In Hollywood

P: With nearly all the annual film prizes, except the Academy Awards, presented or accounted for, Photoplay magazine slipped under the wire with its 1953 Gold Medal selections. Top winners: Alan Ladd and Marilyn Monroe.

P: Paramount demonstrated its new entry in the big-screen sweepstakes, VistaVision, to be shown on a screen 1.77 times as wide as it is high (as compared with 1.33 to 1 for the traditional screen and 2.55 to 1 for Fox's CinemaScope). Adaptable to standard movie-house projectors, the high-wide process is also handsome; no matter where the moviegoer sits in the theater, the picture is always in focus. Paramount plans to make all its future films in VistaVision. Coming Vista Visions: White Christmas (with Bing Crosby), DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

P: To the gloomy fact that Hollywood's current production is at an alltime modern low (only 23 films in the making), Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn added some gloomy statistics. On long-term studio contracts, there are now only 216 actors (as compared to 327 last year), 62 directors (v. 92), 65 producers (v. 117).

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