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INSIDE HOLLYWOOD By Herb Stein HOLLYWOOD Calif April 30 CREAM OP THE CROP In the new hotel owned by Desi Arnaz in Indian Wells just outside of Palm Springs theres a built in TV set in every room Which is just dandy except you cant pick up a single TV station in Indian Wells Bill Kennedy Jeanne Baird spot ¬ ted this sign in front of a church in Long Beach Thou Shalt Not Park Lowell E Redelings Don Taylor actor turned director explains why hes so happy to be directing I got tired of holding my stomach in before cameras Sheilah Graham While the fifth grade class of a Westwood elementary school was out to play the other day one of the little girls had her blouse torn So she simply took it off And nobody thought a thing of it until another little girl told her womantowoman You wont be doing that in the tenth grade Art Ryon j After the latest windstorm in the desert j Sharon Lee says her girl friends Palm Springs home has walltowall sand Army j Archerd It is wondered if in their theirsearch search for a more powerful fuel the rocket experts have experimented with liquor Olin Miller MillerA A A Allan Drake says his old neighborhood was so tough he was 18 before he learned the cops were supposed to be paid by the city Mike Connolly Broadcasts by the police and sheriff radio get fairly rou ¬ tine but the other day one went out on the Biscailuz network that relieved the monot ¬ ony somewhat The voice directed a car to a certain address then added A 390 try ¬ ing to be a 502 Thats vehicle code for a drunk trying to get into his car and drive away Gene Sherman When Edsel Ford got a load of Presley on the Ed Sul ¬ livan show he wanted him out Sullivan maintained Presley brought them the highest rating theyd ever had So what said Ford The kids who scream for him arent the kind who buy my cars some of them are more apt to be the kind who steal them Hedda Hopper HopperDon Don Fedderson Productions is a regular family enterprise Parent corporation is Tido Productions Inc named for Dons wife The other corporations are Don Monya Productions DonGregg Produc ¬ tions DonMichael Productions and Don Darr Productions 11 named for the Fed ¬ derson offspring Kennedy Two years ago when the jockeys at Los Ala mitos Race Course were asked to fill out questionnaires containing general informa ¬ tion such as how they got started riding jockey L G Littell wrote after Hobbies Women A few weeks ago in fillingout a similar form a spy reports Littell now 30 and married wrote after Hobbies rifles shotguns and hunting Weinstock Tommy Rail one of the stars of In ¬ vitation to the Dance filmed exactly five years ago went to see the movie the first night it opened at the Beverly Theater I wanted to see what I looked like as a child said Tommy Skolsky Bill Ballance says I paid 500 for a color TV set and havent seen much more than the repairmans plaid overalls Leo Guild A We asked a producer why he always bets horses to finish third Replied he This is SHOW business Connolly There is something abysmally wrong when peo ¬ ple must be urged to stay married for financial reasons as in You Cant Afford a Divorce an excellent article in the Sat ¬ urday Evening Post by C Clinton Clad the Angeltown Superior Court commis ¬ sioner Its something like advising some ¬ one to refrain from murder because of the high cost of cyanide Sherman In ¬ come tax problems Bill Bishop swears its true Just before emoting in Short Cut to Hell the incometax boys questioned a big deduction he made for clothes work ¬ ing clothes for his job as an actor When they asked him to prove it he invited them to his Malibu Beach home First he pointed to a large wardrobe of fancy suits sports jackets and evening clothes Then he picked up three pairs of swimming trunks and a pair of blue jeans These he said are what L wear when Im NOT working Uncle Sams sleuths said You win mister Erskine Johnson Red ODonnell tells of a gal who when given a citation for speeding coyly said to the officer Does your wife know youre out chasing women Weinstock Ken Murray wants to know if the French film Rififi is a remake of an older French movie he saw called Fifi Skolsky In Akron Ohio a couple remarried the other day after being separated 50 years by divorce This probably sets a record for time out between rounds Miller Bill Kennedy reports that a secondhand book shop on Hollywood Blvd has a book on its shelf titled Mai the Stronger Sex The lady who runs the shop has it neatly placed on the shelf marked Fiction
