The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-06
Harder to Get Domestic Help
 Than a Husband In Hollywood
Looks Don't Lie-Much-for Gene Raymond Garbo's Phone Number for $5 Nazs May Never See Lancer Spy

and Hisses,' has been changed to The Wool Song'."
 James Gleason, a producer at Re- public now, makes the widest ges- ticulations when he talks. Discuss sing a film story over the telephone, he got to waving the instrument around and yanked 1t out by the roots. The studio now has put Q 20-foot cord on Gleason's phone 50 he can better express himself.
 Only telephne on Barbara Stan- wyck's ranch is in the stable, which is where she is from dawn to dusk.
 A man called me the other day and offered Qreta Garbo's telephone number for $5. It isn't worth the price of a toll call, actually, because her servants, who always answer, don't speak English. Even her own studio sends Q messenger to her house.
 A Plug for Cigars
 Another tobacco chewer, besides Al Dubin, is Fred Allen. Munches on Q plug during his radio broad- casts. one of the tobacco compan- les, which sells cigars, has sent an executive to Hollywood to protest the uses which are made of cigars in pictures. It's claimed that the movies have typed cigar smokers as low comedians or gangsters.
 Wm. Powell smokes cirgars son1e- times, but hates 'ern. When Q script requires 1t, though, Q property man pops cigar into holder, piiffs for d few minutes, and hands 1t to Pow oil just before the camera turns.
 An actress by any other name IS not always as attractive. Republic borrowed Dorothy McNulty, niece of Postmaster General Farley, 4 for 8 picture, but or, the eve of going to work she has changed her name, to Penny Singleton. Studio insists that she appear under her name, and she refuses. ,s .l
 Press agency has made many a picture, but the first press agent to be the inspiration for . picture IS Steve flanagan. boomer of, Miami Beach, the Indianapolis Speedway and most of the enterprises of Jock whitney. He'll be impersonated by Pat O'Brien, an actor who dossn't like publicity men. ,4s,ly < A film that's unlikely to be shown in Germany is Lancer Spy.' Three German spies in the story are play cd by distinguished Jews--Maurice Moskovitch, Luther Adler and Joe seph schildkraut. JE ., .Isss MILL Parislans Abroad ,eis Director Michael Curtiz, 6 lan- guare Tnanegler, was bothered by a group of noisy visitors on his set. He told them politely, "If you peo. pie are going to walk arund while I am shooting you will have to stand
 It was aris-in-Iiollywood at the Trocadero the other night. At one big table sat Ssmone simon. Da- nielle Darrieux, Annabella, Mirielle Baiin, Fernand Gravel, Jacques Thiery and some less important for eigners. Tei
 At the opera, John Barrymore
 slouched in his topcoat and
 cracked peanuts all through thc
 performance. NeIghbofs gIafed.
 Barrymore didn't even offer 'em
 . peanut.
 The Rogers-P Pickfcrd honeymoon cottage in Brentwood has l0arooms. 8 pool and garden. the whole sur- rounded by Q high brick wall. Fa- nous Pickfair. in Beverly Hills. Is tlp for sale. You can get 1t. with most of the furnishings. for $500.O0O.
 Most of those "Dead End" kids are still around town, and busy. Bobby Jordan, one of the toughest, Is work ing in "A Slight Case of Murder" but is balky about attending tie studio school. He says. I'm c mov- ie actor now. I don't need no edu- cation!