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7 INSIDE HOLLYWOOD * H«b st*« HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 9.— Rack it up as a good tip that The Monroe isnt gonna win any accolades for her thesping in the currently shooting "Bus Stop" despite all her acting-study in Manhattan the past year . . . Incidentally, Marilyn doesnt look at the rushes herself. A committee that watches over her interests does the ogling — usually Paula Stras-berg, vice president Milton Green and Greens assistant, known only as "Little David" . .* . Town House manager Ed Crowley wings a .beaut for a mob Friday at the-hotel to celebrate the Sheratons 18th anni. . . . Alan King tells of the Texan who bought his kid two television sets — one for each eye . . . Marilyn Nash, Charlie Chaplains leading lady in "Monsieur Verdoux" and formerly hitched ,to writer-producer Phil Yordan, has a stork date in September. Current spouse is Dr. Donald Frank . . . Star talent isnt lined up yet, but Buick is going top dr-awer for its annual dealers show. The hour-long musical thatll play key cities on a months trek around the country is being written by Morrie Ryskind with Joe Santley as producer-director. AAA A 12-YEAR-OLD girls mother wrote to "Words About Music" inquiring as to whether Oscar Levant still practised on the piano. He replied: "To avoid the drudgery of. practising, I retired" . . . Asked what his duties were with his boss in his Jiew job at Metro, Levant said: "I exchange his ideas with him . . . Levants idea of getting the most out of life: sleep 20 hours a day and grab little naps during the remaining four . . . Itll be three in a row for Burt Lancaster co-starring with Tony Curtis. "Trapeze," soon to be released, is to be followed by Burt and Tony in "The Sweet Smell of Success" — and later this "year the boys expect to double in a musical western titled "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" from a novel by Roy Chanslor. AAA ANITA EKBERG has finally convinced her friends she really plans to get married by the frenzy of her local trousseau shop-ing. Shes putting in eight hours a: day before leaving next week-end to meet fiance Anthony Steel in Rome . . . Ekbergs ex roomie, another Swede-dish named Karen Von Unge, is dating Jeff Selznick. . . . Also in the twosome brigade: Celeste Holm and writer Jim Pollock; Anne Carroll and young producer-director Roger Corman of Allied Artists . . . Bob Aldrich back? from Paris this week to start scoring "The Fragile Fox." ■ A -A A j WE JUST had to call our friend Sidney I Skolsky and share the following item with him when we spotted it in the National Motorist. Its perfect for his "But Dont Get Me Wrong, I Love Hollywood" tag: On a visit to Hollywood a chap went into a drugstore and asked lor a small tube of toothpaste. He was handed a tube marked "large." When he objected, the clerk explained: "Large is the smallest size we have. The next size is giant and then super "... We mentioned the foregoing to Stanley Rubin, who says its the same with olives. "Large" is the smallest olive, "colossal" is the medium size and "mam- mouth" marked on the can or jar is usually a pretty fair olive. A A A — JOE FRISCOS a possibility for George Gobels show the 26th. We say "possibility" because its gonna be tough pulling Frisco from Hollywood Park for rehearsals . . . Diana Herbert had her nose bobbed back east, where shes understudying Carol Saroyan in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" . . . Charles Bud Barry, now handling the TV ball for Metro, is making long-range plans for the companys TV program thatll probably wind up with a TV subsidiary along the lines of Columbias Screen Gems ... If the right percentage deal can be worked out, Mervyn LeRoy might be loaned to Milton Sperlings U. S. Pictures to meg Herman Wouks "Marjorie Morningstar" . . . Buddy Adler making a strong pitch to get Ernie Borgnine for additional pix. Adler reminisces about the time Borgnine was in "From Here to Eternity" for him and pulled down a fast 50 a week. Borgnines current assignment in "The Best Things in Life Are Free" for Adler is costing 20th 100 grand. . * A * IF THE MILE race gets any faster, therell be a yammer for a match race with John Landy and Jim Bailey pitted against Swaps and Nashua . . . Dore Schary, currently in Manhattan, is expected to return to the coast with all Metro pic plans wrapped up for the rest of the year . . . Art Arthur to New York next week for the exploitation and ad campaign on "The Ten Commandments." The DeMille epic goes out in November with a running time of close to four hours; intermission, of course . . . When "Bridey Murphy" is made by Paramount, Alan Wilson thinks itll be a great picture from end to beginning. J
