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I 8 Russian-Made Tanks Halted by Plane Rockets The Lyons Den By LEONARD LYONS 5 i TyrEW YORK Margaret Sullavan, the screen 11 Is one of the most expert heart players in the country. She prefers this card game above all others, and becomes so absorbed in the play that she loses all sense of I a- Saturday Morning, July 22, 1950 time or friendship. Joe Cohen, 'the movie-maker, once decided to make a test of her concentration on the game. He ordered a deck of playing cards in which the face of the Queen of Spades was removed and Miss Sul-lavan's photographs was substituted. She played hearts all evening and played so intensely that she never once noticed her own picture on the all-important Pittsburghesque By CHARLES F.

DANVER Cot A vt Leonard Lyons Star Party DR. NICHOLAS E. WAGMAX, high man at the Allegheny Observatory, is really sticking his neck out tonight. He has invited the public to the annual Star Party of the Amateur Astronomers Association and he's hoping the souvenir fiends don't carry away the dome. The Amateur Astronomers will be on the lookout tonight, but the Observatory has had some saddening experiences with visitors in the past.

They've swiped everything from small gadgets used around the telescopes to the soap and towels in the washrooms. Once a souvenir addict Charlie Danver .4 Queen card. Hal Wallis, the producer, is in New York for the premiere of his new Cy Howard film, "My Friend Irma Goes West." He learned that Howard was in New York, and suggested that he attend the press-review at the Paramount. The guard at the door refused to let him in, because Howard's name wasn't on the guest list, Howard said he had written the movie. "Wait, while I call upstairs," said the guard.

Howard waited, then told the guard: "I'm associate producer of this movie." "Wait, while I call upstairs," said the guard. "I also created the Irma role, in radio," said Howard who, in reporting later to Wallis, said: "It took me four credits to get in." In discussing the threat of Television, George Jessel said: "The movie industry is in a position to read the handwriting on the roof." Joe Benjamin, the ex-fighter, was in the Marines during the war and received a disability pension which suddenly stopped. After four years of inquiry, he finally learned the reason: He once was married and the pension-division required proof of his divorce to prevent any claim by his ex-wife. Now Benjamin must dig up the documents regarding his divorce, 25 years ago, from the film star, Marion Nixon, before he can get his meager disability pension. In explaining Ids elimination in the first round of the British Open, Bing Crosby said that when he teed off it was with the realization that he couldn't win.

He therefore played with ease and to his surprise won the first few holes. The possibility of his winning the first match then made him tense, and he lost. The importance of relaxation in golf was illustrated also In the match between Harold Arlen, the songwriter, and Lou Clayton, Jimmy Durante's manager. Clayton shoots in the low 70s; Arlen is a dub. Clayton told him: "I'll bet you 100 to-1 I can beat you." Arlen bet $10.

Arlen, risking only $10, played with ease. Clayton, suddenly aware of the foolish risk, became tense and lost. 17'fTfJ7 A These North Korean tanks, made in Russia, were moving up when rocket-firing planes of the Fifth Air Force caught them, destroying three and damaging three. Also caught was a truck down the embankment. helped himself to a large lens right out of the telescope.

He kept it quite some time, too. before he saw the light and realized the true nature of his "souvenir." It happened to be a 13-inch lens worth thousands of dollars! I.eo .1. Scanlon tells of a lady at a Star Tarty some years ago who went home disappointed. Everybody else saw. shooting stars, but she missed 'em.

Seems all evening she had hen watching Vega (brightest star In the summer skies) waiting for it to Lady Astronomer At their Star Party tonight the Amateur Astronomers will have about a dozen telescopes set up on the Observatory lawn. Including one made by a lady star gazer. She Is Tearl Wilde, Mellon Bank secretary. Tearl never did any mechanical work before, but for the last several months she has been laboring valiantly to get her six-inch reflector telescope finished in time for the affair. CIieee Division Oh, ves I've been Invited to the Star Tarty and I understand they're going to start me off with the moon.

Seems the Amateur Astronomers decided I ought to fit right in with the othr moon gazers, because in the fraternity thev're known as "Lunatics." Steel Engravings The entertainers are raising a fund to help the show folk who lost their belongings in the flash flood at Ward's trailer camp. Jimmy D'Espey, of the comedy dance team, who took pneumonia the day after the flood as result of exposure, just got out of the Suburban General Hospital. Edward H. Sykes, advertising man, and his wife are sojourning at Key West, Fla. Mamie Barth, the dancing teacher, and her daughter Marjory are planning a vacation trip to Florida and Cuba next month.

County Treasurer Charles F. Dinan has been sunning himself in Atlantic Citv. Gr-r-r-r! A local insurance gent had a good evening recently. He sold two policies to a family. Only thing was he couldn't find his hat when he was ready to leave.

So the youngster of the household, the cute rascal, brought It to him filled with water! i sh Mim4 Assails Sloppy Garb of Stars By BOB THOSIAS Aiioclated Pren Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD Sidney Blackmer, back for another fling at the movies, today took a slam at the male stars who dress like "ranch hands." "That is one of the biggest changes I no low it ap message. Such delivery of messages prevents AiircGAr'ir living si so A SIT Ann Baker horn in Seoul June last Amer-LjxO 1 jcan fojrth jn the South Korean capital before the mxkj a jcan birth in the South Korean capitj having to use radio which might be picked up pears to he barely by the enemy. The message was dropped to war began, is held by her mother on their arrival in Minneap-the convoy at sea between Japan and Korea. olis yesterday. Her parents are Captain and 3Irs.

I. H. clearing the radar masts on this convoy flagship, an American plane prepares to drop a ticed about Hollywood since I've been back," said the stage and screen veteran. "And I think it's deplorable." "Back in the old days, Rudolph Valentino was never seen out of character. He filled the romantic void that exists in most women.

He knew that, and he always dressed and acted the role of the romantic star. John Barrymore, John Gilbert and others dressed immac Sidney Blackmer Take My Word for It Bv FRANK COLBY ulately. "But what do you see now? The actors walked around in public in blue jeans, with their shirts hanging out. They look like a bunch of ranch hands. "You never see this in New York.

I myself always wear a stiff collar. When I run into Alfred Lunt or Dennis King or some other star, they are always dressed in the best of fashion. The only exception to this was Marlon Brando; he went around looking like a day laborer." Blackmer, well pressed and nattily attired, just closed in "Come Back, Little Sheba," in which he was named Broadway's outstanding actor of the year. He is playing in "The Hero" and has several other deals cooking. It has been touch and go with Blackmer and Hollywood for more than two decades.

Fortune has often touched him but he always ends up going back to Broadway. He told about one instance: "I was up for a fat contract at MGM. I had done several tests and Irving Thalberg wanted me to sign. I was married to Lenore Ulric at the time and I called her up in New York to tell her about it. 'You can't bury me in that forsaken she said.

'You can either have the contract or a wife; you can't have "So I turned the contract down and flew to New York. Ulric and I started fighting the minute I got off the plane and it ended up in a divorce. Oh yes, the guy who got the contract that was intended for me was" a young fellow playing locally in 'The Last Mile' Clark Gable." Week-End Miscellany MUSKEGON: You have practically eliminated the "home" from homicide. Now will you please try to get the "com" out of coma? On "Our Gal" radio program: "Alan is in a comma." On "Club Fifteen" Bob Crosby: "You're in a comma, Pat." H. E.

G. A. "It's incredible that, in the elaborate rehearsing and staging of a network program, such an error as "comma" for coma would not be caught by someone. A comma, as any eight-year-old school boy knows, is a punctuation mark The word is pronounced: KOM-vh. A coma is a state of unconsciousness or stupor.

The pronunciation is: KOE-muh. Ogden: What is meant by the "king's O. K. F. A.

"King's evil" is an old name for scrofula. It was so called because it was believed that the only cure was to be touched by the king's hand. New Carlisle: Last night Jimmy Fidler said in his column, "In all the hassle over the Eergman-Rossellini affair. I cannot find hassle in the dictionary. What does it mean? H.

M. B. A. Hassle (also spelled hassel, hessle) Is a dialectal word heard principally in the Southern states. It means, "to pant; to breathe hence, in -Fidler's column, "commotion; excitement; emotional talk." McXaughton, born Thursday in Pekin, he's grandpop.

General Gay's daughter, Mrs. Alzina Mc-Naughton, 23, holds -the five-pound, 13-ounce arrival. First Cavalry Division, leaves by jeep for a visit to the South Korean battle zone. He may he Major General to the troops In Korea, hut to Foy Scott rip AT rj Major General Hohart R. LrllnLrL Ur r.ay (seated beside driver In left photo), commander of the United States I I mmmm tut mi --1 1 -IK Old Shay -Lt (j(MwlCfaMji J)m IB IS IE JP a.