Cumberland Evening Times from Cumberland, Maryland • Page 13

EVENING TIMES, CUMBERLAND, MIX, TUESDAY, UEVKMKKK 24, In Hollywood- LETTER TO SANTA By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent Hollywood, Dec. Santa Claus: From the way things have been going dQjvn this way, you're in for more trouble again this year. So watch out for: 1. used-car salesmen who may want to buy your old sleigh. They'll try to sell you a '47 model, but i you'll never get delivery in time to make the Christmas rounds.

And they'll only allow you $20 on the old'one. Keep the old bus for couple more years. 2. studio gatemen. Be sure and bring your Producers Association Past, because they'll never recognize you.

3. Pickets. Hollywood still has 'em. But please don't avoid them. Slip few greenbacks if you can.

4. mflatlon. Bring plenty of money. Bacon Is 95 cents a pound, and headwaiters cnn't even see you unless you slip them $5. Haircuts are $1, and a shave lor you probably would cost $150.

Oh. better equip the old sleigh for sleeping. In case you decide to stay a. few days to see the sights. The housing shortage it worse than ever.

Brine These With You If you still plan on making the trip, here's our annual list of Christmas gifts for you to bring some oJ the boys and girls of the screen colony. Howard Hughes: A great big censor-proof theater In which to show "The Outlaw." Or, five minutes alone to any room WITHOUT a censor. Peggy Cummins (In memory her being replaced as Amber la "Forever Amber" by Linda Darnell) Five minutes alono In the same room with Kathleen Winsor. Harry Cohn: A Chinese dictionary. That seems to be the only language he's missed.

William Powell: A can of black shoe-polish. His hair, dyed red for "Life With Father," Is being temperamental about growing back to Its- natural color. Errol Plynn: An on his report card for being a good boy lately. Producer Edward Small: A guy who looks like Valentino, quick. We're getting tired of hearing about all those film tests.

Al Jolson: A recording of Larry Parks singing "Mammy." Movie fans: Silent popcorn. Jimmy Stewart: A great big red apple for his performance in "It's a Wonderful Life." Clark Gable: A good movie. Something For Frankie Frank Sinatra: A bobby-, equipped with a Maxim sllcer. Samuel Goldwyn (worried about the fate of Hollywood. and the excellence of recent English movies): A special showing of "It's a Wonderful Life," Ginger Rogers: A good movie.

Ingrld Bergman: Anything she being a great lady arid a great actress. Lana Turner: A happy love affair. Peter Lind Hayes: Stardom In '47. Director Clarence Brown: A gold medal for his great direction of kids and animals, the toughest job in Hollywood, in "The Yearling," The George Murphys: An "Oscar 1 for staying happily married for 20 years. Sydney Greenstreet: A bathtub tailored to fit.

Van. Johnson: A retreat where the bobbysoxers can't find Your Hollywood reporter; More grapevines. Leora Thompson, the agent who wangles fancy commissions for of the nation's top-flight Il- lustrators, has opened Hollywood exploit, she hopes, such dabblers in art as Linda Darnell, Ann Miller, Lionel Barrymore ar.d George Sanders. Aileen Leslie, writer of the "Date With Judy," air show, will keep a date with the stork in April Latest figures show that 41,000,000 people have seen "The Bells of St. Mary's." Only 37,000,000 saw "Gone With the Wind." Elsa Lanchester turned' down an offer from the Theater Guild to do a role opposite husband Charley Laughton in 'Galileo." Her reason: "I'm very much opposed to husband and wife appearing together in the same play or picture.

It generally makes for professional jealousies." So many men In World War II were engaged in supply, maintenance, and administration that only one U. S. veteran in eight actually saw Joe Seplius (Continued From Page 12) realization and belief that came with Christmas morning when we found our stocking well filled with good things, and a Christinas tree well laden with bright and sparkling articles, and under the tree, ior nearby, articles that made our eyes sharpen as we gazed upon toys and other things dreamed of and hoped for before Christmas. That was realization and glorification for us, and we think that every Individual child becomes a better citizen when he grows up, because, of the spirit of Christmas period of giving. The Christmas thought is something that takes hold firmly and to most of us, it remains, and we want to do something lor others to bring at least some of that Joy In later life.

So, when we say Merry Christ- mas, we mean It with all the fervor and cheerfulness born of our realization of what the day meant for us as a youth. We wish each and every one of our readers and their families, friends and associates a very Merry Christmas, extending not only for tomorrow, but for the entire holiday period and we hope the merry spirit will prevail through the entire next year. A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR YOU ALL BREAK THAT COLD with Nurse Brand COLD CAPSULES KEECH'S DRUG STORES it Vhftnlm Are. Phone 1688 GARDEN WE FINANCE Zone Grey "Wanderer of the Wasteland" with JAMES WARREN AUDREY LONG Dick Powell "Cornered" with WALTER SLEZAK NINA VALE Automobiles. Refriirerators.

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XMAS DAY MARYLAND AND EMBASSY Pecans, hickory nuts and "English" walnuts do not need to have their skins removed before roasting. COMING TO GRACE M. FISHER'S MARYLAND THEATRE Direct From 2 Record Breaking Years OH Broadway THE GREATEST PRIZE WINNING PLAY OF ALL TIMI For One Performance Only CURTAIN AT T. M. SATURDAY, JAN.

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