Evening star., 1952-03-27
Hollywood
Diary
chopin to Seek
Citizenship Popers
By SheiIoh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

H HOLLYWOOD.
Charlie Chaplin plans to be.
come a citizen Of the u. s. A
Actually he's wanted to- for many
years. but felt that it would lool
like he was yielding to pressure
Now that the American press anc
pubic seem to like him again anC
"Limelight" seems a winner, he's
eager.
Jane Wyman and her beau are
also eager and intimateS make
book that Jane will be Mrs. Travis
Kleefeld Is minutes after she
winds up the "Will Rogers Story,
and that ought to be any minute
Bette Davis daughter Barbars
lis a vest-pocket edition of Bette
Has all the mannerisms, except
the cigarette tapping-which'l Il
probably come later. ... Clark
Gable is renewing his passport fol
a long stay abroad. So is Var
johnson. "Sofari So Good.
the Rita-Aly travelogue by Jack
son Leighter, now runs Is minutes
Ally. always the gent, has relin-
Iquished his share of the picture
to Rita.
y \ \ r.
Get Poppa's room ready. Nom!
Gary Cooper calls daughter Maria
every day from the hospital in
New Orleans where he is recover
ing from his double hernia opera
ton, and, following a Florida re-
cooperation, he will return to
Springfield Rifle" and wife
Rocky. The revenue depart
Iment Stymied Joan BENEFITS
plan to make a picture in Italy
She can't leave this country until
she pays her back taxes. OF course
lit would help, says Joan, if Wang
Ter paid back her $4,000 worth of
Para stock. Zanuck didn't like
Eli Wallach'S test for Sol Hurok
|so David Wayne is back as No.
|favorite to portray the impresario
lin Tonight We Sing" Mario
LAMA, bedded with virus flu, has
dropped his plans to rehearse for
his radio show until the week end.
Mario has also dropped the idea
for an 18-month tax-exempt
junket abroad.
We hear that Judy Holiday.
once part of the top-salaried club
act. "The Reviewers" is whipping
up a new night-club presentation.
They told Benny at the Am
bassador East, I'm sorry the Jack
Benny suite isn't available. but
would you mind taking Lana Tur-
|ner's?" Jack was most comfort
able /. and, talking of Lana.
after the merry Widow" sneak,
the fans ignored her for Fernan-
do Lamas. Maybe because Lana
was hiding behind q kerchief, her
figure lost in a long coat, her feet
|fiattened by shoes without heels
/. . Spotted Zsa Zsa Gabor in a
local shop buying books by the
yard. Which is not as good as
buying them by the color.
Marcus Goodrich is reading the
script and wife Olivia De Havil-
land may do MY Cousin Rachel >
Which means another 100000
lin their community pot. J.
Betty Cradle, on the Goth Fox LOT
flor the first time in 10 months
will have to diet more to squeeze
Into those 1.-THE Farmer Takes
la Wife" bustles. Shelly Win
tiers called. Says the wedding is
lset "for the last week in April OF
first in May. Well live six months
lin Hollywood. six months ir
Rome"
Leo's lion (Dore Schary) Is
still trying to land Farley Granger
flor jamie Powelrs Small Towr
Girl" with 22-year-old Bobby
Wayne (the "Young Ray Bolger")
already set. =. Only If Davio
lSelznick okays 1t, will Jennifel
Jones costar with Marion Brandc
lin Paris this summer. French di-
rector Paul Graetz wants them
for "Station Terminal"
(Released by NANA.)