The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-16
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BY PAUL HARRISON

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 Hollywood-Short takes: An air plane zoomed over the sound stage where fiery Michael Curtiz was ready to direct a scene. This in- terruption often happens at the studios in the vicinity of the two principal airports, and as usual the players relaxed while cooking an ear at the roof to note the planes passing. But Curtiz didn't relax. He shook a fist in the direction of the droning sound and screamed "Quite!-QUIETw
 Jerry Hoffman relates the story about talent scout who took a six-months option on a lumber yard in the hope of finding anoth- CT Charlie Mccarthy.
 Joan Bennett's right cheek real ly was deeply scratched by a bay onet during a mob scene ill "The Texans" Knowing the wound would show for two or three days despite makeup, Director James Ho- gan wrote in a few additional lines of dialog and now the slashed cheek is part of the picture. This is the first real injury you'll have seen on the screen in long time.
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 A group of movie people whose new homes are dotted over a large area of the San Fernando Valley appeared before the city council the other day and peti- toned that the valley be zoned and that persons other than mem- bers of the white race be barred from residence there. The peti- ton was denied because it was counter to the Federal Constitu- tion. The petitioners were head ed by Al Jolson, whose own race is suffering discrimination in Flu rope just now. MT. Jolson also is the man who made a fortune by 1mpersonating a Negro.
 J. Edgar Hoover, the author of G-man stories, has sold a book to Paramount. . The Harpo Marxes will name their adopted boy Alex ander Woollcott Marx. Robert Taylor would like to go back to England and see Oxford. He only got within II miles of it while "A Tank" was shooting. The huge 32-foot hat used in a Gold Dig gers in Paris" musical number has been saved and will be formally presented to an actor now on the lot. Two can live cheaply: John Payne and Anne Shirley live in an $G0-a-month' apartment. Before their marriage he had a $150-a- month suite.
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 Clinical notes: Red-headed, ten- der-skinned Arlene Whelan got the first dangerous sun-burning of the season. Marie Wilson got rare case of nerves when she reported for work in her first big. break - as the girl in Boy Meets Girl" Her face puffed from nervous allergy until her eyes were nearly closed. Got shot of adrenalin and went home for the day. .. William Powell was much more critically i'll than Hollywood guessed. And he won't be back at work for sev- eral weeks more It was John Barrymore's temperamental stom- ach that put him back in the hos pital.
 Hollywood seems to get 'em all, if they stay around long enough. One of this columns friends, who likes to hike in the hills. tele- phones rather breathlessly to re- port that he spied Peter the Her init on a path near Laurel Can- yon, and that Peter was wearing a trim blue sweater, 8 smart be- ret, white shorts and new sandals All these, after 10 years of bare head, bare torso and bare feet!
 Benefit Performances
 Through those same hills, of a bright, brisk morning, strides Allan Jones. Sometimes he rides Q horse. Always. though. he sings at the top of his lungs when he gets past the clusters oi