Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1951)

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night game WHEN HOLLYWOOD STARS GET TOGETHER FOR CHARITr'S SAKE. YOU CAN BET IT'LL BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. HERE'S ONE OF THOSE UNFORGETTABLE NIGHTS, HILARIOUSLY SPENT AT GILMORE STADIUM. Bat girls Marilyn Maxwell, Jane Russell and Dorothy Lomour arrive at Hollywood's Gllmore Stadium in o surrey with .a fringe on top. ■ When the lights went on in Gilmore Stadium a few weeks ago, baseball fans got more than runs for their money. They got a whole collection of beautiful actresses for bat girls. They also got Bob Hope (entirely musclebound) and Gary Cooper as rival captains .in one of the biggest all-star games in history. They called it baseball, but they played it for laughs. Proceeds went to charit> . And baseball — on that night, at least — went to the dogs. Gary Cooper's team included Shelley Winters and Gordon MacRoe. Gordon made o few hits, his biggest with the ladies in the stonds. Tony Curtis played on Hope's side, and he put his all into it. Jane Russell and Marilyn Maxwell carried him onto the field — for luck. Also for luck was the wifely kiss Janet Leigh gave her baseball hero. He tried, but he just couldn't hit a homer, not even for love. Time out in a strenuous' game! Bat girl Mono Freeman raced to the Only o massage stands between Hope and victory. Before he p'tched sidelines between innings to relax on husband Pat Nerney's lap. to Gary Cooper, Bob whipped out a tape measure and sized him up.