HOLLYWOOD
CHIT-CHAT
By GENE HANDSAKER
HOLLYWOOD—Pat O’Brien is
norrrnating himself for mayor of
New York City—in the movies,
that is.
He wants to portray the life of
his good friend, William O’Dwyor
the metropolis’ new mayor and
former gang-busting district at
torney.
“Bill’s life would make a won
derful film story,” the husky, tow
ering actor said as he changed
clothes in his dressing room. His
voice was soft, his cleft, sand
papered chin as imposing as a
granite boulder.
Pat hauled off his shirt disclos-1
ing a manly chestful of matted
black hair.
ATTRACTIVE XMAS
TREE TRIMINGS
PEANUT PEOPLE
You can make pretty chains for
the tree out of peanuts in the
shell that have been dipped in
bright water color paints. Some of
the kids put odd dots and strips
and paste paper stars on them.
One of the trickiest ideas is to
make peanut people.
To make a little Tyrolean pea
nut girl, select a single peanut in
the shell for the head, a double
or triple peanut for the body and
shorter ones for the arms and legs.
Attach arms, legs and head to
body with buttonhole thread using
a darning needle. The skirt is a
6 by 3 inch piece of gathered pa
per tied around the body.
You can make
a jolly little
Santa Claus the
same way. First
dip the peanuts
in bright red
water color
paint or lac
quer them with
nail polish.
When they dry,
sew them to
gether. Paste on
a beard made i
"I met Bill on a train when he
was coming here on one of his
racket investigations,” he said. “I
took him out to the house to meet
the family (Mrs. O’Brien and three
children* and later to an Academy
Award banquet. He was excited
as a kid at meeting the movie
stars.”
Pat stepped out of his tiousers.
His middle folded in wrinkles as
he stooped over for fallen coin.
"Bill and 1 have quite a lot in
common,” Pat continued. “We
even look something alike. We
both came up the hard way.
“Bill and his brother were New
York City cops. Gangsters killed
his brother—that’s why Bill be
came a prosecutor. Yes, sir, a
great story for the screen.”
Dressed again and immaculate,
Pat sat in an overstuffed chair,
leaned his head against its back
out of cotton and a little crepe pa
per cornucopia with a dot of cot
ton for his hat.
Some of the bubble brains used
up scraps of last year’s Christmas
wrappings, bits of cloth, ribbon
and yarn that they had been sav
ing for “a rainy day” by dressing
up the peanut kids and Santa.
GINGERBREAD MEN
Of course if you've goi any heps
that can really cook, you can make
some gingerbread pin-up boys to
hang on the tree. Here is the re
cipe that we tried out the other
night.
Take 2% cups fluor, 3 teaspoons
baking powder, teaspoon salt,
teaspoon ginger, Vi teaspoon
cloves, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and
sift all. Mix 2/3 cup molasses with
1/3 cup brown sugar, 1 egg and Vfe
cup melted
Ip shortening. Add
dry ingredients
to make a soft
dough. Shape in
forms of little
men and bake
in mod e r a t e
1 oven, 375° for
about 12 min
( utes. This will
1 make about 18
Jj pin-up boys
4 inches high.
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and lighted a cigar, one of the 16
he averages daily.
“Bill smokes cigars too.” he
said.
Pat said he would mention the
movie idea casually to O’Dwyer
when the actor and his wife next
visit New York, probably in Feb
ruary.
“Bill may not go for it” Pat
smiled. “He may want the movie
to wait until he’s governor.”
Pat shuffled through piles of
papers and theatrical publications
and handed me a letter, saying,
“isn’t that beautiful?”
It was written to Pat’s daugh
ter, Mavourneen, then eight, by
O’Dwyer after his visit with the
O’Briens.
“This letter is a love letter and
I hope it is your first love letter,”
it said in part. “It comes from the
man you made so happy ... Do
you remember you played on the
p ano for me . . . ?You so little,
and in one short hour you mowed
me down”
It was signed, “With love. Un
cle Bill.”
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