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...milk-&-honey, saloon-style nude entitled Reverie (see cut). Miller's explanation for his choice of subject: "I have an appetite for form." Miller sates his appetite with a practiced brush, has taught many topflight U.S. artists to do likewise. Three other prizewinners in the show, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Edward Laning, once studied under him. So did Juryman Reginald Marsh...
...Hedda Hopper, high-styled Hollywood gossip, had a breathless "exclusive" splashed all over Page 1 of the Los Angeles Times: Cinemadolescent Bonita Granville was engaged to a G.I. Next day Hedda had to take it all back: "Well, I've sure been had. ... It never occurred to me the caller wasn't Bonita. The girl who imitated her voice did a magnificent...
After lunch, the distinguished visitor went on to meet 500 of the most important people in Hollywood at a cocktail party given by Producer Walter Wanger. Rank had five orange juices. Columnist Hedda Hopper remarked that she thought Mr. Rank was going to administer a much-needed "goose" to the industry...
...being held. And if you don't know the purpose of it, don't feel bad, because a lot of adults don't either." His eye sharpened: "I saw an interesting and pretty hat walk into the dress circle today - it turned out to be Hedda Hopper under it." He pontificated : "On the whole, I'd say the conference has done remarkably well." In Boston, Editor Canham, well pleased with his new columnist, suggested that Kenneth could stand a few spelling lessons but might one day become a topnotch newspaperman. Kenneth was pleased...
Legitimate newsmen debated whether the men who were intent on wrecking the conference were as dangerous as those who were determined to wisecrack about it. They heard Hedda Hopper cooing in a hotel lobby: "My dear, if this thing doesn't pick up pretty soon, it's going to be the dullest clambake ever held." They read Elsa Maxwell's astute comments on the Russians: "a bunch of magnificent he-men." They debated who was to blame-the officials who issued the credentials wholesale, or the newspapers that assigned the freaks...