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ON THE BROADWAY SCENE By Burt Boyar NEW YORK N Y May 4 THE CELE BRIGADE Ed Sullivan whose taste buds have been dulled dining on Le Pavilions sumptuous fare Dorothy Dandridge the American Mona Lisa fracturing the Paris tocracy Rex Har ¬ risons quickie visit to El Morrocco Through the revolving door down to the powder room and back out the front door No cover charge or 20 per cent boozement tax Bob Considine scrawl ¬ ing notes for his next column on a waiter s pad at Toots Shors That bistros boss addressing author James Mitchener Hello ya creepy bum George Axel rod the Visit to a Small Planet producer mulling a 350000 movie offer It cost 60 000 to create Sid Caesar modestly shrugging off the fact that he saved the life of a close friends wife who was stricken with cancer He flew in the best specialists and bought her the best care Got embar ¬ rassed when they tried to say thanks Hail Caesar Teresa Brewer walking out Wednesday night on the May 11 George M Cohan spec What price temperament 7500 4 4 4SHUBERT SHUBERT ALLEY The only week end which Edith Adams failed to commute to Hollywood to see her husband was the one in which she sacrificed seeing an Ernie for getting a Tony Walter Slezak of The First Gentleman dines at 4 in the afternoon so he wont be stuffed during the performance Then he midnight snacks The East Side branch of Sardis may nevej happen Vincent Sardi Jr ex ¬ plains The financing is very complicated Translation It would cost a fortune fortuneA A A A ATHE THE MYSTERY GUEST The very fa ¬ mous movie star who wanted to shake his agent but he had a handcufftype contract with five more years to run He was desperate for an out Finally he found one and a court awarded him his freedom He explained to the judge that he had just learned tttat a super ¬ market owner had approached his agent offering Listen if you can get to appear at the opening of my market Ill put 2000 in your pocket and no one will know about it Tell him Im your cousin and Ive been beggin you to bring him The star explained to the judge that he had fallen for the story and had attended the opening and that his agent had quietly made the 2000 The supermarket owner testified under oath and confirmed it To this moment the agent does not know that the star had paid the supermarket owner an additional 2000 to make the deal with withthe the agent PENNY ARCADE Jerry Lester and wife leave for a month in Europe this weekend Tommy Sands will play the Roxy after afterContinued Continued on Page Fftyfive ONTHEBROADWAYSCEHE ONTHEBROADWAYSCEHEBy By BURT BOYAR Continued from Page Two TwoLouis Louis Armstrong Jill Corey may be coupled with him Fernanda Montels favorite Butler is Frank the Chiqago paper million heir Some things you really ought to know The Upstairs gets a better crowd than the Downstairs Mitch Miller signed a new bearded singer Kenny Bowers for Columbia Glen Coves Villa Victor is a year old May 9 and all the celebs in town are invited Westhamptons Bath Tennis Club is ready for its biggest year They report more reservations than ever Jack Carter the Town Countrys wit tells us Its ironic about me playing here in Brooklyn I was born a stones throw from the club Now theyre throwing stones at me mef f A A ACALLING CALLING ALL STARS Betty Furness said Whattya think Im going to be IN a Studio One play on May 13 Its the sec ¬ ond time in the eight years Ive been doing the commercials for Westinghouse on the show I play a very sophisticated wealthy lady who takes a shine to a young man Its quite a sentimental thing for me because the young man will be played by Jody Mc Crea and I used to be in the movies with his father Joel We started talking about her mail and she said Im doing sort of a gag on the May 29 show Yknow the spon ¬ sor gets a lot of letters compaining that Im all dressed up when I show off a stove or a refrigerator or something They ask Hmmmf Does she look that way in her OWN kitchen So on the 29th Im going to do the commercial dressed in a house ¬ coat and slippers
