper of all was when Spike Jones rushed over to Harry Ritz and said, "Can any of you Ritzes fly a plane?" "Why?" Harry asked. Spike replied, "You're subbing for everyone else tonight. Our flight Was just cancelled. The pilot got sick."