The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-24
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. aa--DEAR grAFF: When you're giving a party and need entertainment for youI guests, ask them to imagine what confusion we'd have in Hollywood fl our movie workers, like some orlen. tais, were to regard oil their remote marriage connections as bonafidt relatives. With almost any star as Q spring board, you can prove that Hollywood, under those conditions would be just one big-though not necessarily happy-family. To illus trate, let's start with the newlyweds Gene Markey and Myrna Loy.
 Gene was the second husband Of H6dy Lamar, now married to John I,oder, the ex-husband of Micheline Cheirel, and the second husband of Joan Bennett, the present wife Of Walter Wanger and the sister of Barbara Bennett, ex-wife of Morton Downey and widow of Addison Ram dall, and of Constance Bennett, whose third husband, Henri de Ia Falaise, was the third spouse of Gloria Swanson, the ex.wife of Wal lace Berry, later married to Rita Gilman, and of Michael Farmer, and whose fourth husband, Gilbert Ro- land, despite only one marriage, has been romantically involved with half the ladies in town. Miss Loy, com paratively destitute of in-laws, is the ex-wife of Arthur Hornblow, whose present wife, Bubbles Schinasi, is the ex-wife of Wayne Morris, whose present wife is non-profissional.
 I'll admit, kiddies, that the above illustration is carried out in a sort of half-hearted way, without the painstaking genealogical effort that's required to trace the family affilia- tons down to their last twigs. But, having imagination, you can get the idea and appreciate the fact that not only would you be offering top- notch sport to your guest but also mental exercise of the most bene. ficial kind.
 JIMMIE F1DlER.
 DEAR JAMES: It sounds like a simply too, too engrossing pastime, and we'll give it wllirl as soon as we can brush aside a promise made to Professor Einstein, who asked our help in working out little equatoin in fourth dimension. Off-hand, we'd surmise that our mental exercise" can probably be reduced to a simple mathematical formula: x equals Errol Flynn.
 To gossip: Look for Joan Craw- ford to file her divorce action against Phillip Terry in local courts, and any day now; they've agreed on a property settlement and admit re- conciliation is impossible Car men Miranda will get her first big screen break in several years as the star of an independent super titled "Copacabana" Time out for Joan Leslie, very i'll with flu We hear that two major airlines are actually carrying out their often re- ported plan to install i6 millimeter equipment and show feature-lengtf movies to transcontinental paSsen. gers.
 Sylvia Sidney's six-year-old, Jody Adler, is making his screen debut in the Hal Wallis film, "The Search. ing Wind" Looks like that pre- stidigitating hobby of your old pal Chester Morris, is going to pay hin financial dividends; he's gone int partnership with an eastern manu' facturer to market magic kits of hi own design Goshl Have yoJ heard about the new manse being built for Ginny Simms by her mil. lionaire spouse, Hyatt Dehn? It! going to have TWO swimming pools one indoors, the other out. Nov it's Australia that's filing big money bids for the services of a few toI flight Hollywood stars.
 The current trend toward outdool epics will get another hypo when Ha, Wallis announces LiEabeth Scott'l next picture: it's Desert Town," 6 first novel written by a 23-year-olC Los Angiles girl named Ramona Stewart Miss Scott, incidental. | ly, has been named on i6 lists, tt date, as the outstanding screen finC | VI 4OIO 0AhC 9 nCl4 4O1 O4llit Gombell, still spending two days { week teaching ilospitali7ed veteranI leathercraft Hal Walter Slezak showing RKO bosses photos of ( Hungarian youngster named Ret law Kazels," had them all steameC up to tender a contract before hs finally confessed they were picture. of himself, taken 20 years ago. |
 With Hollywood divOrces, so far ii l946, outnumbering Holly marriage by nearly four to one, Dan Cupid i getting a little punch drunk Bing Crosby letters to Fnmville pal indicate that he'll be back by Feb ruary 1. Estelle Taylor would suffer more from the suz-zero tenn peratures back east, if she weren' getting such warm letters from Di rector Bradley Summers Jacl |