HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 89, 24 March 1931, Page 2

HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP

New teeth or not, Polly Moran is going to play the jpart of Bertha, the optimistic servant girl in "it's a Wise Child," Marion Davies' new MetroGold wyn-Mayer .starring vehicle. If her new teeth aren't, ready in time, Polly is going right on and play as she is.

•My lithp: jwill Hiake; it a better character," says Polly, an optimist on or off the screen.

Lewis Stone, who plays v Newton" in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Secret Six," oddly enough numbers many* attorneys as intimate friends. In fast he admits this helped him considerably in playing the lawyer in the "picture. Stone conducted a defence in the trial scene without any flaw in legal accuracy—and without any preliminary rehearsing.

Buster Keaton and Cliff Edwards are big phonograph men now. They got together and made a series of comtc records that are much in demand in the screen colony. Of course they're privately circulated and not on the market. Buster plays the ukulele and Edwards sings in them.

The story of "Cinderella" has its parallels even in animal life. There was a little stray mongrel that hung about the gates of the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studios. "Buster," star in the studio's "Dogville" comedies, fell in love with her —and wouldn't be satisfied until Rennie Renfro, his trainer, took the other dog home with them. Now the mongrel has a fine home, as bride of a film star.

The cast playing in the screen production of "Among the Married," which Edgar Selwyn is directing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, certainly lives up to_the title of the film. Adolphe Menjou, the golfer-hero, is wed to Katherine Carver; Norman Foster, the Romeo-husband, is married to Claudete Colbert; Leila Hyams, the heroine, is Phil Berg's wife; and Robert Emmett Keaiie, the hen-pecked husband, is Claire Whitney's spouse. Mary Duncan, the "other woman," is the only single member of the company.