r l jM w r r. r rte i f I II I f er ref Ft G Gary ry Cooper Is a busy m man n these d days ys with producing and st starring starring star star- r- r ring in his newest movie at t the s same me time Loretta Lorett Young is going to pl play Y the feminine le lead d opposite the t tall silent westerner Gary Is Producer and Star Spar il By Erskine Johnson JohnsonA i A secretary laid a sketch of Loretta Young wearing a negligee vintage 1885 on Gary Coopers Cooper's pickled pine desk Mr Plunkett the secretary said wants you to initial this Cooper now a n. producer as well as a a. star looked embarrassed just like youve you've seen him look inthe in inthe inthe the movies said the silent man manfrom manfrom manfrom from Montana Should I okeh this this nightgown this nightgown 1 he asked us shyly We thought it might be better If Loretta modeled the negligee in person After all this was his first fling at producing a picture and he couldn't take any chances Gary grinned just like youve you've You seen him grin on the screen know how actors are about wardrobe wardrobe wardrobe ward ward- robe fittings he chuckled He scrawled G C C. C at the bottom of the sketch Then ho he returned to look at a n aset aset set of photographs of himself wearing different kinds of gal 10 Ion lon ha hats ts Western Vestern hats arc are tricky he said They just dont don't look right until you find the thc right one He spread the photographs out on the desk One was clear down over his eyes A little big he said with witha a twinkle in his eye He picked up another one one I think Ill I'll wear this one he said We had looked up the silent man manfrom manfrom manfrom from Montana to see how he was getting along in his new job as star producer for William Goetz's International Pictures His first film a western goes into production production production pro pro- next month We Ve expected to find him in an office decorated in knotty pine with an open fireplace a couple of bearskin rugs and maybe a saddle thrown carelessly over o a chair We Ve received a shock There was a yellow lemon string carpet on the floor There was a seven foot brilliantly red sofa One huge chair was finished In bottle green There was a white lamp with yellow shade standing on a topped glass-topped coffee table uble The Thc drapes were were white with a Greek design in yellow and gray running along the border In one corner banked with glass were some ferns terns and yellow flowers Clowers It was all mighty pretty prett The desk was the smallest piece of furniture in the room A tiny desk that Gary could pick up and andr throw There was a tunnel through it for those lanky legs Gary surveyed the room with a A. pleased grin Like LUte it 7 ho he said Its comfortable And that's a pickled pine desk Pickled pine 7 Yes Gary said He rapped his knuckles on the top Spose its it's an omen I mean and he laughed that my pictures arc are gonna be proof Hes He's positive the first one willbe willbe will willbe be proof As we wo said eald its it's a western They'll shoot most moat of iton iton it iton on location in Arizona None of that corny western s 41 U tuff stuff Gary said J just of fa n a real cowboy rho aho War 1 bJ somebody Nunnally Y Jo JI writing the script 4 f I