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

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SCREENLAND April 1953 Fred Brisson and Roz Russell step out. Now feels like Orphan Annie, she says. HOLLYWOOD ON BROADWAY i Hit of Broadway Vanessa Brown, Joe E. Brown and Helen Hayes meet the Mayor. Danton Walker The Sidney Lumets (Rita Gam) squelched a New York furrier with a cloth coat. At work or at play, and it's usually play, visiting Hollywood stars can set even sophisticated New York back on its heels Linda Darnell who made headlines last year i when she said she couldn't find a man to date in Hollywood, has probably found 1953 a much better year in the Romance Department, particularly when she's gadding about Gotham. At El Morocco she shared a table for five with four eligible males and the following night she had three escorts during dinner at the Persian Room. Before departing for Hollywood, she dined with another trio of handsome men-about-town at "21" who showered her with attention and more orchids than she could possibly pin to her traveling suit. At no time during her appearances around town did she seem to be duplicating an escort, a fact which did not go unnoticed by several other screen actresses, all of whom had to do the town with lone male date. Whether she was aware of it or not, Miss Darnell created a sensation everywhere she went. 1952's complaint can never be repeated. If anything, Linda Darnell's lament in 1953 might be she would like to be left alone. . . . A well-known furrier in the local garment sector, who has been crashing private parties and movie premieres hereabouts for the past several years by escorting screen stars, finally got his come-uppance when he suggested to Rita Gam that he would design a fabulous crystal mink coat for her to wear at one of this town's biggest annual midnight affairs if he could accompany her to the soiree. Rita Gam, in private life Mrs. Sidney Lumet, declined the offer with thanks and explained she would attend the elaborate function with her husband, and instead of mink (her own, incidentally, for she has two coats of the precious pelt) she had every intention of wearing a cloth coat. She did, too, and walked away with best dressed honors despite the presence of a wide assortment of minks, ermines and chinchillas. Rita Gam's cloth coat was a cloth of gold coat, tightly fitted at the waist and flaring out dramatically adding emphasis to an already famous figure. When Ava Gardner left Nairobi, Africa, to go to London via a Scandinavian Airlines Royal Viking, her "Mogambo" (continued on pace 7i> 20