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Show Screen's 'Oomph,9 Tumph9 Stars Find It Difficult To Define Cognomens Mary Martin Is anxious to get back to New York. She is making her screen debut in "The Gay Days of Victor Herbert" but Mary is yearning for the big town. It isn't that new show she's going into. It isn't her new radio program. pro-gram. And It Isnt romance. It's something more Important than aU that. It's snow I She'd never been in It until last year, when she was making a name for herself her-self 'singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." Born In Texas, and living there most of her life, she had never been out In the flaky stuff. "It snowed in Weatherford once In a while," admits Mary, "but every time It did I was sick in bed with the flu, or a cold, or something. So when It snowed In New York lest year I walked all the way from the theater to where I was living. I almost got pneumoniabut pneu-moniabut it was worth it." Priscllla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn had been doing considerable complaining com-plaining about the beat on the "Four Wives" set. Ten babies, ranging fron. 16 days to six weeks in age, were being employed in the scenes with them. And the IjjJij aasaeed pei footly happy. Finally Director Michael Curtis became exasperated. "Great big people like you should be shamed by these babies," he told Miss Lane and Lynn. "Look at that little fellow," he pointed to a chubby infant, in-fant, "not so much as one whimper out of him." "Well," answered Miss Lane, as she eyed the gurgling, one-garmented baby, "if I could be dressed like that maybe I wouldn't whimper whim-per either." By BURDETTE JAY HOLLYWOOD (INS) Ann Sheridan, Sher-idan, the Warner Bros, "oomph" girl, couldn't explain to New York reporters just what oomph was. But Joy Hodges, Universal studio "yumph" girl, said it wasn't difficult diffi-cult at all to Interpret the cognomen cogno-men that had been placed on her head by Columbia university students stu-dents a number of months ago. "It isn't my definition," Miss Hodges declared, "but rather that of Joseph Jo-seph Lowe, editor of the Columbia university yearbook, who sent me a telegram stating that the students at his alma mater had Just made me the "yumph' girL He said that yumph meant young loveliness, freshness and charm. I thought that was very sweet." Now Werner Brothers thought that Miss Sheridan was aware of the fact that they had long Interpreted Inter-preted "oomph" as being a combination com-bination of sex, glamor and beauty that socked you right In the eye at the first meeting. Faramount's "Gulliver's Travels" Is the im'-tstry's first transcontinental transcon-tinental movie. The voices of Lanny Ross and Jessica Dragon- etlewho-sing therolea nf.Jrui cess Glory and Prince David, were recorded In New York. The feature fea-ture was drawn and photographed at the Fleisher studio in Miami, Fla. The film was developed, printed, and scored in Hollywood. Humphrey Bogart and George Raft took a shower bath Involuntarily Involun-tarily at a cost of $10 to the studio. In typical prison suits, picked in a Los Angeles Main street secondhand second-hand store at $5 each, Bogart and Raft were being discharged from Sing Sing in a scene for "Invisible "Invis-ible Stripes." Back of the prison entrance was a cyclorama of Sing Sing, extending upward to the catwalks. One of the Urge arcs became over-heated and set off the sprinkler system directly above Bogart and Raft. The water streamed down, drenching their prison suits. Shortly, the :ult started to shrink. Too small to be worn until the: j sequence was completed, the prison suits were discarded and others j substituted. The deluge of water, also marred the scenic beauty of Sing Sing with big, discolored streaks. I |