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

Room she found a group of fan club members thumbing through the Debbie Reynolds documents. They got the surprise of their lives when their idol sat down and joined them. . . . Anne Baxter, at the Camillo Restaurant, confirmed reports she wants to travel the countryside in a one-woman show reading romantic prose and love letters of literary greats. The projected tour is earmarked to get underway during the Christmas holidays. . . . Despite two days of the worst early Summer rainy weather in memory, Eddie Fisher broke the Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis opening day record and the weekend record of Johnnie Ray at the New York Paramount Theatre. . . . Marilyn Monroe turned down a publicity stunt dreamed up for her by an enterprising press agent for Atlantic City, so former screen player, Janis Paige, stepped into a bathing suit (natch) and posed for 300 art students on the boardwalk. . . . Roberta Haynes, hit town for publicity stunts in connection with "Return To Paradise" and steered most of the newsmen and magazine editors into the Blue Angel. Her gimmick, so she said, was she wanted to hear Arthur Blake, the impressionist. In truth, it was just because she likes the chic cafe. She used to work there as hatcheck girl. Gwen Verdon, the new "Can-Can" sensation who danced in so many 20th Century Fox musicals, was accorded a tremendous ovation the night the Cole Porter show premiered at the Shubert Theatre. Her dressing room was flooded with congratulatory telegrams and flowers, with the largest basket of blossoms arriving from Betty Grable, just as the show's final curtain dropped after the finale. When she got back to her hotel apartment she found a telephone message to call Mrs. Harry James in Hollywood collect. They talked for hours and Gwen read Betty the first batch of press notices for "Can-Can," everyone of them a rave for the Verdon lass. . . . yourself liberally with Cheramy's new Frosty Bouquet. You can get this in three different fragrances: Tropical (a sophisticated floral), famous April Showers (a sweet bouquet) and Festival fa brand new woodsy blend). Frosty Bouquet has such a generous quota of perfume oils that you'll find yourself surrounded by a most refreshing cloud of fragrance. Follow Pat's suggestion, and keep your supplies in the refrigerator. This pre-cooling makes toilet waters and colognes even more effective as a pick-up to splash on your wrists or temples during the day. Frosty Bouquet, by the way won't strain your budget — it's only $1. In your own grooming, be sure to re 74 Jack Palance and his wife, Virginia Baker, who gave up her career to wed. For Pictures No Artist Could Paint Dept.: — Joe DiMaggio stopped for his autograph in front of a Times Square book shop which displays nothing in its windows but calendars of you-knowwho . . . Tallulah Bankhead and Ralph Meeker at twin pianos at he Ruban Bleu improvising a medley of Rodgers and Hammerstein tunes, as the composers sit at a nearby table laughing hysterically. The Academy Award committee might just as well face it — Marlon Brando's Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar" will head the list of 1953 nominees. Cornered at the Mont D'Or, he admitted he enjoyed seeing himself in the Shakespearean drama, but thought there was room for improvement in his own performance. Is this the "new" Brando? . . . Best Dressed Screen Star Of The Month: — James Stewart, the "Thunder Bay" star, seen at the pool of the Sands Point Bath Club in a long robe of beige terry cloth with dark brown striped pattern. His swim trunks were dark brown with a white-and-yellow swordfish design. Moccasin type sandals were in putty color with deep rope soles and his duck hat of brown crash linen toped off his ensemble. . . . END member to use a deodorant. We know it's something of a problem to find one that isn't irritating to skin that is being constantly de-fuzzed by one means or another. The American Medical Association Committee on Cosmetics, however, has approved Yodora, the McKesson and Robbins cream deodorant. Yodora is made with a base of soothing beauty cream — while you use it to banish odors it's also doing a fine job on smoothing the texture of your skin. Because of this double action it works wonders on your hands and feet, as well as under-arm territory. The cream is actually so light-textured that it feels like your favorite beauty balm — you can't quite believe that it is so efficient. Keeping your hair looking pretty in spite of Summer humidity is essential to your attractiveness. You can't even feel fresh when your hair has gone limp and sticky. Pat copes with this situation by using a dry shampoo between her regular shampooings. Probably the best known is Minipoo. You just brush it on, then brush it off. The whole procedure takes less than ten minutes and because there's no water involved you don't have to worry about upsetting your curls or waves. Minipoo Dry Shampoo comes in a siftertop shaker with its own applicator brush. Enough for 30 dry shampoos is only $1. so you can see that it's a thoroughly economical proposition. Pat had another hint that concerns hair. She points out that one of the best ways to stay cool is to change your hairdo to a style that keeps your hair away from your neck. Cut it shorter in the Italian manner, give it an up-sweep or what you will, but don't let it hang down enough to heat you up like a fur-piece. A hair spray will prove a great boon in controlling any wisps inclined to stray. The people who make Venida hair nets have a new one called "Mist-O-Spray" that is guaranteed non-inflammable. It comes in an atomizer squeeze-bottle so there's no trick at all to aiming the spray just where you want to. The spray itself is transparent and fast drying — gives your hair a nice luster. When we asked Pat if she wasn't just about running out of ideas on cooling systems, she laughed and told us that she hadn't even started on two of her favorite subjects — "food and make-up." "Food," Pat confessed, "plays an important part in my own plan for keeping cool. I try to eat lots of fruits and vegetables and keep my diet light. This doesn't mean that I cut out good sustaining food — you need protein for energy in Summer just as much as at any other time of year. But I do try to eliminate heavy foods. I've found too, that a hot cup of tea, strange to say, is a wonderfully cooling drink. "As for make-up," Pat continued, "I always feel cooler without any — just lipstick, at least during the daytime. At night when I have a date, I do wear face powder too." If you're going to follow Pat's example, we'd suggest that you use a non-smear lipstick like Hazel Bishop's. It frees you from the bother of constant re-touching and you don't have to worry about eating it off during meals, wiping it off on cr; rettes, or branding people with it when you kiss them! Remember though, that you must blot your lips carefully with a facial tissue after you apply a Hazel Bishop lipstick if you expect it to do its longlasting best for you. The question of a powder for evening is another easy one to answer. Woodbury has a new color, Tropic Dream, in their Dream Stuff formula. It's a wonderfully flattering suntan shade that can do a lot for your Summer coloring. You don't need to fuss with any foundation to make Dream Stuff stay on, you know. It has foundation cream built right into the formula. (Both Dream Stuff and Hazel Bishop Lipsticks are sold at all the drug and variety stores). end PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE CUNEO PRESS, INC. COOLING SYSTEM [CONTINUED FROM PACE 53]