Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

you are SuCn q nice, ornamental
the marriage license Office, that's
you are quite successful in per-
Suading Stanley. And, Of course,
vice versa.
Maybe he will not need much
persuasion; maybe he will. I
don't know. That's your job, from
the receipt of this letter.
Persuasion about what?
Well, it's this way. Dick
Weaver was in town last week,
doing some spring blowing on be-
half of Not AS A Stranger"
which, you will remember, was
what we all talked about the last
time we had luncheon.
One of the things we did while
Dick was here was go to the
Statler. We went for two reas-
ons, Celeste Holm, who was sing
ing there, and dinner. Both were
wonderful. Celeste the more so if
Herbert Blunck and the chefs do
not mind my saying so. Frankly,
ever since / first saw her in
papa Is All" (before "Okla-
homaO I have never enjoyed
meal as much as I enjoy Celeste.
However, to come to the point:
My wife, a woman of impeccable
taste with one possible exception
(me, naturally. Dick and came
to the swooping conclusion that
Celeste is Stanley's girl for the
nurse role IN Morton ThompSon'S
novel.
You don't need to be told that
she is a performer with an as
founding range. from Ado Annie
to the Academy Award winning
role she played in "Gentlemen's
Agreement" the nun in Come
to the Stable" ETC.. etc. AS for
appearance, she not only looks
Swedish but she also has that
special face-the one that does
not look like all other glamorouS
faces. You know, one of those
made privately and from the in
side, not by the cosmeticians.
have nothing against cos
meticians, but I like morning
faces more than evening ones.
Celeste's is morning face. even
late at night. like ThompSon's
nurse in the book. I don't think |
he describes her this way, but |
that is how he makes me see
her.
After casting Celeste-natur-
ally Stanley will have to take
that from here-we went on with |
the game you, Stanley and I
were playing that day at lunch
con. Remember? Finding the |
proper male? Well, the other
night. the three of us were no |
better than you, Stanley and I
were.
Where we ended up. guess.
was that the Henry Fonda Of |
10 or Is years ago was the best |
choice. Where you will find the
Hank of then, I don't know.
However, tell Stanley that by
selling Celeste, he will have that
much more time to look for the
1889 Hank to play the DOCTOR
hero.
Another thing: Tell him also
that like the idea of promoting
sale of the book all this time
before the picture even gets out
of the formative stage. Any
thing that makes people read
books is for the good of people
and countries. Also, it is way
of getting them into book stores
where they meet some of the
incest other people to lie found |
anywhere.
Now, bless you all three. and !
carry on.
THE ACADEMY'S AWARDS: |
Forty-three million members of !
the body polite. the statisticians
say, watched the Acadeniy's big
television party last Thursday
night. Not counting the children,
who were in bed. this Is a lot
of citizens, a number that
clearly goes to show. we'll, i'm
pact.
The Academy's party is always
q good one, sometimes better
than others.
This one was not the best. for
several reasons. One is that 1t
lacked the suspense that is more
or less traditional. The winners
were largely a foregone conclu-
sion. Here. for instance, 20
neighborhood movie manage
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