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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, July 8. 195S Around Hollywood Aline Mosby By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) Star short age? Movie studios are filling the demand with a raft of new ""5 lovelies, and 1 one studio even is risking $1,000,000 to turn out a Grade A star overnight. Holly wood's current top stars the Humphrey Bo- garts and Lana Turners are so few and familiar that theater operators are crying for new faces." Nearly every film factory has launched a campaign to build new beauties and handsome pro files into new stars. But only one, Paramount, is daring to manufacture a movie star in cap ital letters in a hurry. Star Treatment The studio signed a little known New York actress, Carol Ohmart, and is giving her the fastest star treatment, since the days Hedy Lamarr cut her teeth on Hollywood celluloid. Instead of starting as a lead ing lady or in supporting roles, Carol's first picture is a one woman show. She is the star of "The Scarlet Hour," a million , dollar production without an other "name" in the cast. . The press has been showered with photographs and stories about Carol. The studio even spent thousands of dollars to buy her a personal wardrobe a star-building expense that hasn't been tried for more than a dec ade. Paramount also hired a pub licist whose sole job is to turn Carol Ohmart into a movie star. Carol, daughter of a retired 'Tacoma, Wash., dentist, sang and danced when she was in high school in Spokane, Wash. Later she moved to Salt Lake City and was Miss Utah of 1946. That contest took her to New York where she starved as a model. Finally she broke into TV and 'radio. Paramount discovered her as an understudy in Broadway's "Kismet." : "It's all happened so fast I can hardly believe if," Carol sighed on her movie set today, "I've had a lot of luck." . - . Other studios are building stars more gradually. MGM hopes to turn two ballerinas from Europe, Finnish Taina Elg and French Liliane Montevecchii into box office queens. The studio also boasts a new Barbara Stanwyck-type, Jarma Lewis. More Imports , Twentieth Century-Fox im ported a pair of English actresses and thrust them into starring roles Joan Collins in "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" and Anna Dana Wynter in "View from Pompey's Head." Fox also figures on Richard Egen being the Clark Gable of next year. Paramount bravely put an un known European singer, Oreste Kirkop, into "The Vagabond King." That studio also pulled Shirley MacLane out of "Pa jama Game," and starred her in "Art ists and Models." Independent producers Bob Fellows and John Wayne hope they'll hit a box office jackpot with Anita Eckberg. Columbia figures "Picnic" will make a true star of blonde Kim Novak. Mayan Farm Practices Had Good Production ' Los' Angeles U.R) Two anthropologists report that prim itive farming techniques of ancient Mayan agriculture could have supported a population density greater than that of mod ern Mexico. The disclosure was made by Dr. Joseph Hester, Jr., and Dr. George W. Brainerd of the de partment of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles. They have studied May an subsistence.' The anthropologists said the Mayan civilization, centered in the hot, tropical lowlands of the Yucatan peninsula, used a shifting, "bush - fallowing" type of agriculture. - . The Mayans apparently pro duced enough maize, the chief staple food of the Maya, to sup port indefinitely a population of from 30 to 50 persons per square mile, which is greater than the population density of - modern Mexico. Thus freed from subsistence problems, the Maya were able to devote more thought to scientif ic and artistic accomplishments, the anthropologists said. Mexico's population increased by 75 per cent between 1920-50. EE 1 sn CP w:-J--i -Aziz ( .-t..--9v-. Your Grocer hasit PICNIC MEATS it's fun choosing ' from many flavorful favorites! BEAN SALAD yellow mustard dressing and chopped onion make, this special thrifty taste treat. . CO RN-ON-THE-COB roast in dampened husks right over hot charcoal. Children love this! and HOLSUM BREAD, fresh line texture makes it sandwich perfect ! MAKES PICNIC MEATS TASTE BETTER this fresh delicious Holsum Bread you'll enjoy outdoors or right at home for hearty, wholesome sandwiches. 1 SHOP YOUR GROCERS PICNIC DISPLAY-Choose a wide array of appetizing energizing picnic goodies including fresh, delicious Holsum. HOLSUM SANDWICHES are a picnic . . . Easy to make fun to eat good for you ! Holsum gives you energy Vitamins Bi, B2, Niacin, Iron, Riboflavin and Caldunv PLUS body-building VITAMIN D everybody needs. - . I ' O HOUOM UNHO UH O HOUOM UNHO UH ALSO TRY . . & IF By) PICNICS - SNACKS - LIGHT LUNCHES
