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HollywoodBy ERSKINE JOHNSONHOLLYWOOD - (NEA) - Do You Remember0 When Adolphe Menjou owned Hollywood's biggest wardrobe—-so big he liked to say, ‘‘Why, I even have a semi-evening suit in case of an eclipse.'*The film industry's advertising slogan, “Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment. No, it wasn't coined since TV. It was used in 1838 at the same time Gypsy Rose Lee was famous as a strip teaser. In the middle of her act, Gypsy would wink at the audience and say: “Motion pictures are your best entertainment When the Paramount studio telephone directory listed seven numbers after the name of Big Crosby but the phone number of the golf course where he usually could be found was not listed.The stage direction in the script of a movie titled “Wagons Westward reading: “Exterior. Texas prairie Long shot. Mexican army, with Santa Anna in the lead, advances across the prairie The ' army stretches as far as the eye land the BUDGET will reach ” Hhen a Hollywood couple mar-i ried and a writer named Ernest jPogano explained They were married when they discovered they had one thing in common. They | both believe in divorce “I Hedy Lamarr's flop as an actress at MGM. But when Walter . W anger co-starred her with I Charles Boyer in ' Algiers,** she became the most famous star in ; HollywoodWhen Dick Powell and Joan , Blondeii were married and had a I fishpond in their backyard One , day their young son Norman said | he was going fishing When he returned Joan asked him what he had caught and Norman replied j “Filet of sole | W C Fields impersonating a bearded lady in a circus sequence j of “You Can't Cheat an Honest Man 1 Tough guy George Taft win-ning a prize running a sewing machine at a county fair in The Lady's From Kentucky,**When Paramount ordered Betty Grable to take ice skating lessons as possible competition for Sonia HrnieWhen Edgar Bergen stopped worrying about Charley McCarthy dropping his monocle He nailed it onThe owners of Asta. the dog star of Thin Man** picture fame, appearing in a courtroom in a squab Me over alimony But they refused cameramen permission to photo graph Asta They said they didn't want him mixed up in any scandal.The 1*31 advertisements for Tyrone Power s “Jesse James;“The ultimate in spectacle, an precedented, epochal the biggest show on earth, without a peer since the invention of motion pictures. incredible, greatness defy ing comparison ami entertainment baffling description 'Now Fox is remaking the film ' with the title “The True Story of Jesse James,**When a film producer and an actor me! at a Hollywood party and the producer said “My wife looks terrible tonight “Quiet, barked the actor, You re talking about the woman I h VO The late George Bernard Shaw consistently turning down contrasts offered him by Hollywood producers. I’m not going to accept a movie contract. he always said, “until someone offers me a swimming pool in the shape of England—in which I will float on my hack and laugh at Hollywood” When four of the Id box office champions were kids — Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin.A national magazine publishing a picture strip comparing Martha Rape's mouth with a chimpanm s. Martha sued, then let the lawsuit dropWhen censors frowned on thejuii i luyinu} •MEMPHIS, Tenn. tfl - Death tapped R. W. Vollmer as he sat in the stands rooting for his 14-year-old son, a junior high halfback, to make a touchdown. Vollmer, 49, an avid football fan. was j stricken seconds before halfback ! Russell Vollmer plunged over for the score.A heart attack brought deathtitle of one of Robert Benchley’s shorts, “The Love Life of a Newt and it was changed to “The Courtship of a Newt.’’When Doug Fairbanks commented on the number of servants necessary in a Hollywood household. “My wife,** he said, “gets along beautifully with only nine.*’ *Gwes heir new lust new toft mss ..ad fragrance of TWELTweed Soft Fragrai Shampoo makes hair r o ant.. . caroasable . •oft! • , . our rounds n With tho delightful, eleaner - than - rie»a ■cont of TW I.lt;*ok for tho smber tryi feoilie'TINS OUTA NEW CONCEPTb UM ntwu'Now ...the background fragrance• i the world k»»e*’ Tweed Spray Hau Net — • soft and lustrous hatt set that laughs at wind and ram Beautiful femuuae $l«t» container — Ml tin Coalam* war** flout Be* liquid Lanolau to high light tour hair Subtly scented with Tweed ONLY 11.50 plus Mi.Sets!. .Scents!. .S*v« \ ©tr Bits!
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Thu, Nov 15, 1956
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