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- JLf t INSIDE HOLLYWOOD ByHerbStein HOLLYWOOD, Calif.. May 13 L. A., Time . iioii-.rub- Ned Crania is in a, tougher jam than WUlic .Shocmakrr. Cro- j in nt ben Kt down nin has b**fn set down j In 30 day*, by the i Ktc wards at 20th Ccn- j tui-y - Fox for "grow carelcsfinr ■;;: " in writing a full column Obtained while fret-loading at the studios cornini,: a i y witli Harry Brand. bed McCar-ey and Gene Fowler | and failing to give a I pleture credit. MeCar- ey just finished one of 11 r viudios finest movies. "An Affair to Remember," and Cronma Don-mention of it is an affair the lot. wont forget. Cronin »b disallowed studio press lunch privilges Itf I month— so If you s ■ • a slimmed down Cronin resembling the eight pole, thats the mm .on . . . George ./ • Ml 1. on the Shoemaker incident, at the Hollywood Park press party: "This is the first time anyone got set down for standing up" ... Ira Gershwin jji ited us to hi.*; Completely remodeled . home for a look at whats been done to it the past eight months. "Glad to." we told him. "Itll be Interesting to see wliat you and Lee wrought. Replied Ira: "Lee wrought: I wrought naught but checks" . . . Mike Todd, in the next Look: "Im so rich now I don I even cany money" . . . Same issue canies the second installment of the Sinatra .dies titled "Why Frank Sinatra Hates the Press." a i » Switch on Beverly Drive in Bev Hills from angular to parallel parking has merchants in an uproar. In the t hue blocks from Santa Monica boulevard to Wilshire. it means 140 fewer cars parked per allowable hour, or 1.120 in an eight-hour day. Of course, the private parking lots are jubli-lant . . . Dr. Norman Vincent Peales life story is being written by Arthur Gordon, one-time editor of Cosmopolitan and a crack writer on his own. Prentice-Hall publishes . . . Will success spoil Prank Tashlin. director of Jayne Man.sfield*s "The Girl Cant Help it?" Highbrow French crit-ICfl hailed the lowbrow rock n roll quickie movie as the greatest satire on the screen since Capra ! . . . And Paris is the place where the very top American musicals have a tough time getting bookings . . . Add title switches: 20th changing "Down Payment" to "No Down Payment « ■ 4 The Saturday Review has a cover story on "What Killed Colliers? and writer Hollis Alpert quotes MacFaddcn Publications prexy Irving Manheimer as saying: "The trouble was simple. The company was run by bankers, no! by men who understood the publishing basiness. Unfortunately, these bankers didnt surround themselves with publishers" . . . Foregoing is pretty much true of movies and television. When moneymen try to operate on l the creative level, the results are generally • dismal . . . The Paramount publicity department, attempting to arrange a tie-up i with the Beverly-Hilton to let the 60 visiting press for "Teachers Pet " stay at the ; hotel cuffo, ran into a snag on the free : ride — oddly enough because of Paramount bossman Frank Freeman, whos also a i member of the Hilton board of directors. . Freeman worked both pockets. Arrangements • finally gave Paramount a 10-buck rate on 0 rooms. l • i ; : i . • In his Vagabonding With Vanderbilt" newsletter, Neil Vanderbilt, "more pessimistic than ever," writes that "War is bustin* out all over." He may be pessimistic but hes very brave, too. Same envelope carrying the newslettei also contained a brochure announcing a 105-day tour around the world, personally conducted by Vanderbilt. Minimum tab: ,302. The small print says the American Express Company, arranging the tour, isnt responsible for "acts of governments or other authorities, de jure or de facto, wars, whether declared or not," etc. . . . Tip to Hollywood Park jockeys: Red Trac-ton, of Tracton s restaurant, is starting a policy whereby the jock who wins the feature race each day U welcome with a guest at the bistro that night for a free dinner. • • m Tommy Manville, married for the tenth time, was told by the New York marriage license bureau to go home, think it over1 and come back next week and tell them if hell try for 11 . . . CBS-TV dickering Dan Dailey for a series of specs . . . Bob Fellows to China the 25th to scout locations for "The Night of the Tiger" . . . The boys with the Production Code in the head saw Stanley Kramers "The Pride and the Passion," and despite some rough sex scenes between Sophia Loren and Sinatra. and Loren and Cary Grant, slipped it the go-sign ... On being congratulated for his grab of "Porgy and Bess," Sam Goldwyn, 75 in August, said: "Thank you. Its a fine property. When its finished Ive got other wonderful plans for the future" . . . Marie McDonald lias just been signed by RCA- Victor. Alan Wilson suggests her first al-: bum be called, "Music to Get Kidnapped By."
