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ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York BALTIMORE, MD. NEWS POST Circ. D. 219.^. ?√ß#291353 BACK ON BROADWAY Judy Holliday To Play In 6My Aunt Daisy'In Fall George Raft Wants To Do The Life Of Jack Dempsey By LOUELLA 0. PARSONS International News Service Motion Picture Editor. HOLLYWOOD ?╟÷ When%Judy Holliday showed up for the first day's shooting on "A Name For Herself," she had a script under her arm?╟÷but not the Columbia movie! As everybody ogled to see what it was, Judy laughed, "It's the new play I've just accepted for Broadway this fall ?╟÷'My Aunt Daisy,' by Albert Helper?╟÷and believe it or not ?╟÷I'm not a dumbbell as I was in-'Born Yesterday'." As casually as this did Judy j break the big news of her next i Broadway plans. Most stars of her stature on the stage would have put out a pronouncement! Rehearsals start in August in \ Connecticut and ' the Broadway I opening is scheduled for Septem- ! berr Judy-plays T^tfttgfTToTSmS1 i ?╟÷a Boston socialite with domes- J: tic problems, i '^tW^ii'i'^sWi I HAD A hunch something was cooking when George Raft went to the Mocambo with Virginia and | Darryl Zanuck and Bella Darvi?╟÷ and I'm not the girl to let a story escape me. This is what I learned: George wants to do the life of Jack Dempsey, featuring Jack's classic battle with Jack Curran, as well as the part Curran played in Jack's life. Darryl is very interested and is now exploring the possibilities, 'i Jack's life, one of the most colorful in the world (and he's still so very popular) I think would make a good movie. * * * SNAPSHOTS OF Hollywood Collected at Random: The newest twosome in town, Myrna Dell and Craig Stevens (Alexis Smith's estranged husband), looking at the sad sea waves at Jack's at the Beach. . flllir Donald O'Connor's got a travel bee and he's trying to book passage on the Queen Elizabeth next week with Eve Arden and Brooks West. Don will be a sensation in London, Paris, etc. Talked with Sue and Alan Ladd over the transatlantic 'phone and they are expecting big doings for the coronation. They'll have Robert Taylor, Lindsay Crosby (Bing remains in Paris), Mel Ferrer and, of course, the four Ladd children to watch the five-hour parade. Vittorio Gassman, over the flu, with Shelly Winters.sand^Q&w^ ^ddamV"*^-tKe ' Bantam Cock. Shelly's keeping her figure and looks great. They went to Ciro's later to hear Joni James. * * * IT WILL BE wedding hells] soon for Sidney Miller, who wrote j many tunes with Mickey Rooney and Donald O'Connor. Sidney is marrying Carmelita Lopez. He was at the Tallyho introducing her to all his friends. Joan Weldon, Warner star, has gone to San Francisco to see William Johnson, star of "Carousel," and I can't say I blame her. She thinks he's okay-Ay^U, so do all the rest of us. Diana Lynn at Bob Dalton's with Bob Calhoun.! s^fe's been very bl,ue --*fV?╜jF- *-tfer divorce. TJagSft. community 'settlements are Ipughy especiajl^in tjae-^ase of an actress,. ^r / Jeannete MacDonaLa, who was a hit at'the Sahara in Las/Ve moves over to thy Sai^^. same place. Well, I havUwrsay there are plenty of job/there. ESTABLISHED 188* BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPir^MREAU 165 Church Str^WNew York NEW-IPt^N. Y. WOMElH WEAR DAILY Circ. D. 46,425 JUN 2 1353 j Tallu a Ncjtunil SAtS^adsPptel- ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York BILLBOARD CINCINNATI, OHIO MAY 30 1953 Highlight Reviews Bankhead Rolls a MaturoU*^ Bli*re-6lii|^yegas Nite*jplB|p Tpkifati- Bankhefd LAS VEGAS, N. M. r-^For Lai I iBankhead to appear in a gambling! J l^tJlH^Ts'tRf" n&rtffsft~?╜x.s I* v ?╜a -?√ß?╜?╜+ 1 ' the .dice. And she sure rpHed one I J 1 at Tier night club'?√ßdebut,, at the! j j fabulous Sands H^tfi|l5Mi9flBifr Room I | 1 here. I She hap ^e customers on herl | ; side righst^rom the beginning I j when shf ^tefeedT/l'feiS is the first I J J time I e^ersgj)t*paid for being in! 1 a saloon.!? $&iyoi&8. was the usual! horrible |iai^i^e ot :a bullfrog and! la squeaky brake, buL her unique! way of!;' ?·$dding herself ;"; madel everythin^esa^- t I TalMljgfe ia^r^ing her $20,000 la week'.#??<er*&e$?·;,,, An we won't! Ibe at aM^t^L)SfHS&^65^a. see her I I booked ij^^C^ft-,0^^%? ,niteriesl j now that-, ^p^^&toS^fl^tno. ice. I . Back?·^g37TSf>>' 1&eSiiChead on Jack 1 Entratt^#?sprogram are:*Hi, Lo, I Jack aifd the Dame. This quartetl lis well known to radio audiences for some: years; and they. t.are very j attractive vocally. They do a nice, I standard job on their routines. The Clark Brothers speed things 1 up with some fancy stepping. They j also do a pretty good takeoff on I some of the better-known enter- i tainers. I After this show, it looks like l Tallu's going to heJSntratter's p J I for a long ti " / By BH^T SMITH M therew^re any doubts that ?╟≤th^SBaeky^voiced Tallulah Bank- head could make it in a night club, they disappeared &hen she finished her 22-minute act. In fact, the doubts vanished after she did only two minutes. I Brought on via an offstage mike I intro as her "first appearance in I a night club," she got t%jm right from the gong with "I don't know why they say this is my first time in a night club when I've spent half my life in saloons. But this is the first time anybody paid me for it." v< f -'!ifi$igre was an ad lib quality about her work, even tho well re- j hearsed, that registered heavily. In between the studied line pitch- ! ing she commented on her showbiz activities. "I've done about everything onstage and off:?╟÷I've been | in the legitimate theater, what- I ever the hell that is, but this is the first time I've been a. shill for a gambling house." I ' But if the self-ribbing lines were hilarious and aimed at the class as well as the square trade, \ her prancing in an elephaojjhe fashion?╟÷"My legs are as pgpptty j as Dietrich's"?╟÷was strictly for the | hipsters. To balance that off she did ai powerfi^%^ina4|(j^^^ling of Dorothy ^afK^Sii'^f^^tione Call," getting aa?·H$?·&.^&h!$s and poignancy.Tout* of 'it that "?·he's so deft aE^_repp^:. Her biggeil sustained yock puller was the routine written for her by TV scriptofs Wedlock and Snider, whoV.80 some of the writing for th^med/Buttons TV-er. Latter was.- ia 'l^Ma that caught the overbearing t^Tnig^I Tallu at her best^^'-.had he3&.wandering thru a gambling casino giving each game^^j^fehJEJer indignant questions 'of OT?║l?·rs*and her pretense at f^d|iatrijtx: wth the customary gambling terms were superb. When she finaliy threw a three aUd^hdignantl^^emanded to know^3|^the'd?║j_ip?· was tak- 'ng her'"G^ifiB.3;e^^PP* outraged, I did a WrL?║i?· out !'^ Convulsed the jammed r^ifef. :V Gal also-tried singing.'Some of it sounded worie than Pulley's, but she kidded it for the laughs it was planned to get. There's "little doubt that the redoubtable Tallu has an act. Gus-Schirmer Jr., who set it for ~~ her, did a masterful job, and Dean Fuller's self-conscious piano backing helped also. If she's willing to take the act (Continued on page 18) Jl||l#BLiSHED 1888 ffjBArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York VARIETY NEW YORK CITY fS&AY 27 1953 New TALLULAH BANKHEAD (2) Songs, Cofaedy, Dramatics I Sands, Las Vega^ ;-?╟≤> . I I ^fteSTah!W5B^^tt?║Sd as a night- 1 I club entertainer and as a New Act I I are among this year's major the- j j atrical surprises. But the biggest I j surprise of all is that she fits sojr j I well into both. As an act, she's in il Ithe best vaude tradition; as a I nitery entertainer, she's no freak. I j In fact, she's a top attraction for I | any' class boite in this country?╟÷ I i' and all other English-speaking | countries where she's known?╟÷and n she has probably opened an in- j come field for herself that will sur- pass anything that she has yet ex-1 J perienced. She's getting $20,000 a I week here for three weeks, and | that's her best wage to date in I any field. From the standpoint of perform- j ance, and to repeat a cliche pop- j ular in her place of debut, Tallu-'j lah's aces. She runs the full scale] I of her 32-minute turn and, except! I for her questionable singing, han-j dies herself like a topflight saloon] veteran. - Wedlock & Snyder wrote for her an appropriate and very funny! monolog on gambling and she de-l livers it with the aplomb and expert! timing, as though she's been troup-r ing ."Jth||, material for years. Up] ahead, and to prove he&. position f j as one of the leading dramatic ac- i tresses, -she held spellbound her opening night audience with an! edited, five-minute version of Dor- | othy Parker's classic "Telephone! j Call," a tear-jerking soliloquy ofl a blues-ridden, forsaken dame] This material would ordinarily | seem most dubious for nightclubs] particularly in the far west, bui the artistry of her delivery carried kit unfailingly and brought her si linear ovation from a capacitji Iprowd- tmsLr^ I Miss Bankhead opens her ac1| L|yith some funny patter about her-| 3 Fseli and then does two songs, "I'll! Be Seeing You," which doesn't fit! I her voice or her act, and "Bye, By el j Blackbird" which, because of ai ] jazzed up, personality delivery, in- i eluding some inexpert_Ch^H?4estonj ] stepping, is passable. At tho finish of her turn sKe?·sings "May the Gs^j..La^-Mes^*and Keep You," b^;r^^3W^Ma^9eel>etter ??^,jusf !r^itfingit, eveWthough it was her NBC ,;?mk Show" theme sob^j^ i'ter';' whom she: intrV>'s-:'as a^womis-l *aged byTjG^^^hjFin^ij^JA^ilvl-l Ihdttgh coiffedan her typical rag- Ife-tag style^pi.^. been ^orReousb ||and: smartly i.-ggM?ned for tt*|i?·oc4 fcasion. ^ Scho. ESTABLISHED 1888 ^r6laA7-537l f^ESS CLIPPING BUREAU 1613 Church Street - New York IpILVER SCREEN (New York q^) JUL t?╜4 Van Johnson had eight suitg.hitffffing in his dressing room whe<&tffie ventured out on the floor of the^&gams Hotel in Las Vegas to make hifnvtfht clu^^eout^^/n dJtf/ll ttWIMl'H to %he loG&k*veterans' hospitals and preirieuwahis act for the boys. Incidentally, that's quite a record Van has chalked, woiior __\___\?║tf-[nJn the past 10 years, he^smadA^Mhh)^.donations to the Ainjffi?╜xn '$ed j?toss|L ' ' .'__J^_?║ John W^yB^^aug^ojti^^QVK on he'll listen to ad^g.^^^jbi^gghig first day of shooting on "telano* In xhe Sky" in six ] feet of sncfflFln Northern California. He shunned wearirigf^arR' glasses, and by nightfall the glare had swollen his eyes shut. Next morning one eye was okay, but the other was half-closed. "Just say J have a mean wink," suggested Wayne, ^ncdid long-shots until both orbs were j "~^?╜4o.have a full house ^""VQving to Hol- ^^^^ttends