The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-12
Robert Montgomery
 Good Correspondent
Film Star in Special Story to Democrat, Gives Inside
 Dope on Some of HoywoOd's Greatest

compromise, and try to write a little as each different columnist does. Then the followers of the different writers can take their choice. It's a touh assinment, but here goes.
 Orchids to Hunt Stromberg for letting Bob Montgomery play Night Must Fall" and also to Dame May Whitty for one Of the Swellest performances that ever came to Hollywood from the Eng fish stage. There has been a blessed event in the Clark Gable family. His racehorse, Beverly Hills, is a proud mother. Rumor says that baby Juanita Quigley and William Powell are that way about each other, and the other day he was noticed buying her a big colored balloon. Nelson Eddy got home from his concert tour, and reports business good through out the country. Starting the sec- ond lap of his avowed march to reach 100 years, Guy Kibbee has celebrated his birthday. He says he has never known a sick day in his life.
 Boulevard buzzings: Gladys George. that grand actress, tells a racehorse story. Seems a racehor1e owner, broke, staked his all on a race in which the horse was run ming, went over to the stable. and found the horse had died. So he scratched the horse, went out and sold it to another owner. A year later he met the buyers who came upon him before he could make a getaway. The fellow was most cordial.
 About that horse I sold you" he began.
 "Oh, yes, he died" remarked the buyer. 50 sold tickets and raf- fled him off"
 Didn't anybody kick?" asked the seller.
 "Only the guy that won," ex- plained the other, "and I gave him his dollar back"
 One Minute Interview: There is no use trying to dance merely with ones feet. Most of a dancers dancing is done between the eyes. After all dancing is just acting set to music. ."-Tilly Losch.
 Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) showed the folks the other day that old songs are still sweetest. At a luncheon given by Louis B. May CT to a group of Chicago men, Cliff was asked to sing a number or SO. He sang one to good applause. Then he went into Singing in the Rain," the number that first made him great on the screen. They applauded and cheered. They just wouldn't let him go. Cliff first sang that song in 1929 in Holly wood Revue" But public affection still slings to 1t strongly.
 There was an interesting reunion at M-G-M when Lionel Barrymore and Dame May Whitty, the English actress, met again. They were friends over in London, years ago, when Ethel used to live at Dame Mays house and Lionel and John came often to visit her. Out of deference to the ladies, Lionel won't say how long ago 1t was.
 Funny Facts about a film: Charles Boyer's makeup as Napoleon in Madame Walewska" was fashioned by Jack Dawn from Q copy of the death mask of Napoleon borrowed from the Huntington Library; con- trary to rumor Greta Garbo is NOT on e diet, but drinks cup of cof- fee on the set every morning at ten; Benjamin Franklin invented the odd instrument called the glassichord, used in the Napoleon ic score of Madame Walewska." !" It was actually played before Ma. poleon; the Monterey cypress seen in the Elba scenes in the same pic- ture, are not Monterey at all, but Italian expresses that look just like the California breed; the jewels worn by Qarbo as Mario Walewska are the stones actually given by Napoleon to Empress Marie Louise, and now owned by Messrs. Trabert and Hoeffer, New York collectors, who loaned them for the picture.