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Edwards Faces Weighty Problem; Disney Has Some Tree Trouble HOLLYWOOD . . . Ralph Edwards is changing his This Is Your Life for¬ mat when the subject is a fat man. Three-hundred pounder Oliver Hardy was so dazed when spotlighted at the Knickerbocker Hotel, they couldn’t shove him into the car for the two- minute dash to the NBC stage at the El Capitan Theater. “We had a dry run with a thin four-letter man from UCLA,” says Ralph, who ran out of small talk before the ar¬ rival of the burly comic and partner Stan Laurel . . . That glassy stare from Edmund O’Brien in a recent Climax! was for real. Eddie was trying out new contact lenses . . . And it’s just as well that My Fa¬ vorite Husband, is not color-vised. Was Steve Dunne’s face red, when his underwear came off with his pants, during a frantic fast change! ■ Walt Disney personally marked the trees on his 160 acres of Disney¬ land. White for the trees to be chopped down. Blue for those to be trans¬ planted. Red, to remain. A few days later, Walt found a man with a bull¬ dozer knocking down ALL the trees. He screamed and stomped. But the driver told him, “I’m color blind." ** Dinah Shore gave Charlie Far¬ rell you know what, at his own Palm Springs club yet, when he switched from her sponsor’s Corvette to a pale blue Thunderbird. Charlie apol¬ ogized, “I had to sell the Corvette— the ash trays were full” . . . Pint- size Mickey Rooney decided to play the giant in his “Jack And The Bean¬ stalk” Christmas show because he couldn’t figure a way to be the chicken which lays the gold eggs . . . Add height of confidence: Vivian Blaine is so sure her upcoming TV film series in Hollywood will be a success, she and husband are selling their New York home. Hi Ozzie Nelson’s 14-year-old Ricky goes steady with a 16-year-old high school girl. Ricky wants her to think he’s older, and answers the phone in a phony low register. The girl’s father happened to listen in on an upstairs extension, and at first thought the low sweet nothings were from Ozzie! ■ Ann Sothem is fighting the Bat¬ tle of the Scales, and has lost five pounds, although saboteurs on the set are slipping her bars of candy . . . And Mario Lanza puts 202 pounds on the machine, as of going to press. He’ll do another biggie, maybe an operetta for CBS, after the first of the year. ... For the first time in his acting life, Gene Autry is using make¬ up—for his 26 color telefilms . . . Groucho Marx’s TV stand-in is a Hollywood barber, Sam Ben-Ami. Groucho calls him Clippo. But won’t let Sam give him a haircut . . . From Ed (Duffy) Gardner: “I’m tired of the Tavern. I may have retired.” M Pinky Lee, sensitive to criticism, chipped off his shoulder, “Nobody loves me—except the people” . . . And Ed Wynn told me at the same NBC party, “I’m willing to work, but nobody wants me. I guess my type of comedy is old-fashioned; if I tried to get hot. I’d blow rather cold.” 23