The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-30
HOllywOOd'S Busy StOrk
 Drops Bundles Of Trouble On Desks Of MOviemakerS
By ERSK1NE JOHNSON NEA Correspondent

Hollywood, March 30.-The year 1943 will be circled in history as the time when Hollywood discovered the stork; and 1944 will be remem- bered as the year that pin-up girls learned how to use pins.
 Swanky home bars have been converted into nurseries. Din- ner table conservation
 ner table conversation is about play-pens and cereals. People dash away from parties to keep ? a. m. feeding appointments.
 Glamorists who have become mothers include Betty Grable, Lana Turner, Rosalind Russell, Brenda Joyce, Brenda Marshall, Cecilia Parker, Cobina Wright, Jr., Nan Grey, Jean Rogers, and Gene Tierney.
 SHARE PUBLICITY
 Expecting are Loretta Young, Maureen O'Hara, Dorothy Comin- gore, Ruth Hussey and, for the second time, Alice Faye.
 It's all very strange for Movie town where, before the war, it definitely was not fashionable to share your publicity with little ones.
 The situation at one studio, 20th Century Fox, almost became 8 problem for the board of directors when seven top actresses went into retirement. The Misses Joyce, Marshall, Wright, Tierney, O'Hara and Faye all broke the news about the same time to their boss, Daryl Zanuck.
 MT. 2 wept quietly over his 1nillion-dollar production sched- ules, wondered what the stock holders would think, replaced his mothers -to-be in new pictures with newcomers, and found con- solation in the fact that his prize glamor girl, Betty Grable, still could cast pin-up girls shadow.
 A few weeks later Betty whis- pered her news to zanuck, and they had to revive him with smelling salts.
 BABIES OFFERED ROLES
 It's tough making motion pic lures when all your feminine stars are home knitting booties. The stars, too, are finding it rather difficult. Their Hollywood dream worlds no longer are quite the same, what with the realism of nursemaids, dietary problems, milk deliveries, diaper laundry bills, what -do-for r-colic and Doctor, do you think my figure will ever be the same?"
 Miss Grable also was worried about what effect becoming ma ma would have on the gents in the armed forces who seem to prefer her as their No. 1 pin-upper.
 q guess this washes me up in the glamor department" she told a friend.
 But judging from the letters Miss Grable has received since she and Harry James announced their expected blessed event, she's still in the running. Servicemen think it's wonderful, are even sending pres entS. A soldier in Alaska sent the baby an ivory teething ring; Ma rine in the South Pacific mailed 8 rattle.
 As expected, the talent scouts already are offering the Hollywood glamor- infants film careers. Lana Turner's studio wanted her G. month-old daughter to play the role of Lana's cinematic daughter in Marriage Is Private Affair" It would be good boxoffice, the studio reasoned. Miss Turner thought otherwise, on the theory that hay ing children is a private affair, too.
 Dorothy Comingore was expect ing when she made her film debut three years ago as Orson Welles' second wife in the film, Citizen Kane" It was race between the film makers and the stork. The baby arrived four days after the films completion.
 For three years Miss Comingore didn't work in a single picture. Then Producer Jules Levy gave her a role in his film, "The Hairy Ape" She signed the contract, and a few days later happily announced she was expecting again.
 But this baby business Is no cheerful matter for studio execu. tives. Production schedules-no pun lntended-are Suffering. And the executives are doing more wor- rying than the floor pacing fathers.