European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse 16 the stars and stripes wednesday August 26, Garden of Adah was playground of bygone stars Hollywood bids Boozy Farewell to thirsty age John Barrymore. Hiked Between drinks Philadelphia pm cast As Young Philadelphia Hollywood up signing Fred Eisley for an important role in the Young philadelphian was not deliberate Type casting but Warner Bros discovered he was Philadelphia born and that his " maternal Grandfather was a two term mayor of the plays a member of an old line Philadelphia family in their movie. By risk do Browh Hollywood up a Glori Ous Hollywood party has ended. It lasted 32 years. The Garden of Allah legendary hotel Playpen of film land s thirst est Madcap from f. Scott Fitzger Ald to Humphrey Bogart bid fare Well in a Blaze of booze dedicated to the Hollywood that never again can month the hostelry s 25 Villas and Manor House fronting on Sunset blvd. Will be razed to make Way for a $5 million office building. But at the Farewell party the 350 invited guests including Dean Martin Mort Sahl Sammy Davis jr., and 76-year-old Francis x. Bushman the screen s first great Lover vowed to forget next month. Some of tenants in its hey Day the Garden boasted such tenants As John Barry More Marlene Dietrich Tallulah Bankhead Robert Benchley w. C. Fields Errol Flynn Charles Butterworth Greta Garbo and Ernest Hemingway. Ill be damned Thomas Wolfe once wrote to Fitzgerald if i la believe anyone lives in a place called the Garden of Allah " Wolfe should have known better. Everyone lived there. And the Binge never stopped. The doors of the Villas were open 24 hours Aday. Nothing said columnist Lucius Beebe interrupted the continual crossword by Eugene Sheffer 12. 15" 2t 52. 55 42. 43 44 \8 19 \ 20 45 1.7 46 6 38 4 28 34 49 54 0 t tumult that was life at the Garden of Allah. Now and then the men in White came with a Van and tool somebody away or bankruptcy o divorce or even jail claimed a participant in its strictly unstated at the party the Pool was strew with empty bottles in tribute to the past when some of the nation s most famous anti prohibitionists found themselves time and again taking an unintentional Moonlight dip. There was the night for in stance when Fields tried to take a Short Cut across the Pool to liquor store. I can get it faster than you can Send for it he had told a Host. Immortal phrases were born at the Garden. Benchley the Gar Den s resident humorist once re marked i think i la get out of these wet clothes and into a dry More Benchley another time Benchley was warned by a Friend that drink i slow that s All right. I can wait,1 said Benchley raising his highball Glass. There was the time Butterworth peered out a window and re marked looks like it s going to get drunk out Benchley Butterworth and Barrymore were the three musketeers Butterworth often pushed Bench Ley from Villa to Villa in a wheel Barrow. Barrymore made the rounds on a bicycle so there would t be such a Long time be tween one night Benchley toddled out to Sunset blvd., tried to Cross it was forced Back time and again by onrushing traffic and finally flagged Down a taxi to take him across the Street. They were slap Happy Days Days of wonderful nonsense and the Farewell party tried to recall them everyone came dressed As an old time movie Star. If you did t look too closely at the costumes you could see Jean Harlow. Gloria Swanson. Poli Negri. Pearl Chaplin. Tom mix. Doodles by Roger Price horizontal1. Jewel 4. Walking-stick8, baby s bed 12. Mohammed s. Adopted son 13. Portent14. Self comb form 15. Part of a key16. Modelled 18. Food for horses20. Venerate 21. South Ameri can monkey23. Fixed gaze 25, rub out 27. Incident .31. Australia Ostrich 32. Slip 34. Wire measure35. Seaport in England 37. Checks39. Religious ceremonies 41. Mountain in thessaly Fig isomer in to hydrocarbon 45. Heavy weights 17. Objected to49. Electrified particle 52. Head for 53. Urge Book 54. Anglo Saxon Money 55. Bishoprics 56. Soap Frame bar 57. Beak vertical1. Breach 2. Inventor Whitney 3. Legendary creature 4. Ancient egyptian 5. Pile up 6. Openwork fabric 7. Ensnares answer to yesterday s Puzzle. Time of solution go Man. 8-26 8. Cuts artistically 9. Finnish poem 10. Roman Road 11. Augur 17. More weird 19. Three toe sloths 21. Abound 22. Girl s name 24. Indian tent 26. Lily maid of astolat28. Anything neglected 29. Continuous loud noises 30. Lohengrin Bride 33. Vouches lor36. Fireplaces 38. Eternity 40. Flower stalks 42. Chooses 43. Algonquian indian44. Carry Colloq 46. Lyric poems 4e pedal digit 50, native rock51. Photo finish of a rat rage tired of the old rat race searching for a place where you can forget about traffic jams to commercials income taxes and even doodles if so you la be Happy to hear that the s & k travel Bureau owned by my col leagues or. Schwine and or. Kit Zenger is offering a get away from it All vacation special at one of their exclusive hideaway heavens which Are located some where out in the Beautiful Blue Pacific Ocean. S & k can do this because a few months ago they made a shrewd Deal with the atomic Energy commission and purchased several second Han tropical islands that were hardly used during the last Hydrogen bomb tests if you re interested All you need is 250 dollars and your Toothbrush s & k will sup ply everything else including gel Ger counter and Lead bathing Robert Benchley. Into a dry Martini a Jolson. Hoot Gibson. Will Rogers. The bartenders wore Keystone cops costumes and the waitresses were dressed like Mack Sennett s bathing beauties. There were Blue blazers and White ducks reminders of the Wacky Days when nobodies strolled Down Hollywood German shepherds and a director s megaphone to impress the tourists Days when a movie Star was not like the girl next door Days when Sunset Blind. Was the exclusive Playpen of the very very Rich or at least those who pretended to be very very Rich. There was the Day an actress answered her Villa Doorbell completely nude and with a Monkey sitting on her head. A Western Union messenger boy was so shocked that he handed the Tele Gram to the Monkey. Alia Nazimova died in 1945, and in a sense the Garden of Allah died with her. Business slowed Down the big names were Les frequent. And Hollywood showed at the Farewell party it misses the old Days. Movie beginning its tour of army and air Force Heaters this week the last mile on the night of the scheduled execution of another prisoner Mickey Rooney a death House inmate starts a prison re Volt. Taking hostages most of whom Are slain when his demand for Freedom is not met Rooney Dies in a burst of gunfire. A. United artists Hollywood s 4,630 item Workbook by North american newspaper Allanah Hollywood just out but Don t try to find it on the Book stands is the 83d edition of Hollywood s own private who s who a Catalon of film players from stare on Down to uncredited Small part performers. Handsomely illustrated and alphabetized it is restricted solely to the Trade. It has Long since become a Bible for casting directors whose wants can be filled by a glance at the Index. It begins with a character specialist named Dee Aaker and winds up with comedian Martin Wilkins. It includes every available thespian in the business together with the name and phone number of an agent. The motion picture Academy s seven Pound Book published biannually invites breakdowns. It Dis closes that character actors and comedians outnumber any other category in the film capital. Of the 4,630 players whose photographs appear on its Slick Stock pages 1,451 Are found in these two depart ments. Movie acting s a Man s game too the figures show. Including Chil Dren the 2,965 male players out number the females by 1,300. Who tacked up pinup Bardot Paris Nana the one Man police Force of Cagnes sur Mer a hideaway Village on. The Riviera is tackling its biggest sleuthing Job for years who put the tacks on Brigitte Bardot s Doorstep real Sherlock Holmes stuff. And it All started when la Bardot drove Home from filming in Nice with her new husband Jacques harrier. Like All the Best bohemians by goes motoring in her Bare feet and when she jumped out of Theca at the front door of her Villa she landed right on a pile of tacks. And let out a shriek that could be heard almost to St. Tropez. The Lone cop called in by an infuriated Brigitte is getting a Little enthusiastic a m at e u r assistance from local fans who have set up a night vigilante patrol in the grounds of the Bardot Villa. Brynner in mob film new York a Yul Bryn Ner has been signed to Star in a gift from the boys a movie about an american gangster deported to Italy. Out our Way by Williams wait till he gits was up to the other exp them. Well yell per him
