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presidential candidates With cleo
ton near, the side-taking boys and
girls OF movieland, are really giving
their all for Willkie or Roosevelt
with camps about evenly divided.
Last week R-K-O had to make a
corkscrew out of its schedule on
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith" just so Rob-
ert Montgomery, chief of the Holly
od-for- Willkie campaign could
leave town on a political speaking
tour.
We remember the indignant re-
tort of Mr.. Montgomerys studio boss
after the political conventions when
we asked whether his players would
be allowed to take sides in the cam
paign.
Actors can't be politicians and
public favorites, too" he declared
That would mean their automatic
exit from this studio
Today every lot in town is in
tested with actor-politicoS, and
studio heads are helpless before the
onrush
In all corners. too. they're chuck
ling over the Ann Warner
Bros. salary feud This carries a
unique twist, because the rebellious
"oomph" lady who. by the way. has
put away little real swag from that
tide-sweeping title) has been spend
ing her Sulking time aboard George
Brent's yacht in the Pacific. This is
believed the first time in screen his
tory an actor in good standing with
his studio Brent is also a member
of the Warner clam has kept a
fellow-player from making contact
with the front Office. But there may
be reason for that-love
Madeleine Is Inspiring.
OF course. there are scores of other
delectable news items, but let's get
on with the flight ear-burners:
Madeleine CAROLS carry on"
spirit in leaving on the Northwest
Mounted Police premiere trip to
Regina, Canada, only five days after
receiving news of her sister Mar
guerite's death during a London
bombing expedition is the most in
spring item of all She was de-
termined to make the excursion,
since her appearance sold out three
theaters-and all proceeds 60 to
Canadian war relief. 49,. .-.
Then there was Chicago Mayor
Edward J, Kelly'S arrogant" offer
to give Cecil 3. De Mile Il acres
of land right in the center of Chi
cago as a studio site-providing Cecil
would transfer his portion of the
movie industry there. This had all
the fragrance of press steamup,
and as two Paramount-De Mile
boys were seen in Chicago last week,
Hollywood first gasped and then
passed the thing off as more oil on
its ballyhoo gears.
The romance of Wee Bonnie
Baker and Orrin Tucker has been
getting play. They've been merely
orchestra leader and star singer of
the same band without falling in
love-until they did kissing scenes
in you're the One Now they're
engaged.
The soaring heat had most OF
Hollywood tongues muffed for sew
eral days and nights and, coming
at a time when the football season
was just loosening up. it was moth
ing short of catastrophe. Holly
wood likes to encourage its sweating
sons of the gridiron, but it does not
like to take a hard seat under
broiling sun to do so. 1t is much
more comfortable sitting in studio
office handicapping the Bay Mead
ows races.
How's Gables Shooting?
A flock of trivialities has been
flowing under the gossip bridge ;. {.
For instance: Did Jack Benny and
Fred Allen really have Mccoy row
before Allen left for New York after
finishing his picture with Benny?
Are Jimmy Stewart and Olivia
De Havilland going to get married?
:. Has neutrality-suspicious. ap-
piled nocturnal ultimatum to Judy
Garland, Lana Turner and several
other starlets whove been inclined
to take hours and company into
their own hands?
Will Hedy Lamar be able to keep
her adopted baby in the face OF a
recent divorce? Why didn't
Clark Gable bag his full limit OF
ducks the first two hours out-as
he did in preceding years? Gould