Evening star., 1943-03-21
By SheiIah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Ida Lupino received letter from
her husband. Marine Louis Hay
ward. He couldn't say when, he in
formed her, and he couldn't say
where, but he expected soon to be
IN a place she understood to be San
Francisco. Without an afterthought,
Ida threw her prettiest garments
Into a bag and made the overnight
train for San Francisco.
Il couldn't get any kind of
berth. and sat up all night" Ida
told me recently. I'm San Francisco
I couldn't get room, so I spent my
nights waiting for Louis sleeping in
the lobby of hotel. And then he
didn't come to San Francisco at all!
He arrived in San Diego, so rushed
there and repeated the performance
Of an all-night sit-up in the train"
The war has done strange things
TO the women in Hollywood who are
married to men in the fighting serv-
ices. In the old days the husbands
had to adjust their lives to fit into
the pattern decreed by their screen
star wives. Now the boot is on the
other foot. The husband may be
only buck private, but he still
ranks his film actress wife in i'm
portance. And the biggest miracle
of all is that the gal is glad to take
second place!
Deanna Durbin cas- of this writ
fng--it's always unsafe to predict
too far into the Hollywood futureD
rarely makes date to go out on
week ends. She wants to be entirely
free SO that if by any chance Hus-
band Vaughn Paul. who is in the
Navy, gets 24hour furlough he
will find her waiting for him.
Alice Faye is considering the pur-
chase of a small house at Catalina
to be with Husband Phil Harris of
the merchant marine. She has also
decided to make only one or two
pictures year, so that she will have
plenty of time between to forget
that she is Alice Faye, film star
She prefers to be plain Mrs. Harris.
Women Who Traipse.
I'm very proud of being the wife
OF marine" Maureen O'Hara told
me the other day, When she COM
pletes her current picture, The
Fallen Sparrow" she will join him
wherever he happens to be stationed.
The same goes for Annabella, who
will live on the post with Tyrone
Power at Quantico, Va, when she
completes "Bomber's Moon" This
will be nice for the officers and their
wives at the marine training camp,
because Annabella is one of the most
attractive women to leave the lux
uries of Hollywood for the simplicity
Of life on the post. Penny Single
ton recently spent six months at
Quantico with Marine Husband Rob-
ert Sparks and would not have re-
turned TO picture making but that
her husband was transferred to San
Diego. where Penny has now rented
house.
Annabella, incidentally. is one OF
the several wives who have come
out Of retirement to earn money in
studio because of the cessation OF
the husbands earnings Binnie
about year ago loosened her cor
sets and heaved a big sigh of reliei
because she could sleep as late as
she liked IN the mornings and cal
all she could hold-which is lot.
I'd got sort Of lazy Binnie con.
fesses. My husband Mike Franko.
vich) was doing we'll as a producer
at Republic, and / thought I'd never
work again. Then Mike went into
the Ferry Command There were
the twins, Michael and Michele. anc
my niece, who I'm putting through
college. SO I had to go back Il
work, put on my corset again. die
and get up at the crack Of dawn.
Binnie is playing with Charlie
Laughton in The Man From Dowl
Under"
Life on Soldiers Pay.
Priscilla Lane. on the other hand
Is without children to support ant
for long time, to be near her hus
band, 1t. Joseph Howard, stationed
IN Vlctorvllle. lived there and mad
90 on his pay. He is now abroat
and Priscilla might return to tn
screen.
Ellen Drew was promised bi
things in the way of a career at thu
Paramount Studio. They did no
materialize but Ellen is still crate
\ 1ul to the studio. Because that