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ON THE BROADWAY SCENE By Burt Boyar NEW YORK N Y May 3 OFF THE THERECORD RECORD HechtLancaster figures to toTOSS TOSS 20000000 on Trapeze Not bad for a tnreemni invest ¬ ment Bobo Rocke ¬ feller and Bob Calhoun are very telephoney It could be something cause hes one of the few she doesnt fear is after her money He could lick her in a check writing contest Frank Loesser pro ¬ ducer of Most Happy Fella which hasnt opened yet is rest ¬ less Looking for another to do Hal March takes a fiveday Miami honeymoon Leaves tonight and will pay for it by MC ing a drug convention there Then to the Kentucky Derby to wager a pound or two and back by next Tuesday The TV casting departments when they want a regal suavetype character order One Prince Rainier RainierA A A A ABEAU BEAU BROADWAY Even more exciting than opening nights on Bway are the Actors Fund benefits Theyre played on Sunday nights and are the only chances the working thesps get to see whats new This past Sunday My Fair Lady played to Edward G Robinson Shelley Winters Shirley Booth Paul Muni The Lunts Kitty and Moss Hart Julie Harris etc etc i Show people are the most appreciative audiences Ruth Gordon who came here as a little girl from Wallingford Mass sat through the deafening applause After about the eighth curtain call she said This is what we leave home for forA A A 4 4TAXIGABBING TAXIGABBING Archie Moore has 55000 in contracts for diet books etc waiting to be signed the minute he be ¬ comes champ IF He saw the same amount go down the drain when Marciano kod him Brandon de Wilde is flunking math We give you EVERYthing Jack E Leonard one of the funniest men alive opens at the Celebrity Room in Philadelphia Wednesday Half of New York is going down to see him Eva Fon ¬ taine prettiest of the Latin Quarines and designer Cliff Guffin dont care who knows it In Gwich Village if you wear a beard youre strictly from last year To ¬ day its Salvadore Daliish lip brushes brushesA A A A APARAGRAPHIC PARAGRAPHIC My Fair Lady has four oldfashioned victrola props on stage The oldest model belongs to Goddard Leib erson exec V P of Columbia Records While the play was rehearsing its producer Herman Levin dropped into Liebersons office to discuss the record album He noticed the ancient phonograph and said That would make a wonderful prop And by the way what do you think of Ladys chances Leiberson stood up handed him the phonograph and said 1iriend it to you for four years yearstit tit titPENNY PENNY ARCADE Al Weill is still col ¬ lecting 50 per cent from Rocky Marciano even in the fighters retirement Rocky posed last week for publicity pictures for After Six a tuxedo manufacturer He got no fee but received a navy blue and a white tux Al Weill received the same Gina Lollos picture Most Beautiful Woman in the World will be released here just after Trapeze which they figure will make her the No 1 female ticket seller in the U S THE WORKING PRESS A newspaper ¬ man was interviewing Guy Lombardo The subject of course was Lombardos presen ¬ tation of Show Boat this summer at Jones Beach They were talking about the opening night Will you asked the critic send those same nice limousines to take us down there Oh yes he was assured And will you also have the flowers in them They were lovely Flowers asked Lombardo I dont remember anything about flowers He turned to the shows press agent Do you know anything about flowers in the cars last year The pa hummed and hawed and finally explained Well er yes They were sort of a mistake I remember it The cars had been used for a funeral earlier in the day and I guess they didnt get to clean them out
