The Washington times., 1936-04-04

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round of golf But the womel
A Katharine Hepburn defies
studio heads, directors and pro-
ducerS and deliberately invites
the enmity or at least the con.
tempt Of the press, which made
her by not only closing her set
to them but refusing to exer.
else ordinary pOliteness. =.
sGarbO's case Is too well known
to invite further discussion.
Dietrich affects the invisible
lOgrnetteS Kay Francis, al
ways a genuine fav0rite Of this
department, blew up on the set
Tuesday when asked to pose
sfOr q picture for the Evening
journal. In all fairness. how
sever, it must be admitted that
AN hour later she telephOned
the reporter and for fully half
an hour devoted herself to an
apology, explaining she YVES un'
aware that the reporter in
question was standing nearby
and that it was for his paper
-. That she had always liked
him personally and respected
his writings long before her
Hollywood days, etc, etc..
Nevertheless, the scene had reg
1stered itself. The case Of
Constance Bennett and her at
titude to the press, and to her
public, too, las been aired be-
fore. She is q repentant star.
L have been given to under
stand, willing to be gracious
sinOw...
Z There are a dozen more others
9. Handsome wenches who dur
ing their climb to fame were the
acme of graciouSness-the best OF
regular fellows Once their
names top the picture -- their
Salaries climb to the upper
Brackets of the four figures
then the change comes :. They
snub the very press which was
responsible for their favor with
the public, they scowl at the
9Sublicity men in their own
ORGANIZATIONS, they think it cute
to give the news cameramen the
lev stare Exceptions have been
Claudette Colbert, Mary P1cktord'
Marion Davies, Loretta Young
and, ELISA Landi -. The tledg g.
Iinps lust coming on are very cute
and very nice and very shy and
even awed-but it's interesting to
stand on the Sidelines and watch
what happens as they reach star
dom and become import a n
figures I've been wondering
lust what would happen II sud
denly the press were to shut
down completely-pictures, news
notes, publicity blurbs-if they
were to pass a rule forbloo1ng
the mention Of any girl who had
reached stardom "a 1ar-fetcneo
idea) ~ wonder if these
oyerpaid, overpublicized ladies
wouldn't then perhaps come down
to earth.
Gregory RatOff assembled q
group of his crOnies Tuesday
night at the TrOcaderO' announ,.
cling that this was his farewell
marty. Privately, he displayed
"a gold wrist watch which mad
lust arrived from his wife, Eu-
genie LeOntOvick, to mark their
fourteenth wedding anniversary
"YOu see, she is still loving
: me just like am loving her:
Another week and / will be with
her in London. Paul War
! burg, who returns to New York
: Friday, squirrel Phoebe Logan
ION this evening. The Stan"
y wyck-TaylOr twOsOme made IT
self evident again. AT another
table, Alice Joyce and her hus'
: band, Clarence E. Brown, cele-
: brated their wedding anniver-
ssary. Downstairs, Cay Grant
;. sat huddled close to Mary Brian
6end Joe Lewis breezed in, elated
S.-he had just signed lOng-term
= contract with Twentieth Cen
! 4ury.FOx. The town is flooded
with Broadway agents Lou IT.
win arrived yesty with the Ritz
Brothers Harry LenetSN ar
rived the day before with 10
sephine Huston, the canary
Abe LaStfOgel returns any day
with Frances Arms. Leland
Hayward has been here. Louis
: Shurr is due any week. Leo
Fitzgerald. Arthur Lyons are
permanent fixtures here now
When Paul Small and George
Woods arrive the quota will be
complete Happy days these
for Broadway.
After a tiff with Orchestra Leader
Phil Gilman Che composed "LoSt").
Marjorie Lane, the pretty thrush
at the Troc, quit cold and will
devote herself to her Metro activ-
titles Lenetski relates the peeve
of Ben Blue, now here Blue
came to him and squawked: What
kind Of agent are you? Here this
w. C. Fields swiped bit from me
but complete-tell him to drop
1t" why" asked Harry, don't
you go to him yourself and ex-
plain? He's a pretty square guy?"
care you crazy?" screamed
Ben. "If I complain to him he'll
tell me to cut out what stole from
him-IIl have no act" Hoot