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ON THE BROADWAY SCENE By Burt Boyar NEW YORK N Y May 3 CINEMA SCOOPS The Clarence Darrow story for which Playhouse 90 is trying to sign Spencer Tracy might also be a movie Itll be written or supervised by Meyer Levin and it willbe the second half of the book Compul ¬ sion which is the LoebLeopold trial Didja ever wonder if maybe youre in the wrong business Anne Baxter gets flown first class to England to shoot The Prescott Affair for ten weeks Most of it will be done in London except for location shots in Majorca They will also pay her 7500 a week expense money And shell get 10000 a week overtime And you would be POSITIVE you are in the wrong biz if I was at liberty to tell you how much Sammy Davis Jr is getting for just one chorus of the title song for the sound track of Op ¬ eration Madball the Mickey Rooney Ernie Kovacs movie An alltime high SHOW FOLK Joan Crawfords sad about not getting the Peyton Place role which Lana will do Linda McNaugh ton of the Lady chorus won a 1000 scholarship from the Met Auditions of the air Wanta meet Follies girls They hang out after the show at Tillies a ban on 48th near the Belvedere Hotel Bea Lillie and Billy DeWolfe drop in too Ethel Merman obliged the show people at a party for Bricktop by getting up and belting a few She did Theres No Business Like etc and tore the house down Then she forgot she wasnt onstage and took ad eep bow Theyre still needling her about it itA A BACKSTAGE He has a principal role in a Bway musical Fell in love with a cute dancer and she with him Hes now tell ¬ ing it all to a psychiatrist Pourquoi Verisimple the poor fella split with his wife and then rushed to tell the luvuvhis life the good news She listened and andwaved waved goodbye PENNY ARCADE Dorothy Lamours stepson Bill Howard is a mailroom clerk at Paramount Pix where they gave her her first sarong Isaac Gellis aims to please They offer a kissproof salami No more garlic aromurder Rumor Fred Hutch inson manager of the St Louis Cardinals is pTobably on his way out If the Cards dont make a leap toward first place Al Dark will be named manager Frank Lane the Genl Mgr has put the pressure on Hutchinson and given him a July 4 dead ¬ line because Gus Busch has put the pres ¬ sure on Frank Lane and given HIM till 58 to win a pennant 4 TAXIGABBING Sydney Chaplin has a strong chance for the Noel Airman role in Marjorie Morningstar but he cant be1 cast until they decide on a Marjorie When a femme census taker asked Magda Gabors age she was thrown out of the house by the butler Jo Wilder of Three Penny Opera lost her netticoatj onstage Monday nightthe evenings big ¬ gest laugh Nanette Fabrays husband Ran MacDougall has a TV series idea for her Hes a screenwriterdirector Just fin ¬ ished Bing Crosbys latest picture Peggy Bramsons flinging a baby shower for Candy March A ATHE THE MYSTERY GUESTS The major magazine which is preparing a big story on a famed Italian actress who has more curves than spaghetti Some of their high ¬ brow editors are so unexcited about the piece the story we mean that they refer to the subject on interoffice memos as that Italian pig But still it will be pub ¬ lished Proving the public is still THE managing editor SHUBERT ALLEY The Ziegfeld Follies cast expects the final curtain to fall yerrry soon Roz Russell constantly chomps hard candy backstage at Mame Fredric March grays his hair for Long Days Journey with white shoe polish It washes out easier than what hed been using A stupidiot tried to tell us that Most Happy Fella was backed by the Mafia Does he mean like Mafia Bloom garden Mafia Cullman and CBS Vice President Oscar Mafia Katz Not to men ¬ tion that it was written by Mafia Loesser
