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Three Bad Sisterf Co-Starring ?╟≤ Maria English ?╟≤ Kathleen Hi|* Ml*G-HM'S GOLD MINE Q~ ENTERFTAINMEI LAST ?·HrDAY! Me %H #a?? r~???╟÷I - Me enclose our colorful brochure depicting the beauty and facilities of our Hotel and rate *keet for your perusual* We Sincerely hope we may ham the pleasure of entertaining yon on our premises during your contemplated trip out West and might suggest ym notify us at least three weeks in advance for any period covering a weekend or at least one week in advance for weekday dates* Sfll mm assure you that a stay at "Tour Place in the Sun" will be memorable and enjoyable# Cordially yours, Bitot Tarbrough Rese rmiti en Manager Bf/b &L-**" JJ* REPORTER-. Monday, February 3, 1958 MIKE CONNOLLY Two for the Show: Rock Hudson and Clark Cable will teleteam on the Oscarcast . . . What really triggered the RosselI ini-Bergman bustup? Here's The Lowdown: He was nixed as director of the play she did in Paris, "Tea and Sympathy" . . . Whereupon he decided to make a movie in India ?╟÷ "because India is the land of the future"?╟÷-to be titled "India 1957" . . . Ingrid taunted her notoriously over-schedule, over-budget boy with " 'India 1957'?╟÷you mean '67, '77, never!" ... So Roberto, riled, romped to India anyway and met the exotic Sonali Das Cupta and changed her first name to Sonalini . . . Meaning something golden, rich, priceless! . . . Dorothy Malone Cr Al Kersten are Real Ronchie but somehow we can't picture "Dorothy Kecsten" in print . . . Bugged at the Bantam Cock: Nancy Cooke de Herrera Cr Wendell Delzell . . . Waukegan wired Jack Benny the courthouse burned down and with it all the records except the date of his birth, Feb. 14, 1918 .. . Cute li'l Carol Jarvis, who rocked the CIs on Bob Hope's Yuletide trek, will marry producer Milton Mann Feb. 1 5, her parents' 25th wedding anniversary . . . Carolyn Jones will sing with Elvis Presley in "King Creole" but only from the neck up . . . Norman Vincent Peale is popping off to Palm Springs for some Positive Thinking in the Sun . . . Twentieth termticketed that darlin' Diane Baker . . . MCMagnanimity: They added a wing to Glenn Ford's quarters, making it the largest star suite on the lot . . . Danny Thomas' telegram to Shirley & Pat Boone: "Congratulations and long life to the new little princess and isn't it wonderful what April Love can bring?" . . . Record Rack: Johnny Green's radiant "Raintree" score is out in a daubledecker RCA album . . . Ritz Bros, posted a package of broken records from Florida with this note: "NOW do you believe we've broken all records at the Fontainebieau?" . . . Her old pal Perc Westmore is back on the studio beat with Bette Davis, rining her telpmakeijp every ayem. * ' Las Vegas.?╟÷Some of us saw the landing at Normandy, others of us can recall the tremendous and bloody exploits at Iwo Jima but this department's vaunt is more assuming ?╟÷ we lived for 75 minutes this past weekend on the brink of a volcano and the crust of lava still crumbles from our feet . . . which is to say we saw Jerry Lewis slam across the slambangin'est, jet-bombin'est, wig-flippin'est I "Tunnel of Love," "Green Mansions" act we've ever seen. Hurling himself onto the Sands stage like a boomerang, I and even the Robert Taylor - Richard torching himself up into a crazy comic flame, sweating for laughs (and getting J Widmark outdoor drama, "The Law Loew's Lf|J Subsids To Si ng Ou t Lou de r *Praises of MGM Pix Although Loew's long has owned the largest music publishing combine (Robbins, Feist and Miller) in the pop- tune biz, as well as MGM Records, never has the parent company fostered as close a tie-up between all the facets of company operations as are being mapped now at Metro studio. President Joseph R. Vogel of Loew's is the father of the idea of more closely knitting operations of the diskery, publishing houses and the film studio as part of greater promotion plans for all. Now here from New York round- tabling at the Culver City lot are Loew's v.-p. and treasurer Robert O'Brien, MGM Records' president Arnold Maxin and the two top key execs of Robbins, Feist and Miller?╟÷Maurice (Mickey) Scopp and Edward J. Slat- tery. Already the more closejy knit exploitation angles are being utilized via the three albums MGM Records is releasing of "Gigi" score. Plans this week will be mapped on getting plenty promotional mileage out of the seven songs Johnny Mercer has .written for the ~|T)anny Kaye starrer, "Merry Andrew," which Sol C. Siegel produced. Moreover, heavy emphasis hereafter will be placed on using Loew's music enterprises to ballyhoo MGM pictures not of tune genre?╟÷such as "Ben-Hurg" and Jake Wade." Schnee May Crack Meg Whip Over Tiger' at Col. Columbia producer Charles Schnee may debut as a director on "The Tiger Among Us," hiaccheduled-second independent production for Col. Schnee is planning to roll a minimum of three features this year. First will be "The Image Makers," budgeted at $2,500,000. Orrin Jannings is screenplaying the Bernard Dryer novel. Chinese Renovation Starts Grauman's Chinese Theatre closes tonight to undergo two-month half- million dollar renovation in preparation for April international premiere of them) like a leering satyr master of ceremonies, like Pan in a clown suit, like Silenus on a trick mule, like Eros in a Pullman smoker . . . What,we're trying to say is he's GREAT, whether doing his demented do-it-yourself audience partici- pationer, "Harvest Moon," or that wild new addition to his tremendous turn, the offkey opera singer, and that we feel terribly sorry for anyone who doesn't salt the tin to catch this fabulous performer putting on the performance of his life . . . Anticlimatic post-show bit in the 'Garden Room of the Sands: the little old lady who came up to Jerry's table and squeaked, "Mr. Lewis, if you're not going to eat your pickle may I have it for a souvenir?" . . . Sands stuff: Betty Grable will guest on Jerry's Feb. 18 colorspec from the Sands for Olds . . . Hey, Arthur Godfrey, you still talent-scouting? Take a look at Kim Scala, the Sands' most Sandsational chorine, a real ravishing chick ?╟÷ Also a fine young singer named Bob Kaye . . . Jack Entratter bought that crazy Bennett & Patterson act at the Crescendo for a three-year Sands spin . . . Entratter showed us the Apostolic blessing he received from Pope Pius XII for Jack's "Angel Bread Project" to build an addition to the Rose of Lima Hospital operated here by the Sisters of St. Dominic . . . Happy Birthday, Nedra Broccoli, Peggy Ann Garner, Charlie [Wiis de Rochmont's "Windjammer" Correll, Bibi Osterwald. ?╟≤ ih National Theatres Cinemiracle proc- Add Vegas Vagaries: Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay hnvr two wrrh occ MT ?Σ≤a?Σ≤ P'~??- ?? i "Af rQh'aiTrrrrH-gl?Σ≤vn find *"'? 10 ffo for thi"ii~T'I'niTTrn11,i npi'iiinn in an act about a movie called "Tropicana Holiday" shooting on a desert isle ... In which. Jayne plays a star named Trixie Divoon and wears a solid gold-plated metal dress and Mickey wears a cloth-of-gold tux ... El Rancho romp; the new Miss Rheingold is Joe E. Lewis. Paul Hesse is shooting him for Rheingold ad . . . Eydie Gorme's goin' broke phoning Steve Lawrence in Havana . . . Riviera wrap-up: Ginger Rogers, shapely as ever, and evidently overlooked by time, rehearses with her ithree dancing partners for hours every day. The gal's right up there, and we do mean tops, singing "The Night Is the Best Time of the Day" and dancing to such nostalgic, airy, Rogers and Astaire numbers as "Top Hat," "A Fine Romance" and "The Carioca" . . . The bells aren't ringing any more for Ginger and the Tropicana's Charlie Baron, although she's been in Vegas a week. He took Pamela Herbert, F. Hugh's daughter, to see her act Saturday night . . . Sahara sum-up: Marlene Dietrich's act is her best yet, especially the soft-shoe /number . . . Silver Slipper scrimmage: We chuckled unchecked at Hank Henry and his horde of happy hooligans . . . And why doesn't Columbia hammerlock Hank for Dr. Vogel in "The Last Angry Man"? . . . Real lowdown on the Liberace brothers, bustup: George didn't like playing second fiddle ... Ed Sullivan scampered off to Rome to interview Anna Magnani for his Feb. 16 CBS show . . . We asked Mary Picking how come she forgot to tip us about her marriage to Allan Jones. Flipped she: "Next time" . . . Raoul Walsh, added a new line to Barbara Nichols' "Naked and the Dead" dialogue when Aldo Ray returns from the wars and finds her shacked up with another guy: "Don't hit him, honey ?╟÷ he's from the finance company." ess. NT prexy Elmer C. Rhoden conducted a press tour Thursday night. Schneer Returns From NY Charles H. Schneer, Morningside Productions' president, planes in today from New York conferences with Columbia executives regarding release of his two latest productions, "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" and "The Case Against Brooklyn." Rojas in 'Buchanan' Manuel Rojas draws a featured role in "The Name's Buchanan," Scott- Brown production for Columbia which stars Randolph Scott. Technicolor feature starts tomorrow on location at Tucson, with Budd Boetticher directing^^ 'Sing' Saturated New York.?╟÷Twentieth-Fox has set 1417 playdates for "Sing Boy Sing" in the Southern saturation playoff during February and March. The Tommy Sands starrer had its premiere kickoff in Shreveport, La., Friday.