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Martin & Lewis Pull A Fast One; Dinah Shore’s Unwelcome Suitor HOLLYWOOD . . . Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis pulled a neat coup against the opposition—Ed Sullivan’s Toast of the Town —before their last Comedy Hour. They fooled Ed into wasting a powerhouse against them— by publicizing a date a week ahead of the actual show! . . . Just before a recent telecast, a stranger who kept insisting he loved her was discovered in Dinah Shore’s dressing room. Guards hustled him out. ■ Here’s a tale of woe. Mickey Rooney had a young lady under con¬ tract at $250 a week. Paramount wanted to test her, hut the Mick said, “No.” Then he turned her loose. And now the poor little girl is out in the cold—and screaming. ~ j ■ Pinky Lee’s new home in Beverly Hills has an island with two palm k trees smack in the mid- Lucille Ball die of his swimming pool. . . . Sonja Henie has been invited by NBC to make a pilot for a series of 39 half-hour shows. “But I hate pi¬ lots,” Sonja says, pouting. And with reason. Joan Crawford made two, and I believe Irene Dunne has one stashed away, and there’s many a slip be¬ tween the pilot and the small print of a contract. . . Speaking of pilots, Zsa Zsa Gabor wanted to change her male lead after the first film for the Cy Howard series. She asked for Gary Merrill. But she’ll never get him. Not if Bette Davis sees her first. ■ Helen Traubel’s CBS contract is so exclusive she couldn’t even be a guest on This Is Your Life for Ralph Edwards. Sometimes I think the stars use the “exclusive” excuse to duck a chore. . . . When someone said to Jim Backus—before the announce¬ ment that I Married Joan was on its way out, “Well, I guess you’ll get an award for supporting Joan Davis; er, you do support Joan, don’t you?” Jim re¬ plied, “No, she supports me. I’m the only actor who gets a paycheck with lipstick on it.” ■ Personal notes: The telegram I received from the Motion Picture Acad¬ emy, in connection with my appearance as one of the hostesses on the Os¬ car nominations telecast, read: “You are to receive a minimum token fee of $5,000.” I immediately bought a limousine, rented a beach house at Malibu and took care of a favor¬ ite uncle for life. But my telegram was meant for Jack Webb. And those are the facts ma’am . . . Said Dick Powell to my husband, after appear¬ ing on my early morning show: “We both have to get older wives who aren’t so active!” ■ A pal gifted Lucy and Desi with a geiger counter and when they ar¬ rived at their Palm Springs home, the thing started jumping all over the place. But it wasn’t uranium. Just Palm Springs’ usual effect on geigers. no uranium. 72