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The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 6

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The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro, Tennessee Home of Middle Tennessee State College Tuesday- Afterntfon, October 14, 1952. Page Six a result of the program. An estl- chance to learn to act while opportunities in the theater are be communities for the purpose of attracting tourists and vacation business ana in -some 'cashes for inv dustrial and agricultural profho-tion are included in the report. WHAT'S SECRET OF MARILYN MONROE'S SUCCESS? -r Qur Hollywood Reporter Investigate Guess What He Discovered FEELS FINE AT 100 GOSHEN, Vt. UP After celebrating his lOOtlfbirthday, frisky -Bdward D.

Blackwell" packed up and left for Florida to spend the Jj winter. "If I felt any bjeter, hi said, "I'd have ta call a iBoctor.1'" By ARMAND ARCHERD' READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS Central Press Gorrespotuient 4 HOLLYWOOD- The greatest blow' to television Is Marilyn Monroe. She has Innocently become the movies' rmost potent weapon. In a period of ix months she risen from almost total -obscurity international Why Because- Marilyn's at -girt like-to romp around the nude. This is true.

The. blond bombshell tt not as new to Hollywood as you would think. The 25-year-old has been working in films since 1947. As a matter of fact, sho was under contract to her present studio at the time. She made two films for them and waa dropped.

She was unable to get another film Job until the next year when she appeared in a 'B" picture called Ladies of thi Chorus. This role, however, wasn't enough td" keep her body and aoul together, and she wasn't smart enough to get a Job a an atomic scientist so she did the only thing a poor girl could do to buy groceries. She became a photographer's model and made a couple of dandy nude calendar pictures. A A i mated $384,000,000 was spent in the state by "foreign" tourists in 1950 according to the Division, of State Department of Conservation for Tennessee. There is every reason to believe Wat 19b2 will be threatestvaH cation travel year in the survey forecasts, pointing out that economic conditions have never been more favorable; employment and income-s areTttalt-timeiiighs.

More people will be eligible for paid, vacations than ever before in factrmoreTthan 40,000,000 wage earners will receive vacations with pay in 1952. The report titled "Tourist and Vacation. Advertising Expenditures in 1952" is based on letters and questionnaires received from 247 city, state and "area groups throughout the-United States. Total expenditures for advertising and promotion purposes by the 247 a i a Vi a reporting amounted to $9,469,549. Expenditures by states, areas and Give Hit Long Diiftnee opeuror thi out-of-town telephone numbtr.

whn you tin. Thtn the doetn't hive to consult "Informttlon" In tho diitint city, ind your ctll 0 through filler. ill R. Y. MARTIN EQUIPMENT A Kmit StyM SHUATOH, by Oue-rh-rm.

Stouti'ful conjol hootw In rich mahogany finin. She parlayed the publicity from these two negatives into a potential million-dollar" career. What makes Marilyn smart is the fact she admitted posing for them. There are dozens of gals in the film industry who have a similar record nude, but artistic photographs In their past HOWEVER, they have kept this part of their past buried. Occasionally someone will run across one of these old shots and start querying the player, but they scream fraud and blackmail.

Marilyn didn't-. In the past year she has made 10 major, dims with the top male stars in Hollywood. Her bosses recognized the atomic bomb she Was ana got artremendous backlog of film ready on her before she or, they realized the total potentialities. So Marilyn' isn't smart, eh? Well, you'd thinl not when talking to her. I know her pretty well and can honestly say the phenomenon of her success is -unexplalnable.

She is not witty or a fast conversationalist. She is not the raving beauty her still photographs make her out to be and she is a long way from being an accomplished actress. So what is it? The answer is plain and unadulterated sex. Marilyn displays it with the ease of a boa constrictor wrapping itself around a tree. I do not.

believe the studio planned any of the big publicity breaks she has obtained, And, I coming rare all of the time. "I like to think of Hollywod as being a sort of large permanent-i stock company where you have-a chance to appear in "a number of types of rotes, which la the only way to learn the actkg business." Miss Davis is prepared to- give up' a couple- of years to V'Two's Company" if the show' turns out to be one of those hits that runs anL runs. She and her husband, Gary Merrill, came here with their three children and have taken over a triplex apartment overlooking the East River. Merrill feels as. though he were here on borrowed time because he wants to see his wife through the out-of-town "tryout period and the New York premiere, yet fears that any day he'll get a summons back to his studio to make a new movie.

Miss Davis and Company will leave Monday for DetroiKfor the opening Oct. 19. Pittsburgh and Boston dates will follow, then a Iew York premiere early in De ---r--. 7Tr The star said she had never felt better. 'Maybe all of us ought to try something new about evsry 20 years," she added.

Four, State Groups Spending $21 5,000 To Draw Tourists Four- Tennessee organizations are spending $215,000. this year to attract vacationers and travelers, according to the sixth annual recreation and travel survey recently completed by the Research Department of The Curtis Publish-ingCompany. The report shows, that the Division of State Infor mation, Department of Conservation, of Nashville, is spending Knoxville Tourist Bu reau, Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce, and Tourist Bureau, and Nashville Chamber. Commerce, $5,000. An interesting case history of a state-wide tourist flprbrhotioh program is to be found in Tennessee, the report states, pointing but' that here is exemplified not only an.

effective operation to attract out-of-state, travelers into Tennessee, but a realistic appraisal ef the benefits accruing to the state as tt'nsJ lis mm Gorgeous it the word- for Marilyn who doetn't agree? BIG SALE AT REDUCED PRICES! International Coleman Perfection BUY RrY. MARTIN Gulf Plant- 'i Cannon Ave. Guiberson NOW! EQUIPMENT CO. Phone 888 7 Trud Publishes Letter Of Wishful Housewife By PHIL MEWSOM all these stories about the Russians. Greatest of everything, Inventors of everything.

Then you react about some, like Mrs. Paulina Soldatenko, a housewife in Voroshilovgrad, an industrial city in the Ukraine. Mrs. sSoldatenko wrote a letter which was published in "rud, the newspaper of the Soviet labor unions. L.T.BR0VN REAL ESTATE INSURANCE PhMMi Offloe 446 Res.

624 Office! Main Floor 10 K. Main would know. First of all, the studio would think all her actions in poor taste not that they are objecting to the results. The studio was caught with its biography down when the "orphan" finally admitted she wasn't one. The studio was similarly embarrassed when she admitted poaing.

in the nude. It would have been easy to deny. The face on the pictures (yes, I've seen them I could belong to any blonde. This creature of nature has an aversion to clothes, especially those which contain upper portions of her upper anatomy. The movie set is constantly under the threat of being Jocked tight when she works because Marilyn likes to shed her clothes whenever possible.

It is, to say the very least, most embarrassing to the other women working in the picture and on the set. MARILYN Just seems to waft around without, any root or reason to remain She has lived in a series of one-room flats and hotel rooms. She had a house for a few days but the owners wanted it back. Net because Marilyn tossed any parties they Just want? ed it- back. When you talk to Marilyn, she nooks atyyoo with the biggest baby-blue eyes which seem to say, "Anything you say is OK." She never raises the tone of her voice or changes the expression on her face.

Without makeup she looks It was a wistful letter. "I "wash once a' month," she said." "It" takes two days, not counting time spent on ironing. If 1 had a little washing machine, certainly it would not be. necessary to spend so much time." She said it would be nice if she had a refrigerator. But "There areery few-washing-machines and few refrigerators, and what is Important, they ars still V- She would like a cook book, too to try to get a little different taste in the same things which turn up day after day.

'In the food cooperatives. T. was a letter published by anv official newspaper- inside the Soviet state. The important thing is not that ft was published, but that the editors saw nothing unusual in it. in other words, it is commonplace in Russia that no one has a washing: machine; no one a refrigerator; no one the items which long ago 7ih theUnited States passed from luxury goods to, necessities.

And then we read about the Communist Party Congress in Moscow. We read the tirades against the United States; how it is purhing toward World War III. We read about "peaceful," but "in vincible" RussiarAnd- about Russian production figures. For example, steel 35,000,000 Phone 2180 i ASSOCIATION 1 3 1 publicity needs another boost, Marilyn will set the studio back on its heels again by calmly announcing she and Joe have berm married for six months. Sure she'll admit' it and.

give some clever answer like "I was afraid if I admitted it then, ttestudlowould have beernnad at-me for getting married." Then again, by next year she may even be married to Clark Gable. You can't tell, you see, because this girl isn't very smart Not much! ":1,. I wonder what this gal's got? either." Miss Davis.eaught between re: hearsalsof spngs, dances and sketches for "iTwo's pointed out her work in the show will be in the realm of comedy, She won't be presented as a dancer with the art of a Pavlova or a singer with-thc voice of -a-Trauhel. It has been 22 years since Miss Davis, worked on Broadway and then, she was a blonde kid special izine in ingenue roles. 1 I first went to Hollywood I had no idea I- would be away from stage so long," she said sKBut it turned out that way.

1 ve thought several times in recent years about returning to the stage but there was never anything that appealed sufficiently to ne to bring me back. "I'm not fed up with the movies at all. Matter of fact, I just mistim ed, a hew one before I came. East "The Star'. There arethihgs to criticize in the film, but they do eive a lot of young people a SEATCOVER PRICES CUT! YOW SAVE $3.00 Regular $12.93 value tightly woven fibre, plastic coated, stripes and plaids trimmed In MASLAND DURAN, crystal finish '32 thru '52 models, sedans rn nc Convertible Tops Custom built for your car, from guaranteed ma terialsto give you perfect fit and long wear, $59.50 from CUSTOM UPHOLSTERING If you prefer custom made seat covers, we offer the newest patterns In seat cover materials at prices to surprise even the most economical buyer.

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When asked how the romance isg6ihg, she merely replies, "Oh, we're just good friends." And when are you "good friends" going to get married? "We haven't even discussed it. I'm too busy with my career right now, you know," she says. I'll bet you next year, when her tons expected in 1952. The comparisons run the same all down the line of basic industries. Russian oil "productioirr-pected for 1952 47,000,000 tons as compared with more than 350, 000,000 tons for the If.

S. a year ago. --Soviet -coal -production will about half that of the U. S. Grain, for a population of 212,000,000 per.

pons, -will run around 128,000,000 tons as opposed to U. S. output of more than 146,000,000 tons for about 160,000,000 persons. figures represent enormous gains --gains so large that" for the first time in many years the Russians released them in actual tonnages rather than meaningless percentages. Mrs.

Soldatenko's longing for a washing machine or a cook and the Soviet leaders relentless- drive fBr power, Detween hem; illustrate an important element of our own relations with the Soviet Union. On the one hand, is the seemingly endless endurance of the Russian people. On the other is an Oriental disregard both for time and the in-dividual. And it applies whether it be a truce talk in Korea, a cold -in MrsjSoldaten-ko washing machine. Davis Isn't Surprised At Her New Job NEW YORK UP The only one who doesn't seem to be surprised at the idea of Bette DaMs singing and dancing in a revue is Bette Davis.

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