GOSSIP FROM FILMLAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4570, 9 November 1935, Page 4

GOSSIP FROM FILMLAND.

ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE FILM CENTRES'

Katharine Hepburn has changed her looks by acquiring a very masculine looking hair-cut. The Los Angeles county tax assessor says that Charles Chaplin is still the richest man in movies Avith personal and real property to the value of 2,602,490 dollars. Mary Pickford is next Avith 1,4)65,740. All others fall belbw the 300,000 dollars’ mark. 'During the making of “Mutiny on the ‘Bounty,’ ” a barge being used by the company on location suddenly sank, drowning a cameraman and causing the loss of 65,000 dollars’ worth of equipment. Buster Keaton haS been divorced bv his second wife, Mae Elisabeth Keaton, who named a wealthy Los Angeles matron in a loss of affection suit amounting to 200,000 dollars. Ronald Coleman has signed a new contract with United Artists, making him the highest-paid male star on the sereem He will get 150,000 dollars a picture and a share of the profits.

' Hollywood has great admiration for the courage and tenacity of Max Sennett, who started life as a labourer, became one of the most famous and richest of Hollywood’s producers, and 1 is noAV badk at the foot of the ladder trying once more to make the climb to success. Sennett lost his millions in various unsuccessful stock and real estate investments. Then he tried to make a success of producing pictures in Europe, but failed dismally. Now he is back in H^olly.wo°d idirecting two-reel comedies —just •like he did so many years ago. Marlene Dietrich is famous all over Hollywood for her wonderful colouring, and for this reason the tests she has had more for natural colour films are reported to be breath-talkingly beautiful. We can all look forward, then, to a Marlene Dietrich far more lovelier than i ever. Roller-skating is all the rage Avith the younger generation of film stars. One of the most remarkable features of Hollywood is the frequency with which HollyAvood couples are seen together in public. It Avould almost seem that Hollywood couples get on better, divorced Ramon Navarro will appear on the London stage in a musical comedy, after which be plans to return to Hollywood; He says he had no intention of permanently giving up ) his film career. These interesting paragraphs icame from “The New Idea,” the 1 ; threepenny weekly paper for Australian and New Zealand : women. jEach week two Avhole pages arc de.-. voted to 'film topics—a veritable :feast, for “fans.” In addition, there are a dozen other features which make “The New Idea” indispen-sabl<L-to every woman. Now on sale at all newsagents^—price 3d.