The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
In Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD. - Behind the
screen: With romance news wear.
ing pretty thin, the press agents
now report their clients heart
troubles. One announced: MARY
Healy and Peter Lind Hayes were
to have eloped during the week
end, but q~uarreled insread."
The colony's prize elorement-
tiffers, incidentally, are a studio
executive and a minor actress. "A
charter pilot tells me he flew them
to Las Vegas about a year ago and
didn't even get out of the plane.
A couple of weeks later they hired
him again. This time they got to-
arguing about which was to blame
for the first disagreement, and the
gal was so mad she sat up with
the pilot on the way back.
Two months later, amid gay
quips from their friends, they took
off and got to Las Vegas without
misha, and were quickly married.
The flyer says he met the actress
the other day and she asked it he
sold communication tickets. Seems
she's going back to Nevada for a
divorce.
Albert NORM, locally as famous
at rubbing at Vince Barnett, was
lionized at a party at Cary Grants
house, where he was introduced
as a celebrated French director.
After squirting at Katharine Hep.
burn half the evening he
announced that she would photo.
graph as well as Carlo. but that
she couldn't act. At that, Miss Hep
burn not only acted, but reacted.
AL American pictures now are
excluded from Germany and Nazi-
occupied territory, and Italy is
preparing a similar edict. So Eu-
rope is in for an entertainment
famine, also. 80. A joke cherished
by the Hitler-haters in Prague was
this billing Of a propaganda film:
The German Reich, Great World
Power-For a Few Days Only"
Quickest way to make money
is to pick out some star who's
hard to cast and then think up a
story especially fitting to his or
her talents. Virginia Van Upp and
Patterson McNutt were thinking OF
Hedy Lamar when they sp t
part Of a day working out an idea
about a girl who can't do any
thing except its around and look
beautiful while events Whirl about
her. At S o'clock the writer's had
whisked out to Metro with their
plot and next day at 10 a. m.
they had a check for SIS, 1000.
There definitely will be a series
of Tugboat Annie pictures with
Marjorie Rambeau in the title role
created by Marie Dressler. The
film just finished looks fine. . ii.
AS a weapon against the double
bill. Metro is experimenting with
featurets Of two to three reels
made from magazine short stories.
-. Paramount is whipping up IN
other of those mystery produc-
tions-carefully guarded sets and
strict secrecy about the plot. I'm
not sure, though, whether the stu
dio is protecting something valu-
able or merely hiding its embar-
assment. The story-so help me!
is shout a scientist who trans
fers the brain of a man to a great
ape.
THEY SHOWED
CLAUDETTE HER PLACE
Clark Gable says OF b o
Town.: TITS got everything in it
except the kidnapping Of Charley
Ross. Claudette Colbert has
been telling of some experiences
she had at the beginning Of that
picture. When she reached the set,
she found she didn't have a dress
ing room and changed costumes
with the extras the first day. She
also discovered she was slated for
fourth billing-after Gable, Tracy
and LAMAR. such things were
very good for me-" the star said.
They showed me I wasn't nearly
as important as I had thought"
Paul MUM, dismissed by War
ners because he was too impor-
tant and too demanding, has been
hired by 20th-Fox to star in ''Hud.
sons Bay Company" It is
assumed that he will wear a sill
e fox beard. There's a play.
er OF f~ast-fading prominence who
has remained idle a year rather