Evening star., 1947-10-19

Somehow expected it to be all
very glan1orous and frantic, with
telephones ringing madly and maybe
a hulking quarterback or two to
give background for beauty. After
all. she was 1.-The orchid of the
screen" and hSf showwoman's touch
helped to make pro football team
famous. We'll, Corrine Grifflth
the ex-n-oSe str who is now mar
ried to George Marshall, owner of
the Washington Redskins, still looks
like an orchid all right, but she's
the practical variety who told me
right away that she's been working
since she was Is and never wants
to stop. And her suite at the Statler
is as quiet as Capitol Hill when
Congress has gone home.
Not once did she call me "dear"
or darling" during the whole inter-
view-and she's given hundreds, you
could tell, from her cooperative
attitude and ready but guarded
answers. Her makeup was conserva-
tive; so was the length Of her simple
black suit with flaring faille sleeves,
with which she wore a four strand
pearl choker and several gold linked
bracelets. She said terrific" and
thrilling" a lot, but only when she
talked about the Redskins and their
rabid fans.
This decorative woman knows the
score in football-and other things.
too-but she doesn't pretend to be
an expert. She sticks to her particu-
lar kind Of gridiron knitting, which
is dreaming up between the -halves
entertainment and is quite pleased
with the effect of the new white
feather headdress which the band
wore for the first time two Sundays
ago.
She's pleased, too, in her self
contained way about the pleasant
reception which has been given her
new book, MY Life With the Red
SKINS" Star book page, October 5.
which she wrote to the team. Her
husband. although he was once pub
Usher of Washington paper, didn't
play the sympathetic editor at all,
while she was tapping 1t out with
two fingers.
I'D read him passage" she re-
calls, land he'd listen very closely.
Then he's say Well the worst thing
about it is -"
That didn't stop her, though.
Neither did rejection slips from six
different publishing houses. The
break finally came with the serial
ization of several chapters in the
Saturday Evening Post, which turned
it down once and then took it second
time around. That led to its accept
ance by A. S. Barnes & Co. Now
she's working away at a cookbook,
to be made up of favorite recipes
of many friends, including the Duke
Of Windsor, whom she came to know
in the course of a years sabbatical !
from Hollywood spent in England
in 1882. Already three chastened
publishers have asked to see the
Right now she's mulling over pos
sibilities for the Redskins Christmas
show. She thinks they set a pretty
high mark last year by having Santa
Claus dropped from a helicopter.
About the only thing left is to
have him shot from a cannon" she
said. "Wouldn't that be terrif1c?"
II II II Il
Col. Robert S. Allen, who had a
considerable reputation as a fight
ing man long before he joined the
Army, gives a distinct impression of
all the crossfire provoked
by Lucky Forward" his frankly
partisan history Of the Sd Army, al
though he declared himself surprised :
the other day that some critic had
spotted political implications in his
alleged devaluation of Gen. Eisen-
hover. !
After all, the book was finished
long before Eisenhower ever thought
Of going into politics, declared Allen,
who thinks that the general will an
nounce his presidential candidacy
within three months after his re-
tlrement from the Army.
AS a matter of fact, Allen said