Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
Out Where the Movies BEGIN
Hollywood Notes and Cinema Person alities.
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

Special DISPATCH to The Star
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, April 10 (N.A
N.AD.-Bicycling and beer have be-
come the village craze. Constance Ben
nett and Airline Judge do their five miles
a day. Rental stations for bikes are
doing good business in and about BeV-
erly Hills. where fiat going makes riding
pleasant exercise. The three Ben
nett girls staged successful family
dinner with their respective husbands
and their famous father Richard, by
the simple expedient suggested by
father of no Il remember whens."
Midnight Lady" is a pretty good
title for a crook melodrara. mat
organdie dress worn by Joan Crawford
in To-day We Live" has already been
copied by manufacturers and is on sale
in boulevard shops for Is bucks.
Will Rogers has the brakes tested each
morning on his car: he likes to drive
fast, but is a stickler for safety also.
Tops for that 47-year makeup on
Sylvia Sidney in Jennie Gcrhardt.
When Merry lie Roy said he was
self-made man. Tony Gaudio replied
'That's one thing I like about you.
Merry; you always take the blame
And when Edward G. Robinson said Il
don't know the meaning OF fear, Gar
ence Muse replied: Don't let that stop
you from looking in the dictionary"
Gail Patrick, from Birmingham, Ala.
is a Young woman with lot of person.
ality and breeding: Yes, and good looks.
too: Very much like Florence Vldor
Samuel Goldwyn is both incorpor-
ated and limited; told this to village
wag, who said: II knew about the lin
ited-I used to work for him.
Henrietta Crossman's sons are automo-
bile agency owners because she says
there is nothing in the world more
horrible than bad actor .Rou-
benz Mamoulian has made five endlngs
to Song of Songs" Brian Ahearne
brought here for Dietrichs lead man In
that picture, is very handsome.
Head of class to Daryl Zanuck for
quitting Warner Bros Studio When IL
refused to return pay cuts. as ADVISED
by the Academy Emergency Committee.
zanuck said Il promised employees their
paw would be returned to them Wnen
conditions warranted and l can't LOOK
them in the face" Also nead OF
class to Lee Garmes for those exquisite
close-ups of wild animals in zoo in
Budapest"-worth the price OF aomis-
BLACK Orange Blossoms" in which Jean
Harlow and Dorothy Burgess battle Tor
the love of Clark Gable. Eric Lin
den walks to work every morning-not
that I care. Charles Mack Of
Moran and Mack, has designed and
built four houses. . Harry Langdon
writes songs, draws cartoons and in
dulges in little clay modelling on the
side. -.
Katharine Hepburn arrived back in
HOLLYWOOD wearing a dark gray fan
mel suit and a stocking cap Of the
same color on her auburn locks.
Here are some of the former great In
movies now working as extras IN cur
rent pictures: Frank Beal. eX-director
and stage star: James Mason, ex-lead-
ing man and heavy: Fred Peters. ex-
Western lead and Kit Guard. ex-com-
edy star Johnny Engstead, who
posed stills" of the movie great on
Paramount lot for six years, gets
break before the cameras in college
Humor" John Barrymore signs a
pleasart contract, which includes $5O,-
600 for the picture and percentage Of
the gross, which may run as high as
one hundred grand.
The producing head of local studio
had to write an advertisement Tor a
local benefit. In the first draft he
forgot to say what the benefit was for.
In the second. he forgot to put the
date The third? That's all there
was, there wasn't any more. BY the
way. he's a good guy and tells the story
on himself Kay Francis gets one
of the Carlo roles in Strange Rhap-
sody," renamed from "Black-Stemmed
Cherries" and originally intended for
the Swedish star.
Autobiography history: Franklin