Evening star., 1941-11-06

or 5000 a week, a studio offers her
a chance to break into the movies
at $50 a week. If she's smart she
holds out and gets SIS week.
Then she comes out here and is
used in leg art for publicity. cutting
turkeys for Thanksgiving. standing
under Christmas trees for Christ
mas. rub-a dub b-dubbing a tub for
National Laundry Week and so
forth. What this means is that the
studio publicity department is get
ting a 5000 model to work for $50
week. Ask any girl and she'll
tell you. It's a racket"
We asked two-Jinx Falkenburg
and Kay Aldridge. They said, "Yes,
but, if we click in pictures, the 5000
we used to get in New York will
just pay for the buttons on our
fur coat Of the week"
From a promotion department
specialist: I'VE have to have a
playboy on our pay roll. Every stu
dio has to have one or two play
boys working for it-a guy who runs
around the night clubs and knows
the young, eligible millionaires by
their first names and knows who
all the phonies, wolves, clucks and
no-goods are. Then. when we got
a problem like we have now, this
playboy guy earns his salary from
U.S."
We met the problem" We won't
tell you her name because, II she
clicks, what you will read next will
be a part Of lady's past and, II
she doesn't, why bother to be inter-
tested But she is a dark. tall,
vibrant girl, raw-nerved and with
drive to her and intelligence.
"All right, so We got this locker
and who ever heard of her? No
body. So, We give her to the play
boy. He squires her around to the
spots. keeping of the phonies
wolves. clucks and no-goods and
bringing over to meet her whoever
eligible there is around. She makes
eight or ten spots with him a night.
getting into the eye of the gossip
columnists whenever she can"
The results were apparent this
week. A gossip columrist was told
Monday-and printed it-that cer-
tain unmarried millionaire was in
terested in her. Tuesday. two gossip
columnists called UP the p!ayboy
squire to find out who the million
aire was. Il don't know" he said
truthfully. Howard Hughes has
been over to our table frequently, ''
he added, also truthfully since Mr..
Hughes is a friend of his and never
misses a chance to laugh at his
jokes. Wednesday. newspaper reaG-
ers were informed: 1T looks like
real love between Howard Hughes
and :" name deleted by me. The
last word on the subject to reach
print was from another gossip COL
umnist who said, That's an Sll 900
ring, Howard Hughes has given :"
so-and-so
We asked our promotion friend
whether the ring had been rented
or borrowed. What do you think.
wise guy?" he said. You know all
the answers. But. anyway, we've
got movie fans wondering about this
girl and anxious to see what she
has that can attract Howard
Hughes"
The curious thing is that they've
got Howard Hughes wondering, too,
about the girl and he may stay
around while to see whether it's
true what they say in the papers
and get interested and get married
That has happened before, such
being the power Of the press.
From a newly arrived S3,000-a-
week producer: The big league
movie boys are smarter now than
they used to be and don't play
around with or get involved with
girls they can give jobs to. The
girls who work in movies are safe
from them, this pastoral situation
having been arrived at through
girls working long series Of badger
games and blackmail rackets over