Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1952 - Oct 1953)

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He's still merrily impulsive in his free hours. He is wide awake after midnight and at 2 a.m. may conclude he wants to go to the beach and dig for clams. So off you'll tear with the breeze in your hair instead of peacefully going home. And you'll never have any doubt as to whether Rock is near. His movements are as loud as the way he plays any music. He slams a door when he comes in so the room vibrates. I shudder at this habit because he's just moved into a house of glass. He's not the least afraid of that! He's leased the ultra-modern home of writer Mel Dinelli on a San Fernando Valley hillside. It's a huge rectangle of glass with redwood trimmings and eaves. As you look up to it you breathe healthily for you have to climb thirty-five steps. The large livingroom, minus the baby grand piano Rock aches to buy because he plays any tune by ear, is windowed from floor to ceiling on three sides. There is an all-electric, compact little kitchen at one end. The entrance hall is the barrier from the big bedroom, which has its three walls of glass, too. There are handy drapes to shut out too much sunlight, but the moonlight is permitted in after the city starts going to sleep below and resembles a softly glowing carpet. The modern bathroom is the only room with four walls! Part of Rock's earnings this year ahead intriguing question is answered — fully and honestly — let's look a little into the long-awaited Kinsey report on women, and how it was achieved. Actually the book was started some 14 years ago when Dr. Kinsey started a marriage class and, appalled by the ignorance of his pupils, began collecting case histories. For the book proper, he has inter are pigeon-holed for his home-building fund. In 1954 he hopes to build a house he is designing as his unique version of a bachelor's retreat. I can't see how he can improve on the one he's in now, but he retorts it has a few secret features and will always bring in rent! Anyhow, he wants to examine all the selecting that can go into a house that begins as a dream. This trial and error will teach him what he prefers strongly, and then he can eventually coordinate this with the taste of the woman he marries. I dread to be around when he purchases his first home deep freeze. I prophesy that after allotting specific space for it he'll load it with exotic bargains and then acquire a starvation complex. Once he's reasoned it isn't big enough, he'll want two and have a wall hacked out. Then he'll be tortured for a spell by an urge to let the neatly proportioned packages of frozen delicacies remain symmetrical sights stacked in rows. It may be luck to let him go through all this before he becomes a husband! Rock won't be robbed of the rewards his sincerity and intelligence have in store for him. In these hectic days it's a treat to know someone as courageous. Rock isn't too reckless. He is well-balanced on the ledge of love, and no one's going to give him a shove. He won't care completely again until he's certain he deserves the chance. viewed over 8,000 women, and his staff of assistants have travelled the length and breadth of the nation. That they did a little more than pause in Hollywood is no secret. What he found there is still a secret — but it won't be much longer. Because Dr. Kinsey 's findings will be based on the composite of all American women, irrespective of their world, the lives they lead, or the careers they pursue. Hollywood, at the knowledge that anonymity will be stressed in the Kinsey book, breathes a sigh of relief — at least individually, but in mass it isn't so sure. When it learned, for instance, that out of the 8,000 women questioned (including many Hullyivood stars and numerous lesser Hollywood beings) 33% were partially unresponsive to sex relations, and a third of that figure utterly unresponsive, many of its people wondered just how far the report would go. One actress, well known for the way nature has endowed her physically, revealed recently that she had been talked to by one of Dr. Kinsey's able assistants. "What was it like?" she was asked. "I haven't been the same person since," she answered truthfully. "It was just like being psychoanalyzed at one sitting. The questioning lasted almost four hours, and nothing was left out. I was asked almost 500 questions, and when it was over I felt drained of all feelings." Whether this young actress told the truth or not is easily answered. Dr. Kinsey, aided by his remarkable and expert staff, has a way of getting at the root of everything he wants to know. Movie star or housewife, congresswoman or waitress— they all find him a human lie detector and act accordingly. What Hollywood wonders most is whether Dr. Kinsey will sum up his total findings of Hollywood on the revelations of a picked few. Will he be swayed by the present wealth of pictures on sex, the exploitation by the stars themselves of their special allures, and the unfounded opinion of parts of the nation that Hollywood is the loosest town in America when it comes to morals, sexual behavior and wavering pattern of marital felicity. Here is the answer: In interviewing the citizens of screenland, Dr. Kinsey has found exactly what he has found in every other city in America. No more, no less. In gathering his facts, Dr. Kinsey has been so reserved and so careful that no names could ever be identified to determine whether he has collected data from Hollywood or not. However, one thing is certain: Dr. Kinsey doesn't think film folk are different from other people when it comes to making love. His first report on men grouped the people he interviewed loosely, on the basis of the sort of work they did — but there was no special classification for actors. So far his classifications for women have not been revealed, but it isn't likely he would make any special grouping for actresses. Just to be technical about it, there may be some odd people in Hollywood— but oddness, when it comes to sex, says Dr. Kinsey, consists principally in thinking that YOU and YOUR ideas are normal, and anyone who has a different idea is "odd!" Perhaps you think it is odd to get married more than once, but the pattern that is right for you may be all wrong for a Lana Turner or an Ava Gardner. And if your marriage was once and forever, think of the Bing Crosbys, the George Burns, the Jack Bennys, the Gregory Pecks, and the Fredric March 63 Ty Power at Radio Theatre rehearsal break with Host-Producer Irving Cummings. It was Cummings, oddly enough, who directed Ty in his very first screen role years ago. What Kinsey Would Find In Hollywood! Continued from page 29