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Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
...Harry von Zell had Adolphe Menjou at the mike. Von Zell: "Tell them about this great sight here tonight." Menjou: "Tell them? How on earth can I?" But the De Mille cue had been given and, suddenly, the wandering blue kleig lights turned from the flag-draped platform to focus on the concrete opening whence football teams usually come rushing out in triumph...
Thus last week Hollywood's Post No. 43, which observes the Legion lodge ritual down to the last wave of the flag, sponsored a new Legion post (No. 591) composed entirely of World War II veterans.* Post 43, the country's richest (famed members: Adolphe Menjou, Conrad Nagel) footed all bills, gave Post 591 the use of its building. The Legion, outdistanced at the start by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the drive for World War II members (TIME, Oct. 4), had now begun to sign them up in earnest...
...Adolphe Menjou, for nearly two decades one of the cinema's slickest dressers, got back from a four-and-a-half-month USO tour of England, North Africa and Sicily - where he reported there were mosquitoes as big as pigeons. Tanned and thinner, he wore a threadbare royal blue outfit, white shirt, red tie with speckled stripes, khaki sweater, green socks, an exhausted artificial carnation...
Robert Young's limp sideburns evoke the period as sharply as the best of the sets. Adolphe Menjou and Reginald Gardner are atmospheric. The fact that Cinemactress Grable's histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...