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INSIDE HOLLYWOOD BSfo HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 30. Despite oeing a Broadway hit and highly successful on the road, "Inherit the Wind" is being temporarily shelved for the screen by Stanley Kramer, who, wants a better slant on the love story. Kramer doesnt think itll hold for pic audiences in its original form. Actually, he wants to put more emphasis on the love line and modify the political aspects. . , . Abbe Lane and Cugie sail for Europe on the Christopher Colombo June 5 for her pic, "Bread, Love and Cha-cha-cha" date with Vittorio De Sica and Fernandel. Abbe writes shes had many of-- fers for hotel and saloon dates solo without Cugat! but shes thumbed em. They included invites from Manhattans Plaza and Chis Chez Paree. . . . Vegas Tropicana moving in on Eddie Fisher to give the top spot two more weeks in August so hell close the show he opened and stayed with for seven weeks. Monte Proser uncorks his new revue in September. . . . Vegas visitors for the holiday week-end have darned good pickings: Joe E. Everglades Lewis at the El Rancho, Caesar Romero at the Dunes, Lib-erace at the Riviera, Marie" MacDonald and Ted Lewis at the Desert Inn, Jan Murray and the Mills Brothers at the Flamingo, Cab Calloway and the Cotton Club Revue at the Royal Nevada, Teresa Brewer a the Sahara, Lena Home at the Sands, Arthur Lee Simpkins at the Thunderbird and Rhonda Fleming at the Tropicana. AAA Three million dollar deal in the works for Don Fedderson with ABC on his "Do You Trust Your Wife." Gimmick: Do the show live,, hour-long, five frames a week, daytime. . . . After a three-week gourmets tour of Europe, during which time he picked up the Grand Prix for his "Friendly Persuasion" at the Cannes Film Festival, Willie Wyler returned to town over the: week end and made a beeline for a hot pastrami sandwich with red horseradish at Linnys, while we Matched some coffee with him, wife Tally and their two daughters, j Willie told us hes on his next with Greg-Peck, "The Big Country," on which Leon Uris is doing the screenplay . . . Billy Rose scratched Africa from his summer vacation plans, instead will stay at home he and Joyce rented in the south of France. . . . Studio Club thrush April Ames will wed Al Bello, currently beating the drams at Holiday House. He used to bang the bangos with Jimmy Dean. AAA How many more times is Spyros Skou-ras gonna give out the story that most of the 20th studio acreage will be turned I into a housing project? ,. . . Local joke: As we drove to Hollypark the other day with Ernie Feuer and Martin, we passed the Baldwin Hills oil wells, and Ernie said: "What Id like to do is buy this property and build a studio on it." . . . For those who missed it the first time around the Telephone Hours "The Jumping Parson" does a repeat Thursday on ABC. Stars Billy Halop as the paratrooper chaplain. . . . Sir Carol Reed has Hecht-Hill-Lancaster hopped up about an original pic idea hed like to break from their gate an international racetrack story. . . . Currently shooting: "I Accuse" "The Wayward" Girl." AAA Jerry OBrien caught it on his car radio : a no-cal-hair tonic for fatheads. . . . We were at Mervyn LeRoys table at Hollypark when someone told of the jockey whose agent asked him if hed like to ride the presidents horse in a future race. "Ya mean Ike has horses?" asked the jock. j "No," replied the agent, "not Eisenhower LeRoy of Hollywood Park. . . . Chap who races cars with Lance Reventlow, heir to the Barbara Huttcn millions, told us at Fox: "Despite the handicap of millions of dollars, Lance is one of the nicest kids youd wanna know. Acts like he doesnt have a dime to his name and that was one of the coins on which his inheritance was built." AAA j Charlie, Foys wife, Sugar King, gave him a Lincoln Continental for his birthday. . . . Gene Fowler exploded the left-handed legend about Billy the Kid, told Army Archerd he scripted the sharpshooter as a southpaw in his 41 Metro pic to make it easy for the port-sided Bob Taylor! . . . David Pascal cartoon in the Saturday Review shows a kid in a room loaded with electric trains, telescope, TV set, banjo, fish bowl, erector ! set, microscope, stamp album, dog, radio, model airplanes, chemistry, set, etc., and the lad is on the phone saying: "Oh, noth-, ing much. I have to stay in my room. Ive been punished. How about you?"
