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Show fOomph'Hunt Has Lots Of 'Socko' By BURDETTE JAT HOLLYWOOD (Ins) Filmland threw on of those things last night Not exactly a fit Sort of a combination party and riot. Everybody wat there and they chose an "oomph man" and the Rltx Brother! lost their socks. That will give you a rough ktee. Somebody then had an Idea. Fllckertown had an "oomph girl," but that was like Eve without Adam. There should be an "oomph man." Well, the first thing, naturally, was to get a jury, which finally was made up of Madeleine Carroll, Paulette God-dard, God-dard, Rosalind Russell, Linda Darnell. Lana Turner, Susan Hay-ward, Hay-ward, Nancy Kelly, Phyllis Brooks, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth, Maureen O'Hara andJudy Garland, th latter representing the younger young-er element. Twelve girls, good and true, full of glamor and solemn vows to do their duty. For candidates they had Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Fred Mac-Murray, Mac-Murray, Ronald Colman, Robert Taylor and even Hope. But believe be-lieve It or not, none of these would do. They pulled a "dark horse" out of the bag, Jerry Colonna, which just shows you to what extremes ex-tremes girls will go when surfeited with male glamor. Jerry ia a little number measuring measur-ing 5 feet 7 and weighing In at 156 pounds, with Jet black eyes and hair and mustache, th nostril adornment acaling about S Inches from wing to wing. They bestowed the "oomph man" title on him, said th girls, because "h la a definite throw-back to th glamor boy of grandma's day, personifying both past and present trial virtues." A break-down of th voting showed Jerry scoring because: 1. He make love in two languages, lan-guages, English and double-talk, but when he meets a girl he talks turkey. 2. He la tactful, ties up his mustache mus-tache when dancing. S. Looks good In a sarong. 4. Dresses like he feels and always al-ways feels foolish. 5. As a singer, he some day will replace crooners, qualifying him as an angel of mercy. |