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MISCEIXANY Va-riety Wednesday, November 10, 1954 With lie, Veep as Guests of Honor, By LOU WALTERS Perhaps the most impressive vaudeville .show that , one .might Wish to see-—certainly the most imposing one that I’ve witnessed— is the Command Performance be- fore Her Majesty the Queen. It s for the Variety Artists Benevolent { „ Fund, the recognized charity of the , Chathai , Ont,, said: There British variety stage.; i. no good singers anymore. They re. The show this year was held at | all dead. There ought to be so e me No Good Chirps Anymore; All Dead, Sez Mary Garden Detroit,. Nov. 9. Mary Garden, who stopped In Detroit briefly last Week on her Way to. a lecture engagement in th London Palladium last Mon-, day <1), and included Bob Hope,. Noel Coward. Frankie Laine, The Crazy Gang, Norman Wisdom, Jack among the young people, but.there aren't. There are ceritainly none in Europe.. And, in this country you have only one possibility. George Buchanan, dozens of British stars., London. production numbers front severalj Now ; 77 and as tempestuous, as of the current London musicals; j when she established herself as several well-known bands \ and . one of the top operatic sopranos, of talent from Screen, radio' tele-: the century, Miss Garden dontin- vision and the legitimate, theatre, ued: k rThe composers are no bet-, The show is, always excellent. ; ter. Gian-Carlo Menotfi may be the HORACE HEIDT Van; Nuys, California (Continued oil page 62) She’s Not 100% ‘Ready’ as Patachou Pritachou, who is winding up her affairs in Paris preparatory to set- tling in the U. S. and reportedly marrying her personal manager, Arthur Lesser, ..has deferred ...her Waldorf-Astoria (N. Y.) return un- til next Thursday (191. She was to haye. opened tomorrow. She. was supposedly ill but the Hilton management was assured she would be in the U; S. a week later. This marks her fourth' return' to the hostelry’s Empire Room. Stopgap show, comprising Mau- reen Cannon and Gloria & Jaro York, latter 'making their Gotham debut, will fill in for the interven- ing week. Dorothy Dandridge was sought. only one. Some day .he may write a grand, opera. He at'least is new, original. I like him,’’ , She said the financial reward of films nd tv had lured potential singers way from the. grueling practice .. Which / produces great singers. Miss Garden added: ’’But, I would.-rather have starved than give up my art; By HAZEL GUILD Bonn, Nov. 2 ; UFA, the goVernment-controlled as a substitute headliner and ; Nazi propaganda film setup of while the “Carmen. Jones” star Wei- i Adolph Hitler which was to have comes the ace hotel’s engagement i-been split up under the Allied she demurred because she felt she ’ control of Germany, has just signed owed it to herself to break in her- an agreement with the country’s new act three or four weeks out-, chain of AKI theatres, which by bf-fown ..before risking a Manhal- the year’s end Will give it. 100% tan bow, control of the nation’s newsreel The Yorks carry, their own vi - J theatres, linist-conductor. "They are a Euro-[ The.weemergence of some of the pean turn, with experience also in. ; old monopolistic practices, that Tokyo, Nov. 2. Although the production of anti- American films’ in Japan has de- clined from its peak of earlier this, year, When there were as many as a half dozen hate pix in general release; proof that hate springs eternal is seen in. A new produc- tion, “For Eternal Peace,’’ made through the joint efforts of an im- posing array of unions and dbcu-. mentary film companies. Nippon Eiga and Kiroku Eiga Companies made the film with financial- support from Sohyo (General Council of Trade Unions of Japan),, the National Railway. Workers Union, Federation of Coal Miners'Union,. National Council of Gas Supply Workers Union, Japan Teachers Union, All-Japan Federa- tion of Electrical and Instrument Worker, Union, General Federa- (Continued oh page 62) Joe E. Lewis’ Operation For Ulcers Today (Wed.) Joe E. Lewis, who gobs under surgery today (Wed;) in Harkness Pavilion of the Presbyterian Hos- pital, N. Y., says he’s “doing, my Christmas flopping early.” Opera- tion is for ulcers and, complicated with this, is the fact that the medicos, have had to bring a diabetic complication under control before the surgery. Dan Arnstein, longtime.. pal of the comedian’s/ flew up from Florida earlier this Week to be with Lewis. Both, in- cidentally, went into the hospital last week for a preliminary check* up, at the taxicab.tycoon’s insist- ence; Lewis has cancelled all his nitery bookings until the end Of the year. He told the doctor that in light of the current trend of GIs-turned-female, if they’ll make him “oyer Lii to a horse, maybe that’ll be one way I can win a race. Right now they’ll be cutting plenty, of pari-mutuel tickets out of me.” Rainbow s End the Fx-u'. East,, but new to America. 'QANCE TO FREEDOM' Hungarian Flights Get U S I S Multilingual Soundtracks Washington, Nov. 9. New-film, “Dance to Freedom,” produced by the U. S. Information Agency, W’fl be distributed to for* ign theatres by Republic Pictures. Flm is a reenactment by Istvan Rabovskv and his wife, Nora Ko- vach, famous Hungarian ballet Girl Bullfighter, When Mended, Will Do Film El Paso. Nov,. 9. Patricia McCormick, girl bull- fighter, will hav her life story filmed. Roy Brewer will make the film for Allied Artists release.: Pat McCormick will plby herself. Texas Western College girl, daughter of a petroleum, engineer , .. .. here, is recovering from the goring croachments Into their rights and j. received last month during .a bull • Continued on page 18) ' fight in Del Rio. made UFA the world’s biggest filmmaking and distributing studio of the ’20s, has the U. S. film com- panies and. the German Indies, deeply concerned about its en- By LEONARD TRAUBE If the pollsters can be* wrong dancers, of their 1953 escape to on the elections, why not the broad- freedom. Portions of the pic -were.- casters? sh w recently on Ford Founda : i You gotta hand, it to the sample- lion’s network show, Omnibus, tasters, though. They were work-. Film sound track, now in English, ing as advance men in the Great is being translated to many lan- i Spectacular with a cost of DeMil- guages for use abroad, lions and most of ’em fell on their “Dance to Freedom” shows h ; honorable faces. The radiortv the young couple, though favorites i lBM’ers were working from the w ith Conn ist audiences, deter- j actual results but still couldn't mined to escape to the free world. 'manage to do much more than end Their chance came when they w ere up with statistics that looked tike -invited to dance in East fierii a Chinese laundry ticket. They gave their guards the slip, . ——— went-into the East Berlin subway; | For a good part'of the: time last atid emerged in free West Berlin. 1 Tuesday Wednesday it looked as if To Street Subscription (Order Form Enclosed find, check for $ Please send VARIETY for y®” ? - (Please Print Nam®).- .• 10 Zone. ... State. . . Regular Subscription Rotes One Yegr^$10.0Q Two Years—-$18.00 Canada and Foreign—$1 Additional per Year 154 West 46th Street Int. New York 36. N. Y. I the sicjht^dnd-sound pundits - were consulting the Gallups and other tipsters and then trying to make the incoming scores fit the advance dope. Like looking at program, ratings and deciding that the show-is a floperoo per se. The returns were coming in so fast from the more populous dis- tricts poastin re than one Western Union that the aero-pun- dits couldn’t- see the forest for the. trends. There weren’t: any hds-worth the- mention... The guy went into the booth, voted for a Republican as governor and in the same stroke went' for a Democratic Senator or ditto Lgiver Houseman. If that meant he was an Ike man w)xen it came Ip his slate and a Donkey natiorially, that was the trend as it turned but. Talent-hungry film companies, who once- found New York a happy hunting ground for new aces, nbw . find they’re having (rouble signing up. promising newcomers to term contracts.. The villain of the piece is television.- . Talent , constantly ex- posed to exciting new personalities via tv, admit they’re against tough competition; “The good ones just don’t want to leave N. Y. for top long,’’ was one complaint. 'They’re: earning good money on iv. If .lhey're willing toV come to he Coast, it’s only for specific parts,” Unavailability of the top people tv has left the film companies to sift talent, from the very/large ] number of young people who tried but weren’t able to make a go of it on tv. One of the eastern talent execs, Maurice Bergman of Universal, states that U had decided to face the situation and make the best of it; “We’re cataloging the talent we find on tv and intend to call on. it as specific parts come up,” he stated. That’s in line with U’s declared intention of improving its overall casting approach by pay- ing more attention to character parts as well as the leads. CBSvTV’s Univac Out.of Reming- ton Rand supplied the major com- edy relief. With the monster con- tinuing die-hardedly to predict a Democratic, landslide, Charles Col Tingw'ood kept apologizing that it’s the hunian element that threw Uni- vac out of kilter. So who built. Univac—pixies?. . While Univac Was being built, Mr. Remington worked one side of the body and Mr. Rand the other., but they weren’t talking to each other. ■f Tentative Japanese reaction to U. S. war films is such that there seems to be no good reason - why they* shouldn't be exhibited there, » says Takasai Koide, a producer working with, the Shochiku Co., Japan, who was in New York last Week prior to going to the Coast, where he’ll set up an office for Shochiku, Koide stated that— somewhat to his own surprise— Japanese audiences appeared to feel no resentment at all when see- ing the Hollywood war films. To the contrary,-queues to see thei were common, The Japanese them- selves in 1953 produced a war pie, and it was a big hit. A cycle coming: up, .There has been considerable Mo- tion. Picture Export'Assn. and State Dept, concern over the possible un-v favorable reaction among Japanese and German audiences to U. S.. pix. Latter are to. be screened prior to export. Koide, producer of, some 30 pix for Shochiku, including, the sue* cessful “The Impostor,” said the. Japanese industry was booming de- spite the heavy competition from. Hollywood pix which are getting some 40% of the Japanese playing, time. Japanese producers didn't care much for this, he indicated, but added th$t he didn’t believe that Japan would institute a screen quota, ~ Production costs in Japan were low by Hollywood.Standards, Koide reported, “We can tur out a -super-special’ in color for around $500,000,” he said. Unlike many other foreign industri , the good j Japanese film does have a chance (Continued on page 20) Ed Hastings to Hawaii, Rene Black to Florida; Neither radio nor tv could keep UP with the Joneses and the other voters because, despite the rumors, (Continued Cii page 62) Project Garland-Lanza For tuft ‘South Pacific’; Capital Gains Via Video Sid Luft huddled all day yes- terday (Tues.) with Richard Rod- gers on the proposal to film “South Pacific” with, his wife, Judy Gar- land, and Mal’io Lakza in the orig- inal Mary Martin-Ezio Pinza roles. Luft and Miss Garland return to their Hollywood home later this, week. He lias some fancy ideas for the reported NBC spectaculars, includ- ing a plan for a capital-gains setup which has to be worked out for a series of four. They would be 90 t minute shows, half to be shot on film and: half live; it’s from the film versions that Luft-Garland hope to realize that capital gai It would otherwise be straight in* come, if on a salary basis, no mat- ter how fancy. Luft has his sights On a $300,000- $350,000 production, per each, on the theory that the other spectacu- lars, now average $200,000 and more. If enough production values can go into the filmed portions of- the videocasts he hopes to realize some residual values. i Combination of Ed Hastings’ and Rene Black’s, departure from the Waldorf-Astoria, NY., for new berths, has inspired a “cycle” talk; although it is unlikely that thev will be any other key departures from the Hilton Hotels’ flagsh.i Hastings/ veepee and longtime manager of the W-A, says that “after 15 long happy years” the prospect of being second only to the president of the Matson Lines’ hotel operations in Hawaii couldn’t be turned .down. He will reside at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, one of the shipping line’s four hostelries on the hula islands, the other three being the Moana and Surfrider, and with the completion of the new Princess Kuaialanj next spring it will give him 1,050 rooms to supervise. The Matson-Havvaii hookup is virtually a monopoly, even more so than the Furness Line’s tie-in with Bermuda, and the like, where a carrier-ship or air—also controls the hostelries at the point destina- tion. Pan American Airways is one such in the Central and South American operations, Hastings succeeds Steve Royce, w r ho is now prez and g.m. of the (Continued on page 62) LUNG CANCER FILM IN Ottawa, Nov. 9. Seventh Day Adventist Church in Canada will purchase prints “for wide, use”; of a Technicolor film, “One in Twenty^Thousand,” said to show the. relationship between: cigaret . smoking and the inci- dence of lung cancer. Decision was made at its national executive meeting in Qshavv Ont., last week. Pierre Mendes-France Meets TV ‘Press’ Nov. 21 French Premier. Pierre Mendes- France will “Meet the Press” Nov. 21 in the NBC-TV show’s coup of the year. The international head- line-stealer will face the quiz corps in a N. Y, studio of the web. It’s rare that the Larry Spivak- produced forum has presented a chief of state. Most recent foreign statesmen quizzed on “Meet” wier Britain’s Anthbny Eden and Chan- cellor of the Exchequer Richard Austin Butler.