The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08
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 An American phenomenon is Ear. Carroll. In the heart of Hollywood 1s a monument to his courage, i'm. agination, enterprise and energy. Il is the only real theater (the Ear CarroiD which is a, dinery and winery. It seats 1,200. About 7s percent of it's patrons are out-of- towners. The minimum prices are low but the maximum, if you're geared that way, is unlimited. This slender man, who challenged the great Zeigfeld at his peak in his own New York, puts on two ter rtfic shows night, the second of which he gives away, for it starts after he stops selling, at midnight He is making a fortune in the seventh year of this bold venture Ee lives in home that only a mill lionaire could own or maintain, his house parties are high spots even in Hollywood Con his birthday he closes his theater and throws 24- hour revels with no ceiling or any, tliing).
 Carroll is Pittsburgh boy who started as a theater usher. He be- came a successful songwriter. In World War I he was a combat avi- ator. When he started putting on "Vanities" revues, he promoted his own theater, in the center of Man haitian. When, after years of that, he decided to come West, he chuck ed everything, checked in on Hol- lywood and began from. scratch again. Pictures, vaudeville acts and his unbroken Seven-year run at his unique institution (similar things have been tried in New YorS and Chicago but always flopped) have kept him occupied and sensa- tionally solvent. He has known re- verses that would have finished most ordinary men. He always came back bigger, bolder. buster. He is beagle for a buck, but with his profits he is prodigal and big time I never miss an evening with the Earl of Carroll in Holly wcod-it'S refreshing within the portals through which pass the loveliest girls in the world.
 That Edna Cantor-Jimmy Me- Hugh, Jr. engagement" is begin- ming to be gag material Greta Garbo has graciously allowed Mu- sic Corp, her management, to nudge the trade with whisper that she's receptive again-and how about great story? Garbo, I learn, co 1ate. hasn't the biggest feet in the held. I have it from a confidential authority that Greta wears 8 1-4 kicks, whereas Char lotte Greenwood,s are 9,S (tinieSt tootsies that ever twinkled on 8 screen are Lily Pons'-1h). Dolores Moran will probably win the land rush for the picture lead in okla homa," Ben Bogeus producing |. Climax of the next Annie Sothern epic will see Maisie landing a heli- copter in the Rose Bowl. Amt she card?
 We told you that when Richard Ney returned on 8 navy furlough from the Pacific he could hardly blow through wife Greer Carson $ dressing-room for a beachhead be- cause the flowers were SO thick. Now we've found out why-which Is more than he has Several weeks ago. when Ney learned Greer was to shoot with Clark Gable in aThis Strange Adventure" he wired Gable 8 check and asked him to use 1t sending Mrs. Ney @ dozen roses a day ... Well, Gable has a lot of big stuff on his mind Gn- ciuding Anita Counihan, Colby to toW and he slipped the check into drawer and forgot the whole as- signment When he suddenly heard Ney was in town. he recalled k-and sent Greer 25 dozen roses.
 In SThe Postman Always Rings Twice" Lana Turner will be all in white, including her hair, which She dyed almost albino. Her two outfits will be white frock and a white (Hey, Hey) bathing suit . |. The script, after 13 years of strug- gle with the Hays noboys, is now passed as also clean and white . '. Perhaps the box office results on Double Indemnity" likewise by James Cain, long ruled impossible for the movies. had something to 60 with it. But how are they ever going to do his "Serenade"?
 The several combined strikes against the studios have become confused hurlyburly of recrimina- lions, violence and costly nuisance, but every company is grinding away. Onions with autonomy" in their charters have voted overwhelmingly not to go out. and found them selves suspended" overruled and tllperseded. Actors. white collar workers. authors. etc. have been