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NEW YORK, N. Y. DAILY NEWS Circ. D. ^02.346 - S. 4,716,807 ww 7 f953 Dallas (Tex.) News MAY2,|gg' The Passing Show jfZ?? By J0HN KOSENFIELD Either a Genius or a Bum ,,. "Everything happens to me through the State Fail* Musicals," grieved a tired Gus Schirmer at Hotel Stone- leigh Monday. i- Mr. Schirmer of New York was looking in on preparations for the 1953 State Fair Musicals season, which interest him. He is Charles R. Meeker Jr.'s principal agent for talent. But he was eiLjaauifcto New York-from Las Vegas, Nev., wherehg^Klged Tallulah Bankhead's night club debut (at^fzUfiOO a weelf) for the swank institution known a^the Sands.y^ K^ffl T^luldlfl1 'IS Ma^xhausting person, although not quaff- ds^fBf&he is still ^demanding, commanding and rttfmer worked *out cJiUen s PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle New York, N. Y. Journal American (Cir. 1,105,315) MAY 13 1953 mg xhese intentjg.^Jaetr ,__ turn in which she does Dorothy1 Parker's telephone bit, converts her radio-TV skit about a woman in a subway to a woman in a gambling casino, and otherwise overwhelms the 400 diners with "Dahlings" and southern-fried corn sticks of autobiography. She is a smash hit. Out of the experiment Schirmer got a job at a fancy fee to routine Shelley Winters of the screen for a forthcoming turn at the Sands. M?\ *F" +-?╤?√ß?√ß?╤?╟≤ WHAT DID THE State Fair Mus^ icals have to do with this? Well, related Schirmer, Charlie Meeker had a brainstorm that Tallulah Bankhead should play opposite Jose Ferrer in this summer's "Kiss Me, Kate." The fact that Tallulah is the worst singer who ever made noise in.public didn't seem to bother Meeker who got' by last year with the voiceless Joan Blondell in an Ethel Merman role. "Instructed by Meeker to ap* proach Bankhead," said Schirmer,; "I made my way to her. She, turned down the Dallas proposition flat. If Meeker didn't know she couldn't sing, she did. "But at that moment she had broken with her radio and TV producers and her writers. This Las Vegas thing with its $60,000 for three weeks was committed. So she asked the first person she saw., Sher show and I was it." r went on to say, mod- [as merely a sensational^ lulah having hit a home jtwo strikes against her., s had overballyhooed the had brought in a corps and coluianist^i plain to a bad press. But that's iof Tallulah. it's always jefore her.dawn of aibj summer experiences have been Donald Saddler, Helen Gallagher, Doretta Morrow?╟÷to name a few offhand. *'?╟≤' * * NO PHOTOGRAPH of Gus does justice to his bouncing boyish gemuethlichkeit. He is thirty-four. The camera overemphasizes his addiction to gustatory delicacies, ordinarily prepared by himself. Among booking agents he is a free lance, hence free to think in terms of a client's needs, rather than volume commissions. He handles everything from a "temporary" office on Manhattan's Fifty- fifth Street, which he has occupied for a decade, or one like it. Being the son, scion and namesake of the reigning G. Schirmer j of America's most famous musical | house, Gus is supposed to be occupying a desk in those mellifluous quarters. He hasn't been there yet, much to his father's indignation. His agency has grown, grown and grown. He has much to do with Dallas casting, something to do With St. Louis' and Pittsburgh's, and even more for a multitude of straw-hat groups and the scores of resort musical theaters now operating in tents from coast to coast. He even has a couple of people in the movies, notably Pat Crowley, whom Paramount is acknowledging as a "Star of Tomorrow." Her sister, Ann, is a star of today on Broadway and will show up in Dallas this summer. ?╟≤ * * CREATIVE SHOWMANSHIP is not a big to-do about a show or a star. Nor is it repetition of something already done. Showmanship is the artistry of box office. It can not be reduced to formula. It is played by ear aath techniiipir based on experi- Her dawn usually comessLence and taste, which is the same undej^Up t ^J*j_b ^f*?╜ing as saying it is based on hrmfer*fra!??i# JnmMiis? hunches. jh established celebrities. |. When showmanship comes off lie reputation, attributed | the showman is a genius; when it fe of black wizardry, ofl flops he is a bum. Every showman [unknown talent on the lis both in the course of a career pphant recognition. f and often. Right now Gus \s a thinner artists _of our} genius. Death Comes to a Friend ?╟÷ * ^?╟÷I By LOUIS SOBOL ^r?╟÷ Jflllens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Calif. Griffith Park News (Cir. 11*00) MAY 2 2 1953 ffopeli Tllulah Bankhead, mak- ir: noise at $20,000 a v sek. ... Gus Schirmer, to says Charklie Meeker cased it. Attending 4fte dbening of the Las ?╤eeas| Roileof as guests of [the S&efiff \)f Clark County, Nev- jadl|iipre Mr. and Mrs. George |Hopeli.aiv,'.;3'Z;?5 .Qlen|eliz. Blvd., according* -io the-import of their sOn, Dennis in and his brother .Marty, j$>aL% mV 'fJj^pl Mast|s^???╜fiH^(^furt^r' stated ^ats^^^0lfThl^hK(M^. were Ihousej^rgsw^*^* *a*fcs??~ rAnoosl eir parents' aB^ Th^*f^llia|j?║||rstayed at "the Sands _ffiafli.. JUL igsi l?Θ╝fW PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 188$ LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Phoenix, Ariz. Gazette (Cir. 43,679) MAY 2 6 1953 HOLLYWOOD Old-TJm^f RaymoncWaf ton To Make TV Films In Alzona Towel serves as reservoir as Peter Lawford looks on. "There, everything's Van, holding hankie says reserve. BROADWAY WAS SHOCKED by the sudden death of Pianist Harry Rosenthal. When w<y?║?║?·||&w him he was heading for the 0^tft|p undergo a series of delicate eye jjjjffljn^Ens. As we get the story, he hag-; Tgfejr.gt- gone through the suffiery?╟÷but^0#reparing for it. Just beH^e he c$Hai&ed arid died, he was at Dave Chasen's with a group of friends, and as he left, complained of slight pains. A few minutes later, he died in William Frawley's arms. llEr Tragedy hounded this amiable, talented citizen. Married to a beautiful Ziegfeld girl, Marjorie DeVoe, his great pride was in their precocious son?╟÷a handsome youngster who was selected out of thousands to be the baby model for a national milk firm. The child died, the mother Incidentally, there .wa^ anothfl group, equally shocked soifoe wee&s ago<^Bfen they read that Sam Ruby,^a ?√ß pr&minljb; auto dealer in Chicago;?Σ≤j& dropped dead. Investigation revealed^^atJ^^W^iJ&nother Sam Ruby?╟÷also a^a#oldealer?╟÷^&o had died?╟÷and nogthe^n4fe|(|*:|Sfi|E'l^own to many show j^p|^|tebeved^9||l!. Lewis dispatched0.a?╟?.^r|^.to hlf^ep^-much-in- the-wor^p^^^gS^fy ^^^id, "I knew you when you''were aliveT Let's keep it that way." Betty Huttoin and her troupe will draw $25,000 a weeli for their month's engagement at the BaqdsHotel in Las Vegas, during July. i Ta!luf&fr-~ Bankhead has been bedded wiW-shJrflfles, but expects to fly out to Las Vegas tomorrow, nevertheless By SHEILAH GRAHAM: HOLLYWOOD, May 26' (Nansp j Darryl Zanuck knockel himself out by walking into a door while playing "Find the - Murderer" in Palm Springs .... This explanation?╟÷from Darryl?╟÷kills the rumor that director Jean Negulesco conked the boss over the head after an inept croquet performance. Mrs. Fred MacMurray is in an oxygen tent at St. John's Hospital because of a recurrence of ultra high blood pressure .... And Eva Gabor's ex-husband, Charles Isaacs, is also seriously ailing. ^^^^^fe^fE Rita Hayworth has to sleep with a--board under her mattress for as long as she has lumbago . . . . And Dick Haymes is flying to Honolulu for.dates with Rita wheft she's not doing location shots for "Miss Sadie Thompson.'" Dick has a way with loh^^^??| men. WHEN JOSl^[^P0TT^N;.wa^ asked by a |Eg||?·h newspape| chap, "Are yoslpl&S to London on the 18 ma^^^^'thing?" he replied, "No.To^Pipra fortnight to brush up on my English." Judy Garland looks well, but she's still too heavy. So doi/t hold your breath waiting for "A.. Star Is Born." .... But poor Florence Bates has lost 100 pounds in six months since- her husband died, and she can't get roles because she doesn't look we^goe November or February, W3SK|3?╜yer is best for Dana." .... ^ojft?·''Tufts drinks black coffee In a party with Liz Whitney and Dick Lund. . . . And Susan Zanuck twoed with agent Fefe Fer-1 th The Mocambo was packed. Art Linkletter passed by with thetLf news he's doing a new filmed TV|h| series, "Linkletter and the Kids," but he'll leave June 1 for London with Mrs. Linkletter and their oldest link?╟÷Jack, 15, 6 feet 1 and 170 pounds, says his old man.. . And Jeanne Grain with Paul Brinkman, she very redheady and shaking what she called "mobile'" earrings?╟÷lookod like a dozen little white umbrellas on each ear. . MARY MCCARTHY has landed the second lead to Jane Russell in "The French Line." And she's on a crazy diet to shed some excess weight. . . . Which reminds me, Mario Lanza went on the so^ ^alled^Mp diet three,days ago, lost 8 pounds ar^d is now ^merely iike*'^l3^^.1^^feinic, incident- all^i^^^^^p^^^udiates the 4ffL Stevi^^fMrTLTnwerse" Reeves wiir^^P^ktlniflrse to Esther Wflli?·ir^^"AHh6na" at Metro. ',,' Tallul&i Bankhead, ^e|$iii finnrhniTi farayViegas, made everyone?╟÷including bandleader Ray Sinatra?╟÷clear the room when she rehearsed her take-off of Dorothy Parker. Tallu's very nervous.