The Things They Say

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

The Things They Say

HOLLYWOOD COMMENTS " I've discovered that I'm not psychic."—Robert Taylor. " I am nuts about this Hollywood. Even though this Hollywood thinks I am nuts too?'—Simone Simon. "A tune is like a water-melon —you don't know what you've got-until you plug it." —Songwriter Max Gordon. " Most men and womcr. on the screen want to be good-looking instead of interesting."—James Wong Howe. " Hiccoughs, wobbly legs and a flair for publicly insulting strange men put mo where I am to-day."—Martha Raye. " Bob Taylor's a fine boy. i am glad ho came along. He has taken some ot the burden off my shoulders." —Clark Gable. " Fame is not of your own making, but something given you by many people in return for what they have got from you."—Luise Rainer.

| Garbo as Barber | i There are a lot of men about who • | have been shaved by Greta Garbo, j j says a London paper. £ | This strange secret of the film j | star's past Was revealed by Eugene j ■ Miford, who said: : ] "IVhen I first met Greta Garbo j ' she was working in a barber's shop, g i and she shaved the customers beau- j j tijully." j j ! But she wasn't a film star then. |

" The scenarist's novel is no better and no worse than most novelists' scenarios." —American review of a novel by Frances Marion, leading scenarist. " The one thing I can't understand" and never will get used to is the way the private affairs of actors and actresses become the property of the world at largo."—Franchot Tone. "In two years in Hollywood, you're a star; in four years, you're forgotten; and -in six years, you're back in Sweden again."—Lino spoken by Margaret Sullavan in the play, " Stage Door." " I rather loathe to say what I am about to say because all picture actors say it and have said it again and again. But I must say it because it is the deepest reality of my professional life right now—l must get back to the stage."—Herbert Marshall. " There are so many things I can't do in my picture of private life. I catch myself thinking 'Would the kids approve?' before doing anything. It's really made me the clean-minded, square-shooting guy the kids want me to be."—Dick Foran.