The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-06

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 Herman Shumlin, Broadway-made director, now a Hollywood wage slave Cat what a wageD is hot hell for realism. For a scene in film with Charles Boyer and Luaren Ba- call, he wanted photo of bullet hitting a wall-and he wanted it authoritatively authentic. At 2 o'clock in the morning, he got four Warner lot cops to stand of and pop their AS at a studio wall and had each shot shot from several angles. He still didn't get just what he was after. But, came the dawn, H. M. Warner sent for bis whole force and demanded to know-what crackpot had been shooting up his bungalow? It's right past the wall. The place looked like Berlin!
 Mike ROmanoff, the Great Pre- tender, who now owns the most prosperous cafe in California, has wen his naturalization papers, thus disproving canards that his Im- perial Highballness was born in Brooklyn. Mike is a native of Lon don. Strangely, his true name is Romanoff, which gave him his orig inal inspiration to adopt" the czarist clan. He says he will defin- itely not change the monicker now to Mike Stalin. Sheila Graham, who is the>wife of a Canadian of- cer, is preparing for another baby. ... Sos Mrs. Eddie Bracken. '. pr Irving Berman, Hollywood eye specialist, has it figured out that persons with normal sight should sit four times the height of the screen from the screen. Bring your own tape-measure!
 The CommieS in and around the movie industry have set up such an organized and agonized howl against a proposed Red probe that, their activities are accentuating the poS- 1tive far more than another off, cial investigation is likely to. That Hollywood is crummy with every shade of bolshy lovers is obvious to anyone who can see or hear. A recent California legislative survey turned up conditions even more maladorouS than surface symptoms had indicated. Stars, producers executives-with no understanding Of what the Russian system means --plug for it. Crimson propaganda crecps into costly films. Anyone who thinks democracy and a re- public are pretty sweet is fascist isclationist; anyone who thinks we're lend-leasing like fools is g Tory reactionary. The victory o1 the radicals in Britain was toasted and celebrated in mansions and swank cafes in the community which glorifies the Soviets anc squawks about high U. S. income taxes in the same breath!
 N Hi Diddle Diddle-Caroline Riddle married James Riddle. She's a Ls Martinique charmer, he's a young oil hNir And Dorothy Riddle the Philly lilly, is being wooed ant pursued by two brothers, Tom ant Morton Jenks, neither of whom ha chance. Sept. Book of th' Month -"The White Tower" - about mountain climbing. And no #ujiyama All mentions O Sherman Billingsley and his Storl Club have been scissored iron Metros "Week-End at the Wal 6orf' since Paramount did "Stori Clubn Eastern AirlineS will an nounce 4-hour N. Y.-Maimi service in a 64-passenger ship.
 A new Manhattan rialto may de velop on Park Ave, from 59th St down Freddie Steele, ex-m1d dleweight champ, couldn't ge East for the Story of G. I. Joe premieres, but Pvt. Robert Mitchun {who plays the captain) got trave priority because he's in the Army Both are film finds and will b' heard from plenty more Fay Emerson is heartsick. A few month ago she blazed up as Elliot Roose velts bride, daughter-in-law of tn President. Since then, she's hat some tough publicity breaks and tn Roosevelt name no longer work magic. Soon Elliott will be bacl
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