The Morning Call from Paterson, New Jersey • 14

Morning Cll, WedneBcUy. March 5, 1969 14 The Earl Wilson Sobol Relives His Broadway When Earl Was Robbed New Jersey, having recently moved to Montclalr. She was quite nervous at her opening and her voice weakened toward the end of the act. She had beautiful and expensive gowns (she ducked back into the wings for one, change-including a 8 et. which she discarded during her quick intermission) and she made a good bid for pro-riuriion with some unusual GAMES' British actress Elaine Taylor will have the leading feminine role In "The Games," currently being shot in London.

Miss Taylor has appeared In "The Anniversary," "Diamonds For Breakfast" and "Lock Up Your Daughter." By Van Lewis A ker, and their three children in 42-room home in Lake Forest, a Chicago suburb. The family is so prominent one of Chicago's main arteries is named after it: Wacker Drive. But wealth and comfort do not satisfy artistic desire. Sometimes, these requisites can be stifling and frustrating. That's why Jana Mason loresakes the jregaL splendor of her 42-room mansion every now and then to venture back to a first love, singing.

Back in the 1950s, she was a well-known' Manhattan cafe singer, until she married Wacker. She's still a very attractive woman and has a faithful following of friends and fans. They showed up for her opening Monday night at the Maisonette in the St. Regis-Sheraton. The audience included Andy Granatelli, renowned former auto racing driver and now a race-car owner, who flew in a party of 27 from Chicago for the opening.

Jana's parents still live in RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Mwua im an wwuii au ruu i-iiyt OMAR SHARIF CATHERINE DENEUVE JAMES MASON 7t1ayerling' MM'C'UKcm AND OR THE (RUT STAGE annHmur Sai-Biijhuii EnntumrwM hiuiwo factum. BtM Cgmmny Gunt Anisn, Senility fcttnd Snnptaiy Oithtui TKtatilor Doors Optn Today 10:00 A.M. Picture: 10:30, 1:22, 4:14, 7:07, 10:00 Suae Show: 12:37, 3:31, 6:24, 9:12 It looks like the most popular thing I ever did in my journalistic career was to get stuck up for $75 on my way to an egg sandwich. My coolness when I came face-to-face on Broadway with two guys with a gun who said "Give us your wallet" was epic 'Cool was not the word for the bum he froze," said old buddy Toots Shor. I admit this.

I had never been face-to-face with a gun before and the fact that the nice-looking young iftan wielding it held it not at my head but down around my stomach somewhere did not alter my respect for it. "You must have been very composed," some girls have been nice enough to say. Decomposed is probably the word. I think I must have said, "J-j-just a s-s-second," about that fast. I handed them the money from my wallet so fast they had time to stage two other holdups before turning in.

THEY TOOK my money and ran and I took my empty wallet and ran in the opposite direction. The two holdup men and their companion, a lookoutrunning north on Broadway toward Columbus Circle, and me running south on Broadway toward 42d SU must have presented a very vivid picture of heroism in the year 1969. Supposed friends phoned with fascinating observations. f'You claimed you had $75 on you," snorted Cindy Adams who has just the snort for it. "I know your wife better than that.

She wouldn't let you have $75." You must be stealing from her when she sends you out for vodka." Leslie Uggams' manager Al Wilde phone accusingly. "You wrote that you went on to a restaurant and bought yourself a sandwich after your holdup," he said. "Ah ha, what did you buy it with if they took all your money?" "These were gentlemen bandits," I said. "They didn't make me empty my pockets, which had about four bucks in them." "OK. Just the detective in me," Al said.

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Director Polanski is still mad, however, but chiefly over the fact that Mia Farrow was overlooked by the Oscar voters. Castle's share of the devil's baby is 50 per cent. He told me that Mia is now the most popular film star all over the world. He knows. He sees the box office receipts.

I asked Anthony Harvey: "Why aren't you directing 'Nicholas and Alexandra'?" "Because I didn't want to spend two-and-a-half years of my life with it." Besides, he added wrily, "I'm not very good at sitting around in a producer's office." But getting held up was what my readers wanted fl jj 1 i 1 11 il 1 if 1 mmm I fMMlfAmuittA 1 I I Cnmn mon oro 1 me to do all the time. Everybody in the Jet Set will be doing it now. But the holdup guys won't get anywhere with us journalists. Because I can just hear the heisters saying, "How do you like this bum? He flashed a card and said, 'I always get 'comped' I'm starved for loveVj 1 Paxton Quigley's yf A I problem was vf. fi Ifi 1 SVsM)J "i Mm I ampli parking.

'p NOMINATED FOR The Inscription on the title page of Louis Sobol's book reads: "Dear Dan: This is now your street as it once was mine," I beg to differ. As long as there is a Broadway, a show business, it will always be Louis Sobol's street. Louis' claims goes in perpetuity through the historical documentation of his years on that main stem in a book recently published, "The Longest The cover also notes that it is "A Memoir By Louis Sobol." "The Longest Street" is more than a memoir. It is a documentation of show business, from the very first day he was pulled off a newsbeat by a perceptive editor back on that eventful day of May 29, J929, to replace Walter Winchell, who had just left the Evening Graphic in New York to join the Hearst organization. While 1929 may have been the year of the Big Crash on Wall Street, it also was the year that Louis Sobol started to grow in the other direction up.

HE "BECAME a monumental influence in the world of show business with his daily" column which chronicled the comings and goings of everyone attached to it from the little people to the super stars, from Cafe Society Downtown toiCafe Society Uptown (there i ctually were two such cafes) and from Broadway to Holly rood. Someone suggested that "The LongestAStreet" actually is the longest column ever written, for theybook is filled with nostalgic remembrances of people, places and things. I've just finished reading the book, which was published by Crown and found it easy-reading and very entertaining. I enjoyed reading it makily because it speaks of familiar people and familiar places and of a period of time when cafe society was filled with light-hearted and gay people rwho may not have contributed much to society in general but who sure knew how to have a good time in days of depression and the world war that followed. CAFE SOCIETY today is virtually extinct.

The closest to the breed who spent their days in bed and nights on the town is the social list of names of people who are invited to post-theater parties, club openings and assorted other parties where publicity and exploitation is the sole purpose, Louis does not reflect on those days. Like the top reporter he has always been (he went from the Graphic to the N. Y. Journal-American) and closed out his column career with the death of the merged World-Journal), he merely reports what he observed on the scene for so many years. I frequently run into Louis at nightclub openings these nights.

He's there with his Peggy, to whom he dedicated his book. He's now concentrating on publishing, as an No Emcee For 41st Oscar Show By HAROLD HEFFERNAN HOLLYWOOD (NANA) What would a Motion Picture Academy presentation be without Bob Hope? Or without a master of ceremonies of any kind? Viewers will get the answer good or bad the evening of April 14 when Oscar goes into nis st running. No joking, there'll be no jokes on the coming show, that is, unless someone ort stage drops a gag or two by accident Under the full direction this time of renowned choreographer and producer Gower Champion, an entirely new format has been announced. It will feature short revues and blackouts. The official word is, "There will be no overall master of ceremonies." SOMETHING THE Academy now calls "Oscar's Best Friends" will find winners of previous awards not necessarily those from last year acting as the presenters.

And they are being selected from personalities who won as far back as 25 years ago. Exactly how the show's new handlers plan to hold the interest of some 75 million fans who annually look forward to viewing the presentation on ABC-TV- and particularly listen to the jibes of the inimitable jokemaster Hope is a point that is raising many an eyebrow among doubtful, conservative members of the Academy who have consistently fought off any suggestion of change. BUT ELIMINATION of the stand-tip emcee was decided' on even before Hope suffered a recurrence of a chronic eye ailment and was ordered by doctors to refrain from anything but the most essential chores on his taxing work schedule. rii i-irr -r mf irrtti im 1 m-n nf xf" Between The Acts JANA MASON Wealthy Songstress executive for one of the firms, but after nearly 40 years of covering openings, it's tough to stay away. JANA MASON, is a very pretty former Jersey City resident, who now lives with her socialite husband, Fred Wac- How Thru Mar.

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