The Washington times., 1934-12-10

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prettiest stars, breezed into II
Woolworth (Willie) Donahue,
When their ENGAGEMENT was
reported in Cannes last August
the social elite and London's
movie film folk naturally imag-
ined that if Wendy married the
heir to the fabulous Five-and-
Ten-Cent Store millions, her
cinematic career would be at an
end, but
Today. Ah-'tis another story.
Assuming a silent attitude a la
Garbo, Wendy prepared to start
a picture career in Hollywood
and ended up being the most
tested girl in town. Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer, Paramount and Uni
verSal all made Photographic and
dialogue tests, and the latter
firm offered long-term contract.
Wendy turned it down, stating
quite simply that she did not
want to be subjected to the
same fate of being forced into
unsuitable roles as had many
other mportations-she wanted
to pick her parts.
And as for Willie Donahue-
well, he knows her Hollywood ad
dress!
Wanderings Around Hollywood
1T couldn't be anyone else but
Tallulah Bankhead who long-dis-
tance-phoned a film town friend,
ratified on for half an hour and
practically all she chirped was
that she was perfectly gorgeous
in her new play! MGM has
a story idea for Lionel Barrymore
and tiny Cora Sue Collins, slated
to be a Shirley Temple rival, that
seems also to rival the current
Temple yarn, "The Little Colo
nel'-and funnier still is the
fact that Lionel Barrymore is in
the Fox thing. A Middle
West movie exhibitor made so
much money on Clarence Browns S
sadie Mckee" that he is ex,
pressing two huge turkeys to the
director as Christmas presents
Lee Tracy is pulling up
anchor and a7Sailing away on his
yacht for two weeks o. deep-sea
fishing. Sheila Terry's out
of the hospital after long siege
and is still John Warburton's S
big moment.
Boulevard Buzzing - Henry
Henigson is trying to borrow Laird
Doyle from Warner to write the
script of "Gwendolyn" for Univer-
sal. The Harry Rapfs tossed a
nifty party for Nick Schenck
Wednesday eve. When that race
horse took a bite of Marion
Marsh'S arm, it increased business
for the posie-peddlers. She's liter
ally covered with floWerS!. Fred
Keating has promised to show
Grace Moore his canary-bird-cage
trick as Christmas present!
Hollywood failed to lift its Gus
tomary eyebrow when B. P. Schul
berg suddenly bowed out of his
production berth at Paramount.
During the reorganization pc
riod, Schulberg had been led to
believe that he would once again
be the headman. Obviously,
then, it was all or nOthing-and
he quit!
The Young Man About Holly
wood. When Ruby Keeler heard
the Warner studio was burning
she called up and asked if she
could sleep late in the morning {. .
And speaking of the same fire
the extras working on the current
Paul Mum film got double pay
checks for assisting the firemen in
their successful struggle to save
the huge sound stages. Mae west
is minus her maid while the dusky
gal takes up an acting career N
Para mounts mississippi -.
When Virginia Peine Lehman, said
to be George Rats flame, was in
New York it didn't even surprise ,
lot of film folk to hear that she
went gadding about with Ted
Stewart. Seymour Robinson, ex
Broadway play producer and radio
material Scribbler, has landed
tvpewriter-pounding job at War
ners' . The day Los Angeles
front-paged the latest trunk mur
der" yarn an Independent film
firm announced Crane Wilbur
story. 1.-THE Man in the Trunk"