GOOD NEWS! April 1945
I love her, but so help me, Betty Hutton whips up some of
the darndest rigs. She showed up for a "personal" at the Hollywood
Canteen the other night wearing a tight, black satin cocktail suit, tennis
shoes, a tweed coat, her hair in pigtails with two red bows tied on the ends!
The entire effect was that of a sexy Sis Hopkins.
Lana Turner dropped over to see me the other day, and you
can take my word for it—she's deeply in love with Turhan Bey. She talks about
him just as though he were a little boy. And when a girl gets maternal about a
man—look out. She said, "I call him my child boy friend!"—and Lana's
only twenty four.
Judy Garland, wearing the last gasp in tailored suits, was
being kissed by. many M-G-M'ers who hadn't seen her since the announcement of
her engagement to Vincent Minnelli. She was also getting a lot of kidding about
the change this romance has made in her personality. "She actually arrives
on the set on time she's so anxious to get away!" they heckled Judy.
The dinner guests of Adrian and his pretty wife, the former
Janet Gaynor, were warned that something was in store for them as soon as they
sat down to dinner.
Notes were at each place saying, "If you are nervous,
easily frightened or a coward—DON'T REMAIN." Of course, everybody
stayed—some to regret it.
Immediately following dinner, in walked a woman with a
twelve-foot python (snake to you) curled around her neck. Well, Mrs. Basil
Rathbone, who loathes snakes, almost fainted. Other guests turned pale, and
only Irene Dunne had the intestinal fortitude to touch the snake. "But
never again!"
The party was given in honor of Lady Mendl, and Adrian
thought that Elsie, who adores anything out of the ordinary, would get a great
kick out of the "stunt." Heaven knows the snake was tame enough.
Seemed to want to snuggle up to everybody!
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