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Overheard in
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
IMiuto by Meil Watson
Acme Plioff
• Hollywood is still buzzing over the first public appearance of Van Johnson and Mrs. Keenan Wynn, estranged wife of the comedian. I’hey were a dinner twosome at the swank new' Somerset House and obligingly posed for photographers. A few days before, Evie helped Van pick out a new' house. It may mean, as rumor has insisted, that she w'ill become Mrs. Van after divorcing Keenan.
Hollywood has heard rumblings for some time that James Mason, the English star, is sometimes rather difficult to get along with. He has definite ideas about things and doesn’t like to have them changed. Apparently there’s some basis to the reports, with Mason putting up an awful howl over the cutting of Wicked Lady. All his contracts give him the right to approve any changes— and in this case he says he wasn’t consulted.
Betty Grable comes up w’ith a new hairdo for her latest [jicture. Mother Wore Tights. It’s tw'enty-two tightly coiled ringlets around her forehead, a la pompadour. The studio hairstylist is rather proud of it, but he’ll probably jump off the Santa Monica pier w'hen he hears Betty’s description of it— “My innerspring mattress make-up.’’
Until recently. Mayor Roger Lapham of San Francisco w'as a fan of Lauren Bacall. But now we’re not so sure. Lauren and husband Humphrey Bogart went up
Trying to follow the on-again-olf-again divorce plans of the Keenan Wynns is a job for a seer. But as we went to press, Van Johnson still was seeing the town with Evie Wynn. Here they’re shown dancing at Giro’s on completion of High Barbaree
A “must” for all celebrities visiting New York is a trip backstage to chat with Ingrid Bergman, now appearing in Maxwell Anderson’s play, Joan of Lorraine. Charles Boyer, Joan’s co-star in Arch of Triumph, shown with star and playwright
A new twosome in the Hollywood night spots has been Marlene Dietrich, now in Golden Earrings, and Burt Lancaster, who scores in Desert Fury. Lancaster first startled Hollywood by showing up as an unknown in The Killers — and stealing the raves