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THE ORIGINAL ?√ßSK?·!SE QomeikE ~ ?╟?. ... . ?√ß?√ß PRESS CLIPPINGS ?√ß 220 W. 19th St., NEW YORK 11,N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 This Clipping From VARIETY NEW YORK, N. Y. JUN24J953 PRESS CLIPPINGS ' 220 W. 19th St., NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Cir. (D 6,872.) This Clipping From HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HOLLYWOOD, CAL. Evans Flackery Switch Budd Granoff, who has headed George Evans Associates since the death of George Evans some years ago. will change the label on this flackery starting July 1 to the Granoff-Freeman Associates, with Al Freeman as exec veepee. New outfit will open a branch in Beverly Hills, which will be presided over by Freeman. Latter will double between Sands Hotel, yisVggas^which is harfdfetRjy the rirnt; and Bevhills. ESTABLISHED 1888 j ___??G BArciay 7-5371 PRESS CUPPING BUREAU | 165 Church Street -.New York] TV ft&EST PITTSBURGH, PA. PatterboSi t Cathy Lewis won't be returning ' to My Friend Irma next season and her role will probably go to Ann Rutherford . . . Incidentally, The Hunter, a summer replacement last year which was to have been the ^^^^^^^^ warm - weather Cathy Lewis pinch-hitter for Irma this season, has been erased, which makes Barry Nelson very unhappy . . . Eve Arden and her husband, Brooks West, have gone to Europe for a vacation . . . Perry Como's recording of No Other Lolf. from the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Me and Juliet, looks like his best-seller since Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes. It can't miss going I over the 500,000 mark. MN2S SANDS, LAS VECAS LAS VEGAS.?╟÷The Sands Hotel's Copa Room has brought back Lena Horne, assuring Jack Entratter's of sock attendance for the next three weeks. Miss Horne is the first entertainer to play a return Sands engagement. Miss Horne has added new numbers and throughout her 30 minutes her dramatic* intensity electJries the audience. Ih an extremely tight-fitting gown that encases her sinuous body, acoenlLiating symbolic expression to her sexy vocals. Miss Horne engulfs entire audience from her intro number, "It'll Come to You." "Haunted Town," the deepest of blues, numbers; the light-hearted "Beale Street' and the Horne perennial, "Love," send her winging. The star thrills wish her consummate artistrMJlin "Consequence" and "Papa, Don't Preach To Me." The clever lyrics of "I Love To Love," as delivered, are enhanced sensationally. '-,?║?║ f\s the curtain is drawn, Miss Horne I jresponds with her all-time success, j '"Stormy Weather," providing a roof- ( shaking exit. Lennie Hayton conducts during Miss j Home's performance, including, among g the musicians of Ray Sinatra's orch, I his own drummer, pianist and bass. | Hayton is superb in his support of his I wife. Luxor Cali Cali, an illusionist with J ?╟≤ little chicks, coins, corks, cups and I handkerchiefs, keeps the audience 1 amused for 17 minutes. Lou Wills, Jr., climaxes a good soft- 1 shoe, plus acrobatics, by performing 1 four full - twisting butterflies, rarely I seen on any stage. ?╟÷Bob Clemens. don, have decided to try again. They were separated for two months . . . Playwrights Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, who wrote Life With Father, Life With Mother, State of the Union and the book of Call Me Madam, are being tempted by NBC-TV by a fat contract. I ?╟÷o?╟÷ The Dr. Eugene Czukors" new baby lived only two days. You know Mrs. Czukor as Barbara Britton, who plays Mrs. North on television . . . The recording industry is still amazed at the immediate clicks of Red Buttons' | first two sides, The Ho Ho Song and Strange Things Are Happening . . . Walt Disney plans to enter teevee film production, but has no intention of releasing any of his present movies to the coaxial cable . . . Barry Fitzgerald will star next season in a TV series about the adventures of a parish priest. Remembering Barry as the old cleric of Bing Crosby's Going My Way, he should be something close to wonderful. RTHE ORIGINAL omeikF PRESS CLIPPINGS ?√ß?√ß 220W.19*St.,NEWYORKll,N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Cfr. [D 7,147 J * ^M* Clipping From. DAILY VARIETY HOLLYWOOD, CAL. Dinah Shore doesn't want to do anything this summer but rest. To prove it, she just turned down a $25,000-a-week offer from the Sands JHotel in Las Vegas . . . The Martha Kaye - Wick Condos reconciliation didn't take and the wide-mouthed comedienne got her divorce in Miami . . . Dean Martin won the ship's pool, $1,200, on the Queen Elizabeth going over to England . . . Jack Webb, of Dragnet, and his wife, Julie Lon- The sponsors of Mr. and Mr. North are so delighted with the show on teevee they're going to put it on radio, too . . . The Four Aces were featured on the Jackie Gleason Show the Saturday before I they opened in Pittsburgh at the | Twin Coaches June 29 ... Joe Franks tells about the couple, married five years, whose TV set I broke down, whereupon they fell in love. SANDS Las Vegas. June 28. ?╟÷ Once again the savage persuasiveness of Lena Horne is transporting Copa Room applauders ?╟÷ for the t second three-frame period the ; thrush has performed at the Sands this year. Every indication points I to beaucoup biz, and that confines 3 will be strained to the utmost in I providing enough tables for the I customer stampede. Miss Horne never displayed her I artistry more eloquently than on I this stand. She has great eloquence 1 in the smallest gestures, turn of 1 a lyrical phrase, or slight musical I nuance. Beginning with wit ih 1 "It'll Come To You," she brings J up the libido during "Bewitched, I Bothered and Bewildered," spice 1 in "I Want To Be Evil," fury for ?√ß "Love," capricious humor in "Con- ?·1 sequence," a saucy "Lady Is a I Tramp," earthy sexiness in "I Love I To Love," and finally "Stormy H^Weather" for an ovation. Lennie I Hayton batons the Ray Sinatra I crew in his ultra arrangements, m plus sliding onto the Steinway H bench for deft backgroundings of "Bewitched." Excellent rhythmic assists come from Miss Home's I touring backstopping comb o?╟÷ H Chico Hamilton, drums; Irving H Joseph, 88; Wyatt Ruther, bass. Luxor Gali Gali has the entire T house palmed quickly with his I magico, especially during sleights with baby chicks and with audi- ] ence participators. Lou Wills, Jr., I pedals up a slow opening with his I hoofing, but grabs - big kudosing I for reprise of acro-flips and full lktwist butterflies. r?? Copa Girls are coming along 1 in the footwork division, with new- I ly stylized choreography by Bob I Gilbert and Rene Stewart. Paced I by four males, The Escorts, who I dance mucMptter, the chicks have I to step lively to keep up. Charles I Nelson warbles melodiously in pro- I duction tunes, having cute Pam I Garner as vis-a-vis. Ray Sinatra I orch is a vital part of the click, I measuring plenty of background- | ing and all of top calibre. Will. ESTABLISHED 1888 ! BArclty 7-6371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York SAN DIEGO, CALIF. UNION Circ. D. 62,719 - S. 129,710 TALLU' NIXES NIGHT CLUBS NEW YORK (UP)?╟÷Tallulah Bankhead appreciates the $20,000 a week ?╟÷ "After all, I've always been about one jump ahead of the sheriff despite all the money I've made in my life"?╟÷But she doesn't fancy any more night-club engagements. Talking over this initial experiment out in Las Vegas, Nev., after her successfull debut for a three-week engagement at the Sands Hotel, the noted stage star said ?√ß'sKe*Was > both thrilled and frightened. I "It's a great strain to undertake something like this," she ( said. "I doubt if I'll be able & simmer down until I get back home to my country place at Bedford, N. Y. I ap- predate the response the people have been kind enough to give me and the help by the management of the Sands, : but & glad it's ove*." I tmnyOffersMade A check with Miss Bank- head's management here, the William Morris office, disclosed that her success in Las Vegas had resulted in nightclub offers from o$ier places but that no more *riates had .been set. Not every place, of course, can afford a $20,000 a week salary for one per- ' former because only in Nevada do clubs have the benefit of a huge revenue from gambling. _$_ "It'-'sounds like a lot ol money for three weeks, doesn't it," the actress said, "But I actually don't get much more out of it than enough to meet running expenses, con- sidering the tax bite, costs of bringing a staff here with me, getting special gowns for the engagement _f $8000 for the gowns alone. It really goes. Uncertain About TV Miss Bankhead, who did a TV show once a month for N: B. C. last season, i isn't sure what the network will do with her in the way of video starting in the fall. "There's been some taltc oi more shows in the musical variety format that I used," she said, "But nothing definite. I'm not too keen on j continuing "in that form. I feel I would like to do a filmed j series of half-hous programs based on situation comedy, j possibly with me playing my- self in stories''that would stem from"' my activities and my home life. "But a thing like that takes j a lot of planning?╟÷you don't j want to bother unless you're j sure of getting a good air ... time?╟÷and it may be that it's i just too late now to get such project under way in time fori the coming fall and winter." Regarding her desire never i to do any more night-club J work, she was reminded that j she had written in her re- ?√ß"._ cent autobiography that she j never wanted to act in a play ; again. Allergic to Work "I did write that, didn't I," she replied. "But I doubt if! anyone takes it too seriously. ! Why, I've been working hard j on the stage most of my life | ?╟÷I've always found it neces-1 sary to keep making money. By nature I'm allergic to work of any kind but I've never been in a position to indulge my allergy. "Right now I'd like to bel I appearing in a good play. If J I could only find another 'Pri-j I vate Lives' or 'The Little! | Foxes'!" ' ^-B ESTABLISHED 1888 BArcUy 7-S37I prIss clipping bureau 165 P'urch Street - New York SAN DIEGO, CALIF. UNION mCi^13. 62,719 - S. 129,710 NBlfew ml J New Code May Aid Theater Building I | \ THE MUSIC BEAT. The revised building code permitting thea- I uters to be built in or under office structures and hotels recently ^became law in New York, giving hope that the long-deferred 'boom in new construction may come soon. The effects could be influential on theater attractions all around the country . . . James C. Petrillo put in a busy week in New York on his latest visit, between arranging the reinstatement of Oscar Levant in good union standing, and meeting with the managers of 30 symphony orchestras. Petrillo sounded a serious note when he told this group, "We are looking ahead for the good of music and the arts, which are facing a sad plight at the present time." Pe- ?√ß trillo went on to urge cabinet representation for the interests of the arts generally . . . Robert Merrill, popular Metropolitan : baritone, ventured a new field recently, with success. He took the "- floor of the Sands Club, in Las Vegas, and gave out with a full .routine of accep^b^tt^llPpMW^^f^^Nothing like starting young. _____ ?╟≤m^---1 Tj;;!^ |n