Variety (December 1954)

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SAM ANGER For The Best Deo! Or A FORD FORD THUNDERBIRD HoH of tho Smith A Oaf* Ufotimo T, Joe Smith racolU wm •fhraatara* a# I Avaa Ciai fy 4 la Salliaf August . . . Colony Club has Paul Roquet, Vernon At Gaylo and ex- otic Candy Barr through the holi- days, with Lynn Carter St the Car- tiers due Jan. 17-30 . . . Quintette Allegro inked for Jan. 14-16 at Greater Dallas Club, with Con nee Boswell set for Feb. 4-6 . . .Capitol Record’s local branch tossed cock- tailery for Vieki Young during her Baker Hotel stand . . . Dngg Fin- nell, Negro 86*er now at La Villa Roma, inked a Richtone recording pact. Now York Kirby Stone to the Monte Cristo, Palm Beach, Feb. 19 . .Sam Bran- son, of the William Morris Agency cafe dept., to Miami Beach for a selling trek... George Jessel opens at the Chez Paree, Chicago, next Tuesday (28)... Lenny Kent goes to the Five O’clock Club, Miami, March 20... Ken Hoffman, admin- istrative assistant to Tim Gale, wed recently to Joyce Munchiek... Tony At Eddie, playing the Bon Soir, N. Y., since September, have been set for the Latin Quarter, N.Y., in June . Dick Shawn pacted for the Latin Quarter, Miami Beach, Jan. 16... Vic Damone set for the State, Hartford, Jan. 8-9... Barry Sisters to the Riverside, Reno, Jan. 6. $12.50 to $10. plus tax. for dinner, a cocktail, and show headlined by Robert Clary. Highest price is being asked by the Gaslight, a socalled private club for the advertising set. where the fee Is to be $50 per couple for pheasant dinner and champagne. Formal dress is required, and a variety of singers and pianists com- prise the entertainment. By con- trast, Cloister Inn on the same street has gone to the other ex- treme and is staging an Open House for the holiday with no cover or minimum, though drinks are to be hiked slightly. Show con- sists of Laurie Allyn, Ruth Price, Ace Harris, and Ralph Sharon. Rest of the niteries are asking what they got last year. Chez Paree tab is $15 per person, plus 2 Americans Abroad by Joe Smith (A Dale) (us told to Aaroa Hafcuma. la Hwfc 49th Annivertary Number DUE SOON Omaha Lowe, Hite At Stanley at the Italian Village in Lincoln last week, set for Don Hammond’s Seven Seas here in March . . . Lee Barron orch followed Charley Chaney into Sam Salzman’s Angelo’s . . . Pat Lelaney continues at organ $t White Horse Inn of Regis Hotel . . . Panto Mimics doing three floorshows Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at the Grand Bar. The Hilton Hotel chain will ex- pand its operations to Rome. 1m- mobilaire Societa Generali and the Hilton Hotels International have organized a company to be known as the Italo Americano Nuovo Al- berghi, which will be capitalized eventually at $3,000,000 for opera- tion of the new Albergo deo Cava- lieri Hilton, which will cost ap- proximately $7,000,000. Inn will have 400 guest rooms and restaurants. Site will be in Rome’s Monte Mario district in the northwestern part of the city. Meanwhile, the Hilton chain re- ported that its offer of 1.004.509 shares of common stock at $6.42 had been oversubscribed. Of that number of shares, 960.455 were of- fered to Hilton stockholders, under- writing companies absorbed the re- mainder. Chicago Sarah Vaughan skedded for Chi- cago Theatre on Jan.'21 for two weeks . . . Terry Haven opens Col- ony Club, Omaha, this week for fortnight . . . Eileen Todd and Jackie Kannon playing New Year’s Eve show and week following at Lake Club in Springfield . . . Paramount Attractions booking Old Dutch Potato Chips shows in Minneapolis exclusively, with Bob Hope set for Feb. 16-17 . . . Penny Singleton and Larry Logan pegged for Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, on Jan. 14 for two weeks, with Dan, Dick 8t Jimmy coming in on Feb. 11. The two local hotels will have the I same price. $12 per person. At | Adolphus Hotel Century Room, | Herman Waldman will play for ! dancing and the Dorothy Franey i Ice Show will be featured. At the ; Baker Hotel’s Mural Room, it will • be Dick Barlow's band, and singer Maureen Cannon toplining the floor show. Colony Club will have Johnny Cola’s orch. with Raul Roquet, Ver- non A Gayle, and exotic Candy Barr on the floor show, with a $6 charge per person, tax included. At Pappy’s Showland, the price will be $5 for Rip Giersdorf’s band and a floorshow' featuring Uncle Willie. The Chalet has $4.75 each down- stairs and $4.50 per person for an upstairs table. Music will be by Leonard Ohlson and his trio. KIRBY STONE FOUR ON TOUR Dallas Joe Reichman orch goes into the Rice Hotel, Houston, Dec. 27. New crew had its shakedown there in C urrentiy CORA CITY Miami loach CORAL RECORDS 2 OF 3 OTTAWA CLUBS IN WINTER SHUTDOWN fBeauty and th • Least ) A new not* In Glamor Comedy State* ay Merry* Neiioe Currently (to Jia. I) PALUMBO S Philadelphia Ottawa, Dec. 21. With nightclub business ap- proaching its annual winter dol- drums in these parts, two of the three niteries in the Ottawa area are shuttering. The Gatineau Club closed Saturday (18) and will prob- ably shutter until early in March. The Chaudiere Club will close this week for at least three weeks. The Fairmount Club will remain open. These niteries are all on the Quebec province side of the Ottawa River and so must obey Quebec’s early-closing laws. Not only must they close on Sundays, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Epiphany (Little Christmas), but on the eves of those holidays they have to close at nine p.m. Ottawa vaudefans may get an unexpected supply of vaudeville There is a Otis Skinner Memorial, Fund at Woodstock, Vt Woodstock, Vt., Dec. 21. An Otis Skinner Memorial plaque has been presented to the Universalist Church here by the actor’s daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner. Skinner’s father and grandfather were ministers in the Universalist Church, and the star spent his last days in Woodstock. An Otis Skinner Fund has been established to help restore the North Universalist Chapel to its original colonial simplicity. NIGHT CLUB and RESTAURANT Tho World Famous LA MARTINIQUE COMEDY MATERIAL for AH Brandt** of Thomlricolt FUN-MASTER rH< owcinju show-mi <m nu (Th* S*nrtc* of th* STARS) first IS Film* $7.00—AM S3 Iimm $25 Singly* Sl.tS por script. Kalcheim, Rockwell To Aid Boy Scouts in N. Y. Nat Kalcheim, of the William Morris Agency, will serve as chair- man of the Artists Committee for the 1955 finance campaign of the Greater N. Y. Council of Boy Scouts of America. Tom Rockwell, General Artists Corp. prexy, will serve as co-chairman. v Appointments were made by Sonny Werblin, Music Corp of America veepee, serving as chair- man of the Amusement Division of the campaign. Campaign tees off Breakfast Fally •*■!,*•* bar. kitebo*: all m*. latilltiaa far catariaf. Caaiplatahr sir aaa*itiaaa*. HARRIS. NEWMARK A CO. IUt BROADWAY OX S- 22 M A. Karlla • I Bka. PARODIES. p*r book. SYS • * MINSTREL BUDOKT 535 • * 4 BLACKOUT RKS., OA. bk. 535 o • BLUE BOOK (Oms for St*«t> 65* • HOW TO MASTSR THB CEREMONIES S3 M OIANT CLASSIFIED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GAGS. S3**. Worth ovor • thousand No C.O.D.'S BILLY GLASON 30* W. 54th St.. N*w York 19—Oept. V Clrcl* 7-113* right at their doorsteps strong possibility that the Centre Theatre, indie uptown filmer stra- tegically located in the center of this city’s main business section, may expand its stage facilities and install a policy of live acts and films on a temporary’ basis as a trial this winter. * Material by Vitk comedy routines**** burlesque BEST COMEDY BITS A. GUY VISK Writing 'Enterprise* 156 Hill Strati . Troy. N “Craatar* at Spatial Cano*y Malarial London, Dec. 21. Arthur Helliwell, columnist on the People, a London Sunday sheet, who accepted a challenge from Rudy Vallee to catch his act a second time at the Cafe de Paris, gave his further impressions last week. “I can now report that (1) Vallee has cut the saxophone routine I criticized; (2) he has kept in the smutty jokes, and »3> his singing is still mediocre,” he wrote. ‘‘In fairness, however, I must record that (1) the restaurant was packed, (2* most of the customers applaud- ed loudly, and (3' a couple even cheered.” with a Dawn Patrol Jan. 5 at the Waldorf-Astoria, N. Y, that distinctive song duo herb and betty warner Currently hotel statler CAN YOU SING AND DANCE? DO YOU PLAY A UKE OR BANJO? CAN YOU HELP WITH THE PRODUCTION OF AMATEUR SHOWS? CLEVELAND, Ohio management: BERNIE ILSON Mex Cafe on Move Mexico City. Dec. 14. The Waikiki, raucous oldjime nitery here which many Ameri- cans and other foreigners fre- quented before the 8c peso made it tough for everybody excepting outstanding stars, has been de- prived of its choice site on swanky Pasco de la Reforma. The city amusements supervi- sion department ordered Waikiki to move to a less conspicuous lo- cation. It s doing that right after a gala New Year's Eve fiesta. A multimillion-peso tourist hotel is to replace the hot night spot. We are looking for the above type of girl that would like a position for 10 weeks in the summer of 1955. One of New England's famous resort hotel catering to a discriminating Jewish Clientele would like a girl that has a child and is looking for b connection for the entire summer. After Three Consecutive Years of Bookings AT HOME for the Holidays— MERRY CHRISTMAS Mqt. BILL MITTLER. 1419 Broodway. N*w York Write to room 600, 275 Tremont Street, Boston. Send recent photo and short resume aoout yourself, Will interview in New York.