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RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikF! PRESS CUPPINGS ?√ß?√ß I 220 W. 19^, NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Cir. (D 34,118) This Clipping From READING, PA. TIMES ?╟≤ Sw.l9^St,NEWYORKlijO. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Cir. (D 9.?73) This Clipping From KITTANNING, PA. SIMPSON'S LEADER-TIMES FF 5 - 1953 (Marilyn Monroe Wo Play Role [ Of Man-Hater | By I^OUELLA O. PARSONS } f New York, Feb. 10 (INS) ?╟÷ A I itaan-hatingirole for Marilyn Mon- Hold everythingr LasT 'Vefias! I Tallulah Bankhead is booked into r. the Sands-Hotel early in May! I^vfThisconversation between Jack Benny and Bing Crosby play- I; ing golf in Palm Springs. Jack I asked, "Do you ever watch TV, ' Bing?" to which Bing replied, I "Watch it? Like a snake charmer i watches a cobra!" The Richard Buttons are "baby sitting" with litfliiarartland Mason ! while the Jam'efi^&^ohs are in Jj Europe. Befor%erehisf the Burtons | "baby sat" witP' Jean Simmons while Stewart Granger was in 1 Jamaica. Long distance romancing with Kirk Douglas or not, Pier Angeli I is dating George Morte, manager 1. of Stan Kenton's band. Laraine Bay, Leo Durocher, the Harry Ritzes and the Harry Karls I at a ringside table at .Giro's listening to the Mills Brothers. AcrossrHife&treet at the Mocam- i bo, Kay Mj^pse^&^Jiagging 'em in?╟÷although ^^*R5abor puts on^f%Ta$ h?║fi|l#'Ian act ring- siding. That's all today* See you to morrow. Not All Film Beauties Devoid of Song Talent Rhonda Fleming Indignantly Reminds That She Doesn't; Need a Sub Vocalist! By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer Hollywood, ?╟÷(U.R>?╟÷ Red-haired Rhonda Fleming wailed today some doubters don't believe she can sing I because so many glamour girls use dubbed-in voices. , Rita Hayworth, for example, is no (Rosemary Clooney. So an unbilled [singer records the tune first, and Rita mouths the ditty before the camera. Tli is can be confusing. Rita had a different singing voice in "Gilda" than in "Affair in Trinidad." Zsa Zsa Gabor didnt sing for herself in "Moulin Rouge," and a couple of times she even got ahead | of her voice. Ava Gardner and 'Lana Turner have used dubbed-in pipes, too. "Nobody believes I can sing," she exclaimed, and peeled off a note in [the middle of the Brown Derby to 'prove she can. "I started out as a .singer, but I made my name as an ' actress. "Why, I started singing lessons J when I was 14. I studied every day. jBut after 'Connecticut Yankee.' * people write in asking who dubbed stand voice we. Whatever I do in pic?╜j - tnt to be real. I w"' ui anvb' ?╟≤'.-' to dub m mjj mg in "The 0?╤?╜i!. ^^^ too. t*n nobody remembei%* not even ?╜u Paramount, where Tve been for ft ir years. They're surprised when 4>ty hear I can really sing, Rh?╜?? A.- was discovered aa a dramatic actress by producer David Selznick for "Spellbound." but he made h*c keep up her singing lessons. H??r coloratura soprano won | her the "Yankee" role opposite Bing Crosb . Aside from a song in "The Great Lover," she's never had I chance at another musical. Now sfae> going to show the fans she really has vocal chords when she joins the Movietowners who are invading the quick money nightclub ciicuit. Rhonda already hasi offers from the London Palladium and La.- Vegas hj|i}s such as th< I Sahara and Sands 1 *!*i w?╜ rk#f**fP a wonderful routine v th Ray Gilbert, Rhonda, ?? no's as pretty in real lif< as she is in low-cut Technicolor! "I hope it goes over. So many mov' people have flopped in clubs. "One actress," she confided] womanly-ike, "sang all those song: from her movies and the club losf money on Her. You can bring peopl in on yot|r movie name, but the4 they sit back to see what you j do." JtWrn _ THE ORIGINAL _ DomeikF " PRESS CLIPPINGS ?╟÷ 220 W. 19* St., NEW YOKK11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 og|. (D 196.884) rfe&^Kpptng From B0SION, MASS. ?╟≤y&MERICAN Hollywood qgy Long to Direct Next Mel By LOUELLA O. PARSONS j HOLLYWOOD?╟÷There just couldn't be anyone else buj Merman. She thinks he is the best director in the w of the finest actresses he has ever directed. So, I'm happy IlEthel comes here in June for "No .^^^^HHk!*- -iHH ?√ß Business Like Show Business" ?√ßWalter will take over. I The Irving Berlin epic will be in the new Cinemascope, and in ?√ßcolor. Dan Dailey and Mitzi ?√ßGaynor already have been signed, and Darryl Zanuck is moving ?√ßHeaven and earth to get Donald ?√ßO'Connor, who was so good in ff "Call Me Madam" with Ethel. ?√ß When "Call Me Madam" is pre- ?√ßviewed next month it's possible ?√ßEthel will fly out here in Bob ?√ßSix's private plane. She was at ?√ßthe Pen and Pencil Club party ?√ßgiven for me in New York and ?√ßsent all sorts of messages to the g gang at 20^tft. I LAST NIGHT Zsa Zsa Gabor Hplaned out of New York to Rome ?√ßwhere George Sanders is seriously ailing. He hasn't been able to ||jWork on the Plngrid Berg- man piettnsei "Duo," for 10 Bdays, and both ?√ßBergman and Rossellini, a s w ell as ?√ßGeorge's doc * tor, telephoned Zsa Zsa to ask her to come to Rome. I It, meant i.^mnm-niw?╟÷?╟÷ that Zsa Zsa Zsa Zsa Gabor had to cancel her "Moulin Rouge" ?√ßtour, for which she was getting ?√ß$4000 a week. But she felt she ?√ßshould go to George. She returns in time to open at the Flamingo ?√ßHotel March 15. And, by the g. way, it's the Flamingo in Las ?√ßVegas, and not the^Saadsy^where she is to do a Ffencb^jgyw0 ?╟÷ I CALLED Merle Oberton to| congratulate her on how well she I looks on TV. She's working at! Columbia, and I expected her to I say, "This is for me." But she! says she wants to make a picture! now, although she's had many TV| offers. Merle is becoming an Ameri-I can citizen. She said, "I have\ come to the happy conclusionX that I want something more than I just an American film career 11 want to belong to this country, ?√ß so I have asked my attorney,. Greg Bautzer, W make the nec- \essary application on my behalf pEf the Department of Naturalization." JEAN PETERS' astrologer tells her (and she says he hasn't been wrong yetf^ that she is going to marry a very wealthy man, born under her game sign, Libra ?╟÷artd sometime this year. She'd I ke very mucfrro know who he J is. Is there a wealthy Libra in] the itbuse? - Whether she marries or not, the I Petefllrgal says she is giving up J her career in two years. This, I I'll wait to see. Meantime, Jean wfll be the first I occupant of the new wing of the! Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, not! as a patient, but to shoot hospital I scenes for "Blueprint fori Murder." WHEN JIMMY McHUGH andl his Singing Stars of 1953 open at I Chi-Chi in Palm Springs tonight! there will be a new addition, a! cute little silver blonde girlj named Bunny Bishop. She takes! ??b.e "la __oL_rtnmrT- g>{-w~.?╜A??. THE ORIGINAL _ RomeikF ?√ß?√ß PRESS CLIPPINGS ?√ß?√ß 220 W. 19* St., NE W YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Cir. (D 90,282) This Clipping From NEW HAVEN, CONN. REGISTER FEB1 Hollywood Today ?╟÷ Ezio Pinza Getting 3 Week $50,000 Salary For First Appearance In Might Club ?√ß' By SHEILAH GRAHAM Hollywood?╟÷(NANA)?╟÷Ezio Pinza will collect $50,000 for thr^ee weeks in his first night-club stint at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in March. ; The r5WMW''lUl'-. *Miss Sadie Thompson" is to bring up to date by 30 years the 1923 "Rain." Vera-Ellen is on her toes for "On Your Toes" at Warners. Metro restarts "The Blue Goddess," with Red Skelton, next month, but Adolphe Menjou isn't available this round, and he'll be replaced. The reason Bin| Crosby won't go for Donald O'Connor as teammate in "White Christmas" is that he thinks Doh,,too young to be~his wolf mate . . . Kirk Douglas writes that he feels better adjusted But dapper Dan Dailey's okay, in Europe?╟÷"but don't worry, my peasant blood is too thick and I don't think Europe^ can thin it." |Wonder what he meant. Kathryn Grayson's swollen sinus kept her out of "The Grace Moore' film five days . . . and Janie Powell looked like a doll arid sang like an angel subbing for Katie at the Screen Directors' dinner . . . never saw a man so obviously bothered as producer Z. Wayne Griffin dancing with Rita Hayworth. You'd have thought it was the first time he'd ever had his picture taken ... Anne Baxter, with the Alfred Hitch cocks, wore a diamond tiara, but smoked no seegars. Fred MacMurray tells Us he's suing the Government for more money on the 360 acres commandeered from his property up north. Director George Stevens has good news about "Shane": "It'll be released this month?╟÷before they bring out a round screen or something." You'll soon be seeing la lot of unloading of pictures that jjwere held back for one reason or J another, Judy Garland and Sid Luft are (staying with the Jack Bennys Gower~Champion had to call offI their trip to "the Orient. \ m Terry Moore told the foreigni press ?╟≤'correspondents that her most| interesting experience in Europe! was sharing a bathroom with 40B other people. That girl just kills! me. m Even" though "!$$$&. column *wa?i fi^iwith Mae West-doing the "Pali Joey" movie, I!J1 fc&ke bets in pen|| nies she'll beoeut before it starts . . . the problem is to have a marB young enough for plot but ol<M enough to be credible when hm makes love to her. PINZA Palm Springs, where- Judy is push-! ing away the desserts. She's lostj seven pounds already. It's ironic that one of the last |j two-dimension films at 20th Cen-j tury-Fox is "Gents Prefer Blondes,"; with four-dimensional Marilyn j Monroe and Jane Russell .'.. . and if j Fox will take all of Jean Simmons'! three loanouts from Howard Hughes, they can have her for "The Robe"?╟÷at $150,000 per picture. ] Cornei Wilde has to pay $450 a; month to Zoltan Korda until August j ?╟÷unless he can come up with a ten-i ant for the Beverly mansion he renJ^^efQ|g^Ie^hg for Mprpeco.l lf^ strictly k^Q^. the birds?╟÷that fable of a?╟?:feud between Jose Fer-i rer and'^^Wt^i^hi over who shall do "The Shrike'* fpr.the screen. Thel boys are great pals ..i^i, George j Raft gets a new leading lady?╟÷j Julie ^ennett, in his now "I ami The Law" batch of video films, j The British are screaming?╟÷and! English Equity in particular?╟÷atl Mel Ferrer playing King Arthur inl "Knights of the Round Table.'*pi After all that playnjTiPf, lyfarff*-, anra