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8 Partll-WED..JAN.21,1959 ; %BgangtltgTOttttg [ THE TV SCENE- 'Sinatra Juggles Big Work Load ?·^5?-^^^ JJfe ftpfra 4*ffomas-Wov/ 'Em At L&teSf 1 ful three days. ;. ..Following ^squabble, Danny won ton, -fJm I 2 &Z * [P*?╟÷***-^f^Vj^fc*^ ] Vegas, fbi^g over Frankie and Jerry, Aft Sina^ refused to gV?Σ≤ X * ffj*^* tabIe in'?? her bodice. MeahWWIe Lucille Uo ar- y^^e^econd^how,^^ adverti ed, and Danny bowed out T StUff?d Desi *?√ß?√ß* winnings into a m^w * ful three "days. Jfpg. "Following q squabble, Danny won top billing over Frankie and Jerry. Then Sinatra refused to go on for thev second,show, as advertised, and Danny bowed out m^^C^^^*^^^ taey Put on a 8reat first show. It was fourth Wpfl Year's, the JE^ttrth.and Haljoween rolled into one. fsinatra Still on the subject of that sensational weekend, I watched kondef-^fi as Esther Williams_stu?·fed $50^' worth of Ben Gage's chips BY CECIL SMITH ___________^____^^__i\ "Frank Sinatra has to cancel two spectaculars he was scheduled to do on TV this spring and may be unable to do a third. The reason?╟÷he has to go to Burma to make the movie "Never So Few." "I'll pick 'em up in the fall," said the Thin One. "The two were swap jobs?╟÷one with Bing (Crosby), <?·he other with Dino (Martin). I'm doing six specs of :iny own on ABC next year and I need to swap guest appearances with them." 1 FRANK IS IN HOPES he may be able to tape his appearance on the third special, the memorial tribute io-Manie Sacks, before he leaves for Burma. This will i be a labor of love. Pro- I ceeds of the show?╟÷in ex- j cess of $200,000?╟÷will go I to the Emanuel Sacks Foundation whi^chthe' M late NBC vice-president I established b e to r e his j death from leukemia last * February. The 90-minute show with Dinah Shore II as mistress of ceremonies will be telecast in color March 3 with amagnifi- Frank Sinatra cent cast, including Sid Caesar, .Rosemary Clooney, Harry James, $etty. Gra- ble, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Jane Wyman and others under the title "Some of Manie's Friends." mSL love that title," said Frank, "and I really want to do this. There are plans for three Sacks specials for thfe foundation?╟÷this one on NBC this year; one on ABC next year, and one on CBS the third year. This may be tied in with record albums of the sound track of the show. All receipts will go to the foundation." I WAS TALKING TO FRANK while performing some rather rough duty in the Copa Room of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. Frank is singing there twice nightly?╟÷his first Las Vegas appearance in a year?╟÷but this was mid-afternoon. We were sitting' at a table with Jack Entratter, the Sands' entrepreneur, literally surrounded by "beautiful broads" (Frank's term). The duty ?╟÷ to choose some new chorus and show girls for the celebrated Copa line. Rough. -\if^S!^^J__\\^?: ??j .Actually, Entratter made the choices?╟÷he's a master at this business: "Put your heels together, dear." "Hold your hair up away from your face ... " We looked at 86 scantily-clad, well-formed lasses. Entratter chose eight of the 86 (a very good percentage ?╟÷the average is one in 75). Frank picked 80, and I jj chose all 86?╟÷I couldn't find it in my heart to reject one girl. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE a slack season in Vegas but it was not apparent along the glittering $trip. Night clubs and lounges were jammed every night. The line-up of stars was astonishing?╟÷Sinatra, Pearl Bailey, Donald O'Connor and Sid Miller, Peggy Lee, Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane, the great Joe E. Lewis with the Mary Kaye Trio. And Louie Prima and Keely Smith joined the parade last night The lounges were as jammed as the big rooms with that Fairfax Ave. trio?╟÷Billy Gray, Ben Lessey and Patti poore?╟÷possibly the top lounge attraction. "This time of year, we've got all our heavyweights out," said a hotel executive. Frank Sinatra?╟÷a heavyweight?^,;. THE BREAKDOWN IN-negotiations OTp^S^j (13) engineersLstrike may make a considerable dif*| ference in thWprograming at that statidn. KenyofP: 'Brown, president of KCOP, Inc., said the station may . eliminate 90% of its live programs, replacing tliem with film. Will this eliminate Tom Duggan, George Jessel, June Levant, Baxter Ward and other station personalities? Very probably, a spokesman said. ''TONIGHT'S DATE WITH THE SET?╟÷-Ed Wynn joins Milton Berle to re-create his famous "Perfect Fool" routine, Channel 4 at 9 in color. frtjm a blackjack table Into her bodice. Meanwhile, Lucille Ball stuffed Desi Arnaz's winnings into a plastic bag. , , ^ayne Mansfield was stuffed into a white satin hourglass | gown. I asked her what she thinks about while she does those crazy poses for the photogs. She squeezed her muscle-, man's arms and sighed his name in reply, "Mickey Hargftay."*' Still in Las Vegas: Abbott & Costello are selling their "Who's on first?" album in the Casino at the Sahara, between shows?╟÷proceeds to under-1r"?Σ≤"^^^^^^^^ privileged children. . . . Henny Youngman shouts "Ov.arbI" for Dick Lane's act at the New Frontier, and then explains, "That's bravo! spelled backward." . . . Jack Carter, afso at the Frontier: "Las Vegas really jumps over the weekend but from Sunday to Friday it's like a cemetery with odds." . . . The Ritz Brothers (just visiting) put on an impromptu show in the Desert Inn's Lady Luck bar. . . . Marlene Dietrich, also visiting, looked like a dream walking at 11 a.m., after only two hours' sleep. PHILADELPHIA PA. INQUIRER SEP 141956 Best of Hollywood Gregory Peck to Film T/iieves^arfcefinSpaiiJ i TV TOPICS?╟÷Liberace ESTHER VVILLIAMS Lucky at Cards shed 10 pounds?╟÷from 197 to 187. .. . NBC-TV decided Mickey Rooney could fill the late George M. Cohan's dancing pumps just a little better for that network's spectacular next May 4 covering the great song-and-dance-man's life?╟÷so Hal March is out. . . . Nanette Fabray, just great on her first with Jack Benny, will do an encore Shower of Stars stint for CBS-TV after the first of the year. . . . All's well in the Julie Adams-Ray Danton nursery so Julie will put on her pancake, first time since the baby's arrival, for Lux Video in January. Hollywood Da^^*^y HOLLYWOOD, CAUF- "_SEPJip|s i p-gj" -?√ß'- -- ; , ' _' g' y gd g" ittHMji By ARMY ARCHERD THE LAS VEGAS ROUNDUP: The Frank Sinatra-Kim No-1 vak "idyll is blazing under the torrid desert sun. Kim planed llllllira|iK (jown wjth a gr0Up 0f friends to attend Sinatra's opening at the Sands Hotel. . . . Las Vegas, as a thriving coillllllifl'ffy," 'gW'iL shot in the arm from Wilbur Clark of the Desert Inn. He just broke ground for a $10,000,000 housing and shopping development. . . . Visitors arriving in this gambling spa by plane are greeted by this mfc hand-painted sign: "Happy Lendings!" Holj[yWood Daily^gtfjgi^ &LLYWOOD, CALm S?·pUf956 GREGORY PECK HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13. fjl HE first of the year, after the Gregory Peck baby is born 1 Greg takes off for Madrid to film "Thieves Market" foi his and Sy Bartlett's independent company. Wnen I was in London, I talked with Ava Gardner and she ~ ''"' ~*?╟÷rGi,eg in this picture, which will I be shot almost in its entirety ir I Spain. I After six months in Spain on j "The Pride and the Passion," Cary I Grant said that he was so exhausted he won't even read a script for a while. He is taking Betsy Drake (Mrs. Grant) to Palm Springs to- I morrow to rest. ! T went straight to headquarters ~~~^^^^^^^^ ; when, I heard ! that MGM has already found "Ben Hur" in a ! young Italian j actor named ! Cesare Danova. "We've had! Cesare under contract here; since June," Marvin Sche-; nek told me. "Benny Thau, our head of ta-, lent, found him \ in Rome andj . ?╟?-___.- signed him af- J ter seeing him in 'DohdSimn/ We| expect big things from this boy,! althofgh it's too soon to talk about 'Ben Hur.r He'll do something important before that as soon as he /I perfects his English." I learned that Mrs. Danova, who! expects a baby in two months, has| just joined her husband in Holly-1 wood. When I tell you that "The Brave One" has a background of bullfighting you're going to think the heat touched me when I say seldom have I seen a more charming, delightful and sentimental picture. It's the story of a little boy and a great and ' courageous bull he raises from a calf?╟÷it's simply told, inexpensively made and is slated for RKO release. Snapshots: Mother-in-law trouble is said to be the reason for the Mary Murphy-Dale Robertson split. But most of their friends believe the separation is only temporary ... Prank Sinatra sent his car for ?·im Novak who motors to Las Vegas tomorrow to hear him sing at theJ^p^Kim won't fly ... Window Tsrioppffiifaf ter hours on Fifth Avenue looking at baby clothes were Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier . . . When Rosalind Court- right returns from two months in Europe she'll turn Broadway producer, putting on two plays she owns . . . -Jerry Lewis is breaking out all over in solo acts. He's now made an album for Decca of Al Jolson's tunes, and no clowning, either. By LOUELLA O. PARSON^