Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1952 - Oct 1953)

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Ethel Merman lunching at Stork Club with her children, Robert and Ethel Levitt. Beaded eyelashes are Ethel's trademark, but she can't wear artificial ones unless they're nylon. Fabulous ZsaZsa Gabor, with Brian Aherne during Pen & Pencil party, keeps flaxen hair that way with a family's preparation. too. In an enthusiastic moment when the buxom singer took too deep a bow and curtsy, she had to hobble offstage facing the audience . . . Phyllis Kirk and Nanette Fabray walked away with top honors at the season's biggest cocktail soiree given for out-of-town newspaper editors and publishers at the swank Plaza Hotel. Adding youth, beauty and talent to a room crammed to overflowing with top-ranking stage and screen celebrities, it was the stars of "House Of Wax" and "The Bandwagon" who scored the biggest hit with visiting members of the Fourth Estate . . . Yvonne DeCarlo spumed an elaborate luncheon party a friend wanted to toss for her at the Colony Restaurant, in favor of escorting a group of underprivileged children to the Central Park Zoo where she played hostess, supplied the youngsters with popcorn, candy, balloons and never-ending rides on the carousel. As she later explained it, "I had as much fun, if not more than they did and, furthermore, I can go to the Colony any day, but the Park Zoo is a real treat for me!" . . . Dorothy Lamour believes in looking like a movie queen at all times, for which we salute her. But the full movie makeup she wears spoils the illusion. At 12 o'clock noon it's somewhat disturbing to see the "jungle princess" strolling along Fifth Avenue on "The Road To 21" with beaded eyelashes and a deep, dark Max Factor suntan . . . Robert Taylor, en route to Europe, boarded the He de France looking old and haggard. He admitted to nervous exhaustion . . . Linda Darnell avoided autograph seekers in the lobby of the Hotel Plaza by using the room service elevator instead of the passenger lifts, only to find herself stuck in the elevator for thirty minutes. When the emergency crew came to release the car, she stalked through the lobby and found herself surrounded (CONTINUED ON PACE 72)