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INSIDE HOLLYWOOD By Herb Stein HOLLYWOOD Calif May 1 Raymond Massey quilling his autobiography for Simon and Schuster under the title of Charred on the Out ¬ side Masseys brother you know is Governor General of Canada Should make an inter ¬ esting tome Holly ¬ wood cant figure why Metro holds still while Columbia raids its pro ducerdirector ranks two years before the boys contracts are even up Joe Pasternak is one George Sidney another It wouldnt surprise if MGM re ¬ taliates by wooing Jerry Wald away from the Gower Street plant for a top spot with Dore Senary at Culver City One comic had to give up his teevee show because of illness ruptured trendex On May 7 the Pulitzer prizes will be announced and at least two Hollywood studios are holding their breath Columbia is laying it on the line with MacKinlay Kan tors Anderson ville while 20th plows all its chips on John OHaras Ten North Frederick We know plenty of pictures thatd like to do the kind of business done by the Beverly Hills wig pickers pickersThe The story Lewis Milestone and Jed Har ¬ ris are pounding away at for their joint pic venture is a comedy based on the medical corps after World War H Expanding Haggertys on Wilshire Boulevard slogans Here we grow again If you wondered as we did why Gloria Grahames face looked so odd in The Man who Never Was heres the answer Galhas some idea that packing her upper lip with cotton makes her look sexier She insisted on being photographed with the wad that made the lip immovable That make you sexier sexierA A A A ANOEL NOEL COWARD I love criticism just so long as its unqualified praise Bob Aldrich to Paris for a week Greg Baut zer due back today from New York where he had to hop from his vacation in Mexico Alan Wilson watched the TV race on Wide Wide World yesterday where Willie Shoemaker rode a horse at Hollywood Park and Eddie Arcaro rode one 3000 miles away at Jamaica As the horses broke from the gate on the split screen Wilson cracked One thing is sure neither of these horses is gonna be disqualified for interference The Spirit of St Louis has been edited down to three hours by Billy Wilder and George Stevens now has Giant cut to a fast four fourA A A A AMARK MARK CUTIS reports from Nevada that the tax commission there would still like to have clubs adopt the dealing box a device which keeps cards encased in a steel box feeding them out one at a time Some big casinos feel a little bit like this would reflect on their operation In other words theres no need to cheat in the first place and ttie box would only raise suspicions maybe theyve been cheatin all along B K The Russian Martin and Lewis Fifth floor at Cedars of Lebanon is known as Orchid Row loaded with film celebs While in Las Vegas for last Saturday nights show Jimmy Durante hounded his staff to keep away from the dice tables But his solicitude didnt extend to himself Army Archerds youngster Evan 4 swallowed a guitar pick Asked how come Army replied well I guess hes a high strung kid kidA A A A AAMONG AMONG THOSE ROASTING Phil Silvers on the Friars dais here next Monday are Jack Benny George Jessel Milton Berle Martin and Lewis Art Linkletter Danny Thomas George Burns Ronnie Reagan Eddie Fisher and P a r k y a k a r k u s On Word About Music Frank Devol introd Oscar Levant as the man in the gray flan ¬ nel straight jacket Levant thinks Prince Rainier is a man of great accomplishment he changes clothes five times a day Asked why his wife uses a sleeping shade Oscar explained She cant even stand to look at me when shes sleeping Le ¬ vant on what his wife thinks about how he acts toward the girls on the show She thinks I ought to get a divorce and settle down Oscar says the pharmaceutical companies have named him The pill of the year And the hypochondriac added that the only reason he doesnt give up pills is that the pharmaceutical companies will call him an atheist I have nov psychi ¬ atrist Levant insists They just put me away every two years Levant is in favor of pay television as long as the networks are forced to watch their own show On the visit to England of Bulganin and Khrushchev The only thing B K of ¬ fered the British was freedom from free ¬ dom
