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DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, JANUARY 12, 1941. MAGAZINE THREE Modw Ttco IB' Mfice If TtlhicB IPsnnly 2 Tiptoe Kisses Dennis Morgan says that talk about screen kisses being boring is strictly feminine. "When a girl is being kissed on the screen, she's the one who's uncomfortable, not the man. Her neck is out of joint. She's worried about her lip rouge, her hair and her dress.

"She has to look relaxed and eager at the same time. Meantime some big guy is squeezing her too hard and tilting her head at an impossible angle while she stands on tiptoe." In contrast, Dennis rather en-jojed filming a kiss with Shirley Ross. He began at her left ear, detoured around her chin and ended up on the target. "Just fun for me," chortled Dennis. I 'A I If you really want to be the life of the party, try being like Ann Sothern.

Ann, aa you know, makes most of her movies for M-G-M, including the "Maisie" series and the new musical, "Lady. Be Good." But it was rival Warner studio that discovered Ann (pictured at right) was the life of the party. Warner publicists gave it as their unprejudiced opinion that "she's invariably the life of any party she joins." "Have You So if you, too, want to be the belle of the ball, all you have to do is know how to tell a good story like Ann does, change your hair from brunet to brown, be a torchy singer, drink goat's milk and fruit juices to keep your weight down to 112 pounds and. use no cosmetics. Also, if you want to be exactly like Ann, it might help to like backgammon, travel, Russian history, riding and old china.

(You may find Russian history a strain but Isn't It worth it to become the life of the party?) Remember, too, you should trim your clothes with ostrich feathers, wear fur coats even in summer and stay mad only a little while when anyone offends you. Unofficial M. D. Also, when anyone has a headache, neuritis, broken toe or measles, you must if you want to be like Ann offer a special remedy. (They call her "Doc" Sothern, because she's got a cure for everything!) It'll help, too, if you have the sort qf body needed to become, as Ann did, a Ziegfcld girl.

As a matter of fact, if you have lines like that, never mind the other requirements for being the life of the party! "Lady Be Good" returns Ann Sothern to musical comedy after a long series of straight comedy and dramatic parts. Her first big hit was scored, you'll remember, in the stage musical, "Of Thee I Sing." Unless you're a shark, turn down any chance to play poker with CON- STANCE BENNETT. She's a whiz. sS Ollie, Wimpy and Nana are three of the nicknames of Olympe Brad-na, whose real name is Marie An- toinette Olympe Bradna. P.

Her parents call her Nanette. BEVERLY HOLDEN still has EDDIE ALBERT throbbing. In "She Stays Kissed," sighs LUCIA CARROLL, "I don't even get kissed." Toiighy Brian Donlevy's busy planting flowers. sj W. C.

FIELDS promptly supplied RICHARD CARLSON with another Phi Beta Kappa key when the young actor lost his. Accompanying the key was this note: "Am lending you mine temporarily. Here's the address of a business friend who helped me. Consult him." The friend was a pawnbroker. These days LOIS ANDREWS is a blond.

It's been a long time, but his pals used to call Humphrey Bogart "Bub." A hula dancer in "The Wagons Roll at Night," THELMA WOODRUFF, once was childhood film sweetheart of JACKIE COOGAN. What do you think of this forecast? Hollywood friends announced JUDY GARLAND wouldn't marry for at least two years. Hollywood plans to meet the ASCAP-BMI row by shooting musical shorts to plug songs coming up in feature films. BING CROSBY'S 1910 profits for his recording of "Silent Night" went to help build a convent. They're doing it all for you girls.

Brian Donlevy stripped off 10 pounds with a special diet and Robert Taylor will too if he takes the broad hint handed him by his wife, Barbara Stanwyck. GLORIA JEAN'S alligator was sent to her by a Los Angeles fan. Swearing Off "It is too wearing on the heart to fall in love too many times," said Dancer Diosa Costello as she resolved not to have more than six romances while in Hollywood. GINGER ROGERS still would like to paint pictures. 3S BRODERICK CRAWFORD drew a house in San Fernando Valley for a wedding present from his mother, HELEN BRODERICK.

In the Shade Vera Zorina's hospital sojourn was the result of a long siege of reducing. What's happened to those sun-baths that used to keep you in shape, Zorina? BORIS KARLOFF has been paid back. Stage fright sent chills up and down his spine when he faced an audience for the first time in 10 'years in his new play "The Edge of Running Water." They say Bing Crosby's contracts will bring him anually for the next three years. Bearded extras are patting themselves on the back as the result of a run of whisker pictures, including "Tobacco Road," "The Shepherd of the Hills," "Bad Men of Missouri," "Billy, the Kid," "Down to the Sea in Ships," "Wagons Roll at Night," "The Bad Man," "Victory," "The Sea Wolf" and "Comrade This is the first year that wasn't helped in with photographs of little Larry Simms representing the New Year. He outgrew that kind of pants.

Imagine gangly BUDDY EBSEN wanted to be a doctor. It isn't the deck that rolls in "The Sea Wolf" it's the camera. If you think HENRY FONDA mopes a lot, you should have seen him at the Stork Club. The lad can sparkle! Okay, Pop! John Barrymore's calling Er-rol Flynn "my son." They're close friends. 1 5 If you recognize those pajamas CARY GRANT -puts on in "Penny Serenade" it's because you saw them in "The Awful Truth." You should have seen Director Charles Vidor showing a German dachshund newspaper headlines.

He was trying to get the dog in the mood to bite Englishman Eric Blore. CHARLES BOYER seldom sits in the chair provided for him on the set. He paces nervously, puffing his cig-aret and rehearsing his i Chester Morris kissed Rochelle Hudson 47 times and Constance Worth 23 times within 10 days after he was married. Of course, his new bride, Lillian Barker, understood it was only work for him. Actress LEE PATRICK tried first for a job as a newspaper reporter next as an actress.

Lionel At will's son is a medical officer in the R.A.F. That doctor's calls on MYRNA LOY are far from professional, Hollywood hears. Bang Ditto! It's good mileage. Errol Flynn gets 20 shots out of two six-shooters in "Santa Fe Trail" and doesn't reload once. IBoo-IIn-Iloo! James a insists he'd rather sing than be a motion picture star.

Says his brother William, "He did sing in a couple of pictures, but his career survived anyway." GARY COOPER still has the return half of a round-trip railroad ticket he bought when he went from Helena, to Hollywood 15 years ago. It takes five children to play one role in Columbia's "Penny Serenade." Judith and Dianna Fleetwood and Joan and Jane Biffle, two pair of twins, portray the baby until it is a year old. At 6, Eva Lee Kuney is the girl. sj: ROBERT STACK'S new speedboat has already been on the high seas aboard a ship for delivery to him via the Panama canal. a 1" 1' Because ice has played such an Important part in her success, Sonja Henie won't do without an icebox supplied with honest-to-goodness frozen water.

ANDY DEVINE'S pretty proud of having met Mexico's President AVILA CAMACHO. "Road to Zanzibar" skeletons were hired at $25 each per day, which is nearly five times as much as a breathing extra gets. Won't Get Up Don't bother offering Dorothy Lamour a chair. She had to sit on a log during six "takes" for a movie scene. The log had slivers and Dorothy wore shorts.

ELEANOR POWELL'S a racing driver! She owns a miniature car 18 inches long which competes on that Hollywood track. Fuel costs $4 a gallon but the speedster can do 500 miles on that So far Dorothy Lamour's kept her resolution to wear no sarongs on the screen in 1941. Horror note on the gown LILLIAN CORNELL wears in "Las Vegas Night" is a bodice decoration. It's an octopus. The Duchess of Windsor's American passport identifies her as plain old Wallis Warfield Windsor.

CECIL B. DeMILLE'S testing his "Reap the Wild Wind" crew for seasickness by putting them on a movable platform that simulates the dancing of a ship's deck. He'll eliminate from production the boys who get queasy. Seasickness delays in filming "The Buccaneer" cost $100,000, DeMille claims..