Screenland (Jul-Dec 1948)

What Hollywood Itself Is Talking About Continued from page 21 only he can cook to specification. Two eggs, boiled two minutes and forty-seven seconds, crisp bacon, and toast all have to come off the stove at the same time and only he has been able to pull this off to his own satisfaction. It should be comforting news to Ava Gardner in case she decides he's the one she wants to marry on accounta she'll never have to worry about the culinary department. This is real news. Claudette Colbert, who has been one of Hollywood's top money-making stars for years, has just treated herself to her first swimming pool. Quite a twist on the usual procedure in this town where people usually have a pool before they can really afford a bathtub. When Betty Grable and Harry James invited the Dan Daileys to dinner at a Valley steak house they had no idea the place was going to catch on fire just after they'd been served their medium-rare New York cuts. With great aplomb and due regard for appetites, the Jameses and the Daileys filed out with their platters in hand and finished the dinner on the curb. Dan and Liz went out the next day and bought themselves a coupla firemen's hats which they wore on iheir next dinner date with Betty and Harry. Bill Eythe, whose sensationally amusing revue, "Lend An Ear," goes from the Holly v:ood stage to Broadway, spent an exhausting day rehearsing himself and the cast, went home with fond ideas of hitting the hay. But his Irish setter, Sheila, changed his plans. Around midnight she started having pups every half hour. The last of the Utter of eleven saw the light of day just as the alarm clock rang, reminding Bill it was time to go back to the theatre. Now they're really calling Bing Crosby "Legs." Since wearing short pants for "The Emperor Waltz" he apparently isn't bashful about showing his gams. In "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court," one of his costumes consists of burgundy colored tights with a matching tunic, velvet slippers, and a cap. Well, he always was an eccentric dresser. — o — Lex Barker, the handsome new Tarzan. almost spent the night in the jug. His 180-pound Newfoundland dog has a habit of wandering the streets without a leash. And in Hollywood there's a law agin' pcoches trotting around unless accompanied by people. It isn't that the dog is vicious, but his size scares the living daylights out of unsuspecting pedestrians who run into him. Lex paid a fifteen dollar fine and is trying to build a fence that's high enough to keep his pet at home. June Haver, who has finished her role as Marilyn Miller in "Look For The Silver Lining," has taken a long vacation trip to Jackson Hole. Wyoming, and Canada. Her mother and a fancy set of golf clubs went along. June and her ma have also opened their antique shop in Santa Monica. Our editor, Lester Grady, spent a hectic two weeks in Hollywood visiting the studios and the stars. One evening during his stay, after we had spent a rather unprofitable but fun day at Hollywood Park, we joined him at Maggie Ettinger's for Irish stew and some very amusing stories which Dinah Shore and George Montgomery told about their fishing trip in Montana. It seems every time they went fishing it rained and the only bites they got were from mosquitoes. When last heard from, Mr. G. was Super-Chiefing back to New York to rest up for next year's trip to movietown. The Doug Fairbanks are off to Europe on an extended vacation. It's supposed to be a rest for Doug, who has been working much too hard, not just on his pictures but also on his other activities. During his so-called rest he'll have production conferences with J. Arthur Bank on his lavish film "Sir Launcelot" which starts in 19^9. He'll investigate the activities of CABE, go to Amsterdam for Princess Juliana's coronation , attend the International Convention of the Association of United Nations in Paris and Geneva, then go to Italy to loaf. He and Mary Lee will be back in Hollywood the latter part of November. — o — Tallulah Bankhead has had another fabulous success here in the play "Private Lives" and, as usual, Hollywood flocked to the Biltmore Theatre to see her. Night we were there we saw Doris Day with Michael North, Mickey Rooney with starlet M'liss McClure, the Gene Kellys, Mildred Natwick, and a whole flock more. The one and only Tallu has a new pet, a love-bird named Gaylord, who likes to occasionally dips his beak in any kind of liquid refreshment that happens to be around. Jimmy Stewart on the set of "You Gotta Stay Happy" at U-I was telling aoout his new dog, a Beagle hound, which he has named Harvey — for two reasons. One is, of course, because Jimmy has played the lead in the play of the same name several times. The other reason — Beagles are supposed to hunt rabbits. "Harvey will have none of it," says Jimmy. "He thinks it's silly and too much work." But Harvey does like the camera. A photog was out taking some pictures of Jimmy and at the pop of the first flashbulb the hound came from nowhere and landed on Jimmy's lap, insisted on being in every picture. — o — Lucille Ball, who is in BKO's "Interference," a story of professional football, was asked how come she happened to be in a football movie. She cracked back, "I've had plenty of experience. I've been intercepting passes for a long time." Lucy is having a "ball" with her gang out in toss UP TO 7 POUNDS IN J WEEK PROTAM PLAN Good for MEN too! 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