The Washington times., 1933-01-24
Miss TweIvetrees
Has Baby, But
Still Works
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1898, King Featuves
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23.-Holly-
wood continues to shatter the
old tradition that a woman can't
have babies and a career, too.
Take the latest case-Helen
Twelvetrees.
She has q 3-month-old son,
yet she has just signed contract
with Paramount and will go right
from the Chevalier picture into
Police Surgeon" opposite Ri
cardo Cortez.
In doing this, Helen isn't sac
rificing any of her obligations
as Mrs. Jack Woody. That is
another side Of her life. Like
Norma Shearer, Gloria Swanson.
Joan Bennett and dozens OF
other Hollywood mothers, she
finds time for work as well as
for home life.
True, the film mother has
more money to hire nurses,
cooks, house servants. But her
problem is essentially the same
as the ordinary woman. And,
in countless cases, she Is soIV'
ing it satisfactorily.
Hollywood Parade: Strange are
the ways of coincidence. The ex-
pensive delivery truck that took
flowers to Jack Pickford's funeral
once was a passenger automoblle
belonging to him and Marlyn
Miller Recent storms off the
California coast have brou h
plenty of grief to the local
liquorati. Mother ships have had
to put out to sea and small boats
have been lost. Some Hollywood
bootleggers are talking higher
prices . Despite those rumors
that Josef Won Sternberg and
Marlene Dietrich are not SO
friendly as of yore, the two ran
up a $3.50 long distance telephone
conversation the other evening
. Largest pet Of the M.-G.-M.
lot is Helen Hayes 200-pound st.
Bernard. Smallest is Jean Har-
lows four-pound Pomeranian ..
Movie stars have to combat the
widest rumors. The other day
Jean was in beauty parlor when
she heard a voice in the next
booth: st know Jean Harlow wears
a wig because my sister makes
them for her." Poking her head
around the corner, Jean said:
I'm so glad to meet the sister Of
my maker and will you tell
her I Just came in and had the
darned thing washed"
Come March and Nancy Car
roll will be going to Europe.
She'll be through with her Para
mount contract. Harry Barris
and Loyce Whiteman are back in
town. And, incidentally, thanks
to Harry Halper, Of Chicago, for
reminding me that Barris is an
other celebrity who went to the
East Denver High School. You
figure out why it happened, but
q Carmel Theater actually ad-
vertised Congress Dances" as a
story of washington night1life. ).
Rather funny, the trick Para
mount is playing on those alli-
gators. They wanted 20 of them
for Murder In The Zoo," but it
seems that alligators sleep from
October to April. Undaunted, the
studio has been raising the tenn
perature of the water in their
tank at the rate of a quarter of
a decree an hour. When it
reaches rs, the alligators will
think it's spring and will act for
the camera. Ronald Colman
has four or five days added
scenes to make on "Tae Masquer-
ader," He won't know until the
picture is finished just what his
future plans are to be.
The other day on "The White
Sister" SET. they wanted to pho
tograph Clark Gable in one of
those turtle-necked sweaters that
he made famous. Unfortunately,
Clark didn't have a single one
at the studio. Upon inquiry,
however, it developed that every
other man in the company had
one in his dressing room. You
people back East will be seeing
Cliff Edwards on a five-weeks'
personal-appearance tour. He's
leaving his bride, Nancy Dover,
at home.
Did. you know: That Ralph