Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-19
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

The eyes have it so far as Nat
Holt is concerned and he would
just as soon they didn't have it.
Mr.. Holt, known the country over
as a big-time theater operator, has
changed harness and is now pro-
ducing picture. 1t is an elaborate
musical. George Whites Scandals
of 1915" for RkO. And that's right
where the eye business comes in.
With the million-and-a-half-d dol
lar movie we'll under way, one of
Hollis stars. Jack Haley, came down
with severe case of iritis. The
docs put Jacks damaged optic I'M
der bandage, and the picture
stopped cold for two weeks. Cost of
this delay was $4,000.
First scene shot after Haley's re-
turn was a comedy sequence in
volving Jack and Joan Davis. Miss
Davis was to fall fiat on a bed
with such acrobatic force that one
of her shoes was to sail through
the air, hit the back of the bed
and bounce on top of her head
Looked good for a big laugh. But
the shoe didn't bounce as per sched-
ule. Instead, the heel slipped down
and whacked her just below the
executing a three-inch cash.
Stitches for Joan's eye and more
delay.
Last Sun day morning Holt
wanted to brood a bit in the out
doors, so he got aboard his favorite
horse for a romp. Another horse
galloped by, stone flew up and
Holt got smacked-right in the eye,
of course! Haley, Miss Davis and
Holt are all under care of the
same eye doctor. But the show goes
on in spite of specialized jinx that
has no precedent in production
history.
News in nibbles: Lynn Walker,
not so long ago one of Paramount's
most promising starlets, Is now a
United Air Lines stewardess. That
puts the usual situation in reverse.
Buddy De Sylvia has just COM
pleted his job of picking IA beau
ties to appear as models in "Stork
Club" He interviewed 200 to get
the a. His choices are each 5 feet
6, 35-inch bust. 34-inch hips and
all have long hair.
John Kodiak fears he's doomed to
wear mustache from now on. He
acquired one for "A Bell for Adano, /"
but shaved it the minute the film
was finished. However, his home
studio, MGM, saw some of the rough
shots OF the picture, liked Kodiak S
appearance so well they ordered
him to grow one on a permanent
basis.
Judy Garland, who goes strong
gor gadgets, is sporting new pin
diamonds and rubies mounted on
a trolley car a gift from the
composer of THE Trolley Song"
Again this season, Irene Dunno is
demonstrating she is the very best
of the film lady golfers She's get
ting around in the middle 70s and
would do better, she thinks, if she
could brush up on her putting.
The "life story" business seems
w NC SCeCAllS ouO VI IldllO. Will
everybody trying to land rights to
biographical tales. Some would look
pretty sad if they ever, reached the
box Office Ginger Rogers is re-
ported seeking rights to Gertrude
Lawrence's life story. Then there's
Carl Laemmle, jr., telling the world
he's out to put the life of Julian
Eltinge, the late female impersona-
tor, on celluloid strips.
Signe Hasso has been writing
poems in Swedish for a long time
and recently took a fling at some
in English. A Swedish publisher in
Hollywood last week took the Eng
lish poems back to Sweden with
him to have them translated. Which
is certainly the long way around.
X X X X
Three years ago a Hollywood tai
ent agent sat in an Army show
and heard fat blonde girl do q
song number.
That's for me-" he announced
to himself and at once got the fa1
| girls name on a contract. Today
the same girl, curvaceous, red.