HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl

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* Meaning, roughly, screwball. Pronounced to rhyme not with book but with fluke.* Actually, Charles Atlas is hale and muscular at 66, and an admirer of Shirley. "She is a very fine, clean woman," says he. "I wish she could join me when I'm out running." * The first time Hitchcock indulged in this devastating comment was just before shooting a picture with Carole Lombard. He arrived on the set to begin shooting and found his leading lady waiting for him, leading three cows. * Who, in his review of Ask Any Girl, thought the other girls appeared "more worthy of land ing guys," deplored her "plain lack of chic," and dismissed her as "one-half a dame."

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