Modern Screen (Dec 1953 - Nov 1954)

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The talk of the town was The Toast Of The Town telecast from Hollywood celebrating MGM's thirtieth anniversary. Emanating live from Hollywood, the full-hour Sunday night telecast was hailed as the most ambitious collection of top performers ever seen on TV. LOUELLA PARSONS' GOOD ARLENE DAHL HAS A NEW ROMANCE PROPER PETER LAWFORD ROCKY When Arlene Dahl broke up with Fernando Lamas, the redhead said, "I'm through with love." But love, apparently, isn't through with Arlene. • Head over heels in love with her is Rudolph Schirmer, son of famed music publisher Gus Schirmer. Arlene and Rudolph did not date for months after he was separated from his wife and he thought the lady had obtained her Reno divorce before he and the Dahl doll started going around in Hollywood. But after more than seven weeks in Reno — Mrs. Schirmer changed her mind for some reason (you can guess why) and for a rather frantic forty-eight hours denied that she would divorce Schirmer. Arlene was really frantic at the implication that she had broken up a marriage — which she certainly had not. "I know both Mr. and Mrs. Schirmer," Arlene told me, "and it was she who first told me that she and her husband were separated." Whether or not he and Arlene "will be married all depends on the lady. If there were hard feelings between Doris Day and her boss. Jack Warner, you'd never have guessed it at Jack's beautiful party for Pierre de Gaulle, former Mayor of Paris. Just twenty-four hours previously, Jack had blown his top when Doris failed to show up to record the final musical number in Lucky Me. He ordered the cast dismissed, said the song would be cut from the picture, and also said quite a few other things about temperamental stars and one star in particular! What got Doris' nose out of joint was that Judy Garland had been given four days of rest at Ojai Valley before she (Judy) recorded her songs for A Star Is Born. When I first heard that Doris was awol, I called to get her version. "I have an earache," she said, "but really I've had no trouble with the studio." Oh, Doris! "When Mr. Warner hears I've been ill, I'm sure he'll change his mind and put the song back in the picture," she opined. You were righf, Doris. Doris went on, "Also, I wish you'd deny for me the silly talk that I'm unhappy about Judy Garland. Or that I am trying to copy her by arriving late on the set — or staying home.