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Flight Officer Jackie Coogan, back in home-town Hollywood after a tour of combat duty with the Army Air Commandos in India, cashed in on a request by letter for a date: he had fallen for a pin-up picture of eye-filling Starlet Ramsay Ames...
...qualities which make a smart Hollywood restaurant click are as fragile as the promise in a starlet's eye. The essentials for success-more subtle than LaRue's Royal Squab Diable ($2.25) and the decor which Hollywoodians describe as "chichi like crazy"-are Billy Wilkerson's secret. Smart as LaRue may be, it is less smart than its proprietor...
Married. Mimi Chandler, 17, torch-singing Hollywood starlet (And the Angels Sing), daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler; and Army Ferry Command Major John Cabell, 27, cousin of Novelist (James) Branch Cabell; in Los Angeles...
...right is Radio Starlet Florida Edwards, who won an $8,180 judgment against the Hollywood Canteen for an injury to her coccyx, suffered while dancing with a "jive-maddened" Marine. Her plight inspired Los Angeles Superior Judge Henry M. Willis to a judicial definition of "jitterbug." Said he: "The word bug is defined ... as a crazy person. The word jitter means extreme nervousness. This combination, therefore, approaches the description of one witness who said the jitterbug dance was crazy...
...revival of prestidigitatorial entertainment, but not at tent-show prices. Service men got in free; the rest paid $11 a seat opening night, a $5.50 top thereafter. For that they got two bewitching hours of the versatile Wonder Boy, dazzlingly costumed, reading minds, hypnotizing his curvilinear assistant, Starlet Mary Rowland, whipping rabbits out of hats and bowls full of rice out of nowhere, sawing ladies in halves, levitating stooges, and triumphantly producing Rita Hayworth from a trunk...