SCREENLAND SECRETS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 160, 18 June 1936, Page 2

SCREENLAND SECRETS

Francis Lederer owns' a ranch nearby which produces cabbages of championship calibre. Ledoren- declines to commercialise on them, however, pre-

ferring to prosent them to his friends —rautographed: by him!

Garbo'ai return from Sweden brought great n ews to fair movie fans everywhere. The glamorous Greta's leading man in her forthcoming, "Camille," will be none other than Hollywood's newest offering to feminine bearts, Robert Taylor.

The hairdress which Max Factor, movie make-up man and hair stylist, designed for Joan Crawford to wear in her newest picture pleased her so much .that she has decided to wear it as an everyday coiffure. Incidentally, Joan Crawford ha 3 four leading men in this play, "The Gorgeous* Hussy," and the yaverage six feet two inches in height!

Hollywood's latest funny story bears repeating. It concerns the conceited actor who fell off a boat one dark night. The crew immediately swung a bright s-potlight on him and set out in a £ mall boat. The crew arrived too late, howl ever, for the actor had drowned . . taking bows in the spotlight!

We have some more funny fan letters for you. Gail Patrick, beauteous Paramount brunette, received the following threat: "A fortune teller told me that I am going to marry a girl named Alice, whom I know quite well. If you don't wire me at once that you will marry me, I shall marry her immediately." Carole Lombard reports this, more ominous warning from another male fan: "If I don't receive 10,000dols. by

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July 1, I shall commit suicide and come to Hollywood to haunt you! » » « When MGM released a notice that they needed a six-toed boy for a current picture, results were immediate and amazing. One chap who reported had .seven toet' on one foot and four on the other. There was also a girl with six fingers on each hand. * * * The mother of Warren Hull, War ner Brothers new actor, wondered why her son didn't invite her to see lam work at the studio the day after the arrived in Hollywood. She knows now that it was because Warren was playing a scene which called for him to spend several unproteeted moments inside a cage full of tigers. *» ' • Many times when a picture is be. ing filmed "on location," or away from the studio, it becomes necessary to enlist the services of local townspeople as atmosphere players. When Paramount was shooting scenes' at a fashionable California resort, many' of the vacationing society folk were prevailed upon to act as "extras." Among those who worked many hours* for the meagre salary was one y'oung lady who is the sole heir to a fortune estimated at 7,500,000d01s-

It seems that Clark Gable has chosen automobile-collecting as hisi hobby. Since Carole Lombard presented him with the battered and ancient "flivver" which he subsequently had rebuilt, Gable has purchased about six of the fastest cars in town. Even the old "flivver" is now said to be capable of travelling over 100 mile an hour!