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LTDCECUUJ VdDIHilK By ED SULLIVAN Dflag(yyj By HEDDA HOPPER A Delectable Couple Hollywood, Jan. 23 Half a dozen stars begged for "Any Wednesday," but Jack Warner has his own ideas about how to cast his pictures, so he's chosen mi the Toram By CHARLES McHARRY Hi, HtT Quote from a leaflet issued to tourists by Tokyo police: "At the rise of a hand from a policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him. When a passenger of the foot hoves into sight, tootle the horn trumpet to him. If he still obstacles your passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of mouth and warning 'Hi Hi!" One of the new West Men and Maids, and Stuff Wedding pictures of long haired Beatle George Har rison and short-skirted, lynx-coated Patti Boyd, with a little bow in her hair, hardly flattering to 1966 teenagers.

Somerset Maugham's nephew, Robin, reveals that Maugham, shortly after banking $500,000 for "Razor's Edge," insisted they ride Fifth Ave. buses, not taxis! Maugham, says Robin, "was painfully shy be Coast strippers calls herself Granny Goose, and she peels from one of those Granny dresses. Some of the evangelists who make the Madison Ave. scene now use the psychological approach. One carries a sign reading: "Do You Have a Sin Problem?" Men's jackets are due to go higher and higher this year.

It's part of the slim "tube" look being push Jane Fonda and Jason Robards for this romantic farce which Muriel Resnick wrote. Robards recently finished a picture with Fonda at the same studio; he also has finished a Broadway play with Anne Bancroft. He's a fine actor, and he and Jane should make a delectable couple. Zsa Zsa's Accent and a Funny Hat? Larry Stewart, of "Batman," sent me a script and wanted me to play head of a millinery shop in one of their sequences. I haven't time, so suggested Zsa Zsa Gabor.

With her Hungarian accent and an amazing hat she would be mighty funny. He's thinking about it. I'm happy that Bill Dozier has a hit. I don't understand what "Batman" is about, but it makes me roar with laughter. It will make millions.

Speaking of money, Bob Hope has added flOO.OOO to the Motion Picture Relief Building Fund, as a memorial to his lifelong friend, Charlie Cooley, who went with us on those overseas trips when he could scarcely stand. He didn't want to miss any, and, bless him, he didn't. George Segal finished "Virginia Woolf," then took his wife to Jamaica for a rest (he needed it). On his cause oi ms stammer. ihe novelist's deep affection for his mother was spelled out eloquently in the death scene in "Of Human Bondage" Jim Arness and Thordis Brandt chilled.

Tina Louise weds Les Crane April 3. Dean Martin's lass, Gail, and Ned Wynn at H'wood Beachcombers. Agnes Moorhead with Sid Guillroff. Cary Grant-Dyan Cannon heir due mid-April. Judge Saul Streit and wife Jean named the Mount Sinai arrival Saul Jr.

e-i to to it ed by London tailors. I' Angela Lansbury sublet Jack Carter's midtown apartment for her Manhattan stay but had to move out shortly after Dawn Culton Debbie Reynold CO OS moving in. Unbeknownst, to Carter, he had no sublease clause. One of the funny bits in the "Our Man Flint" film py spoof is the naming of the characters. For instance, the malevolent Chinese scientist is named Dr.

Schneider, and the scheming German scientist is named Dr. Wu. Off-Broadway's "An Evening's Frost" will give two special performances for the Library of Congress Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in commemoration of the third anniversary of the death of Robert Frost.

He was consultant in poetry to the library in 1958-59. Not surprising that P. J. Clarke's is sporting a poster for Broadway's forthcoming "Hostile Witness." Ray Mil-iand is starred in the suspense play, and he won an Oscar for his emoting in the movie "Lost Weekend," much of which was set in Clarke's. Duo at Renaissance 48: Steve Lawrence and Edyie Gorme.

And at the Ground Floor: Maureen O'Sullivan and Van Hef-lin. Bill Doll a senior at Colby, had one of our Famous Baby-sitters: Margie Hart. Rosoff's Mack Bahn was riding a crosstown bus the other day and swears he overheard one girl tell another: "T'he only thing that kept me from marrying him was my foolish pride. I wanted him to propose." Expecting a baby in August, Tuesday Weld is talking shout jriving ud films for good. A little beanery on Wt 23d St.

which specializes in soups calls itself Souperman's. Whether or not Mia Farrow eventu Alarming Federal Bureau of Narcotics report that 50 U.S. colleges are plagued by undergrad users of heroin and marijuana bears out recent grim UN report, revealing millions of habitual marijuana smokers and coca leaf chewers in world, plus millions of morphine and heroin addicts, who consume not less than 80 tons per In Delmonico's lobby, an old friend: Gen. James A. Van Fleet, World War II hero, West Point classmate of Ike and Omar Bradley.

Greg Draddy's Karin and Walter Lopp 2d on Vermont skiing honeymoon (Jimmy Stewarts planed in from Europe for wedding) "A kid isn't really a bad student unless she counts on her fingers, to spell," memos Bernie Allen. TV color shows exchanged between Paris and Moscow via Molyna satellite. Russia proposed to de Gaulle that Soviet will support a variant of French Secam's color TV vs. German TV color system PAL. British performers tell me that ATV is imposing strict control of swearing.

Giants' Jim Hart wed Billie Purdy. The Bob Eastons (Lana Turner) unhappy. Hong Kong considering building a new resort center featuring gambling casinos, golf courses, beaches and villas. Mel Ferrer okay after surgery. Spike Jones' widow, Helen, with Will Rosen at Jilly's.

Hank Greenberg dating Mary Jo Tarola. Tag for six-times wed Hedy Lamarr's biog: "Agony of the Ecstasy" wires Aliza Kashi, Concord smash. Kyle Rote, smoothly m.c.'d Jim Murphy's annual Lighthouse show at Waldorf-Astoria (Liza Kirk, Stiller Meara, Yong Brothers and Korea's Arirang Ballet ter-rif). Tax agents checking big bettors at Sally Ann Howes Mexican-celling Dick Adler. For Greer Garson, Ricardo Mont-alban and those of us who appeared with Debbie Reynolds in "Singing Nun," Debbie sent stunning leather-bound albums of candid camera shots on MGM set.

ally marries Frank Sinatra, there's no denying that all the publicity has helped her career. She'll grace the covers of 18 magazines in the next three months, and Sinatra's likeness will be alongside hers on seven of them. Adelle Rasey is Margaret Leighton's standby in "Slapstick Tragedy." She is also Mrs. Vincent Sardi. Joe Levine will premier his "The Oscar" in Miami Beach in late February to coincide with Milton Berle's appearance at the Eden Roc.

Berle has a dramatic role in the film. Red Skelton, Julie Andrews and Milton Berle return was given the lead in "The Quiller Memorandum," which Michael Anderson directs in Berlin and London in May. Concerns an American government official who flushes out Nazis in hiding in high places. George arrived here a couple of years ago, and this is his fifth film. When I asked for an interview with him, he said, "I want to beard the lionness in her den alone no press agents." We had a grand time.

Red Skelton and Milton Berle had such fun on Skelton's show that they are thinking of making a feature together titled "Astronauts," so they can freewheel their jokes in outer space. Julie Andrews' parents and her 19-year-old brother Chris arrived over the weekend to visit the lady at her hilltop home. Chris remains to study photography. Memory of a Norma Talmadge Party I was saddened at the passing of Kathleen Norris, a lovely lady who wrote an incredible number of books. I once took her to a Hollywood party given by Norma Talmadge, when Norma lived on Sunset Boulevard.

Kathleen had the time of her life, and asked, "Are all your parties like this?" "No," I said, "only Norma is married to Joe Schenck. They live it up." John Van Dreelen played a villain in "Von Ryan's Express" and then scored a hit as a nice guy in "Madame He's on his way. Returns to his native Holland at the request of his queen to do a TV special. He's been guesting in "The Blue Light," and in June starts a French-German series to be shot in both languages in Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia. Plays a rich detective who tries to retire but always becomes involved in another case.

He's Just an Old Plow Hand Richard Widmark has a fan in Mary Whalen of New York. "Would you please once in a while write something about Richard Widmark? He's one of our finest actors and deserves a nomination for 'The Bedford Does he have to become involved in a scandal to gain recognition?" I called Widmark, and found him at La Quinta, resting up from plowing on his ranch near Santa Barbara where he raises Herefords, barley and oats. And that's the only exciting thing I could pry out of him. He did say that the most satisfying screen roles are the evil guys: "Heroes are square." And that about sums up Mr. W.

today. The rumor was that Jim Arness and Germany's Thordis Brent had marriage in mind. Not since Garbo has anybody lived such a' secret life here as Arness. Nobody knows about his private life and he won't tell. Sally Ann Howes Adelle Raey Letter from Brigitte Bardot, observes that 40,000 French children 9 to 11, from Paris and Marseille are mass-skiing in Alps and Pyrenes (skiing rage new to France).

Ricky Nelson tells me entire Manfred Mann pop group were lucky to escape death in British car crash. (Mann's chest badly hurt and lead singer Paul Jones suffered head and chest injuries.) Tearing down of Astor stirs memories for us who lived there. All of our wartime hospital shows left from Astor's 45th St. side. That's the late Judy Holliday singing title song "A Thousand Buddy Hackett ridicules gossip of a Jimmy Roselli feud: "Fat guys like me don't Killer Joe Piro taking wrw A Dawn that conies tip like thunder is Dawn Culton, one of the house fruggers at the Metropole.

She's also the singing leader of a rock 'n' roll group named Dawn the Thunderers. Thrush Maureen Tomson bows at the Living Room tonight. It's Bear Festival time at Steuben Tavern and a frozen 500-pound bruin has been delivered for the occasion. Hell be carved into steaks, stews and roasts. Someone might tell Paul Tubman the transit strike is over.

He continues to arrive at his Penthouse Club via bicycle. Frank O'Leary. who ran the Texas Pavilion at the Fair, is back in business as boss of the Jolly Sixpence, a new English-type pub on Second Ave. Luchow's Goose Feast starts Feb. 1.

and if yon get there be sure to try the medallion of goose liver. Wee hour romance at L'lntrigue: composer Arnold Goland, his leg in a cast due to a ski accident, and Margaret Whiting. Cafe hypnotist Pat Collins is compelling herself to write a book on self-hypnosis. dance troupe to Viet Nam. Orin Lehman suggests backers hold koffee klatch home rallies! Bea Kal- mus and Abe Barth split.

Dear Ed: London's Tim Holland of Crock! ord and the Long Island-golfer, are NOT the same guys. But both of them will bet on anything. Ted Howard. Pathe Chairman Larry Weis-man to wed Brenda LaGrange. Columbia Pix upped mo xv.oi.nman to vp.

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