Camera Flashes

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)

Camera Flashes

TJASIL RATHBONE dismisses villainy on the screen as an occupation with: "There's no future in it."

TEANETTE MacDONALD and Gene Eaymond, each thinking to surprise the other, secretly bought 50 tickets for the "Gunga Din" premiere at 2.20 dollars per. To say both were surprised would have been putting it mildly.

"DING CROSBY, now before the cameras in "East Side of Heaven," has the longest air contract in radio history". It still has nine years to run on a ten-year commitment.

"DETWEEN scenes in "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man," Constance Moore and James Bush are teaching a group of extras how to rhumba. Charlie McCarthy sits around and criticises. "You're doing it all wrong," he says, "I'll show you how." He hasn't shown them yet. Bergen won't let him.

T)ON AMECHE'S pet aversion is using the telephone. When the instrument tinkles at-home his wife Honore answers. Don is now portraying the inventor of telephones —Alexander Graham Bell —in the film, of that name.

♦ + ♦ + \vrjHEK" Myrna Loy was asked the usual Hollywood question, "What's new?" she replied: "What's new? Nothing is new. Nothing ever happens around here. I just stay home and listen to music on the radio. There's nothing else to do here." Which should be a great blow to those who imagine that a glamour star's life is one exciting thing after another.

♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ VyHEN Fred Astaire received news ■that his stepson's leg had been crushed while mountain climbing he wanted to fly to him immediately, but couldn't, because he was working in "The Castles"—a 2,000,000-dollar investment to his studio.

"PtRROL FLYNN, who invented a collapsible decoy for duck hunting, received the following wire from Maxie Rosenbloom: "Dear Errol, heard about your duck. Does it work with the girls?"