Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 170, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 March 1980 — Page 4

The Putnam County Banner Graphic, March 22,1980

People in the news Hollywood lore lives in postcards NEW YORK -- Hollywood has changed, every fan knows that. But so have the city’s sightseers, who are apparently less interested in the film stars of today than the stars of yesterday Today’s typical Tinseltown tourist has only one foot in the cement impressions in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater The other one is ankle-deep in nostalgia. Old stars, living or dead, are the big attraction. •‘They’re the ones people still ask about; no one shows much concern for the new movie stars,” says Richard Lamparski. the author of a series of seven books, all entitled “Whatever Became 0f....?” INSPIR FO BY THIS fascination with the movieland of yesterday, Lamparski has just brought out a series of 37 postcards with sepia-tinted photographs entitled “Hello From Hollywood ” The cards depict Hollywood lore that ranges from Fred Astaire’s straw hat to the Brown Derby, the restaurant where, the back of the card informs us, “Many believe Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard in booth No. 7.” There are some prime examples of early Hollywood architecture, including the gleaming Art Deco entrance of the RKO Studios and the Spanish-stvle house Gary Cooper shared with Lupe Velez. Many of the stars’ final resting places are no less elaborate. A 1 Jolson’s tomb, for instance, with its many levels, waterfall and cupola, could have been the set fora Busby Berkeley production number. • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Lena Horne is retiring from the nightclub circuit, but don’t despair she’ll still do concerts. “and maybe something on Broadway,” her manager says. After nearly four decades on stage as a singer and actress, Miss Horne will make one final tour on behalf of the black college sorority Delta Sigma Theta, manager Sherman Sneed said Friday. The tour, to begin April 8, includes appearances in 10 cities. A 62-year-old native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Miss Horne ends her current engagementhat the Fairmont Hotel here on April 2. As a sultry singer in movie musicals of the 19405, Miss Horne appeared in “Panama Hattie,” “Cabin in the Sky,” “Broadway Rhythm” and “Ziegfeld Follies.” Her latest film credits are "Meet Me in Las Vegas” in 1956 and “Death of a Gunfighter” in 1969. • Dr. Roy P. Mackal, one of the scientists who has devoted years to the search for the Loch Ness monster, is at it again. The University of Chicago biochemist has recently returned from a month-long expedition in the Congo River basin in February where he and a zoologist colleague, James H. Powell Jr., pursued reports of another possibly legendary animal, the dragon-like mokele-mbembe They initiated the investigation on the strength of reports that two of the creatures had entered Lake Tele in 1959 in what is now the People's Republic of the Congo. Now, after turning up what they said were eyewitness reports as recently as last year, they conclude that “the mokelembembe is a real animal, not a myth” and a promising target for further search. What motivates the 54-year-old scientist’s quest for such maybe-fictional beings? “I'm interested in solving zoological mysteries,” said Dr. Mackal. who was scientific director of the World Book expedition in search of Nessie. “We re all children to a point. Most of us have romance in our souls.” NEW YORK (AP) Kenneth Taylor, Canada’s ambassador to Iran, came to New York and got a hero’s welcome from 500 city dwellers, a rousing tune from kilted police bagpipers and the keys to the city from Mayor Edward Koch. “He is a real hero,” Koch said Friday at a City Hall ceremony as he welcomed the ambassador who engineered the escape of six Americans from Tehran. The escape “was more electrifying than any cloak-and-dagger fiction ever written,” Koch said. “History will record this incident as one of the great undercover coups of all time.” Taylor said it was a “thrill” to receive the city’s keys, adding “I trust the Mets and the Yankees will treat the Blue Jays and Expos with more consideration.”

$lO million price on Pickfair mansion

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. the legendary home of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was put on the market Tuesday for $lO million. Even in the Beverly Hills housing market, where homes priced at $5 million are common and few are available for less than $1 million, the “For Sale” notice for 1143 Summit Drive caused a stir in the real estate trade. From 1920. when Fairbanks and Miss Pickford, then America’s most popular movie stars, married and turned a hunting lodge into their honeymoon estate, until after their divorce in 1937, the estate known as Pickfair represented the power, glamor and wealth of the movie industry more than any other place. Chaplin and Valentino, Gable and Keaton, Lillian Gish, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and scores of other stars partied there. Princes, politicians and even a few gangsters vied for invitations, and gossip columnists flashed the news from Pickfair as if sending bulletins from the White House. Before Miss Pickford died last May 29 at the age of 86, she and her second husband, Buddy Rogers, the musician and former actor, had offered the property to the city of Beverly Hills, local universities and several charitable organizations. But, Rogers said, they could not give Pickfair away, apparently because the estate would require $300,000 to $400,000 a year to operate and maintain. Miss Pickford, generally regarded as the screen’s first major star and ranked by many film historians as the most popular of all, also had a reputation as an astute businesswoman, and she invested widely in California real estate Under terms of her will, which is in probate, the proceeds from selling Pickfair and some other assets will be given to a newly formed charitable entity, the Mary

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SARA STIMSON: Star is born Because how you wear the clothes is as important as the clothes you wear, 10 film actresses who come across with sure personal style on film and off have been picked as moviedom’s best-dressed women. Chosen by Harper’s Bazaar and photographed in the April issue in show-stopping looks from the New York and European spring collections - handknit sweaters, sleek leather, hot-color evening turnout, and slick jackets over pants - they signal a whole new ease in dressing. THE TEN WINNERS ARE: Ali McGraw, Margaux Hemingway, Brooke Shields, Tatum O’Neal. Liza Minnelli. Marisa Berenson, Sophia Loren, Shelley Smith, Charlotte Rampling, and Sara Stimson, a delightful surprise on the Harper’s Bazaar list. Spunky Sara was picked from 5,000 little girls to star with Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews in the remake of Damon Runyan’s classic. Little Miss Marker. Bazaar says she’s destined to be the Shirley Temple of the 1980’s. • John F. Schlafly, a Chicago lawyer and the husband of Phyllis Schlafly, a leader of the opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, has been found in contempt of court, along with the Alton, 111., bank he represents, and ordered to pay $40,406 in legal fees in a 16-year-old case. Judge Edwin A. Robeson of Federal District Court Friday, accused Schlafly and the First National Bank of Alton of trying to delay a settlement for 6,000 depositors of the City Savings Association of Chicago, who have been trying to recover more than $3 million in savings since the bank closed. The Alton bank is executor of the estate of Joseph Knight, the late Illinois director of financial institutions. Robeson held the estate liable for damages in the City Savings Association’s failure. The legal fees that Schlafly and the bank were ordered to pay were incurred by Samuel Burke, receiver for the City Savings Association, in fighting for the right of the bank’s former depositors to distribute the Knight assets among themselves. When former Mayor John V. Lindsay agreed to act as master of ceremonies for the National Musical Theater’s spring gala Friday night, he did so both because he believes in supporting the fledgling, nonprofit organization and because among the distinguished roster of songwriters being honored was his friend and neighbor, Harold Arlen. Arlen, who wrote songs such as “Blues in the Night,” “That Old Black Magic,” “Over the Rainbow,” “Stormy Weather” and “Come Rain or Come Shine,” has been in poor health and, Lindsay said, he drops in on the 75-year-old composer from time to time. “He lives on Central Park West around the corner from Mary and me, and I go around and have a glass of wine and a chat with him,” Lindsay said Friday as he prepared to study his lines for the occasion. “He’s a fascinating man and when one is getting on and not feeling well, it’s nice to have friends come to you.” • Michael Learned, who will star on Broadway in the spring in Corinne Jacker’s “After the Season,” has found a stage husband. He is Kevin McCarthy, who will play the role of a senator aspiring to the presidency. Ben Masters has also joined the cast; he will portray the senator’s aide. “After the Season” will go into rehearsal April 1 and try out in Wilmington, Del., before opening on Broadway early in May.

Pickford Foundation. Part of her large collection of jewels will be sold at auction, while others, along with memorabilia of her career, will be donated to the Smithsonian Institution, according to Matty Kemp, who directs operations of the Mary Pickford Co., which has control over her films and certain other properties. The purchase price for the walled estate includes 2.7 acres of some of Beverly Hills’ most valuable real estate, a four-level main house, a guest house, a separate building for servants, a 100-foot- long swimming pool and, on clear days, a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean. Elliott Feinman, an executive of the Rodeo Realty division of the Harleigh Sandler Co., which is handling the sale, estimated that the main house contained more than 12,000 square feet of floor space in 45 or so rooms. On the ground floor is an adobe-walled Western barroom, complete with a huge bar saved from a Gold Rush-era saloon. On the second floor is a huge sunken living room, two dining rooms, a library and several smaller rooms. On the third level, reached by a graceful spiral staircase, are three large bedroom suites, including the one where Miss Pickford spent the last years of her life, refusing to see outsiders, who, she said, would expect her to be the same pretty girl in blond curls whose adventures they had followed 50 years earlier. • The top floor is a narrow room decorated with Japanese tatami mats and decorated extensively with objects Miss Pickford and Fairbanks selected on a trip to the Orient in the 19205. None of the furnishings, which include a large and impressive collection of Oriental art objects, will be sold with the house. They will be kept by Rogers, who is building a $700,000 home on a half-acre or so of land adjacent to Pickfair.

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