Show Copy of What Every f. f Girl Should hould Know i f for Mae West By PAUL HARRISON 4 HOLLYWOOD Dec 21 Here 21 Here It ItIs r Is nigh onto nto the holidays and your Y correspondent hasn't made out his Christmas list Santa Cla Claus s accompanied accompanied by guest stars is riding along Hollywood boulevard every night Holly berries are red on the mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain heights and poinsettias are aflame In the sheltered valleys Electric candles twinkle hospitably from the windows of impregnable mansions Platoons of secretaries are terming storming the and department depart depart- ment stores for presents to be given by their bosses Electricians borrowed borrowed borrowed bor bor- rowed from the studios are festoonIng festoon festoon- lug Ing lawns with lights Executives ar are ard dictating stern but butt t t 4 utterly ineffectual orders to their taffs tafts that production must not cease ease before 5 p. p m. m on Christmas eve ve eve And here I sit wondering what on onearth onearth onearth earth to give the stars who already have everything their little hearts desire Lets Let's see then what some of them deserve or need Theres There's Robert Ta Taj Taylor lor A new racing car A swimming pool A portfolio of selections for the cello No he can easily get all those Best hunch is Barbara wrapped us AS a gift For Greta Garbo a nice comedy She he always has wanted to play in a 44 l Joe E. E Brown Brow how ab about abut ut exchanging ex ix- changing photographs with with with- hilarious picture so she could forget torget her anemia Dick Powell Powell Powell-a a a set of three new gestures And to John Barr Barrymore more a pair of slippers a pipe and a handsome set of Shakespeare A Santa Cupid Quite a lot of the stars should get books For Marlene Dietrich maybe I can arrange a copy of Trilby TrUby suitably inscribed by von on L Sternberg And for Mae West a copy of What Every Young Girl Should Know I suspect that other people have thought of this and have given the boo book to Miss 1 West Vest but one never can have too many books canone canone can canone one For Katharine Hepburn a book by Emily Post And for Freddie Bartholomew a subscription to The American Boy S 9 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Well how about a choice sprig of mistletoe to be suspended over the sets of their next picture And to toJean toJean toJean Jean Harlow William Harlow William Powell Or Oris Oris Oris is Santa Claus poaching too much on the happy hunting grounds of Senor Cupid Okay skip it AMONG THEIR SOUVENIRS To Myrna toy Loy who is a good actress actress actress ac ac- ac- ac tress for many maDly customers customer's 35 cents Id I'd like to be able to give all the negatives of the still and motion pictures taken of her when she was wasa a writhing Oriental Orient l siren And some of the rowdy Charleston sequences sequence'S ought to go back to Joan Crawford James Cagney needs a g good od script To Clark Gable I should like to hand with best wishes the role of Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wing Inarticulate fidgety Gary Cooper needs an official spokesman Shirley Temple needs a haircut To Paul Muni 1 a handful of soy beans and a generous gift package of go good d earth For the Marx Brothers a padded cell tastefully upholstered in chain mail filled with steel wool For George Raft a fresh gallon of hair for he seems to have run out of this trademark corn corn- 1 1 r Martha MarThe Ray Raya for Christmas presents To Leslie Howard who dared to produce Hamlet as a sort of crowning histrionic gesture to his career I should like to send an autographed autographed autographed auto auto- graphed picture of his distinguished contemporary John Gielgud But Im I'm afraid he wouldn't cherish it itOn On the other hand I might arrange arrange ar ar- arrange ar- ar range an amicable exchange of pho- pho |