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Sunday, July 22, 15,35 j0 Joe Improves Vifh Age Just Like His Whisky ft V'l 1 By Vernon Scott HOLLYWOOD, July 21 (UP) Nightclub comedian Joe E. Lew is, whose life Is being made A IS into a movie. com plained 1 v. more I told 'em the harder they laughed. "Those lour weeks were horriblelost forever from my l.fe.

And that ice tea tasted like air-wick orf the rocks." AS HE TALKED Joe polished off five glasses of scotch and W'ater, by way of proving he most certainly had not taken the pledge. LEWIS SAID he didn't know much, nor cared particularly, how his biopic was coming along. Every time producer Charles Vidor calls him to attend a conference Joe begs off. "I can't be bnttipi-pd with 7 bitterly this week that he is the victim of libelous and slande rous gossip concerning his drinking habits. "There are some charac-t assasins Um my i Mi i running around trying to ruin my that picture," he explained.

"I'm too busy betting the nacs LEWIS at Hollywood Park. When I AH agreed to let them make the Dicture I ripmnnrlprt onlv two concessions that they leave me alone, and that they give a i' PARTNERS in song and dance in "Hifh Society." slated for downtown showing here nest month: Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby. 4X JC.0. i reputation, "Lewis said indignantly. "And I want to set the record straight.

"I drink as much as I ever did. Any anybody who says I'm one the wagon is an outright liar. "What more, It's a well-known fact that whiskey improves with age. It's true. The older I get the better I like It." rRETABIXG to go on stage at the Mocambo, Lewis'' explained how the abstemious rumors got started.

"Two years ago, while I was playing the El Rancho in Las Vegas, my doctor told me I'd have to quit drinking because my ulcers couldn't take the booze. I wanted to have 'em cut out, but the doo vetoed the Idea. "So I went on the wagon lor txir weeks. When I told au part to Arturo, the head waiter at the El Rancho. "I HOFE they have more luck with the movie than I've been having with the horses," he muttered.

"I won't say I'm unlucky, but I can't win at anything. The other day it was announced the four greatest man killers, In order, are heart disease, cancer, TB and diabetes. "I have diabetes, and it ran fourth. How do you like that, outta the money again." Asked why he preferred SCOtch to bonrhon. V.

re. TOP BALLET on film is "The Little House Of Uncle Thomas," the Uncle Tom ballet, in "The King And (Albee). COSTARRED in "Pardners," western musical comedy, are Lori Nelson and Jerry Lewis. The picture is headed for the Albee. Magic Hern Is Found In RCA's Ruby Bra Pool For Musical ST.

LOUIS, July 21 Affectation Needled In Antioch's Next Play plied, "got less sugar in it That and 'Cleveland Press (Two beat)." sugar can kui you, but booze has been good for me. "If I hadn't hfwn ilrfnklnir VTTlnW SPR.TNftS Ohio. TOPS IX Jazz (Cool) "Now etta (Rebecca Lombard), a aJl these years I might still be country wench, and is victim Spin This," being a number of diences my usual glass of booze on the piano was only ice tea they wouldn't believe me. The ized by Costard (Ralph Drisch- auve. Ana I were alive, I'd really be In bad shape." July 21 (Special) Pride, pomposity and pedantry are taken for an intellectual hayride by Will Shakespeare in "Love's impressions on the contemporary label by Mel Henke.

Mel gives new sound to such oldies ell), a country clown. Holo-f ernes (Ed Call), a schoolmaster, embodies all the pomposity and pedantry which Shakespeare so detested. Sir Nathan as "In A Little Spanish Town," Labour Lost, tne saure to ne nrpspntprt. hv -the Shakespeare Festival this week. "Stardust," "Turkey In The Straw," and "Tea For Two," and proudly plays his own Elvis To Get Offei Of Hillbilly Pari Top Tunes I The following popular songs were among the best-selling in Ohio Valley record stores.

1 "Wayward Wind," Gogi Grant (Era). 2 Morris Stoloff (Decca). 3 "Standing On The Corner," Four Lads (Columbia). 4 "Glendora," Perry Como (Victor). 5 "Whatever Will Be Will Be," Doris Dav (Columbia 6 "I ant You, I Need You," Elvis Presley (Victor).

7 "Stranded In The Jungle," Cadets (Modern). 8 "Sweet Old Fashioned Girl," Teresa Brewer (Coral). 9 "Be Bop a Lula," Gene Vincent (Capitol). 10 "I Almost Lost My Mind," Pat Boone (Dot). iel (Jack Bittner) is a clergy I he merry comedy, nicn hides its plea for simplicity and natural hphavinr undpr an ava man who's impressed by the "Shock Treatment." false importance of the com pany; Boyet (Bob Laurie) is TOPS IX Pops "High Soci described as "monsieur the to the princess.

These will be lanche of quips, puns and broad jests, will be shown at 8 p. m. Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sundav. "All's Well ety" by Lew Douglas (Bally), nice;" Dull (Frank Groseclose), clipped into a special film. an unimaginative constable, Papa Kelly gave the Rainiers a projection room in the palace That Ends Well," the tragi (Special) "Wish You Were Here," the sensational Broadway musical hit of the 1952 and 1953 seasons, will make its first appearance in St, Louis at Municipal Opera during the week of July 23 through 29.

The production will be highlighted by a swimming pool and a tennis court on stage as part of the settings. Municipal Opera presentations are given seven nights a week in the Municipal Theater in the heart of Forest Park, beginning at 8:30 o'clock (CDT). Danville Ibsen DANVILLE, July 21 (Special) The Pioneer Playhouse of Kentucky will present "John Gabriel Borkman" beginning here Tuesday night as its annual production of a Henrik Ibsen work. Actor-director Cecil Willis will portray Borkman, the overly greedy banker about whom the strongly emotional play revolves. His wife, with whom he has not spoken for the eight years since completing his prison term for appropriating the bank's money, will be played by Peg Shirley.

NEW YORK (UP) Several weeks ago there appeared on television an hour-long fantasy about jazz called "The Magic Horn." It was a story about a great trumpet player who dies and leaves his "magic horn" to a dim-witted youth who turns out to be the only one who can make music with it. The major problem for the producers was to find a real trumpet player who (off camera) could push a noble tune through a horn and make it indeed a magic one. They found their man in Ruby Braff. RCA-Victor has released an LP featuring Braff's great work on the theme number, 'The Magic Horn." There are eight other Dixie sides, including "Dippermouth Blues," "Sugar" and "StrutthV With Some Barbecue." Braff and Jimmy McPartland get fine support from Peanuts Hucko on the clarinet. TOPS IX Jazz (Hot) "Hot Lips Levine," an RCA-Victor LP featuring Henry Levine on the trumpet Levine pays tribute to two newspapers with the "Washington Post Dixie" "hath never fed of the dainties that are bred In a book." Dorothy Laming is cast as lor a weaaing gift, they have comedy wtiicn opened tne nun annual Antioch Festival in late not ausiea on yet, tni a the princess opposite Eugene good occasion, Picciano as Ferdinand.

King of June, takes the stage Friday night, July 27, while "The Comedy Of Errors," a fast and furious farce, will be given at 3 p. m. Sunday, July 29. Navarre. The princess' ladies RAX IXTO Betty Furness, flashing around town in a new haircut and looking as chic as include Grace Chapman as Rosaline; Bronia Stefan as Maria, and Nell Burnside as Katherine.

BECAUSE "Love's Labour's Ape Call by Nervous Norvui (Dot), "Never Turn Back" by Al Hibbler (Decca), "Rockin Robert" by the LaDell Sisteri (Mercury), "Till You Corn Back To Me" by the Barry Sisters (Cadence) and "You're Sensational" by Frank Sinatra (Capitol). RECOMMENDED LP's "Sentimental Trumpet" by Ziggy Elman (M-G-M), which includes smooth arrangements of "Stardust," "At Sundown" and "Mean To Me" and "Romeo And Juliet," an exceptionally good reading by Andre Kos-telanetz of a popular Tchaikovsky work (Columbia). William D. Laffler. she docs opening refrigerator Ferdinand's gentlemen are Rog Lost" was a tonical comedy.

uoors on TV. and she tells me er Hamilton, Berowne; Robert some of the bard's darts miss Wilkins, Dumain, and William her commercial sponsors have given her permission, for the Bassett, Longaville. their target today, three centuries after they were loosed. But. since Shakesneare also first time, to make movies.

Berea Cost Sheet BEREA, Ky July 21 (Special) Believe it or not it costs S2368.42 per performance to keep Wilderness Road before the public. The total season budget is 5135,000. It requires an average attendance of 933 persons per performance to break even. Wilderness Road plays each night except Sunday through July and August. David Hooks directed.

Orig inal music for the play was "If the studios can sell out their Inventories to TV, I guess TV can spare me to movies," composed by James Jannatos, a member of the faculty of Wil aimed at something deeper and more permanent than passing fashions of the day, namely the whole body of affectation, for isetty laughs. mington College and assistant Last year, when the ban was conductor of the Antioch Festival's music ensemble. on, she was offered three good screen roles which she had to turn down. Betty's a gay and charming girl and It's nice to have her back where she etart- mal control or lite ana academic formalism, the satire still retains much timeliness and sting. The story around which the satire swoops concerns the King of Navarre and three young gentlemen of his court who, in the pseudo-intellectual fashion of the daw foi-swear wine, wom ed tram.

HOLLYWOOD, July 21 (INS) Hold on to this one it looks as if ole rock-n-roll Elvis Presley himself, In person, will offered "Lil Abner'1 on Broadway. He's first choice for the stage musical based on the cartoon, but before torso-tossin' Elvin can say yes or no, he first has to mesh contracts with film producer Hal Wallis who has first call on his services. Hal. however, is quick to admit he hnsn't a story for "Pelvis." There's been some talk that he might steam up one of the old Will Rogers pictures and change it to fit the measurements of his hip-swing-ins hot potato. But the more Elvis gets around professionally, including the three TV appearances he'll make for $50.000 just builds him up for Hal and the movies.

BLVG CROSBY and Kathy Grant head in opposite directions for their vacations but don't think this romance isn't still on. While Bing is fishipg off the coast of Oregon with cronies Bill Morrow, Pete Pet-tito, son Lirtiie, and Jimmy Van Heusen, an all -stag outing, his favorite girl friend goes south to Mexico. Kathy, along with Mary Morrow (Mrs. Bill) and Mary Gargan, is off Friday on a "hen" party aboard a chartered boat off Acapulco where the gals will do some fishing them-sedves. Both expeditions will be gone about three weeks then we'll see what we will see with Kathy and Bing.

WHETHER SHE ever comes back to make a picture, MGM is still treating Grace Kelly like a favored daughter. At the premiere of "High Society" in Hollywood August 1, all her friends will be invited to "tape" a special message of greeting direct HOLLYWOOD IX rfiorts: The former Lady Sylvia Ashley (Fairbanks, Gable, etc.) dining at the Luau with the Ronald en and song. Instead they vow j'J 0 Colmans and Bill Fry-Sheila and Guy Madison ex pecting the new baby any day now. The Andy Devines winging to Honolulu to join son Tad who to study, fast and avoid tne company of women. But Shakespeare finds such conduct unbecoming and unnatural In young men, and so he sends to Navarre the Princess of France and her three gentlewomen.

The rest is history. SUPPORTING and re-emphasizing the main theme are a host of comic characters. There's Armado (Kelton Gar Two Feet Off The SfssEIng Sfreat! is in training there for the Olympic swim meets. Eva Marie Saint's back In town to rest a week before re Hi nWiriWllW II ii suming "Rantree County." She loved Europe and vice versa, Mike Todd and Evelyn Keyes (she's sporting a really short wood), a pompous Spaniard who falls In love with Jaquen- haircut) at t-hasens. Carol Channing and Charles Loew expect to Marry August! Giar.f7 Screen Seen While my boss, Louella Par As "School Equipment" sons, is winging TWA to Eng land for the wedding of her god daughter Barbara Bebe Lyon, LUBBOCK, July 21 (UP) In schools of the future, giant television screens will be as common a part of the urnishings as tables and chairs, according to Dr.

Robert De- and also visiting and writing about the Hollywood stars in London, I'll be holding down this spot So if you'll bear with me a few weeks 1 11 say now, as she does that's all for to Kief fer of the Texas lecn nological College summer staff. He forecasts that the screen day. Huron "Oklahoma!" Win imfgq probably will be fed from a school audio-visual center that can provide sound and a color picture from a single tape HURON. OHIO. July 21 (Special) What could well be the greatest spectacle ever pro duced on the Huron stage will M.

take place next week when the Huron Playhouse presents Rodg- crs and Hammersteins world st famous musical The production, which calls for a cast of more than 50 actors, singers, and dancers, will open Tuesday, July 24, and run through Saturday, July 28. Burr Gets Lead HOLLYWOOD The lead role in "The Fever Tree," a Carl Dudley Pictures production, will be played by Raymond Burr. The actor will portray a paralyzed American business magnate who takes up residence in Cuba and plots to kill his wife. (Copjrlcht, 1958. N.

Y. TlmeiCo.l 1 f. LOW-COST MM Sir KATIE JOHNSON gives Alec Guinness a run for laughs in his latest comedy "The Lady-killers" (Guild). NOW 3 1 ur made at the school, or eventually from a world-wide live hookup. Dr.

DeKieffer, regularly on the faculty of the University of Colorado, is one of the leaders of Tech's annual audio-visual workshop conducted for teachers and other interested persons. The screen would be located at the front of the room and could be large enough to give a good image in classrooms of any size, he said. The picture and sound would be sent in from an audio-visual center so heavy equipment wouldn't have to be hauled from class to class. The equipment for such a TV system may be available as early as 1961, Dr. DeKieffer said.

The equipment already is a reality, but the problem of making it economically feasible must yet be solved. Dr. DeKieffer predicted the TV system will be used all the way from elementary school through college. Curtis Plays Mug HOLLYWOOD Tony Curtis has purchased "Jadda," an original story by Blake Edwards for production through his own independent company, Curtleigh Productions. Described as a gangster story set in the twenties, the melodrama would star Curtis as a Chicago racketeer.

The film will start production with Edwards directing from his own script. It has not yet been decided whether Janet Leigh, Curtis' wife, will costar. iCopjmeht. IMA. Y.

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