Pars About The Stars

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)

Pars About The Stars

rpALKING about finance, Frances Farmer continues to mystify Hollywood in a big way, writes Slieilah Graham. She was recently paid 20,000 dollars for a couple of pictures here— more than she received.in the old days, or in her life. But she's giving up her picture career a second time for a job on the stage, where she hopes to be paid 50 dollars a week. The girl says she wants to learn to act —which is something the production "biggies" find hard to understand. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ rpHE latest William Powell and Myraa Loy comedy, "I Love You Again," only got one laugh at the sneak preview —and, according to one of my spies who was present, it .lasted from the beginning to the end, writes Sheilah Graham. Did I frighten you for a secondT ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ M&VIE bite for Luise Rainer—at last, says Sheilah Graham: Columbia is trying to arrange a deal for Luise to star in "We Dare Not Love."

'< is some talk of reviving "Billy the Kid," with Robert Taylor as the i dashing cowboy, says our Hollywood corI respondent. The picture was last made - in 1930 with Johnny Mack Brown as , the "Kid," and Wallace Beery as the • "heavy." And, by the way, every studio » in town is reverting to Westerns. These I epics of the great outdoors are considered s the safest investment in the current • troublous times. 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ "POUR MOTHERS" gets under way almost immediately, with the usual . four continuing their adventures—the . three Lane sisters and Gale Page. Plus Papa Claude Rains and Auntie May , Robson. * ♦ ♦ ♦ JJEMEMBER Virginia Lee Corbin, the pretty, well-fed looking child actresßt In her heyday Virginia earned a foursalary. She is now receiving 12 dollars a day—when she works— as an extra in 'Frank Lloyd's "Howards of Virginia," starring Cary Grant and Martha Scott. I