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Show PAGE-8-TftSgffiEr-,S SUNDAY HERALD Fashions to Films... v.- at's Bacall's Tale Th From fashion pictures to motion pictures . . . via a season of seasoning on the Broadway stage ... is the 1 - A. 1 . A A 1 1 .opening' cnapier in tne career story 01 sveite, sienaer ana blonde, Lauren Bacall. Miss Bacall has a face that is easy to look at, hard to forget. Mrs. Howard Hawks, wife of the Warner Bros, director, saw it looking out at her from the pages of a national fashion mazagine, and was greatly impressed. So was Hawks, when his wife called his attention to it. The director wrote to New York for information about Miss Bacall and it wasn't long before Miss Bacall herself arrived in Hollywood, "test-contract" in hand. In the flesh, she looked even better than her pitcures on the magazine pages. Furthermore, Hawks discovered the photogenic Lauren had background Qt stage training and experience. A screen test proved she possessed act ing-talent, and Hawks signed her to a personal contract. : Jack L. Warner, executive producer pro-ducer of Warner Bros, pictures taw a subsequent test of the former model and budding Broadway actress and suggested she be given one of the two feminine fem-inine leads opposite Humphrey Bogart in the picture "To Have and Have Not." It was her first screen part, and it automatically put her in the featured actress class, establishing her as a potential po-tential star. Bette Davis is her favorite actress, ac-tress, and the inspiration for her own acting ambitions. By the time Lauren was graduated, at 43, from Manhattan's Julia Rich-man- high, she'd seen enough Bette Davis pictures to realize it 4ook training to be an actress. She received some of that necessary nec-essary training during a season's study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, got more of it by playing parts in two shortlived short-lived plays. A special Introduction to one of the editors of Harper's Bazaar led the then 18-year-old Miss that proved a short-cut to a motion mo-tion picture career. It was early in March of '44 that she played her first scenes opposite Bogart in "To Have and Have Not," produced and directed direct-ed by the aforementioned Hawks. What followed when the picture pic-ture was released is now pretty much a matter of history. Press and public acclaimed "that new girl the one who says, 'You know how to . whistle, don't you'?"-and Lauren was elevated to full stardom in short order. Associated Press, United Press, International v news service. Mademoiselle magazine all named her as 1944's outstanding actress. The big 1945 event in her life was her marriage to Bogart on May 21, in a simple rustic setting, on the famed "Malabar farm" of author. Louis Bromfield, near Mansfield, Ohio. She and Bogart Bo-gart now have their own home high in the Hollywood hills. Music was to her just something, some-thing, to enjoy until one of her screen tests proved she possessed a potentially fine singing voice. Now it is an absorbing subject for study, and a means to an end: the end of furthering her career Bacall into the modeling detour as a screen actress. yy illil '. ? - 4 f wmm. ':,- liiiiillll . f 1 . ?" It' ' ' x . 1? . ... . ?if,,. L A -1 LAUREN BACALL Movie Caricaturist Seeks Perfect 3irl 'One I Don't Want to Draw' By ERSKINE JOHNSON HEA Staff Correspondent w HOLLYWOOD, June 30 iNEA) Hollywood's chief tourist tour-ist attractions are the star caricatures cari-catures on the walls of the Brown Derby restaurant. Many of them are the work of a bespectacled mousy little fellow who boldly igns them "Zel." Meyer is the Jast name. TKK: 10 years in Hollywood. Zel has crashfc4 the movies. Or. rather, his caricatures have. Albert Basserman df.rA'A carri-.catures carri-.catures in the picture ''BeJf Ami." Producer Al Lewin gaVel the ob of providing caricAtiires of George Sanders, Ana Dvorak, Marie Wilson, and oUaer members of the cast. Zel said that John Carradine was his easiest subject. "He s just a skull with skin." George Sanders was his toughest. tough-est. "He escaped me." Zel's business is throwing brickbats with a pencil. But George Raft was the only celebr-rity, celebr-rity, Zel said, whose caricature ever made him angry. "He tore it up and said: 'Zel. why do you do things like this to people?" "Pickled" Penciler One night Zel was invited to a big Hollywood party to draw caricatures of the guests. "A waiter kept slipping me drinks," he said, "and 1 got a little high. I've always wondered what that last caricature loked like, just before they carried me out to the taxicab." Edward G. Robinson was dining din-ing with a group of friends at the Derby one night. Zel snapped out a quick caricature three minutes is his average and put it on the table. "Everyone execpt Robinson sneered," Zel recalled. "Then Robinson smiled and said, 'Very good.' Then everyone else at the table smiled." Zel came to Hollywood from Montreal, Canada, his home town, via commercial art work in New York. His ambition in life is to be a great painter in oils, and his greatest sorrow is that he can't keep a girl friend. "I draw a caricature of a girl, and she gets mad and won't speak to me again. I'm still looking look-ing for a perfect woman a woman wo-man I don't want to draw." $1250-Dress Designer A former architect, we just discovered, dis-covered, designs clothes for Doris Duke Cromwell, Arleen Whelan, Lizabeth Scott, jean Arthur, Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt, Hilde-garde, Hilde-garde, and Irene Castle McLaughlin. Mc-Laughlin. The fellow's name is Lange, and he was born in Paris, where he worked as an architect, then switched to the couturier business. bus-iness. Lange he hesitatingly admitted admit-ted that his first name is Sam does so well in his New York salon (prices: $250 to $1250 per dress) that he once turned down a lucrative fee to design some clothes for a hefty film queen. Declining without thanks. Lange said, haughtily: "I do not make slip covers." Lange designed the gowns for Luba Malina in the Broadway-bound Broadway-bound revival of "Roberta." One of them should be the sensation of the fashion year. He says it was inspired by Salvador Dali's portrait of his wife, Galarina. Script Makes Skelton Poor Insurance Risk HOLLYWOOD Red Skelton is looking for a certain script writ er and there s a dangerous glint in his eye! The comedian, upon reading the script of his next Metro-1 Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "Merton of the Movies," discovered that, in the process of making the picture, pic-ture, he will have to: fall off a 30-foot cliff into a net: be buried under an avalanche of dirt and rubble; take a total of 32 trick falls; engage in a wild and woollyj Honesty Costs Kid Star Forty Cents HOLLYWOOD The honor system may be a fine way to raise a child but it's mighty hard on screen star Butch Jenkins' finances! The week after completing "My battle royal with five screen toughs; leap from a burning building; scale the 100-foot face of a cliff and be run down by a 1918 Ford! "If I find the guy who wrote una, inreaienea OKeuon, wun af grin, "I'll make him pay the premium on my insurance poli cy!" I Brother Who Talked to Horses' at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Butch was under the care of his tutor most of the time, since Mama Doris Dudley was busy at the studio. When' time came for Butch to receive his fifty cents weekly allowance, the mnnnot star's mother asked: "Have you earned this hv hp- having properly?" "WeU." reDlied Butoh in a small voice, "mavbe vou'd hrttpr just give me a dime!" Movie- Struck Girls Sample 7orIt of Star HOLLYWOOD Two little moviestruck girls are getting their first glimpse of the making of a motion picture. Their starry eyes are wide as they take in. the great studio lights, the camera, the microphone and the powerful wind machines whipping up an ocean gale. But their -interest centers on Joan Bennett as the star crawls on hands and knees across a stretch of beach while the wind machines blew biting sand into her face. Joan is filming a scene for her latest RKO Radio picture, '.'Woman '.'Wom-an on the Beach," an adaptation of the national magazine -serial and best soiling novel, "None So Blind," by Mitchel Wilson. "I have just been beaten by Charles Bickford," Joan explains tne scene to the girls, "and I am trying to get to Robert Ryan. This is just a little of the punishment I take in the picture." She goes on to explain that she had to put on weight and go into training to prepare for the ardu ous role she portrays. But you wear a lot of beautiful beauti-ful clothes I bet," srys one of the girls eyeing Joan's costume of blue jeans, blouse and canvas wedgies. "I wear one sleazy evening gown in addition to this outfit," Joan replies. "My whole ward robe cost less than $10." "Gee, it all sounds rugged," the girl says dubiously, "but I guess if Fate wants you to be a star you can't help but be one." "And while there's life there's hope," Joan adds, wincing as she applies lotion to her sand roughened rough-ened skin. LUPE VELEZ MAKES UP TECHNICOLOR ELEPHANT HOLLYWOOD The man who first said, "Go wash an elephant ele-phant if you want to do something some-thing big," was a pike;. 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