SCREEN GOSSIP

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1935, Page 20 (Supplement)

SCREEN GOSSIP

Nils Asther is to be starred in “The Life of Lord Byron.” • # * # « Metro is planning a third Tarzan picture, once more with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan. # # # # Helen Hayes has been set for the lead in “The Awakening of Helen Ritchie.” # * * Paramount are negotiating for Lewis Milestone to direct “One Woman," starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper. *## * V Gene Raymond has i drawer full .of medals, which he has won in fencing tournaments. am## The Mayfair Mannequin Academy in New York considers Anna May _ Wong t- be the best dressed woman in the world.

Grace Moore in her young days was determined to become a missionary and might have done so if she had not heard Mary Garden sing. Immediately she knew that music was to be her life’s career.

Every two days Franchot Tone calls his mother at New York from Hollywood over long distance telephone. # # * * Constance Bennett has started the fad of wearing a large- silver initial in place of a corsage. / • # * * Thirty-four girls applied for the posU tion of maid ti Fay Wray when she arrived at London. Eleven offered to work for nothing. Miss Wray’s choice turned out to be Princess Marina’s former maid.'' * * ">? Dolores Del [Rio has just had .her , portrait done by a famous painter in oils. He says she is the most beautiful woman in Hollywood, and calls her "a cathedral in a jungle.” It does not somid like a compliment to the other beauties. * 1 * * ’ • ’ . Jeanette MacDonald is practically the only actress at Hollywood who never uses perfume. She likes it—but it makes her sneeze. "“ j .■** • * . Columbia Pictures recently engaged Mona Barrie as Jack Holt’s leading woman in “Gimpy.” The story is one in which pathos and comedy are equally divided and has an intensely human touch; ■ i , # ■ * ■ * • That Diana Wynyard will not return to Hollywood until next spring at the earliest is indicated by reports recently received at her “home” studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, of the triumnhant opening'“of her rew play at London—“ Sweet Aloes.” M.-G.-M. have three vehicles awaiting Miss Wynyard’s return. # * *’. • ' ( ' Merle Oberon made a spectacular exit at the first Mayfair Club Party. But not in the, conventional way; instead, she had an unlucky break. Just as she swept across the dance floor with Willis Goldbeck escorting her, she did a slide and a slip and landed flat on her back. It was rather a terrible experience for one just arrived at Hollywood. ’ # • # # * John Beal and Gloria Stuart, two of filmland’s most popular players, are going to sing for the first time in their picture careers in .“Laddie,” R.K.O. Radio’s screen version ’of Gene StrattonPorter’s best-selling novel. # # # * After making personal appearances in various cities throughout America John Boles is working on “Redheads on Parade,” a musical extravaganza. # # # * Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge, bronzed and fit after a winter sports holiday to St. Moritz,* are back in England at their farm at Hatfield, where Jack hunts, rides, tends his land and garden and generally leads the life of a modem country squire. Cicely will be seen before long in "Duke of Marlborough” and Jack in “Bulldog Jack.” ♦ # * * Seeking additional expression in the realms of artistic achievement, Francis Lederer, Europea - stage and screen star, has turned to sculpture, and his first effort has been crowned with high acclaim. An impressio-istic head was his first work, and, according to Hubert Stowitts, well known artist, it shows unusual talent.