Evening star., 1963-05-20
THE
LYONS
DEN
By LEONARD LYONS

They came here to co-star IN
calculated Risk" and encoun-
tered risks they'd never i'm
agined. 1t began when their
director, Robert Montgomery,
was rushed to a hospital for
surgery. But their first major
obstacle was the newspaper
strike.
Gotten accepted every TV
Invitation, to stimulate ticket
sales. One morning he appeared
on two different half-hour TV
shows-before a matinee. When
they learned that a perform
ance of "Tchin- -Tchin" had
been Cancelled because the stars
were i'll, they sent men with
sandwich signs to lure the dis
appointed theater-goers. I'VE
got 40 customers that way"
Because of illnesses, only two
members of the cast of IA
played every performance. One
understudy played so many
roles that when the plays
board of directors" sat down
at the big table. Cotton told the
underStudy, You're in the
wrong seat" he wasn't. The
understudy had switched roles,
and said: I'm the lawyer. Re-
member?"
Twice, at these board of
directors" m eetings, actors
tongue-twisted a word into an
obscenity. Gotten banged the
, gavel Immediately, and pre-
, maturely announced: Meeting
adjourned" ..
The Cottens weren't safe
even in their hotel. A water
, tower fell and they had to rush
/ downstairs, in their pajamas,
: to the lobby for shelter. They
! suffered two robberies-one at
7 their hotel, the other in their
: dressing rooms. A thief stole
: all the mems wardrobes. 1--WE
: were the most bedraggled look
ing directors in corporate his
: tory" he said. "One man was
wearing canvas shoes-and
we're all supposed to be textile
; men,"
Calculated Risk" Gotten
proudly reported, ran 224 per-
formances, which was quite a
, feat.
CENSORSHIP: The Legion
, of Decency discussed a seal for
, Carroll Bakers newest movie,
, Station 6, Sahara" There are
nude scenes and love scenes in
, it which are deemed censor
able. Miss Bakers mother
heard of this and phoned her:
Carroll, you behave so we'll in
real life; why can't you behave
that way on the screen?"
&% So
CHOICE: Richad COndOn's
Spanish-speaking daughter has
been accepted by colleges ir
4 Vermont and Mexico City. The
= novelist chose Mexico City fol
= her. He said: Think of Mex.
= leo compared to the sort of cold
!. only Peary and Tenzing NOrkay
:, faced. Coolidge came from Ver-
!, mont, Dolores del Rio from
: Mexico City. Compare"
] =
MEMOS: Sir John Gielgud's
co-star in "Ides of March" win
be Irene Worth. They'll open il
! in London before bringing it to
/. Broadway. Gina LOllObrigida
: and Robert Graves spent an
hour last Sunday taping a con-
versation for Redbook.
, Graves inscribed a poem to
her. Salvador Dali's lead
article in Eros will be on the
> criticism of clothing. Dali will
, advocate the draping of nude
, automobiles as a curb on our
. hypertensions.
~ S.
: NUDE: The Players Clubs
! Pipe Night on Sunday was in
: honor of the artist members.
John Falter and Stats Cots
worth were to have painted a
nude, from a model. But the
clubs officials ruled against
inviting a model. The artists
therefore collaborated in paint
ing a nude, without any model,
They clashed, for one painted
a brunette. the other a green
haired lady.
-
REASON: John Krimsky, the
= producer and advertising
= agency man, now owns the
4 Strollers Club, on the site OF
o the old Ell Morocco. He has
h installed THE Establishment"
there. Jules Stein, head OF
= MICA, asked Krimsky why he
Il chose the nightclub business
= Krimsky said: II always en-
: joyed going to Ell Morocco. but
o couldn't afford it. So I bought
: it,"
q a&&
SECRE Mrs. GeOffrey
C Gates, the former Louise Macy
: Hopkins, whose body was found
n on Long Island last weekend
4 once was the most famous
e bride in the world That's
when she married Harry Hop
4 kins, FDR's aide, and lived
n with him in the White House
d When Winston Churchill saw
: her at the White House he
IS took her for a walk ito sec
S the kind OF girl Harry''