The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-12

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. E-Dear Staff: want to submit for your analysis several items in this mornings pub licity baTTage.
 Item l: Robert Mitchum had an accident to his car, and the radia- tor cap is broken. And Bob can't get another car and he can't always get a taxi, so he either hitchhikeS to the studio or walks the two miles"
 Item 2: "Hedy Lamar had to keep the workmen on her new home overtime, 30 she bought them beer and hamburgers and then called their wives so they wouldn't be won dering what had happend to their husbands"
 Item 3: Kim Hunter, working in studio near London, wondered for weeks why she received no answers to the many letters she had written to friends in Hollywood. The Last day of production, she found she had posted all of her letters n prop mail box on one of the Lonoon street sets at the studio"
 Item 4: "Almira Sessions, who constantly portrays mean, gosslpy women in motion pictures, goes through routine of de-mean1ng herself every evening. She lies prone on the floor, relaxing all her mus cles, for a full hour. Then she takes a lukewarrn bath while listening to Chopin records on her phonograph. Tn about an hour and a half, I'm myself again. she says"
 Riddles. I'm afraid that reading Hollywood publicity, year after year, has done something to me. I've be- come a skeptic-an embittered, dfs- believing scoffer. That's why I'm ap- pealing for your help. Do you, too, see room for doubt in the stories quoted above? Do you detect 1n them some slight element of exag- geration? Or should I see psychia- trist?
 JIMMIE FIDLER.
 DEAR BOSS: We're glad you're beginning to take stock of yourself and we'd like to suggest Dr. YerN Volognoviski. Poor boss! We've been concerned on your account ever since you doubted that story about Pres ton Foster-the one that told about him accidentally snagging a rabbit when he made a backcast fishing for brook trout.
 To gossip bit:
 George Brent has entered his re- gently purchased schooner, South Wind, in next summers Santa Mon ica-to- Honolulu race, thereby com ing the 16,748th Hollywood celebrity to declare himself as a competitor The Chet LaukS Che'S Bum of Tum and Abner'0 are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary |. . Signe HaSso, who put her house up for sale the other day, tells us she's going back to Sweden, but only for visit. She'll file for United States Citizenship on returning to Film vile.
 Linda Darnell is complaining abo0I one amusing result of her assign ment as Forever Amber" Ever Sinct the first announcements went out she's been deluged by copies of thu book, sent to her by fans who wan her to autograph and return them Not only is she getting writer's cramI but she's out better than SIS in post , age to date! Speaking of fans didyull know that the local wor' shippers of crooner Bob Graham call themselves Graham Dance maestro Arthur Mur' ray is offering Lois Andrews biz money to take charge of his Londor studio, and she says she may accept Sears -Roebuck is going into thu photograph record business on colossal" scale, and has alread. signed Lanny Ross to warble fo their initial discs Re-k1ndled The blaze 'twixt Gary Grant ant Betty Hensel.
 If you doubt that many announce ments about production plans fo pictures starring animals, checl with the men who supply tralnet dogs and horses for pictures; thei four-footed actors" are booked sol idly for a full year winch re minds us that Louis B. Mayer, who's race nags have made him as mucl dough as his pictures lately, ha commissioned agents to scout tn Argentine for suitable additions t his stable Doctors are worr1e about Ann Miller, seriously under weight Altar-bound: Viola Els sen, the dancing star of Spectre the Rose" and concert violiniSt Wer ner Gebauer Priscilla Lane hubby, Col. Joseph Howard is get