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-1 Ulilflruiruuirol By! DANTON WALKER CUr- By HEOOA HOPPER Hollywood, March 31. Janet Leigh has another chance to play opposite her husband, Tony Curtis, in "The Vikings" for Bryna Productions. She's cast in the only top feminine role, that of a Welsh princess captured by Vikings who use her as a pawn in their efforts to invade England. The picture starts June 17 Frantic fifties Tb House Committee on Un-Americaft Activities will now investigate alleged1 Commie infiltration into U. S.

music. At closed meeting last week, Paul Butler was prevailed on to stay on as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Army Quartermaster Corps to conduct study at the University of Tennessee on how food odors influence the appetite Old ITD (EQJLD VCDIFSB By ED SULLIVAN End of the Roud Vienna, March 31 On the deck of a Russian sentry tower, two Commies with tommy guns looked down at us suspiciously. We were on the Austro-Hungarian border, marked off by an Austrian flag flying from a tree, on the country road beond the Austrian village of Halbturn, SO miles outside Vienna. One sentry darted into the tower, 50 feet above us.

"You and Mrs. Sullivan, from your clothes, obviously are Americans and your car is American," explained Franz Cyrus, manager of the United Press Vienna Bureau. "So the sentry is phoning his commanding officer at the nearest check-point, to report that two agents of an imperialist power have arrived." Other-sentry kept his eyes and guns focused on our party. Below the sentry i tower was an incongruously peaceful scene, a farm house and a farmyard in which Hungarian children were playing and the mother was hanging out her wash, now that the driving rain had ceased. "That family is only 10 feet from freedom," reflected the UP chief.

"They waited too long, the Russians sealed off the border for 200 miles and now it is too late, because this is the end of the road." When the rtvolutionary flames ignited in Budapest, in early November, Hungarian sentries either deserted these border sentry towers or looked on impassively as Hungarian parents and children streamed to asylum ti to ct -J on location in Norway. Tony Perkins will have two Broadway pals, I'ernell Roberts and Frank Overton, as brothers in "Desire Under the Elms" at Paramou t. Tony's co-star, Sophia Loren, won't arrive until the eighth. She, remains in Italy to dub "The Boy on a (why not just ask a few The late Princess Nicholas HcIen) of Greece left about a half million dollars, which will be divided between her daughters, the Duchess of Kent and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia. East Berlin ending an opera troupe of 420 to Paris this Spring, as its contribution A IT i rV-V I U' ''I ft aHSSSSSSSSSSSSSsassSBSMSBSIBiaSSIISIIBIBiaSSB Dana Dolphin' in Ital- Wynter ian-.

After ar- Orson Welles Robert Mitchum Katharine Cornell A anodera to the Theatre of Nations festival. sion of Joan of Arc, set in France during be German occupation of 1940, on view in Frankfurt, Germany. Titled "The Storyj of Simons Machard," it jis la-oration between Bert Brecht and Lion Feucktwanger. 1 i CW i A. I is? VSr-r Ambassador Thompson.

Jean Madeira, Joseph Cot ten in Austria. But when aid failed to arrive for Budapest's will have three days of retakes with Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra in Stanley Kramer's "Pride and Passion." Robert Rich is a man of mystery. Jesse Lasky Jr. accepted Rich's Academy Award for writing "The Brave One." Nobody seems to know where he is or if that's his real name. Strange, wot? Sammy Davis Jr.

doesn't expect to make a picture this year, but in 1958 he and Frank Sinatra plan to do "The Freedom Train." Zooming Into the Dough Rod Serling, besides a fat salary, also gets 20 of profits of "Bronze Star." He authored "Requiem for a Heavyweight." At the start of his career five years ago his salary was $250 a week. Now studios are competing for him. Debbie Reynolds with three years more to go at Metro wants out of her contract. They can't find anything for her to do 20th took up its option on Joanne Woodward in "Three Faces of Eve." They also picked up their option on Dana Wynter. Ethel Nudged Out by Gladys Ethel Barry more moved into a Beverly Hills apartment since Gladys Cooper moved back into the home Ethel had rented Cathleen Nesbitt, who was so great on the stage in "My Fair Lady," is just as great as grandmother to Cary Grant in "An Affair to Remember" and our Leo McCarey has himself another bit picture.

Jessie Royee Landis flew to New York over the weekend to greet her husband, Maj. Gen. J. F. R.

Seitz. She will rent her New York apartment for a year, and has promised to meet Grace and Prince Rainier in Rome in May She had a letter from Grace enclosing baby pictures and going on at length about how beautiful Caroline is, raving like any other young mother. Hands Oft Son Bill! Zsa Zsa Gabor called at crack of dawn to ask if my on Bill is married. I said he is and wanted to know why she asked. "Well," said she, "I saw him at Universal yesterday and he's the type man I could fall in love with." To which I yelled, "You keep your paws off him." Oh, I will.

I will but he's so beautiful. My mother's husband is handsome, too." When I said I'd heard he was around 48 and had gray hair at the temples before the wedding, she replied: "Oh, no, he got gray overnight just thinking about it, and my mother will shoot me for saying it." Zsa Zsa played a trip-teaser in an Orson Welles picture and says Jack Benny is helping her with her Las Vegas act and that Joe K. Lewis will be on the same bill. Jean Seberg's parents, who live in Marshalltown, Iowa, won't be able to catch the Paris premiere of her Joan of Arc. Her father, who is a druggist, explains, "I couldn't be away that long.

Who'd keep the store?" Claire Trevor has only two weeks of rehearsals for Playhouse 90's "If You Knew Elizabeth." Producer Martin Manulis of Playhouse is mighty proud that movies bought both "Fear Strikes Out" and "Young Stranger," first done on his show. "Fear" could have been had for $2,000 right after the TV presentation, but Paramount waited so long it cost $50,000. May 2 is date for the wedding of Mpry McDonnell, sister of Mrs. Henry Ford 2d, and George Murnana with a recepi ion at the Ambassador jHoteL Eddie Duchin's soi Peter, now studying music in Paris, has a crush on Yvette Reynaud, niece of the former premier of France). In case you're interested, there'a another Elvis Stahr, with Ike's Committee on Education.

Lyle Wilson, UP general manager in Washington, recovering from a heart attack. Corinne Griffith njiaking a movie comebacki but not as an actress. She isj the author of "Papa's Delicate Condition," written about her own father, which will become a film starring Fred Astaire. Hosting a party at the RSVP was 'Brooks John, banjo picker of George White's back in the 1920s, who says his life story may become the theme of a legitimate play. The Ted Steele baby is due this or next week.

I NBC employes developing "pink slip" ulcers, there have been so many firings lately. Prirao Camera lost his restaurant, near the 20th Century-Fox studios in Hollywood, and has returned to wrestling. Lucille and Desi Arnas sold oil rights under their studio, Motion Picture Center, for 20 of the prospective oil profits. A Palm Beach multimillionaire can't get his mother to sign checks for his Broadway haberdasher's bill, which has mounted to $75,000. Howard Johnson Jr.

soon taking over for his dad as president of the restaurant chain. The "Lady Chat-terley's Lover" film, banned in New York, is doing s.r.o. business at I the Beacon Hill Theatre in Boston. Josepha Hetteta, daughter of Jascha Heifetz and Florence Vidor, made her debut in San Francisco as a concert pianist last week (she has been earning living as music teacher and accompanist.) Raymond Scott's score for 'Lute Song," in which Yul Brynuer had his first featured role on Broadway, will be played by 20 European spmphony orchestras this summer. Rita Hayworth slimming down for "Pal Joey" via daily basketball practice.

Katharine Cornell to star in a British film version of Shaw's "Candida" this summer. Though not yet official, it looks as if Burt I-ancaster will be top banana in the movie of "Peyton Place." Robert Mitchum a new enrollee at Actors Studio in New York, where ha intends to spend three months this summer. Gene Kelly considering a musical version of "Dark of the Moon," in which he would sing and dance as the witch boy. New York's fashion designer, Frank Parullc, department for London in a fortnite with a personal introduction to Queen Elizabeth, aiming to create the duds for her U.S. visit.

Jean LeSeyeux, Parisian revue producer well known in New York, died unexpectedly last week in Paris. The Julius La Rosas lost the expected baby. With so many indifferent attractions on Broadway, the question is being asked, why not replace one of them with "Brigadoon?" The revival at City Center of the Loew-Lerner hit is as good as the original production, which is saying a lot. The late great Ziegfeld would probably be shocked they've added a calypso number to the revue bearing his name. freedom fighters, Russia realized it would have a free hand.

Then it was that Russian tanks started their Budapest blood purge and fanned out to seal off border. At this particular border point 120,000 refugees streamed to safety. Austria, braving Russian trucu-lence, accepted the refugees with open arms in what may be Austria's finest hour. The second sentry emerged and joined his comrade. Two tommy now were pointed in our direction.

From the length of our stay and the big American car, they obviously figured jwe had a rendezvous with refugees. The second sentry dashed back to the phone. "He's phoning the check-point again," said Cyrus. "If anything goes wrong here, he wants to be on record that he's now relaying two warnings to his commander." Adding to their suspicions undoubtedly was the fact that Austrian farmers working in their fields now were coming closer to where we stood. "These Austrian farmers have absolutely no fear of them," said the UP bureau chief.

"They work right under their guns. Some of these farmers backed-their wagons and tractors up to the very boundary line and loaded them with children and women during the November and December dash to freedom. They despise Russians of all sizes." Back in Vienna, that evening as we joined a jammed opera house audience in cheers for American singer Jean Madeira's "Carmen," we kept thinking of that grim scene at the border. We thought of it again, at midnight supper with Jean Madeira and Franz Cyrus and his wife at The Third Man restaurant. Owner of this colorful place is Anton Karas, whose zither playing added to the distinction of "The Third Man," in which Orson Welles, Alida Valli co-starred with Joe Cotten.

We thought, too, of the Hungarian refugees we'd visited at the Traiskirchen camp. Included in the 1,900 residents of this Austrian camp are 300 children, 180 of whom have no knowledge whether their parents were killed or imprisoned as they groped for the border. This, our first visit to Vienna, has been an unforgettable experience. The people are the friendliest we've ever met, their spirit is amazingly high. They like U.

S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, although too often they can't figure our foreign policy as it emerges from Washington. The tough policy Thompson adopted toward Russia in the drafting of the Austrian State Treaty made a great impression on this country. I'd suggest that American tourists, this summer, place Austria on their "must-see" list. The prices are the lowest in Europe, for hotels, food, wine and services.

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