OCR Text |
Show (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) By VIRGINIA VALE I"HEN Count Theo Rossi, the speedboat champion and "vermouth king," took a flying trip over South America Ameri-ca with his bosom friend, Tyrone Power (before Anna-bella Anna-bella became Mrs. Power), they were hailed everywhere as "the world's two most eligible eli-gible bachelors." The count, still a bachelor, made quite a dent in the hearts of the Hollywood Hol-lywood girls last summer, but, like J. Edgar Hoover, he preferred Shirley Shir-ley Temple. More recently he has left his mark on the movie colony by de- ' signing some square glasses. Almost Al-most the first person to get some was Dolores Del Rio; Hedy La-Marr, La-Marr, Joan Bennett, Rudy Vallee, and Peggy Moran followed suit, as did a number of the smart restaurants. restau-rants. And now Perc Westmore, Hollywood's Holly-wood's ace makeup expert, claims that those square corners fit into a girl's mouth more naturally than does the edge of a round glass; he declares also that, as they create less pressure on the lower lip, they help to preserve the natural form of the lips. Hollywood's smudgiest girls are Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack and Lola Lane, who are featured in Columbia's Co-lumbia's "Girls of the Road." The script calls for them to work in mud and muck throughout the film, wearing soiled clothes and even dirtier faces. Mary Booth, great- granddaughter of . t, , ., Ann Dvorak Edwin Booth, makes her movie debut in the same picture. Recently at a baseball game a bewildered be-wildered six-year-old boy in military uniform found himself so besieged by autograph seekers that he missed an entire inning of the game. Be was Gary Crosby, eldest son of Bing, attending the game with his grandfather, and be'd like to choke the fellow who recognized him and pointed him out to the crowd. The announcement that major radio networks are planning to use name stars from stage, screen and radio during the annual summer slump has created a wave of mental depression among Grade B performers, perform-ers, who had banked on filling in as summer replacements. Kathleen Burke, the famous "Panther "Pan-ther Woman" of the movies some years ago, is now playing the part of "Rebekah" in "Light of the World," the daytime radio show based on the Bible. Miss Burke has been absent from the screen for the past four years, during which time she married a Spanish dancer, Jose Fernandez and had a daughter. A source of delight to the production produc-tion men and engineers who handle fit. Mrs. Eleanor I Roosevelt's Tues- day and Thurs-I Thurs-I day NBC infor-1 infor-1 mal talks is the absolute ease I with which she 1 goes through her I routine. A sea-I sea-I soned veteran of the air, the First Lady knows all j the hand signals ,. for speeding up Eleanor Roosevelt an(J slowing dQwu her speech, and is proving exceptionally excep-tionally easy to work with. Finishes right on the nose, too. Mary Martin came home exhausted ex-hausted the other day; for a scene in "Rhythm on the River" she'd been working in front of the cameras cam-eras in a heavy beavercoat and the temperature under the lights was 97! Arrived at home, she was confronted confront-ed by the immediate need for buying buy-ing a house for her mother, Mrs. ' Martin being one of the few people I in this country who doesn't want to be alone in a house in which Greta Garbo used to be alone, and like it. The lovely Mary took the house for herself and her mother before she 1 married Richard Halliday. After ' her marriage she moved out, and her mother and the servants rattled around in the mansion. She has a six-room bungalow now, and likes it much better. ! On a recent "Vox Pop" program ' Parks Johnson was doublecrossed in his efforts to lead into a natural ad lib commercial. Parks asked one of the men he was interviewing "What do you do after a fast run j up the stairs?" The answer he ex-! ex-! pected was "I puff," whereupon I Parks was all set to hand him a com-; com-; plimentary tin of his sponsor's tobacco to-bacco and then launch into a recital of its merits. But the man stopped him. "Oh," ' said he, "I always wonder why I did such a foolish thing!" |