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...customary for Hollywood to take itself seriously in every instance, the Awards being no exception. However, the ad-man for a recent motion-picture, "Chicken Every Sunday," recently bilied Celeste Holm as "that Academy Award winnin' gal!" Miss Holm was given her Award for appearing intelligibly in anti-anti-Semitic film...
Onetime Aquastar Eleanor Holm, due home this week from globe-trotting with husband Billy Rose, wrote to a Manhattan columnist about the wonders of world travel. Burbled Eleanor: "Rome . . . is in a class by itself . . . You meet people you know at every restaurant. Last night it was Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote; as we came into the hotel, Gregory Ratoff, and a few minutes ago, Ingrid Bergman...
...Eleanor Holm Rose, now in Panama with her husband on a world tour, revealed an old prejudice. Why had she been ignoring the fine Latin American beaches? Said she: "I have never enjoyed swimming, since Billy made me swim in the Aquacade in the chilly New York...
...modern times, but as a turn-of-the-century fable it seems plausible enough. The hero (Dan Dailey) is a rainbow-chaser-a dreamer, a promoter, an incurable gambler. He is the type who insists on financing a hospital in a small Arizona town because his wife (Celeste Holm) is expecting her first baby, but he is also ready to gamble their home against the long chance that he will bring in a copper mine. Dailey will take a flyer on anything, but once an enterprise is established, it always slips through his fingers...
Before setting off with wife Eleanor Holm on a four-month round-the-world tour, Columnist Billy Rose explained: "My world has been bounded by the flea circus on 42nd Street and the statue up at Columbus Circle, and I figure it can do my perspective nothing but good to take a hinge at how the other 99.9 percent lives...