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’T 'H E R E Is no trick In m atching
A up an ill-assorted lot of fu rn i
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set shown here is typical. An old
chiffonier, a cut-down chair, a
nondescript bed and an old wash-
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R elea sed by W estern N ew sp ap er Union
By V IR G IN IA V A L E
AMES MASON, who recent
ly won a national poll as
J “England’s
most popular mo
tion picture actor” for the
second time, is likely to chalk
up similar honors for himself
in America. You’ll see him in
“ The Man in G ra y ,’ ’ released by
U n ive rsa l P ictures — and probably
in A m e rican-m ade pictures as w ell,
due to th a t tleup between U niver- |
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stand were painted cream color
and then decorated with a gay
painting design.
This, w ith his Scottie and wooden sw o rd.
Is one of h a lf a dozen app ea ling c h ild re n
to be painted on d ra w e r fro n ts and panels.
A ll you have to do is to tra c e the fig
ures. flow ers and ribbons as in d ic a te d on
the p a tte rn ; then fo llo w the c o lo r g u id e ,
fillin g in fla t tones w ith o u t any sh ading.
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and s m a ll bow knots, flow ers and fig u re s
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SIMPLE, well-mannered, all
occasion frock f( r the more
m ature figure. Shoulder gather
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ness to the waist the beautifully
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sal and J. A rth u r Rank of Eng
land. Leo Spitz and W illia m Goetz
M ason’ s known as “ The English
H u m p h re y B o g a rt,” w hich gives
you an idea of the kind of roles be
p la ys; he’s m urdered m any young
ladies on the screen, in a va rie ty
of ways, but says th a t the way he
extinguishes M a rg a re t Lockwood in
“ The M an in G ra y ” is the worst
o f all.
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P« ya rd s of 54 inch m a te ria l;
u ya rd s of 35 or 3U lnch fa b ric .
“ Tw o H ours of S tars” (sta rs fro m
stage, screen and ra d io ) w ill be
broadcast on the afternoon of
C h ristm a s Day over the fu ll C olum
bia netw ork. The lis t includes Bob
Hope, Vera Vague, G inny Sim m s,
Jack
Benny,
A rtu r
Rubenstein,
A lan ( “ F a ls ta ff") Reed, and m any
others, w ith Don Ameche as m as
te r o f cerem onies. There m ay be a
com edy
s k it
done
by
fam ous
stooges— Vera Vague, J e rry Colon
na, Reed and Rochester, among oth
ers; people so clever th e y ’ re stooges
no longer.
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L'' i/E R Y y e a r the C hristm as card custom sends its roots deeper in to
A m e ric a n social and fa m ily life . W hat is there about these gay, dec
o ra tiv e greetings that makes m illio n s o f people co m p ile long lists of frie n d s
and re la tive s w ith whom they w ant to share the C h ristm a s s p irit? I t is n 't
ancient tra d itio n , because less than e ig h ty years ago there w ere no C h ris t
m as cards in A m e ric a . The trem endous g ro w th o f th is frie n d ly custom
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I OOK at the C h ristm a s cards you receive th is year.
N otice how m any
' of them are designed to capture som ething o f our fa m ily happiness at
C h ristm a s, when we are a ll at home o r th in k in g about those fa r away.
The fa m ily scene on the card ir. the center, above, w ill be duplicated C h ris t
mas m o rn in g in A m e rica n homes everyw here, and since it is so h e a rt
w a rm in g a scene, we select i t too fo r o u r fa m ily C hristm as cards and,
thereby ask a ll our frie n d s to share in it.
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w hich b rin g the cards we receive rig h t in to the fa m ily circle . We pass
o u r v illa g e church every day in the ye a r, but i t never is m ore b e a u tifu l
than on C h ristm a s Eve. So the church, too, becomes a C h ristm a s card
sym bol. C hurch, home, fa m ily —the things we recognize at once and love
a lw a ys—these are w hat m ake a C h ristm a s card.
It seems as If everybody’s sing
ing in “ The Bells of St. M a ry ’s.”
The famed boys’ choir, St. Luke’s
Choristers of Long Beach, w ill sing.
Bing Crosby, naturally, w ill s in g -
five numbers, including “ Adeste F i
delis.*’ And Ingrid Bergman w ill lift
her voice in song for the first time
on the screen; she’ll do a Swedish
folk song. The picture’s a Christmas
tim e release.
H um phrey B ogart and La u re n B a
call. who lik e to w ear m a tch in g gray
flannel slacks and red flannel sh irts
also each w ear a tin y gold w histle
—hers on a bracelet, his on his
w atch chain. They said th e y’d never
take them off fo r any reason. But
it w asn't long before she w ent into
"C o n fid e n tia l A gent,” and had to
take o ff her bracelet— fo r ro m a n tic
closeups w ith Charles B oyer!
N ice goings-on — G inny Sim m s,
who raises prize pigs on her ranch,
traded a young p o rke r to D ordthy
Lam o u r, in exchange fo r a tu rke y
fro m D o ro th y’ s prize stock. In c i
d e n ta lly, G in n y ’ s going to have a
30-foot c irc u la r staircase constructed
e n tire ly o f lu cite in th a t new home
she’ s b u ild in g ; i t ’ ll rise fro m the
center of a 30 by 40 foot h a ll.
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“ On the first day of Christmas my
true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.”
A ccording to the tra d itio n a l ca ro l
"T h e T w e lve Days of C h ristm a s,” a
c e rta in young lady received, fro m
her tru e love, a p p ro p ria te g ifts on
each day o f the C h ristm a s season.
The young man proceeded cau
tiously. at firs t: a pa rtrid g e, two
tu rtle doves, three French hens; not
u n til the eighth, nin th and tenth
days, did he re a lly plunge into the
s p irit, sending:
“ Right maids a-niilking, nine ladies
dancing, ten lords a-leaping.”
E p ip h a n y
brought
the
grand
f'naie:
“ Twelve
pipers
piping,
eleven
drummers drumming, ten lords
a-leaping. nine ladies dancing,
eight
maids a-m ilking, seven
swans a-swimming, six geese
a-laying, five gold rings, four colly
birds, three French hens, two tur
tle doves, and a partridge in a
pear tree.”
of the
Holy Innocents
C hilderm as, on D ecem ber 28. com
m em orates the m assacre o f the H oly
Innocents
It takes conductor N at Novick
and pianist Tom Howard J r. more
than four hours to arrange and or
chestrate that weird music you hear
on “ It Pays to Be Ignorant” ; noth
ing is left to chance, every discord
ant effect is carefully prepared.
Charles B oyer says his im ita to rs
a re a ll w rong when they present
h im as saying to H edy L a m a rr,
“ Come wiz me into ze C asbaa-aah,"
presum ably in H edy’ s screen debut
in th is country. M a tte r o f fa ct, in
the p ictu re he d id n 't ask her to go
anyw here w ith h im .
K in g Herod, d ire c tin g the Wise
Men to Bethlehem , askea them to
re tu rn to h im a fte r they had found
the H oly C hild. When the M a g i, hav
ing been w arned in a dre a m , de
p a rted fro m Judea w ith o u t re v is it
ing Herod, the K in g considered h im
M a rlin H urt, sta r of the Sunday
self to have been m ocked and, in CBS
"B e u la h ”
p ro g ra m ,
would
anger, ordered th a t a ll the boys in hgve gone rig h t on trip lin g fo r h im
B ethlehem under tw o years old self i f he hadn’ t been talked in to ac
cepting c re d it on the a ir. I t was
should be put to death.
G reek litu rg y sets the num ber of P roducer Helen M ack who talked
ch ild re n slain at 14,000; the S yr h im in to acknow ledging th a t he's
'B e u la h ." h im se lf and “ B ill. ”
ians e stim ate 64,000 were m urdered,
and m e d ie va l lite ra tu re
reports
D ire c to r F ra n k Borzage ordered
144,000; m odern w rite rs have re
Maureen O’ H ara to h it B innie
duced the estim ates to coincide w ith
p o ssib ilitie s and one author, basing Barnes hard, re a lly hard, fo r a
scene in “ The Spanish M a in ." M a u r
his co n je ctu re upon the fa ct th a t
een
did, again and again— 11 tim es.
B ethlehem was a sm a ll town, says
The la st tim e B innie. stunned,
the to ta l nu m b e r p robably did not
landed in a blazing fire p la ce ; th a t’ s
exceed 10 o r 12.
the shot yo u ’ ll see.
M an y S u p erstition s
N orth B erries B est
M istle to e
was connected w ith
m any superstitions of the ancient
G erm ans and the B ritis h D ruids.
The custom of kissing under the m is
tletoe nt C hristm as is probably
traceable to the high esteem in
w hich the pla n t was held by the an
cients.
Legend has it that m istletoe was
considered a rem edy fo r epilepsy
and convulsions, but the plant seems
to hnve no nW'dical properties, de
spite Its present use in B ritta n y .
T here is an in sig n ifica n t m em ber
o f the m istle to e fa m ily w hich lives
in the n o rth and uses the spruce tree
as a host. I t is ve ry sm a ll and a
d u ll brow n in color. The m istletoe
used fo r C h ristm a s decorations
grow s no fa rth e r north than New
Jersey and P ennsylvania.
In B ritta n y the m istletoe is s till
called “ herbe de la c ro ix " and its
b e rrie s are crushed and strained
in to o il and taken as a cure fo r fe ve r
and fo r im p a rtin g vig o r.
O D D S A N D E N D S - M a rg a re t
O'Brien's pretty pleased about being
chosen queen of Mexico's float in Pasa
dena's Tournament of Roses. . . . Those
hnh pre-wor days have definitely re
turned to H ollywood; 20th Century-Fox
will spend 1200,000 on settings foi
"Anna and the King of Siam." . . .
Alan l.add's squabble with Paramount
brought him a raise— $75,000 a picture
for seven years, with the price going up
alter three years. . . . John ]. Anthony's
thousands of listeners will increase in
number, now thut his program goes out
over the full Mutual network......... Ilan
Mowbray wrote a story, sold it to Mono
gram, and will star in it.
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