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SPANNING A lovely gals symbolizing past, present and future gather at the "Century in Fashion" show in New York's famed garment center. Representing 1954 in appropriate costume is pretty Barbara Landstein; of Los Angeles. Marsha Schlessinger, of Hartford, (center') brings back memories of 1900 with In front futuristic "space gal" outfit is modeled by Sherry Windsor, with antennae, yet! Sherry, a Chicago gal, says this style should be quite the rage in the year MOVIES TV RADIO Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD (NEA) Yours: The "storm" flags are flying again at Columbia over the career of Rita Hayworth, the studio's No. 1 box office attraction. She wants Dick Haymes for her leading man in her next film.

They could use the double paychecks, but Columbia's saying "No, no, NO!" The first serious wobble in the marriage of James and Pamela Mason has insiders predicting separation and ultimate divorce before many moons. Both partners are doing the stressing and straining. Wonder who will get custody of all the cats? Joanne Gilbert, painfully thin after recent surgery, has been ordered by doctors to put on poundage quickly or bow out of the personal-appearance tour in Texas in connection with Paramount's "Red Garters," her first big, film splash. Corinne Calvet's- carrying a big torch for hubby John Bromfield. She told friends that she wasn't responsible for the separation, announced last week.

John made the break. Jackie Gleason notified Paramount that the studio can't use "Away We Go," a phrase coined and popularized by him, as the title for the new film version of "Anything Goes." If Diana Lynn is playing "Secret Love" on her piano in London, it's because she has a secret love there. John Payne and his ex, Gloria de Haven, suspended hostilities. The Payne kiddies have just returned to Hollywood from a visit with their mother, who is now "Mrs. Marty Kimmel, of New York City.

States to Continue Banning of Movies NEW YORK (ff) picture censors'from six states declared yesterday they will keep on banning pictures recent upsets by the TXS. Supreme Court. At a conference here, the State Government Censors said the court actions had in no way disputed "the constitutional rights of the states to exercise pre-regulation of motion pictures. Our basic fundamental purpose is no way weakened," the group declared. The high court recently reversed action' by New York censors banning the French movie "La immoral, May Limit Power PASADENA MB-City Atty.

Frank L. Kostlan has expressed the opinion that the U.S. supreme Court movie censorship decision may limit the powers ot Pasadena's Board of Review, which passes on the morals of ail motion pictures exhibited The city attorney, said he wants to withhold final ment until he has studied the wording of the Supreme Court order. The high tribunal, in a decision Monday, reversed lower court findings which had upheld the banning of tures "La Ronde" and on moral grounds. The Board of Review is empowered to ban or "cut films which it determines to be "indecent; obscene, or immoral." HUN-EY A newcomer to Hollywood, Allison Hayes poses in the costume she'll wear in her movie debut.

She plays a Hun woman in a film based on the life of Attila. A former model, her real name is Mary Jane Hayes and she was discovered at a Washington, D.C., society function. GODFREY LEGALLY ENTITLED TO FLY PLANE 60 DAYS NEW YORK (U.R) A Civil Aeronautics Administrator said yesterday radio-television, star Arthur Godfrey is medically qualified to'fly a plane for 60 days under a temporary medical certificate sent to Washington Wednesday. Col. Ora W.

Young, regional administrator for the CAA, said the filing of the medical certificate does not affect the charge by federal investigators that Godfrey was flying without medical clearance when his plane swooped low over the control tower at the Teterboro, N. airport Jan. 7. Journey Through Chaplin Studio Stirs Memories By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (JP) Charlie Chaplin would.scarcely-recognize his old The old Hollywood landmark is getting a face-lifting. The last time I the Chaplin Studios when the comic was shooting "Limelight." The place was quiet, Void and musty, a throwback to the casual days of the silents.

I went back again this week to find a transformation taking place. Workmen were converting the drab offices into modern rooms with the latest styles in equipment. Over the noise of- the General Manager David me that Chaplin had sold the lot to a New York real estate firm, Webb and Knapp, for $650,000, The company had given a 10-year lease to Kling Studios, a Chicago commercial art concern branching out into TV. Stanley, Kramer, again an independent producer, will also have offices there. Sees Lot me to Eddie Mann, a employee for seven years.

Mann showed me around the, lot, much, of which is still a wonderland of Chaplin lore. First stop was the leading room. It was first created for Edna Purviance, thenj made over for Paulette Goddard, Among the later occupants were Martha Raye and Claire Bloom, It was a roomy place, but the faded maroon drapes and wicker furniture made it look like a second-class hotel room. On the sidewalk, outside were the duck-walk footprints, of the famous Chaplin brogans. They led to the sound stage, where a block of cement recorded Chaplin's signature and the date the studio opened, Jan.

21, 1918. The legend says that it was-here Sid Grauman got his idea of having stars'; prints in the cement before his Chinese Theater. Stirs Memories The prop room would stir memories of any movie fan. I found the baby carriage Jackie Coogan was wheeled in for "The Kid," snowshoes from "The Gold Rush," a shell from "Shoulder Arms," the defendant's stand that was used in "Monsieur Verdoux," the double-cross insignia of "The Great "Between and he only made them every five years or would come to the studio only twice a year," Mann explained. "He'd be' here pnce in the summer and once before see that those on the payroll got their; Christmas checks.

He kept many old-timers on salary for years. I and also upset Ohio censorship of the movie on grounds it incited crime. Dr. Hugh Flick, director of New York State's censoring State Education Department's motion picture a statement in behalf of the conference, saying: "We reaffirm our determination to continue to bar objectionable films in terms of our respective state laws." Dr. Clyde Bissong, of Columbus Ohio, that state's superintendent of public instruction and chairman of the conference, said he considered the new court decisions "highly satisfactory" and supporting the constitutionality of censorship.

Miller's Records Given to Library WASHINGTON (U.R)—The widow of the late band leader Glenn Miller yesterday presented the Library of Congress a collection- of her husband's musical manuscripts, arrangements, recordings and other material. Mrs. Helen D. Miller, San.Ma­ rino, said she'decided to give the collection to the national library as a permanent tribute to her husband and as an aid to musicians. "II 4EQV T.WC FRANK FAY to perform here 'Harvey' Set for 1-Night Stand Feb.

1 Witn Frank Fay, the original Elwood P. Dowd, reviving the Pulitzer Prize comedy "Harvey," coming to the Harvey. Auditorium here in Bakersfield for one only, Feb. brings back the question long in the minds of theater is what does he stand for? Harvey is hilarious, cockeyed common sense! He is an amiable lush's dream of- perfect world. He is a boozy acceptance of reality, without complaint, without' bitterness, without envy, hatred or ill-will'.

The play is sponsored here by the Bakersfield High School Boys Service Club. the a white rabbit, 6 feet, 1 inch tall, who becomes Elwood P. Dowd's (Frank Fay) companion, adviser and foreteller of events. One night when Elwood had decided that a drinking companion had had too' much and had put the chap in a cab and sent him home, Elwood took a stroll for some fresh air and met Harvey for the first time. Elwood lives with his widowed sister (Enid Markey) and her daughter, and.

in their loving attempts to "assist" Elwood by having him committed to "Chumley's Rest" for care. Debra Paget's Film Runs Into Censorship Trouble HOLLYWOOD uTB Another sexy movie dance bit the dust of the cutting room-floor yesterday. This time the censors refused a seal of approval to Debra Paget's wigglings. Jane Russell's 3-D dance In "French Line" already has been scissored to comply with the code of Hollywood's own censor, the Breen office of. the Motion Piture Producer' Association.

Now producer Leonard: Goldstein revealed the' office won't approve "Princess of the Nile" until, he pares down an Egyptain dance routine by the shapely Debra. "Ever since 'French Line' they're watching every dance sequence," the producer said. "We've had a lot of meetings wtyh the Breen office and they want certain eliminations. "They say we have to cut out the bumps and grinds. It's a sexy but artistic dance.

The Egyptians didn't call those movements bumps and grinds. We now are arguing with the Breen office as to what is a bump and what Is a grind, Twentieth-Century Fox will npt defy the code and release the picture without a seal, as RKO's Howard Hughes did with "French Line." So the producer now- is busy in the cutting room. But the censors, he charged, are being "very inconsistant. For one thing, they gave a seal to "Top Banana" although it contains some of the risque lines of the Broadway musical. Besides, he said, Debra's dance was a copy of one Gwen Verdon did in "David and that was okayed by the censors.

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