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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

WHY CAN'T women just look at the “1951 Midwest Town & Country House” without wanting to change it? Why is it that a woman immediately has to have what she likes? Doggone, if I were married I'd hesitate taking the wife to the Home Show. I stood around the various rooms for a couple hours and not once did I have the urge to change anything. The house was fine just the way it was, I liked it. Did the women like it? You might say most women liked the house, but—if only the bricks in the fireplace were a different color and those exposed beams were painted white, the room would look brighter. Incredible. Three minutes in a house and a woman Knows what's wrong with it, how it could be improved, how it ought to be redecorated. In her bright little eyes you can see the picture of her living room—being changed. Over the husband's dead body, of course.

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PART OF the model house features exposed beams on the ceiling. Gives the joint a rustic look. I heard a woman tell her husband, “We

.could do that to our living room ceiling, dear.”

The husband glanced upward, then focused on his wife, I thought he was going to give her the back of his hand. Sternly he whispered, “We could, but we ain’t.” ' The architect used several big windows along the back porch. A housewife, one of those talkative, loud things, asked her chagrined husband, “How would you keep all the glass clean with four kids around?” “Dirty glass doesn’t bother you. Why worry?” Why the man wasn’t reduced to smouldering

MODEL HOUSE—New or old, a house to a woman is something to make over, change, paint. °°

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 24—Mark Twain, when he reached 70, told how he did it. It was more than 40 years‘ago, but Attorney Samuel I. Hartman, then just a boy, was present, and remembers he said: “I made it a rule never to smoke while asleep, never to stop smoking while awake, and never to smoke ‘more than one eigar at a time.”

0% ® © I'M TOSSING my toupe in the air over the great performance of Nanette Fabray, Melville Cooper, and Harold Lang and Helen Gallagher in “Make a Wish,” which opened this week. And I loved the line by Abe Burrows or somebody, defining a mistress: “It's like being a wife, except you don't have to do the dishes.” So GYPSY ROSE LEE'S mother underwent a serious operation at Suffern. Show people donated blood. Gypsy's son, Erik, 7, who's show businesstrained, went to the Catholic hospital to see her and marveled at the nurses. “They're not like regular nuns, Mama,” he said. “They're in

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ONE OF B'WAYS favorite people, Producer Max Gordon, has been around show business go long he knows the importance of a big name. His good friend Groucho Marx swears that in an absent-minded moment Max once went to the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, approached a bellhop, and said: “Look, I'm Max Gordon. room?”

Where's the men’s

o> > 0D CLAUDETTE COLBERT, giving us an interview recently, when she was doing a TV show with Jack Benny, told us how she'd quit smoking cigarets. “I was a 31; packs-a-day girl,” she said. “Then a dentist told=me ...’ Benny's press agent, Irving Fine, quietly suggested another topic, pointing out, “Jack is sponsored id a cigaret company.” > EY

SOME POLITICIANS are retiring these days because of ill health, suggests troubadour Nick Paone—others because of {ill wealth, Mamie Eisenhower's decreed a simple middle class life near the General's French hdqtrs.— No swank! . . . Variety says most TV will stay East, not go West. . . . Kitty Kallen may be the road co. Vivian Blaine for “Guys & Dolls”—but will have to switch to blond. Barbara Hutton's thinking of her summer European trip. May settle with her Prince there e + +» Celeste Holm follows the delightful MarJane into the new hit cafe, La Vie En Rose.

Nasty Setup By Harman W. Nichols

WASHINGTON, Apr. 24—When a constituent calls his Congressman and gets no answer, it creates a nasty situation all the way around,

The lawmaker eventually gets the bad news second or third handed after the voter gets back home and blabs it around that Rep. Soandso* obviously was out making a tour of the golf course or maybe fishing. And wasn't minding his knitting. Well, Rep. E. C. Gathings, a Democrat from West Memphis, Ark., made a study of the problem and has come up with a good suggestion. He has submitted his idea in the form of House Resolution 45. Why not allow_every member of the Congress to have his office number under the listing of National 3120, which is the number for Capitol Hill J “I have gone to the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company,” the man, from Arkansas It would save all of us in the House a lot of said, “and it is willing to go along with my pla. misery and it wouldn't cost the taxpayers anything.” Rep. Gathings said that the phone outfit has agreed to give each member of Congress a bill for 25 cents a month to tag his office number National 3120. : o ho ASK ANY CONGRESSMAN. As of now, the regular performance is awkward, to say the least. Take the case of Rep. Gathings. A person from Arkansas comes to town and wants to get in touch with the man he voted for. Maybe he wants to discuss a local situation or ask a favor, like a pass to the House gallery.

Women Hanker to Make Over House

ash instantly, I don’t know. Maybe he was wearing an asbestos union suit. The kitchen is pretty as well-as comfortable. By that I mean the refrigerator is close to the

sink where you can.prepare ice cubes or throw:

bottle caps. Green cabinets are restful to the eyes. The motif would blend well with the faces of some guests. “Wouldn't it be pretty in blue?” So help me, that’s what a visitor to the house asked of her husband. He didn't answer. AE

ANOTHER MORE satisfied visitor informed

her spouse after a quick survey of the kitchen, “You're going to have to do something about my kitchen. It shouldn't cost too much.” overhear any response. As the visitors filed through, hostesses showed such labor savers as garbage disposal units, dish washers. While the men glanced toward the exit, the ladies rubbed their hands with glee. Poor Pop. In the living room there's one decorative item on the wall that attracted a lady's eye. It's a two-piece arrangement of old driftwood. “I'll get you all of that stuff you want,” man sald. “On the way home from work “ morrow I'll pick some of it up aléng White River.” do > &

WHAT THE driftwood on the wall beside the fireplace is supposed to represent, I couldn't find out. Looks all right. Looks as good as some of the antique junk that women like to clutter up a house with, Mrs. Mary Dallas, one of the attendants in the house from L. 8. Ayres & Co., told of an interesting observation she made. In the receptacle outside the front door, Mrs. Dallas said Saturday it was full of cigar and cigaret butts. Sunday there were few tobacco stubs. More old gum was desposited on the day of rest. An elderly couple raved about the backyard landscaping. The woman was particularly impressed. She wanted a backyard like that. husband’s final comment was that they were born 30 years too soon, * > % AMPLE STORAGE space in the bedrooms met with the approval of all the visitors as far as I could determine. Adjoining the master bedroom is a powder room, Pretty fancy and extensive. Two women were discussing the layout. One compared the powder room to a kitchen. Could be. I'm not much of an authority on powder rooms. I remember a long time ago we used to do a pretty fair job of cleaning up in the kitchen. Didn't hurt anyone in the family. Personally I didn’t see anything I would want to change in the model house. Someone smarter and with knowledge about homes put it up. I could move in there tomorrow without a word of protest and be awfuly happy. Are you going to see it?

Mark Twain Had Advice for Smokers

Paris intimates of Purfirio Rubirosa swear he'll remarry Doris Duke . . . B'way is mourning Sam Maceo, one of Show Business’ beloved men. . : Films are planning a huge Festival for fall to combat TV. . . . B'way hears whispers of

‘another Rex Ingram type case involving a name.

¢ & B’ ‘WAY BULLETINS: Patricia Neal ‘will have

a NY apt. to be near Gary |

Cooper who'll do TV. ... Carla Toscanini, wife of the conductor, is much recovered in Italy. . . Gloria Stokowski joins her husband in England in 2 weeks. v Egyptian cotton tycoon Roger Aghion and Anita Colby are on the edge of the ledge. . . . Didn't Dagmar agree with ABC-TV for a half-hour show of her own and maybe to leave “B'way Open House?” . St. Louis millionaire Jackie Lawton and cover gal Valerie Fleming celebrated her birthday at the Chateau-Madrid. . Henry Kaiser is financing two big hospitals in San Francisco and Los Angeles . .. Noel Coward, in Jamaica, is taking Polly Bergen's the gal in Martin & Lewis’ “That's My Boy.” We oe oo WHO'S NEWS: Gary Davis is writing a book on his experiences called “World Citizen No. 1.” . Alexander Kirkland, who inherited 136,000 acres of timber land in Mexico, hears there may be uranium deposits therd . .. Rosemary Patricia Broderick Maloney is the name of a beautiful brunet hatchik gal at El Morocco. . . , ExColumnist Caswell Adams joined Williams Advtg. Agency. . .. Coleman Jacoby, Pittsburgh's gift to gags, and his teammate, Arnie Rosen, have hit $2000 a week in TV writing.

oe “pe oe EARL'S PEARLS: Paulette Goddard tells of a girl so dull, you tell her a joke with a double meaning, she doesn't get either one of them. Se > D> WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Your wife likes candy and flowers. Let her know that you remember—speak of them occasionally.’ '—Ray Barber.

Polly Bergen shots for a heart ailment . ..

Se & > TODAY'S WORST PUN: “MacArthur wanted dugouts, Truman wanted Doug out.” —Alice Kutzin. ' “You can tell a man loves you,” Taffy Tuttle mentioned at the Virginian, “when he objects to your scanty bathing suit.” , , . That's Earl, brother.

Congressmen Wants Phone Snafu Changed

The constituent looks in the phone book under “G"” and finds “Gathings, E. C. Hon. 3285 Worthington N. W., phone ORdway 4291.” The home phone number. There is no answer. Tolise Gathings, the Congressman’s wife, is out with the kids, Tolise Jr., and young Joe. ob DH THE VOTER searches in vain for the Congressman’'s office number and finally takes the next train back to Arkansas and wags a jaw all over the First District of Arkansas that Rep. Gathings wasn't on the job. Which, of course, isn’t true. Rep. Gathings is in the midst of his seventh term and if he weren't in the habit of minding the “P's” and “Q's” he would be back in West Memphis practicing law. The same thing happens to other members of Congress, oe bob ONE LAWMAKER from the sheep country told me that a voter from his district came to town with important information on how to pep up sheep-production and thus help the supply ef meat in our lockers and warehouses, The congressman's family was out of town, but the representative himself was diyiding his time between the floor of the House and his work at the office. “That fellow never did get in touch with me,” the Congressman said. “I was embarrassed when he went back home and told his home town paper that he was in Washington for two whole days and couldn't get in touch with mé, “It took a bit of explaining and, boy, was my face red!”

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Local Radio City Features TV~—

WFBM Is Settling In New Studios

Times Sat photos by Henry 5. Glesing J HUGE MAIN STUDIO—Gilbert Forbes news show i in far end of room. FROM STUDIO FLOOR—Same scene as left.

Building Cost Set At Half-Million

By ED KENNEDY

LAP SITTING is no longer permitted at WFBM and WFBM-TV. It had to go—because the excuse for it went last week when the stations moved from the crowded fourth floor of 48 Monument Circle to a new half million dollar home at 1330 N. Meridian St. At the new location there is plenty: of room for everybody. Television is the dominating factor in the design of the new building. The radio station got ample quarters and a compact new studio, but was second fiddle. t J s ” THE MAIN TV studio is 40 by 60 feet. Scores of remote control lights are suspended. from the ceiling. Sets for as many as eight shows can be set up at the same time. There are only two windows in the two-story high room. From one, a battery of producers and engineers directs the production of the-show:. Three engineers are required to produce a local program.

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TV station great grief when they forgot to build one. No stairs leave from this room. Gradual ramps have been ° built in so that stage flats and other props can be hauled dis rectly to the studios for a program and then quickly stored when it is over. Officials at the station promise that they and the public will see the structure pay off in the form of better programs preoduced at the local level. :

A second TV studio, only slightly smaller, is being readied for operation soon. The entire building is air conditioned by five separate systems. In the basement of the building two rooms are occupied by the film department. In one The second large window is the film projectors are set up located on the second floor so and the second is for storage. that visitors to the station may - . un view a program in progress ALSO LOCATED in the basewithout disturbing operation ment is a set storage room. within the studio. This unit had caused many a

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You Read About These Things, And Then . . .

‘All Of A Sudden It Hits You Between The Eyes

City's 1000th Traffic Victim B Gould Have Been You, or You

i: By TOM HICKS | Mrs. Reba Lynn left home at 11 o'clock yesterday. {and four children stayed behind. She went to see her doctor . . | little stomach trouble. At 11 a. m. she was an average American housewife. Two hours [Mater she was 1951's 1000th traffic vicum of the tragedy that rides the streets of Indianapolis. ii Two hours later she was in General Hospital suffering from a “possible fractured skull.” Two hours later she couldn't! remember how old she was. She'll live. She isn’t hurt badly. After she left the doctor's of- | fice, Mrs. Lynn caught a Red Cab. | “Take me to 813 Church St.” | she said. She never made it. At South St. and Capitol Ave, the cab driver didn’t stop at a stop sign. There was a crash. Mrs. Lynn blacked out.

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“I can’ 't remember, » she said “How old are you?” “I can't remember.” “Where had you been before the wreck?” “I can't remember. hurts so much.” “We've sure had too much of hospitals,” her husband said nervously as he stood outside her room in General. “I haven’t been able to work ir over a year with this bad leg of mine, and I've already had three {operations on it,” he said.

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stone, in| “Hospitalization doesn’t stop the other car, were coming home with Mr, Lynn. Their 9-yvear-old from the funeral of Mr. Stone's gaughter, Betty Ann, has been

niece. polio-crippled since she was 2. “I didn't have a chance to Mrs, Lynn has had two operastop,” Mr. Stone said at the tions in the last four years. scene. “I hope she isn't hurt bad. “Neither one of us has ever

{It wasn't her fault. Why did she have to get hurt?” | In the receiving ward at General Hospital, a nurse asked her {where she had been going at the time of the wreck.

been in an accident before,” the husband said. “You read about these things in the paper and think they couldn't happen to " HL : vou. Then all of a sudden it MY HEAD HURTS SO MUCH"—Mrs. Reba Lynn, 1000th victim of Indianapolis traffic since

hits you right between the eyes.” Jan. |, grimaces with pain in Ward B-2 at General Hospital. She suffered head injuries.

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About People— Post Office Officials Weigh ‘Treasure Chest’ Decision

his dream world ahead of his . [family and left her last June, She She Loses, He Wins? Terry's sister, Mrs. Comedian Jack. Benny today Barrett.

lwas given custody of the two - lchildren. said he hopes a sf u d id d Nevada vacation New Horizon hdecide |will change Mary Margaret Truman, in Holly In New York, Rita Hayworth’s Livingston's de- wood make Ua Anat act attorney today indicated she is cision to quit {show business. | We're going to ~~ |Las Vegas for 10 | days,” he said. “I {hope .she loses {money so she'll

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Advertised for $1 Which Are Sent by Mail

Post office officials in Washington today groped their way toward a decision on the “Treasure Chest"--the bosom of Miss Evelyn West. Miss West was questioned yesterday by trial examiner James |C, Haynes on pinup pictures she advertises for Rt Which are sent through the mail. a. — ———— __|considering diAlthough the government main- jail sentence in preference to|vVOrecing Prince | tains the pictures are obscene, paying a fine for hitting his wife. Aly Khan, al-

and that prices vary inversely J {though on Apr. with the exposure, Miss West said | I'll take the 30 days,” he said.|2 ghe said there

|it was her intent “to sell my plc- “Let her run the business.” (was “absolutely i*%

dio, said there has been “some discusston” about her {appearing in mo{tion pictures.

|tures to peeple interested in art nothing to’’ have to keep “p t [in its various phases.” Foggy, Foggy Dew rumors they had working to pay ras 0 Mr. Haynes today said held John Arthur, who has a parted, off.” Miss Livingston ' ‘and singing” have a decision in two or threé children’s program on his Cincin- “ind in Holly- i Dual Rol ‘said the Presweeks on whether to forbid pays nati radio network; lived “in a ood, Harry vy ole ident's daughter ment of postal orders sent. dream world With Id Cohn, head of | Terry Gregg Johnson had a big as she began reart lovers seeking—a peek at the vw 8 radio char-‘Columbia Pic - 'day today in San Francisco—he hearsals for a piss

“Treasure Chest.” acters,” his wife sald in securing tures, said Miss Worth It? a divorce on grounds of neglect. Ha y w 6 r t h- Miss Hayworth | op, "600 hours. ance Thursday night with Ji Mrs. Mary Goerss, 31, told planned to return to work at the! At 1:52 a. m., Terry weighed Stewart in the play ‘Ja Otis Burbridge, Baltimore food the court that her husband (real studio after a three-year absence in at 8 pounds, 12 ounces, At 5:22 “Being in pictures woglt be ‘and liquor dealer, took: a 30-day | name Jonathan A. Goerss), put, {rom the screen. o la. m., Gary ‘Wayne Barrett was exciting.” igh

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