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R .f^pErABJLISHED, 1888 /^Sy" 7-5371: PRESS CLIPPING BUR^|| 165 Church Street J New York HUNTII^GDON, PA^i NEWS*"': ;V;Circ. 0% 10Jl8*<gHffij HOLLYWOOD SCRAMBLES By ALINE MOSBY UP Hollywod Writer Las Vegas, Nev. ?╟÷?√ß A beautiful, blonde, 23-year-old chorus girl who dances atv this swanky gambling mecca sayS. she's dumb, but has more mink coats than a movie star. Joyce Niven says she has nine minks and sables which were given to her because 'I bring luck to my gentlemen escorts at the gambling 3tables."'--'-|jSjHR J"As a way of saying thanks they give me a mink," she said. '"One 11 man won $22,000 when he was with ed in a convent Ind., and-^Jarted teacher, but history, in a Pther beauties' ?╟≤few times on off agafa||ils| _____ I This 3 maneuver sdliigas ^emen- lary. However, the customers invariably watch Joyce silently counting, moving her lips, 1-2-3, as she swings around the stage. After the show, Joyce settled down at our table and toyed with. a double ginger ale. .jgiWms "I'm dumb," she beamed; ""But I have -nine minks and a sable. I "You can't count three of them, though, they're just stoles," she said. "They're "worth $32,800. Oh, I had them appraised. I have a royal pastel mink coat, a dark ranch mink coat, a. silver blue mink coat, a breath-of-spring mink coat, ?╜a sable coat, a black mink coat, a ranch mink stole, a silver blue mink stole, and a white mink stole," she recited. As I hare never been offered even one lousy mink skin I inquired in fascination who gave Joyce these little momentos. "Oh, friends," she said with a baby-like shrug. "Five of tfpvnine furs have been given to me since I came to Las Vegas last -f|3i,^rd just as soon like poor men, b$ji|%I seem to have an affinity for W&$i$i$?·men.' ' Joyce counts out% her routines in the floor show bfl||&S#, she said, that's the only ^wfpllsbe can do them. fn***?'?·?╟≤ -';"?√ß',';?√ß?╟≤.?╟≤?√ß:..' mm; * "There aren't any dancers in our chorus line, just beauties," she said proudly. "To get this job you only have to know how to count to three." JTHE ORIGINAL _ olitiKF PRESS CDPPINGS ?√ß?√ß 2fOW. J?╟÷ 19* &.$mmx?½m. n, n. y. i Tel. 3C^elseff^8860 CI^ (S -765^^; TMs CKppwg^Frorff v CHICAd^Sff/ SUNDAY S0!r#ttWES 4tfO KUP'S COLUMN Coast-To-Coast?╟÷ THE D.C; WIRE: President Eisenhower's golf games apparently are devoted to more than trying to break 90. White House sources report Mr. Eisenhower, as a kupcinet ~ restg|t of confidential talks with Sen. Symington (D-Mo.) on the golf course, has managed to call off a bitter attack on Adm. Arthur Radford, the President's choice for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Symington, former Air Force secretary, was ready to launch an ail-out onslaught against Radford. The two men had clashed bitterly once before?╟÷when Radford led a revolt by a group of admirals who I opposed the B-36 program. Symington was one of the B-36 supporters. I The outspoken Radford had called the B-36 program "a billion dollar I blunder." In their recent golf matches, the President reportedly per- I suaded Symington to give Adm. Radford a chance to prove- himself. Defense Sec Wilson's problems in making friends with Congress | continue to mount. The other day, for example, Wilson was asked by iCongress to "come up to the Hill" to answer more questions about the idefense budget. The secretary pleaded that he had an importaa&tarip Kfo'ma.ke. The next day, congressmen read about Wilson's "important Itrip"?╟÷delivering a speech to a group of manufacturers in Williams- I feurg, Md. This, point out veteran newsmen, is no way to maks fiaends I and influence congressmen. THE BOSTON BEAT: The tremen^^s mail piling up for (Hip! I Hip!) Godfrey had the Massachusetts Geiiesral Hospital staff puzzled. : After conferences with Godfrey's network, CBS, it Btti^m^ was decided to route the thousands of letters from I the hospital direct to Godfrey's offices at CBS> in I New York. Thus, if you're sending him a, "get well" I message, you will get the same. results*??y sending I it direct to New York, where a staff ^preparing I answers and sorting it for the Ol' Redhead's return. THE NEW YORK TICKER: Maria^. O'Brien, I beautiful ex-wife of Richard Reynolds",; ^afe.tobacco heir, is flying to: Paris this weekend for aLjfefHlezvous 1 with Doris Duke's former hubby, Porfirio Ruhfirosa. She's excitedly telling intimates weddingr bells will ARTHUR GODFREY ring over there. . . . CBS-TV is citing figwes to show it is pulling away from its closest competitor, NBC-TV. According to the former's statis- I tics, a huge gap has been opened between the two in their race for com- Imercial shows. CBS-TV is booking 28 per cent more sponsored time. Margaret Truman gradually is easing into the political picture by I making herself available to the Democratic National Committee for | speaking dates. By the next campaign, in 1954, Miss Truman may I take on a full schedule of political appearances. ... A Broadway char- I acter who dropped a bundle on Jersey Joe Walcott was asked if he I thought Walcott would fight again. . . . "He sure will," was the reply. I "The next time I see him!" THE CHICAGO ROUNDUP: The cigaret bootleggers, at long last in danger of losing their city licenses, already have made plans to switch I their operations to a "highly respectable" tobacco wholesaler. It's a, "muscle" deal. . . . The Jewish War Veterans, for their annual convene 1 tion in Chicago this fall,, are inviting President Eisenhower and the 1 nation's two living ex-presidents, Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, I to appear. . . . Oops!??╟÷Sorry Dept.: It was Springfield's Episcopalian I bishop, not the Roman Catholic bishop as we erroneously reported the I other day, who issued an anti-Broyles bills statement. Van Johnson, the Chicago Theater star, started his stage career I in minor roles in the two shows currently playing in town?╟÷"New I Faces" in 193.7 and "Pal Joey" in 1940. . . . "Pal Juley" Styne, pro- I ducer of "Pal Joey," is huddling here with songwriter Mack Gordon on I a new musical for next fall. . . . Dorothy Shay, the Park Av. hillbilly, I packs a wallop at the Empire Room box office. It's been ropes-up since I shef ^yR4 Thursday night. \ ?Σ≤^*aag| Raboski, Northlake's "model citizen" I wW \7m??*<?? with Gov. Stratton in I Sp*fOjjpg - Tlllm "- ""aboski's *d ^0| Xg- /ajnojl This Clipping From ' DAILY VARIETY HOLLYWOOD. CAL MAY 121953 * In Las Vegas By Bill Willard JINGLE JANGLE: John Payne/ I mounts Old Paint as a grand marj I shall of Helldorado week's final* parade Sunday . . . His Flaming* I fortnight begins Thursdaj^^^Re* I Allen, Eddy Amald, Carolina Co|- | ton also polish spurs for marshalling divisions, with localite Rax I Bell in his usual key position port | time . . . Thunderbird gets Rex | Allen and Sons of the Pioneers I Thursday to vie with Saharafs | Eddy Arnold for ye olde ki?yTpI>4e | spirit of Helldorado ?╟÷ and Silver | Slipper now spots the Cotton g??l | through this week only . . . Joe E. | Lewis, at El Rancho Vegas, makes | a concession to pioneer revjxal | days by wearing an old C | Morgan tie. HEAT'S ON: Fires blazed along | the Strip last week, razing the | Last Froptier's rodeo corral and | Thunderbird's warehouse. Over $75,000 worth of Kathryn Duffy I Dansations costumes were de- I stroyed in the warehouse inferno. Oddity: Fire started in the corner where costly "Ritual Dance of Fire" costumes were stored, and a I batch of Hawaiian grass skirts weren't even seared . . . Hank Henry, Silver Slipper's top banana, 1 getting nibbles from CBS-TV for comedy series wanting - a combination Wallace Beery-W.C. Fields type . . . Blanche Cooper of Cooper Sisters, headlining at El Cortez, capsizing everyone with her satire of typical French chantootsie moaning sexy double-talk to west- tern ditty "Detour" . . . Theme foj Helldorado's beauty parade day is "Movie Titles," wj#f Las Frontier spending %A,_)0O for grab at the Gran floating "Greatest SJ^w on Eajfth' I. . . Rhonda Flemijp at th^JBand: making poses foiwModern, also looking ovjr scenejfof her pending nitery l??w . . . JJack Entratter has bee* in Gotham huddling with Talfiilah Bankhead to help form her Mickage for Thursday^ opening al the Sands. Hotel will pick up tal^ for plane fa: rooms, food an<* '^_ underwriting of casTno^STifusement ?╟÷ when NY columnists descend for Tallu's first cafe splash . . . Degert Inn's big opening tonight headlines Jane Powell, with Darvas & Julia earning big letters on the marquee . . . This is Janie's first nitery date in Vegas, although she h performed at a Variety Club bene-/?.y fit last year. / Jj flashy choreos to he opens with orch 28. NOT SO GEORGE: With both I Gene Nelson and Marguerite Piazza I nixing a Sahara safari with Chris- I tine, July ^4, the dancer and Met- I opera thrush will co-headline for I the two frames after the Jorgen- I sen doll vamooses . . . Meanwhile, I search goes on for acts to surround I Christine, with Three Suns, Homo I Vincent mentioned as possibles . . . I Gordon "Manhattan Tower" Jenk- I ins bundled his whole gang at the I Thunderbird for a trip up-Strip to I yock at Silver Slipper's special late I show Sunday ?╟÷ a neat parody of I the Jenkins' work entitled "Mc- I Carran Tower" . . . David Rose B wafted to Vegas for talks witlr flamingo Starlets in siting uff' SHOWBIZ IS: R moseys back to So. after jotting notes Gower Champion feature on dance tea began compiling V info for another pieci ted in that same mag; bur Clark (Desert ' House) as central f'rinstances Joe E. Henry, Maxine Lew Shapiro, in town special material for ped for sevens at th only wound up with . . . Grant Withers ter frau Estelita n\k at El Rancho __ ^1%"':'-1%ihee~rihg*" section included j the VictorMlcLaglens, the Fred Kargers (Jane Wyman), Pat Ner- ney, Mousie jtowell and sis, Maxine Lewis, wish more viva la Es- I telita's, Dukf Wayne and John Ford, expectjd in this week . . . Desert, Innjgets an offbeat show sometimej^rine: the summer when | Lu?·ky Jg#ike Hit Parade's TV unit this territory . . . Hal Jr., arrived for confabs | ith Peter Lind Hayes and Mary j Healy about a telefilm series, andi the Hayes' agent, Lou Irwin, week-l ended at the Sands to read thel script . . . Fifi D'Orsay signed fori long termer at Silver Slipper be-1 ginning in mid-June. Eddie Fox | will build a French revue show- ] cake . . . Phil Foster, confronted | by a noisy heckler at Last Fron-1 tier, pulled a switch on the old gag. I have to be here," he squelched, I "but you?" . . . Joyce Niven, thel luscious muchly publicized blonde I Cfpa gal with nine assorted minx, I missed the Army bus when Sand-1 show moved out to Desert Rock for I an afternoon benefit last week. I She promptly hailed a cab, skim-1 med 75 miles over the desert toB make curtain time. Fare set her back $28, but she refused Brig. General Wm. Bullock's offer to pay ?√ß the cabbie, and Sands boss Jake Freedman's silver in recompense.?Σ≤ "Mv fault," she chirped. "So whatM I'll hock a mink?'^^^^ ill