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TOLEDO, OHIO BLADE , Ore. Pv 99&4$2V-*Ss 166.W O^C 1>11956 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. TIMES 0EC3 1956 Mitch Woodbutf Reports Paramount Books "Oklahoma" For Holiday Season Here are happy tidings for the motion picture'fans of Toledo and vicinity, tidings which should lure then out of the house and into a theater during the comin* holiday period. Ifr% imW The Paramount has just secured the film productioi of the famed Rodgers and Hammerstein musical hit, "Oklahoma," as its Christmas attraction, o pen ing Monday, Dec. 24. The feature, which stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, has been showing under a two- a-day, road show policy at advanced prices in many of the larger cities of the. country, many Toledoans having j6ui> neyed to Detroit for the purpose of viewing it in the United Artists Theater. But the Paramount engagement has been arranged at popular prices, and Toledo will be one of the first communities to see it at a reduced admission tariff. |M~ Under the road show policy, the picture was shown in the Todd-AO process on a curved screen. - For the local rim it will be Shown in CinemaScope and Technicolor. This will be the only change from the original presentation. Ingrid Bergman and Helen Hayes in "Anastasia," originally booked for Christmas in the Paramount, has been pushed back* a few weeks. - ?╟≤ ?╟≤ ?╟≤ What about future legitimate stage attractions here? Well, we should know more about this before the first of the year. Jack Armstrong, of the Arm- Strong theaters in this area, of which the Paramoug&Js the leading playhouse, is in New York this week for the purpose of trying to line up a few bookings. And he has the fancy figures of. "Pajama Game" to show interested producers. The musical hit, here 10 days ago, did more business in three dafs in Toledo than it did in six days in Akron and Columbus together. At the moment "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is the only definite booking Mr. Armstrong has for the local house. It is slated for two days late in January. But Mr. Armstrong says the ; dates are subject to change* Marjorie Steele, who is the wife of Huntington Hartford, and former screen players Thomas Gomez and Alex Nicol are the stars of the company touring in the Tennessee Williams hit. " Armstrong also would like J to book "Damn Yankees,"! starring Bobby Clark. But this hit musical is now playing in Chicago and the length of its run there will depend on the business it attracts. He also is seeking dates for "Inherit the Wind," "Witness f o r the Prosecution" and "Fanny." Here's hoping success crowns his efforts. ?╟≤ ?╟≤ . ?╟≤ Scully, and two children! ?╟≤ ?╟≤ * The Hillcrest ^Hotel's Vl( torian Terrace is losing r, popular blond hostess, Maris Kurtz. She is accompahyir her husband to Globe, ;$Lris where he has a new job . . That should be the floor3$h^j of all floor shows at the^Sattj Hotel in Las Vegas on Fridj; and'"Saturday when. no less'j$hi< Jerry Lewis, Frank Sin$t:i and Toledo's Danny Thorn team up to help the hostel I celebrate its fourth anniy?╜! sary. Frankie Scott, the buffo who looks like a TV antenr.: and cute little Jonie Russo, t local songstress who isMlS; fioning from' the CaxV-Msoi orchestra in Chicago/,$$$?·%* j tertain at the Old Ne-wfatjo; | annual banquet in th<fc)Jc4$hti '?√ß dore Perry's ballroopl; ,fem | row night . . . This is^rihki I farewell week at Kas6e'lT^ttei has five months of bookings at the Saxony and Eden Roc, hotels in Miami after he leaves here. He'll be succeeded at Kasee's next week by H^ep Jarkey, another favorite her|jg abouts . . . It's a second we^ for both Hamish Menzies, "tttSgl Great Scot" with his sougs. at the piano, and Billy Fraye, th** comedian with a local baek| ground, at Kin Wa Low's. Th^K give the theater restaurant a> strong show. ?╟≤ ?╟≤ ?╟≤ Joe E. Lewi* declined a dinner invitation at the Rw tazzi Restaurant in Neuff York, explaining he's on a diet. "I have to get down to Sinatra's weight so he'll look like me in the movie of my life," he flipped. / ?╟≤ ?╟≤ * Milt Buckner, the noted jazz organist and pianist, will open with his trio in East Toledo's Sing Sensation Club on Thursday for a four-day engagements William Holden has beer named the top movie mone: making star of the year in - poll of the . nation's theaW owners by a national magazini And those who met him whe he came to Toledo some yeai Jerry Lewis Solid till, as Solo Star of Show 'LAS VEt errv l.e'wi; IAS. Dc< |* emerge najor entertainer m i ight with his new s npletp i ow at tel. Saturday hi* third night lere and he had overcome ;all of his initial nervousness. [Al any rate, none showed, and .Irvry had the packed ICopa Room audience clattering deafeninglv for more. He I gave it to them, too. j The gaueheries, groles- iqueries and grimaces which marred so much of his early fyouthful work are gone now ]?╟÷ or, rather, when he uses ithem lie has them under [disciplined control. Perhaps most surprising -in additionlfjjt ?√ß prodigy, co a'piano stool. n] Since he had Martin to talk him, Jerry has up a highly sat multiple suhftiti tling! no Dean back to 1 reamed isfactory t e in the Aristocrats -?╟÷ seven fei- lows who abet him ably in the comedy, songs and dances. They, too, try to heckle him out of singing but they aren't as successful as Dean used to he. Jerry's paying their salaries! Other Performer* Other assets to his show e Georgine Darcy, recalled pleasantly as The Torso in hcock's "Rear Window," .ludv Scott?╟÷a sh( "land .ludv Scott?╟÷a shouting ?╟≤'young Judy Garland and a PLAY, PROFESSOR-Jerry Lewis reveals ??< sound* in "music'* with a typeu>riier during Starring act at the Sands in Las I'egas. This it engagement since splitting with i)e Mar his solo his first Las Vegas Review-Journal jto the steady and irrepre isible spurt of wisecrack jboth rehearsed and ad lib?╟÷ ifind of jerrv's. In the "after- |was a discovery that he can|show?? Saturday night Lewis Jbelt out a song with the dy- coaxed most of the ringsiders namics of an Al Jolson (if into renditions of "Shine On, not. as yet, all of the heart)[Harvest Moon." Some of his and that he has become a taplremarks were pretfv sharply dancer of remarkable facil-|pers0nal hut no one seemed |ity and rapidity. And just so to mind. They didn't dare, ithat the, analogy would not Openers in the fast-paced! ibe missed, he gave us "Roc k-j presentation by Jack Entrat- abye Your Baby" in the exact j ter were the Bob Devoye ?√ßJolson style. ITrio, spinning dancers. Stag- L Varied Characters iin?· was done by Nick Castle, j _., . ,, . , , iwith music bv Buddy Breg- , Other memories inch^-;manandch01Hlarrangements ,ed uurlesques of such mght-iby <Norman Lljboff. ^ club phenomena as the Span- pmr Tp K ?·i ish singer, the hillbilly yodel-L MW~W_\ K-^HELER J |er and the giutar-s winging! ; El vis Presley. After he nadl je onvulsed the customers I with the Presley croaks andi gyrations, he added solemnly I j jthat perhaps he shouldn't I have done it. "I don't thinkjl jyou should make fun of a J iproblenj," he said. Other hysterical highlights! \vere Jerry's demonstrations I jof the techniques of Actors! jStudio and a dancing class! jand his entrance as a long-J haired musician who per-l formed L e r o y Anderson's I ?√ß["Typewriter Song'* with allj -the_aplomb of a Captegie Hall | Monday, July 15, 1957 Sheri Westbrook, Venus Room dancer at the New Frontier, dons garb for the current production. ANGELES EXAMINER, JANUARY 2, 1957 Big names, lavish costumes, and New York- type productions have gained the Sands Hotel the name oi "showplace of the world." [ Above, the Sands **Ziegfeld Follies of 1956y / Dane Clark says you can always tell when a married man takes his wife to a drive-in theater. He's the fellow who gets out and wipes the windshield clean before the picture starts. * ?╟≤ ?╟≤ Here's sad news for all thosi | who knew Pierre Gendron scion of one of Toledo's pioneei families. Pierre, who used tc be known as Jerry to many oj his friends here, died in Vet | erans Hospital, Hollywood about a week ago. He had been ill a long time. Word oi his death just reached this desk.. :$MfM Pierre, an actor and writer for the stage and screen, was! (60. He was an aviator in World) War I. Surviving him are his! iati^^ati*^- n?╟÷___:?╟?a Mo^v A1ir>o jorle Lord are shown as they-prepare for a scene in their new CBS Television Network program now being photographed in Las Vegas at The |$*??#*?╜ A crew of 60 is filming the first two shows of the Danny Thomas program in and aroiHffl" the Sands and other resort areas in Las Vegas for a mij^JoJ4aj^opQtleii^ boost, for Jfcte m&*,..-.*