The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-14
By DAN THOMAS

NEA Srvice Staff Correspondent.
 Hollywood.-Ric Dix has vindicated the movies! His TO- nance ending in his marriage to Virginia Webster is so just like many of the pictures you see and far from the type of scandal you hear emanating from Hollywood, that the film colony feels greatly relieved.
 And what makes this story the more charming, is the way in which Miss Webster won the heart of the great Dix-the beautiful stenographer capturing the boss himself, through the agency of Richards Uncle Jack"
 It happened like this: Dix needed a secretary to han dle his mail. "So I asked Uncle Jack on insert an ad, giving just 3 general delivery address. From about sec girls who applied, my uncle made up a list of the best six.
 Five of Three Above Others
 1T was to make the final selec- ton. My uncle had designated his opinion of the girls by number of checks beside each name. Miss Webster's name had five checks, while her nearest competitor had three.
 However, I interviewed all the girls, agreed with Uncle Jack, and hired Virginia"
 Six months later they were mar ried.
 Miss Webster is "A, the daugh- ter of MT and Mrs Warren l.. Web- ster of West Los Angeles. She re- ceived her bachelor of arts degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, her general sec ondary F. G. from Berkeley, and is a member of Chi Omega soror- ity.
 Although she has never had any screen ambitions, she held leads in many of her school plays, such as Peg O. My Heart" and Quality Street." and is greatly interested in the theater. Yet she says she won't go into the movies.
 Garbo Springs a Surprise For the first time she has been in pictures, Garbo paid her studio social visit the other day-and by so doing completely upset the morale of a large group of extras. Clad in slacks and wearing dark glasses, the Swedish star suddenly appeared on The Merry Widow" set, chatted a moment with Ernst Lubitsch, was introduced to Jean cite Macdonald and Maurice Che valier, watched a scene being shot, I and then quietly vanished. l Tha nffaot af hnr yiait Uoc ora lasting, however. It took Lubitsch an hour to quiet down the extras sufficiently to shoot another scene. Watch Herman Erik
 | Another man to watch in the movie whirlpool is Herman Erik, a member of the 1928 American Olympic team and for four years shot-put champ of the United States. Discovered two years ago by Director Sam Wood, Erik had a budding career nipped by broken shoulder. Now he's back into things again, playing one of the leading roles in Student Tour" No Help from Dad
 George Bancroft, once one of our most popular stars, spent many years of hard work before he finally reached the screen pinnacle And if his 17-year-old daughter Georgette, wants a screen career he intends to have her fight he1 way to the top in the same man. ner,
 Hence she is starting as an ex- tra in her fathers current film and probably will work as an eX- tra for several months before get ting on steady.
 Hollywood.-Perha you have met up with ingenious ruses work cd by down-and- -outers. by which they got the wherewithal for q meal or a nights lodging. But for the most ingenious of all, l think the palm goes to Guy Kibbee.
 It was in St. Louis that Guy started wondering when and If he was going to eat again. Then he