Show TOUCH UP TIMING i t Hope to 6 V Tour U. U S. S With Variety Show By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD HOLLY OP Come jp-Come Come next month Bob Hope is embarking embarking em em- barking on a little tour to touch up my timing 1 Helping the comedian in his timing exercises will be several hundred other citizens who are expected to crowd ball parks and other stadia in all parts of the country to see him and a two- two hour variety show Its the biggest thing Ive I've done since the Orpheum circuit he told me Hope is breaking in the show at Glendale this Saturday before before before be be- fore an intimate audience of 2000 Other ins break-ins will follow at San Diego Long Beach and Fresno while he is finishing his current picture Where Theres There's Life Then he will pack his troupe into u a plane and play such uch towns as Spokane Tacoma Seattie Seattle Seattle Seat Seat- tle tie Portland Oakland Houston Dallas Dalla San Antonio Tulsa Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- I homa City Minneapolis DesMoines Des Des' DesMoines Moines Toledo Detroit Rochester Buffalo Albany Newark Atlanta Memphis Philadelphia and New NewYork NewYork NewYork York where hell he'll use the Yankee stadium Golfing Date Date As if he didn't ha have VI eno enough gh to keep him busy Hope will also play playa a golf date in each town for the theP theP P G A rehabilitation fund Aside from touching up his timing timing tim Um- ing Bob hopes the tour will help him to playing before civilian audiences Oh yes there theres Is s also the matter of earning some moola from it Press agent Hope show showed d me a a. trailer which will be used in local theaters heaters In it Bing Crosby warns the he citizenry of Hopes Hope's advent Pretty priced high-priced advance man Id I'd say Ever onstage Hope tried out a new gag before the handful of people in the projection room Sinatra and Crosby could only happen lappen in America That's the only place where a piece of spaghetti spaghetti spaghetti spa spa- ghetti and a meatball could make so ao much gravy Walter Vatter Sleak takes care of hi his friends and enemies He has an acre 86 farm in m Bucks county Pennsylvania Livestock abounds And each animal bears the name of an entertainment personality Named for Enemies A beautiful horse hore is named Mau Mau- reen i An ugly sterile sow bears the he name of a a. Broadway and Hoi Hoi- Hollywood lywood actress His two prize mils bulls are Charles Laughton and Leo McCarey The chickens are plentiful as in Hollywood but he doesn't bother to name them He just eats them We had a wonderful ham last week observed but I cant can't remember who It was WM we ate Mexico Is ia making a big bid for forthe forthe forthe the movie trade with a stage six-stage studio which is being planned near Tijuana Native films will be made and the studio will be rented to space-hungry space independent producers pro pro- d cers' cers Tw Twentieth Fox hU U UFo Fo is beginning be beginning ginning to look like th the tho army transportation corps with Mark Stevens Cornell Wilde and Dick Haymes laymes among the Jeep owners |