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I I- I iW Walter lter Winchell I M j D Deanna'S ean Fats Fan Gifts Portrait Paint Painted d With Foot ch hi he Also Rec Received ved Skull W Wedding Gown sown Music Musk Box I A DURBIN o PI ar r Mr Ir Winchell knows knoS that your trib trib- bodY iDea L you like is an anul someone I to 0 ul tribute it is iii r. r And a lovely ore orchid hId In Hollywood yoU vou ou know to is often meant to be a gag f 5 inspired by the most what most what f nd Dd IS tight ht call fevered call fevered ou a tributes J to it comes when bOn goodness to goodness originality I 1 fO for inventiveness I think the movie n jd have ave all of us beat There is toe absolutely nothing they nothing they wont won't send But all with it t or 2 1 J kindest and most thoughtful of Intentions 0 fot o t To Touching Gift Girt Girton o on tone lOne 0 of the nicest nicest and and certainly ernest touching touching-of of the gifts peo- peo 4 have hare been kind enough to send e e came from a man who had lost 3 hands hand It was a large pencil of myself that he had with his left foot Critics 4 y i Ih the tte drawing reveals amazing K merit Another present that came from Charles La Laugh Laugh- ghon gh- gh Too on oD and his wife Elsa It is a dainty gold music-box music bout the size of a matchbox matchbox-a a i of century French eIry craftsmanship A tiny key I 1 is u fight Ight L as a pin unlocks a drawer here bere the original owner stored I ef beauty marks the marks the small black jOU potS without which no grand lady fiVer mf ever showed hoed her countenance mong goong the no nobility f A lacy wedding gown of M ancient fruitage r tage was sent to me last spring V l br a lady who in Confederacy days kd d been been a noted belle Her letter authorized me to copy the dainty i is of the gown for my own wedS wed led S and then to return the hil kat Startling Memento The He most startling memento memento memento-If if not too tod disrespectful a term terme came j-came me e from a movie goer in ManilL Ma- Ma nilL Described as a choice troph trothy tro- tro ph thy this was a tiny skull whose owner oner had had the bad fortune o 0 tee laO it In a difference of opinion jh ih the hunters head-hunters a fury or so ago ew ew gifts tilts are as grim as that Fonda has as an excell excellent nt cole col- col e loir of shooting irons many of ofa hem a sent by fans who like the they ur y he handles his side-arms side beI before belore be be- fore I lore re the camera Among them is a to used by Joaquin Murletta Murietta a erringer that Jesse James once OTe re and a stock from a long rifle ned by Daniel Boone Animals appear to be favorites Mh h many fans Robert Cummings the proud owner of a tailed ring-tailed Dotty y and a paro parI par- par jot o I both from South American Kangaroos are not Uncommonly sent as tokens from jI Australian fans Sh Shirley Temple Undertook to entertain a pair of at her home once but had hadIn In ta turn the pets over to the zoo liter alJer they had scared the horses tipped ped up portions of the landscape ud sq gotten into difficulties with wiLls Shirleys Shirley's scottie and cocker Part Put of the daily Los Angeles milk is furnished by another pet PIen yen Shirley some years rears ago by a aI aLI LI I dweller Shirley presented the lne ine testimonial to a dairy Since tei an Q the cow has had three calves and d one of them is soon to be a on her own account I GlIt ft of Fleas The he impresario of a flea circus pressed Dressed his entire troupe to Betty Arable C-ble C able with the explanation that 3 he e carnival was breaking up and tt would be unable unable to care for fora forem i a em n any longer I 1 1 know you will understand them and give them a good home he wrote Betty reXi return returned re- re Xi that turn turned her d them time regretfUlly explaining was va so taken up with work that she would be unable to give them the personal attention they deserved Another gift gift oe one she was delighted to keep keep came from an aircraft worker in New Jersey This w was s a package of ot Phonograph records he had made up himself especially for her They were transcriptions of Shakespea Shakespea- Shakespearean rean readings Jane Withers was the recipient ent I not long ago of a tiny authentic Spanish burro An Indian maharajah maharajah maharajah maha- maha rajah once sent an elephant to Douglas Fairbanks Sr Don Ameche recently rec received a consignment of rattlesnake meat an incredible edible really To celebrate he hosted a group of friends at dinner but didn't describe describe de de- de- de scribe the nature of the main dish until his guests had disposed of it all There foll followed Wed a rush for soda bicarbonate which also was spee ily consumed consume A really moving evidence of es esteem esteem es- es teem came from a young girl admirer admirer ad ad- of Eddie Cantors Cantor's On a white satin banner six feet long and nearly a yard wide she had arduously stitched In painstaking script a condensed biography of Uncle Eddies career beginning with his first Follies show through his radio and screen successes Dates of important events such as the births of his daughters and in the center a very-like very likeness of Mr Cantor himself were also sewn in with black silk Denver er Sarong Dorothy Lamour's collection of sarongs includes a rainbow-hued rainbow number crocheted by a Denver fireman fireman fire- fire man nan and Asta has a small red fire hydrant complete with curbstone The tiny slippers worn by Lo to keep her fairy toes warm are arenow arenow arenow now the property of Ginger Rogers thanks to a devotee of terpsichore and Ginger in England The Ritz brothers possess jointly a size desk-size statuette in wax showing the three of them in reproductions of the female costumes they wore in a recent picture A fan was so delighted with Irene Dunnes Dunne's screen portrayals that he sent her a dozen and a half orchids white purple orange pale green all long stemmed I them saw myself myself myself my my- self on the set of Unfinished Business Business Business Busi Busi- ness in which she costars with Robert Montgomery Many Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood stars get orchids regularly but these came from Singapore and were sent over especially by China clipper dipper They were the first orchids ever transported by air from Asia to America Ill I'll settle for just one of your orchids any time M Winchell S Sincerely yours Deanna Durbin |
