Variety (September 1960)

7* P^RlEff Wednesday, September 21, 1960 Literati ; Continued from page 78 ; 'average readers are likely to find the going somewhat annoying when they are denied identification with principals, except in Rubinstein and Tone cases. Mouthpiece closes his memoirs with an unusual tribute to Tdm Neal, who emerges as the tag-time hero of this book. Plenty of color and Tinseltown savvy figures iir Golden's writing, which should together with sexy cover of the volume, help it to sell. Miss Davis, a lyricist, formerly of Hollywood, but now doing the awards, a Mike Berger collec¬ tion has been established at the school. uate” work at Stanford U.. submits a knowledgable tale of Smogland, basing her central characters on typical filmtown personalities. Current status of tv, which has transformed some of the old. Hol¬ lywood into a ghosttown, gives the story a slightly dated aspect. Yarn should make a good film or tv presentation. Rodo. Dutchman’s ‘The Dance’ j; “The Dance” by Joost A. M. Meerloo (Chilton; $4.95) is a text- and-picture history of terping from early ritual dancing to rock ’n* roll, ballet, and ballroom techniques; Author is a Dutch medico who was chief of Holland’s psychological warfare during World War II. and. grad-: who now teaches at Columhuia U. Barney Oldfield’s Scholarship . Not generally known, that Col. Barney Oldfield, now a career press officer with the Air Force, ex- Lincoln (Neb. i Variety corre¬ spondent, and author, has been quietly sponsoring iwith his wife* the Kinman Oldfield Scholarship Fund at the University of Ne¬ braska. When the total of $20,000 is readied it will pay a sophomore $1,000 for the last two years he is in school. Fund is named for their parents; Vada Kinman is Mrs. Old¬ field. Col. Oldfield earmarked ail in¬ come from his book. “Never A Shot In Anger,” to the fund; ditto the fees from “To Tell The Truth.” Groucho Marx and kindred tv 6hows. Handel’s Seminar Benjamin -K. Handel, magazine editor of the N. Y. Daily News, will instruct a 15-week course in picture editing which starts SeptJ 2ft at the Washington Sq. branch! of New York U. Course, which will be held Wed T nesday evenings, is planned to help those in the communications field make more effective use of photon- graphs. Among topics for discus^ sion ..are picture-story planning; cropping and enlarging, caption writing, etc. Langner’s Books and New School for. Social Re¬ search. Book was handsomely printed In the Netherlands, and comprises tasteful handbook of dance art. Rodo, CHATTER Maurice Zolotow’s Marilyn Mon¬ roe biog tfiarcourt, Bracer, due this week, and already serialized in digest form in McCall’s, has been Isold to W. II. Allen (Britain). Galli- mard (France' and negotiations are current for Italy, Germany and Japan; Allen will bring it out end of this year; French version next spring. Holiday mag’s promotion stunt is “Quotes from Holiday,” booklet of bright excerpts, distributing it to advertisers and ad agencies. Richard L. Williams hai .joined Hillman Periodicals as v.p. in charge of editorial operations. He was assistant v.p, and editorial director of Deli's special projects division and previously v/ith Life and Time where he was Associate editor. and a member of its -executive committee. Blossom has been a director since 1944, president since' 1957, and editor of American mag for 27. years, before it discontinued publication. Continued from page 7Q — Once I/pon a Mattress act attests, there Is a limit to how fur a travesty on Momism can be stretched, and how much humor can be wrung from .20th century anachronisms in a, medieval court. Only the music and dance numbers save the second act from, disaster. If the original. New York; edition was as charming as reported, it must be the fault of the casting that the touring. version comps off less effectively. The road company is blessed with comedy virtuosi, and while their separate perform¬ ances’ are delightful, the total ef¬ fort has somewhat the effect of an animated cartoon-. There are win¬ ning moments; but the production is not. graced overall with that brittle virtue. Broadway producer . Matt Cone- ly about plans for his play, “Emanuel.” Eugene Ionesco will arrive Nov. 1 from Paris for pre-production conferences his play, “Rhi¬ noceros.” Donald Ewer, a featured actor in . a current Toronto stock revival of “Epitaph for George Dillon,” was seriously inj urpd lit a motor crash there last Tuesday (13). . Albert Quinton, a member of the N. Y. Shakespeare Festival Co., during its recently-ended summer season, has. been selected to re¬ ceive the I960: Ian Keith Memo¬ rial aw ard of $i;000; cash and an Ian Keith Knight statuette. The award was established, by actor Gebrge C. Scott. Future Productions . Continued from page.73’; .1956 . hovel); Arthur Cantor, pro- ‘Fighting Cock* ssss. Continued from pif N ssa perises of $3,662 reduced that fig¬ ure to $16,238. Harrison was in on a $3,000 weekly guarantee against 10% of the. gross until- recovery of th#‘ production expenses, and there¬ after his share of the gross, was to climb to 1212%. The; show’s di¬ rector, Peter Brook, got ;.a $5,000 fee,; plus 3% of ihfe gross. Both Harrison, and Brook were; each to get an additional 5% cut of any profits as a; running expense; The agreement with the author, although not on. the .form of a. Dramatists Guild minimum basis contract, stipulated a - minimum Guild author royalty of 5%; of the first $5,000' gross, 71-2% of the next $2,000 and 10% of the balance until the recovery of production costs or until the play ran 20 weeks in New , _ York. Thereafter,, the royalty was ducer; For immediate production; 1 to be a straight 10 % arid the dif- “Love and Like,’* by Herbert . feienee between the minimum Gold; Miltrin Perlman, producer, ' royalty, originally paid and a , “Mary, Mary.” comedy by Jean.j^ rQya lty w ^, to ' Keri". Ro»er L Stevens nrodiicpr paid only if the, play ran 40 weeks Buster Keaton, - typecast as. the j «<p mc „n •» h,ti ‘[and then only when the weekly mute king, remains Buster Keaton '■ P . 0IS °?L T ^ ee * i - drama Hugh • g,: 0 sg topped $23,000 from beeinnine to ehd which' in Brooke; Harry Horner, producer, > ■ •■■ . . v irom oeginnmg id . ena, wnicn in ; , ■ . ■ ’ ** . i The production has a regular share i» subsidiary rights, next vear ' producer - Eo f i except that it does not participate ‘ „ . , ^ t , i:iri publication, lamateiir or. foreign . Simmone, drama by Sertolt language rights or in any perform- Brecht; Ben Hecht. adapter; Harry mg; rights in the play outside ihe. Hor producer. L\S- arid Canada; The production’s . OFF-BROADWAY participation in filrii; and allied “Darwin’s Theories,”-by Darwin television rights is to be 30% in-. Venneri/ iusic and lyrics; Alan stead of 40% and applies only if Alda. Opening Oct. 12 at the Madi- the' rights are disposed of within son Avenue Plavhouse, N; Y ' five years of the close of the run "Deep Are the B«e‘ts." drama by 6f ) K f piay “ « h .? U.S^and Canada. one respect is a treat/ He gives a delectable cameo perforimmce. Similarly, Dody Goodman, who plays a sort of . medieval Annie Oakley and is responsible for most of the laughs. in the show, never quite gives in to .the role - at the expense of her familiar television personality, Harold. Lang’s por¬ trayal of : the Jester is another cameo, brilliant in dance but not quite ih tune, with the fantasy. Arnold d’Usseau and James GoW; His magazine writings included many science-fiction and western yarns. N. Y. Herald Tribune, columnist Art Buellwald is coming over solo from Paris to cover the elections. As is: standard for Bldqmgarden, i there was a weekly producer’s tea eekly office charge. In featured, comedy, parts, Cy Young arid Fritzi Burr maintain a _ t , .. ,, . satisfying level of caricature, asj Lynn-.Michaels' & Bernice Barkaft.-^.^V'^^h^In "addition* To Drury D. Sharp, 71, fiction vrnU j- docs - Willy' Switkes as the dodder-.i producers:. Bert Conway, director. ; •-k.p.tTv' Affine eharop. er, died Aug. 2p in Albuquerque, j i ri o W : .zard.,Best of the singing and ! Opening Oct. 2 at the St, Mark; straight dramatic performances I Playhouse, N, Y. arp by. John Baylis as th.e^iinstrei | Beneath, the Skin,” drama and Irene Dean, as the lady in the - - love interest. Jack ;Sydpw\ • following George ALbbtt's staging of the original, MARRIAGES by. W. II; Auden'and- Christoph^) R«WM »««- 1 sherwood:* Louis Guss. producer. ,OT “ n - Se ! >l - 18. Hollywood. She,.. For March 1961. Ilis wife. Ann, may join him for ' has whipped it Into slick shape. the final week or so. but lie’ll be too much on the jump during- the major portion of his U. S. journal¬ istic excursion. The X. Y. Post suspended Jackie Robinson’s colunv for the dura¬ tion of the campaign, in order to maintain neutrality. Veepee of Lcs. Continued from page .72.; Lawrence Langner’s next-year j taken a payless leave of absence book for Putnam will be “Bernard ; from the company, for which he Shaw and The Lunatic.” j is in charge of labor relations', for His newest. “The Plav’s The ■ the same reason;'Former Brooklyn Thing.” is just off the Putnam Chock Full o’ Nuts Corp. also has j U9- s A R ^]5 S ’ aR 4 then at the Cur- i—- -I ran.-San Francisco. Gig. Youhg arrived in New York press, officially scheduled for Sept 30 publication. Mrs. Carlton C,ole agented the new Putnam deal. ’Words On Paper’ Roy H. Copperud, whose "Edi¬ torial Workshop” appears in Editor & Publisher, has put a very practi¬ cal manual of prose style “for pro¬ fessional writers, reporters, au¬ thors, editors and teachers” into , a book titled “Words On Paper” (Hawthorn: $4.95>. There Is an in¬ tro by Erwin D. Canham, editor !of the Christian Science Monitor. There is an excellent glossary iof usage which is not a mere para¬ phrase of words; it is utilitarian and commonsense instruction bn style and the like. By coincidence “Words On Pa-’ per” parallels the new Variety Style Sheet currently being pre¬ pared for its. staffers. There are differences, especially on telescop- ings and certain spellings, but Cbp- perud anticipates contemporaneous publications engaging in their own flavor and style. Abeit. Z Meyer Berger Awards Industrialist Louis Schweitzer has made endowment of $20,000 to the Columbia U. Graduate School of Journalism for annual news¬ paper awards honoring the late N. Y. Times reporter and column¬ ist Meyer <Mikei Berger. Called the Mike Berger Awards, the first two cash prizes of $500 each may be made early next year to metropolitan New York report¬ ers who have distinguished them¬ selves in the Berger traditiori of fine reporting. Editors are bieing invited to submit entries by {Oct. 10 , Berger was a Times reporter for 80 years, a Pulitzer Prizewinner and one of the best known news¬ papermen of his time. i Winners will be selected by a Jury including Frank S. Adams, Berger’s last editor; Robert Bird, N. Y. Herald Tribune reporter* and Mrs. Meyer Berger. Along with Dodgers star is for Nixori-Lodge. Moss Hart’s “personal” at Wool- worth’s 34lh St. (Manhattan) for the teeoff autographing sales of the 75c. New American Library paperback of his “Act One" best¬ seller, resulted in 876 copies -sold last Wednesday forenoon. His wife. Kittj; Carlisle, was inveighed to collaborate an many cosignatur- ipgs. Stanley Green’s “The; World of Musical Comedy” is due Oct. 19 off the Ziff-Davis press. Deems Tay¬ lor wrote the foreword. Roland Gammon, religoiis writer, lecturer and v.p. of Peed, Gammon & Company, p.r. consultants, has an article on “World Crisis and World Religion” in the September Universalist Leader. His bestselling volume oh the major religions, “Truth Is One,” will be issued in a French edition in Paris this fall. Charles Lynch, Ottawa, chief of Southam News Service, reelected president of the Canadian War Cor¬ respondents Assn,, C. A.. Day and Pat Ussher, both with Canadian Press in Toronto, respectively treasurer and secretary. Richard Gwyn of Thomson News¬ papers bureau in the parliamentary press gallery in Ottawa, appointed , • Peter Grant,” by Elliot Arluck, si;.nd at. Philharmonic Auditorium. : book and lyrics; Ted; Harris, mush; .', Louis Guss. producer. For this ! Film Daily, staffer; he’s With , ... . .Daily Variety;- “Kittiwake Island.” by Arnold ^%Vn.-*-M,,n w ; ^ ? r ,CS ; A]c ^ W ; ,kV.:iold. Mask. Sept. 17. He'i •-JiiiSr ’ : J i ph Be ™. h - P r head of the General Artists Corp. queer; Lawrence Carra, director;.. mF blicitv debt Joseph Stecko. director. Opening ;;: P " D t tll % acpI ^ .. ... ; , Oct. 12 at the Martinique Theatre,' . ^Wedes Boiger to Micha|l y Garvey, Gorey. Ireland, Sept. 8. ! Bride’s a harpist;, he’s a producer Radio Eireann.. Noirin. Neary to Toin Cox, Dub*? season lih. Sept,. 8.. Bride’s.a warbler; h6’A . • ’ , ! a former radio announcer, last ThursdRv (15) for the. forth-1 , * s %' e " Were Hanged,” ;. Shirley ; Cook.;tb’William Pulling, coming rehearsals of “Under, the- ran — by ^ eon -Andreyev’; Louis Liverpool. Eng. Sept.. 3. Bride’s, a Yum-Yum Tree.” j Gu«s. producer; Kenneth. Crossen- ; clidrographer and dancer. Kenneth Green’s drama, “Be- ada Ptcr. | ^amela Bowden to . Derrick Ed^ hind the Wall,” will open at the “V Piece of Noon,” drama bv , >vi;(;ds; London. Sept.'. 12; Bride’s off-Broadway Jan’Hus Theatre on ; Paul Claudel; Howard Hart, adapt T a/ concert singer; he’s - racing Oct; 31. under the.auspices of Am- ’.er: Mary Jordan 8c Sam Silverberg. Waiver. non Kabatchnik. ; producers. For November. ' • j Susan n e Danvers-Walker t o British playwright James ; For- • “Christopher Columbus/’ by Mi- ‘-Michael Downing, London, Sept, syih arrived in New York last ! cliel deGhClderode.- Federated' Pro- 110; Br » de designs sleeves for Lp ions; nrhdiicer ' . disks; he’s;.a^ tv-sound engineer .^■ rr Roberta Keith, to Tom Hasson, Sept, 1.7, New York. Both are. mem¬ bers of tiie Broadway production of “West Side Story,” Jean Gihsburg tb Chairies Ticho, Sept.. 10, in Chicago. He’s a film director at. Fred Niles StudioA Wednesday (14) to confer with off- l ductions. producer,. Scully's Scrapbook ;.Continued, from page 76'.; found Wright in a dressing room, lying, on a bench, his tunic off; Asked if he were sick he said, he wasn’t,. | _ v.tck? Newman to William Told .it Was. time for him to get back for his drumming, bit; he sat [ ^^rson, London, Sept. 17. . BridA sulking and in a nasfy mood. He said his partner made, all the mistakes : is ? n a 9 tr ? s .s- . .- ^ ■ but he got all the blame. !. Beverley. Acock to Roy Curtis, During the intermission Europe was talking/babkstage-.to his Four .’ W r es.tcliffTon-Sea, . Eng., Sept. 14. Harmony kings and Roland; Hayes when Wright tore into the room; I He is an actor, threw his drum in the. corner arid advanced toward Europe with his fists closed.. "I’ll kill you,” he screamed. With this he flashed a knife and Europe backed toward the wall; and- raised a chair between himself and Wright who was crouched .likie a wildcat about to . spring on its victim, .Somehow Wright got around the chair arid stabbed Europe high in the back of the neck, Then Wright fell and others grabbed him. Sissle on getting , the: news rushed to. Europe’s room arid found Jim tugging at his high military collar. By the time: he had got the collar unfastened and taken his white stock-tie from around his neck, blood was spurting from a small rwound. % An ambulance was. rushed to. Mechanic’s Hall arid the back door;]; /n.,; : nu aiiiMUiauuc naj; iuoucu tu, mcuiana 3 nan auu me • uatn. uuui ; Ottawa edl tor of Maclean-Hunter ; dowrn to let in the stretcher; Europe was still: in command of business publications to- succeed■ senses and told Felix Weir, his assistant conductor,, to carry on Don Peacock, now with the Otta- a it Don Peacock, now with the Otta¬ wa bureau of The Financial Post j Wilson E. Albee, ex-mbnaging editor and chief editorial writer of the San ; Jose (Cal.) Mercury, died Sept. 7 at San Jose. Ha was 70. Wife survives. William R. Hall, Sunday editpr of. San Francisco Examiner, has.: been named promotion manager of the Hearst. daily; He succeeds Gray Creveling, promotion man¬ ager since 1940, who left the paper to go into public relations. Sumner N. Blossom is new vice- chairman of the Crowell-Collier board, with Raymond G. Hagel suc¬ ceeding him as president, and Wil¬ ton D. Cole, chairman, continuing r.s chief executive officer. Hagel has been executive veepee of C-C the second half of the program as if nothing:had happened. A quick examination at the hospital showed that Europe’s condition was .serious and his life might be saved Only by an operation. He was in the Boston City Hospital emergency; room. . „ The news spread fast .that the great jazz king had been stabbed by his drummer-boy during an Intermission. Wright handcuffed, was brought in to the .emergency room. Detectives asked Europe it this w:as the boy who stabbed hlrii, “Yes, that’s Herbert, but please don’t lock him up. He’s a good boy. He just got a little excited tonight.” ,■ After the concert Europe’s band rushed to the Boston City Hospital. There they were told their bandleader’s condition was critical and only one thing cb.uld Possibly save;him. That was some blood transfusions. All offered to give blood. The orderly rushed up the stairs; to the operating room. He was gone only five minutes but to those left behind it seemed like hours. Ultimately they , heard; steps in the hall and saw doctors, internes, nurses and a chaplain coming toward/them. They were headed by the young orderly who had asked for voiunteers for blood transfusions; He shook his head and whispered , to the band, “Lieutenant Europe is dead.” BIRTHS Mr. arid Airs. Tom. Trenklq* daughter. Sept. S,. NeW YorlL Mother, is actress Hertha Shea; father’s a legit pressagent, . Mr. and Mrs. Monte Kay, daugh¬ ter,; Sept; 8; New York. Mother is siriger Diahann Carroll; father is al talent rep. . . . . M^ and Mrs,. Mark Richman, daughter. Sept, 10. New; York. Father is ah actor, Mr. and Mrs; Jack Shaindlin, son. Sept. .5, New York. - Father is a film arid tv riiusical director. .Mr. , and Mrs. Leslie . ; Linder, daughter, Loudon, Sept. 3. Mother is actress Dorotily Alison; he’s an Agent; Mr; ; arid Mrs. Tino . Valdl, daughter, London, Sept 3. Father is a singer. Mr., -ands Mrs. Walter .Jokel, daughter, London. Sept;' 3. Mother is actress. Carol Ann Ford; father is theatrical manager. Mr; arid. Mrs, John Justin, daughter, London* Sept. 11, Mother is actress Barbara Murray; father, is an actor/ Mr, ; and Mrs/ Richard O’Brien, 'daughter, New York, Sept. 10. Fa¬ ther is with the Dorothy EOss pub¬ licity office.