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Daily News from New York, New York • 336

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Ed Sullivan On Vacation Ed Sullivan is on vacation. His column. "Little Old New York will be resumed on his return July 7. By ANTON WALKER Nancy Donovan, of the red, red hair, has a sure-fire formula for success in showbusiness. The attractive songstress, who heads the new show at the Copa this week, believes you k.l II lll.n That Route 17 By ROBERT SYLVESTEit With the extensive, expansile new ErcK.dway musical "Wish You Were Here detailing life as it is lived ir a mountain riort hotel, this writer last week did some research en thr ilorst ht Circuit.

For the first time in my life I went to a II rM I.i Circuit hotel. A place called The Laurel. ma's finishing at the- Copa this week so we need the dough." N. musical background, i.e., The l-ur! is near singing at socials and dimes, as a starter. ei I XX 9 hit is onward and upward ever a turnpike called tout 17.

Nat HiLt the gag writer. says Routt i a atrn tatdo 50 raiics long. when jva get to The Laurels several huky young men (t jihi at Ike rate and automatically you tnat you can't go in. room, they say. And, sure er.i gh.

they're right. The Laurels taken car c( gu-U it has a immmr mI ahout half ai big a the Etltie Sara, it has a N'L Ur in every tree, and on I' Saturday and Sunday c't it has ihbw business what boxiness. Th shows start the sports department please bring him up to time on the latest moves in the cbesa epic. The sports writer who answered the phone happened by luck to be a chess buff, too. and spent 20 minutes tit-tailing each spectaeular move, lie brought our boy right op to the closing gambit, or whatever.

"Anything else?" ho asked kindly, one expert to another. "Ju-t one more thing." said our boy. "How did the Dodgers make out?" Saammmt Col my' proper mmm, trwtnm Sindtmr. almmym wmmmmfm to mmA him nmmmm imtmt mmmry Cmld-rnyrn idmm mmmmmhmmt. jmrnt mm Allrmd Second yon should take a trip to Stw York and get a job as an ae- I eountant (that was Nancy's first vocation).

Then you go to a roller skating rink and sin the Star Spangled Banner in a voice that travels to the next street, where a nite club owner happens to be standing. Fourth, have the boniface give you a job, fail in love and then marry you. Fifth, go on from there with proper encouragement from hubby to musicals, better nite clubs and theatres. Simple? That's the way Nancy's singing career was fashioned, only we should add that she does have talent to complement these other essentials of a successful career. Versatile singer Tommy Barra-gan, whose Irish tenor has been heard in recent Broadway musicals and the concert stage, is delighting patrons in Yorkville's Cafe Wien-ecke with his amazing repertoire of French, Italian and German songs and operatie arias.

I The Glamor Brigade "Read with great interest your item on Virginia Wicks being the most beautiful (we used the word pretty) red-haired press agent in the business. I agree with you Ginny rates top honors as the prettiest redhead. Kay Norton would win any contest as the town's most glamorous blonde press agent. Inasmuch as you were treading on I dangerous ground, I thought it best to remind you that my partner, Dorothy Gulman. is not only the most beautiful brunette publicist in the business, she's the prettiest of i them all redhaired, blonde, brown-elte or half-ash blonde.

No other I press agent with only one head can make this statement." Michael Sean O'Shea. HOTKI.M AMD K-TAI ATS llJwAtESOFi ij With the heat of the season definitely with ns, the C'atskills are yeiling out loud to the vaudeviliians Broadway. At I a) Cava's the other nite, Ernie Kovacs. the zany TV comedian, acted out the following typical interview between a resort booking agent and an acrobat: "Me and my three brothers, got an acrobatic act that is surefire, sensational" "That's fine. You got a ear?" "Yeah.

I got a ear, but let me tell you about the act. For my first number. I do a triple back somersault and then "How many will the car hold?" "Sis people, including special costumes 1 had made at the Stodwetl, LtL, tailors. After the somersault, I do my death-defying at imnr time and are still going flT niitmght- AU stars, too. i a anday morning Jou can 1-e at the LanreU by the I'i! peaker advising everybody to harry up anil report for the, "male ntrst." Once you're out of you have a choice of just about outdoor activity and, of rtmi-Mf.

aitrh breakfast to keep you s'iilcl a week. There is I th'' aii'y better food in such tni.rmuu'i o. lantities a any good t-rwht hotel offers. I have never seen S'tf-h a fantastic operation as The 1 rel. Fr instance, so many people want to ft to the shows in the hig a mi that the auditorium etits are eiprpped with revolving, treed rs jot hke thoe at the Tnis subway station.

The limi horizontal pip revolving r--itr which let yon out but won't 1. 1 you in. The place has two which are enormous and fvr almost anything. 1 aid as much to a friend at the pool and. saying no, immediately learned that The Laurels a frtendiy type hotel.

At a fire dive "Could you may! the squeeze in an extra person front, if necessary?" "Sure. featured vmcmlimtm tvith Lmm ha vat ob tlm Cmpmnm mnj top tm bottom): Lui Tamayo, Luit Bona and Ptpm Lara. hearses as much as eight hours a day to do their best for their repertoire of over 300 numbers, which includes French, Hungarian and Italian selections as well as Spanish. None of the instrumental croup, incidentally, uses sheet music for the act. It's all in their nop gins.

Comics Jackie Gleason and Betty Kean need have no fear of the future, according to those who have visited their homes. Their respective daughters Jackie's Linda, 10, and Betty's Didi. 4 have teamed up and are rifling the family gag coffers faster than Milton Berle. IMdi plays straight man while Linda reels off imitations of Lou-el la Parson and the panel of "Juvenile Jury" and finishes up with a ventriloquist act. "Don't applaud." says Linda, in modest Gleason style, "just throw money." "Yeah, Didi chimes in, "mom DEAR PUT DENIS: UVn telling everybody that, tlarting Monday, June 3uth, are presenting y.i in a livo broadcast right from the rettao-rant.

We've never done such a thing before. We're 48 year old. not as, the restaurant. We're bringing in a w' VNJ ntike that's 620 on your dial) Kvrry nisht at II p. m.

except tteek-cndnk an we're going to let yoa talk with your friends So, have fun. Paul and we'll be eavesdropping (and don't forjet the music) signed GEORGE BLUE RIBBON RESTAURANT 145 W. 44ib St, N. Y. P.

S. Tell yoor friends we'ro keeping the same modest prices. it ml mm get muitm htm mmug im mil him own Mmm. CmmrybmJy on thm Cold-wym lot ham hmmm loonderaag AotO SinJlmr nmm going tm gmt him mmmmm intm "Hani Christ at Andersen. In thm tnmrmmirf hmllmtm in fAe mmtfm mm thm floor mf thm memmm thmrm'm mrrmchmj mhip.

If name is H.MS. SinJlmr. Sintllmr tfamn't mmtiartmJ with thm gimmick, it'm rmpmrtmd. bat it wmm thm bmmt hm cuU tlm. mmm This column's favorite press re Now my brothers are all fine performers." "Okay, you're hired.

Bring in a picture of the car tomorrow." The 11 men who comprise I.os Chavalos de Juspana, who have already bettered the best receipts of Xavier Cugat at the Starlight Roof in their American debut, formed their act in ltflO due to a common bond. Each was a keen student and fan of American popular music, they used to meet and imi lease of the week has ju-t arrived. tate some of the better recordings. I'erfectiomsts. the group still re- rrr" mm mr 1 rn 1 You'll have the hi It reads as folio ws: "Since the innovation of his popular full course dinner for $3-25, Trader Tom's business has jumped to a point where he finds it necessary to close for the first two weeks of July to give his staff" a breather." A week or so ago Artie Jones and Eddie and Tom Mulligan bought the Third Ave.

saloon known as Meenan's from the proprietor of the sane came. A feature of Mrcnans has always been a copper tray with the cn-rraving. "Ir It's Jlee- vacation ever I nan's." The tray is no antique and if you are a good dancer Enroll now while Summer Rates ore in effecf at Arthur Murray's VCTiat a pity! Some people spend lots of money on their vacation and then sit on the sidelines and watch the good dancers have all the fun. Don't let this happen to you. Come in 1 1 I ftieiidly-type hotel, friendly type stranger join in your they know you or not.

"You're wrong. Mac." a friendly type ftrancer told me firmly. "You may think thi place is big but out it in the backyard of or The Concord." nate to can. but to me Ti i- I Im Wrd big enough and rarabie enough to srced from Amftu'j and oMfrate as a sovereign state on it own. Borseht t'irruit htel ure have grown yi'u-e Arthur Koher wrife "Having Wonderful Time" and turned Fiime int the niu9irsi! You V.

Here." Tht pomt mJIU mt Shirley, L. mwty mmmmj tmmmltt (mil hy Wmifmr Shtrlty, hm mnm minJmw Th? meanest je worked on ay rewspaper recentTy was perpctrat-trated by a newspaperman who shall te nanir-less and who waj. av so iriany of so often are. stalling out a late hour trick with nothing to Reading a long story about championship chess match in a morning newspaper, our hero called the sports department of said paper and explained that he was an invalid, a rbess bafT, and would ytS CaTTEty rs now to Arthur Murray's and let one of his talented experts show you bis famous Magic Step To Popularity. Yoa can learn this dance secret in just one lesson and go dancing: It's true! Even beginners can dance afmAcf nil ft ma fVtsrrma in swui rn.li Tv citmmae mo a 1 1IIIVJS aw nvaae mmm aV niuiv JWUIlUVt Bll art tn fftt mnA Its all tff (cr fit ha virriAft the engraving is nothing special.

Stvdioi Air-CondMond ARTHUR MURRAY 11 EAST 43rd STREET MU 7-4141 tot a veteran Meenan barfly offered Artie Jones b9 for it. Artio figured this as repiesenting about a 140 profit. But be discovered, alas, that the tray is a part ft the chattel mortgage on the saloon and nntil ho pays off completely for the restaurant he can't sell the tray. -sf I 1 C9S nrm avenue tu sun el 5 csao brookltn, rurton at smith st.KA 4-3380 Cao lJ.

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