The Charlotte News du lieu suivant : Charlotte, North Carolina • 45

'1 THE cHA'RtorTE- WEWS voa The Olumnists ao What Au -c-ic '4- 11111 inn I I 1 EARL 1 rthu To A tf flyt EARL rk rro A WILSON ref17) t- rihur'sUp 1 ir Waiter 1 ix) fi7-'4 fp 1 lirr -i Hugh Sandy Were Early Twosome tZ I NEW YORK "After 50 bloody years being a butler and valet" Laid Arthur Treacher now 77 as he sipped a martini ith campari instead of vermouth "I've worked myself up to a Waiter" lilt A I tisk A 4i) r-4- The famous Jeeves of the movies later Mery Griffin's TV buddy was speaking at Joe's Pier 52 restaurant of the 200 "Arthur Treacher's Original Fish 'n' Clips" shops in 44 the US He has lent his name After a cigaret he tackled a dozen oys- ters and added "Only interesting thing is that I Noel' I get money from it Rahther nice at my ad- ft vanced age to have a thing like this fall into 6- lap wasn't it?" "I was in my dressing room when I was TREACHER called on the phone by Bob Hope who says 1 tlere's a man in Columbus who knows his brother Fred who 14ants to talk to me "This man Bob Davis has bought the oldest fish 'n' chips house in London Well they have the original recipe and the secret batter with the malt vinegar And I do like fsh 'n' chips I do Thank God I do! "We have several shops on the island One day for Cawd's sake do drawp in and see us You can get a hell of a lot for about $125 You can also get a lot for 90 cents" JEEVES SAID that "Since I do nothin' I'm delighted to gD to openings if they need me" He would be happy if somebody were to put together a new movie about Jeeves i "We'd better hurry old friend because the children of today won't know what the hell a butler is will they?" A By SHIRLEY EDER Knight Newspapers Writer a call from my poker partner Hugh O'Brian reminding me to watch his TV movie "Probe" on NBC Feb 21 He plays a James Bond-scannuses a TV 147- i er in -t--1' stead of a gun i I can just picture a 'for SHIRLEY real' detective catching a bank robber and shouting "Stop or I'll use my scanner on your" Actually I'm mentioning Hugh's call for another reason When he was appearing in Detroit in the play "Cactus Flower" a very young and lovely girl flew in to see him when she had time off from the off-Broadway show in which she was appearing One night my husband and I went out to supper with Hugh and this young lady She told me she was a dancer She was adorable but I really didn't listen to her name because Hugh dated so many girls I do remember his whispering to me at the table: "This girl I could really think of marrying" I didn't blame him nor did my husband So when he called I said Hugh do you ever see that darling girl who came to visit you several times while you He believes that his successful Interpretation of Wodehouses's "Jeeves" began one day in a picture with La Pe (13 r7 4 eL 41 4 9 "She was screaming and being temperamental I was standing In a doorway getting some air She said 'My boy friend is as tall as you' I said She went away hart Chuck Reisner the director said 'You're bored aren't I said 'I Hate IV He said 'Play it that way' So I was supercilious hating my employers" You 40ish Ladies his element in Philadelphia when he taped the Fram special "The National Automotive Trouble Quiz" With current racing Champ Peter Revson (wonder what makeup Peter wears for a in Dave helped lay out Watkins Glen Raceway where Peter racked up points for his Can-Am world championship Their speca1 airs March 26 Lewis Friedman a top exec with the public broadcasting network is putting John Davidson's name in the Emmy Hopper for the role John played in "Dos Passos US" In which he ages from 16 to 55 there could be a Bogdanovitch in Barbra Streisand's life Peter Bogdanovitch who could easily win an Academy Award as best director this year for his "The Last Picture Show" just directed Barbra in "What's Up Doc" However I'm not talking about a romance between Barbra and Peter I mean the one going on bet ween Peter's four-year-old daughter Toni and Barbra's five-year-old son Jason Gould I watched them together fn Barbra's dressing room and it looks like the real thing to me Hollywood is still all a-giggle over the front-to-front meeting of "The Boy Friend" star Twiggy and Raquel Welch who lunched together at The Bistro They looked at each other with expressions of utter disbelief Appeal Carl Stohn Jr finally closed the deal for Phyllis Diller's daughter Stephanie to join her stepfather Warde Donovan in "Forty Carats" in his Pheasant Run Theater It'll be Stephanie's acting debut and Barry Adelman knows why 1000 US Doctors plan to hold a symposium in Israel next year they want to learn more about the cure-all chicken soup! SUPER BOWL VI dominated the January Nielsens with an amazing record of three shows in the top 10 the game itself was No 1 a pregame telecast was No 5 and another Super Bowl special Football Today was No 7 (that'll give football Comr Pete Rozelle more ammunition for his debate with baseball Comr Bowie Kuhn over which sport is America's favorite) Flip Wilson after taking a dip returned to the Top Ten with No 6 rating and the brand-new Sanford Son starring Redd Fon was surprisingly strong TOURISTS just back from Israel learned a new facet about Prime Minister Go Ida Meir: if any soldier is killed or wounded during this Cold War period she is notified immediately regardless of the hour in order (1) personally to console the family and (2) determine what retaliatory action if any is necessary Israelis point out this typifies the nation's high regard for the lives of its citizen-soldiers were in what is she doing now? You know the one you said you actually would consider marrying? What was her name?" When he realized I wasn't putting him on he said the name of that girl was and is Sandy Duncan Every time I see Sandy on TV she looks familiar to me and now I know why They've remained good friends Since she's been married and divorced Hugh why don't you do something serious about it this time if the lady is still interested? FLICK-FLACK: Jean-Claude Kil ly made his acting debut for director George Englund in Warner's "Snow Job" and already is set for another feature movie called "Jade" starring Deborah Kerr He won't ski in this one but will make love "continental" style (whatever style that's supposed to be) Donald Sutherlund has locked himself in a room and for the first time is editing a feature motion picture of the trip he made to Asia with Jane a "FTA" (Free The Army) show He's editing 80 hours of film into a two-hour movie for release at the end of April After this job Donald wants very much to do a western script he read caned "The Americans" It seems he passionately wants to do a western I meant to ask "with or without a message?" methinks Clifford Irving has a best-seller in a book on Clifford Irving in view of the females popping up in his life latest in graffiti: "Clifford you buy a Hughes book from this man?" THE DEATH of Mike Todd Jr's wife Sarah jolted their legion of friends She was only 41 and the mother of six Mrs Todd succumbed to a heart attack that new hearing on financing and administration of Chicago's public schools will be a pilot for similar hearings around the nation two major figures are the latest to join the cable TV trend Producer Dore Schary has been named president of Tele-Premiere International and former Pennsylvania Gov Raymond Shafter is the new head of Tele-Prompter Corp Tony Bennett filming his new TV series This is Music in London has fallen in love with 01' Blighty He and wife Sandy now plan to live there permanently left my heart in London" somehow doesn't have the right ring) the Louisiana Heart Association beat its Chicago counterpart to the punch by establishing a research project in memory of Mahe lia Jackson (contributions from Miss Jackson's friends are welcome) ATTENTION MILADY: If you're nudging 40 and worrying about your sex appeal don't British doctors conducted a survey among famous women 40 and over (Liz Taylor Jackie Kennedy Onassis Honor Blackman etc) and concluded that continuing Se HE BUTTLED or valeted with Shirley Temple Joan Crawford Clark Gable Roland Young Robert Young Robert Taylor Irene Dunne Rosalind Russell Tyrone Power David Niven Jack Benny Penny Singleton Hazel Dawn Billy Van Milton Berle "The best actor" he maintained waving to a waiter for a second martini with campari "was Frank Morgan He could do anything" He values the friendship of Mery Griffin whom he calls a very dear man" SANDY DUNCAN Still Interested? Jane Fonda on the other hand is in Paris working six days a week on Jean-Luc Godard's film Incidentally she's turned down all offers for a next movie because she has yet to find a film enough like how she feels She wants to do something with political relevance Has anyone mentioned that her friendship with the Black Panthers and theirs with her is now over? It is Jane who may be nominated for an Academy Award for her marvelous performance in "Klute" will definitely attend the awards if she gets the nomination She plans to go right back to Hollywood at the completion of her Godard film SHIRLEBRITIES: ex-racing driver Dave Garroway was in Have Sex JACKIE ONASSIS Zest For Life appeal comes from within a zest for life sensuality and the ability to avoid vegetating The study also reported that in 1950 a middle-aged woman was considered OVEI the hill Today 40-year-olds have more sex appeal than ever YOUR MOVE: chess champions Bobby Fischer of America and Boris Spassky of Russia are at loggerheads over when and where to meet for their world championship match Bobby favors June or July Boris prefers November or December For the site Bobby opts for Yugoslavia which has offered more moola than any other locale Boris apparently thinks better in cold weather He's holding out for 4Iceland Chicago producer s' ti- 0 "One day he phoned me 'We're going to open the show 'with you and me in a duet Do you know I said I didn't He said 'Of course you do It goes boom-tee-boomboom' I asked if I should come and rehearse it He said 'You just rehearsed Treacher and his wife who now live quietly in Douglas-ton I never were partygoers in Hollywood or New York "I don't think any of these stars wanted you to feel equal to them If they asked me what I thought of their last picture I was afraid I'd say 'I hated it' He feels a little that way about TV "Don't watch" he said "Bad for the eyes bad for the ears" he said "I'd rather read" When he's touring people often tell him: "I see you on Johnny Carson's show every night" He doesn't correct them Now as he arose from the table he had trouble untangling himself from it "Never be tall" he said with a muffled groan "and never be old" By IRV KUPCINET Chicago Daily News Service CHICAGO It never rains but it pours: Clifford Irving is facing a $55-million libel suit II as a result of 7s his book "Fake!" and i you know the trouble he is i- '111181 having with itit d1 the purported '111 A a utobiography 6 of Howard '11' Hughes and resultant threat to his marriage be- KUPCINET cause of the dames who have turned up in the investigation thereof Now comes another blow Because Irving is in the headlines the Jerusalem Post of Israel decided to reprint its review of his book "The Battle of Jerusalem" published in 1970 And according to the review "Inaccuracies appear on every page" More: "There is only one original contribution in this this originality lies not in the fact that the Incidents have not been described elsewhere but that for the most part they never occurred at all except in someone's vivid imagination" (can't win 'em all!) ANOTHER woman almost figured in the Howard Hughes whodunit The ninth Mrs Tommy Manville the former Anita Roddy revealed recently that she knew Hughes well and had spent five years working on a book about him he personally requested she cease and desist THE WEEKEND WINDUP Kirk Douglas turned down a $40000-a-week 10-week deal to tour In "I776" next summer he'll be busy moviemaking Playboy magazine mailed Howard Hughes a copy (with articles about him) to his Nassau hotel hideout It was returned: "Addressee Unknown" Danny Thomas who'll be in the Bob Hope-Chrysler golf tourney says he enters it because "it gives me a chance to get exercise meet great golfers make a complete idiot of myself" The Jackson Five rock group was added to Alex Cohen's updated "Hellzapoppin" TV special Mrs Corbett Monica is coauthoring a cookbook "Diet Revolution".