Bald Claims

Hollywood, which is no place to be bald in, is an excellent place for people who claim they can cure baldness. Red-haired Patricia M. Stenz runs a hair and scalp clinic across the street from Hollywood's "Radio City" at Sunset and Vine. She has a theory that all baldness is caused by a fungus. A bald head, says Miss Stenz, is something like athlete's foot, at the other end of the body; it runs in families, as athlete's foot does, not through heredity but because sons catch it from their fathers.

Miss Stenz treats baldness with two solutions (one red, one white) developed by her partner, Biochemist Irwin J. Bash. The solutions, says Bash, make the scalp unpalatable to the fungus. Some of the satisfied customers who believe that their scalps have been de-fungused and re-haired by Stenz & Bash: Cinemactors Jimmy Stewart, Dick Powell, Gig Young, Gene Kelly.

Last week Miss Stenz dared Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, to make a scientific test of her treatment. Boasted she: "I will grow hair on any person chosen by the A.M.A. and do it under observation." Dr. Fishbein wasn't having any. Said he, fingering his own bald head and repeating an ancient wheeze: "'Any ass in Athens can grow more hair than the wisest man.' These cells are dead. Anybody who can restore hair in dead cells can restore people from the grave."

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