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. » INSIDE HOLLYWOOD .«y Herb Stein 4ft HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 13.— CREAM OF THE CROP— Big topic in bars is Willie 6hoemakers momentary miscue in the . Derby. Derby. Johnny Johnny Dvorak Dvorak Derby. Derby. Johnny Johnny Dvorak Dvorak said to one discussion group, " I dont blame Shoe. I did the same thing the other day. I got off the Lus a block too soon and went into the Federal Building instead of the City Hall. Matt Wein-stock . . . One way to get plenty, of exercise is-to is-to forget forget where where you you is-to is-to forget forget where where you you park your car. Jimmy Starr . . . Songstress Jeri Southern just finished recording a collection of Deep South drinking songs. Theyre titling the album "Southern Fried." Bill Kennedy . . . The do-it-yourself movement will never become as popular as the age-old custom of letting George do it. Olin Miller . . . Beef at the Beefeater: "TV has opened a whole new field of unemployment for me." Mike Connolly . . . Nominated for the weeks Awful Awful is the report from Paul Speegle that a San Francisco tailor has set up a bar in the rear of his shop so his customers can have a belt in the back. Art Ryon ... A prominent movie actor said: "Was I surprised the other day! My son came home from school and told me, Im underprivileged. The other kids in my class have four parents and I only have two. " Sidney Skolsky. To brief residents of the area surrounding the nuclear proving ground, the Atomic Energy Commission has published a booklet called "Atomic Tests in Nevada." It separates the facts from the rumors and is reassuring reading. Its table of contents also contains the understatement of the week in the Chapter heading, "Fallout Can Be Inconvenient." Gene Sherman . . . Printed invitations to the opening of Corky Hales salon on Sunset Blvd. tomorrow bear the postscript, "Jayne Mansfield will not appear." Wein.stock . . . Bill Bertolotti says in Hollywood an original writer is a fellow who copies an idea just before every one else does. "Skolsky . . . Jack Parr is responsible* for the story of the po6r sap who got home from work to find a bunch of raw vegetables on the table with the note: "Have gone to bridge club. Recipe for your dinner will be on Channel 7 at 6:30 p. m." Leo Guild. AAA Future double bill: "Fire Down Below" — "Abandon Ship." Army Archerd . . . The Bob Kauffmans are looking for a street on which to live — they cant afford any of the houses theyve seen. Connolly . . . Pass the salt: Prof. Elton H. Corcie, who has been doing some research lately, claims that kising has its origin in chemistry. Seems like it has to do with a craving for salt. The caveman found that salt helped him cool off in hot weather, and that he could get salt by licking his neighbors cheek. Also, that it was a lot more interesting if the neighbor was of the opposite sex . . . then everybody forgot all about salt. Kennedy . . . There is nothing as hard on a womans clothes as another woman. Starr . . . Everyone is thankful we have free speech in this country, but many deplore that the supply of it always greatly exceeds the demand. « Miller. AAA You dont get on a CBS quiz show unless you can answer this question first: "Who was the first President?" The answer is ! "William S. Paley." Guild . . . Lana Tur-ner, who ought to know, told me that the most glamorous screen figure of all time belongs to Dolores Del Rio. Skolsky . . . theres a story going around about a woman who drove her husband to the airport — he was going to Las Vegas. En route home - she was trapped in the usual 5 p.m. traffic. • When she finally arrived there she found I a telegram from him stating. "Went broke. • Send more money." Could be true. Wein-stock . . . Chet Vonier overheard a discussion ■ of the vodka Martini during which 1 an innocent guest asked if it was made - with -vodka instead of gin. "Oh, no," she - was told. "Vodka instead of Vermouth." Sherman . . . Women read 80 per cent of f the romantic rot. Some 9,000,000 American i ladies ? lap up MacFadden Publications s like True Story, which last week carried 1 three stories on unwed mothers, two on divorce and two on alcoholism. The editor claims, "This is what the public wants!" Joan Winchell. AAA , Dick Boone had to shoot some scenes in | a cemetery for "Killer on the Wall." He 9 took a look around and said, "At last I know where all the patients we lost on | Medic went." Hedda Hopper . . . The | Auto Clubs annual report puts it this way: ■ "If all Southern Californias registered motor vehicles were lined up, bumper to bumper, they would extend some 10,000 miles, or more than three times the distance from 1 Los Angeles to New York." Thats funny — I f though it was exactly the distance from my [ home to my office. Sherman . . . Joan Winchell says they even sell lingerie these , days with catchy lines like, "The husband j you catch may be your own."
