Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1947)

Promenaders ( Continued from page 57) director Lewis Milestones and Dusty Anderson and director Jean Negulesco gave at the Huston ranch (in San Fernando Valley) to celebrate their one-, twelve and one-yearwedding anniversaries respectively. And what a lovely setting it was! The low rancho rambles between two knolls and has an enormous porch the whole length of the place (seemed about a mile long) that was set with plaid-clothed, candlelighted tables for the two hundred and more guests. A huge buffet and bar indoors (where a small hot band provided dance music) and another dining and drinking arrangement outdoors furnished “refreshment” from nine p. m. until the sun was actually high in the heavens! NE of the reasons guests stayed so late was the wonderful impromptu entertainment furnished at the piano by Johnny “Body and Soul” Green, with Georgia Gibbs, Betty Garrett (Larry Parks’s wife) and Sono Osato, the little Japanese dancer in Hollywood to make a picture, dishing up songs like mad while Danny Kaye and Edgar Bergen, who usually do a lot of entertaining at parties themselves, just stood around and applauded. A big bunch of the younger star-set kept the place jumping — and if you don’t think that Robert Mitchum is a jitterbug de luxe, you don’t know your “cats.” Teresa Wright and Mrs. Doug Fairbanks sat most of ’em out, because both should be welcoming Sir Stork as you read this. But Van and Frances Heflin, Ann Rutherford, Ida Lupino and her big moment, Collier Young, Cesar Romero, the Dana Andre wses, Joan Fontaine (in a lovely strapless dress of heavy white lace, heart-shaped bodice and full skirt), the John Garfields — and oh so many more — tore up the floor. Lana Turner, there with Ty Power (natch!), was wearing a black satin gown, her pretty feet glimpsed below the hemline which was about six inches from the floor. Bodice was tight with panels of smooth black marquisette over the shoulders. It also had a corset effect, with lacings up the back! Waistline was longish, the skirt very full, with a four-inch band of the black marquisette finishing off the hemline. I must have been prophetic, for when I ran into the Cornel Wildes that evening, I started to introduce Mrs. W. to someone and asked her, “Do you want to be introduced as Mrs. Wilde or Miss Knight?” Pat looked quizzical — glanced toward Cornel and then said, “Well — I don’t know — I’ve made two pictures — ” A few days later they announced their separation! Career trouble, no doubt. Two careers. Some people really take it big. Too big! A recent big premiere brought out the glamour pusses in droves. Looking charming because of her simplicity was Esther Williams in a white lace and marquisette evening gown, the top of which was a moulded-torso line of white lace over nude and finished with a stiff cuff of the marquisette at the hip line. From there fell a very full bouffant skirt. Esther wore white suede gloves with this gown — but we can’t imagine why. Roz Russell was there in a dark red chiffon evening dress, bare on one shoulder— the other covered by a continuation of the drape of her bodice that ended in a long scarf. Odds and ends worth mentioning are Evie Johnson’s silver-plated “dog-collar” that she wore to La Rue for dinner. It caught a lot of eyes besides Van’s. The biggest thing! And she has a bracelet to match. That stunning “salad-bowl” of a hat was really something too. A big inverted mush "The girl who can I say no / That’s Betsy, all right! Hasn’t said "No” to goodtasting Gerber’s since the doctor started her right from the first on Gerber’s Cereals. And how she goes for Gerber’s Strained Foods— from carrots to custard! But a girl’s never too young to watch her figure. So, when Betsy’s ready for Junior Foods she’ll get just the right-size portions— with Gerber’s. Only Gerber's Junior Foods come in the same size container at the same low price as Strained Foods. Thousands of babies can’t say “No” to goodtasting Gerber’s. And, more doctors approve them. So start Baby on Gerber’s — keep Baby on Gerber’s! For FREE SAMPLES of Gerber’s 3 Cereals, write to Gerber’s, Dept. FI 1-7, Fremont, Mich. © 1947, G. P. C. erber’s BABY FOODS Fremont, Mich. — Oakland, Calif. 3 CEREALS 18 STRAINED FOODS 13 JUK'IOR FOODS P .n 95