The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-26

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 26. = In a trade paper gossip column the other day was a line that stirred my ire. It reported that Director Don Siegel had strictly banned all pro- fanity from the Warner Brothers Might Unto Night set for fear that Swedish import, viveca Lind fors, who's just Slearning English. might pick up some of the naughty words.
 Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not irked because the purity of Miss Lindfors' English is being protect ed = I'm irked: because ahe same kind of thoughtfulness isn't dis played on the other sets where American kids and young American girls are employed. Seems to me they rate a bit of protection from contagious profanity, too.
 The language of movie Set-work- CTS is notoriouSly frequent and painful and free" - almost as ex- plosive as that used in the average newspaper office. But, unlike newspaper offices, movie sets usual ly have 8 contingent of children and screen debs who are not yet shock-proofed into immunity.
 They differ from newspaper of fices, where the profanity is usually Of the Virile- -but-not-dirty variety, in another particular - the movie set conversation is filled with dou- ble entendres and smut. Without trying to pose as profound auths ority, I'd be inclined to regard that type of baWdiness as much more contagious than healthy, high powered explosives.
 Why not extend the rule posted on Miss Lindfors' set to all sets? MEMORIES THAT BLESS AND BURN: When Joan Crawford, af- ter playing her first movie scene like 8 veteran trouper, keeled over in dead faint the minute the director pronounced it satisfactory :. When Don Ameche, too i'll to drive the fifteen miles to his home, decided to spend the night in his studio room-and Tyrone Power his devoted friend, did likewise so he'd be on hand if the sick man needed help .. When Mae Vests press agent sent out swimsuit pho- tographs of his client to illustrate a story about the svelte new fig ure Mae had acquired through rigid dieting, anud failed to no- l tice that the drastic retouching done on her hips plainlyS showed in every print. In today's publicity barrage is an item which reads: Let the moral fall upon those who preach chauvinism. Research at Republit Studios for the forthcoming Nelson Eddy -Ilona Massey starrer, "Wil Tomorrow Ever Come" the locale of which is Fort Ross, first ano only Russian settlement in Ameri. can territory, brought forth the i following facts: The Russians set tied 1t in 1884; the Americans took it over by treaty and without force in 1841; Johann Augustus Sutter a German Swiss immigrant, pur' chased it later - and all three Russians, Americans and Germans intermarried with the Spanish ane Indians and everybody got alont wonderfully with everybody else. &
 it is possible!
 Seems to me the Republic re
 searclV,rs overlooked only one littl
 fact. Soc Stalin wasn't dictator O
 Russia in 1884.
 Here's an unusual Hollywoo'
 story. Some days ago, a trade pa
 per critic, in reviewing the picture
 Blue Skies," paid high tribute t
 Joan Caulfield's performance. Mex
 day, via special delivery, he receives
 letter of protest. The writer sai'
 that in her opinion, Miss Caulfiel'
 had not only failed to give the bes
 nerformance of her career iu "Rlu