Variety (August 1957)

62 CHATTER P?AHIe£y Wednesday, August 28, 1957 Broadway^ figured in the news again with a report that the property was being offered for resale at $5,100,000, of which $1,700,000 must be cash. Glickman denies this, adding that his group plans to develop the Celebrity Service incepting a new international Celebrity Regis¬ ter for 1958 publication. Ed & Pegeen Fitzgerald back | ™ 8™^“' yesterday iTues.) from three-week. P r °P ert y lt selt - holiday quickie to Ireland. j _ Curl Jurgens, German film Porie actor, sailed for Europe last week • 1H1W on the S.S. United States. Gypsy Rose Le6, accompanied by her son, Erik Lee Kirkland, off for London (Temple Bar 5041/99521 end as his guests at the “Joker Is Wild” world preem here. After the Joe E. Lewis biopic screening, Joe E. himself was bartender at a By Gene Moskowitz (28 Rue Huchette; Odeon 4944) __ , In *and out are Frank Scully, Europe Saturday (24i on the lie Billy Rose, Robert Taplinger and de France. i U.S. photog Gene Fenn. Publicist Willis Player now an - Jack Benny to London for a American Airlines veep, reporting tw'oweeks stay. He will do a spe-: to v.p. Rex Smith in public rela-. cial BBC telecast while there. j wrist when she was thrown from tions. i Frank Sinatra due in for prelims I horse while filming here. Big turnout tonight (Wed.), at ; on his forthcoming pic, “Kings Go ! Joan Heal back in the cast of the $60-a-plate dinner at the Wal- 1 Forth” (UA>, to be made in France. (“Grab Me A Gondola,” at the Ly- dorf-Astoria marking Gimbel Bros. I Cirque Medrano closing down for ; ric after a twoweek vacation in exec Joe Eckhouse’s 50th birthday.irepairs until early October when it-France. Fawcett Publications’ roving ; takes up its. Combo circus-music j Anthony Quayle lined up as Zsa European correspondent Michael: hall activities. f Zsa Gabor’s husband in a new Stern due in‘from Rome Sept. 14. Virginia Hart, U.S. song' cleffer,' Anna Neagle starrer, “Queen and to enroll his 17-year-old son Mike. in after a successful presentation Smith.” Jr. in Syracuse Univ. i of her original works at a private ; Mel Torme taken ill during a David O. Selznick and his ‘ theatre on the Riviera. j vaude show here. He did a sec- actress-wife Jennifer Jones, as wellj ' French are holding back top fea-;ond show against doctor’s orders, actress-wife Jennifer Jones, in ‘ ture pix during the summer exodus ; but iiow r isunaking a good recovery, from Europe yesterday. (Tues.i on but U.S. distribs have poured in; Donald Houston to N.Y. via the the Queen Elizabeth. '“Oklahoma” (HKO> and “Fire‘Queen Elizabeth to make his Mary Pickford, who’s traveling Down Below” (Col), with both get-. Broadway debut in Dylan Thomas with her nieces, Mary Charlotte | ting good reviews. - ! “Under Milk Wood.” This is his and Susan Ornstein, and her j Director Jacques Becker and I first trip to the U.S. nephew, John Ornstein, en route ; scripter Henri Jeanson patched up { Hal Wallis in for a sixweek Eu- to Cannes on the SS Augustus. I their differences over their forth- i ropean visit and for confabs with Alfred H. Tamarin. United Art- coming pic, “Montparnasse 19,” ■ Paramount for release of three of lsts* assistant ad-pub director,! and film rolls in October. It’s a j his pix. “The Sad Sack/* back from a Paris vacation. Arnold ; Franco-Liondon production. i Spell” and “Storm Within Us.’ M. Picker, foreign operations v.p.,: j due back tomorrow’ (Thurs.i from’-:- a European tour. Salvador Salcido, formerly of the dance team of Salvo & Gloria, now in the coin dept, of the for¬ eign currency exchange house of Lionel Perera, Manfram & Brookes, in Rockefeller Center. Jerome Hill and Erica Anderson, producer-director and photogra- j* , , T?PonVft,rf Joe JCi. nunseii was Daneuuer at a enfe a JaiS a the d USAF. i h ° Sted * Gisela Griffel, the German ac- Beldon Katleman. tress, in to make a tv appearance. Donald Wolfit to be guest of honor. at the Arts -Theatre Club supper Monday (2). Work began the transformation of the London Hippodrome into a : Theatre Restaurant, i Percy Livingstone, general sales (manager for 20th-Fox, elected to company’s directorate. Melina Mercouri fractured her Miami Beach By Lary Solloway (1755 Calais Dt.; Union 5-5389) Carillon Hotel, a 620 roomer, also due to open for ’57-’58 season, will have Jacques Donnet orch playing in its cafe. VFW convention of 35,000 hy¬ poed biz around town this week. Deauville Hotel, one of largest being erected for upcoming sea¬ son, planning revue, production for its nitery (850 seats) sans high- dough names. Local clothier-gagster Mickey Hayes, close friend of Phil Silvers, written into latter’s tv show for one shot—he’s in Gotham on deal: he’s also partnered with Jack Rael and Patti Page in President Madi¬ son Hotel. “Hot Horse-Laugh Oaters Continued from page 1 Westport, Conn. By Humphrey Doulens Lester Cowan visiting here. Jean Dalrymple’s birthday party Sinatra Blast Continued Irom page 1 ; tions of the 33 ' ASCAP songwriters against BMI some time last year. For his comment, Miller stated: “Sinatra has taken isolated por¬ tions of my testimony and has put them together in a manner that dis¬ torts completely the nature of my testimony.” Sinatra quoted Miller as saying the following under oath: “Bob in the fear they 11 saturate the next Sunday the big doings of holi- j Merrill woulid bring a! stampede of poking fun at the cow-; day weekend. ! to ,™ e , the son 0 s were pokes. i William Archibald’s new play, a blt 1 g°t a cneck from his royal- One of them (“no names, "The Cantilevered Terrace,” has; ties to me. It amounted to $5,000 uher of the bioDic “Albert Schwei- ! please”) offered even another j first performance Sunday (1) at ■ to $6,000—different checks, tzer” and press rep Irving Drut- ! facet to their planned campaign to j White Barn Theatre. Mildred; Miller stated further, according man off today (Wed.* for a special 'send the waddies thataway for;Dunnock has lead i to Sinatra: These recent songs I - -- -— - - . Monon Annorcnn D o t o t h y j received compensation on were showing of the film at the Edin- good. By kidding the westerns into j jjanan Anderson, jj; or o tny j received compensation on were burgh Film Festival. I ludicrous retreat, he allows thatj Fi^ds, Alexander^H. Cohen, Olga j Mambo Italiano and Make Your- Martin S. Davis, Allied Artists’ ‘ more of them that are cancelled; B ee * mhIikh™ ilfn ! 1 sslf Comfortable. I would say eastern ad-pub chief, off to Mont-, the better the chances are of his ! Eileexi at'** nnn ’ ^ ° T ' a " opening Aug. 26, of “Back to Me- real to conduct promotional con- brother, comics getting back on the ferences with AA’s Canadian reps * a i r , “Wlio knows, if these cowhands and theatremen re “Hunchback of take over we may be the next to Notre Dame” world premiere get bumpe d t ” he reasoned. The p ?!! s ' ,, . lT> , -r main idea, he indicated, is to rid of M .£ CA Ger-' !»«!*" rf eowb.y, yd Mn« many, returning to their Frankfurt b Of course there s home this weekened. now' that ! a selfish motive, that if the cowboy their first heiress was born on U.S.' can be made the laughing stock of thuselah,” at Country Playhouse. Rome By Robert F. Hawkins (Arckimede 145; Tel 800211) John Wayne here from Los An- say about $4,000.” Miller also said, ac¬ cording to Sinatra: “There is a song called "A Guy’s a Guy.’ From that I received 31 , 200 .” Sinatra used the alleged quota¬ tions from Miller to substantiate his claim that “the fact that Colum¬ bia and Victor recording com¬ panies are owned by networks has led to a great deal of skullduggery.” l on U.S.' uc iau 6 m.i 6 oLuvn. w ■■ - , CT ; nArv i CA fiT,-,! wnrlr nn : lea 10 a great aeai oi SKUiiauggery. soil. He flew over for the occasion tbe . lookers, the better are the «L e gehd 0 f tbe Lost >» j This was part of a telegram sent but had to return to the Continent’ comic’s chances of hitting a higher ; ' by Sinatra congratulating Sen. alu-ad of schedule. . ■ Njelsea and riding out the season,' ^uiaue 3 ” oSned in ' Smathers for introducing a bill French comedienne Lilo r'Can-: Burns is more outspoken than ; tain for vaSttonwtth h£ I prohibiting broadcasters from own- Can" start is the Marquise Guy de. the others. He let drop a few of; SmUv * ±0 ing music publishing firms and la Passadierre in private life. Her; the quips he’ll use on the show.; ' £ _ in 1 recording companies. (See separate husband is her personal manager ; such as “if I can only find a rock : „_ Wa . lter signed to role in ’ tnrv in Mu«?ic%pp t inn) and when, at the American Hotel,, that hasn’t been used,” and, “if I Tnstesse, rolling soon , , * Miami Beach, recently, somebody j had the residuals on the same ■ ir i France under direction [ Sinatras telegram, released -to phoned him. the telephonist wanted Snck sLtr that wiirbe ^ L of Otto Premm 2 er * 1 the P ress under the banner of the to know’, “Is that the name of the! 4 q sb0 ws I’ll be a rich man ” and ‘ Reported here that Yul Brynher j Songwriters Protective Assn., newest hotel in MianwT’ “whit T wnnld pivp fnr fontaffp of wil1 be a repeat partner of Ingrid [which has been vigorously on the Kay Ashton Stevens, widow of th ctomnpdinp 8 rattle the lamhs Bergman in an upcoming Anatole side of the litigating ASCAP clef- the famed drama critic, back in ^ hln^acroSfa^^^tream ?’ b Litvak picture titled, “The Trip.”}f e rs, stated: “To a singer of songs her Chicago base tshe’s p.r. aide: wh at* m av hurt the cowbovs most ? D i ana Dors to London for few fit is very comforting to know that at Zenith, after a long siege. fol- 1 \ away from her “Ragazza del! through your efforts the U.S. Sen- lowing surgery, at the Mayo Clime,, ^X' e rhundr!d timS ’’ and 1 Palio ” chores in Siena. Vittorio j ate is taking action to prevent Rocbeste, Mum. . Anofb.r Ugo, «« ^ alumna, discharged as OK, is Mrs. many oi ine arimces usea io create j A German company is shooting ; sonss thev owm and^'burviiTs the Gaby ' David i Smart, widow of the an air of reality They 11, have , -Liana, the White Slave” on Italian j sonls thev S?t own b y When head of the Esquire-Coronet dy-, something to kid about when the lpcations and in Kome studios . Unit ] songs they ^m t own • • • When nasty. . western star, after putting aw’ay) includes star Marion Michael, Ad-! your Dm Decomes la *’ tlHngs llKe Robert Whitehead has given; a dozen baddies, shows nary a) r ian Hoven and Saro Urzi. Arthur Kober an office in his mid- [ scratch or a mussed hair. It’s a new j Seen in Rome: Bob Hope and town diggings awaiting completion j field for the comedy writers and j family, William Dieterle, Joan of his new play. Kober also ready- j they’re sitting at their typewriters ! Crawford, Otto Preminger, Ruth ing a ncw ? book, “Pick- Ud The;;- „i- —a ki„„u„„ t ™ Pieces/* next si cates, the pieces are from The New ; f „ hrpat h nf fre^h air after i Yorker, and also will include his' s Ji ke J L in iSSS ! writings for Variety. jear of staying in the living The Alfred K. Stern cited by r ° om - -” , iucj ic aniiJig at men i^pcwiiicid , ^lawiviu, u/uu piciuiiigci^ iium “Pick Up The; j n chaps and 10-gallon hats to' Roman, Lee Bennett, Ernest Borg- i iinri Schuster!*. _*.___j_o_*.;_a t this Miller situation will be no longer possible. Until then, the tieup of recording companies to the network will continue to be unhealthy. Until then, the Ameri- ieces,” for Simon and Schuster • “ capture th e mood” while deflating j nine, Anatole Litvak and Antigone \ can audience will have to. put up i‘xt spnng: as the punny title inai- ; the be roes. Said one of them, “this : Costanda. j with the songs which the broad- Las Vegas staying ^ ^ ^ Wl , u „ This is the shot-in-the-arm counterspy Boris Morros, along ' ve need and we’re loving it.” j By Forrest Duke with Mrs. Stern, the former Mar- It’s for sure one of the most; (Dudley 2-6100) garet Dodd, daughter of William gripping suspense items in the cow- j Beldon Katleman tossed birth- E. Dodd, pre-war U.S. Ambassador ■ boys packet, the gun fight w’here j day party for belly-terper Nejla to Hitler’s Germany, was at one; each stealthily and measuredly! Ates. time in the music publishing busi-; moves toward the other with trig-1 Rick Williams, former screen ness, as partner with Morros. \ ger fingers itching, will get its and tele writer, now 7 p.r. rep at Stern is also said to be related to. just due. Skelton may even chal- the Golden Nugget, the Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roe-jienge Jack Benny to just such a' Life mag photos here doing lay- buck* family. | duel on one or the other’s program! out on Leona Gage, “Miss U.S.A. The Theatre Guild echelon and ^ be result would bound to be! ?o r a Day,” w’ho’s in the new Goo «e" C Je SS rff ne fina e i oAe-mln ! \ T lSSSI .fc, foaturod terper ahoiv at their. Wostpor, Playhouse | !«! time around. on Saturday (24> night with an eye I to bringing it to Broadway for a \ _ . . ., run. Jessel took off Sunday i25n sec ret that most of the for Paris and the Riviera enroute: comics have banded together to to Tel Aviv, where is slated for an rid the airlanes of the “cowboy official honor for his Israel Bond 1 curse.” How 7 well it takes with the Drive activities. I viewer must be purely speculative. Producer Joe H a z e n (-Wallis ; But it is not to be dismissed lightly Productions) is a feller like this: j in view of a court action instituted if he’s gonna stay away four by Metro against Jack Benny for months at the BevHills Hotel, sans ! satirizing the highly dramatic his five Picassos and one Matisse, j “Gaslight.” The studio must reckon he just had them shipped west for | that the i amp0 oning must have and blms , e II 1:o en J°y- I n : hurt the picture’s boxoffice, producer’s *'one-man ex- whichever way it goes, it will £!in«w ™ S S A f !. only tend to enlarge oh the scope of ^he 1 ?X a st critics b f t f l of the western but can the make- Thl 66-year-o\d S * Carnegie Hall b flifve cowboy ride out all the which was sold to Louis J. Glick- 1 Adding hell take from the comics., man, realtv investor, for $5,000,000! Ho ballplayer ever took the riding in 1956, with an eye to a $22,000,- [ that these cowboys are in for. If 000, 44-story office skyscraper on that doesn’t work they may all have the 56-57th St. Sc 7th Ave. site, {to go western in a serious way. may do a tele show with Donald O’Connor. Donna Fuller a click in the Sil¬ ver Slipper lounge. The California cutie disks on the Liberty label, and is booked for four frames. Ken Murray received word at the Riviera that Leo Burnett agency in Chicago sold his “El Coyote Rides” tele series to a spon- spor. Sonny King hack in Sahara lounge, alternating with Mary Kaye Trio. King will do the Eddie Jackson role in the Jimmy Durante biopic. Trop switch will be timed with departure of Red Norvo combo which was in for 18 weeks and will now record two albums for RCA- Victor, and Bernie Nerow, and his pianistics. Frank Sinatra had reservations for 72 pals at the Sands last week- casters allow to be heard—master¬ pieces like ‘Hound Dog/ ‘Bebop-a- Lula’ and ‘All Shook Up’.” Sinatra is currently with Capitol Records, which is not tied, to any broadcast¬ ing company. Last year, when Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. r N.Y.) was conducting hearings on the music and broad¬ cast industries at New York's Foley Square Courthouse, Sinatra needled Miller with the charge that the latter had tried to foist only BMI songs on him while he was with Columbia. Miller, at that time, counterblasted with a statistical breakdown of the number of ASCAP and BMI songs cut by Sinatra during his Columbia ten¬ ure. The figure showed a great majority of the’tunes were ASCAP. Against the current Sinatra rap. Miller issued the following state¬ ment: “More than a year ago I appeared as a witness in a law suit now before the U.S. court. I am not a party to that suit and the matters involved in it wili not be resolved by an exchange of tele¬ grams between Mr. Sinatra and myself. I should like merely to point out that Mr. Sinatra has taken isolated portions of my testi¬ mony’ and has put them together in a manner that distorts completely the nature of my testimony.” Miller, incidentally, is currently vacationing on Long Island. Hollywood Helen Hayes in from Mexico to visit son. Jack Garber joined Mort Good¬ man ad agency. American Society of Cinenjatog- ! raphers joined Motion Picture In¬ dustry Council. Sandy MacPherson, columnist for the Calgary Herald, in town to visit the studios. George Murphy will make five- city trek next month to lecture be¬ fore civic groups on “Hollywood Looks at Future.” Gerald M. Loeb, senior partner in the El F. Hutton investment firm, here for annual confabs with studio execs and clients. Confab of Personal Managers named George Qreif, Manny Frank and Eddie Rio to draw up a Code of Ethics for managers. Joseph Mazzuca, a cinema arts major at USC, won Screen Direc¬ tors Guild Educational and Bene¬ volent Foundation’s fir§t scholar¬ ship of 1957. Charlie Morrison, M o c a m b o owner, left an estate of $1,400 it was disclosed in probate court when the widow, Mary Morrison, was named administrator. Marilyn Carroll and Steve Ihnet. thesps working in “Teenage Rum¬ ble,” slightly injured when brakes on a motorcycle failed and they crashed into a car on location. Minneapolis By Les Rees Old Log summer theatre present¬ ing “Anastasia.” Pianist Jan August into Hotel Radisson 'Flame Room. Edyth Bush Little Theatre hold¬ ing over “The Showoff.” Hildegarde set for Hotel Radis¬ son Flame Room three-week date next month. Songwriter Sid Lippman back to N.Y. after summer sojourn with relatives here. Duluth, Minn., strawhatter 61 Theatre winding up season Sept. 2 with current, “Dial M for Murder.” Andre Kostelanetz guest conduc¬ tor this week at third of Minnea¬ polis Symphony’s “Music Under the Stars” series. Editorializing on New York’s legit theatre “quiet renaissance,” Minneapolis Morning Tribune ex¬ pressed hope it’ll spread here, but pointed out “we must earn re¬ birth by patronizing the good pro- -ductions generously.” Frankfurt By Hazel Guild (24 Rheinstrasse; 776751) “Diary of Anne Frank” to be done this fall in Budapest, first time for it in Hungary. * German actress Eva Kotthaus set for a role in “In Another Land” 120th), starring Jennifer Jones and Rock Hudson, and now filming in Rome. German actress Annemarie Dueringer playing the lead in “69 Wardour Street,” starring Jef¬ frey Hunter, and now filming in London: It’s a 20th-Fox pic. | Sixty-year-old Hans Deppe takes his sixth stint as director when he starts filming “Herz ohne Heimat” (Heart Without Home) for H. D. Films this fall. Trevor Howard due in for police car tie-ins with his Columbia film, “Pick-Up Alley,” due to open here shortly. The Warwick Production stars Victor Mature, Anita-Ekberg and Howard. Top Geman film and stage ac¬ tress Hilde Krahl is set for the Duesseldorf preem of “Orpheus Descending/ ’which is being pro¬ duced and directed by American Leo Mittler. Chicago Los Barancos back for repeat date at Mangum’s Chateau. Joe Glaser planed in for a few days for Billy Daniels' opening at the Chez Paree. Gertude Berg starring at Edge- water Beach Theatre through Sept. 8 in “Matchmaker.” Win Stracke, folkslnger and lo¬ cal tv personality, appearing cur¬ rently in Tenthouse Theatre’s “Bus Stop.” Carolyn Gilbert moved to N.Y. last weekend to take over her new post as talent chief for Arthur God¬ frey. James Dunn here for- a fort¬ night of “Harvey,” which opened last night (Tues.) at Drury Lane Theatre. Actress Tresa Hughes and hus¬ band Robert, prez of American Federation of Film Societi es, nulled stakes here for Gotham gamble. . . Ferde Grofe, Gordon MacRae and Roberta Peters all performed at Chicago Tribune’s 28th annual Chicagoland Music Festival at Sol¬ diers’ Field last Saturday (24).