Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

'Just Good Friends" it Las Vegas Debbie Reynolds stuck to her code of never dating a married man until he is dirrced" (as she told me in my interview with =r, which is on page 24 of this issue) before le appeared with millionaire Harry Karl as Br escort in Las Vegas. It was about a week :-.er Joan (the former Mrs. Harry) Cohn disced Karl that Debbie resumed the dates 19 was having with him before his surprising znd short) twenty -five day marriage to Mrs. chn. Debbie was in Las Vegas at the invitation Shirley MacLaine to take part in the g Operation Typhoon charity affair staged , Steve Parker and his Japanese Revue stars the New Frontier to aid Japanese sufferers the recent typhoon. With their usual genosity. many Hollywood stars including Bob ope. Donald O'Connor, Lucille Ball, sa Zsa Gabor and others, flew up to take jrt in the show and buy many of the fine izes auctioned off from the stage. Looking cute as a button arrayed in white ; and tails and top hat, Debbie did a dance rmber for which Mr. Karl applauded loudest all. Later, Harry bought a chinchilla coat hich was auctioned off for sweet charity, id presented it to Debbie! She keeps insisting me that she and Karl are "just good friends" id I think she means it. But I'm beginning believe it's deeper than that on his side .d if he can change her mind — he will. I thinlf a special bow goes to Lucille Ball letting back to the show for Operation Tyloon) who almost stole the evening with her perb clowning. Lucille is not a happy girl =se days. There is trouble between her and si Arnaz, although both half-heartedly deny But she put her personal problems aside to me up to Vegas and help Shirley and Steve ise money for this worthy cause. She's a e girl, this "Lucy" — and here's hoping Desi iikes up before it's too late. Congratulations, Dorothy and. Jacques, i Dorothy is expecting the Stork.) "A Baby Is Coming" I kept saying that Dorothy Malone certainly looked pregnant. And Dorothy kept denying that she and Jacques Bergerac are expecting a baby. We kept up this jolly little game for about two weeks. Then, one morning, to my desk came a beautiful large white orchid to which was attached a white satin streamer with ABC printed in gold letters — and a note reading: Dear Loueila: You are quite right, Jacques and I are happily expecting a baby in May In case you are curious, the ABC printed on the streamer means. 'A baby is coming.' Congratulations, Dorothy and Jacques. And thank you for the charming way you verified my story that Dorothy is expecting the Stork. Kookie had. a funny a Kookie Can't Afford Two Combs 'cs a fine girl, this "Lucy," and e's hoping Desi wakes up to it. Never let it be said that Edd "Kookie" Byrnes hasn't kept his sense of humor through his suspension troubles at Warner Bros, (which I'm sure will be settled by the time you read this). When I asked "Kookie" if he planned to marry Asa Maynor any day now, he cracked: "The answer is — no. I can't afford two combs." Edd is very grateful to Warners, the studio that discovered him and gave him his big chance on 77 Sunset Strip. It's just that he can't questioned about mo/t riage and Asa Maynor. get along on his S284-per-week taice-home salary. That may seem like a good salary — and it is outside of the acting profession. But with all the expenses even a young actor is heir to, and the front he is expected to put up, it's small pickings. Edd has really been up against it financially speaking. For one item alone, his tuxedo, cost him S240, almost a week's salary. Jack Warner, a fair man, offered to up "Kookie" to S750 weekly which is okay with Edd and his agents. But "Kookie" is also hoping the studio permits him to keep 50 °o of what he is being offered for nightclub and personal appearances. This, my friends, is as high as S10.000 weekly. Not bad for that cute "parking attendant" at 77 Sunset Strip!