Evening star., 1946-01-05
Some Will Ride Buses Soon

months ago and picked up a used
job that is in the shop most of the
time. It's 1887 model on which
Mature has already spent $3.50 in
garage work, Grimmett says.
Il keep telling him he's wasting
his money and should turn it in for
junk" said the shop boss, but he
keeps on bringing the thing in.
It's nice to see him, though. He
hangs around and entertains us
with swell stories"
Grimmett believes Lana Turner's
big convertible, painted robins egg
blue, Is the most attractive car now
being driven around Beverly Hills
and that Cary Grants is unique.
Grants safety-glass windows, he
points out, are treated so they battle
sight-seers because you can't identify
the passengers until you get right
up close.
AS If there weren't too many
names on the credit titles of all
motion pictures under present con-
ditions-a matter that has caused
annoyance to film fans everywhere
one of the local trade papers comes
out with an editorial demanding
that an additional credit be
tackled on.
Writing in the Hollywood Re-
porter, Editor w. R. Wilkerson says
"As New Year thought, plus an
additional effort for an added ac-
tivity directed at holding our world
markets, may we suggest that our
producers-all of them, large and
small, good and bad-insert a few
feet of film after the main credits
on each picture, informing any audi
ence that might see the picture that
this picture is made in Hollywood'?''
Teresa Wright and Ray Milland
working together in The Imper-
feet Lady" were discussing screen
names and how they get that way
''It was simple matter with me, u
said Miss w. After my first high
school play I dropped my first name
Muriel, and used my middle name
with my own surname. I thought
Teresa more romantic"
Whereupon Milland made a con-
fession. Most people think my real
name is Jack Mullane, but they're
wrong" he said. Actually I was
born Jones, Reginald Jones. When
my mother was remarked to Null
lane I took that name. AS a kid
thought Reginald too sissy, SC
when anybody asked me my name
said Jack. 1t stuck. I remember
that as boy my favorite playing
haunt was the land around a mil
in the neighborhood. So, when ]
went professional I became Milland
AS for the Ray, well, I just hap.
pened to like that tag. So I put
'em together"
Plenty of trouble rumors at Para.
mount over the status of Dorothy
Lamour, whose sarong epics made
the studio and herself a neat for.
tune.
Dorothy was angered to the point
of quitting the screen altogether
when the studio suspended her anc
took her off salary because of i'm.
pending motherhood. Friends say
she may do something about it
legally. Her contract there still ha.
two years to run.
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| Cary Grant is ordering a new
convertible which has all the safety
advantages of regular sedan. Il
has a plastic top which folds bacl
something like a Venetian blind
Which reminds us that Cary nov
drives car that makes him almos
a complete black-out for gawkint
tourists. Its safety glass window,
are specially treated so Cary ane
passengers can see out normally, bu
can't be seen from the street, a.
least barely more than in silhouette
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