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# .. i -. 1 — "— ■. , — 1 , ™ 1 SIGHT AND SOUND By Leo Mishkin NEW YORK, May 2.— OFF THE RECORD: Exact quote from a Jack Paar letter to NBC execs, several months ago. .. , Referring Referring to to Dody Dody # i -. 1 — "— ■. — 1 , Referring Referring to to Dody Dody Goodman: "I think she is one of our most important assets." . . . CBS is now pe«!simis-tic about the proposed Jackie Gleason shows happening this season . . . The East Side cafe which recently had a fire, is owned by a former Deputy Fire Commissioner . . . Judy Garland Garland must must be be here here ™ 1 Garland Garland must must be be here here May 12 for her Ben Maksik hearing or her union, AGVA. will give her a hit in the head . . . One of the major cigarette companies is expected to discontinue one of its brands along with the TV show which advertises it. AAA SHOW FOLK: Jack Carter just blew a thousand dollars worth of water ski lessons. He and Ann Johnson, the water ski champ, have said, "Who needs it?" . . . Jack Warner had to send home to England the beauty he had recently brought here . . . Dean Martin- will guest appear on the Perry Como show May 24. Hell accept union scale less than 00 for the t opportunity to plug his City of Hope Telethon which happens the next day. It proves that money is not enough to get big stars j to appear on your TV shows. As we report ed here recently, Martin refused, less than a month ago, to do-the-show for over 0,000. AAA HIGH FASHION: Everyone is talking about the chemise dresses. Sacks have been burned in effigy". Crowds have gathered to plan their fate. I decided to get some first hand information on the subject. Looking through the Classified phone book I selected three manufacturers of ladies belts; who would have more to say on the subject than they? The conversations "went something like this: 1. "Good afternoon. Im sorry to take up your time, sir but I wonder — ■ — " "Dont be ridiculous Mr. Boyar. Glad to have something to do. Im certainly not busy making belts." 2. "Oh? You wanta talk about the chemise. Well, let me tell you, for me its a shroud. They should drop dead, those chemise makers." 3. "Sir, is there anything the belt industry can do to make things better till the chemise disappears and the belt returns?" "Well, we could hang ourselves with our own belts!" AAA JOKE: We recently had a delightful week end at the Raleigh Hotel in South Fallsburg. N. Y., which is owned by George Gilbert, the showman who is associate producer of "Say, Darling." Comedienne Betty Walker, who was booked there for one J?i§]?i v FiY?_21eJ3L Jhe. .greatest .perjfpr-. mances I have ever seen anywhere, by anyone. After the show she told us a story about a guest at the Fontainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. After dinner he was taking a stroll around the swimming pool when he slipped and fell in. Unable to swim, he floundered around until a nearby bellboy who had heard the splash .dived in and saved his life. By this time a crowd had gthered. The man spotted a" friend, and said to the bell-boy, "Excuse me a moment." He walked over to his friend and whispered, "Tell me, what do you tip for a thing like, this?"
