Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-01

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her stuff. then puts on her dress
for the scene.
Signey Guilaroff, the s500-a-week
hair stylst hired for The Women"
has this to say regarding his i'm
minent departure to New York:
They offered me another years
contract, but I'm clearing out where
no one can interfere with me-" or
the ladies whose locks he tried to
arrange, he says Norma Shearer
was sweet, but the three women l
really enjoyed were-in this order
Joan Fontaine. Rosalind Russell
and Joan Crawford
The final compromise on the Bette
Davis-Errol Flynn picture: AS you
know. it was originally titled THE
Knight and the Lady Miss Davis
objected on the score that the lady
in the case-Queen Elizabeth-was
a more important personality than
the knight-Lord Essex The picture
then became Elizabeth and Essex
The studio contends that this title
will mean nothing to the American
public Il think they underestimate
the American public. Well, to cut
all arguments short, the picture
goes to you as The Lady and the
Knight unless some one changes
it again.
Madeleine Carroll will appear in
person in the British courts for her
divorce plea . Jackie Coogan has
taken to smoking pipe in real life.
That stem between his teeth is get
ting to be as inevitable as Ernst
Lubitsch's cigar . . Carlo is using
a makeup man for the first time in
years-but not for her face. In
"Ninotchka' she has to have scar
on her shoulder . Nelson Eddy'S
protest at having to drink quarts of
ginger ale in "Balalaika" in lieu of
champagne, was prolonged attack
of hiccoughs. In the film. Nelson
goes very international. He sings
The Volga Boatman" in Russian.
Silent Night in German, a song
from Carmen" in French and be-
tween whites talks to Iona Massey
in Hungarian.
Gary Cooper has circled his house
with big white fence because last
Sunday when he returned home from
a call he found-to quote him
groups of cars outside as if it were
an Iowa picnic The fence has
made the house much more con-
spicuous J.. The Dick PoWells are
another couple who are fence
minded. They have erected an g.
foot wall around the property they
leased from Fay Wray.
Add building notes: Ray Mil
land is building a mansion on Elm
drive, where all the houses are on
the same level and no one-par-
ticularly Dorothy Lamour-can
overlook him. Dotty, by the way,
has put up a new terrace that
completely dominates all of Cold
water Canyon. You got out just
in time, Mr.. Milland.
X X X X
In quiet corner of the West Side
Tennis Club, Kay Francis wears
dark glasses and plays backgam-
mon. I await her picture, Memory
of Love-" with interest {. The two
sons of Charlie Chaplin dine with
Paulette Goddard at the Brown
Derby. Both boys are taller than
Paulette. They are planning ca
reers in aviation . . Talking about
the Brown Derby, prince" Mike
Romanoff gives it the British pro-
nunciation-"Darby." Mike is ex-
tremely loyal to his boss, Daryl
zanuck. If Zanuck's name is mem
toned disparagingly in Mixes pres
ence, he leaves the room with a
show of indignation. I ask the
Prince" to tell me where In truth
he was actually born. "The news
papers have given me so many birth
places, I am utterly confused" he
drawls. Which is one way of evad-
ing a question.
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