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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1949
Magic Gadgets Leave No Dull Moments For Guests At Hollywood Whing-Dings
Hollywood—(U,R) -Movieland hostesses are having fun these days with exploding cigars, telephones that squirt water, and electrical widgets that give their famous guests the "hot seat."
Celebrities nowadays don't feel like they've been to a party if somebody hasn't sprinkled them with itching powder or scared them to death with jumping candy. It's getting so $ ^{\circ} $
This is a tiny nook on Hollywood boulevard, just around the corner from the Brown Derby, but its shelves are stocked with more than 10,000 ways to scare the daylights out of your friends.
a big name around town wouldn't think of tossing a whing-ding without first stocking up on gadgets from a magic shop in Hollywood.
"Betta Hutton's one of our steadiest customers," says manager V. David Steward. "She always leads up before a party on things like trick matches, soap powder that turns your hands blood-red, and suction gadgets that make your cup shick to your saucer."
Vincent Price likes to come in and roam around. Steward said, and Lovetta Young forget her dignity once for three hours.
"She brought her three little girls and had a wonderful time," he grinned. "Spent about $75, too."
Fibber McGee buysags to liven up the audiences for his radio show. He throws unbreakable drinking glasses at em. Garry Moore, Doris Day, and Barbara Bel Geddes go in for things like fake flies to stick in food, sugar that foams like crazy, and slither rubber alligators to stick on unsuspecting shoulders.
turned every horrible gag we have loose on her. She almost lost her mind.
"Anne Baxter placed a whole afternoon in here," Steward chuckled. "She spent a lot of money so we gave her the specialty of the house."
Imitation bed bugs are one of his biggest sellers. So's the "sex detector," a "scientific instrument" that spins in a circle above a male head and swings back and forth over any lady.
Red Skelton buys toy cars that
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Keenan Wynn's always buying risque gags for birthday presents, and Bob Hope comes in regularly for Steward's off-center golf balls. These look okay, but wiggle away from the cup.
run by remote control, Joan Leslie comes in every year to get surprises for her father's birthday, and the Gayer boys-about-town go for the "peep-show." What they get Steward says, is an eye full of water.
Hope says they're just "dandy"
for twosomes with Crosby.
Delta Chi Pledges
Socially Speaking
Delta Chi fraternity announces the pledging of Bard Black, Wichita, and Robert James, Pasadena, Calif
Delta Chi Party
Delta Chi fraternity held its annual winter party Feb. 18 at the Skyline club with music by the Five Scamps. Chapers were: Mrs Christine Alford, Mrs. Frank Mae-Creary, Mrs. Ralph Park and Mrs. H. J. Overholser.
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Sigma Kappa Entertains
Sigma Kappa entertained Ph Gamma Delta fraternity with a dessert dance Feb. 24 at the chapter house.
Tula—(U,P)—Three sets of Tom twins were free on $50 bond today after an investigator for the State Board of Cosmetology charged them with demonstrating and lecturing on cosmetology without a license.
Toni Twins Jailed For Lack Of License
The girls, publicity representatives for the Toni company of St. Paul, arrived here to give demonstrations in local department stores. But into the jailhouse went all the twins:
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Frances and Bernadette Hanson, 19,
Brooklyn. Kay Renner, St. Paul,
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demonstrator for the Toni company, also
was jailed.
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