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1 To Start Tomorrow GUMPS FLATTERY -HA, SMALL CHANCE I THIS IS MY WH! HOW DID I WILL GET YOU LADY" HAD LIVING LIKE A GRANDDAUGHTER, MISS YOUR HEAVENLY NOWHERE GLADYS LADY ON THE SKIMPY DUCHESS FACE AT THE YOU'RE NOT ONLY THE MOST INTELLIGENT BUT I YOU OLD TIPS YOU HID UNDER RAILROAD STATION? MEMBER OF THE GUMP CLAN, LOVE FRAUD YOUR PLATE AT THE BUT THE HANDSOMEST BY IT- HASH HOUSE, HONEY- EDSON 000-- I'M GUS FAR, JUNIPER, DEAR HONORED, YOUR HIGHNESS 6 Reg Pat. off. Cope. 1905 by News Syndicate Co Keating's Jail Term Muni, Kim Stanley Win Variety Poll By CHARLES McHARRY Paul Muni and Kim Stanley emerged yesterday with the best-actor actress titles in Variety's 14th Verdon were named tops for. their performances in musicals.

Muni, star of "Inherit the Wind," was voted best by 10 of the 16 first-nighters taking part in the balloting. Miss Stanley, of "Bus Stop," also was a easy winner, receiving 8 of the 16 votes cast. Slezak Barely Wins Slezak, co-star of "Fanny," barely beat out Don Ameche, of "Silk Stockings," receiving nods to Ameche's 4. Miss Verdon, star of "Damn Yankee," was an outstanding choice, receiving 81 votes. (Critic John Chapman of THE NEWS, picked Muni, Miss Stanley, Ezio Pinza and Miss Verdon for top honors.) Ed Begley, featured in "Inherit the Wind," was named as top supporting actor of the season.

Patricia Jessel, of "Witness for the Prosecution," and Elaine Stritch, of "Bus Stop," tied for best supporting actresses. George Gizzard, of "Desperate Hours," and Buddy Hackett, of "Lunatics and Lovers," tied for most promising actor with two votes each. A three-way tie resulted in the choice of most promising actress, with two ballots each going to Heller Halliday of "Peter Pan," Loretta Leversee of "Home Is the Hero," and Julie Andrews of "Boy Friend." Shumlin Voted Best Herman Shumlin, of "Inherit the Wind," narrowly beat out Harold Clurman, of "Bus Stop," for the title of best director. Peter Larkin and Oliver Messel received seven votes each for the scene designs in "Inherit the Wind," and "House of Flowers," respectively. Harold Arlen was named best composer for his "House of Flowers" score.

Richard Adler and Jerry Ross were easy winners for their "Damn Yankees" lyrics, and the honors for most promisD. ing playwright went to Jerome Lawrence Robert E. Lee for "Inherit the Wind." Tickets go on sale at the Broadway Theatre box office today for Theatre Tours, an outfit which is offering round-trip bus excursions to summer barns. Outings are scheduled to the Bucks County (Pa.) Playhouse, the Lambertof ville (N. Music Circus, the Neptune (N.

Music Circus and the Westport (Conn.) Playhouse. Round-trip tickets range from $3.85 to $8.80. Included in the price is transportation, dinner annual poll of drama critics. Walter Slezak Dance for Joy JOY WILLIAMS has taken over the dancing lead in the downtown revue, "Phoenix '55." She replaces Gemze de Lappe, who is on route to Paris with the "Oklahoma!" company. and orchestra seats at the theatre visited.

Janik and Arnaut, the dancers, will be seen again in the new "Arabian opening at Jones Beach June 23 Andra McLaughlin, star of last Year's "Hollywood Ice Revue," will head the ice spectacle being staged by Elliott Murphy as a feature of his Aquashow, opening in Flushing June 1. Theodore St. John's play, "The Fairly Fortune," will be tried out for a week beginning Monday at the Bucks County Playhouse. Another hopeful, John D. Hess' "The Better Mousetrap," will be tested at the same barn beginning June 18 Michael Gordon has been signed to direct "Sweet Poison," Leonard Lee melodrama going into rehearsal this September "Witness for the Prosecution" plays its 200th performance this afternoon.

Milhaud Award In recognition of his contributions to modern music, especially the music of the synagogue, composer Darius Milhaud was awarded an honorary degree at last night's Hebrew Union School of Sacred Music graduation exercises. SCOTLAND'S BEST Distilleries produce CUTTY SARK BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY 86 PROOF IMPORTER bY THE BUCKINGHAM CORPORATION. ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NEW YORK and bestJUNE and Gwen William J. City Anti-Crime Sessions at 10:30 day jail sentence learned about a By NORMA ABRAMS Keating, former counsel to the New York Committee, will surrender in General A. M.

tomorrow to begin serving a fivefor refusing to tell a grand jury how he secret police raid on an East Side wiretap center last February. Keating broke the story of the raid on Feb. 17, a week after it was staged, compelling police to reverse denials that there had been a raid and touching off Congressional and state legislative investigations of wiretapping. Further Plea Waived Subsequently, Keating was convicted of contempt for refusing to reveal his source to the grand jury. The conviction was upheld Tuesday by the Appellate Division and Keating waived a further plea to the Court of Appeals.

While arrangements were being made for Keating's surrender, a national committee was organized to honor him for safeguarding sources. The committee dedicated to the proposition that Keating was right" when he refused to name his informant-is headed by Croswell Bowen, a magazine writer, and includes Mrs. Julius Ochs Adler, who resigned from the Anti-Crime Committee because it wouldn't back Keating. Editors on Committee Other committee members are the heads of citizen crime commissions throughout the country, editors, lawyers, newspapermen and former colleagues of Keating when he was in the district attorney's office before he joined the Anti-Crime Committee. The national committee credited Keating with being "instrumental in bringing to public light the waterfront crimes, the trotting track scandals, the wiretap abuses and a number of other irregularities which otherwise might have been unknown or untouched by responsible public agencies." Roxy to Have 'Lady, Tramp' Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp," the first feature-length cartoon to be produced in CinemaScope and Technicolor, opens at the Roxy June 23.

Adapted from the book by Ward Greene, the picture traces the advantures and romancing of two characters from opposite sides of the railroad tracks, she a highly pedigreed member of one of the best families in town, and he a freedom-loving individual of hazy ancestry. "Lady and the Tramp" will introduce five new songs written by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke. The tunes are "He's a Tramp," "La-La-Lu," 'Peace on Earth," "The Siamese Cat Song" and "Bella Notte." Supplementing the Disney feature at the Roxy will be a halfhour Technicoler production from the same studio, "Switzerland," Disney's first People and Places subject in CinemaScope. Kenton Returning Stan Kenton brings his 20-piece band to Birdland next Thursday. Ralph Sutton's jazz trio moves into The Embers next Monday for two weeks.

Jazz quartets headed by Gene Krupa and Calvin Jackson play Basin Street tomorrow and Saturday nights. Vaughn Monroe and Hefti's band stay at the Sheraton-Astor Roof through June 25. Reno Story Guy Madison and Kim Novak co-star in Columbia's Against the House," which will open at the Criterion Theatre tomorrow. The locale of the drama is a gambling establishment in Reno and the film is based on a magazine story by Jack Finney. Stirling Siliphant and John Barnwell produced the film and Phil KarlSON directed.

Hess Comedy in Strawhat Trial; Ice Star Signed With Neva Patterson in the only feminine role and John Cromwell directing, "The Better Mousetrap." a comedy by John Hess, will be tried out at the Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, week after next. Andra McLaughlin, star of last year's "Hollywood Ice Revue," will head the Ice Follies portion of the new Aquashow, opening June 21 at Flushing Snake dancers Janik and Arnaut return for this year's edition "Arabian Nights," coming to the Jones Beach Marine Theatre June 23. "Ankles Aweigh" lists an extra show, a week from next Sunday night: at the Hellinger, for the benefit of the Actors' Fund. Eight actors in "Inherit the Wind" will have prominent roles in Sunday evening's doubleheader at the Fourth St. Theatre -Shaw's "The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet" and Richard Davidson's "A Different "The Trial," opening officially at the Provincetown Playhouse next Tuesday night, will play previews Saturday, Sunday and Monday evenings.

Marie Andrews, who had a minor role in the play, has replaced Dolores Mann in one of the leads in "Thieves' Carnival" in this, the closing week of the Anouilh comledy at the Cherry Lane. BIGGEST Mag EZIO WALTER PINZA SLEZAK FANNY" AIR COND. MAJESTIC THEATRE, W. 441k -Walter Winchell A ANNIVERSARY YEARS WALTZ Mail Orders Premptly Filled. Evs.

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