The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
-In Hollywood
By PAUL HARRISON


 NEA Service Stan Correspondent
 HolIywood-The people who get around most in the company of movie stars are large, silent gents who try to remain inconspicuous, and whose faces seldom get into the papers. Their faces are not what you would call decorative, anyway. They have bulging biceps and ominously bulsing hip pockets. They're body guards.
 Not all the stars have bodyguards regularly on their payrolls, although practically all chauffeurs also serve as protectors and are armed against Unexpected trouble. Ginger Rogers was the latest to get a threatening letter, so she hired private de- tective to accompany her until the sender of the note was arrested.
 Children of movie celebrities are less carefully protected than you'd imagine. Only Marlene Dietrich's Maria and the Harold Lloyd young sters have bodyguards of their own. But children who are stars in their own right do have them.
 A leOLpound, six-foot colored man named Ed Reed is combination bodyguard and chauffeur for Fred die Bartholomew. And since threats have been received by Freddie's Aunt Myllicent, a second, unidentified strong-arm man has been engaged. { Guards Shirley
 Shirley Temple is protected by John Griffith. He's 6 feet inches tall, weighs 230 pounds, and is an ex-side show barker who later serv- ed as chauffeur for Daryl Zanuck, Shirley's boss.
 Griffith packs gun, drives Shir- ley and her mother around town, hovers around her when she's work ing at the studio, guides her through crowds at previews
 He lieves in the Temple home and sleeps beside buzzer connected with an elaborate burglar alarm system. His wife, Mabel, is Shirley's maid.
 Mob Menacing Mae?
 Mae West is surrounded by the most impressive protection in Holly wood. Three men are with her wherever she goes, and keep watch outside her apartment when she's at home. Their presence seems to lend collaboration to the tale that a gangster mob is endangering her. Two years ago, after being robbed of some diamonds, she defied threats of vengeance and testified against two mugs who were apprehended. A third man in the robbery never was caught.
 Plugs Guard Mae
 Two of her shadows are former prizsfighters. One, Speedy Dado, is a Filipino, who also drives her car. The other, John Arno, is heavy weight whose poundage is increased by Q cannon carried on each hip. The third guard, George Hoff, is as- signrd from the local sheriff's office
 So far these men never have had to t,ge their fists of guns to protect MisD West. But they're not com blaming; they like her company.
  A Punman
 Al Jolson's bodyguard- chauffeur is short, stocky Jim Donnelly. He pulls punS instead of guns. Once he was a test driver for an automobile factory, and in the Is years of his service with Jolson has driven him across the continent IA times. When they're not travelling, Donnelly lives at the Jolson estate and guards RubV Keller and the Jolson's 2- year.old adopted son.
 He could retire if he wanted to, but prefers to remaine in the man. my-singer's service. Donnelly has become well-to-do, if not rich, by following Jolson's stock market tips. Pals With "KilIer"
 Mack Grey. bodyguard and all- around stooge for George Raft, doesn't conform to the accepted pattern of protectors. He's small and dapper. like his boss. They've been friends since they were kids together in Brooklyn, and Grey was Raft's manager when the latter tried professional boxing.
 Around the screen colony Grey is known as "The Killer" The nick name is more than faintly derisive. Grey never killed anybody. In fact, he almost got himself killed in a fight that started at the Brown Derby.
 He and Raft were dining quietly when a pugnacious drunk tried to muss the actors sleek hair, and started throwing punches.
 Grey invited the trouble-maker outside and the battle was resumed in an adjoining parking lot. "The Killer" took an awful beating for few minutes. Raft finally had to step in and knock the other fellow put.