Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-05-27 | Page 18 | Leg Art Beauty Explodes over Gag of Publicity Men

Leg eg Art Beauty Explodes Over Gag of Publicity Men By FREDERICK C. C OT OTHMAN IA HOLLYWOOD May 27 UP uP- uP Carole Landis bought advertising I space pace Monday to say she wasn't the ping girl girl because because she makes you ou purr and to charge her press agents who claimed she was with turning her into a fugitive from froma i a leg art car career r. r I The blonde Carole who has been photographed in tight skin-tight bathIng bathing bath- bath Ing ng suits more often perhaps than any other movie actress thereby shattered a Hollywood precedent and left the powered high-powered publicists publicists publicists at Hal Roach studios biting their heir fingernails In the mail of the Hollywood correspondents Sunday appeared a handsomely engraved card extending ex- ex tending ending them a cordial invitation to o a reception in honor of Miss Landis andis tomorrow at Ciros Ciro's movie- movie lands land's most fashionable supper club The bid said she was CAmer tAmer leas ca's selection for the title of the ping girl girl because because she makes you purr urr I The studio apparently was mImIcking mimicking mim- mim Icking the gag line of a certain gasoline advertisement plastered throughout the local area wl which ch claims it changes ping to purr Only she didn't purr She meowed meowed meowed me me- owed when she heard about it and inserted ads in the Hollywood Reporter Reporter Re- Re porter orter and Daily Variety movie trade rade papers to O say she did not intend to ping purr or attend the party I 1 have just learned and with great dismay she began that Invitations Invitations in invitations In- In have been extended The plan is an obvious attempt to publicize publicize publicize pub pub- my role in Turnabout and while I know that many things are endured in the name of publicity publicity publicity pub pub- this mental blitzkrieg carries things a little too far I was never consulted about the scheme nor nordo nordo nordo do I approve the appellation they would like to inflict upon me For these reasons I will not be present at my own reception to ping She was too busy She was writIng writIng writing writ writ- ing a letter to the editors of of Americas America's biggest newspapers asking them to bear with her in her campaign against the bally- bally This Is the lament of a fugitive from a leg art career she wrote them I want a fair chance to prove myself something more than thana a curvaceous cutie I 1 want to get out of bathing suits and into s something more substantial substantial sub sub- she said Unfortunately Unfortunate ly the publicity department of my studio does not agree They have conceived the brilliant idea of selling selling selling sell sell- ing me to the public as the ping girl girl because because she makes you purr This flash of genius is to be illustrated illustrated illustrated illus illus- with a series of pictures out of their files suggestive of anything anything anything any any- thing but acting talent I haven't any legal redress There isn't I am am advised any way to stop the publicity department Therefore I am asking you to help me nip the scheme at the right place place place-in in the pages of your news news- paper Miss Landis concluded her letter with an appeal which nearly made the press agents faint She said please would the editors refrain from publishing anything about abou the ping girl and above all would they kindly consign all bathing suit photographs of her to the theA A wastebasket