Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-18
Hollywood Film Shop

HOLLYWOOD, June 18. up
Sadly James Montgomery Flagg
eagle -beaked illustrator, shook his
iron-grey head and concluded Clark
Gable isn't pretty.
As you've probably guessed, Mr.
Flagg was in the midst of picking
one OF his all-America beauty teams,
a major vice with him
Mr. Flagg's real JOB is drawing
Snub- -nosed girls in wayery pen-and.
ink lines. but it once gave some
body the idea of electing him judge
of a beauty contest, and now he
can't stop.
Mr.. Flagg mas already picked
more All-Americas than the late
Walter Camp. and is still going
strong. Often he has sat him down
and named the umpteen most beau
tiful women in the world. Ere
uuently he Sits out the prettieSt
backs, the best rounded calves and
the handsomest hands.
It does seem. however, that Mr..
Flagg is trying his best to taper off.
He used to pick em by tens or bet
ter, and now he has the number
sawed down to skies, which brings
us back to the plain Mr.. Gable.
Madeleine Carroll congratulated
Mr.. Flagg on CHASING her with
Greta Garbo. Marlene Dietrich,
Dolores Del Rio, Norma Shearer
and Jean Harlow as the "six most
beautiful women in Hollywood" and
overcome by the tribute Mr.. Flagg
stole off behind a wild wall and set
to work on the six prettiest men.
Gary Cooper" he named
George Brent, Ronald Colman,
Robert Taylor, Francis x. Shields
and Cary Grant
Hey, wait a minute" somebody
interrupted. You left out Gable"
4 know it," replied Mr.. Flagg
austerely, joining his middle finger
and thumb. Gable isn't handsome
Suppercharged with sex appeal he
may be, but beautiful, mol"
Mother love. CShe loves her moth
err. has prompted Ginger Rogers
to an architectural atrocity which
should stand out even in coolest
southern California. Ginger says
she'll build mama a 10-room house
in swanky Beverly Crest. The thing
will be shaped like a cross with
four wings jutting from a central
hall, and each wing will be finised
in a different style: shingle, stone,
slat board and stucco
Cuts it what mild hammered. be-
spectacled Director Clarence Brown
has got. Several days ago he broke
his elbow stopping a fight among
his dogs, but refused to let it inter.
fere with his work on Gorgeous
Hussy." Swelling, however, pre-
vented proper setting at the time,
50 or his way to the studio the
other day ne had it pulled apart
and reset. then appeared in his chair
under the camera without a word
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Jane Froman. warmish warbler
from Columbia, Mo, wins the fem
mime lead in the Big Broadcast
Of 1887" Froman was once a class
mate Of Sally Rand at Christian
Missouri college, but later grad
uated from the University Of Mis-
souri, School of Journalism.
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Three ends and a quarterback
from the Stanford team that took
three years learning to bat down
forward passes in the Rose Bowl
have been enlisted for RKO-Radio's
1886 football Epic. They are Monk
(All America Moscrip, Bones Ham.
iltolL Keith Topping and Frank
Alustiza Story is The Big Game, -
Francis Wallace novel
90
Bowling the first time Director
w. S. Van Dyke forgot to let go of
the ball slid half way down the
alley and came up with a sprained
leg. When he showed up for work
next day he found waiting him a
wheel chair, a pair of crutches. a
small mountain Of cushions and a
nurse, by courtesy of Robert Taylor
90
Ever hear Of Eggs on Horse
back?" Don Ameche and Chef
Joseph Ramirez have lads and
| lasses on the Ramona" location
nuts about them. Dish is simply
a large, juicy steak, two inche,
thick, with a couple of eggs friend
sunny side up riding high anc
pretty on top. Seems it's an ole
| Spanish California custom just
coming TO light.
Preston Foster is back ashore
with a newer and taller fish story
He swears that after he shot a kile