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INSIDE HOLLYWOOD By Herb Stein HOLLYWOOD Calif April 28 CREAM OF THE CROP Someone asked Charlie Barnet in the Melody Room the other evening about the Cadillac dealer who seems to be getting the bulk of the Beverly Hills Brentwood and Malibu trade You know why dont you deadpanned Mr Bar net He gives green stamps Gene Sher ¬ man Sol Siegel thinks some of the girls who come up too fast dont save a nickel and make every mistake in the book But I dont feel that way about Marilyn Monroe he added She can live on 50 a week and save part of that Hedda Hopper Money cant buy everything Eleanor Churchill points out but it certainly puts you in a terrific bargaining position Sidney Skolsky Larry Finley came up recently with a sen ¬ sible philosophic observation When your work speaks for itself dont interrupt Lowell E Redelings Tired Tierney the office boy savs theres another way to get in trouble with your wife If you ask here if she wants a mink coat and she says shed like nothing better take her up on it Give her nothing Bill Kennedy Cy Fnuer says The Las Vegas critics dont give you reviews they give you odds Mike Connolly Charles Vidor hied to Vegas to film footage of Joe E Lewis at the El Rancho The celluloid goes to F Sinatra to study for the Lewis biopic Lewis said I dont know if I can teach him to be an actor but hell turn out to be a helluva good drunk Army Archerd A HOLLYWOOD COCKTAIL party says Mae Williams is where they spear olives and stab friends Jimmy Starr Director Jerry Hooper on the set of The Sharkfighters Child actors spoil too easily Theyre like paper cups to be used once and thrown away Erskine John ¬ son A doll we know told us I had a wonderful time with my husband last night He got drunk and thought I was his secretary Jim Henaghan Speaking of his biography iwhich details many of his racetrack misadventures Joe E Lewis told Al Fodor I wish I owned the reprint rights Not to the book to the money Skolsky Photog Johnny Malmin is still shuddering Nervously gripping the wheel with both hands as he fought his way to work in the morning traffic on Val ¬ ley Blvd he noticed a gal ahead of him driving blithely along reading a book propped on her steering wheel Art Ryon People make monkeys nervous says the keeper of a zoo They also make people nervous Olin Miller Accompanist Austin Mack has passed his ultimate loyalty test for Joe E Lewis He now has an ulcer too Bill Willard and Alan Jarlson Chares Watts reports that the latest Holly ¬ wood reason for divorce is My husband and I are incompatible he cant afford what I want George E Phair 4 4 A AJEAN JEAN SIMMONS CALLS her expected arrival Little Sir Escrow Archerd Theres no truth to the story that General Sarnoff is being busted to corporal because of the Comedy Hour Henaghan Then theres this painter Bob Wagner knows who wanted to get shellacked so he stopped off at a lacquer store Connolly A Hollywood playboy looked out of the window at his swimming pool one morning yawned and called to his butler The pool needs restocking Order two dozen blondes Johnson A Navy doctor who has always been a bachelor is engaged to marry a widow with five children His friends are about evenly divided over whether hes a brave or lazy man Kennedy Dmitri Tiomkin in a conference discussing the scoring of a movie said Before I open my mouth Id like to say a few words Skolsky Martin Ragaway says hes sure the wed ¬ ding will last but hes not so sure about the country Archerd Grouchp Marx My TV show certainly has cut into my golf game but the way I play golf its just as well I belonrto two clubs I have 16000 invested in Tamarisk and Hillcrest and I havent broken 90 yet When Im in a sandtrap I sometimes debate if its worth it Dave Kaufman KaufmanA A A A AGRACE GRACE DOWNS TV would be perfect if you could mark your place and return to it later Skolsky Joe E Brown says the initial E in his name stands fornothing in particular Why didnt you make it ah X someone asked I didnt want to be confused with Francis X Bush ¬ man he replied Bob Hull Charlie Cals definition of a child One who stands halfway between an adult and a television set Kennedy A new UI movie Gun for a Coward cued a studio mans quip And then well make a sequel titled Son of a Gun for a Coward Johnson Dore Schary thanked Ralph Edwards and the gang for the show This Is Your Life admitted Im a very lucky fellow I dont think I rated it After all Im not a reformed drunk Archerd Jim Henaghan spotted a cartoon in Ed and Publisher in which a guy stands in front of Moscow newsstand and says You mean you dont sell the Daily Capitalist
