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mors but confessed there was moth
ing she could do-but deny them.
Even -much-alive Enrol Flynn
has lived to see himself headlined
as dead 'un-particularly in the
Spanish civil war And all of it
based on a bump received from fall
ing plaster!
Recently Clark Gable contracted
slight cold while working in a pic
ture He went home. That night the
headlines had him near eternity. So
a dentist, who was working on an in
lay for Clarks teeth that had to be
finished for the next days shoot
ing, also packed up and went home
delaying Clark's return to the cam
era another "a hours.
When Bette Davis was bedded with
sunstroke last year, every paper in
town called Warner Bros to nd out il
it were true that she had passed away.
During the height of Gloria Swan
sons popularity, rumor went around
that she had died several years previ-
ously and double was working in her
Stead
Next to deaths. births cause the
greatest number of false alarms Alice
Faye, Luise Rainer, Loretta Young.
have all been inaccurately reported
as future mothers. As for Bing Crosby,
already the pappy of four bouncing
boys, nary day passes but some one
y &c
hereby place on record that Mr.. and
Mrs. Crosby emphatically deny they
are expecting fifth infant
After births-or maybe / should say
before-are the marriage rumors. So
many people stated that Katherine
Hepburn was married to Howard
Hughes that I was beginning to be-
lieve it myself-until Hughes gave out
denial statement. Katie, of course,
was also rumored wed to Leland Hay
ward, but there was nothing rumor-
like in his factual wedding with Mar
garet Sullivan.
A recent hot" tip that Robert Tay-
lor and Barbara Stanwyck were eloping
had this columnist running around in
circles until she found Barbara, who
was supposed to be saying Il do" in
Yuma, at the Beverly Hills Tennis
Club. where she told me that the sup
posed bridegroom was home on the
range-presumably asleep.
mors come all the way from Europe
the funniest and most amazing, that
9-year-old Shirley Temple is really
young woman-and midget. A Lon
don newspaper actually telephoned
Mrs. Temple to ask her the preposter-
Gus question. Despite the denial, there
are some idiots who still believe it.
On the day that Pola Negri was
reported by Los Angeles newspaper
incarcerated in concentration camp,
she was actually working in Berlin
movie studio and very surprised and
indignant at the false statement.
And. Of course, you've all heard the
one that Marlene Dietrich was the
backer of the Nazi regime-or was it
the Dionne quintuplets?
Shortly before the Powell baby was
born, Dick insisted it would be a boy.
Joan stated with equal vehemence
that it would be a girl. Some one
passed by their restaurant table, heard
Dick say, II know what I'm talk
ing about"-and the rumor was on
that Dick and Joan were on the verge
of separation!
Myrna 10y, because of her name
and ,Oriental representations at the
beginning of her career, used to be
credited with Chinese nationality. But
Myrna didn't care-just as long as
producers gave her work.
The recent rumor that Norma
Shearer had a surgical operation on
her face was, of course, entirely with
out foundation. Why should Norma
wish to look any younger when she
looks so young already? In actual
age, Norma is in the early thirties.
Rumor hath had it for long time
that a certain feminine star is half
Indian-the Hindu type. When this
story was told me, it was accompanied
by the bare-faced lie that the star
flaunted a photograph in her bedroom
of a colored lady who the said star
was supposed to have admitted was
her grandmother!
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