Evening star., 1937-06-08

the manner so familiar to the motion
picture audiences.
Co-workers OF the film star recalled
incidents of her last days at the studio
where she was working in a picture
with Clark Gable. When she became i'll
a week ago last Saturday, she thought
first of Powell.
Red" she told Director Robert
Golden, "call Bill. I'm terribly sick. "
Even during the last stages of her
illness. after uremic poisoning thrust
her down into inconsistencies for
long intervals. she attempted an air
OF cheerfulness.
The morning Of her death she re-
gained her senses for a few moments
Where is Aunt Jetty?" she asked
weakly. Hope she didn't walk out on
me-"
Her aunt, Mrs Jetty Chadsey, had
left the sick room for a minute.
Mrs. Bello and Miss Harlow's STEP
father, Marino Bello, sought SIM
plicity for the funeral, denied others
of the screen great, such as Barbara
La Mari, Wallace Reid and Rudolph
Valentino.
Private Services Tomorrow.
Her coffin will be closed tomorrow
when private services are held at the
Wee Kirk O. the Heather, In Glen
dale.
Jeans mother wishes it So said
Bello, divorced from Mrs. Bello two
years, but back at her side in common
grief. 'She wants Jean to remain in
the memory of her fans as she was in
life, so the body will not lie in state"
After the services the body will be
placed in crypt in the Forest Lawn
Memorial Park Mausoleum pending
final interment arrangements.
The size and nature Of Miss Harlow's
estate remained matter of conjecture.
Friends said that it would consist
largely of annuities and endowment
insurance policies. They knew moth
ing about any will.
Miss HarloWs studio had around a
million dollars invested in her latest
co-starring picture with Clark Gable,
and it lacked only few scenes, in
which she was needed, to be ready for
exhibition
Her father, Dr. Montclair Carpenter,
left Kansas City by plane today for
the funeral in Los Angeles tomorrow.
He was accompanied by his second
wife.
Operation Report Denied.
DR.. E. c. Fishbaugh, who attended
Miss Harlow until the end, denied a
report today that she feared the sur
geon's knife
There was no operation that could
have helped her" he said, and she
wasn't afraid OF surgery"
Little warning had been given that
the end was near for the girl who did
her first screen work In 1928 and
shortly was rocketed toward stardom
as the platinum blond in "Hell's
Angels She left the set Of Sara
toga," in which she was being starred
with Clark Gable, last May %, feeling
i'll.
Asked for William Powell.
She asked for William Powell, who
had been her closest friend for two
years. Her illness was first reported
as gall bladder trouble, then as a cold.
She was removed to a hospital Sun
day, without the fact becoming gen.
orally known, and died there yester-
day just before noon.
why did this have to be?" cried
Powell, who was with her at death.
I loved her. loved her"
An inhalator crew was summoned
from the Fire Department yester-
day morning in the attending physi-
clans last desperate effort to pro-
long Miss Harlow's life.
The firemen worked behind q closed
door. In the room with Powell were
the Bellos and an aunt of the actress,
Mrs. Jetty Chandsey.
Baxter With Powell.
Silence hung stifly as the minutes
passed. Across the hall waited War
ner Baxter, Powell's close friend
Shortly before noon the door swung
open and Powell, sobbing, came out
A physician followed and nodded
to the little group outside the door
Miss Harlow was dead.
Powell and Baxter remained to-
gether a short time until the usually
suave actor had regained his COM
posure. They left by the back way.
Miss Harlow had been married
three times-to Charles McGrew
wealthy sportsman, in 1927; Pau
Bern, film producer, In 1892, and Har-
old Rosson, ace fllm cameraman, In