| Show Teen Actress Terry Moore j I Defends Movie Mothers 9 HOLLYWOOD HOLL INS Terry Moore thinks that it is high time that people stopped throwing bricks at mothers of movie stars The teen ape actress currently playing opposite Jerome Courtland in Sunny Side of the Street claims that the average persons person's conception of a movie mother is isto isto isto to make her out to be some sonic kind of a 10 Tessie who runs around all day taking a poll on her daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daugh daugh- ter's chances for an Oscar Terry declares A composite caricature of the movie mother based on those stories would have you believe she Is a shrew with a pointed head shaped like a dollar sign housing housinga a n perpetually clacking tongue who causes talent scouts agents and directors to run for storm cellars and batten down the hatches Terry says that all mothers become become become be be- come the target for an avalanche of unfavorable comments as soon as her offspring gets started on movie stardom Doesn't Go to Set Terry points to her own mom Actually she says my mother doesn't go near the sets where I work She thinks It might make me self Naturally she has a hand in my career We Ve talk things over and she submits her opinion on many of the problems a girl faces in this business The actress' actress mother has yet to tell Terry Mother knows best honey You should have listened to her in the first place dress designer Ray Driscoll has come up with his annual list of the worlds world's 10 best dressed people They include Jane Russell Valter Walter Walter Wal Val ter Winchell Ambassador Perle Mesta Paulette Goddard Gov John Cabot Lodge Dolores del Rio Queen Frederika of Greece Fay Emerson Darryl Zanuck and Helena lena Survives Operation The big news in Hollywood this week Is is that Aloysius J. J Mortis has ms sUr survived ed his operation Mortis submitted to a surgeons surgeon's knife nife for a total of 22 hours and came through with flying colors in n spite of the fact that the doc doe dochad dochad had never in his life handled a scalpel before The patient did not seem to mind the medicos medico's inexperience The surgeons who participated in I the other 74 operations were beginners beginners be be- too I Aloysius gets his operations in front of the movie camera On this particular occasion he was in a scene for Universal Bonaventure which stars Claudette Colbert The surgeon surgeon surgeon sur sur- geon who carved him hm up was costar costar co co- star Robert Douglas Mortis gets not a penny for his bravery He Ho has hns never won the applause of fellow actors or set workers for his performances even though he never has been guilty of spoiling a scene You see see Aloysius J. J Mortis is a dummy Short Takes Short takes tales Universal has decided not to film the 1944 Broadway musical Bloomer Girl The same studio is readying Somerset Maugham's se secret secret secret se- se cret agent story Ashendon for Ronald Colman Among Dorothy Dorothy Dorothy Doro Doro- thy Lamour's Christmas gifts was wasa a mink bra Roy Rogers revealed revealed revealed re re- re- re that his recent tour of 26 cities gave him a gross of He plans another tour as soon as he finishes costarring with Bob Hope in Ms M-G-M's King Solomons Solomon's Mines has nas been classified as a travelogue in South Africa and as a result is exempted from the usual customs duties The Hollywood HollY canteen favorite favorite favorite favor favor- ite hangout of G. G Is in World War Var II II now is slated to reopen in late April I y rI F FI I r ra t a il i r e A a ai i r 31 a 3 t S SY 4 9 Y t M f r iT r r I e ys- ys 1 R f Terry Moore up and coming young actress doesn't think that movie mothers get a fair deal She says her own mother isn't Isn't so bad |
