Filmtown's Christmas Plans

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

Filmtown's Christmas Plans

BySheilah Graham

IT will be a family Christmas for most movieites. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Fred Astaire eat turkey with Fred, jun. . . . Ginger Rogers gives a party for her mother, whose birthday coincides. . . . Bill Powell entertains his mother and son. . . Norma Shearer devotes the entire day to her children. . . . Myrna Loy and Arthur Hornblow dispense Christmas cheer to their respective relatives in their Coldwater Canyon residence. . . . The Shirley Temple menage holds open house as usual. . . . Clark Cable and Carole Lombard will be among the crowd making the trip to the Caliente race track. It will be Loretta Young's second Christmas with her adopted daughter Judy. Loretta's large family of sisters, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews and mother will help give Judy an unforgettable day, like I™n y T S -, C ! airdette Colbert plans a Si <nTv , (hnner P art y; Christmas English style," at Donald Crisp's j mß i> * nvitee s include Bonald Colman and Benita Hume, Brian Aherne,

RolJert Taylor and Barbara Stanwycn . , • Jimmy Stewart spends the holiday with his family in Pennsylvania . . . Richard Dix invites 40 of his relatives and 35 of Mrs. Dix's to make merry at his Beverly Hills home. A record in relatives? I am always surprised that there is any money left in Hollywood after the Christmas present buying is over. Each star has hundreds of persons to remember — n the crew, hairdressers, etc., on their pictures. Here are just a few of the gifts that will change hands on Christmas morn: Claudette Colbert presents her mother with the money for her annual trip to Paris; Claudette also gives away linens, perfume, gold-tipped leather wallets and cigarette lighters. Fred Astaire presents all t.he men who work for him with gold fitted suspenders. Victor McLaglen hires two trucks to dispense 200 turkeys to needy families. Alice I'aye gives Tony Martin a i.nrtable dry-cell radio, plus platinum cuff link? Jewellery and furs go to the new - wed wives of Messrs. Gable, Eddy and Taylor.