Short Shots From Hollywood

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 49, 4 February 1949, Page 3

Short Shots From Hollywood

Melchior On Way Lauritz Melchior has left for a series of concerts in Florida. Later the Metropolitan Opera Star planes out for New York and then on to South Africa for a month of lion hunting. Cabbies Like Fog At last! M.G.M. Research Department has discovered why fog, seemingly a “must” in London scenes, is popular with some people. Experts checking data for Greer Garson’s technicolour “The Forsythe Saga,” attribute it to 19th century cab drivers. During a “peasouper” cabbies always charged double rates. “Canned Ham” Reginald Gardiner, clad in nearly 60 pounds of armour, came out

of a take on the set of “Lady in Ermine,” perspiring from the weight of his costume, plus the heat of the technicolour lights. The actor saw a visitor eyeing him sympathetically, and, grinning at the visitor, remarked: “You see before you a living portrait of canned him.” A Long Letter Starlett Colleen Townsend, soon to be seen in “The Walls of Jericho” received the longest letter the other day in the memory of the fan mail department. Totalling 100 pages, and mailed in an envelope eight by ten inches, it was written by a young plumber in Australia, who had seen her picture in a fan magazine. After telling her all about himself and his native land, he wound up with a proposal of marriage. The “New Look” Long before the “New Look” was rampant in the fashion realm, film actress, Dorothy McGuire, had been wearing dresses and suits with “gentle” shoulders, and skirts that were longer and fuller than average. She was all ready to accept this silhouette. Although clothes for the picture were designed eight months ago, they look right when compared with the best in th ecurrent mode. Skirts are 13 and 14 inches from the floor for daytime. Shoulders are natural. Down To Earth “Duel in the Sun” was named by certain New Zealand organisation as a film very down to earth. Why? Because of all the dirt.