The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-28

sketch. And good sketches are, alas,
all too few.
For example, take our friend Mr..
Robinson, of "Little Caesar" fame.
When he was on the Vallee hour re-
Gently, he had to fall back on sketch
that had been done not too long ago
only last summer, if memory not
backed up by notes is reliable.
So-both in Hollywood and New
York, anyone who can manage type
writer is besieged by people begging
for something / can do on the radio"
If you can fill that demand, go ahead,
and good luck to you!
We may not see at Can't Happen
Here" on the screen after all. The
Hays office has requested that the maxi
ing of 1t be deferred, at least, the rea-
son being that the political situation
in it might cause mob troube--and all
this after thousands of dollars have
already been spent on it!
NOucy ulSO WCuL uOTA LAC I'll olh
when Elegance" was abandoned. Joan
Crawford and Clifton Webb were to
have made it-Webb is famous for his
work as dancer on the stage. He was
at the studio for three months, on sal
airy, working on dance steps. And, then,
come to find out, Joan had been work
ing on an entirely different type of
dance steps. So they had words, and
now the picture won't be made at ALL
&
Weep for Claudette Colbert. Her
Paramount contract permitted her to
make an outside picture, (she can do
one each year, so she did Cigarette"
in "Under Two Flags" the pay check
being $15O,000, $4,000 more than she
gets on the home lot for picture.
Taxes will cut that down, however, to
a bit less than $4,000.
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When John Barrymore finishes
"Romeo and Juliet" he'll go to Alaska
on his yacht for two months of fishing
which recalls the way that Dolores
Costello Barrymore used to- feel about
that boat. She loathed taking long
trips on it-said that sometimes she
felt that she couldn't bear it much
longer if she couldn't be somewhere
where she could have her hair washed
and take all the baths she wanted to
the water supply on the boat not being
too plentiful.
Loretta Young, who has been off the
screen so long because of illness, will
have "Unguarded Hour for her re-
turn to the screen.
f.
Randolph Scott and Fred Astaire
are great friends-and Astaire Is teach
ing the tall and elegant Randolph to
do fancy dance steps, That is, he
was before the arrival Of Fred Astaire,
Jr., became more important than any
one else in his fathers life.
If you heard John Boles on the air
In Green Grow the Lilacs," and liked
his performance, it's too bad that you
couldn't have seen the broadcast. John
Is tall-six feet three inches-and Miss
Walker, who made movies years ago,
is only five feet tall. She's a delight
full person, as you may have guessed
from those broadcasts she does with
Deems Taylor.
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Jock Whitney, the producer who's
gaga about colored films, had two oxen
bleached and tinted gold for Dancing
Pirates" his new RKO release. Next
thing we know, somebody will turn an
animal "hrownette" as a tribute to
Jean Harlow's hair. Incidentally, aft
er seeing Riff Raft" lot Of movie
fans begged Jean to let her hair be
turned platinum again, but she refused.
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ODDS AND ENDS Seems funny to
see Gloria Swanson going places toith her
tall, specialized son HotO visiting
nopie stars lore the night clubs and thea.
tiers, ,chen they get to Neto York on a
vocation! Most of them shed their
inhibiiions and just have fun Not
Edward C. Robinson, however; he's been
rushing about NetO York Uith the best of
them, but always remembers that he's Ed
.Uard C. :. They say that after the d.
porce the second Mrs. Gable toiH marry a
title "The Phantom OF the Opera"
,eiH be made again. toith Boris KarloG
in The role made famous by Lon CLANCY
Reginald Denny's daughter soiL oP-
near in Little Lord Fauntleroy" !.
Lupe Velez has an amazing collection Of
enseralds--and likes 70 sOear all at once.