THE ANSWER CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE ANSWER CORNER.

REPLIES TO INQUIRIES. INTERESTED READER (Point Chevalier). Franchot Tone is to be found at Culver Cit.v, Hollywood, U.S.A., and will probably send you his photo, free of charge. He was a stage actor before going to Hollywood in 1933. Jeanette Mac Donald is 129. ASTRID FAN (Mount Albert). —Astrid Allw.vn definitely is not Astrid Olilsen. Allwyn is the film actress' real name; furthermore, she is unmarried. Miss Allwyn lives in her home in Beverly Hills, outside Hollywood; stands sft 3in high, and weighs llSlb, and has \lark blonde hair and light brown eyes. FILM FAN (Papakura).—Addresses you want are: Muriel Evans, Culver City, Hollywood, U.S.A. ; Marlene Dietrich, c/o Paramount Pictures, Inc., 5451. Marathon Street, Hollywood ; Richard Dix, c/o Columbia Studios, 1438, North Gower Street, Hollywood; and Gracie Fields, c/o Associated Talking Pictures, Ealing, London. Gracie is the only one of these whom I have known to send her photo to New Zealand free of charge. Inquiries may not be answered unless names and addresses are given, as bona fides.

S.R.F. (Auckland) .—A photograph sent by a film star is always enclosed in an envelope. In the matter of seeking screen stardom, you have no chance whatever In New Zealand, as there are no. "talent scouts" here. You might send details of vourself—descriptive, personal and historical—to .the Central Casting Bureau, Hollywood, and chance to Lady Luck. The casting directors are inundated with such information, but will always find room for another star. Write to Madge Evans at Culver City, Hollywood, U.S.A.; to Grace Moore, c/o Columbia Studios, 1438, North Gower Street, Hollywood, and to Jean Parker, c/o Paramount Pictures Inc., 5451. Marathon Street, Hollywood. Please give name and address in letters, in addition to nom de jdume. DICK FORAN FAN.—Your hero will .be seen in "Lone Star Ranger' 7 and 'Trailin West." It is true that Ann Sothern and Roger Pryor are married. Wedlock has proved an epidemic in Hollywood this year and it is becoming difficult to keep up the pace. "Tex" in "The Devil's Squadron" was played by Gordon Jones, of whom I have no biographical details, and Barlow in the same film was played by Gene Morgan. Their address is c/o . Columbia Studios, 1438, North Gower Street, Hollywood, U.S.A. Norma Shearer announced through a secretary to a Canadian newspaper that she would continue lier career in films in spite of her bereavement.® She was scheduled to make "Marie Antoinette," with Charles Laughton. I have not the details you want on Eddie Cantor, Stepin Fetcliit or Harvey Stephens. J.J.N. (Onehunga).—That note from John Boles certainly meant that he would appreciate a note of thanks from you. And you would be tactful if you told how good he was in "Rose of the Rancho." Or wasn't he? The opening \ song in that film was "Little Rose of the Rancho," and other numbers in it were "If I should Lose You,", and "Got a C*iri in Californ-i-a." You must try music shops for recordings of these. Flynn has finished "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and is now making lne Green Light" Write to Errol and Dick Powell, c/o Warner Bros., Burbank, Callfornia; to Gladys Swarthout, c/o Paramount Pictures, Inc., 5451, Marathon Street, Hollywood, U.S.A. Sending money to America is done by the purchase at the post office of international money coupons: You do not send New Zealand money or American stamps. Of the stars you list, I have not known Gladys Swarthout or Richard Dix to send their photos free to this country. "Bouquets," incidentally, means "praise." Read that original note again. ROBERT TAYLOR FAN (Dargaville). — The Robert starring with Barbara Stanwyck in i'The Bride Walks Out, was surnamed Young, not Taylor. Robert Taylor is 24, and one of Hollywood s few remaining bachelors. Barbara Stanwyck has been married only once, to Frank Fay, from whom she is now divorced. Janet Gaynor's first and last husband was Lydell Peck (also divorced). Mary Pickford's two husbands were Owen Moore and Douglas Fairbanks (both divorced). She is 43. Barbara Stanwyck is 29, and Janet Gaynor 30. Robert Taylor appeared in a small part in "There's Always To-morrow," starring Binnie Barnes: in "Society Doctor" (Virginia Bruce), "Broadway Melody of ■ Eleanor Powell), "Murder in the Fleet' (Jean ' Parker), "Magnificent Obsession" (Irene Dunne), and ''Small-Town Girl" (Janet Gaynor). He lias now been given the most envied role in Hollywood—-that ' of leading man to Garbo in "Camille." His real name is Arlington Brugh. . You . are another to whom the warning of unsigned letters must be given.

Gene Raymond drives a car that matches the blue of his eyes. Henry Fonda will honeymoon in Hawaii with his pretty and sociallyinclined bride when he finishes his acting assignment opposite Sylvia Sidney in "You Only Live Once." Jean Muir and Gordon Oliver are extremely interested in each other, and it looks as though Jean has terminated her engagement to Richard Watts, jun., famous New York drama critic. Greta Garbo is suffering from pernicious anaemia and it is problematical when she will be able to return to the cast of "Camille," the picture intended to flaunt Robert Taylor as the new "perfect screen lover." Charles Laughton is delaying his return to Hollywood because of his hatred of paying two sets of income tax. By the time he has paid out to the Treasuries of London and Washington, he is lucky if he has enough left to pay his boat fare back. Darryl Zanuek is said to angling for the vacant throne of Irving Thaiberg at M.G.M., and is again considering the merger of his Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox productions. Incidentally, the axe is beginning to fall already on the necks of Metro executives closest to Thalberg.. - And the widowed Norma Shearer announces that she will continue with her scree.n career. On tho day Simone Simon, new French star of "Girls' Dormitory," was reported sick at home with intestinal 'flu she attended the preview of "Dodsworth" looking more robust than ever. The real cause of the little lady's illness is temperament, strengthened by the publicity "splash" her studio is giving her. The latter are threatening all sorts of dire punishment unless "See-moan" behaves like a normal "cinemactress." Samuel Goldwyn has done it - again! He wanted a certain type of actress for the role of Karie in his forthcoming production of Edna Ferber's novel. "Come and Get It," to star Edward Arnold. With his director, Howard Hawks, Goldwyn spent several days looking at fpreign films, one of which was "Fredrika," a German effort featuring the famous Viennese actress, Mady Christians. Goldwyn immediately cabled instructions to his agents in Austria to sign her up, only to receive the answer back that she was at that moment in Hollywood.

; Barbara Stanwyck has been elected "Number One Actress and Swell Person" by every member of the company working with her and Robert Taylor in "His Brother's Wife." When she appeared for-her final scene the company assembled, including everybody from the prop, men to Taylor, and after a speech by W. S. Van Dyke, the director, she was presented with an engraved scroll, stating: "We, the undersigned, the members of the Van Dyke Troupe (His Brother's Wife'), wish; to go on record as endorsing you, Miss Barbara Stanwyck, for Number One Actress and a Swell Person. Your thoughtfulness will long be remembered." The scroll was signed by every member of the company. Mussolini plans to make Rome the leading film capital of Europe. On a 105-acre site, 15 minutes' ride from the centre of the city, he is building ■ a £2,000,000 studio which when completed will be the most modern in the world. II Duce has concluded a deal with one of America's leading producers, Walter Wanger, to make a picture with Hollywood stars and technicians in the new studios. Wanger has under contract such stars as Charles Boyer, Sylvia Sidney, Madeleine Carroll, Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda and Pat Paters on, who will be available for the Italian venture. Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda, whose next film for Wanger will be "Three Times Loser," will appear in his first Italian picture, to be made next summer. In her role in the Samuel Goldwyn production "Dodsworth" Ruth Chatterton wears over 250,000 dollars' worth of real diamonds. This startling fact was revealed by chance when a jewellery - wise visitor at the studios noted the gleam of a ring under an are light. Utter secrecy of the genuineness of the gems was maintained for two reasons—first, the Lloyd's policy covering the picture prohibited publicity; second, some of the baubles are not Miss Chatterton's, but were borrowed from friends and could never be replaced. The prize of the collection was an enormous solitaire as big as the first joint of the star's finger, valued at 110,000 dollars. A dinner ring, with an inch-long slender oval of diamond, was worth 33,000 dollars. The other pieces, that bring the total to a king's 1 ransom, are bracelets and pendants.