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IJ-i INDEPENDENT, PRESS-TELEGRAM um uik ku.u, -( Shes trying. But it isnlUyasy' tb conceal her womanly weapons? i Was the Orson Welles "Men from Mars broadcast (which scared the living" daylights out of American listeners) ever used on radio in other countries? I -Vs CHRISTINE JORGENSEN sex prevented marriage. AUTHOR Mickey Spillane expose on Hollywood not his. hy gardner V. UW Yes.

"War of the WorldsVwas? done in Spanish ovef stationThe fiery Latins were so 'incensed at the false alarm, they burned down the station and killed some of the actors. I seem to remember that Christine Jorgensen once announced she was going to get married. Did she? 1 No. Just was engaged to Howard J. Knox of Waukegan, 111.

But all bets were called off when after five -months of frustration, the New York City license bureau turned the appli- cation down because, the bride-to-bes birth, certificate specified she was Did W. C. Fields really hate Part of. that antagonism was genuine, part put on. Aftef his death, it was discovered that Fields left the bulk of his estate to establish a home for orphaned boys.

s- Ql Settle a bet My gal says ballpoint pens are a new thing. I say no, remembering I signed my draft papers with one. Who wins? Gaude Youngstown, Ohio. 1 You do. The ubiquitous ball-, point has been with us since before the turn of the century invented by an American named John Loud, back in the Year of the Big Blizzard, 1888.

s- THE LATE v' comedian W.C. Fields had some feeling for children. 5 Isn't Mickey Spillane's next book going to be an expose on Hollxv wood? Harold Taylor, Milwaukee. No. Spillane just wrote the foreword to the book you heard about.

Called Investigation Hollywood, Me- moirs of Hollywoods No. ,1 Private. Investigator, Fred Otash, the book was written by Otash. He was a color. ful private eye back in the era when Hollywood burned its scandals at both ends.JHe was also once a member of the Los'Angeles police vice squad.

In the heyday of Confidential magazine, Otash defended publisher Bob Harrison in many libel suits his hot articles created. He also later handled some. of the alleged "Victims." Spillane predicts his pals book will spill over into a violent, sex-saturated film. Frank Sinatra ever reveal what his idea of paradise would be? Mrs. F.C.L., Morristown, NJ.

No, but pne of his closest', cronies did. "Frank's idea of paradise." Humphrey Bogart once guess- ed, is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. But, Bogie 'added, "hed be better off if it were the other way around." When Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, he never dated a white woman again. Why? Ms. Dowdie Indianapolis.

1 Philosophizes the one-time playboy pummeler: "When I see a lady now I do my best to try to teach her about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad so I can help her. Cassius Gay would carry her to some hotel room and use her If. I was Cassius Clay today. Id be just like Floyd Patterson. Id probably have a white wife and I wouldnt represent black people in no way Or Id be like Charley Pride, the folk singer.

Nothin bad about him hes a good fella and I met his black wife, but Charley stays out of controversy. "Its not only him, because I could name Wilt Chamberlain and others who-just dont get involved in struggle or racial issues it might jeopardize their position. Id be that kind of man. If I were Cassius Gay today. Id probably be staying in a big New York hotel, and I might say: Well, I got time to have a little fun.

Im going out to a discotheque full of white girls, find the prettiest one there and spend the night with her. Why "hasnt Prince Rainier of Monaco become king yet? Because theres no chance for advancement in a principality. Though Rainier is only a prince, he lives like a king. 'J Is it true Oat Raquel Welch is changing her image from sex symbol to comedienne? HEAVYWEIGHT boxing champion Muhammad Ali changing names changed his ways. THE LATE Humphrey Bogart described paradise for friend Frank Sinatra.

I 1 5 5 PRINCE Ranier of Monaco all the trappings of a king. ACTOR Orson Wells his false radio broadcast had worse fate in Spanish. ACTRESS Raquel Welch trying to change sexy image. 'du mb as-a mink-d yed fox' SHES THE DARLING of dinner theaters, re-. gkmal theaters, summer stock, you name it Olympic athlete 'vM? played the tipsy mother of an Olympic athlete -t ''the comedy career was an accident The funny voice wasnt You could work all your life and never develop a voice that funny.

It sounds like a Tweety Pie cartoon bird strangling on peanut butter. 'People think I put that voice on for laughs. After the Jack Parr show When Mary HartmanrMary Hartmanareturns this fall, there jut might be a new Body Goodman, Body. Goodman. I spend my life on that show stirring cake batters and watering plants.

"We have a suggestion box on the set and if we an idea, we drop it in the box, and some of our shows have come out of that. Louise Lasser got felt on the get) best so tired at one point, she wrote a note saying she like she was having a nervous breakdown. So 'The first thing I did was walk into Radio City Music Hall and audition for a job in the ballet They hired me to dance on point in a dress shaped like a mushroom. My legs were the stems. I did four or five shows a day and rehearsed the next show in between.

There was no time left over for classes or auditions. Then I did a season at the Met and finally landed in High Button Shoes, where I danced for Jerome Robbins. Then he hired me If or Miss Liber Carol Channing in Lorelei on Broadway and IhoA recently appeared as Bette Bavis' sidekick in the ill-fated musical Miss Moffltt Her most consistent review has been: She didnt have enough to do." She never made a TV pilot until Mary Hartman," and even then she never thought it would sell. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" has now taken over her life. The one thug I said Id nev neverdo Is a they used to come up to me and say, Oh, my God, Sou really do sound like that! Im, used to it now.

'hen I did Born Yesterday in cummer stock, I 5 next show they let her have a nervous breakdown. think this fall IH finally get out of the kitchen. In my rded Now here I am in one. The hours are me. We were getting up at 5 a.m., and with a compiztely memorized script we'd be in full make-up and ccstumes by 8 a.m.

"'hen wed have a camera rehearsal and shoot all daj. Then at night, wed block the next days show dead tired to memorize the next days and go home I ty. and Irving Berlin always called me Red. Im always ti but they don't ever believe always telling interviewers about my ballet career, Betty Garrett sent Body to her vocal coach, wlp taught her how to sing comedy songs. Everyone in the oallet was always up over her voice, but didnt even have to develop a voice.

I just opened my mouth and people laughed." JACK PARR MABE her a household name. His writers had seen her in the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue," and he called her in for a meeting. I wasn't nervous. she says wide-eyed. I didnt even know who Jack Parr was.

And ne never told me what to say on the air. The show wasn't that well planned. He just wanted someone to sit and talk to. I didnt think anyone would want to hear anything I had to say. I wasn't ver- interested in the show.

because at that point I still wanted to be a dancer. But I went on and people started laughing every time I opened my -mouth. It was all a big accident She was on every night, with no preparation, ad-libbing her way through whatever oddball subject Paar threw at her. Today, people have techniques they use on talk shows, but not then. The show was live, and there was no way I could watch it later and improve my mistakes.

Sometimes Id start scratching myself because I was i nervous, and people would roar. The dumb blonde reputation didnt bother me then because it was a good job. But later it was hurtful I learned to rely on laughter so much that when I left the Paar show, I was afraid to branch out and try serious L.J IS ia house on the show, I only have one room. Ive never been in a bedroom except when I go over to Mary's to get her out of bed. when I go back, I'm going.to ask them for a bedroom to go with my kitchen.

'i The real Body Goodman can't even cook. She lives in a small furnished apartment in Culver City with a cat Sophia, she loves junk food (especially all kinds of crappy cookies), and she never goes near the stove. She's just signed for another 38 weeks of the phenomenally popular sick soap opera. Now everyone stops her and asks what's going to happen in the fall. She doesn't know: The scripts havent been written yet.

Meanwhile, she's spending the. summer touring America in a smash revival of George Washington Slept Here," blasting a hole in the old Dody Goodman image by turning in a performance of great skill, depth and warmth. As the wife of Jimmy Coco who buys a dilapidated farm inhabited by plagues of. Body is expanding her -horizons as an actress and surmising everyone who thinks shes a cross between Billie Burke genuinely touching. script Now we go in at 8:30, rehearse each scene on the set and -shoot one scene at a time.

We do the whole thing without cue cards. Sometimes Im so tired and confused I forget -Y the lines and start making up my own dialogue, which is often better than tne wads they give me to say: I get out about 5:30 and go. home and watch myself every night. I get a whole week of scripts in advance and we I just beat it out until we have them karned. Some- times they throw out a scene on the set and write a new one before you even learned the old one.

It's the hardest work there is. 5. i acting! had no self-confidence. never sees Jack Paar i like to sleep 10 hours a night, but I havent 4 getting much sleep since I started the show. If she ever back on another gets tired of acting, Body can i oacx on another little-known side of her talent GOAL in life was to be a ballerina, but comedy has paid better for Dody Goodman, one of the stars of popular late-night soap opera, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Jail SBes fine writer.

Two seasons ago she turned out a fine comedy, Mourning in a Funny Hat about how her Ohio mother coped with her fathers death. I Shirley Booth was the think theres more to Body Goodman than the brain image she projects, ask the insiders rolling inthe aisles over, their clash in Boom, who is something of a prude, refused to and if yoti 5 still i Miss OFFSTAGE, SHES no dumb broad, either. Her delivery is laced with Lemme see day I danl oh, yes, I know what it was, etc. But thats just part of being Body. She always sounds like shes got a mouth full of sealing wax.

She is sweet and gentle but her daffy stylet and delivery made her famous. She started out with a minimal atdlity and parlayed tt into a healthy, productive career. I never thought of being an -2 she says honestly. All I every wanted to be was a ballerina. I started dancing when I was 8 years, old, and after I graduated from high school, I went to New York with SI girlfriend whose brother had danced in Broadway shows.

It was frery scary thing for a girl who had ver left Ohio. Ve went on a Greyhound I -neve any more, and one gets the impression that; their professional parting was not exactly rosy, At first be couldnt do enough for me, she reminisces. Then I started getting too popular. We were asked to make personal appearances together, and he refused. And I guess I was overexposed, SoJis cut me down to two or three nights a I was already enough of i caricature when I started, but I finally became a caricature of a caricature.

When he started phasing me out, I questioned his motive, but now I know it was the Best i. thing for me. They never correspond. After Pairs last TV comeback disaster, he vanished into the woodwork. scarcer zoomed.

he wprkpd everzmee say the word crap in the script Body mounted the stage, stared down the nose of star and said: Honey, Im not asking you to hold it in your hand Im jut asking oa to SAY it! bus. Shes dumb, all right Dumb as a mink-dyed Jox. 4 S-l I c. I.