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0lamour 0ab of Hollywood (Continued from page 39) church in the Valley where she worshipped as a teenager, wore a Paris outfit that you sewing-wise girls could copy. Ann has a matching sweater and skirt set: the sweater is cashmere, the skirt pure silk, both of the most heavenly blue. Dotted all over the sweater are bunches of artificial forget-me-nots. All over the skirt are tiny blue velvet bows. Couldn’t be more feminine, just like Annie. Marilyn's Old Look Marilyn Monroe, never noted for her grooming, off-screen, has turned out big-hunk-of-man type. However, with the new crop of artistic and thin lads in town, Jeff loomed up so positively masculine to the preview audience, he’s now got five pictures lined up. “B.T.” Gable is what his wife Vicki calls Jeff — meaning “Better Than.” They Make Sense When Burt Lancaster appeared at the Academy Awards without his wife Norma, the Hollywood rumor factory, as usual, misunderstood. Then, matters became more confused when Norma turned up at the Awards party afterward and danced every Married couples please copy the Fernando Lamases’ recipe for looking wonderful Friends who visit Doris Day leave their calling cards on her new friendship walk worse than ever since she returned from her year’s stay in New York. Her studio is horrified but helpless when, day after day, she arrives and leaves the lot, her hair hanging lank and uncombed, her face guiltless of make-up, her outfit usually a tight black skirt, a tighter black sweater. On the whole, the press adores Marilyn, and I am no exception. I think she is the most exciting female on the screen, bar none. I know she has a superior educated mind, which she slyly tries to hide, and her personal honesty and integrity are the finest. But this sloppiness of hers is too much. Dear Marilyn, the natural glamour you possess is a rare gift that you shouldn’t carelessly cast aside. Have a heart for those of us for whom you can make life so very colorful. He's a Smoothie If I were the king of Hollywood, I’d crack down on the ungroomed boys as much as the ungroomed girls. The only fellow in the young crowd I know who is always perfectly groomed is Jeff Richards. He’s loud sometimes, sure, in the checkedcoat division, but not too often. He always has his hair slicked back, a big grin on that broad, healthy face of his, and the p welcoming hand is always outstretched. It’s been paying off for Jeff, too. The role he was given in “The Opposite Sex” 80 originally nothing much more than a dance with her tall, handsome husband. Norma and Burt weren’t a bit confused, because it is their rule never to mix business and pleasure. The Academy Awards, to them, was business. Dancing is fun. Burt’s theory is: A couple that shares work is sharing a calculated risk, but the couple that shares fun is setting up a fund of mutual happiness. Hostesses With the Mostess Mrs. Charles Brackett, wife of the producer, wanting to jazz up a buffet table, got a live white rabbit. Then, in an antique shop, she found a tall, beautiful Victorian birdcage. Putting the rabbit in the cage, she surrounded him with lettuce and flowers. Then the buffet food was put on the table around him. It was tremendously effective, and the rabbit, nibbling away, had a ball— nibbling its own lettuce and roses, naturally. At a recent party, Mrs. Walter Lang, wife of the director of the sensational “King and I,” provided great fun by simply having scads of musical instruments scattered aroimd her playroom. Said instruments ranged from bongo drums to mouth organs, and the idea was to see which guests could compose the best orchestra. You haven’t lived till you’ve seen Clifton Webb trying to do an Andre Kostelanetz while sawing away on a dollar-store violin. Doris Day has borrowed an idea frc music-man Jimmy Van Heusen, whi you can borrow from both of them, if y, friends. It’s friendship walk. Very fascinating if y are building a new home. Nothing wro: with it either if your house is old. Doris came across this friendship wa at Jimmy Van Heusen ’s place in Pal Springs, and as a conversation piece, i the end. Jimmy had the cement for t path around his place made in vario colors— pink, green, tulip yellow and tl like. (This is a cinch. You, or yo) builder, just mix in any color you wa with your cement.) Then you invite yoi most particular friends to come calling' in Jimmy s case, Doris and another sing, named Frank Sinatra. When they arri\ you have them put their footprints ai handprints in the wet cement, then aut graph them with a good, stout stick whii you have provided. Or, if the ceme;, has already set, you mix up a small ne batch, smear some across, and there yt are, sweet flattery for your friends, swe memories for you. And the walk c: grow and grow. Dodo is now putting su( a path around her North Hollywoc house. However, if you do this, I hope yc don t have any such moment as happen* years ago, at Grauman’s Chinese Theat: in Hollywood, where this cement-aut( graphing, hand-and-foot-setting starte The most glamorous girl of that year wi doing this bit. She wore a very, vei low-cut gown and, just as she bent ovi with her hands and feet firmly plante the gown let her down. The numeroi gentlemen present were so startled thf didn’t know vvhat was the polite thing ■ do until a quick-witted Grauman’s ushi snatched a hanging off the theatre wal and wrapped it around the blushir, blond. Glamour Gatherings &| Hollywood is steadily getting more eu! gant. The sort of dime-store glitter '' has always had is being replaced by more jewel-like quality, and nothir proves it better than this year’s partly Take a character like Bob Mitchuf In the short interval after he had r* turned from European and Cuban pictui locations and was about to head for En| land for another, he and his tall, beautifi wife, Dorothy, gave a dinner-dance in tl Crown Room at Romanoff’s. Bob use to make a big thing of being a diamonc in-the-really-rough. He’d do anythir, to shock you. He was almost a shock the night of h| dinner-dance, so handsome was he in hj very correct dinner jacket, and so tru charming. And those words also apply ’ the party — handsome, correct and chami ing. There was a lovely trick used on tl tables: very thin, very tall lighted candk standing among very low, very colorfi flowers. Freddie Karger and his coml supplied the music, which was fine, to since everybody knows Freddie, partiev: larly since his marriage and divorce froi Jane Wyman. The best couple to watch on the danc floor were June Allyson and Jack Leir* mon flawlessly going through steps thi would have felled Arthur Murray. Joanr Dru, there alone because John Irelar was detained with his tennis club i Phoenix, looked like a fan waltzingmean a real fanning fan. The bodice I' her low-cut gown was black, the skirt il mass of deep white ruffles. When she di the mambo with Dean Martin, she hel