SCREEN GOSSIP

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1935, Page 20 (Supplement)

SCREEN GOSSIP

An original story is being prepared fop Jan Kiepura’s Hollywood .debut It is to be called “I Sing of Love.” Faramount is making it. ? '■ ' * * * * “Life Begins at Forty” is Will Rogers’ latest fun classic. '

Ralph Morgan has Wupperman for a real' '.name. His family manufactures the famous Angostura Bitters.

During 1934 there were nearly as many divorces as weddings at Hollywood. There were 65 weddings and 50 divorces. ■ * * *

Wynne Gibson is a great lover of horses, and when she finally retires from the screen she hopes to raise polo ponies and - horses for the show ring. ' ■ # # #

Sally Eilers has a collection of fiftythree; four-leafed clovers, which she has found herself as the result of diligent search. ' •

'V- * * # * • Following precedent Jack Conway is going to England and France to collect material for directing. "A Tale of Two (Sties.” • * * #

“The Daring Young Man” is the title of Jimmy Dunn’s latest vehicle for Fox Film. • # # •

Mis. Samuel Goldwyn—wife of the famous producer—has been chosen by a woman’s magazine as one of the eight most attractive women in Hollywood.

Mona Barrie and Gilbert Roland are .... again brought together in a Fox picture, “Ladies Love Danger,” a mystery .comedy. ‘ '

Ronald Colman’s only superstition concerns a raincoat he bought seventeen years ago. He insists on wearing it in every picture, if only for a single shot. '#. * * *

When Warner Baxter broke a finger playing tennis the publicity hounds got to work and the report appeared in the papers that he had been bitten by a deadly Black Widow spider. • * * * .

There are many tap-dancers in Hollywood. Among the most expert are Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Marian Davies, Arline. Judge, Polly Walters, Peggy Conklin, Constance Cummings, Ruby Keeler and Katharine Hepburn. ♦'* * * ,

“Diamond Horse Shoe,” a story of the New York Metropolitan Opera House, has been chosen for Lawrence Tibbett’s first picture under his recently signed Twentieth Century contract. # * * *

Robert Montgomery in private life is a camera fad, and with his movie camera takes events that interest him, and on his portable home projector revives many of his pleasure trips, spending hours looking back at his experiences of the past.

Wallace Beery and Irving Thalberg are having an argument over whether Beery shall talk with an Irish accent in “China Seas” or not. Thalberg says no. The original script and Beery both say yes. The debate continues.

Elizabeth Bergner is reported to have been offered £30,000 to make a picture in Hollywood. Bergner wants an additional 5 per cent, of the profits—but Hollywood does not seem to consider her sufficiently well known to justify i|.

Mae .West has written the story of her..next film. It is called “Klondike,” and the British Film Weekly says it is the result of a talk with a gentleman from the Far North who came up to see her some time ago.

Paul Lukas, is a “food specialist.” He never eats in a restaurant if he can help. it, preferring to prepare his own food. He is undoubtedly a connoisseur of the gastronomic art and specialises in steaks and salads, which are his favourite dishes. ■

Mae West reclines on a circular bed in her new Paramount picture, “Going to Town.” The bed is placed in the centre of the room and surrounded by drapes and heaped with pillows.

Leila Hyams, who has completed the ingenue lead in Paramount’s “Ruggles of . Red Gap,” with Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland, remains at that studio to appear with Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland in “People Will Talk.”

With the First Twenty-Five. Before ' a record breaking crowd Shirley Temple wrote her name and recorded her hand and foot-prints in the concrete of the Hollywood Chinese Theatre on the night of March 20. The occasion was the opening of “The Little Colonel,” her latest picture. The honour is one reserved for Hollywood’s greatest stars and to date fewer than 25 have -placed their prints in the beautiful Grauman’s Chinese Theatre court.

Garbo’s Suite Empty. The elaborate suite set aside for Greta Garbo in the new “stay building” at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is still unoccupied, as the Swedish star prefers to remain in the same small dressing-room she has occupied for ten years. ?■ ) '■ ■ . ■ - '