The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-14


 lt may be that they won't
 film the Chicago fire i'm the pic-
 ture, Chicago" After all,
 they've got Jean Harlow.
 
 For a sequence in Love Under Fire" . grove of palm trees was built on a 20th Century-FOx sound stage. But the property men hadn't read the script and didn't anchor the trees securely.
 Pretty soon wind machines were brought in, turned on, and the whole business blown down. Lo- retta Young, Don Ameche. and the rest of the cast thought they were doing scene from Hurricane"
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 Wedding Bells
 Mary Pickford will reach Holly wood early in May, and she and Buddy Rogers are to be married here about three weeks later. Rogers has been searching for a house and will have long list of places to show her when she arrives.
 Also he'll finally return to the screen as the male lead in Para mounts "This Way, Please" The girl hasn't been chosen.
 And David Selmick at last is go- !, ing to film From Sawyer" on which tests have been made for months. Jackie Moran likely will get the role of Fob; you saw him in "Val- .iant is the Word for Carrie"
 Janet Gaynor,s teasing young bro- ther in the early sequences of "A Star Is Born" is the choice for Sid. His name is A. w. Sweatt.
 When Fred Astaire finishes his RKO assignments, he and his wife and son will go to Europe for six months. Then few more pie lures, and permanent retirement. AStaire declares he'll be a man of leisure within three years.
 Meanwhile Ginger Rogers
 is launched on her busiest schedule. Finishing "Vivacious Lady,, she'll have to begin
 Stage Door, on June l. In July
 cesnes Mother Carey's Chick
 eras" and, late in August, CO., starring assignment with
 Charles Boyer in Perfect Har-
 mony." And then her fall sched- ule of musicals.
 Eyesore
 A well-known actors name was mentioned in sidewalk conference the other day, and producer re- ! marked, Well, you gotta admit he's certainly in the public eye these days"
 'Yeah," agreed writer, 'like a cinder."
 Fred Stone is well and working again-in" House in the Country" Greta Garbo told a studio execu- tive the reason she never goes to ' parties is that she isn't invited. Director Reuben Mamoulian always has a pocketful of pug
 zleS. especially those wire ones that you try to take apart. c. Aubrey Smith, who's "A, has moved into his fine new home and expects to enjoy it for a long, \ long time.
 k Still Waiting
 Approximately year ago Eddie ' Cantor was moaning about all the money he was losing because there was a delay of few weeks when K Samuel Goldwyn couldn't find a suitable story for him. So Goldwyn ' gave him his release and Cantor 4 went to Fox. That was 10 months ago, and they haven't found story either.
 Some of the Hollywood bigwigs are wondering seriously whether something can be done about Suppressing or busting fortune tellers from the colony. Several divorces have been laid at the doors of the hocus-pocus boys, and I've heard of an actress who refused to sign a contract because her occult oracle told her not to. She's pretty sick about it now, because the picture is a great hit.
 | 4 little group of players who are idle half the time anyway were dis cussing the possibility of forcing five-day week on the studios. What N you people want" snorted George Mckay. lis 8 five-day weekend"