Variety (June 1952)

Wednwd.y, June 11, 1952 | Europe in 2 Words: Bring Ca$h ] I I' -^- r;==== —-- < —ra fiamilimftd from pag« i f sssssssz .: r . -- = a g == a == j Paris, June 10, idido & Co., Lena Horne and .Lenr The same faces travel the orbit lyie.Hayton; NBp’s Bud Barry with Hurran Charle^ Henry did the Pacific” is a curious ’billing to a \ y ?„ thir Bernie (Robbihs-Feist-Miller) de^rfs wctoj ‘Snd‘'attract 1 a comedy scene, which give no au- Broadwaylte. This is the Sodgers A gl ““d Lm™^ff'f encomt«ed Pragers and Ben Selvlns tSouthem d il S F 5 8 ™vS film learit thors’ credits, notably to "Do Not Hammetfstein. music firm, named * Tru Snn , JS Music)-in Home; songwriter Harold !?a g <;.r,»i K ifvelv arts 'group Litter” ^Mat’excellent scene from, for their fathers, whose first names ?“ Lo "^“ and Co,ltinen Arlen; copyright attorney Lee V, S^rvia g +i,« e nSiidn nrLvate admission Bert ^ahr's^recent "Two on the were William, Miss Martin has a tal European map, , Eastman, music pub Edwin H. hence the pseudo-priv t a<B £* ss *™ Aisle.” Norman Wisdom is in his partnership interest in "SP” with, These are names at random, seen (Buddy) Morris, and songsmith liuftlAi. k is ‘theoretical element as the comedy star and along with the heads of Chappell in one or more of the capitals, and Harry Warren, with their wives. K c s York can show bias influences are aU over £V^an<^he paUc^on °Broadway^ Original FolieS Bergere as'most of them did, it “would un- .wantsf^to^nmke^ ^ the‘European map. The two pro- atthe HKO Palaces on^ Bro dway, ® T doubtedlv be true also. Here’s the a^a.. ™ „ ■ ductlon^WghlighSTof "Plein Feu” but in this revue he is standout, Still No. 1 Tourist Lure Holden? e Srendr Broadway expatriate Tom Van Fire”! the new Maurice and deservedly, because he’s a Tf , of rourse that Juf^’ S^ii^wnS*? vmtA*™ nhovilt Dycke;, Kay (Technicolor) Harri- Chevalie^ revusical at the Empire®, funny gent. Two behemoth Amer- « lf t efyeifthe oUS polies K^F^dman ind ^ ex-wife Jean s ™> ^ by the first aU- Paris, are the cascading water and lean Bergere is the No. 1 Paris land- j 0 Stafford and Paul Weston witli fireworks scenes-from Radio City mark, as much a highlight as the M ike Nidorf, Gloria de Haven, bert T^Kalmuses Stil Sentembe? Music Hall, for which the Hocke- Harlem t^er, interspiice tnis rxc Eiffel Tpwer< Air France, which Dwight Fiske, the Frank Loes- 5,®? ^ A S m?^V rSwSSo? feller Center showplace sent its Mea of a just incepted a new Mexico City- S ersl the Gene Kellys, Yvonne de Sa d J t ^^reekiSvTf n^hS ” production engineers to Paris. There are tne usual Di^e Dreastea Patis YUn an dall the other airlines carlo, Johnny Green, Sol and Fay J™ 2^252 i k swank Lido. topfllght nttery. * Hl Fo1 Ber " with their ^00 round-trip tourist Lesser, -the Eddie SmalS,Phil rne swann, juiuo, luiwusm, tu^y, WVtW ^ « ^Juesser, me Xituue ruu. aw Gamam! Eisenhower is Wk in with its *6 minimum tab, is the gere „ .. . planeloads, And the Folies the Relsman, Arthur Freed, Harlan tht Pv-Tirnadw a iitr <^S Champs-Elysees counterpart of a The Sehno* Holders Em No , i request. The Mexican brass Thompson, EUa Logan, Mare Law- coUn^who’is a^uond^Hteraw combo Latin Quarter-Copacabana Jimmy (Schnozzola) Durante was (ministers, press etej -are parttcu- rence, the Nate: Goldens, Donald a ?L? t ’ and who has an UNESCO comoo Jjaun wuarta-vuv«i;«DiuMi «jiuuuy iovhuumuw/ i/utaut^ cw./ wc ^mvu- rence, me ixaus . uuiuens, juunaiu w -u rt T, a « on TTMFcjnrfc (n: Y,) show, with Yank talent, billed just that way, since they larly keen on the revue. Ogden Stewart, Arthur ,L. Mayers, fl™.«n 0n f<Siration” of «ll Franco-English dialog and a line know him best as “Schnoz,” and The new Folies Bergere show, Harry Kurnitz, George Raft and }?!;* !?}. * nf ^ »^ rnftln+in^ of Donn Arden-Ron Fletcher boys, he mopped up at the Palladium, "Une Vraie Folie,’Ms one of the Sam Spiegel, latter commuting Hi® e pufaJi? • The girls are the traditionally holding down the entire second best in the series, and a credit to weekends from London to Paris in tJS noTwp+jSSi Bluebell Girls (English), the latter- half with Woolf Phillips’ band Mr. and Mrs. Paul Derval and between shooting in England, the TSfljjrSvSiS In ro^te to thJir day version of .the former Tiller (The Skyrockets) moved onstage stager Michel Gyarmathy. It’s a Mendel SilberJoergS, the Elmer G. zj.®? 1 ® 1 Girls. The new Folies Bergere re- (as with Danny Kaye, et al.), to shocker in banality and corn in Letermans, Ted Troy, Sidney Gor- £“®{- i.r SnSSf bit? vue leans more than ever 1 to the back the star. Durante, Eddie other respects, but by and large it don, Estelle Brody (now Mrs. tv.i US wui£™ J Jiiiv%4A a 1 nrlftiirf Pltlhl.fDm T n nlrwAM T#ia 1»* T7 fti-li Tiilno TltiPPanA tw maaLa V«yAM < «r4 > k4nrf am. /taaM mamaammIaJ 4m Y am • AiOlU {VIHCllCa lUv S 1X1“ VY l lll ftlU olives in Monaco and books the ftltirifyinr the Parisian Boys Hayes & Mary Healy, whom Par- U. S. stagers. But they’ll go over- band, in . America, Gilbert Miller, „ MCA s Dave Stein, brother of t« iJnnteiiv new pHrklnn n wisely trailerlzlng. board on such tired items as Babe George Dembows, Gloria DeHaven, Jules C. Stein, has taken a small ^ id 0 ^«tnht PinHfvmtf the The PaHhflium, or any English WaUace, an American Negro, who BUI Johnson. house |or agency and Uving quar- !S3.S1S;.SthS.ffitogwS ” us, £M 1 *°rJ?; 4 ‘a* 11 *«««*»• «»? ci«ko*kM>,Ad ia On a night with Clark Gable, the rently redecorating it in between +a Via »TArifvl»itf fbp jriuinuium, ur «uy j&uKuyi vvauace, an American iNCKru, wno jam donnson. Parian b?y rather than the gSs ™ usl ® i0 l ^ ? att + er ’ iS v, an S° uld losc ? at “® abeM ^ Clark Gables’, Ad Lib lT£ ra , r / sia J?„^rf’ * ™ a? in- affectionate harkback to when the way, WarbUng "Sonny Boy;” or ^ r* ft WA +v.a wife of ™ boar d chairman, is cur- 5rfStea?e m American vaudeville was in-full that "Negro Paradise,” a slow pro- °n a night\^th ClarkGable, the rently redecorating ;t in between ^ fhA 1 Oh ftValier favor * But ifc is readily apparent duction number overdone beyond 2;-^ J commuting to London for sundry AS ^?Avn y ^nf h wMoh V more that without the socko Yank Read- true worth; or such as spotting a social functions. Stein looks upon and Folies revue*, of which more llners the bouse could be in fat dumb act, a couple of acrobats introduced him from the ^age and p ar i s a S a service station for MCA aiWm * J . ... trouble, judging by the rest of the billed as the Bel Airs (brother ?S la e fe cUents, mentioning Clark Gable, Where Broadway ends and the supporting bill. team) in the next-to-closing. ?? d th H 1 m ^ Joan Caulfield, Frank Ross and kln- West End begins is, of course, a Another harkback to yesteryear* nott#>*t Nude Ternlnr t£® ^ e ^ ro ®^ ar dred people whom he’s looking af- continuing London phenomenon, Broadway is London^ Tin Pan Hottest Nude Terping Variety mu«. The autoeraoh < a oa^.- y— . ■ •« w M MV u.. _ i ♦ ..i ^ t. . . * Variety mugg. The autograph ter, in part. Stein plans buying — —f muauwav to -uuiiuuu-o xiu. JTau « r ^ _ _» i at j_ r j. * , , r a *** v * With Mary Martin continuing her AUey> chiefly locUsed j n Denmark , Yvonne Menard remains the No. pressure at intermission, later at out the NICA agency, old estab- smash at the Drury Lane in “South S t. There are the same piano 1 , nu 2*' “ nd , her ,-worIc wIth Fred- CarroU's and Monselgneur's was ifthea Paria io%ery operated by Pacific" with Wilbur Evans in the r00ms and the same tireless^ re- ? ri H R . e3 L“?„* m ^ cd b »Uet is the almost frightening. Cufto drinks three sisters, as a nucleus for his Pinza (tart. Billie Worth is highly hearsing piano players.' -Muggers hoUest handl,n * of * nude ter Per were thrust on him; U. S. sailors local operation. creditable in "Call Me Madam" at “land" the acts, and they .come — a at the Gynda Glenn Irvin Marks Erich the Colisseum where, surprisingly. lnto .the piano rooms for endless . ITALY FILM BIZ SI*, and^eise Voti- Sttohetai^ the Gil- they dig the Eisenhower, Truman rehearsing. and the Italian tourist aspects next peripatetic fiddlers at Monseigpa- b t w Kahn , fh brother of and Perle Mesta local jokes. Miss There are. only three disk jockeys week. eurs did* serenading job at the p 0 g er Wolfe Kahn ex-bandleader- Worth plays the Jack Hylton pro- 0 n the British Broadcasting Co.,- - , Gable table, which made the-Frank adth the 1 oXin^T®an^Anton and ® ince plugs are controlled ye t. The opium, undersea .ballet, Howard who aho^appineTto be Bei ^ Rnd Goldie Goetz, Jackie Pnrl T nkacj ^ . *^® jf a f®^*J n f^ broadcasting fan and nymphs’ bath numbers are i n the room look like^stowawavs Gates, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Walbrook is fine in the Paul Lukas system, that’s that. At least the standout. And Andr* Randall is a (Aldrich &} Giniger, SopMe Tucker kUled ’em at the song * a ^ en t off * * f^ny gent, much in the tradition mixed ln wi ththl large roving vio- Irwin Sha w» Julius Eleischmann.^ Bagatelle with imitations of Can- Ncw London Funn y pf the late Monsieur D^ndy, who n n ensemble, and thus got atten- Tough on Continental Mgrs. . tor,’ Richman, Bud Flanagan (local A new funny man hereabouts is vShdair 0 / frantnrl EnpHsh 3 ! ion * , Ga T ble j s set tc T mak ® a P ic - Prime point of this reprise—and English comic in his standard Jin ™Y Edwards, costarring with ^nph fracture-English- jure in London, and Ben' Goetz, it is -still only a percentage of "Underneath the Arches”); nas a !??f st ^ ss V ^ ra Ly ^. n ,* nd <( ? om * dy rnmiKKr «Pein Een*» f-Fnil Metro production head there, came show-wise tourists—is' that the rousing "Golden Jubilee” routine, ? Id ® J?, ny Han J 0 J* fa London S tU ^Emtfiri rS Pa 5? s to huddle with the star American film companies should which she’ll reprise with Jimmy ^ augbs f ’. presented by Jack Hyl- ^*J®.Ues thl alsQ Gen ? KeBy V wb ? is al ?° create a Be Kind to Continental Durante on his inaugural fall TV J f nd A ^ red Black sSur P do£g i ^lecond^half Concert ^ g . piX Au bro ^ sta £ mg with “On Branch Managers Season. And show; wows ’em with "Mr. Siegel at . Th ®®^« °5 i^ad S g beto5 into ^e ^ ^. th T e Dance ) ’ and witb kee P it that way. Make It Legal;” gets a strange med- J. y v basi 5, : r 6:1Q ^ d This fa de^?hv th7lSp.lt Loew s. Inc., veep and general Obviously, Paris, London and ley of East*End and West End cus- ® b ?? s * ,ld Joa u Davis to b/misiudifment Cheva?ip? ^t. counsel Leopold Friedman. Orig- Rome take the brupt. It’s not only tomefs (as was the case years ago 1 ' tte i j C ?55'‘ 62 of cornrse^ is the consummate n a S y i.i Tw< i If a Se f’ the intra-company brass, or even at the old Kit-Kat Club, London, ® dy i? r ,! cte f tt by ? l< ^ ard Bird - Ed " showman^ut still is hest^n Sfnfd Gabl P was highly pleased.at a wire the VIP. press which comes over, where royalty mixed with the ^udary young comic, need fS h £t?ir from «S ul ^ City r that tbe newJag but from the New York homeof- Whitechapel patronage, who al- ? TT fwcut /a i Cai ? bri ?^ e TiS Pan Mlev-ic?utin| d Fred F^eld Don t Ever Leave Me,” which fices to HoHywOod there are con- ways turn out for her). Fave band- 51?, d ? a ^ e ’ ac ^ ve ^ c /ji c his American accomnanist wrote be deems highly commercial. stant demands made On the pix leader Edmunds Ros goes with the having k i? 1 tih^nSr* . besi ^? s ^ son® aS P indLnSv Busy Loos execs in Europe for (1), hotel res- Bagatelle lease, while Ted Shapiro, andVv whlre^madrSi^ren^ 0 he^ilso f contributed to the^qm^ti- Since her click adaptation of ervations which, this or any other her longtime accomp, continues at h vlto ! n \"r$IZSL a tive Folies score “Gigi,” Anita Loos has more bids Postwar season, has been murder; the 88s. Mimic Arthur Blake fol- west EndJta^^H^t +{?a Chevalier Show*'Too American’ for French plays than she can han- < 2) » m eet ’em at customs (sea or four Life“s W co“tir wtth wittf Nervo aZTLTZJZi^vL, ale. She £^te r eried in doing a airport,; (3 ,. show 'em a good Arthur Askey, because pfoducer ^ f a ‘FoUefThe °Sh"r Miehef Emerandhas ShS Par for the course for European Jack Hylton is converting the Hip- .“i 4 J“ ° f Madness,” s.a. in tne roues, Me Lhevauer decide d that her own play “Mont- managers seeing the Folies Ber- podrome show into a twlce-nlghtly “ nd t ®, v ® r LOW Performances as ,‘ZntTf parnasseTwill have to be re-lo- sere, listening to the fiddles at vaude-revue, may follow. It's for Hvlton C Mir? > tt S ^Sfn ”i 0P ! U «T a . Pierre Louis Guerin and HeneFra 8 ca led to Saint-Germain-des-Pres Monseigneur’s, dining at La Tour that reason that the Bagatelle im- Si™ bllls oMsing last ?i rre h i 0 i, ; ;: Gu T .f“ t 0nd R ™ t e ,ince the Blvd. Montparnasse see- d’Argent, or Maxim’s, taking'in viioo zououn ui«t me ^ 50 . 0^0 *n a - bu f tu. am ''’ e uicjoivu. Aviuucparnasse sec- «i j,ua A uii o, h«uh 5 **» presario, Harry Levene, is leaving we m?l oa . ... . . . }11 P y L lan l sh 7.w hS r nl lie flavor tor is now about as dated as River- Lido, La Nouvelle EVe, the for the U. S. soon to scout more ,^SL‘ gUR Sd^ttSh side Dri ™ is in relatton to Paric Eve, doing Montmartre, Mont- Yank names for later this summer. SSS ™? P if5t,rSSson’to^AmerlcaS 1^evue standard Ave. parnasse or St. Germain-des-Pres, Hildegarde clicked at the class ™ al . hab]lt * Tbe clas f niteries Also seen were George (RCA ia countless. Casino de Paris, being succeeded b e meanSv^fl thl duction highlights are from a film Victor) Mareks, John Steinbeck, Paradoxically, most branch man- later this month by Noel Coward, fJSS ul 8 v*’ t 0T the Selum lSSS riS a T ?;J? Edna Ferber, John and Marian a S ers are in a set routine. Natur- Mary Meade, an American who has L ” n f?£ per ' witb J^cnch grape . • vv i ftnbnn f„+ y T r r ^q? t iW^* Byram, Richard Watts Jr (latter ally tbey bave their favorite spots, long been in Paris, is currently in more often consumed than Scotch threj^en massi to Lo'ndon for a don’t dare to stray off the London’s Mgalle wh,skey - Foode „ Ies SHU Mary Martin-Dick Halliday shin- reservation, it seems. As is often French Influence in West End Too xooaeasies auu & ? , C Y» p dig). Jean (BMI) Geiringer Lu- the case, in almost any key city, ad- The French influence in the .The "groceries” in London, of cille Littie. DoSn cjtAfn venturous tourists discover offbeat ex-Copacabana (N. Y.) ballerina cille Little, Doris (Mrs, J. C.) Stein West End is almost as marked as “^.remain as austere if per- £«ES£ttS Cerlanltaeof (he alilvedinLondon overtte bistros because they, too. are tired that of the Yankee label. There haps not as much so as heretofore. b P ? n ”’ t f®. American line of k d) Bo _ all Mlnevitch Or- of the traditional luncheons in Ar- ia always a “Folies Bergere” road «««« ^ more dining tat menonville or theCasca d es In the company and a "Latin Quarter” ciuos—or foodeasies, the counter- „ n ’ m J v warriu t Zn. i of course* Peter Ustinov who Bois, the Coq Hardi, Henry IV, the revue concurrent, ofttimes with P“J of U. S. Prohibition speak- s ^ji y a ^’ Jn? $o qk for Lou came over'from London to huddle traditional top eateries, and. .the additional companies in the prov- easies where an unrationed par- & when thev co L to £ BiHy Wil^r on a uossible Par oic® traditional revues and niteries. inces. Val Parnell and Bernard tion of meat may be obtained, but t.hv? S v c0 £? ?, e nioLvJ * Delfont have the "Folies" bv ar- the British genius certainlv doesn’t Latin Quarter, N. Y., in the fall, Richard Mealand, now perma- ?angeSient with Paul Derval im- extend to preparing it right?? In are certainly un-Gallic. That also nently in London for Par; the Mulls 6,000-Scat Show Biz Spot nrefarioof Siepfri?original The truth, it’s the reverse goes for Vic & Adio * comedy Span- Darryl Zanucks (just returned to Mexico City, June 3. latter incidentally arrives in The flsh is prolific and" the ish ac ro-team (said to be from U. S. after an extended stay in Teatro Margo, local upcoming New York thfs week his first trip smoked salmon, a delicacy in the Bra2il) » and the West Indian (Miss) Paris, huddling with director vaude-revue house, where Nicholas to the States in some 20 vears^ u * S. and even in France is Amru Sani > who reminds strongly Frank Ross on "The Robe”); Lor- Bros, are current and Josephine with a view to a Broadway coun- abundant in England. So much of the Yma Sumac technique in raine Allen Cugat (ex-Mrs.); Jane Baker played, is to be razed by its terpart. The last tlme it was trlta ». to quote that great epieSeaS ™ d «W"- E ™n Colette Morgan, Barron Man Anna So- owner, Felix Cervantes. Aivix lofA. nrnrnw? n Schnozzola EsonPFior rjinPAm^ r>n. Marchand only recently closed in senko with Hildegarde. Jimmy He contemplates a 6,000-seat Mulls 6,000-Scat Show Biz Spot Mexico City, June 3. Teatro Margo, local upcoming