The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-30
In Hollywood

In Holl ywood
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD. - Short takes:
Picture people don't allow any
thing to eclipse their local inter
ests for very long. Most of the
talk now is of football. Roosevelt
and Willkie have been benched;
King George and Hitler have been
sent to the showers.
Newsreel executives, though, can
tell you campaign excitement
around the country is at unprece-
dented pitch. Cheers, boos and fist
fights begin with each flash of a
candidate. Representatives of both
parties are bitterly charging the
movie companies with favoritism.
The Hays Office plans to ask all
theaters never to present shots OF
only one candidate. Also screen
note is being prepared asking pa
irons for no demonstrations in
order that statements made from
the screen can be heard.
And speaking of newsreels: Lon
don may be only hop and a
holler from Berlin, but the way it
gets a look at German war films
is via Moscow, Siberia, Shanghai,
China Clipper, San Francisco, New
York, Atlantic Clipper, and Lisbon.
FILMS FOR
CONSCRIPTS
Conscription will be of some help
to Hollywood; an allotment of ST.
500, 900 has been made for projec-
ton equipment and film leasing
for training camps. >. Twentieth
Fox thought it would borrow a
couple of aircraft carriers and 60
right to work on that sea war
story, ATTACK" The Navy said it
was sorry, but the fleets kinda
DuSy T1SQC now.
The agent of a bibulous screen
comic pleaded with the client to
sober up because there was a good
role coming up for him at one of
the studios. So the actor trained,
abstained and finally got himself
in hand just in time to report for
the job. He's now playing the part
of a drunk Incidentally, a
married pair of dress extras are
named Tom Collins and Ginger"
Aile.
The towns champ joiner is Or
son Welles. Because of his varied
activities he has to belong to the
Screen Writer'S Guild, Screen Ac-
tors Guild, Screen Directors
Guild, Radio Writer'S Guild, Amer
lean Federation of Radio Artists,
and Actors Equity Association.
Dues for all these unions are about
double the average union worker S
annual wage.
Carole Lombard goes clothes.
horse in 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith
for the first time in three years
Her wardrobes used to cost less
than 5000. The % outfits She:
wearing now, as the wife of {
Park Avenue LAWYER. are budgeted
at $768O. TOO Many Girls
reveals a startlingly changed Fran.
ces Langford. The little gal with
the big voice weighed SO pounds
when she married Jon Hall. He
has been bossing her diet, which
includes a lot of cream, and she's
now a curvesome 116.
REFUGEE
HORDES
There has been some indignant
discussion about foreign refugees
fIocking into Hollywood and being
given jobs which U. S. citizens
should or could hold. The situation
has been overstated. The Pro-
ducers' Association has made a
survey on the subject, defining
refugee" as a person who has
come to Hollywood since. January
l, 1888, from Germany, Italy or
any of the Axis-dominated coun-
tries. Of 1851 persons regularly
employed by the eight major stu
dios, only 18 are refugees. OF the
IL, only four are actors: Felix
Bressart, Karen Verne, Fritz var
Dongen and Erwin Kaiser.
ALL the Will Rogers pictures were
made by Fox, and the studio has
a Will Rogers Memorial S o u n d
Stage. But it looks as if the com.
pany will lose to Metro in bidding
for the film rights to his life story.
The idea of screen biographer
of Christopher Columbus has beer
kicked around Hollywood for a
dozen years. Now it's going to be
done by Gabriel Pascal-in Eng
land. Director Mike Curtiz went
to Jack Warner with production
problem and began: For your in
formation, I want to ask you a