SCREENLAND SECRETS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 124, 7 May 1936, Page 2

SCREENLAND SECRETS

Chances like this come once in a ifetime!

In her latest picture, Margaret Su! lavan had the delightful pleasure of vrecking a huge room full of expenive glassware and crockery. Need we add that Mies Sullavan did a very thorough job?

Speaking of glassware brings to ur Attention the latest Hollywood fashion in headgear . . . glass Inn We hardly think the idea will b come universal. * sp * ' A notable novelty is the fact tha ►he entire music for the film version of "Romeo and Juliet" will be played on antique instruments of the 15th century. / * %> * Hollywood has brought the vorld i musical innovation. The song writing team of Robin and Ranger, composers of "Love in Bloom" and many other sensationally popular tunes, have just introduced a machine — rimila.r to a typewriter—which is used in writing the of musical scores.

Imagine Preston Foster's indignance upon reading in his evening nows•■aper that he had just employed a 'ozen workmen to completely reno yate his yacht. Foster is taking particular pride "in the fact that he is tfoing all the work himself!

BY JOHN HOLT

With the release of Barbara Stanwyck's picture, "Annie Oakley," showing her as an expert horsebacK rider, one of her most ardent fans in the West Indies sent her a riding whip made from the spine of a shark.

Margaret Lindtay is on a diet for a ~\r days. When she returned to the studio for the afternoon work after uniisualy heavy lunch, she was tailed upon to play a scene showing er ea ing breakfast in bed. And the director's artistic tense was.not plaaod until the scene hacTbeen done several times. * # *• Where is the ignorant dolt .who said that beauty and brains do not exist ins ihe same body? "Warrior," the acting horse, and "Lightning,"' the canine Thespian, rate equally, supreme in physical proportions as well as intelligence. * * * W. C. Fields' comment when kissed roundly on his enormous red nose by a huge movie elephant u worth re.) peating. "She likes apples," he explained. * * * A loci dentist reports that Bing Crosby is the best anesthetic he's ever used. He has been using record. iugs of Bing's popular song numbers to detract his patients' attention from Ihe unpleasant but necessary drilling.