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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T F RALPH MURPHY, Para- mount director, needed to make a little extra money he could write a book entitled "Ten Lessons on How to Catch a Man" and the shekels would roll in. Here's what he has to say about it. (He's a graduate of Syracuse university, has been a stage and motion picture actor, producer and director for years, so he's qualified to talk.) "I have three girls In 'Las Vegas Nights.' Each would use a differ- t! : Ml 'i ent technique. Each technique would require re-quire eight reels to fold. So I let Constance Con-stance Moore get her man with the direct-approach technique. tech-nique. I give Virginia Vir-ginia Dale a man before the picture starts, and I leave Lillian Cornell out on a limb with nary Constance maIe ta tl&M- Moore "rhe allure tech" nique is used By a woman conscious of the fact that she has an enormous amount of feminine appeal for men a screen example would be Hedy Lamarr. Flattery Is used by women ranging from the baby-talk girls to the mothering moth-ering type. There's the girl who gives the Impression that she's help- 1 n c a ' man want in ctonH Hotuanri her and the world Bonnie Baker's an example. "There's the girl who uses the direct di-rect approach; spots the man she wants ana manes no bones about it; she's a good sport, a playmate, play-mate, and picks a man with the same characteristics. Barbara Bar-bara Stanwyck's a screen example. And the coquette, whose eyes say 'if you chase me I'll run but not too far.' Like Virginia Dale on the screen. Virginia Dale "Then there's the one who is not brilliant and not dull, not beautiful and not homely; every girl asks 'What's she got?' The answer is "She's got the man that a lot of other girls wanted.' " Some other girl may have Errol Flynn for a husband now; Olivia de Haviland's married him five times on the screen and when she finished fin-ished "Santa Fe Trail" she fled to the equally ardent arms of James Cagney, In "Strawberry Blonde." She was a little dubious about it: after all, Cagncy's had a bad movie reputation where women were concerned con-cerned since he squashed that grapefruit In a lady's face. But Olivia is safe in this one he's cast as a belligerent dentist who gets into plenty of fights, but all with men. Twenty-four of the show girls in "Ziegfeld Girl" voted for their favorite fa-vorite movie actress the other day. Vivian Leigh got eight votes, and Bette Davis and Greta Garbo each got five. But Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr couldn't be voted for. They're In the picture. Billy the Kid has finally joined the side of law and order. It happened recently near Tucson, Ariz., where Robert Taylor was made a deputy sheriff of Pima county. Taylor plays fact.cknntincr Hpfinprflrirt nf thp 1870s in Metro's picture, "Billy the Kid," which was on location in the Southwest at the time Taylor took over his duties. They were shooting scenes on the Double U ranch in Pima county when Sheriff Ed Echols paid the troupe a visit and pinned a shiny new badge on the star's shirt. Burgess Meredith rarely wears a hat, but he's exceptionally well provided pro-vided with places to hang one. At present he has four homes. (1) His 200-year-old farmhouse in Rockland county, N. Y. (2) Jimmy Stewart's bachelor establishment In Brentwood, Brent-wood, where he has stayed on his previous Hollywood sojourns. (3) The house In West Los Angeles which belongs to Wayne Morris, which he and Franchot Tone rent; it's known as Annex No. 1 to Stewart's Stew-art's abode. (4) A small beach house which he rented at Santa Monica, called Annex No. 2 he took it with the idea of week-ending there, but so far has been so busy that he's hardly seen it But he has hopes, now that he's completing his work in United Artists' "That Uncertain Feeling." ODDS ASD ENDS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hart in Honolulu listened to radio's "Hilltop House" last year, and liked the story and its star, Bess Johnson, John-son, so much that they named their home for the serial. Recently Miss Johnson learned that all her Hawaiian Islands' mail is being delivered to the Harts! . . . For the betterment of Latin-American relations. Parks Johnson John-son and Wally Butterworth are making mak-ing a ten-lhousand-mile junket to Mexico City, Puerto Rico and Havana, for three "Vox Pop" broadcasts . . . "The Uniform" ends Clark Cable's two-months' vacation and brings Roso lind Russell back to the Metro lots. |