Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-11
Strolls Thru Hollywood

San Bernardino. Gunner Cooper
planned to do his shooting from
the forward cockpit in the nose
OF the plane, while Cummings pi-
loted from the No. 2 place, in
front of the rear-mounted prop
eller.
Technique Of sky-hunting calls
Tor the pilot to fly fairly high
until a coyote is spotted, when he
dives as close to the ground as
possible to give the gunner a shot.
Thereafter it's all fence jump
ing and wing-scraping banks un-
til the coyote escapes or the gum
ner salts him down with buck
shot.
Cooper says he may try it later
in Texas or Montana, but that
he has shelved the idea for the
present. After Souls" washes up
he'll go to New York for a brief
vacation before starting B. p.
Schulberg's What Ho."
Bling Crosby, grooming horse
racer and prizefight fancier, hov-
ers near the telephone every work
ing hour as eight births are ex-
pected in the equine maternity
ward of his Rancho Santa Fe, near
San Diego.
Foals are all of first-rate breed
ing, the crooner says, and he'll
name them all for the 1910 Ken
lucky derby at birth. To become
derby candidates the youngsters
must be entered before they are
IL days old.
Lining up classy combination
of youth and age, Universal has
signed white-haired Leopold Sto-
koWski, conductor of the Philadel-
phia orchestra, for a top part in
l4-year-old Deanna Durbin's next
picture, 100 Men and a Girl
Stokowski broke into celluloid in
big Broadcast of 1885," He's al
ready signed for this years big
Broadcast" and will also musical
composition for Paramount.
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Mushy Callahan has Bill Haade,
acting steel worker, all warmed
up over the impending Revenge"
OF Hank Hankinson, elongated
prlzefighter from Akron, o. Mill
ing together in scenes for kid
Gallahad" recently, the boys ex-
changed a few low, hard ones,
and story that Haade had crack
ed a Hankinson rib got into print.
Hankinson protested mildly, but.
callahan convinced Haade lanky
Hank is cunning for him, and now
the boys watch each other like
hawks in sparring scenes.
Fred Stone will be released this
week from hospital in which
he has been laid UP more than
two months with neuralgia COM
plications. Stone could have gone
home days ago, but refused to
bulge until I'm able to walk OUT
George Brent, long touted as
Greta Garbo's No. boy friend,
becomes increasingly chummy with
blond Anita Louise, and it APP
pears the glamorous Swede may
be left high and dry. Brent and
la Carlo excited comment at
Christmas time by dining alone
together at table approximately
a quarter of a mile long.
Again denying reports she'll
marry Robert Taylor, Barbara
Stanwyck says she'll avoid the
Altar for at least year to de-
vote herself to her new house
Tin Van Nuys) her horse ranch
and her screen career.
warren Williams "Outcast"
tainted three women in a down.
town Los Angeles theater preview,
and Major pictures may have to
cut the scene before release. Faint
ing spot was a sequence in which
William, as a doctor operating
on Jackie Moran, places a tube
in the boys throat to enable him
to breathe, whereupon his "su-
perstitious mother" Esther Dale,
enters and snatcheS it out.
Sir Guy Standing. admiral of
Malibu Lake, is fighting flood
of his own. Lake water has risen
eight feet above normal, and has
flooded lower floors of several
summer houses. Sir Guy defended
his premises with levee of sand