On The Broadway Scene, Daily Racing Form, 1956-05-01

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ON THE BROADWAY SCENE By Burt Boyar tfLvV YORK N Y April 30 OFF THE RECORD Milton Berle is here to close a deal with Lou Walters the Latin Quarter boss It might be a reentry into night clubs Shelley Win ¬ ters and Ben Gazzara leave Hatful of Rain in June Theyll catch up on their film and money making Terrific police pressure on the numbers racket uptown The hottest rumor around is that Leo Durocher may re ¬ turn to baseball next season with the Cleveland Injuns The Mark Goodsons are living apart Theyll split custody of the money Vic Jarmel and Eileen Barton broke up again Thurs ¬ day Dont let em kid ya Nancy Berg does NOT go to sleep on that TV show She was at Reubens at 630 Friday a m bagel and yoking with disc jockey Bill Williams WilliamsA A A i iBEAU BEAU BROADWAY Peggy Ann Garner and Albert Salmi confirm our item by making July 13 their I do day The Vamps down thedrain total is over 350000 Reports of bandleader Louis Jordans heart attack the other day shouldve been written he had one chop suey too many Andy Griffiths leaves No Time for Sgts June 30 to make a picture Hell come back to his springboard Louis Ruppel formerly of Colliers is now the American Weekly editor Wait ¬ ing For Godot is doing excellent business Show biz bets still figure Joyce Bryant to come back out of that monastery The Embers claims more marriage pro ¬ posals in their spot than any other club in town Were just that kind of a spot they shrug shrugA A A A ACEST CEST LA TVIE Comedian Don Adams tells about the terrific wages being earned in TV by talent Like the comedian who calls his agent and tells him Look Ill do the show but I wont accept anything less than 50000 a year no more than four shows theres gotta be four weeks re ¬ hearsal a star dressing room top billing and I absolutely wont come down to the office to discuss it or theyll lock me out of my hotel room roomA A A A ATAXICABBING TAXICABBING Columbias new picture The Eddie Duchin Story should be re titled With A Tear in My Eye Wear a raincoat when you see it Itll break your heart but youll love it C B DeMille had to rewrite part of the orgy scenes from the Bible for The Ten Commandments Too shocking for the screen according to Variety Several of the E 56th street niteries can be bought for a few bucks plus the I p ITs Charles Addams favorite sport is watching big buildings being knocked down Spent an hour and a half looking at the destruction going on at 53rd and Fifth Just stood there smiling SHOW FOLK Elaine Stritch who has a big yen for Rex Harrison finally met him the other day Got so confused she in ¬ troduced her escort at Frank Gazzara The latter took the trouble to correct it to BEN BEN BEN Theyre saying that MMs trouble is a lung infection Now that Janet Blair is about to marry Sid Caesar her husband Nick Mayo will produce F Hugh Herberts new play The Best House In Naples Carol Rock Hunter Saroyans current Mr Wonder ¬ ful is Chris Plummer of TV According to Whos Who in Hollywood Alec Guinness was wed in 38 That going by their sta ¬ tistics would make him a ripe old 14 on his wedding day A Queens movie house playing only thrillers bills them as Double Creatures CreaturesA A A A AWHITE WHITE TIE AND TALES Spelman Prentice of the Rockefeller clan who owns La Coquille Fla gifted his managers widow with 5000 The mgr died of a heart attack the day he was fired Sepha Kendall married to Messmore Kendall would like everyone to know that shes sick of being asked why shes divorcing him to marry Rubirosa Its Messmore Kendall Jrs frau whos flying the coop We tuned into this conversation at El Morocco Two post debs were discussing the summer Were going to summer on the beach said one The other shrieked Dahling How delightful So are we Which boat are you taking


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