Evening star., 1934-03-28

told them that long ago.
Claudette Colbert says she found
three gray hairs in black wig after
one days work . Pineapple juice
keeps Carole Lombard going in hard
scenes better than the warm wine
used by Metropolitan singers 1t
takes a star 30 minutes to age 80
years, according to Hollywood make
up experts Jean Chadburn, blond,
81, and from Michigan, gets con-
tract after doing her light fantastic
in Hollywood choruses for time .
Verree Teasdale is going in for the
best-dresSed woman idea; it means
lots and lots of work and worry.
Reports differ. Quoting GIN:
"Myrna 10y could almost face the
camera without makeup due to that
grand tan she got in Hawaii" And
from local column: ''All Myrna 10y
got for those hours in the Hawaiian
sun was one freckle on the nose"
They have their idols. believe it or
not. Greta CARLOS idol is Queen
Christina of Sweden. That is why
she longed to play that role :. Jean
Harlow has been buying all available
books on Marie Antoinette for some
time now :. Norma Shearer's favor
ite historical character is also Marie
Antoinette Joan Crawford prefers
Jeanne dare, and Jeannette Mac
Donald thinks the like of Abraham
Lincoln was never found on land or
sea :. Napoleon and Marie Dressler
are as close as that =. But try to pry
Alice Brady away from Lucretia Bor-
gia If you can.
Esther Ralston passes by Napoleon
to read everything in the world about
Josephine. She thinks 40" is the
most interesting figure of history be-
cause she never allowed any man TO
see her at her worst Myrna 10y
would rather spend her dream hours
with Ghengis Khan than any of the
Hollywood sheiks o.. Madge Evans is
nutty on the subject of Julius Caesar
and reads everything from Suetonius
to Saltus trying to get that fine old
Roman flavor Mae Clark, on the
other hand, Is satisfied to worship the
name of MuSsolini, and so on, ad
inf1nitum.
Franchot Tone is shopping for a
yacht From my mornings pub
hcity. quote her patrician-appesring
mother" If that isn't splitting aris-
tocratic hairs. I'll be seventh Suth-
erland sister, Mae West won't
begin a picture on the 18th of the
month at all, at all E. Garry owen
went from nothing to Beverly Hills
home. an expensive car and chauf-
feur in three months: that's Holly
wood story. We have some that go
down again at Just that rate, but
prefer to tell about the jolly ones.
w. c. Fields once travelled 40 days
and nights to get job and was fired
the first day Carl Brisson, very,
very hard up. once got a job as a
piano tuner. He'd never seen the in
side of a piano, but he wasn't both
cred.
The Countess of Carlisle smokes a
pipe. to the great surprise of Holly
woodians Kay Francis pouted so
much in Wonder Bar" because she
didn't like the role given her that
every one thought she had gone off in
looks terribly Gaby Deslys ia
nous bed is being used in Twentieth
Century as a prop. It's one of the
things Kinglet Emmanuel is said to
have given the lady and is in the
shape of a boat. resembling Cleopa-
tras barge. decorated in high gilt
relief and has panels hand-painted
against a deep tan background.
George Cukor gave Elizabeth Allan
voice test via telephone all the way
to London just to see if she would
be good for the mother role in David
Copperfield" At least, take NC
Ms word for it. and the only way to
prove it is to look in the telephone
company's records.
They brought Eduardo Castro to
Hollywood to show George Raft how