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Section Two SUNDAY NEWS, DECEMBER 17, 1961 2 THE Tiller nmiFPe 1 Jlilln 4. i .1 WHAT'S THE MORNING Hi By ROBERT SYLYESTER MOW PO VOU SEE WHy 1 WANTED A RETRIEVER? There's no question that today's kids are bigger and stronger and better looking than the kids of my day. Also they think differently. Here, for instance, are some of the toys to intrigue the younger mind for Christmas: Junior can have a Remco turret gun target lights up at gun blasts; automatic feed ammunition belt; includes earphone and oxygen mask. Or pop can buy the heir the Minute Man launching car.

A remote control missile explodes target range ear, exploding ammo dump. Or he can go further and play with a Marx-A-Copter works like real, with pilot control that can blow up a submarine, retrieves a nose cone. As for sister, if she's musical she can have her own super-niatic juke box tiny tot version, coin operated. What ever happened to the boy who used to play with a ball and the girl who needed only a doll? Station WXEW sent their radio reporter Chip Cijolla to Fort Dix last week to tape a program, and make it after each game. "I get off the field in such a hurry," says Kyle, "that I half expect the referee to call an illegal man in motion penalty." A horse player at the China Xight was saying that he likes to eat in restaurants.

"My wife's cooking has run neck and neck with my indigestion so often," he explains, "that I usually tell her to scratch her pots and pans." A tall fellow was having a luncheon drink at the New York Athletie Club the other day when fire equipment came hustling up and the firemen ran up the stairs and into a nearby room where there was a small fire. "This is no place for me." said the tall fellow, leaving the restaurant and joining the firemen. He was Edward Cavanagh, the Xew York fire commissioner. Some of the exclusive shops now have a cradle for your telephone which plays hit songs from the hit shows while you wait for your number to answer. Dave Astot, who's billed as the First of the Anpry Young Comics at the Blue Anpel, was told by another young comic that the latter has bought $1,000 worth of monologue material like Astor's.

Astor shook his head. "You're on the wrong track," he advised. "Money can't buy unhappiness." Much has been made of the "orgy" scenes in "La Dolce Vita" and now in the French film "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." But if you look closely in "Les Liaisons" you'll see one attendant at the "orgy" is absorbed in reading the Saturday Evening Post. And since both these films were booked at Henry Miller's Theatre, long a straight playhouse, the local wags refer to the place as Broadway's only illegitimate theatre. A fellow phoned the Luaua-400 the other day and asked if they could handle a "Sweet Sixteen" dinner for his 21-year-old daughter.

The manager asked if he were serious. "Sure," was the answer. "My wife has told the neighbors she's only 28 and they're beginning to doubt it." Singer Timi Yuro had to turn down a guest of honor invitation from a Japanese-American society. She explained that the Timi Dart of her name is strictly show business and the Yuro part is Neo-politan Italian. IT BE,) A PRIME STEAk, Kc retriever.

Fellow then asked what a retrieving dog can retrieve in the city. "My hat." was the owner's answer. Irving Selis, executive director of the Associated Blind is himself blind and is arranging his fifth annual Christmas party for 300 blind children from all over the city. He was asked the other day if it's tough work. "I've done it so -often," explained Selis, "that I can do it blindfolded." Mimi Benzell's 8-year-old Jonathan came home to tell her he has a role in his school's Christmas play and that he had to straighten out another boy whose only chore was to pull open the curtains.

Seems the curtain kid had pulled back the curtains twice. And what did do about that? "I told him no ad-libs," said the young veteran of show business. Last week the book publishers' advertisements offered "Prosperity Through Freedom" and right below that another volume titled "How Much Is That in Dollars?" The last of the championship big eaters in town is one Kenny McSarin, a part-time actor. The other day Kenny was booked to do a TV commercial in Central Park. He had three breakfasts and had no trouble with the role.

It was a commercial for Metrecal. Hume Cronyn. who has grown an Egyptian-type beard for "Cleopatra," was walking down the street in Rome the other day when a man, obviously American, stopped hirn and rattled out a long string of Yiddish. An interpreter was found. The tourist had mistaken Cronyn for an American rabbi.

Kyle Rote of the football Giants has to get to his radio microphone in the dressing room as fast as he can the tape i'-i nicr broke down in the midst of same. merely a-ked for Ralph Behringer, who came running ami fixed the gadget. Behringer was on hand eiaue he ad i een drafted and sent to Fort Dix the week previously. Before that he was a WXEW engineer. the Toy Cafe in W.

44th St. may be the town'? smallest sidewalk dining place. It has one table which seats two persons. On the street the ether day a fellow was admiring a dog owned by another fellow. lie asked the dog's wner what kind of dog it was and was told it was a A People Watcher By HEDDA HOPPER By ROBERT WAHLS Hollywood, Dec.

16. Richard Kiley goes to New York to play opposite Diahann Carroll in "No Strings," Richard Rodgers' first musical sincp death of his longtime I pot dff on the wrong tack with Janet Margolin. I was, verily, tactless in referring to her as a "child actress." She is 18 and the leading lady of Morris L. West's "Daughter Silence." I must have sounded most patronizing-. I beg your pardon." Janet remarked when she heard the words.

Her Coke halted its normal progress in midair. "I grew up when I was five and rather unhappy. Why is it older people feel that a girl my age doesn't have an emotional range?" Janet, in beige cashmere sweater and skirt, nibbled a baton, lettuce and tomato on white, no toast, "because I don't have the energy to crunch the toast." Her brown hair is shoulder length, her eyes brown, and her nose, "if you must put it that way, is a pug nose." 'Remarkable Find' When the reviews of "Daughter ef Silence" were printed, Janet applauded in Sardi's Our fl if i Jfc' El I partner, Oscar Hammerstein It about an American writer living in Paris who falls for a French girl. Glenn Ford bought a storj, "The Time Is Now," about the richest playboy in South America. Could there be any other than Baby Pignatari? Hey, wouldn't Linda Christian be perfect as technical The premiere of "West Side Story," which benefited Cedars of Lebanon Hospital to the tune of $115,000, was in the old Hollywood tradition, with fans lining the streets for blocks and giving out with screams of joy when a favorite arrived George Cha-kiris, with Rita Moreno, went in almost unknown and came out a hero.

The biggest roar went to Dick (Dr. Kildare) Chamberlain. On his arm was Italian beauty Rosanna Schiaffino, who wore a chinchilla coat to the ankles. Exit a Riot It was the second time around for me, and I enjoyed the picture more than my first Curtain time was 8:30, but Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty arrived at 9:10. The exodus was a riot in the rain.

In the mass of people struggling to find their cars, "were Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Gloria Stewart, Hank Fonda, Mrs. Peter Law ford, the Martins Tony and Dean May Britt (wearing a beautiful honey-colored fur coat and looking divinely happy) and Sammy Davis. My feet were soaking wet, so I skipped the party the Mirisrh brothers gave afterward. I'm told the dancers from the film put on the Twist as it's never been done before. Even Cesar Romero stood in open-mouthed amazeirent.

Joan Collins and Tony Newley Janet Margolin takes cue from director Vincen J. Done hi tor, Vincent J. Donehue, were worried about my emotional I range," Janet says. "But I knew I 1 could play a girl who murdered Diahann Carroll on John Chapman called her "a remarkable find." She was also compared to a Monet "water lily" and her performance, as 1 Anna, was described a having "a pale loveliness." "a fragile baunting dewiness." Now, thi is a heady baptism Broadway for a teen-age girl. Isn't it? "I got a week up in Central Park this summer for spraying paint on branches for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream." she remarked.

"I also lighted 12 or 14 torches for "Richard which was homhed by some of the critics. I learned a great deal." My impression is that Janet ha learned a great deal. She attended the Walden School, the Hifh School of Performing Arts, and was a lary-sitter for a i eouple who knew I.ury Krcll, the agent. She met Miss Kroll and dui a Zest commercial and sev- I the murderer of her mother. I memorize easily." (Donehue told me that the moment she came through the office door both he and Halliday knew she was the right girl if she had the self-discipline to handle the part.

"She has an unabashed openness, call it a purity," says Donehue. "A quick sweetness. And her mother is her friend. She just came backstage like any other Janet's dad is an accountant, her mother a dental assistant. the Museum of Natural History.

"If you don't like mammals," Janet remarked, "you can always enjoy watching the people looking at the mammals. I'm interested in Margaret Mead and anthropology. "You don't mind if I look around here, do you," she remarked at Downey's pulling on her camel hair coat and tossing her brunette shoulder length tresses over the collar. "I love to watch people and I rarely get to a place like this." So, Downey's-Eighth-Avenue Is just another Hall of Mammals to Janet. Obviously, she has an actress instinct for her life's work.

And I referred to her as a child actress. We should all grow up at five! who wrote, directed and produced "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off," a howling success over there. He also has a hit record in "Pop Goes the Weasel." Kirk Douglas swears he's going to hit Broadway in a play in 1963. He'll sure be rich enough then to take the chance Cyd Charisse and Yvette Mimieux are getting the cover treatment from a Paris magazine. Olivia De Havilland arrives from France on Dec.

20 and goes into rehearsals for "A Gift of Time," which opens in New Haven on Jan. 27. nstaiiments on She lives on Central Park West era soap opera "Edge Night." with older twin sisters and a "I think both the reducer. younger sister. And she is a great lover of the Hall of Mammals at were very warm for November in 'London.

He's the young fellow Richard Halliday, and the direc-.