Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-25
HOLLYWOOD.


most likely to star in Anita Loos
satire on the Gabors, THE
Great Caresse." with Sophie
Tucker for Mama Jolie.
Mary Martins daughter Heller
will play Wendy to Mama's
Peter Pan" at the L. A. Phil
harmonic here in the summer.
Greta Peck is going to Europe
to see Gregory for a few days
before she returns to Hollywood,
Looks like all is well in the Peck
household.
Wendell Corey's picture Ca
ribbean Run" is called "Carib-
bean Rum" by all his friends.
Guy Madison is decorating his
walls with the Indian arrows
shot at him in The Command. ="
Raymond Burr is~~in every
scene in Rear Window" star
ring Jimmy Stewart and Grace
Kelly, but only speaks 10 lines
in the picture.
Ralph Edwards opines that If
radio had come after television.
people would rave. This is SEN
sational. You can hear it and
don't have to see it,
Glenn Ford tells me that the
neighborhood he was raised in
was SO tough. he had bullet
proof play pen
June Havoc is readying a tele-
vision series Of her own.
Barry Sullivan spends his time
between pictures making chairs.
of all things.
U-I has lined up four pictures
for Lex Barker plus a build-up
campaign bigger than they gave
jeff Chandler, Tony Curtis and
Rock Hudson.
Julie London (Mrs. Jack
Webb and Pete Rugulo, all over
town and doing their hand hold
ing in public.
Is it true that Margaret Tru-
man is moving to Hollywood for
good?
Elizabeth Taylor and Mike
Wilding will be home March Is.
George Montgomery, an au-
thority on acting in Westerns,
saw "Hondo" five times, and then
wrote John Wayne a fan letter.
telling him how much he en-
joyed it. John had the. letter
framed.
Edgar Bergen says he was the
most popular boy in all his
classes in college because all the
boys would ask him to throw his
voice and answer present" for
them when they were absent.
June Allyson left the Dais at
the Swedish Club dinner for
Edgar Bergen, and sat out front
so she could see him perform
with his new puppet, Capt. Lars
Lindquist. June looked like a
countess smoking her cigarette in
a long holder.
received a letter from the
mother of Bob Matthias. She's
worried that Bob is too modest to
be an actor. But if Producer Bob
Selwyn can bring out Bob's great
heart and courage, he will give
Hollywood a new star.
The fact that Maggie Nc
Namara was nominated for best
actress oscar for her emoting in
1.-THE Moon Is Blue" will start
a new trend for independent pro-
ducers to release their pictures
without the Johnston Office seal
Personally, 1 don't believe the
academy should honor pictures
that do not abide by the rules
NBC which telecast the oscar
awards from coast to coast, will
put up large screens in all key
cities. The 100000 tab will be
picked up by an auto company
Will the television academy
please note. How come the recent
Emmy awards were only viewed
on local television?
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Donald O'Connor, incidentally
in winning the Emmy award, has
U-I promising him a bigger part
than the mule in Francis Joins
the WACs." He may even get
top billing over Francis.
| Mrs. Milton Berle writes that
Uncle Miltie is tuning because
he was barred from the Stork
Club. when only a few days be-
fore, he was sent a letter by Mr.
Billingsley thanking him fol
bringing in celebrities.
Paul Gregory is dangling 9
salary and percentage for Wen.
dell Corey, for the Chicago