The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09

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kayOed by John L. Sullivan.
John Barrymore owns a real
dinOsaur egg.
The dignified Norma Shearer
can stand on her head and once
gave diving exhibitions before the
Prince of Wales.
Douglas Fairbanks once had a
chimpanzee as his guest at for
NAL dinner at Pickfair.
Ben Turpin used to double for
Mary Pickford.
Bert Wheeler once bit a wrest
Ter and Lupe Velez once bit a
horse.
Gary Cooper had a monkey
that got fan mail.
Connie Bennett, who employs q
professional screamer to scream
for her, once preached a sermon
in a New York city church on Sun,
day. She got 100000 a week once
for making a picture.
Lawrence Tibet failed to
make his high school glee club
and Katharine Hepburn was
fired because she couldn't act.
Give Brook weighed 20 pounds
at birth and is now 5 feet IL
inches tall and weighs 149
pounds, while Randolph Scott
weighed only three pounds at
birth, is now 6 feet 2 inches and
weighs 100 pounds.
Dolores Del Rio has never
seen a football game, and Pat
O'Brien has never smoked a Gig
arctic.
Patricia Ellis grew two inches
in three weeks last year while
rehearSing as a catcher" in a
trapeze act for "CircuS Clown"
Coyotes still roam the hills of
Hollywood, and there is herd
of rs buffalOeS within rs miles
of the place.
The King cinema, in YOnan-
guang, Upper Burma, seats $4,000
people, more than twice as many
as the Radio City Music Hall in
New York.
Lyle Talbot, whose real name
Is Hollywood, is an only child,
yet he has brother who is his
uncle. lyle was legally adopt
ed by his grandmother when he
was a baby, so his uncle became
his brOther.)
Joe E. Brown made a flight in
a heavier-than-air machine in 1907,
and Lionel Barrymore flew one a
year later.
Claude Rains became a movie
star before he was ever seen on
the screen Gin '"The Invisible
ManD.
Ivan Lebedeff captured the only
German general to be taken by
the enemy during the War-Gen-
eral Won Fabarius, who later COM
mitted suicide because of his cap
ture.
During the filming of "The
Mighty Barnum" Wallace Berry
got 5000 times the salary he for
merly got when he was an ele-
phant washer in a circus.
The first time Pat OBrien went
I'D in a plane he piloted it off the
ground himself.
Tutta Rolf, Fox actress, was
once washed overheard from a
ship in a storm and rescued from
the sea half an hour later.
C, Aubrey Smith, who was 4
months old when Lincoln deliv-
cred his Gettysburg address, still
plays cricket.
w. C. Fields never slept in a
bed between the ages Of IL
loci McCrea once attended
the Hollywood School for Girls.
Fred Astaire has danced 14O,-
400 miles and Bill Robinson has
danced professionally for so
years.
Lew Cody once telephOned to
the Kaiser from Hollywood to
settle an argument as to who
started the war.
Miriam Hopkins once sang in
a boys choir and James Cagney
once danced in a girls chorus.
Ginger Rogers received $500
proposals by mail in 1884.
Ramon NOvarrO has played Is
different natiOnalities on the
screen, but never that of his
own, a Mexican.
Herbert Mundin, naval radio
officer, wore the same life pre-
server all through the war.
After the armiStice he threw it
overheard and it sank imme-
diately.
Rochelle Hudson won medal
for backStrOke swimming when
she was 10 years old.
A Stanley Steamer was re-
uuired for "Ah Wilderness.
After IL States were searched,
one was finally discovered in
San Diego county, California,
and put into good running con-
ditiOn.
Anita Louise is left-handed in
everything she does except writ,
ing her name.
Jimmy Ellison lassoed 612
pound trout by accident!! (While