Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-27
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD

van johnson has continued to
improve and surgeons declared plas-
tic surgery will alleviate any dam
ger of permanent head scars. Spen-
Ger Tracy and Irene Dunno, with
whom he had been working in "a
Guy Named joe" have been his
only hospital visitors so far
Snooty La Jolla (say it La-Hoya),
suburb of San Diego, has taken
Ginger Rogers quite to heart. Gin
ger, living there in a very moderate
hostelry to be near her husband.
Jack Briggs, is about the only &C
tress La Jolla ever saw without
trace of makeup :. With Sun VAL
ley and even Palm Springs shut
off, Mexico City is now the real
paradise of the movie stars. Those
who can get away are planning
summer vacations in and around
the capital of Mexico. Paulette
Goddard, Ann Sheridan, Enrol
Flynn and others want to spend
every brief vacation they get there
-. Gregory Ratoff, directing rus
sia." has been getting so much per-
sonal ballyhoo for himself that his
producer, Joe Pasternak, is run
ming around begging for some pub
icity for his stars, Robert Taylor
and Susan Peters. Ratoff is the
fellow that the public thinks Sam
Goldwyn is. He can't open his
mouth without making a malaprop
gag.
Twentieth Century Fox pins huge
hopes on Oracle Fields, Britain's
ace entertainer. She has a strictly
non-singing role in the lead of holy
Matrimony" and studio heads be-
lieve she can become another Marie
Dressler." She has lost virtually
all her Lancashire, except when
she wishes to employ it, and they
say she could readily play straight
American roles. However, she is a
Lancashire lass in this movie.
X X X X
Martha SCOTS return to the
screen is to be along the glamour
road. A plain Jane in "Our Town"
Cheers for Miss Bishop" and "One
Foot in Heaven" Martha dips into
the rouge pot and an assortment
of fancy rags for her role in Hi,
Dlddle Diddle." She completes with
Constance Bennett for the love of
naval ensign-and with a rival
like that she must look up, coming
and comply" ). Adolf Hitler is
under glass at Columbia. They're
not trying to immortalize him or
perpetuate his memory, they're just
trying to get picture called CAP
pointment to Berlin" finished on
time. A giant portrait of Der
Fuehrer used as a background in
the movie has been so Uttered with
scrubbed wisecracks night after
night-all of which had to be care
fully erased-that the prop depart
ment decided on the glass cage !,
Warner Brothers are distributing
100000 old-fashioned lapel buttons
to servicemen. They bear a nifty
reproduction of the nifty Dolores
Moran, in color. She is now tabled
The Pin-on Girl"
According to current plans. Rita
Hayworth will wear out three dance
floor partners plus one partner in
romance, via Cover Girl" which
is about to get started at Columbia
None of Rita's dance partners has
been definitely set. Her favorite
partner is Eduardo Cansino, her
dad, with whom in her early teens
she used to dance on the vaudeville
stage. WED be dancing together
yet" she said, only 1t was my bad
luck to outgrow daddy. I'm a good
2 inches taller than he is"
Hollywood's conuhdrum for Sum
day will be: Try to find an Easter
parade. The town never did make
a show Of Easter, but 1943 naturally
Will hit a new low Wallace
Berry. who has a lot to tell, will
be featured in national magazine
biography In week or so. He
panicked the interviewer when he
started his life story by telling him
where he first played the piano !,
MGM, hailing Its new romantic
team. Marsha Hunt and James
o AAC 11ulIldI NOulc0V') }.
might be surprised to learn that
these two hit it of Economically for
Paramount back in 1897 in, q tor
rid little piece called .sThunder
Train" -. Red Skeletons divorced
wife Edna, who is his business man
ager. set all his interviews for him
IN New York, as well as ARRANGING
for special appearances and broad
casts :. Betty Cradle Is recovering
nicely from her operation and ac-
cording to latest word win be able
to dance Oh her numbers in Sweet
Rosie O'Grady" by May is. Her
aiment, one Of the straneest In
medical annals, has all the girls Who
are doing jitterbug dances at the
service canteens scared stif.
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Special camera crew Is touring
Los Angeles on one OF the stranrest
assignments you ever heard az
They're filming an assortment 81
varied and informal kiss shots"
which win BE- used In I novelty