Linda Darnell Wants No Part
Of Boyish Look in Styles
By BOB THOMAS
J Hollywood, Dec. 14 W) If fashion designers are serious about
"promoting the "boyish look,"'they can include Linda Darnell out.
"I'll have no part of it," says the busty glamor girl about the
proposed return of the slim silhouette of the '20s.
"I think it looks terrible.
"Besides, it's unhealthful.S-
Many girls really ruined their
figures for life when they had
to bind their chests to get the
flat effect.
"Why can't women look like
women and men look like men?
That's what makes life more interesting."
Walter Huston keeps sighing
that he's gotten to the age where
he wants to do only one picture
a year. But at 65, he plays ten
nis almost every day. "I'm not
much good," he admits. "You
might say I play a casual game."
Joan Crawford knows the val
ue of clothes to a glamour girl.
When her studio said it couldn't
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and forest educational material.
afford a vast new wardrobe for
The Victim," she came up with
the solution. She is wearing
some of her own models.
Greater faith hath no wife.
Jessica Tandy is investing some
of her own money in the play of
her husband, Hume Cronyn. It's
called "Now J Lay Me Down to
Sleep" and the Fredric Marches
are starring in it.
Betty Grable's leg measure
ments are the same as when she
arrived at zutn-iox in years
ago. The vital statistics: ankle
TA, calf 12, thigh 18. Asked
if she ever gets tired of answer
ing questions about her legs, she
said: "They've been doing it for
years; I have no objections."
.
Shirley Temple says she
would now like to leave the past
behind and devote her thoughts
to the future. She has no com
ment on how the recent divorce
might affect her career. As for
work, a picture is being prepar
el for her at Warners under.
the Selznick loan-out deal.
But she's not eager to return
to work. "I'd just like to sit
at home, " she sighs.
"Shadows of the Manger" is
a different kind of Hollywood
production. It will be present
ed in the week preceding Christ
mas right on Hollywood Boule
vard in front of the Congrega
tional church. Among those
taking part in the religious pag
eant are Barbara Britton, Don
Defore, Wendell Corey, Harry
Carey, Jr., and Lee Bonnell.
John Wayne is glowing over
his latest box-office rating and
over his new film, "Sands of
Iwo Jima." I see the picture
will be shown here at advanced
prices. Ho hum . . . Fancy sign
on a Christmas tree lot near
Beverly Hills: Xmas Tree Salon.
Evelyn Keys excused herself
from an interview on the set
when she received a call from
Kirk Douglas. "You couldn't
ask me to give that up, could
you?" was her explanation.
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Liberal party leader, at a reception in Smuts' honor in London.
Extortion Case Reveals Charge
Of 'Ride' Threats, Recordings
Los Angeles, Dec. 14 (U.R) Ben Klekner, middle-aged head of
a Hollywood talent school, testified Tuesday he met Helen Keller,
amused of working a "sex-extortion" plot against him, when he
tried to line up party girls to entertain salesmen.
Miss Keller and her former roommate, Toni Hughes, both 26,
are being tried on charges of ex-'
torting money from Klekner on
threats he would be taken for a
ride by mobster Mickey Cohen's
aides. Cohen denied he was a
party to the alleged plot.
Under questioning by Dep.
Dist. Atty. Al Lucas, the school
head testified a friend had given
him a telephone number of girls
available for dates. Klekner said
he contacted Miss Keller to ar
range for her and a friend to en
tertain some visiting salesmen
but the party fell through.
Instead, he said, he contacted
Miss Keller himself several
weeks later and they went to a
motel together.
"I saw her several times aft
erwards until March of 1947
when I suffered a heart attack
and was laid up for five
months," Klekner testified. "Af
ter I went back to work, I saw
her eight or ten times more."
Klekner was the first witness
after opening arguments in
which opposing attorneys pic-
"party
girl he
What Causes Man to Commit
Sex Offense Against a Child?
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, Dec. 14 VP) Rape and murder are the extreme and
most violent forms of sex offenses against children.
They've made headlines lately. But sexual offenses against
children also take other forms less violent. There are more of
them.
What causes a man to commits
tured Miss Keller as a
girl" and an innocent
had betrayed.
"We will prove that these
women used force and fear and
threatened to expose their vic
tim unless he paid and paid and
paid," Lucas told the jury.
But defense attorney Glenn
Lane said he would show Klek
ner won Miss Keller's love with
promises to marry her and then
"brushed her off."
The state contends the two
girls made a recording of an in
timate moment in Klekner's ro
mance with Miss Keller and
threatened to expose him to his
wife unless he paid them $10,-000.
Washington psychiatrists.
They said there are a number
of causes. Here are some:
1. Feeble-mindedness. A man
of 40 may have the mind of a
child.
2. Senility. An old man's
brain may have deteriorated so
that he's in his second child
hood.
3. Disease of the brain. Syph
ilis, for example. Disease de
stroyed that part of the brain
which previously kept a man
from such an offense.
4, Bad early family and so
cial training. It may have left
a man socially immature so that
he never fitted into grown-up
society.
5. Or, for one reason or an
other, he has become a sadist
who can find emotional com
fort only in inflicting suffering
or death upon a child.
Can such a man be cured by
medical or psychiatric treat
ment?
Some can, some can't. Almost
nothing can be done for the
feeble-minded (No. 1) or the old
and senile (No. 2).
If the man with brain syphilis
(No. 3) isn't too far gone, the
disease can be stopped and in
time may he may resume a nor
mal life.
Some of those in No. 4 and 5
be cured by psychiatry,
Sheridan Sheridan "Quarter
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These doctors think the de
finitely incurable ones should be
put away for life in a hospital
or, if they've committed a crime,
in jail. Why? Because, if let
loose, they'rer a menace.
And they think the curable
ones should be kept in custody
for treatment until the doctors
feel it's safe to let them loose
again.
All sex offenders against chil
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Does a person progress (or
retrogress) from one stage of
sexual offense against a child
to another until finally he rapes
or kills?
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Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 1949 11
L. A. Cops Freed
Of All Cheraes
Los Angeles, Dec. 14 W) In
quiry of Hollywood police vice
tieups has concluded with the
clearing of the last of five po
lice officers of all charges.
The fifth to be freed was Po
lice Sgt. Elmer V. Jackson yes
terday. Superior Judge Stanley
Barnes dismissed the case, re
lieving a jury of seven men and
five women of the chore.
Brenda Allen, former Holly
wood vice queen, flatly refused
to testify against Jackson, al
though she told the grand jury
that she paid him $50 per girl
to stiffer jail sentences.
There seems to be no agree
ment among tne 4b states on
how to handle sexual offenders
against children. Rep Chelf,
Kentucky Democrat, wants
sexual offense against a child
made a federal crime, with psy
chiatric treatment for those not
sentenced to death.
Fearing publicity, some par
ents don't report to police a
sexual offense against their
child. This leaves the offender
free to approach, attack or may
be kill some other child.
The psychiatrists and J. Ed
gar Hoover, head of the FBI,
think sex offenses against chil
dren would be cut down if po
lice were called in on every case.
This would help, no doubt.
But at this point in America's
social development, there are
many instances where sex of
fenders against children are ar
rested and then released with
hardly more than a brief deten
tion, if any.
per week for protection. Hei
refusal was on constitutional
grounds that she might incrimi
nate herself.
Whereupon, the district attor
ney s office recommended dis
missal of perjury and bribery
charges against Jackson.
Others previously indicted in
the vice investigation but later
cleared were former Police
Chief C. B. Horrall, former As
sistant Chief Joseph Reed, Capt.
Cecil Wisdom and Lt. Rudy Well
pot. Hoy! Gives Message
Of Faith in Future
Los Angeles, Dec. 14 (U.R) A
message of faith in the future of
America was left today with the
Los Angeles stock exchange on
its 50th anniversary by Palmer
Hoyt, publisher and editor of the
Denver Post.
Speaking at a dinner Monday
night honoring the exchange's
birthday, Hoyt lashed out at
fears of depression and a guilt
complex brought on by prosper
ity. The Denver publisher also
urged persons in the financial
world to take the public into
their confidence if free enter
prise is to continue.
"Today we are beset by a lot
of problems which include tax
ation, labor-management strife,
lack of understanding of tha
American system of business and
many other things," he said. "All
these difficulties could be par
tially resolved if we could but
broaden the base of ownership
in American business."
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