Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)

®f)e jWontftlp Eecorb continued 16 DREAMBOATS CHAINED! BOOK NOOK f Here are eight dreamboats. Clip ’em — they’re just enough to fill half the spaces in your “My Diary Locket.” Yes, that’s right — all sixteen of them locked near your heart. When fellow columnist Dick Clark and I bumped heads in the hallway, we caught up on some small talk and I told him about this sweetheart of a gold locket I got in the mail from an admirer who said: “If you have sixteen different poses, please return — pronto !” Sure, a guy’s flattered. But after I inspected this intricate piece of space-age design, I decided to give you readers a high-sign on it. It looks great to me; and I don't think of it only in terms of dreamboats for you mamselles. Seems to me like it might be a lot of fun to include a relative or two. Still, I asked Vamp, my trenchcoated, ladylike spy, to give the Photoplay hies the once-over and to pick half the sixteen dreamboats you gals would love most to include in this Coro “My Diary Locket.” Dick, by the way, flipped over the locket, too. Have you seen it on his show? All of which leads me to my roundup survey on fashion. Remember the feature in Photoplay, a few months ago, with the “Mardi Gras” guys (Tommy Sands, Pat Boone, Gary Crosby and Dick Sargent) all sounding off about fashion gripes? Well, I went a step further and interviewed a gang of seniors at the New Rochelle High School, and here’s what they had to say: Kurt Schmidt : “More sweaters, please. I like the neater fits — not the messy, sloppy ones.” D. Lee: “I like girls who wear hats.” Frank S. Wilson: “I dig the long, colored stockings with shorter skirts — and I love girls who wear bright colors.” Oliver Davis: “I go for the long blue or red socks, too. And I like plaid skirts with them.” William Thomas: “Only thing that bothers me are those doggone t-strap shoes. They look like they belong to the dark ages.” Please-Don’t-Mention-My-Name (#1) : “Gals look too much alike. I wish they wouldn’t dress the same way everybody else in their crowd does.” Please-Don’t-Mention-My-Name (#2) : “I like a girl to look clean — and that's all. A guy doesn’t really notice fashions that much if a girl’s got a nice personality. And if she’s got a great smile, well, that's it. I'm sold!” Please Don’t Mention My Name (#3): "I can't stand seeing snow (dandruff) on girls’ shoulders. You even see it on bleached noggins, and with all the new products, there’s just no excuse.” Girls — your beefs? THE MONTHLY RECORD CHECKLIST “A” YOU’RE ADORABLE. Gerry Granahan (Sunbeam) O.K. I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU. Marilyn Monroe (LInited Artists) Ummm TURN ME LOOSE. Fabian (Chancellor) Help! FORGIVE THEM. Donna Hightower (Capitol) Nice THE WANG DANG TAFFY-APPLE TANGO. Pat Boone (Dot) Yummy LOVE ME IN THE DAYTIME. Doris Day (Columbia) Any day, doll THE FOX. Joe and Eddie (Capitol) Racy MY LOVE IS STRONG. Jimmy Clanton (Ace) . . Good Boy! MY CUTIE’S DUE AT TWO TO TWO TODAY. Ja Da Quartette (Warner Bros.) Kookie DOES YOUR CHEWING GUM LOSE ITS FLAVOR ON THE BEDPOST OVERNIGHT? Lonnie Donegan (Dot ) Yes Did you know that some stars are too beautiful? They wear clothes so well they overpower the story, and the movie experts have to downplay their beauty! I learned this from a new book, “The Dress Doctor,” by Paramount's fashion designer Edith Head. “Loretta Young,” Edith says, “is such a beauty we have to be careful her clothes don't take too much stage.” Clothes, she adds, are Loretta’s passion. “Her elegance on the screen merely reflects her elegance at home! “We have Clothes Clinics at Loretta’s house. We sit in her dressing room and go over an entire wardrobe for a year.” One section I flipped for was "The Masculine Point of View.” \ ul Brynner says women's clothes are sometimes too self-conscious, too important. And a number of famous directors air their views. All of them, however, come to one conclusion: in selecting clothes, women should keep one thing in mind — MEN ! And, while we’re on the subject of fashion, there’s a new booklet out with the gayest, fe malest summer fashions bound to appeal to the men in your life. The catalogue is free if you write to: The French Boot Shop, Dept. 69, New Rochelle, New York. Have you ever stumbletoed on the dance floor with a tricky mambo or a sugar push or a pendulum step? Well, here’s the book for you — “How to Become a Good Dancer” by Arthur Murra> (and it includes Kathryn Murray’s dance secrets). There are plenty of simple instructions, breakdowns and diagrams to help you learn to dance in the privacy of your home — without a teacher! 14