STARS AND THEIR DOINGS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 87, 6 January 1933, Page 5

STARS AND THEIR DOINGS

JOHN BARRYMORE’S home is so U secluded that he encloses a road mao with first invitations.

A little girl in Virequa. Wisconsin, tvrote to Wynne Gibson recently stating that she bad sold fourteen eggs so that she would be able to see Miss Gibson play in ‘‘Lady and Gent.”

Charles . Laughton . says r that' the most embarrassing stage experience of his career was the time the automatic organ, bn which he faked playing, started one time before lie was seated.

Claudette Colbert is the most recent screen actress to succumb to the lure of amateur photography. Not only has • she purchased a camera which takes tiny photos, but she is equipped witn an enlarging-room in the basement of her home, where she finishes her own nr’"ts as a recreation.

Creighton Chaney, son of the famous Lon, is having his disillusiomnents. and cruel ones they are. After spending twenty years building up what he thought was the perfect physique, his studio. RKO Radio, has informed him that he-is too heavy-and-must lose at least twenty pounds to be "just right” for pictures.

Did pou,know that Rosco Ates’ contract, sars that he may npt stutter except in films? And that Anita Louise, according to her contract, may be fined,for arriving late at work?

■ Do the burghers of Hollywood like Richard Dix? Here’s the answer— Rich, has been commemorated by the City Fathers with a street named Dix.

‘ Irene Dunne says a contented golfer is one wiip has broken her clubs .and thrown them away. But somehow we just can’t see Irene following out this precept She’s a member of the hole-in-one club and the/;never quit.

“Rockabye,” Constance Bennett’s new picture, in which Joel McCrea and Paul Lukas play in featured support, Gwili Andre, who has been known to partake of pork chops for breakfast, now reveals the secret of how she does it. Fifteen minutes on a rowing machine each morning is her formula for that luscious svelte effect- ■

■ Melvyn Douglas is getting all the Hollywood-.“breaks,” He has, played opposite the greatest actresses in the film colony, starting with Ann Harding and Gloria-Swanson; havlng-the distinction of being Garbo’s last lover, and now he .is the first-man to-play-oppo-site Tala Birell, Viennese star of “Nagana” at Universal City, who may be a threat to'Garbo's crown.

Despite his long stage-career,-George M.( Cohan is shy and bashful in public. He eats in his room, and Avoids public gatherings.- . ’ ■' L -

Because manicured toe nails were introduced more than 2000 years ago by the Romans, Charles Laughton, - who plays Nero in “The Sign of the Cross,” had his toe nails dyed a vermillion hue.

George Raft; -Hollywood’s newest romantic rage, is to be co-featured with Gary Cooper in “Fly On I” immediately upon the completion of his current picture, “Under-Cover Man,” according to an announcement by Paramount.

From married life to vagrancy to fish-peddling. That’s the routine of the last three Laurel and Hardy comedies. In “Their First Mistake,” the comedians tangled themselves in matrimony : in “Scram” they were sons of the road; and in their latest untitled Hal Roach fun film, they, attempt to connive with the denizens of the sea, as a couple of fish peddlars.

Polly Moran brought, her young son to the studios for lunch one noon, and had difficulty in maintaining a conversation .with him due to the constant attention lavished on the good-looking youngster by various screen luminaries.

Norma Shearer has had the same orchestra, consisting of a pianist and violinist, on the set for every picture she has made in the past ten years.'

A murder mystery, thriller without a policeman or a detective taking active part This radical and refreshing departure from one of the oldest traditions of the writing craft is but one of the many interesting features < f Radio Pictures' broadcast special,’ “The Phantom of Crestwood.”