Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1948 — Page 8

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§ In Hollywood—

Mrs. Johnson Gets the News

Mr..J. Given Lowdown— And Big Beauty Salon Bill

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twisters, cuticle trimmers and mud packers reacted to Mr. Goldwyn's picture. ; Inasmuch as this called for an » experienced undercover agent to : pump the gals and find out what they thought about it all, I set sbout securing the services of such a person. I’'wanted the best eavesdropper money could buy. So. sparing no expense, I went to} my wife (who could worm the innermost secrets out of a clam) and confided my plan. Our strategy was for Mrs. J, in the guise of an Jowa tourist, to stroll into Westmiore's, ask for a beauty treatment, and let nature take it from thére.

» ~ ¥ 1 COULD TELL from my on e cfm

expected. . “Sorry,” she told me, “but I

of his latest found out absolutely nothing.” “Triple Cross” to the Law.”

“But those opstatoss. 1 sald, have

By Erskine Johnson

Farley.”

of it. “tor-see-how the hair

peated. chantment.’”

mitted; ‘The Snake Pit.”

of Atlantis.” . ..

|emporium:

around.” .

semlettiing.

new series. , . .

. ” They're not even wasting titles in economy-minded HollyAe memcpy ox o ogenhy

Baerwitz just changed the title picture from “I Cheated Title of hs Ja next pleture will be “Triple Cross.

4 HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23-+-Samuel Goldwyn recently ran a private showing of his picture, “Enchantment,” for the operators at.the House of Westmore, the famous Hollywood beauty mill where movie stars have their faces lifted ‘80 théy won't have their options dropped. Mr. Goldwyn, a great believer in word-of-mouth advertising, knows there's no bet-| 0 GFP — ter place to get a rumor started than a beauty parlor.

So, feeling there might be a story lurking behind this unique tactic, “T decided tor

after one look at him, I can understand why she’s so mad about

“Of course not,” the wife ad“this woman didn’t go to the preview. She went to see

« n o » MARIA MONTEZ heads for St. Louis, Louisville and Indianapolis in mid-January to help sell “Siren irwin Corey says he saw the following sign in a Hollywood foundation garment “Come in and bra's

FE Cannny A er {Buster Keaton's old comedies are making the rounds of the televirision circuit and-people are laugh-|

to the old silent comic about a Ken Murray just

' |money” is on Jane Wyman and {Laurence Olivier to win the “Os-

‘Smart Money

By VIRGINIA MACPHERSON i i) Holl Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23~Pinky I ywn a Woon known bookie-about-town, sald today the “smart

cars” this year, He's taking bets all over town | and Miss Wyman's nontalking

7-5 odds. “*“The bets” amt” big yet," plained the bookmaker, who Poe his nickname from his rosy complexion and the matching’ bald spot. “Nothin’ over $100, but the dough’ll get heavier, IT guess, In March, just before they hand out the statues.”

Jane Wyman, for 'Oscars'

role in “Johnny. Belinda” will get|

on Olivier,

No. 2 and No. 3 spots ere held | down by Ingrid Bergman at 7-2 for “Joan of Arc” and Olivia de Havilland at 4-1 for “The Snake Pit. ” — Pinky's not sure on the up-to-|the-minute odds for Mr. Olivier's ance in “Hamlet” because they change so fast. Last time he looked they were 2-1. : “There's a lot of anti-English feeling in this’ town, see?’ he “Isald.” “Otherwise, nobody else’d get a look-in. But Olivier's the ROTI am Humphrey Bogart's next at 4-1 for ‘Treasure of Sierra Madre.” . ; ‘Hamlet’ At'5-2

Same goes for the “best pic-

Pinky's kind of new at taking |

he's a “respectable racetrack

frame in neat blue business suits

“But my customers keep pest- | erin’ me,” he. grinned. “They! wanta bet on this here Oscar business. And when people wanta bet I can’t help but help ‘em out. ‘Partly Popularity’ “Wyman's. leadin’ because a| lotta people figger she shoulda won it for ‘The Yearling’ Now she turns in another good 'job. These Oscars are partly a popularity poll too, yd know.”

With Orchestra

“Blackouts”

nixed an offer to bring his to television via

Thelma Staton, featured vo. *

love instead of (CBS. Says he’s waiting for crossfut country television. in the powder married Tifes Amusement : omoLe nd og he Nosh 31h Rov to write about” poser ston, wt 1, Iie,” 4:38, - » , 1:80 and manicure,” I nas . 8 pre th and ra Moore, she and Richard Tu A 3 ’ malls.” “Mexican nn with Abbott and Costello, LL 48, 1:80, 3:88, 6, 8:08 and 10.05 sEITH'S "One. Brick Higher." the story.of east of

more An, on 8:30 and

4:08, 7:15 and 10:24,

with -& 15,000, 00 an 12:08, 2:11,

ha f a S18 and 9 hn tthe je min, hots a Clift an: 4 T-and- wr "crmio re ae Th 12 or Cameron and Hona 5 ab-10:8%;

“Rose of the Yukon,” with Steve -and Gens Carel, and 9:16,

calist, will be with the Clyde Trask orchestra for the ‘special New Year's Eve party at the Indiana Roof. A floor show, complete with chorus line, also is on the program. y

Academy award bets. He Sains

ture” award. Pinky thinks if ‘Hamlet” had been produced here it. would be -a cinch. But the

“Yes, ” I nodded, making a note voters go for home-grown m “What else did you hear?” bookie’ and he drapes his lanky | 8 grown movies, “Well, dear,” said the wife, now|, prove. it... ao really getting warmed up, “there was one woman. a customer, who raved and raved about Olivia.de Havilland’s performance.” “Olivia de Havilland?” I re“She's not even in ‘En-

so “Hamlet” is neck-and-neck

{with ‘ “The Snake Pit” at 5-2 odds.

“Joan of Arc” Is third with 9-2; “Anatole Litvak’'s way up there at 7-5 for the, ‘best director’ award,” Pinky says. “He has two movies, ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’ and ‘The Snake Pit’ up for honors, so I make him the favorits. That's sorta like a horse running twice in the same race, ain't it?” Mr, Olivier's runner-up for that Shakespearean movie again. And Pinky says he’d be first here, too, if it wasn’t for that -antiBritish fever. For “best supporting actor” his customers are going for Clifton Webb at 5-2 for “Sitting Pretty.” Walter Huston and Jose Ferrar

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