HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 940, 9 December 1933, Page 24 (Supplement)

HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

(By MOLL IE MERRICK.) HOLLYWOOD, November 10. Nudism isn’t confined to the colonies in the hills hereabouts, it would seem. Some of it is flourishing on our sound stages, if the publicity from the studios can be guaranteed one hundred per cent true. Here is a little sample from “ Hips, Hips, Hooray ”, Wheeler and Woolsey’s latest comedy: “ Hollywood’s bath tubs—De Mille made them famous, and now Wheeler and Woolsey are making them transparent. They are shameless hussies of bathtubs now, made of plate glass which conceals the bather hardly as well as would half of & moth-gnawed handkerchief. “ The first six of these unabashed and brazenly transparent baths made their appearance yesterday on the RKO studio set. Six artists’ models, clad exactly as ladies w’ho wash to take a bath should be, slipped into the clear shallows of the tubs. The water into which the models slip so gracefully is the ticklish, fizzly, carbonated kind which bubbles out of soda fountain drinks; and to further help the tired businessmen’s cause along and add atmosphere in general the six girls who act as bath attendants, assisting the models in and out of the tubs and supplying towels at proper intervals, are garbed in cellophane scanties.” Well, I won’t go on—but it seems to be the naked truth. “ Call My Tractor! ” Mary Boland never departs from that grand manner of hers, even under the most humorous and unusual circumstances. Recently, when working with