LETTERS FOR THE STARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 14

LETTERS FOR THE STARS

WHAT THE STUDIOS RECEIVE

Many oddities are revealed in fan mail deluges at Hollywood motionpicture studios.

Just recently, for example, a letter postmarked in London and addressed only “Marianne, U.5.A..” was delivered to Marion Davies at the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studio. A few weeks previous a letter directed to “Greta Garbo, God Knows Where,” reached the same studio.

Lewis Stono recently received aletter that boro his picture but no name. * , b , ert has received hundreds ot letters lacking any semblance of an address, and Buster Keaton has piles tite ,i erS ,m‘ th only to identify the addressee.

' letters axe everything from simple requests for an autographed picture to invitations to visit Borneo. , Japanese fisherman offered to send Norma Shearer some of his wares . * s “ e would keep him supplied with pictures of his favourite stars tv ll ham Haines received a necktie from a ln a Penitentiary for life, the necktie made from strands of a hangman s rope, kamon Xovarro ge t s scores of original sheet music compositions. Lawrence Tibbett finds unlimited demands from people who wish to know what he used for a garble and crmmed aney iS by filers from crippled men and women who somehow believe he can effect a cure.