The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
In Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Corresponder

HOLLYWOOD-Newest notion in
charity schemes is. Anne Lehr's
Hollywood Memento Mart, which
will sell all sorts of personal items
used and donated by celebrities.
Thus tourists and local fans, visit
ing the Guild Thrift Shop, may
buy a pair of Cables shorts,
CRADLES hose, or a bathing suit
outgrown by Madeleine Carroll.
Mrs. Lehr has wangled a lot of
money from the Greer colony for
benevolent enterprises, but this is
the first time she has asked the
stars for their shirts. If they'll
cooperate, the idea has sensation
al possibilities.
College f%raternities and navy
crews often write to the studios
begging for a pair of Ann Sheri-
dams neutrality-suspicious. or a
Dorothy Lamour sarong or one of
Lana Turner'S sweaters. I don't
doubt thye'd be willing to pay for
such trophies.
Greta CARLOS old shoes ought
to find a ready market. and if
toupees are offered, imagine how
many undistinguished : looking
males would like to own a col
lection of the scalplocks of screen
idols. Mary Astor's old diary would
be a novel item, and so would
Mickey Rooney S address book.
Mae West could donate a few cor
sets, though I'd prize more highly
one of her slightly used diamond
bracelets.
There's no doubling the appeal
to fanatics of any star-touched
article. Let Joan Crawford toss
away a cigaret before entering a
theater and from the ensuing
scramble you'd think she had dis.
carded one of her star sapphires,
l once saw a couple of girls grab
and run with the straws from q
soda Myrna 10y had been slipping.
Actresses caught in poorly.
policed preview mobs have lost
hats, purses, handkerchiefs, and
even have had hunks %scissored
from their dresses or locks of hair
cut off.
Local laundry managers are
driven daffy by shortages on
movie players lists. Somewhere
between collection and delivery,
monogrhmmed shirts, underwear
and handkerchiefs disappear. This
isn't larceny; it's souvenir col.
lecting.
Anyway it's far more under.
standable than the young man who
was caught bailing water from
Marlene Dietrich's swimming pool
He said he was going to sell it,
like the Aga Khan's bathwater.
which is peddled to the faithful.
Temperance papers please copy:
probably you've never even won
dered how the Demons Rum and
Harpo Marx get along; but, any.
way, they don't. He hasn't touched
a drop of anything in 20 years
not even beer, wine, lemon ex'
tract or canned heat.
You might guess that the Mute
Marx fears alcohol would make
him laxative, but that isn't the
reason either. 1t makes him sick.
He went out with the boys one
time, had a couple of quickies and
woke up with sever while doves.
symbols of purity, fluttering in his
innardS.
The Brothers Marx now are
making a picture called go
West" and Harpo put the studio
to no end of trouble when he was
called on to drink a glass of beer.
He asked 'em to make it imita-
ton liquor, Or to let somebody else
d. it.
But they said no. that this was
a key incident IN the story. Harpo
and Chico stumble in from the
desert. They're parched, ex-
hausted and flat broke. They stand
at a bar and watch foaming stems
scoot past them. Finally they grab
and gulp some beer, and when
they're unable to pay they're
forced to sign over the deed to a
mine. That's why the beer was
important.