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...Hiya, Dollface!" Betty's all-out assault on an audience is a trademark that she carries into every appearance, public or private, that might conceivably make the world more Hutton-conscious and thus advance her career. Her clarionlike entrance into a restaurant ("Hiya, dollface! Hey, got my table?") is one of the digestive hazards of eating out in Hollywood. During a wartime bond tour, she stole the headlines in most of 20 cities from a trainload of more prominent stars by rushing to kiss the mayor on arrival; in one city she had to leap onto a police motorcycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...first publicity stills and shoot another set. When she visited the music department and was asked what sort of thing she did, she leaped onto Composer Johnny Mercer's back with a wild yell: "I do something like this. Get it?" She greeted dignified Cecil B. DeMille with "Hiya, dreamboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...Hiya cat, wipe ya feet on the mat, let's slap on the fat and dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prisoners of WOV | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...sharply as a kingfisher hunting shiners; his pink face lighted at the first sign of recognition. If people turned, he snatched a wide-brimmed grey hat from his ear-long white locks, nodded majestically as if thousands cheered, and cranked down the car window with incredible dexterity to bawl, "Hiya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Norway, was likewise preparing to return to his throne in Oslo. Crown Prince Olav and three members of the Norwegian Government in Exile had already returned to Oslo last week on a British cruiser. As he drove through the capital in an open car, thousands of jubilant Norwegians shouted "Hiya, Olav." In London the rest of the royal family had assembled. While they waited, exiled Norwegians spent their time (and remaining ration coupons) on a last big buying binge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Kings Return | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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