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SUNDAY, MAY 21, tM THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR PAGE FOURTEEN SECTION Alberghettillownbe Harris Shuns Bourbon For Cooking Sherry Major Riddle Books Broadway Show For Dunes IRingsiders wanders about the room and I "I felt grateful to NBC," Phil recalls, "so I didn't make the big switch. Gen. Sarnoff was grateful too, so he gave me a long-term contract." The contract, similar to the TV deal later given Milton iBerle, was one that paid Phil whether he worked or not. It i i PHIL HARRIS Bing Crosby. Sometimes or a i a i Phil and Bing go hunting or pretty good because Crosby, fishing.

Bing is a guy who who can afford to eat in res-knows how to live, too, but taurants, is a steady cus-he has to work harder andltomer. Toast Of New York By WILLIAM GLOVER AP Drama Writer NEW YORK, May 20 Little Anna Maria counts on big hunches. "Just about 99 per cent of everything I do is by in-j stinct." explains Broadway's! new toast. As star of the musical the golden-voiced young lady, last name Alber-ghetti, is completing a show world slam which began with her debut as a prodigy of 13 in Carnegie Hall. Television, movies and the big night clubs have since lifted Miss Alberghetti (24 now) to the six figure income bracket.

For a while she yearned for opera. Now she feels the stage of popular entertainment is more her dish. The tears flow afresh for Miss A at each performance in the final scene. This is not because "Carnival!" is remotely mournful, but because the luminous-eved star gets herself pitched to a peak of emotional involvement. Everyone, including her mother, says Anna Maria, has learned to stay out of the dressing room for five minutes while she composes herself after the final curtain.

"I suppose I'll eventually have to learn somehow to do it mechanically," she sighs. A performer who has never had an acting lesson in her life, Miss Alberghetti gives large credit to "instincts" for the way in which she develops Lili into three-dimensional being. "The director, Gower Champion, let me go a lot on my instincts but of course didn't approve every little bit I tried." which holds the New York Drama Critics Circle citation as the best musical of the season, takes place in a small European traveling show. It is based upon the same plot material as "Lili," a notable film of eight years ago. 2200 E.

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May 20 This may shock the boys at the corner saloon but Phil Harris spends more time rooking nowadays than he does drinking. It used to be that when Phil felt sad, his tears were 86 proof. No more. Of course, he never did as much drinking as Jack Benny made out. If he had, his liver would be in a bottle at the Harvard Medical School.

The one-time band leader now makes only occasional entertainment a a ranees, hence has plenty of time for the kitchen. It's quite a sight to see Phil with a market basket, picking out choice vegetables at the Farmers Market. It's even more astounding to see him hovering over the stove at his Palm Springs home, whipping up a special dinner. "I cook every dinner at home." boasts Phil. "And I feel like I'm in heaven in that kitchen." Phil is so ardent an amateur chef that his kitchen is restaurant-equipped.

He ribs his wife, ex -actress Alice Faye, as the inspiration for his love of cooking. "I either had to learn how to cook or starve to death," he says. "I didn't used to let Alice In the kitchen, but I've taught her how to fix salads. She's a pretty good salad maker now." Probably no one in show business lives the good life Phil does. He and Alice live in a beautiful home facing the Thunderbird Country Club golf course.

When he's not in the kitchen, he's out on the course playing with You never get a bum steer at Beattcfiamp's STEAK HOUSE 2507 N. 1st Are. Because we use only top quality Eastern PRIME beef for our Top Sirloin Steaks. Dick Hansen entertains nightly at the organ Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner I xn Bv DICK ALEXANDER Star Entertainment Editor LAS VEGAS, May 20 Major A. Riddle, president of the Dunes Hotel this sprawling Nevada gambling resort and entertainment capital, is a big man who thinks big and acts accordingly.

We first ran across "The Maje" in 1942 when he opened the 1 a a tion Club in ALEXANDER Moline, 111., and we were an orchestra playing with there under the leadership of Eddy Brandt. It was the site of the old Velie mansion, which spawned the popular automobile of a few years back. Even then, Riddle had the idea of presenting to the public topnotch shows and gambling a formula which is proving a bonanza to him in Las Vegas. Riddle, an oil man. hied himself to Las Vegas a few years ago and, with a group of enterprising people took possession of the Dunes with the expressed intent of making a paying proposition or what was considered hopeless cause.

His latest venture is "Ten derloin," New York's Broadway musical which Riddle had his eye on from the day it opened. He has brought the entire cast and company to Vegas and presented the show to a capacity house Thursday night, although the effort was received with moderate enthusiasm. The musical comedy is based on the Rev. Dr. Charles Parkhurst's historical crusade to close up New York's sin-filled Tenderloin District back in the '90's.

Maurice Evans starred in the leading role on Broadway, but, since the CARUSO'S PATIO IS OPEN Now enjoy Arizona's finest Italian food in a delightful outdoor fash ion. Caruso's 434 N. 4th Ave. MA 2-9657 VAUGHAN'S The MONTEREY The CENTRAL Don't Let Mother Take the Whole BRING WHOLE Sultan Dwarfs Showgirl Sultan, the largest fiberglas figure in the world, is the trademark for the fabulous Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev. In contrast to the 37-foot figure, a Dunes showgirl poses at the base of the huge statue.

Sultan's feet are six-feet long and his head five-feet in diameter. still has two years to run. Some sources say that Harris gets $100,000 a year. The network never came up with a TV series for Phil, but occasionally uses him on special productions, such as the Bob Hope Show. He also does a month at Las Vegas each year.

Now that his lucrative contract with NBC is running out, Phil and Alice are preparing a new TV series starring themselves. Harris' cooking must be And Benny down one of never turns Phil's invita- tions. "Jack never says much about the food but he loves that price," says Phil. What's the secret of good cooking? "A good cook starts his meal early in the morning by shopping personally for the meats and vegetables. All great chefs do their own shopping.

Then take time, loving time with your dishes. "About the only drinking I do nowadays is to sip a few while I'm stirring the soup. Man, it's real living. It's the greatest relaxation in the world to create a meal." When an AP photographer took pictures of Harris in his Palm Springs kitchen, he had just come back from a visit to his doctor. The photographer quoted Phil: "That guy must be nuts.

How can anyone as relaxed as I have an ulcer?" Maybe his own cooking doesn't agree with him. Everybody is talking about the Scrumptious Mexican Food at Pinky's Taco House 2601 E. Speedway 127 W. DRACHM AN Phone MA 4-8531 Colonna Hits Road To Vegas Googley-Eycd Comic Tours With Septet Bv JANET FERRIS STATELINE. May 20 UP) Almost two decade.i since the "Road to Rio and the "Road to Singapore." comedian Jerry Colonna, 56, now is hitting the road to Reno, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas.

His Gay Nineties mustache as black and bristling as ever, the whites of his great Barney Google eys prominent against his dark-skinned face, Colon na now plays Nevada nightclubs with his group of seven musicians. Colonna arranges and writes all the music, including his satire on popular songs. His group puts on four 45-minute shows five nights a week, 46 weeks a year. After working almost until dawn, Jerry gets up early enough in the afternoon to take a sunbath to preserve his tan. "We sometimes ad lib our way out of routines," he said in an interview.

"Not out of boredom but from trying to see if we can top ourselves." How can anyone be funny 46 weeks of the year? "When the lights go on and the curtain goes up, the old firehorse in me comes out," he explained. In World War II days, "The Professor" was called one of the leading experts on double- talk. He still uses these famed patter routines. "I like to do the patter pieces phonetically," he explained. "Mine is the iambic pentameter type.

I like to watch the expressions on their faces. I like to do it so they're sitting up on their chairs trying to grasp it." How about saying some? "Okay. When the foozle to the toozle of the" stoop-feathers and the messingales noddle to the widdle flutberries," he said engagingly. Would you mind rrpeating that? He did, word for word, and it seemed time to change the subject. "This Is a lot more confining and a lot harder than radio," he acknowledged.

"On radio, we had tim to rehearse. We also had a preview of each show to check it out for the big laughs, so we knew what we were doing. On the other hand, in TV, there was never enough time to rehearse. "People who come to a radio or a TV show come to be entertained," he said. "These nightclub people are not a captive audience.

They may stay through three shows, in which-case- you have to keep putting in fresh material. Or they can walk out in the middle of an act." Colonna got on the Fred Allen show when he was playing trombone with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. At CBS, he did "Dixieland" mornings, dance music afternoon and symphony in the evenings. Radio was mostly sustaining then. There were hardly any commercials so we really worked, 15 hours a day." His big comedy break came when the-woman playing Mrs.

Nusbaum, the gossip of Allen's Alley, told her boss: "Did you see that man with the mustache? He's an opera singer." In the ensuing performance, Colonna tried to sell Fred Allen on doing a concert. Then the roads opened up a long connaciion with Bob Hope, motion pictures, radio, television and Nevada. FREE POPS CONCERT by Tucson Pops Orchestra Georges DeMeester, Cond. SUNDAY In the HiwayHouse Courtyard (1601 N. Oracle) PROGRAM Dit Mtljterilnoen March by Richard Wagnir Orcheui In Hades by John Offenbach Serenade In the Night by Bixio-Cherudlnl-Kennedy I Sana ef Norway by Edward Crlee Selections from the Merry Widow Frant Lehar Ciardas by V.

Monti Poray and Bess George Gershwin Romanian Rhapsody by 6. Enesco I Sound ef Mulc by Richard Rndaers rtnf rmhietit ar klankatt sit en show was pre-empted to Nevada, the part was given to the veteran character actor, CURTAIN TIME FOR THE SNOW QUEEN by Mary MacMurtrie This Afternoon 3 o'clock Sharp provides a stereophonic sound while captivating the diners with such numbers as "La Vie En Rose." "Yesterday's and "Parlez Mol de D'Amour." Also at the Sultan's Table is the upcoming pianist Ron nie Brown, who wrote and performed for the opening night audience "The Sultan's Table suite, to magninco ap plause. "Tenderloin" itself was not enthusiastically received in Las Vegas, although the pro duction indicated a star or two is in the making. Distin quished by undistinguished music, the show unveiled a potential star in the person of dancer Eddie Phillips. Rex Everhart, who plays the role of Joe" is a veteran Shake spearean actor who slightly underplays the part of the second lead.

Saddle Sirloin owner Jim Sfarnas comes up again with a show-stopper in The Gay lords, personable singing comedy duo which opened Wednesday night to an appre ciative audience. Leaning hard on the close vocals, the pair, nevertheless, scores on the humor side in addition to the numbers, "100 Pounds of Clay" and "Volare." Highspots of the act are (in their Tweedledum and Twee dledee' manner) the Castro execution bit and the first) man on Mars. The Gaylords (Ronnie Gaylord and Burt Holiday) a couple of paisanos, showed their funniest bit to be a country thing with some ancient but effective material. Hawaiian acts, for some reason or other, have in the past gone good in this town. And now, Bagdad Room entrepreneur Jehflfty- Dugan has booked into the Drachman St.

spot the Royal Tahitians, a seven-piece group of three men and four women (a good arrangement) whose noteworthy engagement is the Edgewater Beach in Chicago the show includes a sword dance and Polynesian rhythms. Boof Turner, former Kay Kyser sideman, who has a trio at the Twin Flame Room on E. Speedway, reports that every night is like Saturday night out there his banjo medley this week is a country medley. Tonight's program at the HiwayHouse by the Tucson Pops Orchestra includes "Die Meistersingers" march, "Song of Norway," "Porgy and Bess" and selections from "Sound of Music" the concert, which has averaged 1,000 people weekly, is free of charge better bring cushions or blankets Georges DeMeester is the conductor. Independent systems serve more than 10 million of the 65 million telephones in the United States.

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