“When They Grow Too Old to Screen!”

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 11

“When They Grow Too Old to Screen!”

Can you imagine Claudette Colber operating a doughnut stand? Or Gar; Cooper settled down on a JittJo plac< in the country with a fow pigs am cnickens and a env or two? Prettj far-fetched, you say Yet it’s exaetl; what tie two of them dream abdut oi clays when bc.'ng «. movie star become: 100 hectic for comfort, according t< the results recently of a studio survey to determine what Hollywood’s king: and queens would Jke to do when the} retire. Tho svelte Claudette, currently play ing a grand comedy role in Para mount’s “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife/ doesn’t ask anyone to believe that she dreams of dispensing “sinkers” over i lunch counter. Tho fact is, Aliss Col bert is tho possessor of what sho con siders the finest doughnut recipe in the world, a legacy from an aunt who diec years ago. It is Claudette’s firm belie! that a chain of doughnut shops would if based on this magic formula, quieklj stretch across America. But neec Claudctto worry when her husband, Dr Joel Pressman, is so successful as : medical practitioner. Likewise, Gary, who plays the mod ern “Blueboard” in the same picture with Claudette Colbert, dreams of rura retirement; and those dreams aro nol so l'ar-fctched as they appear at firsl mention. After all, Gary was born ani raised amid th© rural scene; so who' could bo more natuial for him than tc long for its peace and quiet. What Gladys Swarthout, star o 44 Romanco in th© Dark/’ will do wher sh© rotircs from the screen isn’t hare to guess in view of tho anuouncemeui that she is establishing, in Florence Italy, a resident school for younj American singers. Gloria Stuart, who used to bo a news paper woman herself, dreams of own ing a country weekly or small citj daily when she’s through with he screen career.

Greta Garbo, as usual, doesn’t hav anything specific to say on tho subject but reliable sources closo to tho eilen Swede indicate that she longs to bo gentlewoman farmer in her native lan when she’s finished with Hollywood.

Joel McCrea already has purchased i 100-acre estate in the San Fernand Valley near Hollywood against the da; when he’s through with the screen. Bing Crosby will have no troubl keeping busy when he croons no morbefore the cameras—not with his rac track, his song publishing business am his numerous other off screen busines enterprises.

And Bob Burns swears he’s going to buy a side-wheeler steamboat and operate it on the Mississippi riverl

Errol Flynn, who is as clashing offscreen as the scenario writers would have him on, added another accomplishment to his list recently when ho made a solo airplaue flight after six lessors. He was 4 4 grounded” immediately afterwards. Not by Federal officials but by Warner Bros., for whom he is muking I “The Adventures of Robin Hood.”