FILM TOPICS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18962, 12 March 1936, Page 13

FILM TOPICS

MIRIAM Hopkins is searching Chicago orphanages for a baby brother for her adopted child.

THE film comedian Robert, Arm strong, aged 30, ex-law student, ox-playwright, ex-stage _ actor, was married on . January H at Yuma, Arizona, to Miss Gtlayds Louise de Bois.

THE big worry in one film star's life at. present is 'her swimming pool. It has become so popular with her friends that they arrive regularly for a morning dip, and, having been refreshed with light breakfast, depart, leaving their wet towels behind. She calculates that those pool-crashers cost her £8 a week in food and attention.

PR ETA Garbo has planned a new home in the hills of Hollywood, back of the film colony. It takes half an hour's fast motoring to reach it, so she should be able to achieve a fair measure of .the solitude there which she craves. But George Brent is. also building a home in the hills, and the two properties are very close.

* '.- w P)OUGLA.S Fairbanks intimated on January 15 that he may have been premature in the recent jinnouncemen that he had retired permanently as an actor. His next picture, dealing with Marco Polo, may find him playing the title, role, he said.

DATJLINE Frederick, the veteran actress, was reported on' January 20 to be "out of danger" after an emergency abdominal operation.

PAN you imagine Adolph Menjou as a. fanner! Well, he did work as a farm-hand following his graduation from college.

OYLVIA Sidney, the screen actress, blamed ' f incompatibility" for her recent separation from Bennett Oerf, a wealthy New. York publisher, after.four months of marital life.

PHARBTE Chaplin joined the ranks of the world's highest paid authors when his article, "A Comedian »Sees the World," was published at. the rale of 4s 2d a word. Rooks and music are a real part of Chaplin's life, with deep-sea fishing and tennis holding prime places as hobbies. He also does a little drawing.

THE American film industry is considering a hint dropped by the Will Hays office, self-imposed censorship organisation of the Jilms, that drinking scenes should be cut to n minimum. The .Motion Picture Producers and Distributing Association, of which Mr. Hays is head, feels thai the industry should not give those opposed to drinking any opportunity to claim that: the liquor industry is aided by scenes showing much liquor being consumed.