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...House Un-American Activities Committee, continuing its search of Who's Who in the Communist world, quizzed Hollywood-Broadway Writer Abe (Guys and Dolls) Burrows, 41, who freely admitted that he had furnished lyrics and piano accompaniment for many a Red gathering in filmland, but had never paid dues nor signed the card. Said he: "If [someone] said I was a Communist Party member he was probably telling the truth as he saw it. I was seen with them. I was around, but I wasn't one of the fellows." Burrows had been "pretty naive," commented Committeeman Harold...
...news brought a quick and bold counterattack from the Hearst estate's special administrators, Son Randolph Apperson Hearst and Lawyer Henry MacKay Jr.: "This so-called agreement . . . was never executed and for this and many other reasons has no more effect than if it never existed." Snapped Filmland Lawyer Gregson Bautzer, who had helped set up the agreement last year for Hearst: "The document will speak for itself when filed...
Married. James Maitland ("Jimmy") Stewart, 41, lanky, bashful filmland Galahad (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Strait on Story), wartime Air Forces colonel and bomber group commander; and Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean; she for the second time; in Los Angeles...
Died. Mark Hellinger, 44, pioneer Broadway columnist, Hollywood producer (The Killers); of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Convivial, flashy Hellinger lived exactly as gossip-column fans imagine a "Broadwayite" should, married Gladys Glad, a Ziegfeld showgirl, moved to filmland to become one of Hollywood's most enthusiastic practical jokers and its prototype of a "swell...
...rounds of applause. June Duprez, as the "woman who always knows" is not as plain a wench as Barrie called for, and considerably less crafty. The business of personal appearance seems to impose something of a strain on her, and it might be well for her to return to filmland where she scored admirably in "None But the Lonely Heart" and "And Then There Were None...