The Washington times., 1936-02-24

It won't rain all the time, you
where on this huge Goth Cent?
Into the vast dining room where
Director Howard Hawks urged US
to place o little bet on Disaster in
the second It wasn't until
later we learned from Harry Brand
that Disaster is owned by Hawks
., However, he did run second,
and since we had played him
across the board, the afternoon
wasn't Improbable :. Bill Robin
son dropped in and mentioned
vaguely that he might sail off for
Paris Bill, it appears, is at
the present moment in the process
Of negotiations which will end with
a renewal Of his contract on his
termS-or Q departure to other
fields Over on the set, where
''Under Two Flags" is being shot.
Ronald Colman interrupted his
tete-a-tete to discuss the weather.
which Is the pet subject here be-
cause OF the prolonged rains .
''It gets you down, you know
beastly damp-but I always say,
let 1t rain-the Sunll be out . ..
That sounds sappy, don't it?-but
that's the way it is" With which
morsel Of enlightening converse
tion, Mr.. Colman again turns to
Miss Colbert, q fetching wench in
her Oriental costume, for. some
affirmation with his startling
views weather" drawled
Miss Colbert, "any kind of weather
gives me an awful pain in the
neck" We drift over to the
set across the way, where another
Foreign Legion picture is being
made-"Zero Hour"-and watch
Gregory Ratoff hurl his dialect
around Warner Baxter and
Fredric March stop long enough to
say hello" and hint that they're
bound for the races "Dunt go
away" shouts Ratoff, II got ha
Sturry most tall you ="
The story concerns Warner
Baxter and his double, Frank
McGrath, who in the years Of
association with the star has
finally assumed all his manner
lsms, his speeches, even his
walk. Baxter, It appears, made
the statement that he would
like to plunge heavily in goth
Century-FOx but the only thing
which held him back was that
It was practically . One-man
OrganizatiOn - Daryl Zanuck
And if Zanuck died, then
Don't be silly" said NC
Gra&h. make your investment
-and then take out life insur.
ance on Zanuck". We ran
into Gene Fowler Don't let
this weather get you. :" "Oh,
don't mind this rain. -" Rain?
What do you mean. rain?...
That's Eastern propaganda
this II only . heavy California
fog =" Fowler hints that he
may shortly leave for NADIA
gascar to get working on q
book.
The report here now is that
Charles Chaplin and Paulette
Goddard will finally become Mis-
ter and Missus while in Honolulu
Spencer Tracy, noted for his
roughneck, hard-boiled roles, be-
comes 0 gentle priest in the forth
coming "San Francisco. The
studio publicity departments here
are so column-minded that they
get up q daily exclusive release to
each Of the local scribes in gos-
shy column form Chiefly
canned stuff and hope you will
All forgive me If in these daily
messages home I don't use them
Some of the stuff Is really
funny-it's so goofily preposterous
but as one of the publicity chiefs
told mean ex.New York news
uaperman himself. What the
HeIl-we've got to keep banging
away at the names Of our stars
and pictures so anything goes. ="
All studios buzz with internal
politics. This executive Is due
for the SkidS today, you hear -
that one tomorrow Better not
play. up to him too much-he'S
In the dog-house. etc., etc..
After two days Of missing
each other by minutes, George
Raft who's my neighbOr here)
and this exile got together
last night in his apartment. >.
The Raft fellow is genuinely
blue about the mix.up with the
Paramount studio. =. Don't be-
lieve these yarns that went
out" he said. "YOu know me
when did / ever get tempera-
mental and make . fuss about
who was going to run the
camera? Only CarOle Lombard
can't see anybody but this guy,
and I don't say he's bad, but /
certainly wouldn't get the best
Of il. Even then, I don't care
Pm satisfied to do my bit
let them take the billing and
The credit-Say, with me You
Know how It iS-I'm strictly .
1uy who wants to stay a mugg
IKE you and the rest of the
rang. :" Mack Gray, his man,
hOyers near him and the two
hattIe hack and forth verbally.
"DOn't take that seriously"
Gays Raft, 'Tf / didn't fight
around with him he'd give me
fhe Rate-first thing you know
he'd be ending up with Gable.
'aThink," he added later,
s.IIl get back TO practicing my