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PAGE 65 THE EVENING SUN, BALTIMORE. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5, 1937 Bob Sylvester Movie Tille Is Changed New York.1 good-food-for-cheap restaurants. I wanted young men around me at my customers. I decided I'd take it out on them.

I took my menu and simply doubled the prices of everything and started buying only the best grade meats and produce. My customers howled and left me. I figured I was just waiting for the undertaker. But all of a sudden I started getting better customers, the heads of companies, the big shots in the area. so I kept hiring GIs as waiters "Pretty soon the union kept TESTERDAY it so happened that I had to run to the bank with a deposit and once I was in the black again my banker offered to take me to lunch at restaurant called Al Cooper's sending delegates to take my GIs off the floor and replace them with waiters too old for fill Herald Square in street off Broadway.

the goulash places. He Kept Fighting With The Union "You're always writing about i 1 jA 1 I KEPT fighting the union and those Broadway guys who know all about the restaurant business." said by banker, "so why 1 all my customers, mostly from the garment center, told don't vou listen to this fellow's story?" me how right I was, how they were right in there with me. So Now I even get the big union leaders. So He Got Lucky SO I got lucky, especially when you realize there are 24,000 licensed restaurants in New York today and about five per cent of them are making money. The only way to win in this business is to have a top class, top price spot.

The old 'economical' family style place is doomed. It's doomed, because there is no more cash business. Look at my figures, for instance: "I do a month in Diners Club charges. I do over $30,000 in personal and business firm charges. That means I wait from 40 to 60 days for $42,000.

I have to pay my booze bills on the dot. My rent won't wait. I've got 90 in help and none of them will wait either. So the other day I got an offer of $500,000 for the place and it sounded great. But what would I do with the loot? With one tfiing and another, I would need it all to open another place like this somewhere else." Cooper thought a minute and said there was only one thing which hasn't changed since earlier times in running eateries.

The owner had better work 16 or 18 hours daily if he's goings to have things his own way. Cooper, an alert little fellow, one day I have an argument was standing just insiae nis restaurant. with a delegate and, without even phoning his "office, he pulls It was before lunch hour time Hollywood. Cal. They've decided to change the title of "Down Payment" to "No Down Payment." As the producer, Jerry Wald, explains: "Used to be that folks had to make a sizable payment when they bought anything on the installment plan, but that's a thing of the past.

"Today, with real-estate operators, car dealers and stores everywhere hanging out the 'no down payment' signs, our original title would seem outdated and incongruous." The story deals with the adventures of four families who buy, with nothing down, adjoining homes in a Los Angeles suburban tract. Author John McPartland publishes his novel August 1 and at Wald's instigation he is changing his title to conform with the movie. Prefer Good Palance Hollywood, Cal. Preview audience liked Jack Palance better as the good brother than as the bad brother in his dual role of twin brothers in MGM's "House of Numbers." and the place was nearly empty. I 1 a strike.

All my stout-hearted custo "In the next two and a half hours," he said, we'll serve over 700 people at the top prices. mers started staying away in droves. I surrendered, but that wasil't enough. I was told I'd have to get up $500 for the I ll also be full for cocktails and ZSA ZSA GABOR Miss Gabor stars in "The Girl in the Kremlin," now at the Mayfair with "The Kettles On Old MacDonald's Farm." lP dinner. I owe my success to two it things: I chased out alt my original customers and I made the old age of my waiters secure.

The first I did on my own. The second I did with a knife at my throat. union welfare fund; the waiters had to be secure in their old age. I didn't have the five bills. I went home and my wife, Ellen, called a finance company which loaned us the $500 on our household furniture.

"Well, things were still bad. I tried to sell and got an offer of $66,000 for the place, which then had $77,000 in mortgages. All of "I came out of the Army with Moving Family Hollywood. Cal. With "Jail house Rock" as his fourth Hoi-' lywood picture in a matter of, months, Mickey Shaughnessy, has decided to move his wife and young baby from New Yorlc to Hollywood.

ill) five battle stars and a citation," he continued. "I borrowed to buy this place, an old speakeasy, and put it in shape. JOAN COLLINS 1 "The Wayward Bus," now at the Century. a sudden. I realized I was mad I wanted to run one of thosej 5 i4 CANTIFLAS DAVID NIVEN As they appear at the beginning of the trip in "Around the World In 80 Day," which celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth performance on Sunday at the Film Centre.

The Talk Of Hollywood By Hedda Hopper with the largest Kodiak bear TJOLLYWOOD Metro's work- ever taken out of that He'll put 26 more TV shows on film, but not for, his present sponsors. He ends association with them after Wi years in 6 I July. Sam Goldwyn says Harry Cohn once offered $1,000,000 for "Porgy and Bess" and at the time wanted to star Fred aiiil LiW Astaire and Rita Hayworth in it, The Last Thing Gershwin Wrote HTHE last thing George Gersh- win 'wrote before his death was "The Goldwyn Follies," with Zorina in 1939. Following that, they were planning to make "American in Paris" as a follow-up. Art Baker's divorce is final in August, and he'll marry Jerrie Larson, a magician.

Jayne Mansfield's story in national magazine, "I'll Do Any "ing on a picture for Ingrld Bergman, "Adorable Julia," taken from Somerset Maugham's book "Theater." It will be made In Europe later this year. Carol Reed read th story and wants to direct her In it. Every studio in town probably will be planning a picture for Bergman since this latest, trouble in which Roberto Rossellinl has been involved in India. Nancy Kelly says that when she returns to New York city she's agreed to do Aldous Huxley's play, "The Genius the Goddess." Alfred Hitchcock is looking high and low for a girl to replace Vera Miles for Jimmy Stewart's picture. Charles Laughton is back in town for Arthur Hornblow's "Witness for the Prosecution," with Marlene Dietrich, and he'd like to tour next season in "Major Barbara" with the New York city company and alternate that with "Hamlet." Burgess Meredith would play "Hamlet," with Cornelia Otis Skinner as the queen.

Hayward Off To Honolulu ELAND HAYWARD is off to Honolulu next week to finish "Old Man and the Sea." Bill Irawley will record an album of songs. He's been associated with "I Love Lucy" so long that most people forget he Introduced "Melancholy Baby." Also played on Broadway in "50,000. Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong." Warners retitled "The Helen Morgan Story." It's now "Both Ends of the Candle." Carol Channing. when she opens at the Tropicana in Las Vegas, will do the unusual. She'll give away diamonds.

Roy, Rogers returned from a "tiunting trip in Kodiak, Alaska. thing for Publicity," is as re t. cnw I msmm vealing about" her mentality as it is her body; Helen Rose beams with de light when called author. She suggested the "Designing Worn an" story and has another one up her sleeve, which Metro is I "KCA buying. LORD CALVEKT Helen Lawrenson, author of "Latins Are, Lousy Lovers," said the article created a riot when it came out in Cuba and was banned.

Menjou Is sc 4 if yy "i 11 -A A DOLPHE MENJOU has been enthusiastic since his return from Munich and "Paths of Glory." He said: "Stanley Kubrick, the director, has a touch of genius. This may knock f'wmmiyyyymBm i the picture industry on, its ear. I read the story years ago, never forgot it. so I snatched at the chance to be in it. A 6-foot-4 lad named Kim Carey will tear tv litis: your heart out, and Wayne Mor ris gives a marvelous perform ance.

"Stanley's first picture, 'The is rated one of best films of the year by several mag azines. We came home via Rome, where Vittorio de Sica cave us a fine dinner. He's play ing the same role in 'Farewell to Arms' which I did years ago KT. with Helen Hayes and Gary 'hJ I' fltW1 aiVt" WSTIUIHG (0. 10UISVIIU nKTii 1 tur.

rn iniHWILlE Cooper. "Since production was slow in Italy, he turned to acting, and he's great. We had a short stay in Istanbul. I did three or four TV shows in New York and i 4 1 a bought two of Harry Lachman's paintings which I first tried to buy in 1931. But then he wouldn't sell.

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