Margaret O’Brien’s Property Venture

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 September 1948, Page 3

Margaret O’Brien’s Property Venture

Margaret O’Brien is embarking on a real-life role which promises to rival in popularity anything the popular youngster has ever portrayed on the screen. The young M-G-M actress, currently starring in “Little Women,” is soon to become 'a landlady! Plans have just been approved for a forty-family apartment house, construction of which will start shortly. Margaret declares that families with children will definitely be welcomed as tenants in her new venture. Included in the blueprints, at the little actress’ own insistence, is space for a play-yard complete with swings, wading pool, sandbox and slides. XXX Clark Gable made sure his friends Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr don’t go short of vitamins while making “Edward, My Son” in England. Before taking off for Europe himself, he sent them a dozen crates of oranges grown on his Encino ranch. Van Johnson will back his father in a fisliing project off the American East Coast. The star hopes to be able to go on the first trip with the new fishing fleet. Working at M-G-M’s British studios in “Edward My Son,” Spencer Tracy has become an ardent cricket fan, attends at least one match every week-end. New Look, or Old? For her birthday party last month Judy Garland borrowed from the studio wardrobe department one of the charming 1914 gowns she wears in “Easter Parade.” Result—compliments on all sides.