HOLLYWOOD
STAR-LITES
(By Chuck Cochard
HOLLYWOOD, (Exclusive) —
Hollywood an dBroadway like
their girls tall now!
i
. Can you rememoer when Greta
Garbo was thought to be a tall
—with her 5 feet 5 inches . . .
and it w-asnt until just recently
that a girl had to be under 5 feet
3 inches tall to get a contract
in Hollywood . . . Five feet and
100 lbs. like Janet Gaynor was
the ideal—but today things have'
‘changed and tall and hefty girls
are coming into their own.
Brunette Ann Miller is just 5
feet 8 inches tall—you’ll see her
next in the musical, “What’s Buz
zin’ Cousin” . , . Then there is
Alexis Smith, who is considered 1
only moderately tall by the new''
standards . . . Alexis measures 5 !
feet 7 inches and is athletic ... I
She is currently co-starring with :
Humphrey Pogart in “Conflict’.
Winning national swimming
championships was her hobby be
fore coming to the movies—and
probably had much to do with
her streamlined figure—we speak
of Esther Williams who is 5 feet
8 inches tall and is now starring
opposite Red Skelton in “Mr. Co
Ed” with Harry James and his
band and Xavier Cugat’s band.
Beautiful and well-built Geor
gia Carroll is 5 feet 8V4 inches
and is a former model making
good on the screen horizon—her
next is with Kay Kyser in
“Around the World” with Kyser
and band . . . Louise Allbrit
ton’s 5 feet 7% inches would cer
tainly have handicapped her from
film fame a few years back—but
not today . . . She is starring in
“Fired (Wife”—alfter a year at
Pasadena Community Playhouse
. . . And these are only a hand
ful of the many tall ones.
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I And these girls are almost con
sidered short by the extreme
height of tho showgirls along
Broadway in both musical shows
and n ght clubs as well as on the
modeling front , . . The average
show girl in New York is said
to be over 5 feet 9 inches tall
and to weigh over 120 pounds
But this isn’t startling because
they have always placed empha
sis on tall girls in musicals, night
clubs and modeling . . . But when
it takes Hollywood—a place
where tall girls were once taboo
—it is something!
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Round Hollywood . . . Although
Carmen Miranda is definitely on
* the men—she won’t be able to i
appear before movie cameras un
! til late December . . . Darn nice
I of Abbbott and Costello—they’ll
pay for the construction of a
swimming pool at the Navy Re
; coiving Station at San Pedro . . .
i Report is that Tommy Dorsey has
I given notice to his entire 31 mu
I sicians as of September 8—that
j he may rehire some of them . . . |
| Talented and oh, so lovely Anne !
Baxter will play the lead in
“Army Life” . . . It’s all settled—
Bette Davis and Paul Henreid in
“Mr. Skeflfington.”
Betty Grable denies baby bug
gy rumors—ditto for Alice Faye
I again . . . Producers attention—
you’d better test Califomias en
try for the Miss America contest
at Atlantic City this month—Miss
Jean Bartel—she is one of the
most beautiful girls we have
ever seen—both in face and fig
ure and sings like a million dol
lars ... or she might get a
Broadway contract before she re
turns home . . Here is one beau
ty^ contest winner with a future
. . . Bye now and Buy War Bonds
and Stamps . . That's All
SUMMERING
In Spain; Mrs Benito Musso
lini; and just across Lake Con
stance from Switzerland, Mrs.
Hermann Goering and Mrs Paul
Joseph Goebbels.
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IF YOU CANT GET CLOCK,
JUST GET MARIED
SYDNEY. N. S. W. (AP)—
Many Sydney women have to
stay awake half the night to
make sure their husbands get up
in time for work because of an
acute shortage of alarm clocks.
More than 25,000 alarm clocks
could be sold immediately in New
South Wales if they are available,
the jeweler said. His firm re
ceives about 100 inquiries daily
for alarm clocks of all kinds—
many from wives wanting to’end
Cheir early morning vigils.
Some women say they depend
on the baby to cry and -wake
them up. The main cause of the
shortage was that most erf the
clock factories in America and
Canada switched over to war
work.
ANDREW MATTSON NOW
RAISING CHICKENS
Andrew Mattson, Nome and
Solomon pioneer, is living at Tur
lock, Calif., with his former part
ner, Charles Hulbberg, and rais
ing chickens to relieve the meat
shortage. Hultberg operated a
dredge at Shovel Creek on Solo
mon River in the early days.
Old history books mention oil
in England in 16157.
AT HOME WILL WAR WORK REMAIN VOLUNTARY?
Factory, Field Vs. Home, Army
.Pearl Harbor sent American
women by the thousands flock
ing to industrial courses, unac
customed places at war machines.
Today, the War Manpower Com
mission has disclosed, the trend
is reversed.
How to keep America’s women
heading for factories instead of
the home is a problem that may
have to be solved by a feminine
equivalent of the men’s “work or
fight” order. WMC officials dur
ing the week declared national
service legislation is “inevitable”
if increased production schedules
are to be met. They added that
women constitute the only large
source of new labor from which
3,000,000 new workers ill have to
come in the next nine months.
Meanwhile the OWI estimated
that an additional 750,000 persons
would be needed to help the na- |
tion’s 11,000,000 farm workers
get in the fall harvest.
And Draft Director Lewis B. 1
Hershey, in the first official pro
nouncement of the kind, said it
probably would be necessary for
the services to induct 446,W0
pre-Pearl Harbor fathers by next
I January.
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SWAPS BUBBLES
FOR COUNTRY LIFE (
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Sally
Rand, the former bubble dancer,
says cows, hay and the old corral
fence up in Montana now are her
chief concerns in life.
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She’s married to Turk Green
ough of the famed Greenougil
rodeo family and living with him
on the Greenough ranch near
Red Lodge, Mont.
Rotenone, insecticide extracted
| from derris root, was called
j “fish poison” by Indians in the
i A,erican tropics many years ago.
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Signs of the Times
Harvest of 1,000,000 pounds
of milkweed floss has been set
as the U. S. goal for this year—
the figure to reach 3,000,000 for
1944, 5,000,000 for 1945. WPB
says milkweed floss is the only
American plant which can substi
tute for East Indies kapok in life
preservers.
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Pigeons that can be dropped
out of a plane traveling 200 miles
an hour at an altitude of 14,000
feet, and fly to their destination,
may soon become a part of U. S.
paratroops’ equipment. Present
model carrier pigeons have a
range of 600 miles.
SEA WAR
The Japanese fleet’s where
abouts is something of a mystery.
But during the week a study of
! United Nation’s communiques
that a very large part of it has
been sent to the bottom of the
| sea. Since Pearl Harbor, com
| muniques have claimed destruc
i tion of 45 Japanese cruisers, 9(2
! destroyers and ten other naval
vessels listed as being in either
I of the two categories.
A Senate committee at the time
of Pearl Harbor said Japan had
46 cruisers built and ten build
ing, 125 destroyers built and 11
under construction.
New evidence of weakness in
the Japanese Navy was given in
a statement by General MacAr
thur during the week. He an
nounced that Allied warships
had penetrated 700 miles into
enemy-controlled seas to shell
Finschhafen, a supply base for
Salamaua on the northeastern
| Vanishing Fleets
I YANKS ABROAD ADOPT
IRISH WAR ORPHANS
BELFAST — United States sol
j diers have adopted forty waT
; orphaned children in Southern
i Ireland and the number soon will
| be doubled.
For each child $400 is provid
ed by the soldiers—on a basis of
$80 a year.
One unit stationed somewhere
in Ulster banded together to
adopt two-year-old Freda, whose
father was lost at sea. The dough
boys have never seen her—but
they asked for and received 150
copies of her picture, one for
each soldier.
Another adopted orphan, Eliza
beth, received a birthday cake
for her fifth birthday, sent by
soldiers who are helping provide
for her. And she will toe the
pride of the regiment in the smart
battle-dress the soldiers made for
her.
Five-year-old William, whose
father was killed in an air raid
on Belfast, has been adopted by
a London unit, and received the
surprise of his life when a colonel
of the unit came to see him. The
colonel wanted to take William
back to visit all his American
“uncles,” but the trip could not
be permitted.
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