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INSIDE HOLLYWOOD M6sn HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 1. The charitable Vikings 9f Scandia now ioast 265 members, 150 real active the balance I active in highball glass only . . . Jimmy Kern to Honolulu for ,tvo weeks. His initial visit . . . Peggy King polished "off her first dramatic role in Bart-lett-Champions "Zero Hour" and heads for Gotham next week. Fed up with Hollywood, although shell return for her Bowl date in July. She wants to remain glued to New York for a Broadway musical. Dont ask Peggy about Andre Previn! Youll get daggers! Hes t the lad who gave her the big rush after splitting with his spouse, slipped Peggy a diamond ring on the supposed road to marriage, then reconciled with his wife. After the bust-up, Peggy tried to return the ring, but Plevin wouldnt take it. It?s in her safety deposit box . . . Linda Darnell, far from discouraged with Broadway after the swift elfoldo of her "Homeward Borne" legit a while back, is looking for another Main Stem opus . . . Many of the local restaurants are in a worse hole than the Pittsburgh Pirates . . . The Hartford U-Drive in Hollywood and Beverly Hills sold out to the Greyhound Bus people, who are after the car rental trades, v Gracie Fields thumbed M-G-Ms offer to play Min in their "Min and Bill" teleseries because, she said, shes too old to start over again and too happy on her vast Isle of Capri estate . . . "Whats My Line" isnt the line of the programs regular panelists. Merely a hobby. As Bennett Cerf recapped to us on his recent coast visit, all WML members have other "main" occupations " Dotty Kilgallen, her column tmd radio show; Arlene Francis, her "Home" program and commercials; John Daly, his ABC-VP job and news slot, and Cerf himself, his lecturing, publishing and column-ing. "If Whats My Line suddenly conked out and went off the air," Cerf pointed out, "there isnt a single member of the group whod have to change his or her mode of living an iota." AAA Itll be a very quiet and subdued Win-chell delivery on "The Walter Winchell File" teleseries for Desilu. A complete change of pace from his machine-gun commentator delivery . . . The Royal Nevada in Vegas ad blurbs its current Cab Calloway Cotton Club Revue with: "We say its the best show on the Strip. Youre our guest if were wrong." . . . Der Bingle and Phil Harris have started construction oh their new homes high in the hills out of Indio. Bing has 16 acres, Phil eight. Both sites have unobstructed views of the entire Valley and the homes will be the last word in luxury and privacy. Boys hope to be able to move in for the next desert season . . . Giselle MacKenzies busy sked: She was here until Wednesday rehearsing for the Chevy show Sunday, skied to New York for this Saturdays "Hit Parade," takes a Miltown and TWAs back here Sat-, urday- night for the Sunday appearance. After another "Hit Parade" she does three weeks in Vegas with Jack Benny at the Flamingo, then Dallas late July to star in "Annie Get Your Gun" at the Dallas State Fair three weeks, followed by a trek to Europe before returning here to start her own live teleseries in September for NBC. AAA Bob Crosbys new home in Beverly will be ready in a coupla months. A four bedroom shack . . . M-G-M trying to buy Kay Kendalls contract from J. Arthur Rank ... Ben Hecht in Italy the past three months scripting "A Farewell to Arms" for David.Selznick, docks in New York June 5 on the Independence . . . Arthur Godfrey, on the cover of the current Look, was still scheduled at this writing for the cover of next weeks Life on his African safari . . . Bill Bishop told Dave Kaufman: "Youre nothing until youve made at least one TV pilot that hasnt sold" . . . Grouch Marx, caught between homes, is living at the Beverly Comstock until he can move into the new diggihs. 4 A A Leo Guild "says Betty Furness is gonna do a commercial in robe and slippers one of these shows because, so many wise-guy viewers wanna know how come she sneaks to the refrigerator in the middle of the night all dressed up . . . Greg Bautzer and Dana Winter celebrate their first wedding anni June 10. Her folks are due here this summer from Southern Rhodesia, to meet son-in-law Gregson for the first time . . . The "Lootville" hovel by Nancy and Bene diet Friedman is a fierce blast at a leading comedian. We cant tell you who the comic is, but Friedman worked for Red Skelton for 10 years.
