NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18927, 22 April 1933, Page 16 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD.

WITH THE MOVIE STARS. IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. HOLLYWOOD, March 14. Thirty-four 'stars were separated or divorced during 1932. # * * * Mary Carr, who played the mother in “ Over the Hill ” so naturally some years ago, was losing her Hollywood home recently because she was three months behind in the rent. # * * * A burglar read in a fan magazine that George Raft was the best dressed man in Hollywood, so he promptly broke in one day when George wasn't at home and walked off with a thousand dollars worth of haberdashery. * * * * Marie Dressier is to star in '‘The late Christopher Bean” and Nils Asther in the Hungarian play, “Rhapsody.” * * • * One of the funniest sights in Hollywood is Polly 'Moran driving herself to work while her chauffeur sits beside her and reads the paper. ,* * * • Lew Ayres and Lola Lane went to lot of trouble to conceal their divorce plans—but not from each other. Although they parted a few days before Christmas, they sent out Christmas gifts and cards just as though they were living happily together. • • » • The outspoken autobiography of the late Isadora Dunoan, the famous dancer, is to be flllmed In Hollywood. Miss Duncan was associated with many well-known men, whom she described with great frankness In her book. * * • • Dunoan Renaldo, who was the hero In the film “Trader Horn" some years ago, has just been sentenced to serve two years in the Federal Prison and pay £4OO fine for having made false statements about his citizenship. He claimed to be an American, whereas he was a foreigner.

What a contract that was Buddy Rogers signed at Fox i He is to make four pictures a year for two years—and between times he is permitted to make other films, off the Fox lot, and

collect for them in addition to his very nice Fox salary. Besides that, Buddy is permitted to make radio dates and keep his band.

In his latest picture, “Hallelujah. I’m a Burn,” A 1 Jolson has to jump from a bridge to save Madge Evans, a would-be suicide. For re-take purposes, Mr Jolson had to jump into the lake several times, and in order not to get pneumonia he put- on a rubber ( suit under his linen clothes. But lie found the suit kept him afloat, and it had to be discarded. * * * • Vicki Baum, authoress of “Grand Hotel,” 4s reported to have signed a long term contract with a film company to write scenarios. # * * * Marion Nixon has secured a divorce from her husband, Edward Hillman. When the separation came Marian was advised to return to the orphanage the child that they had adopted, feeling that she should not burden herself with this responsiblity. Marian Nixon, however, is not that kind of a girl. The baby will never see an 'orphanage nor experience any troubles in life so long as Marian can ensure the baby's happiness. * m < • When Jeannette MacDonald gave her first concert in Paris recently, the theatre was sold out, with more than a, thousand standees and the police had to be called out to handle the rioting would-be ticket purchaser^. * * w » The latest Parisian beret, worn by Joan Crawford, and causing little gasps of admiration wherever she goes, is woven out of feathers oi birds. * * » * Thelma Todd was supposed to be in “Niagara Falls,” but got in an automobile accident and broke three ribs. # # * * The divorce settlement between Lew Ayres and Lola Lane included £7OOO from Lew to Lola with love and kisses i * * * * After playing only one film part in nearly a year, Gwili Andre, the Danish actress, has left the Radio Studio, which states that her beauty does not reproduce on the screen. Ramon Novarro and the “Man on the Nile” company went to Yuma, Arizona for those desert scenes. Egypt was just a little bit too far off. • • * * Gary Cooper has the* most secret •of all secret Holly\Vood telephone numbers. • * * * Sari Marit-za wore pants around Hollywood long before Marlene did but nobody commented on it. • * ¥ * Elissa Landi, besides being an actress and an author, is also a composer. She composed a song for the Ronald Colman picture, “The Masquerader,” and you’ll hear her play it herself along about the third reel.

While Hollywood is all right for married men, it is heaven for a

bachelor, ' savs William Bakewell. “Why not?” lie insists. "The loveliest girls "in all the world are here —and plenty of them. Romance bumps into you at every corner, Beauty flags you at every turn. I ask you, what more could any man, and especially * bachelor, wish?" * * * • Maurice Chevalier calls the eight-inooths-old baby boy who plays with him in “A Bedtime Story” Monsieur Ba-bee. * * * * Ruth Chatterton requested (and got) 1 her husband, George Brent for her leading man in her latest picture “Lily Turner.” • * ’ * The most thrilling time that Douglas Fairbanks Jr., had in New York was a party given for him by Noel Coward, to which Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and Katherine Cornell were invited. Who wouldn't be thrilled? • * * • The town’s still talking about the tuxedo that Marlene Dietrich wore to the opening of “The Sign of the Cross” with Maurice Chevalier. # * # * The Hollywood stork has been working over-time. His latest gift to the film colony was a seven-pound ten-ounce baby, left on the doorstep I of the Richard Dix menage. It’s a girl. Conceit? Bobby Jones, famous golf champion, refused to appear before the camera for his new series pictures, until he had reduced 151bs. Bobby felt he was too pudgy in his last pictures.