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ON THE BROADWAY SCENE By Burf Boycrr NEW YORK N Y May 2 OFF THE RECORD Certain Doctors Hospital staffers are convinced that the Arthur Millers will celebrate a Septem birth The Harry Belafontes confirmed our rumor that they would increase the mom and population The ring Tommy Manville gave Follies girl Pat Gaston not only has an 18carat diamond but the two baguettes on either side of it are ten carats each It is so wide that her fingers are pushed apart Its not generally known but Pat does not have to marry Manville for his money Her Okla ¬ homa father is extremely comfortable financially Joe E Lewis just got his tax refund Two quarts A SHOW FOLK Bea Lillies backstage snack after every Follies show Hot tea marmalade and toasted bagels Orson Welles passport shocks customs men In the space where you fill in whom to notify in case of emergency Welles wrote The President of the United States Ythink lacing a Ziegfeld Girl is all mink and Tommy Manville Two of them Mickey Miller and Charlotte Foley have ulcers When comedians die in a night club the consoling cliche is always Thats a tough room to play A young comic recently told Dick Shawn that he couldnt understand it but his jokes which get howls in night clubs laid eggs when he appeared on the Ed Sullivan show Shawn consoled him Dont worry about it Its a tough country to play A A ASHUBERT SHUBERT ALLEY Robert Weede of Most Happy Fella blasts music critics and vocal coaches Calls most of the latter frauds Says the only ones who should be allowed to teach singing are those whove sung and understand the use of voices Weede was Lanzas first doremi fasolateacher The My Fair Lady producers wanted to buy up Bramwell Fletchers contract Hes Rex Harrisons original understudy but they like Edward Mulhare better He said no Hes gambling that Harrison and Mulhare will both be out at the same time and hell get the big break The Christian Science Monitor took one look at New Girl in Town in Boston and canceled the shows ad The reason Gwen Verdons role provqs that a tart is not a cake 4 A APENNY PENNY ARCADE Its crazy but true Harry Belafonte gave every member of his staff fiveyear memberships iri the YMCA and bought them all bright red English racing bikes He wants em to get in shape cause theyre getting flabby Rodgers and Hammerstein will be happy to know that when I phoned backstage at My Fair Lady last night I heard one of that shows nightingales singing the score from I Cinderella George DeWitt cooked din ¬ ner for Sloan Simpson at his apartment Eileen Barton is headlining at Wash ¬ ington D Cs Statler Shes also on The Big Payoff every day this week in New l York So she commutes It solved her diet problem problemA A A 4 4POWER POWER OF THE PRESS Hes a famous singer He and his girl decided they werent laughing enough Too many fights Their last one Did It They shook fists and said goodbye The next day a noted columnist erroneously itemd that they were more in love than ever They each read it and thought Why fight it Its biggern both of us Theyre going steady again againA A A ATAXIGABBING TAXIGABBING Twentyfouryearold PatBoone gets 15000 a week in night qlubs Eddie Bracken of Shinbone Alley gets shemail mash notes He gives them to his five children Joan Crawfords touring major U S cities helping husband Alfred Steele plug PepsiCola Margaret Sullavans resting in Connecticut If Sir Caesar does not do a show for NBC for the aext seven yearst theyll have to pay him over 1000000 Its the talk of the TV industry The columnist who re ¬ cently itemd that a famed personality would do a TV show Itll only happen on a ghost to ghost hookup The personality passed away six months ago
