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News of tlie Show World Sy Weintraub, (Trade Mark Registered) FOUNDED BY SIME SILVERMAN 3wm? SW #mign^ Hayutin In On Published Daily, Except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays By ARMY ARCHERD By Daily Variety, Ltd. Svea's Affair Syd Silverman, President GOOD MORNING: The "mystery malady" which laid low Marilyn 6404 Sunset Boulevard Sy Weintraub and Harvey Hollywood (28), California Monroe Is an allergy to medication, she says. "At one time I was out Hayutin have joined Gordon Mc Phone HOIIywood 9-1141 cold," she admits. "Now, the only thing 111 take Is an aspirin." MM Clendon and Jack Kotschack in the mystified guests at her cocktail party launching "Let's Make Love," coproduction deal revealed here Vol. 106 Jon. IB. 1960 No. 29 Friday, by showing up on time — George Cukor picked her up . . . last month, under which "AffaiAi Sweden" and other films willT>e Copyrlghl i960, by Daily Voflmty, lid. Perry Lieber cleaned up betting she'd be prompt . ■ . And Mrs. Arthur Miller was her supercharming self, posed for all the lensers, talked with made in Sweden and Finland. Single Copies, 10 Cents Kotschack. prexy of Svea Films Annual, $15 - - Foreign, $20 every pcribe . . . Her coatars, Yves Montand and Frankie Vaughan, got of Stockholm, also revealed that Second class postage paid at Los Angeles, their first true sample of a "movie star" in action . . . The Frenchman McClendon is partnered with him California. had difficulty keeping up with the fast conversation and the British in a bizarre scheme which would Vaughan seemed flabbergasted by the coverage . . . His wife arrived bring commercial radio to Sweden THOMAS M. PKYOR, Editor from England last night, by the way . . . Milton Berle, who guests in for the first time. the pic, Maid the crowd was there to see Arthur Miller, because he's At a cost of nearly $1,000,000, such a good writer! . . . Berle is sporting a new, small waistline, claims Kotschack said, he and McClendon he didn't lose the weight while in the disabled plane, says he's on a are outfitting a transmitter ship Who's Where health food diet . . . Miller said he expects John Huston's busted leg which will be anchored 35 miles to mend in time for them to start lenslng "The Misfits" in May on the from Stockholm in internati(A&l UI v.p. Edward Muhl returns to waters. To be ready in May^r Nevada location . . . The auto gate between UT territory and Revue Is June, the ship will broadcast tapes his desk here today following 10 now locked, bolted so Ul'ers cannot drive from their offices to the stages day confab in New York with made at Stockholm studios and homeoffiee execs. — must wheel out into the Lankershim Blvd. speedway, reenter the helicoptered to the ship—which, in I'hlio thru the main gate! And the return trip forces the studioites to Hdentally. will My the Nicarapuan Pandro 8. Herman back to Metro break a traffic law, cross the double line to reenter UI country. P.S. Hag. partly because of McClen today from N.Y. of course Ul'ers could walk, but it gets messy in the rain — like last don's friendship with that country's week I . . . The new stages on the back lot of Revue leaked during the dictator. Mike Todd Jr. and Denholm El rainstorm . . . And rain washed out the "Spartacus" set from the Kotschack explained that the Hot In today from N.Y. for "Scent backlot, forced 'em to shoot indoors — it was a rain sequence. Honest! Swedish Government maintains a of Mystery" preem. monopoly on radio and tv broad "They shoot it on Friday," said John Ireland, "so the actors can cough casting and that other advertising weekends — on our own time" . . . And talking about time on "Spar Audrey Hepburn to Paris Jan. media are limited: e.g., an A 23 to attend "Nun's Story" open tacus," Kirk Douglas says "There'll be absolutely no excuses for this tiser must reserve n»wspapR* ing there with Fred Zinnemann. one — it's gonna be great! We've used the best, spent plenty, and space six months in advance, he took our time" . . . There's almost a month remaining on the pic. said. Dana Andrews American Air Douglas must also return to Columbia to complete two days filming on McClendon, operator of film fa lined in Friday from N.Y. "Strangers When We Meet" . . . Although Jean Simmons says Douglas cilities and a radio chain in Texas, is one of the greatest guys to work for and with, she'll nix his offer last month revealed he would co Wolfe GNbert in N.Y. for to costar with him and Rock Hudson in "Day of The Gun" — she's produre "Affair In Swedn" with ASCAP board meeting; due back exhausted, admits having collapsed on the final day of "Elmer Gantry." Knfschack and T. J. Sarkka of Jan. 22. Finland, the latter two providing Instead, she returns to the ranch . . . Meanwhile, husband Stewart the be'owtheline costs. At the Granger, confabbed at 4Star Friday to do a halfhour vidseries. He time, McClendon was said to be John Payne back from N.Y. to c day. nixed the hourlong Africa series . . . The Vine St. Gypsy says it's discu« ing a distribution deal on not the "mystery flu" In BevHills, just germ warfare between MCA the nicture with Paramount. ^ Ricardo Montalban planed today and Wm. Morris . . . Fortune mag is researching a yarn on MCA . . . Hayutin. present at the p^m for Mexico City. And Wm. Zinsser completed a mission to Hollywood for Life mag pen conference with K"t"ch*«"k, said, ning a story based on "the new audacity of film making." however, that a major release was Millie Perkins left for England not being s«uirht and that the nartners (each indenendent of his over the weekend. respective commnv) would nr^ide Thai's snow bis: a plane loaded with "Ocean's 11" wardrobe turned the hacking. Havn+in and Wein John Wayne To Get traub hive been releasing through back from Las Vegas on Friday when the snowstorm got too heavy, Paramount. Texas Headliners returned to L.A. until the "don't pass" snow line cleared . . . Troy Dona hue may have to drop outta "Dark At The Top Of The Stairs" because "Affair" concerns some Kin*ey tvne interviewers w^o go to Swe Award For 'Alamo' "Parrlsh" Is getting the rush treatment for a March start . . . Although den to investigate t^e sex situa John Wayne will be honored Stephen Boyd has been paged by Jerry Wald to "Return To Peyton tion. Kor«chack «*id that A serond with a special citation by the Place," 20thFox may cast the suddenlypopular Boyd into other pix film might, be "P„rMn NeektW' Headliners Club of Austin, Texas, . . . Jonie Taps tapped Stanley Styne and Freddy Karger to pen a title based on a storv bv Mika WaltW. at Its annual awards festivities on tune for "Gidget Goes Hawaiian." Their "Gidget" song for the original Kotschack *ald h° had fir