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Show . ym J ON WHY MASQAT HOLLYWOOD Margaret Truman was offered a starring role in a movie by Metro opposite op-posite Ezio Pinza, but declined the role by stating she was not ready for a movie career. Reports Re-ports here are that Margaret refused the role because she is preparing her debut in a musical musi-cal comedy on Broadway. The latest rumor around Hollywood is that Rita Hay-worth Hay-worth and Aly Khan have called it quits. Insiders say that Rita is fed up with Aly's play-boying. Especially when it's with other women. Didja know that 27 per cent of the homes in the U. S. possess pos-sess television sets? There were 605,900 receivers installed in February, compared with 593,000 in January. And speaking speak-ing of television. Hollywood is defying the Federal Communications Communi-cations Commission when it warned the major studios that it must release its stars and products to television or suffer the consequence, possibly antitrust anti-trust violationss. Li..y Taylor was warned by her doctor to "take it easy." Too many parties plus romantic roman-tic tusses with Nicky Hilton caused her to lose twenty pounds in the last six months. Marlene Dietrich wants everyone every-one to know she is only 49 and resents being called a "glamorous "glamor-ous grandma," even though she is a grandma. H ERE-say: Barbara Stanwyck and Bob Taylor dined together at the MGM commissary last week. For the purpose of discussing their business affairs, they say. Mack Sennett is peddling to TV the old Bing Crosby shorts filmed more than 20 years ago. Watch for them. Hopalong Cassidy will tour the country this week for a series of handshaking hand-shaking appearances. Nancy Olson, 22, announced she is expecting ex-pecting her first baby in October Octo-ber and added that she will go back to college this summer to complete her college education. Bob Hope will donate the entire en-tire proceeds to charity when he makes his personal appearance appear-ance tour in England this spring. Lew Ayres is back with us after an absence of many, many months. His next movie will be "Red Planet." -Lana Turner is ailing again. (With another broken toe.) And that's Hollywood. Holly-wood. So long' for now, see you next week. (Copyright, 1951, by John J. Masgay.) |