NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18950, 20 May 1933, Page 16 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD.

WITH THE MOVIE STARS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

(Prom a Correspondent.)

Polly Moran Is quitting movies for personal appearances In vaudeville and radio.' Her departure from the lot severs one of the most humorous teams In movledom, and Marie Dressier feels It keenly. • * • * Henry Carat, the young Frenchman recently brought to Hollywood to appear with Janet Gaynor, is married to Betty Rowe, a charming English girl. They met on a train in France a couple of years ago. At the end of the day’s ride they were engaged 1 • • r • For one year motion pictures will lose one of Its most vital personalities. Following her next picture, Helen Hayes, star of "The Sin of Madelon Courdet" and other films, will return to Broadway stage for at least 12 months. * * • * Marlon Davies is a champion tapdancer and says It keeps her in good form for pictures. * * • * Dlokie Moore, the little boy who "ran away” with "The Blonde Venus” Is to play Oliver In “ Oliver Twist." • * • * Mr. and Mrs. Fredric March have made an announcement that has all Hollywood gasping. “We intend to adopt three more babies,” they said. “ In fact, we plan to adopt one each year, until little Penelope has three brothers and sisters." • * • • Norma Shearer Is going to appear next In "Another Language,” the famous Brodaway stage hit about how inlaws almost spoil a girl’s marriage and her husband. » * • • We’ve been saying that Garbo was coming back for three months now. All we know is what we hear—but M-G-M- assures us that Greta has asked he? manager to take a house for her. She wants a big garden and evergreen shrubs surrounding It. I "■Christine of Sweden” will he her first story, after that, “The Sun of St. Movitz.” * * + * Zasu Pitts has found herself a new romance, lie’s J. E. Woodall, the popular tennis champion, and everyone is hoping there will lie wedding ■bells, for Zasu, whose comedy amuses everyone, lias had lit Ilc enough flapping la to iiixa jll&,

HOLLYWOOD, April 12.

The termination of John Gilbert*# £50,000-a-picture contract marks tha end of the big money contracts. Gilbert will never draw anything near this figure again and neither will any other star. Few people- remember that Jack began his screen career as a Bill Hart cowboy. * * * • Lilian Harvey has evidently en« snat’ed a couple of Hollywood’s “eligibles." Gary Goper had her to lunch the other day and he looked very Interested. Maurice Chevalier’s flower bill has been rising to dizzy heights ever since the arrival of the English girl who was brought to Hollywood after winning success in German films. It’s a box -of blooms every day —and nothing less than orchids. * * * • Did you know “The Sign of th« Cross” is reported to have cost £l3O- - and Is listed as a conservative picture? That Is, for De Mille. II may be they’re reminded of “King of Kings” and “The Ten Commandments,” both of which cost ovei £300,000. • • m a Buddy Rogers is returning to the screen In musicals. Buddy wants to return to Hollywood to prove that he wasn’t a flop and Isn’t one now. # * * v Not satisfied with parading everywhere In men’s trousers, Marlene Dietrich has taken to wearing those Gable-style turtle neck sweaters. * * # * In Reno, Alice Joyce got her divorce from New York hotel-man James B. Regan. She also got custody of their 11-year-t'ld daughter. • * * * Norma Talmadge denies that she’s going to divorce Joseph Schenck. She said that although she admitted some months ago that she’d get the divorce a woman has a right to change her miml. * * * * When Joan Crawford was a young girl, site fought and worked for ato education. She had to leave sohoi'f because she couldn’t afford to go on. So that’s why her heart is touched by two lads who are eager for an education, ami she is paying I lie. college expenses of Don and William Donalds on, aged 24 «ud 2Q. respectively.