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Both Mr. and Mrs. were placed in such a position that she couldn’t see what was happening to Eddie. You can imagine her surprise when she saw Eddie — decorated with the gooey remains of the pies. His prize — a nice creamy lemon meringue pie!
Marilyn Maxwell and David Street didn’t plan on putting on a floor show by kissing each other, but that’s what happened when they were blindfolded and told to bob for apples. Ralph Edwards kept pulling the apple up and away from their mouths. Result: Surprise kisses!
Kay Kyser was made the clown in one of the most uproarious events. His Georgia Carroll was given the task of testing melons by tapping them. They sent her into the kitchen to bring out several melons to test before the audience. When she came back she was blindfolded. During her absence Ralph rolled out a long table with holes cut in it for the melons to fit. Melons were placed in all of the holes except the last one — and there they put Kay, bald head and all. Georgia tapped on each melon; one was okay, the other a little
Mrs. Eddie Bracken thought she was the comedian in the family — not knowing about Eddie and his pie face
green. When she came to Kay’s head she tapped, then with a puzzled look, tapped again and said, “I think I had better smell this one.” She came up with a wrinkled nose. “This one is rotten.” You can imagine the reaction from the audience — and Kay!
All in all it was a grand party with everyone forgetting his troubles to laugh and laugh!
Random bits: Joan Crawford, taking her two children East for the holidays, plans to journey with them into Canada for snow and sports when she leaves New York. She says the best job she ever had was hers during the last ten days of shooting on “Possessed.” She spent all that time lying in bed (before the camera) with no make-up on . . . Arturo de Cordova is going back to Mexico, as soon as “New Orleans” is finished, to produce a picture of his own . . . Buddy Rich, another of Lana Turner’s ex-dream men, and his wife are reconciling . . . Ginger Rogers, returning from a visit to her Oregon ranch, brought back her sole catch of the
Emcee Ralph Edwards at Press Photographers’ Ball was apple stealer for David Street and Marilyn Maxwell