GLAMOROUS STARS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 3

GLAMOROUS STARS

DO NOT DRAW MOST MONEY. GARBO 68th IN POLL. A poll of 6000 film exhibitors in the United States reveals that only three of the stars who are regarded as having “glamour” are among the ten actors who draw most money at the box-office. They are Clark Gable, Robert Taylor and Joan Crawford. The other seven are Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper, Fred Astaire, Joe E. Brown. Dick Powell,, Claudette Colbert and Janette MacDonald. I should have thought the last two at least as glamorous as Clark Gable. It seems the public do not agree. The conductors of the poll point out that this list applies only to America.) In Europe the results would be very different. Gary Cooper is probably the most popular actor in the world, reckoning all countries, and fans of both sexes and all ages. The most famous exponents of “glamour,” Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Mae West, Carole Lombard and Katharine Hepburn, come far down the list. Bore the Public. Carole Lombard is 39th, Mae West 62nd, Greta Garbo 68th, Katharine Hepburn 69th, and Marlene Dietrich 126th. This rather bears out the remark attributed to Gary Cooper: “I guess glamorous people sort of bore the public, except in the newspapers.”

Lubitsch Directs. After an absence of more than two years, the directorial talents of Ernst Lubitsch, credited by many with being the finest in the history of films, will return to the screen with the production of “Angel,” in which he will direct Marlene Dietrich. “Please make it emphatic that I’m back at my old job of directing pictures again,” he said recently. “All of the pictures that I’ve had anything to do with during the past two years were directed by somebody else, and it has been necesasry for me to work, as it were, by remote control, which hasn’t pleased me at all.” He added that he and Miss Dietrich had been trying to work together on a picture for many years, but that conflicting schedules had kept them apart. “Miss Dietrich is a personality I have always wanted to direct,” he declared.

Radio-stage Celebrity. Eric Maschwitz, director of variety at the 8.8. C., whose “Balalaika” was such a pronounced success in London and has been acquired by Messrs. J. C. Williamson for Australasian presentation has written an outstanding musical contribution on the life of Lola Montez. The music is by Edward Horan, and the piece will have production in London shortly. Not Helpful. School boxing classes and appearances on the motion picture screen never did go hand in glove. Bobby Breen found that out recently when he reported to the studios for screen tests in* preparation for his forthcoming musical starring picture, to be released by RKO Radio. The singing youngster sported a black eye and a cut lip, received during a boxing class at the Black-Foxe Military Academy in an encounter with a youthful opponent identified only as “Chuck.” Bobby has been taken out of the boxing class.