Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)

THE MONTHLY RECORD — continued THE MONTHLY RECORD CHECKLIST THE CHILDREN’S MARCHING SONG. Mitch Miller & his “Sing Along With Mitch ” Chorus (Columbia) Tops YO-YO with Sonny James (Capitol) So-so LET’S LOVE with Johnny Mathis (Columbia) Ummm THE RIDDLE OF LOVE. The Four Preps (Capitol) Nifty PINETOP’S BOOGIE WOOGIE. Lawson-Haggart Rockin’ Band (Decca) Neat HURRY UP. BUTTERCUP. Charlie Grace (Coral) Novel MY ONLY LOVE. Tab Hunter (Warner Brothers) Cool TALL PAUL. Annette Funicello and the Afterbeats (Disneyland) Chilly PROOF POSITIVE For all you gals who scoff, by the way, on the old adage, “the way to a man’s heart is through the recipes you collect,” listen to Kenneth More, England’s most popular film star, who says he was a confirmed bachelor until he met the future Mrs. More. He admits he liked her sense of humor, but he didn’t think about her again until she invited him to dinner and served him Spanish steak (sliced steak sauteed with tomato and onions) and a magnificent lemon meringue pie for dessert. Suddenly, he says, he found himself looking forward to her little dinners every week. Ultimately, the bounty of her dinner table turned to love, of course. Kenny, as he’s called by his friends, admitted this to us when he was in New York a month ago for personal appearances for his two films, “A Night to Remember,” the nerve-shattering screen adaptation of the sinking of the Titanic, and “Sheriff of Fractured Jaw,” a British satire on our oat-opuses in which he co-stars with gun-totin’ Jayne Mansfield. P.S. Look for some heart-throb recipes here next month. book nook Hollywood’s deep in the midst of a reading jag. Johnny Saxon’s crazy for a mad book called “Ounce, Dice, Trice” by Alastair Reid, with sketchy ink drawings by Ben Shahn. It’s a book of fun words. For instance, there are Bug Words (to be said when grumpy) — humbug, bugbear, bugaboo, bogybug, bugseed. Squishy words are to be said when wet — squiff, squeegee, squirt. Rude names for nitwits are rapscallion, flibbertigibett, fussbudget, clodhopper, bumpkin and slammerkin. Then, there are questions and answers. What is a Tirrivee? A tirrivvee is a temper. Mothers go into a tirrivee over the jiggery-pokery of children. What is jiggery-pokery ? Jiggery-pokery is trickery or mischief or hanky-panky on the part of children, such as pretending to be deaf, or teasing a tantony. What is a Tantony? And so forth. Sandra Dee told me she’s wild for “Teen-Age Treasury for Girls.” “It’s full of short stories, love poems and fun poems,” she added. One of her favorite poems from it is called “Experience” and it’s by Dorothy Parker. It goes: Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter. Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter. And if you don’t think it’s a small world, Fabian tells us a fan sent him a quatrain from the same book: Pm glad the sky is painted blue; And the earth is painted green; And such a lot of nice fresh air All sandwiched in between. Peter Brown of TV’s “Lawman” and his cheery young wife, Diane Jergens, were planning a party, and Diane said. “What can we do that’ll be different?” “But we’re on a budget,” he reminded her. “I know,” she told him. “I just mean something like a Baby Party where everyone has to come in baby clothes. Or . . .” she said as the idea flashed through her head, “. . . a wig party.” Result: An I-Flipped-My-Wig shindig. Diane says the gals all wore wool wigs made to look like Hollywood stars’ hairdos. And the guys were all handed black handlebar moustaches (made out of cardboard) soon as they entered the door. Diane made Debbie’s pigtails out of p green knitting worsted in just a single evening, and had such a ball doing it that she made two other wigs. She greeted her guests as “Debbie,” turned up halfway through the doings as Kim Novak, and then waved sayonara to everybody looking like Miyoshi Umeki. Their party was so successful that Photoplay asked Coats & Clark to make up a leaflet with complete instructions on how to make five different star wigs. Clip this coupon and send it with a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope to: GEORGE, Dept. PG, Photoplay, 205 East 42 St., N.Y., N.Y. NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE Bright green “Debbie” pigtails, a black high-on-the-head “Miyoshi” coiffure, and a violet “Kim” hairdo — they all went to Diane’s head. Why don’t you try ’em too? Just clip the coupon and mail to George.