The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-02
Walter WincheII
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 DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU i
 HEAR ABOUT HOLLYWOOD
 Modern Americans believe more myth and legend about Hollywood than did the ancient Greeks about the boys from Mount Olympus, from Ajax to Zeus, inclusive.
 There Is such a place as Mount Olympus, but there IS no such place as Hollywood. The locale that loose 1y bears that name has no definite boundaries and is not recognized officially as 8 mailing address by the United States Post Office De- pertinent. Mail should be addressed 'Los Angeles, Calif,"
 Although there is Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to promote this mecca which doesn't exist, there is no Hollywood City Hall or city officials. That vague territory IS just the northwest section of the city of Los | Angeles.
 None of the Hollywood stars live near that section, and few of them work in 1t. Most of them live m Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Ar and points in the San Fernando Valley.
 Paramount, RKo and Columbia studios may be considered to be in Hollywood, but goth Century Fox IS in Beverly Hills: Warner Bros. is in Burbank: MGM is in Culver City, as is Selznick International; Uni- versal is in Universal City, and Re- public Is in the San Fernando Val ley.
 Movie stars don't have much time for that lap of luxury they are sup posed to live in. They have to get out of their beds of roses In the morning earlier than any other worker in the movie industry T To be ready for work at eight or nine Q. m. on the set, they have to get up from one to three hours earlier than do caIneramen, car" penters and electricians.
 While Sonia Henie skates in her current 20th Century-F'ox flicker, Iceland" she has to leave her home at 4:46 Q. m. This gets her to the studio at five. It takes her three hours to wash, dry and set her hair at the studio, put on makeup and wardrobe and be ready to start shooting at 8 a. m.
 Hollywood stars are not the gour- nets they are cracked Up to be. They have to eat sparingly of sim- ple foods in order to maintain their figures and physical condition. Most stars dream of Paradise is to be able Co eat steak and potatoes and pie whenever they feel like it-but they don't.
 Most top salary players couldn't suuander their money even If they wanted to. The greater part of their salaries goes to taxes and profess sional and living expenses. The rest is handled by business managers.
 For two years at the top of her professional career, Alice Faye never saw more than $15 week in actual cash from her salary. This was the amount of pocket money her business manager allowed her. He handled all of her bills, taxes and investments.
 Tyrone Power drives a five-year- old car because his business man. ager can't allow a new one on the budget.
 You don't have to weep over the economic status of movie stars, but what they can keep is a minute fraction of what they get. Of the S3OO.OOO which Claudette Colbert earned last year, she was able to save only $1O,0OO over and above all expenses. Taxes alone took $2l0,0O0. Her 10 per cent agent got $30,0 ,00O. Living and professional expenses took $50,000. The rest was all hers.
 Whenever John Payne wants a new suit he has to present positive proof to his business manager that 1t is necessary professional invest
 The points of sightseeing interest on a movie set are not the stars themselves. They do their stint before the cameras and then fold quietly in their dressing rooms be- tween scenes. The real show on set is usually the director.
 Movie workers go out of their way to watch Director Gregory Rat off at work. Next to Sam Goldwyn, Ratoff Is the most quoted dialect malaprop in Hollywood.
 Director William Wellman drew more visitors to the set of Thunder Birds" at 20th Century-Fox than did it's stars, Gene Tierney, John Sutton and Preston Foster. We'll man Is the village cut-up with a great flair for verbal and physical practical gags.
 Watching Archie Mayo direct or chestra wife" is sure cure for the blues. This Hollywood Falstaff keeps his people in state of pro longed hilarity with an eight-hour F5sH@=' IN |
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