ABOUT THE STARS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 20 (Supplement)

ABOUT THE STARS

DO YOU KNOW— Joe E. Brown drives the longest car in Hollywood. * # * # Kay Francis, known as one of the best-dressed women in Hollywood; doesn’t like that reputation at all and tries to discourage it, but she still is. # * * * Carole Lombard has never borrowed a cigarette. .* # * « Marian Nixon worked in the complaint department of a store to earn the money to pay for her singing and dancing lessons. * # * * Carl Brisson secured a position as a piano tuner—and never had seen the inside of a piano. * # * * Mr. W. C. Fields has already to give up his famous feud with Master Baby Le Roy. He is licked and he does not mind admitting the fact. “That kid,” he says “is now going round telling people that he is looking for fresh fields to conquer.” *■ # * * w .. You can expect the worst and be sure of it happening when you go to Ida Lupine’s new hill top home. In the basement, Ida has built a new play room. But the only way of entering is by climbing through a small hole in the wall. And of course an awful lot of things can happen to you while climbing through the hole. Then after you’re inside, the chairs collapse, hidden wires give sudden shocks, the silverware falls apart and everyone just has the “best” time! * * * « This is just one of the many reasons why we like Clark Gable. He was up at Watson’s the tailor in Hollywood. In front of him were materials for a dozen exclusively-made suits. Instead of being impressed or taking his good fortune as a matter of course, Clark turned to Bud Watson and said: “Remember when I ordered my first suit up here? I used to come up every Saturday and pay five dollars down. It took me six months to get it out and .it seemed like the most expensive thing I have ever bought.”

Ann Harding KL . Ann Harding’s plan to be the first, actress to star in a feature-length coloured motion picture under the -new technicolour process was frustrated because of. ill health. The star, who was scheduled to appear in Walter Wanger’s coloured Paramount picture, “Peacock Feathers,” and who 1 already had made costume and photographic tests, was ordered to Tahiti for six months by her physician.

Ginger Rogers does not believe that your holiday should consist in consist" ent lazing on the shore. If your figure, says she, don’t be too slack at the seaside. Skipping, for instance—there’s an opportunity to preserve the suppleness which goes so well with: your suntan. Medicine ball—heaving the object to a friend—is another grand exercise and good fun, too.