CHARLE McCARTHY ENTERTAINS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4

CHARLE McCARTHY ENTERTAINS

! Celebrating the completion of their !i ew Universal picture, "You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man.” Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy tossed a party that will keep Hollywood talking for weeks. It was a costume party of the j Gay Nineties era. which brought out I I some of the funniest costumes ever j seen at a film affair. Bergen and McI Carthy dressed as a minstrel team, with j | Charlie actually in blackface. Tyrone j Power and Jimmy Starr nearly I "stopped the show” when, attired in a i Weber and Fields, they arrived in a horse-drawn carriage. Topping die feminine costumes was that of Shirley Ross, who wore a very circumspect dress—except that, she had cut out the back < the skirt so that her corset j and pantaloons showed. Andy Devine “batched” it. dressed as a Keystone [ Cop. Constance Moore, who was! Bergen’s leading lady in “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man,” was the belle of the ball in a gorgeous pink dress. She was accompanied by Bill Lundi-! gan. attired in an old-fashioned costume with a grey top hat Betty Grable cut quite a figure as a chorus girl. Dorothy Lamour also created quite a sensation in her black gown with the skirt slit up the side almost lo her hip.