Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-23


Gary Cooper and Deborah Kerr
will 60 to Australia to star for
Warmers in 1.-THE Sundowners"
Ia fine catch for Debbie-and
Mr.. Cooper. She's had Just
about every top male star in
her movies. They will be direc-
ted by Oscar-winner Fred Zin-
nemann - after he finishes
Nuns Story" with Audrey Hep
burn. Shelly winters tenn
permanent has been showing
again, in the out-of-town try
out of her new play, "The Sat-
urday Night Kid"
Moscow praised the new
Chaplin film as "a brilliant
satire on the American way
Of life" What bilge! Also. who
does Charlie think he's fool
ing with his remark: IT de-
cided against showing the fllm
in America because l am not
interested in America.
Jack Warmers valet and
masseur, Abdul, left him
$4,000 in his will! Jack dis
trihuted the money among Alb
dul's relatives. Add new
feuds: Prince Rainier Of Mo-
naco and Greek shipping null
timiilionaire Aristotle Onassis,
who put the Monte Carlo Ca
sino back on q paying basis.
Ava Gardner Is startling
Londoners with large. horn
trimmed specs which she wears
in the streets. Since her ar
rival there, Ava has avoided
the press. keeping her time
strictly for Walter CHAR, who
didn't go on in q huff to Spain
after all.
Elsa MartineIli will have an
other wedding with Count Man
cinelli- Scotti-this time In a
big church in Rome. His family
has accepted the inevitable I.
Victor Mature, inviting me to
visit his Rancho Santa Fe
home: You'll 60 crazy at first,
it's so quiet. Always takes me
10 days TO relax"
49,
Frank Sinatra returned from
Europe with the news that he
wants to star in Q play by
Shakespeare. And / didn't
laugh when I heard this. Sin
atra has improved enormously
as an actor. For proof, compare
him today with his early Metro
Aims now to be seen on televi-
sion. 1t isn't the same man.
Dusty British actress Sabrina
Is switching to the Stanislaw-
ski method Of acting, she has
Just announced In London. Her
reasoning: How long can you
be Q big bust only? Sabrina
was the lady In the low-cut
gown who crashed the royal
enclosure ct Ascot, you may
remember.
Laurence Harvey1 restora-
ton play. The Country Wife"
coming to New York in Novem-
Der, Is just about the bawdiest
and most shocking Of all the
plays Of that era. The run
will be limited, after which
producer Jimmy WOOlf will re-
team Larry with Dawn Adams
In Not the First Time"
Shirley MacLaine Is asking
boss Hal Wallis for permission
to make q picture in Japan
with mate Steve Parker, who
returned from the Land Of the
Kimono with the sad fact that.
by the end Of 1857, Japan will
have made IS times the number
Of movies that Hollywood pro-
duced during the same year.
The Nations No. / song.
"Tammy." as sung by Debbie
Reynolds, has given q great
boost to the success Of U-I's
"Tammy and the Bachelor. :"
There's an interesting story
behind the tune-it wasn't
supposed to be in the movie.
Debbie was going to sing an
old folksong. BLACK Is the
Color of Ny True Loves Hair"
but when U-I picked blond
Leslie Nielsen as Debbie's lead
ing man, the number had to
be tossed out. The studio asked
Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
to pen a substitute melody and
the smash hit "Tammy" was
the result.
Sixty theater exhibitors we're
posing for the newsreels at
20th-Fox when jayne Mans
field wriggled by. They broke
ranks to a man and waggled in