Film Topics

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19365, 1 July 1937, Page 10

Film Topics

A YOUNG woman called Carroll, of Oakland, offered Clarke Gable a £IOOO cheque as thank-offering because one of his films restored her grandmother’s memory. « * * * MORMA Shearer is negotiating a new contract to take the place of the one she had with her husband. It will call for six films; the first to start in a few months, probably the muchdiscussed "Marie Antoinette.” * # * * CIMONE Simon has a new pet who accompanies her on the set of “Seventh Heaven.” He is Nicodemus, a terrier puppy, and Miss Simon has made him a tiny velvet muzzle, so that he cannot bark and disturb the “shooting.” pi I.LY Mail eh, the child actor who portrayed Anthony Adverse, as a hoy, in the picture,‘“Anthony Adverse,’’ and who more recently appeared as Penrod in “Penrod and Sam,” has an equally talented twin brother, Bobby. According to legend in the film colony, their mother cannot tell the twins apart. Billy and Bobby will play the dual leads in the forthcoming picture, “The Prince and the Pauper.” * # # * ] OUISE Glaum, once an outstanding 1-1 “vamp" of silent pictures, now operates a tiny theatre in Hollywood, at which new plays are produced for the express purpose of giving studio executives an opportunity to choose or refuse them for picture material. Miss Glaum’s theatre, which seats an audience of no more than 100, is constantly busy with new productions.

IMMEDIATELY after she received 1 her divorce from Wesley Ruggles, the director, Arline Judge was married to Daniel Reid Topping, a wealthy American sportsman. Miss Judge is 24 years old. AFTER seven years’ absence from the screen Louise Brooks, a star of silent and early talkie days, makes an appearance in Grace Moore’s new picture, “When You’re in Love.” Miss Brooks is seen as a ballet dancer in the corps which was coached by Leon LooanidoiT. . * # * * FILM TOPICS—NO THEATRE THE fan mail department delivers Fred Astaire’s letters to him in a wheelbarrow. He receives over 5000 letters a week. Hollywood’s latest: Eddie Cantor was going boar hunting until somebody showed him a picture of a boar. * * * • gABY Leroy, whose full name is Leroy Winebrenner, is now five years old. First seen on the screen before he was two years old—with Maurice Chevalier —and last seen in a picture more than two years ago, Baby Leroy announced that he “will attempt" a Hollywood comeback.” * ■* * * that, as his wife, she knows best the screen capabilities of her husband, Joan Blondell recently wrote the scenario for Dick Powell’s next picture. Miss Blondell knows every element of the show business, having been on the stage since childhood as part of the variety turn of her father, Eddie Blondell. With him she toured Canada, Europe, China, and Australia, and she remained in Australia until she was 18 years old.