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...Moral from Lana. Columnist Graham, fortyish, had taken on her prominent new rank by joining the staff of Daily Variety. Because a Hollywood trade paper's tremendous influence is out of all proportion to its small circulation (Variety's circulation is about 7,000), Sheilah's Hollywood power is now roughly equal to that enjoyed by a top executive producer's wife...
When Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Jimmy Durante and Victor Mature failed to appear as witnesses at the trial of a Hollywood fashion designer charged with stealing a fur piece, the court lost its temper, said: "These Hollywood people ask the protection of the courts, but fail to appear when it doesn't suit their convenience. Who do they think they are? Movie people are no better than anyone else...
...Hollywood, Lana Turner, who did her bit to make the public sweater-conscious, poured her well-known curves into a different mold, gave photographers a new waistline pose. Trussed almost breathless in a Gay Nineties corset, Lana said: "Girls with hourglass figures set off by those tiny waists had the right idea if beau-catching was their idea...
...second feature, "Mr. Imperium," was even more disappointing. Lana Turner turned in one of her most insipid performances as a mid-western showgirl racing after an Italian king. The sound track did no justice to Ezio Pinza's voice and the fake scenery ruined one possible justification for this Technicolor film. Armchair tourists, however, may enjoy a few authentic shots of Italy...
...stuck for an ending" to her woeful tale, Lana is near a legal separation from her third husband, Millionaire Bob Topping, playboy tinplate heir. But like any Hollywood heroine, Lana can always count on a happy turning in the script. Last week Hollywood gossips reported her moving into a romantic closeup with a tall, dark and handsome Latin named Fernando Lamas. Says Lana: "I am quite sure that around the corner there is something good...