The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-12
THINGS ! NEVER KNEW ABOUT
 HOLLYWOOD

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 HOLLYWOOD
 The highest paid performers in Che movies are not the stars. They're the infants of two months or less. They are paid on the basis of sl,- 300 c day but can only stay before the camera for twenty minutes Q day and never for more than thirty consecutive seconds. It figures out to Q neat SIS for Q 2O-minute stint e. The assistant director IS made responsible. It's he and not the alooe director who goes to jail in case the stop watch is faulty.
 The most photographed railroad depot in the world is one at Ingle- wood, town some ten miles south of Hollywood. The branch line which 1t served was abandoned by the Southern Pacific years ago. The railroad gets more revenue from renting 1t to the studios than 1t does from some of its branch lines Twentieth Century-F'ox used 1t last for three days in filming Gene Tierney's arrival and departure at Phoenix for the picture, Thunder Birds".
 Some of the locks shorn from the heads of glamor girls now adorn the faces of movie pirates and bad men. The shortage of commercial hair has become acute now that the principal sources in the Balkans, Spain, Swe- den and Italy have been cut off by the war The studio barber shops now save the hair they snip off the movie beauties and fashion 1t into boards. Brenda Joyce's golden curls recently wound up as a black beard on the face of a movie pirate working in '"The Black Swan"
 The ''glamor trees" of the movies are located about 45 miles out of Hollywood in the San Fernando Val- ley. They call 1t Sherwood Forest Douglas Fairbanks, ST., dis covered the spot and made Robin Hood" there. Since then Indians have skulketi through 1t, Cossacks ridden all over 1t, movie doughboys fought for 1t and Johnny Weissmlll- Ter swung through the branches The trees bear more carved names and initials than can be found in the forecourt of Grauman's Chin ese.
 Superstitions of the sea are rigidly adhered to when the cinema lads build and launch their sailing ships. A mast is never raised unless a coin is deposited in the "step". A hatch cover is never left upside down. The vessel is always "it" when building and "she" when launched on the picture seas It is always fof- mally christened, though 1t never sails further than across g. movie lot On rollers. The old ship build CTS who build these vessels for the movies refuse to work unless these taboos are observed.
 The movie planes you see taxi-ing down the runWays are never the ones you see in the air now /. {. Due to the war, private flying IS prohibited on the coast. The stu dio lads show the planes hurtllng down the runWayS at some nearby airport. Then they go several hum dred miles inland and show a siIni- lar plane in flight. That saves the expense of an entire company going on location.
 The scragglier the beard the high CT it's price in the movies. The lux u,ient kind, which covers good deal of the chest is worth 50 s.nackers a day to the owner |. A Van Dyke brings only $15 .. The best beard in Hollywood be- longs to a former head waiter, Otto Stoeffel. It measures eleven inches from chin to tip The bearded mummers work mostly in pioneering and Western epics, and their chin whiskers are their greatest asset.
 The machines that chilled the cement which went into the build- ing of Boulder Dam are now putting the freeze on Sonia Henie \. The machines were bought by 20th Gen. luTy~rUA AAOAl hlC E0AA NOAAAkS"AAASo and put to work converting a sound stage into an ice rink for Sonia They've been used on all seven of her pictures, including her cur rent one, "Iceland".
 The millionaires with estates in Pasadena, Montecito and Santa Bar