St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 55

TV LrVfl 3 Published Everq Daq aind the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PART SIX ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1947 PAGES 1 6F MS i PEOPLE IN THE NEWS I Piper CubKound-the-World Flyers Return Sfae "Production Hollywood'sHoliday Show Grows Shoddy By Harold Heffernan HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 28.

HOLLYWOOD boultvard ia again festooned with all ita holiday glitter and Santa Claus and his motorized, snow-spouting sleigh parades the mile-long thoroughfare nightly. PRINKS But me snow nas gone a bit stale over the years. The metal trees adorning the light posts and the multicolored bulbs streaming across the street give a county-fair aspect to the town's main drag. There are caustic comments on every side to the effect that the chamber of commerce should come up with something new. Even turning V-2-VJ AM ACTRESS 'OBLIGES Vir, CUftK I fl Mavo.

movls actress from St. Louis. rw. 711 Xi fU. AN ACTRESS OBLIGES Virginia Mayo, movie actress from St.

Louis, signing autographs Wednesday night after her appearance at the Page One Ball of the St. Louis local of the American Newspaper Guild at Kiel Auditorium. Df Pot-Uispatcb Stiff Photographer. George W. Truman (right) and Clifford V.

Evans being welcomed Wednesday night at Van Nuys, where they landed their Piper Cub planes two minutes apart in a leisurely round-the-world flight that started Aug. 9 from a New Jersey airport. Evans is receiving a big kiss from Cleo Moore, "Miss Van Nuys." while Truman, still wearing his stocking cap, looks well pleased with everything. They had arrived from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in the longest single hop of their record trip, a STARTED AT 60 Charles S. Smith, former banker and mayor of.

Eerwyn, who went to sea at 60 as an ordinary seaman, has license today at 65 and is looking for a master's berth. At present he is chief officer of the American President Line's Arcadia Victory. flight of 1275 miles. SfesriJ i Ml 0. 88 Oct 19 1 -id i In the old baubles on some new ones would help a lot.

Or would it? That little doubt crops up because we are reminded that Hollywood boulevard isn't at all the smart, fascinating highway it was, say five or six years ago. In the days gone by, filmtown's main stem, from the Roosevelt hotel way down to the colorful intersection of Hollywood and Vine, was one of the most interesting half-hour walks a tourist could take. Smart shops, brilliantly illuminated by night, lined the sidewalks. Well-groomed out-of-towners, the pick of the local populace, many a movie star among them, could be seen taking in the sights. BUT WHAT'S HAPPENED to Hollywood boulevard since the early days of the war is almost too depressing for words.

Today it's strictly a "joint" street. The fashion marts have been displaced by dine, drink and dance emporiums, three and four to the block. Men and women weave up and down the street, from one cheap resort to another. Police sirens sound frequently, or as often as Hollywood's heavily taxed law-enforcing outfit can handle the calls. Last week, even the placid city fathers decided they could stand Hollywood boulevard no longer.

They're now in the midst of a cleanup binge. No extension of liquor licenses for the joints. They're to be driven out. MEANWHILE Santa Claus is taking it all in stride. The setting for his nightly drive is tawdry and the taunting shouts from merry in-ebriants on the sidewalk burn his ears.

But Santa is happy, nevertheless. He has movie stars sitting up there with him on that gorgeous eleigh. And even Hollywood's Santa Claus is a fan. Every night before the stars step down from his vehicle, he gets them to write their names in his autograph book. There's no danger, either, of Santa falling victim to the temptations of the nefarious street along which he drives.

For the first time, he's on television and Mrs. Claus can sit home and check his every move. ADOLPIIE MENJOU, born in France, was asked why he never made a picture in the land of his birth. "It's difficult to film a good picture over there," faid Menjou, -because the dialects are so varied. Often the Frenchmen cannot understand each ether." Menjou has just purchased a farm once owned by his father in the Basque country, and, after finishing "State of the Union," plans a trip abroad to make an inspection of the property.

MOVIE ADDICTS for the past" 15 years have been nursed along in the belief that Myrna Loy is the "ideal wife. But Just wait until "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" gets on the screens. There'll be a lot of disillusioned fans. Myrna is anything but the lovely, compromising mate in this one.

She gets her dander up time and again. One scene calls for Myrna to hurl a ski boot at husband Cary Grant, socking him right in the face. She gets to yell and scream a lot, too. Furthermore, she's mighty happy to be untyped. Try and Stop Me By Bennett Cerf A CHICAGO radio announcer and disk jockey named Norman Ross may be remembered also as a long-distance Olympic swimming champion.

He likes to swim' far out into Lake Michigan every morning and come ploughing back through the waves at full speed. Invariably a big crowd is waiting to see who the superman Is and what he's up to. One morning Ross swam into shallow water, and cried out to the crowd on the beach, "Hi, folks, what town is this?" they called back in surprise. "Shucks," said Ross. "It's Milwaukee I'm looking for," and swam out into the lake again.

(This story was picked up "by Tide Magazine, which certainly is the appropriately-named place for it!) -S Aug UNITED A 1 Nov 26 LOSES ONE OF FIVE KIDNEYS Betty Seipp, 4 years old, in Women and Children's Hospital Chicago where she is recovering after an operation for Route followed by Truman and Evans after they left New Jersey. The two flyers plan to head east tomorrow on th last leg of their global tour. They say their trip will demonstrate the practicability of lengthy flights in light, personal-type planes. AMOclated Frtt Wli-ryiiMc. removal of one of her five kidneys.

The case was described by physicians as "one in a million." Two kidneys are normal. Associitfd Preu Wlrf photo. FIRST FOR FRANCE Madame Germaine Poinso-Chapuis, France's first woman cabinet member, is the new minister of public health in the cabinet of Robert Schuman. She is a member of the Popular Republican Movement Party and is well known in her country for her fight ARRIVES BY PLANE Doris Duke Rubirosa, heiress to the Duke tobacco fortune, leaving a plane at New York yesterday after arriving from Paris for her first visit to her homeland since her marriage last September to Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican Republic diplomat. against alcoholism.

iO'Ar-W rs W. 1 I tmmmm .1 mmu fi" rJ ft A giddy bobby-soxer annoyed Jack Carson by virtually ripping the coat off his back, and then gushed, "You know, Jackie boy, I've got acting on the brain." Carson answered, "That's my Idea of playing to an empty house." 1 mm 4 mr -9 MtVs. I nil il ill iiiiW il iii Iff i i ff tin an irrrn-dn in "rm i-nrmum nniwi EYEDROPPER FED BABY Prematurely born baby girl weighing M2 pounds at birth a week ago being fed an eyedropper of milk at Doctors Hospital in Washington. Dr. William delivery physician, said the infant's chances for life now have increased "to a little less than even." The baby is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Zimmerman Jr. of Arlington. Va. Associated Press Wlrephotos except it noted.

What Am I Saying? MANY a man rises to success by hitching his braggin' to a star. For, as ve all know, nothing succeeds like advertising. Look at Samson. He took two columns and brought down the house 1 FRANK MORGAN. TURKEY TREAT With obvious relish William Koehler' partakes of the Thanksgiving meal provided yesterday for 250 guests by Ozanam Shelter at 3225 Montgomery street.

The Community Chest agency is operatef for homeless men. Bj Post-Dltpitch Stiff Photographer. TRUMAN SIGNING FREEDOM TRAIN REGISTER Train after a 30-minute inspection today in Washington of the historic documents it carries. He paused for particular reflection and examination at the original draft of Lincoln! Gettysburg Address and Jefferson's first rough draft of the Declaration ot Independence. Associated Tress Wlrepboto..