Evening star., 1947-06-24
Hollywood:
Tayloi-s May
Adopt Two
Children
By SheiIoh Grohom

Robert Taylor and Barbara Stan.
wyck are thinking Of adopting |
boy and girl when they get theil
new Beverly Hills home finished
That's wonderful news for one bo,
and one girl!
Rita Hayworth is having bad hall
trouble. Too much bleaching ovel
the past 10 years has made her hail
brittle and it breaks easily. So TN.
til she starts her next picture. Ritz
writes from Europe, she'll let hel
locks revert to natural black.
Joan Crawford Is raging about Z
so-called complimentary profile O
her in national magazine.
Lauren Bacall started something
when she flew up to Kernyille t<
visit her husband, Humphrey Eo'
CART, on location. Some Of the
other wives decided they couldn
be separated from their men, either
and Lauren has been Joined b,
Evelyn Keyes (Mrs. John Hustor)
and by Mrs. Tim Holt.
Humphrey Bogart. by the way
almost had a bad accident there
He was exploring the mine shaft
at Kernville and wandered too faI
inside. He left in hurry when dir
started crumbling in from overhead
Next day the tunnel collapsed.
Clark Gable is said to be angel
ing the new Parlor Players at the
Little Theater in San Fernando Val
LEY. Virginia Grey is the star, and
LIZ you know your Gable romances
you'll know that Virginia Is near
the top, If not top, of his list.
II ~
Rex Harrison Is preparing to light
back-if the British press raps him
any more for working for an Ameri-
can film company, Goth Century
Fox. Rex says that the British
should be as generous to the Ameri-
can products as the American pub
lie is to British films.
Ginger Rogers is following Claud-
cite Colbert as a future director.
When Ginger is through as star,
she's decided, she'll direct pictures.
Claudette, by the way, has al
ready decided on the type of movie
she wants to direct - Triangle
Comedies" she told me on the set
of "Sleep, My Love-" I understand
that she would like to buy up some
of her famous old comedies, includ-
ing "It Happened One Night"
Ann Miller and Columbia Pictures
are parting-by mutual consent
July 4. Ann is rich girl now,
and she only wants to work when
she likes the pictures offered her
Paul Henreid has received an
offer to star in "Cagliostro" for
Edward Small and Gregory Ratoff
Dana Andrews, If he doesn't sell
his big yacht, the Bileehi, will take
three months off after he finishes
Daisy Kenyon" for a cruise with
his family to Tahiti. He still can't
decide on how or when to announce
his independent producing plans
But it should be any minute now
Ida Lupino was seen visiting
Warmers three days in row. And
think she'll be making picture
on her old lot, because the script
Of Early Autumn" has her licked.
Ida's also planning a co-starring
move with her former mate, Louis
Hayward.
n 4
Gene Kelly is naming a dance in
Easter Parade" after the gal he
dances 1t with-Cyd Charlse. And
I'm told that Metro is planning q
big campaign for Cyd as result
of her dancing in 'Fiesta" and 1.-THE
Unfinished Dance"
Laraine Day and Leo Durocher
will forget the new publicity
mean over Laraine's withdrawal
from Champagne for Everybody"
by taking a trip to Grand Can
yon. To me it's fantastic that
Laraine, who was considered the
quietest girl in Hollywood a year