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Miss Colbert Has A Mind Of Her Own—And Uses It As one of Hollywood’s ranking First Ladies, she might be expected to sniff a trifle condescendingly at the subject, but Miss Colbert is not the sniffing type. She might better be described as a “snaffler”—a snaffler being one who explodes cheerfully on any given top¬ ic instead of mincing around its edges. “We invited two movie producers for dinner not long ago,”'she recalls, “and you should have heard them scream when I told them it was for Thursday night. One of them couldn’t miss Groucho Marx at 8 o’clock, so we had cocktails in the den and everybody had to keep quiet. The other couldn’t miss Dragnet at 9 o’clock, so we raced into the dining room promptly at 8:30, raced through dinner and raced back to the den at 8:59. They may sneer at TV publicly, but they can’t live with¬ out it privately.” Miss Colbert herself, who has a way of doing things as she pleases and has been doing them rather well for some years now, shocked the other Ranking Personages of the movie world back in April, 1951, when, by way of showing her scorn for Standards of Behavior, Motion Picture Industry, Anti-TV Division, she appeared as guest star on The Jack Benny Show. But although Miss Colbert professes to 'have gotten a large charge from that initial TV appearance, the fact remains that three-and-a-half years elapsed before she appeared again— this time in “The Royal Family” for CBS-TV’s Best of Broadway last fall. Early this past January she made her third stab at it in a Ford Theater film, “Magic Formula,” and followed it last month with “The Guardsman,” also a Best of Broadway program. She’s to be on Ford again April 28. Meanwhile, last summer, Miss Col- .4 A toast on TV: Helen Hayes and Claudette in ’The Royal Family.'