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Show "GAY GADGETS" I Associated Newspapers WNTJ Features By NANCY PEPPER WHY DO YOU LOVE THAT VAN? Now that the Van Johnson hysteria hys-teria is sweeping the country like the Sinatra tidal . wave, we want to lT0NlQ7-Lp-l know the whys VAN!??fe3 and wherefores. I JOHNS'mVl-5! When people ZZyj A I asked us what Y'J yon saw In j?J Frankie to bring on the swoons H T' and squeals, we I could only shrug 1 helplessly and J2al say, "We, too." Well, we've asked the 1,800 teenagers who act as "HI Style Scouls" for Calling All Girls if they're swooning over Van and why. Now, just let somebody ask us about this new crush and we're ready with all the answers. "He looks like the boy next door not like a movie glamour boy." (Don't you wish you lived on that girl's block?) "The way be takes a girl in his arms and kisses her." (Now we're getting somewhere.) "His cute, squeaky voice." (Well, what's the matter with Mickey Mouse?) "His divine build, bis boyish smile; his red hair." (Three good reasons.) "He's sweet and shy, when the occasion demands, be can be so-o-o masterful." (Did you sit through his last picture three times just waiting for these "occasions"?) "He doesn't act as if he were act-Ing.M act-Ing.M (Then what does M.G.M. pay him for, anyway?) "Are you kidding? He's positively positive-ly gorgeous." (That seems to sum up the whole situation.) |