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Dorothy Kilgallen's Voice Of BroadwaySinger To Mix Cocktails For Gimmickr INDA CHRISTIAN docs seem *-* to attract swains who are a bit forgetful about paying bills. But after the incident involving Countess Bismarck’s son and those diamonds, the most recent tab trouble is picayune: it features a Swiss florist who is growing Impatient because he hasn’t been able to collect the bill rutv up by the dashing Marquis of Portago when he was saying it with flowers to Linda in Switzerland . . . Anita Ekberg’s statements to theFrench press are calculated toastonish even the most sophisticated Parisian. Her quotes are so double-entendre they sound like accidents on purpose . . . Costume designer Paul DuPont is still aghast after being thrown out of Marta Eggerth's dressing room at City Center—“and assaulted,” he says, “for the first time in my career” .. . Uptowners hope the opening of the Gold Room at the Hotel Theresa will mark the rebirth of gay Harlem flight life.Lavern Baker, struggling to achieve a memorable night club act without imitating the singers who take off their clothes or bathe in public, plans to mix cocktails at a portable bar and distribute them to ringsiders.It’s more profitable to act out a life story than to really live it:Paramount paid Buster Keaton£86.000 for his autobiography but Donald O'Connor got $200,000 forstarring in it. (And he’s not the least ittie-bit like BusterKeaton.;You’d think the Tin Pan Alley regulars would be accustomed to “the payola” bj now', but they’re actually gasping these days at the ampunts of cash being tossed around by a new' record com pany bent on achieving best sellers.Ray Bolger’s new disc, ’’TheCricket,” is a cute novelty, but its melody sounds as though the composer had spent considerable time listening to “Paris In The Spring” .. . Carlton Cole, the literary agent responsible for Diana Barrymore’s controversial autobiography, spent two weeks sweeping through Hollywood like a money-making hurricane. He closed four movie deals, signed Errol Flynn and 11 other “names” to write books, and landed a Warner Brothers movie contract for his wife, Rosalind Paige.The Philadelphia city fathers said no to a promoter’s dream of presenting 17 female impersonators in a night club act . . . Matt Dennis is packing the BylineRoom. And Ella Fitzgerald has made him the happiest of men by confiding she’ll wax an album of his tunes.The legendary Roosevelt Zanders continues to add exotic touches to his hired chariot service. The other day when he got a call to rush Mr. and Mrs. *Win-throp Rockefeller to the airport.he was told they wouldn’t have time for lunch before boarding their private plane for Little Rock, Ark. The thought of a Rockefeller—nay, two Rockefellers—g o i n g hungry in his presence, jolted Roosevelt into action; he had a box lunch prepared improvised a table with suitable service in the rear of the Cadillac involved, and assigned one of his aides to wait or, Mr. and Mrs. R. while he drove them to the airport. (The Zandersmenu: vichysoisse, Beluga caviar sandwiches with hardboiled cgf wedges, and Mumm’a champagne.) *A powerful membership group erf the Teamstera* Union sent a plea to Dave Beck to resign gracefully and avoid any more bad publicity for the union. Beck's answer—in the negative— couldn’t be reproduced in a family newspaper.Bar owners in the neighborhood of the new Coliseum are moaning lew. Few of the shows—auto, flower or motorboat—bring any business to the bistros. One saloonkeeper summed it up by saying, “We get nothing but Coney Island trade: a draft beer ami three cokes” . . . Tab Hunter will skate as well as look adorable in a fail TV spectacular teaming him with that genuine ice star, Barbara Ann Scott. ‘W ’ yajfrff fsThere's a not-to-be mised newcomer to the singing ranks currently on view at the Village Vanguard: an effortless warblernamed Lurlean Hunter, from Chicago.The deplorable problem of teachers’ low salaries became a brain-twister for designer Helen Rose when she was assigned to rhake Jean Simmons look chic and neat (yet believable on a schoolteacher’s $4,500 a year) in the picture “This Could Be The Night” Her solution — separ-ates, separates, separates.Bermuda has a geological for-mation where wind, sand and waves hav e cut up a aeries of van colored rocks to resemble a check er board.
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Dover Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Wed, Apr 17, 1957
Page 26
Full Page
Clipped by
Robert P.
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