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.
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