The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-22
HOLLYWOOD
 GOSSIP INTIMATE GLIMPSES. AND. INSIDE STUFF ON, THE
 MOVIE COLONY
BY DAN THOMAS
By DAN THOMAS
 NEA Gqpvfna Wrffar

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 NEA Service Writer
 Hollywood, Aug. 00-Odd facts collected around movieland:
 Jean Muir, who will play oppo- site Paul Muni in "The World Changes" has a trophy won for the most perfect exhibition of all kinds of strokes used in swim ming.
 No matter how hot it may be, Director Alfred Green never sheds his coat while working-unless he is wearing a sweater.
 Kay Francis never wears any jewelry except her wedding ring when she is not working in front Of the comeras.
 Aline MacMahon claims that long vacations are most boring.
 HarpO Has Few Rivals. Genevieve Tobin and Harpo Marx are about the only members of the film colony who can play a harp-and Genevieve is the only Qne with the proper technique.
 Ruth Fitting, that singing gal from New York, never has had a drink nor smoked a cigaret. In- cidentally, she once was nearly fired for breaking into song while dancing in the chorus of Chicago cafe revue.
 Edna May Oliver once worked as 8 seamstress at salary of three dollars per week.
 Dorothy Burgess models in clay between scenes in her pictures, using only a finger nail file and a hairpin as tools.
 Chester Morris spends three hours a day with a prize fight trainer to lost weight.
 Many Theaters to Reopen.
 More than 2,000 motion picture theaters in the United States, which now are closed, will reopen within the next year, according to word received here.
 DOrOthea Wieck reveals that in Germany the best good-luck wish an actor can receive is the wish of some friend that he may break an arm or a leg.
 One 10,000-watt incandescent light will do as much work on a movie set as three 5,O0O-watt lights. This light gives off 1,OOO,- 900 candlepower and is 400 times as strong as the ordinary house light.
 Edward Everett Horfon's hobby is growing trees. Whenever he learns that some fine trees are about to be condemned for street widening purposes or the like, he buys them and transplants them to his ranch about ten miles from here. More than 300 such trees now are thriving on this ranch.
 Jane Darwell, now appearing in "One Sunday Afternoon" at Para mount, worked in the second film ever made by that company "Brewster'sN Millions," filmed 12 years ago.
 Atwill Rents Cars.
 Lionel Atwill owns two right hand drive Rolls-Royces but sel- doms gets to drive either of them, as they are rented out to various studios most of the time.
 Robert Armstrong shoots 100 feet of film each day on his new house so that when 1t is finished he will have 8 complete record of its daily progress.
 Helen Vinson's favorite indoor sports are crocheting and knitting but she can't cook ever an egg.
 Tn Camden, N. J., there is g. "drive-in" theater where the pa irons sit in their cars while the picture is being shown.
 Despite it's famous climate, Hollywood has only one outdoor dancing place-the Roosevelt roof garden.
 An Eight Weeks Contract
 Marjorie and about a thousand other girls answered the ad. She was one of three selected as suit able. She was offered an eight weks' conthract plus her expenses to Hollywood. The dress selling job was forgotten. Here was chance to work in the movies and she grabbed it. She's happy now in the movies and earning good salary.
 But the eight weeks soon will be over. Then what? Will Marjorie havc shown sufficient possibilities that she will be given chance to play small parts? Maybe. More probably she will join the thou sands of chorus girls now unem- ployed. And her job is gone.
 This isn't exactly a story of Mar jorie Timm alone. It is the story of scores of girls who give up other jobs for a crack at the movies, work a few weeks, then wonder when and where another job is to be found.
 Betty Writes a Book
 Some new and intimate facts of