Actors who build too many castles im the air usually wind up in the hole. Wonder how old Joe E. Brown will be before he quits playing college half-backs? History repeats itself item: Mary Jane Karns, sixteen. making her debut in the same San Diego theatre where her father, Roscoe Karns, first appeared 20 years ago. If that favourite off-colour story has escaped your memory, drop a note to Hugh Herbert—he knows them all News that Donald Novis was a col-legate boxing charp—hes still handy with his "dukes." Tyrone "Mannequin"
Joan Crawford soon will be starred at the Nanking Theatre, Power complains that he could hav: seen more of Mexico if the Mexicans had been content to see less of him.
Reducing Fad New Hollywood's newest reducing fad: Rowing a rubber boat on the private swimming pool. Hollywoddities: Billy Bevan—he has played cockneys for 5 years but he has never been in England. Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy arent (he first "sweethearts" who acted that way Bette Davis must really be worn about her laryngitis—she's cut her smoking from two packs to five cigarettes a day. One nice thing about this town: You don't have to be a reckless driver to run someone down.
Etienne Girardet, that little bun-Ye of nerves whose comedy highlights so many pictures, is Hollywood' most famous hypochondriac. Sanitation, with him, is a passion. Everything that he touches on the set must be sterilized and if he has the least doubt about its septic condition, he dodges contamination by dashing for his dressing room, the minute the scene is over, to wash his hands in disinfectant. "Recently his fellow-players gave his complex official note by presenting him with the finest sanitation outfit to be bought in Hollywood
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