The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-04
In Hollywood
NEA Service Staff Correspondent,

HOLLYWOOD. Behind the
screen: A horse that Katharine
Hepburn rides in philadelphia
Story" belongs to Elizabeth Whit
ney. It's an old and exasperating
experience for the wealthy social
lite, who has been trying for two
years to crash the movies. First
screen test she ever made was
with her horse, and although she
didn't get an offer, the nag did.
1t has worked in several pictures
since.
For a while Mrs. Whitney and
Republic discussed a deal for both
her and the hrose to play in Gene
Autry westerns. But that fell
through, and now she's planning
to finance a play in which she'll
have the leading role-on foot.
Greta Carlo and the carrot
juice salesman, Benjamin Gage
lord Hauser, are pals again. Late
ly they've been taking long, morn
ing walks along the beaches, the
actress swinging along in Stacks,
but barefoot. At an amusement
pier, almost deserted at that hour,
generosity Miss Carlo sat in one
of those machines which automati-
cally photograph a customer, and
made faces at the lens. She
hasn't made a face at a news pho
tographer in some time. The boys
are ignoring her at plays and con-
certs.
Other night at a local theater
which goes in heavily for prizes,
both pictures were so bad that
even a woman who won an auto
mobile went to the boxoffice to
get her money back.
Clark Gable commented on
Boom Town; cts got every
thing in it except the kidnapping
scheme of Charlie Ross" For
.big-scale entertainment, the n e W
scheme of little Billy Rose sounds
like the greatest show on or off
the earth. He plans a sky revue,
with plane and fancy tricks, pretty
gals, Paul Whiteman music, strip
teasers, and vocal soloists drifting
down in parachutes. and a 'cho-
rus" of go captive bai1oons. 3
An Australian producer, E r i C
Porter, has made an animated car
toon called adolf in Plunderland."
-. Metros Mortal Storm is a
boxoffice sensation, helping to
prove that Hollywood's stampede
from war and anti-Nazi subjects is
due more to nervous apprehension
of German victory than to any real
conviction that the public wants
only screwball comedies. A
lot of male actors whose real ages
have been reduced by their studios
are going to grow old awfully quick
if the draft bill is passed.
Paramount fired Muriel Angelus
without waiting to see if she'd be
a hit in 1.-The Great McGinty." So
now it wants her to come back.
Metro released Ilona Massey with
the unofficial explanation that one
feminine singing star on the pay
roll is enough. Apparently nobody
at the studio thought of any Jean
cite Macdonald = Massey conflict
during the two expensive years in
which the latter was being
groomed and trained. So now, a
proven success, she's a bargain at
any price for any studio, and they
are all biding like mad.
And speaking of dimmed stars,
Shirley Temple likely will play a
sister role with Gloria Jean in a
Universal musical. The kids look
a lot alike. AS a member-owner
in United Artists, Mary Pickford
can release pictures through that
company. So Buddy Rogers, her
husband, will become a producer
and make the films. She may ap-
pear in one Of them. Vaughn
Paul, Deanna Durbin's boy-friend,
has been upped from assistant di-
rector to producership. And early
wedding reports r revived. !
Approximately half a million