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RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikF PRESS CLIPPINGS ?╟÷ 220 W. latest., NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Ct?╜S 193,011} (S 222,310) T\is Clipping From I^IAMI,' FLA. mm HERALD JUil i JJ8S- Lonella Parsons Covers tne iiim -Murom- Contract for Marlene Dietrich Follows Her Duet with Tallulah HOLLYWOOD, Cal.?╟÷(INS,),~ v Marlene -^ietrich is back- in' Hollywood after having hid the time of her life helping&illu- Tah Bankhead at. her Clewing show at jthe ffau^?╜4w."Lft&'"Ve- gas. Tallu invited -Marlene 'up on the stage with her and the two gals "sang".,a duet of "La Vie en Rose'* as it was never sung before. Good or bad?╟÷-Jack Ifbtratter has offered Dietrich X^-night club stin t' at'. $30,000 'pe$:w e'ek starting in Octcfti^r?╟÷-and she's going to accept! 'Tftese 3 lias" Vegas salaries -get -higher and higher. Meanwhile, glamorous Marlene goes to London in August to make a film of Terrence Rat- tigan's new ulay, as yet untitled. Jillen s PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 San Francisco Portland - Seattle >llyiooa, Calif MO'SXO V1W& MARLENE TALLULAH AT LUNCHEON with June Allyson and Dick Powell at their beautiful /new home, I had a chance to talk to Dick about his plans at RKO. He says he's reading scripts like mad to try to find a new story. He's all excited about "The Gibson Girl" which. JIKO already owns. "I'd like to put Jane Russell in 'Gibson Girl'?╟÷she'd be perfect," he said. "You'd better put me in that ! picture," June interrupted. I .. "We'll, perhaps you can be j in it, too," he told her. 1 C pike Jones and Ralph Wonded have formed the Wonder Music Co. and slogan is: "If it's on the Hit Parade, it's a Wonder"; Tony Burrello and Tom Murray (have launched a new company, Horrible Records, I^.Y., with the slogan: "If it's a Horrible Record! it's bound to be a hit." . . . Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely CUt aJpuple ??^ new sonSs f??r Capitol while appearing for the first time together in a night club act at the Last Frontier, Las Vegas. Las Vegas is known among grapevine. If an act is no g od- afflistrds "the town with 4000 critics." Its seven big casino- hotels (Last Frontier, Desert Inn, Flamingo, El Rancho, Sahara, Sands and Thunderbird) employ?╟÷#&>&ut 4000 croupiers, bartenders, waiters, bellboys, chambermaids, etc. Within an hour after a new act opens at one of the hotels, it has been graded, approved or rejected by these "locals," via the hotel's employes have been known to discourage their own j guests from attending it. Mon- I day or Tuesday is the toughest J night an entertainer can face on opening. Hotel employes have their days off then and religiously catch new acts. Margaret and Jimmy opened on a Monday and made the grade with both the locals and with visitors. "Dver hear a song called "Blue Plate Special?" That's what the ' boys in Lombardo's band call Carmen's "Blue Willows," in- .spirecfl;by the floral pattern on his plate in the dining room of the Hotel Roosevelt, N.Y. . . . Capitol's Vicki Young may get a screen test for the only female role in Columbia's "Caine Mutiny" .... Harry Jolson, 74, Al's brother, died April 26 in Hollywood .... The new world's record for nonstop piano playing is 256: hours, a feat by Robert Sergil, of Le Havre, France. That's 256- 12-inch LP's, but fortunately nobody recorded it ... . Gordon MacRaef^rth "C'est Magnifique" working its way up the hit record charts, has been offered the part of Curley in "Oklahoma!" by no less th^p Rodgers and Hammerstein, reports Louella Parsons. ' Continued on next page - Paramount is after June for "Air Force," a picture soon to start. . She's had more offers than she can accept, but I believe she'll turn any one of them down in a minute if Dick gets a story that's right for her. 31 TOLD you that. Cary Grant was being sought for both "Sa- brina Fair" and Judy Garland's picture "A* Star I?? Born." Now I can tell you that Judy gets Cary. Remember how good he was in "Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" with Shirley Temple? Well, I think he and Judy will be excellent, and I am glad for her. And that reminds me, Judy was at Romanoff's for dinner a few nights ago with Sid Luft and she hasn't been as thin in years nor as well. *-. ?╟≤.' ?╟≤ SNAPSHOTS?╟÷Jerry Lewis is in plenty Dutch with his Paramount bosses. He resented all the attention paid Andre^Vishinsky. before the Queen Eliza- b-b'ftn sailed, and slammed the J door in the face of the photog- | raphers. Mona Freeman didn't see Vic I Damone in New York. Says the romantic build-up about them is completely phony. Could this be because Bing Crosby and Lindsey are expected back home June 23? The story rambling reporter Mike Connolly ghosted for Lilian Roth is .being published p. book form by the Frederi/fc Fell Co. Lillian was very cq/r- j ,ageous in telling her true stc/y. RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikE PRESS CLIPPINGS mm 220 W. 19th St.,NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Cir. (D 7,147) This Clipping From 1 DAILY VARIETY HOLLYWOOD, CAL. The Las Vegas Strip : By BILL WILLARD = MY FIRST EXCLUSIVE: Louella Parsons' grand tour of the Strip with Jimmy McHugh from Wed. to Sun. put her ahead $14. Louella, always cool toward this mecca, finally gave it her benediction, verbally cooinijMJffiiis is the most fabulous vacation I've ever had!" . . . That item&sewhere about Sands giving the heave-ho to 20 dealers is a dipsjliiloters casino wasHStPbusy Satnite, bossmen Jake Freedman and Eddie Levinson jumped in the pit to help deal. True, a Gouple of dealers exiteS^lleral days ago to head for Lake Tahoe clubs, but the lake is always a.faiagnet every year along about this time . . . Furthermore, State Tax Commish books are likely vio ^how that Sands jramped to second place in gamblij|g: take for first half-of '53, forging ahead of the .Desert Inn but still shaded by Haroicl's (Jlub in Reno . . . Locaiites may be in for a surprise when Shelley Winters preems her act at the Flamingo in August. They have Mrs. Gassman type-cast in deep dramatic folds . . . Add somepin' new in gambling come- ons to the Strip, if okay is handed William Henry Beck and Haig As- sadourian for a jai alai setup with pari mutuel machines . . . Also on the docket today in Carson City's almighty chambers is application for Hotel Patio gambling license filed by Floridans Matthew John Tracy, Charles Francis Coe, and Daniel Shalek. NO DICE: Sahara and Flamingo made passes for Red Skelton, but weren't faded . . . Red didn't knock himself out shooting a telefilm here last week, so he (1) rested, (2) fell in the Desert Inn pool to help Johnny Weissmuller launch "Aqua Fair," (3) rested, (4) dealt a 21 game at the Flamingo from top of the deck, (5) rested, (6) took a 45 min. bow on the I Dave Rose closing show and filled I it with choice ad libs, (7) reined I to Hollywood tired from resting . .. I Helen Heinz, of all that variety I (57), shouted for James Melton to I tenorize "Che gelida manTna'' from fi "La Boheme" at the Thunderbird I the other eve, but had to settle I for majority "Falling in Love with I Someone" . . . Strip-stopper: Mel- I ton driving his 1900 vintage De- I Dion Bouton with the fringe on I top, passengers Gordon MacRae I and Rob Merrill bug-eyed from the I devilish whizzing at 15 mph . . . I Clifff Ferre, the El Cortez emcee, I explains a typical week in Vegas: I "When you get through gambling I MonliPr it's so late Tuesday, that I by tlie time you go to bed Wed- I nesday, it's long past Thursday, I and you can't possibly sleep until Friday night ?╟÷ and then they move you out of the hotel to make I room for weekend guests!" SKAT FOR JAPAN: Lou|| Arxnf strong will knock the Nipponese ?╟≤ for a looper with his N'Oleans jazz if the Joe Glaser booking pans out in the fall . . . Satchmo's Sandsesh is roping raves, coupled with I Robert Merrill's nitery cjfsp . . L j Following a burst of briavos for | "Figaro," opening night Rob quipped: "Eight years at the Met I > hoped for such an audience. Just I for this I'm not going back." A roar of disapproval went up. "No, I'm only kidding," he laughed. "I open in November ?╟÷ a one- nighter. Be there, 'cause as extra- added attraction we're giving away sets of dishes" . . . Nirska, who does the startling "Butterfly" dance in Noel Sherman's "Aqua Fair" at the Desert Inn, will not be in for the full month, but no one can follow with the same type of exhibition, contract sez . . . After lamping the fireworks finale of the H20 show, Hank Henry ribbed, "All this epic needs for an encore is to have Wilbur Clark float down from a parachute and splash in his pool!" BANANA SPLIT: Seems unlike- j ly now that "Top Banana" will play the Sahara, unless some juggling ?╟≤g'oekf*6n to open time for Phil Silvers & Gang . . . Fifi D'Orsay i arrives today for her Silver Slipper opening of "Folies de Paree," set for Friday . . . Kalantan, the ! exotique, also toplined in "Folies," won't join the show for a couple of weeks because of undulations in "Son of Sinbad" at RKO ... The , old angler, Abe Schiller, infos that fishing on Lake Mead is best in history ?╟÷ with scads of bass hungry for fresh air and sunshine . . .Beldon & Millie Katleman are surfboarding the long swells of Waikiki along about now . . . Lou (Kismet) Davidson wings back to town from Reno where he ring- sided nightly at the Riverside for Darvas & Julia, with Julia the magnet, natch . . . Before trotting up no'th, D & J inked a deal i with D.I., to return in October for' six g's per. _ iuiiii ts PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Riverside, Calif Press (Cir. 16,268) > 31953 im ADIOLOGIC By TOM E. DANSON for this is HOEfcpWOD ?╟÷ Bing Crosby' new recorj^feg |of y^endeffoot" is real Weste^lcowbJhjiHstmg, yet it 'completely lacks t*the twang" of; the .Jiisitial: music ot "^this- - type. Bing fffiy his" ties' airtr ?║?║smp?╜JSlt'swith an ease and all the Tauthority of a real' feowhand riding the range, i. n-. "d;;?╟÷- w h.\y; shouldn't he? ~--: naturai vfor "The Groaner." He's; been Tiding the range on his Elko,.Nev.branch for lo these many years, and has been a good teacher to four of his own "tenderfoot" pupils, his sons, who have turned out to be pretty good cowboys themselves. The lyrics are refreshingly new and sincere. They tell simply and honestly, the story.of a "Tenderfoot" and the various stages in his routines that eventually make him a cowboy. It's really gratifying to once again hear a song that doesn't rely oh broken hearts or unre?? quited love for a gimmick. In fact, the only "gimmick" in this tuns which is destined to become another of the Crosby classics, is its basic theme; which is as refreshing as "the outdoors itself. After listening to the .promotion rec&rd sent to me, several times, and then hearing.Bing do the. songf |on his show .-;-last Thursday, thflf Ien3pfootcoulcp5ft-wait-t6 getJHto Western regahaVjgkld head mf the |open range. Jp Crosby is darned careful in his [selection of numbers for records, tas he doesn't cut too many a year these days, so, upon the basis of his selection alqne, I predict this Will make the Hit Parade in the hot too distant future. DOjWN TV-RADIO ROW . . . klice. Tfiaker (Alice Weaver of Broadway) has Joined her hus- >and>5^rt, for the first time as a usbahd. and wife combination, to |j;-series of.von&n^nute film ommercials.-W^ Disney is now [planning to enter television film production, but has ^jm; intention of releasing any'ofTfm present |films to:;j?·%;.-?? Barry^tzgerald due sfe star in a TV series 'about the' adventures of a parish priest ,_h. Peter Lind' Hayes and Mai^c-Hs-aly, ?√ßvtfho "open in the Go&xahut Grove Kt%the Ambassador tomorrow:: night, are j readying a weekly T^-film show called "ipgieems Like:^|sterday". . . . Martha' Wright, sf^E; "South Pacific,"'#heing linMW for her own TV'ffttshftl sfr^^y#inah Shore haf^arned db*^2^,(j60 a week at the -Sands,-Las Ve r r (gosh, I wish Tcoum*^fng!)lMr. Entratter: I'll try f^^fegof a lot less -Jp^dMie-^fiftee^Keads across country on a latent scouting tour. NEWS 'N' NOTES , | Tonight will -be officially proclarhed "San- Fernanda Valley slight" as amateurs from this area parade before the cameras at KHJ (9), at 7:30 during "YourvTown's Talent." S VO-e.. I m "The Split Second;^ an eerie ex- ~&rsion into abnjemaT psychology, will he the'offering on the "Plymouth Playhouse" at 8 from KECA <7)< Screen arid' stage actress Geraldine^Jntzgerald heads the cast of Jprdmineht performers. '?√ß' Comedian Bert Lahr substitutes for Joe E. .Brown tonight On the final show of the season, during "Circus Hour" from KNBH (4) at 8:30. ^^S ?╟÷Q?╟÷' The main event from Olympic Auditorium's boxing features Ramon Tiscareno : versus Santiago Esteban in: a 10 - rounder froih KALC (13) starting at 8:30. Reba Tassel and Joseph Weis- man star on the Alex Furth drama, "Circus Story" during the presentation of "Danger" from KNXT (2) at 10. The story tells the jealous love of two circus performers for the ;same woman. THOUGHT FOR THE DA^fM You can't blame a guy for not wanting to hand over alimony dough jfi^his .ex-wife while some otherdpfy is getting the interest!, .^jRpyright 1953, by UniversalBa^jj "- _^T and TV Features Syndicate: