Evening star., 1943-12-26
Bv R0salind Shafer.

business. WnaC 90 Cney tnlnK, now
do they feel about it all?
Anonymity Their Shield.
For the most part they are philo-
sophical, grateful to get work in the
old familiar surroundings.
They prefer anonymity to being
pointed out as onetime celebrities
They welcome real interest, chiefly
from the young stars, but resent
casual curiosity.
Every studio and all long standing
directors have preferred list of old
timers for bits or extra work. Some
studios maintain groups under con-
tract, at small salaries. Preston
Sturges, directing Hail the Con-
quering Hero" used William Dem
Arrest, Victor Potel, Frank Moran,
Robert Warwick and Chester Conk-
lin. c. B. De Mile uses Mildred
Harris. Julia Faye. Ethel Clayton
and Gloria Williams. Victor Var
conf, on Paramount's preferred list,
gets good role as Rudolph Hess
in THE Hitler Gang" Franklin
Farnum and Jack Perrin are regu-
lars at the same studio.
Some Are Preferred.
Creighton Hale, Chester Conklin
Hobart Bosworth, William Desmond
Frank Mayo, Jack Mulhall. Grace
Cunard, Minta Durfee, Gertrude
Astor, Snub Pollard, Mary Mac
laren, Elmo Lincoln and Eddie Polo
worked in recent films at Warner
Bros, where they are on the
preferred list. Many of these play
ers work elsewhere as we'll when
the going is good The Universal list
includes many oldtime Western and
serial stars, like King Baggot, Helen
Holmes. Herbert Rawlinson. Hobart
Henry. William Farnum and Pat
|OMalley
Also at Universal, but not before
the cameras, are three of the orig
inal Sennett Keystone kops; Eddie
Kline is director. Erie Kenton is
producer. and Hank Mann is a
makeup head. Edgar Kennedy, also
a Keystone kop, continues as a
character actor. Leo White and
Charles Lederer work under Hank
Mann in the makeup department.
Marie Osborne and Peggy Mont
gomery, child stars of years ago,
work regularly as standins at Uni
versal. Baby Marie formerly was
standin for Ginger Rogers, who, as
a child, had watched the then child
star enviously.
Talmadge Stunts Again.
Dick Talmadge works as a stunt
man, the thing that first won him
his oldtime stardom. He recently
was assistant director on "Ali Baba
and the Forty Thieves" in which
Reed Howes made bid for a come
back in the role of Mongol swords
man
The Leon Enrol comedies at RKO
are vehicles for many an old time
star. A recent one used Jack Null
hall, Pat OMalley. Eddie Borden
and ]. Farrell Macdonald in small
roles. Borden has a bit in Eddie
Cantor's Show Business" as does
Stuart Holmes. at the same studio.
Twentieth Century Fox has a
roster Of old-time stars on the stock
players contract list: Pauline Garon,
Clara Horton, Ruth Clifford, Mae
Marsh, George O'Hara, Marcoretta
Hellman and Edith Haller. Mae
Marsh, mother of two grown daugh-
ters. is surrounded by the studios
starlets when she enters the COM
missary. CASTOR Glass, many years
in makeup at this studio, has re-
Gently been promoted to an assistant
dictatorship
May MacAvoy, King Baggot, Bar
bara Bedford, Naomi Childers, NAH
lin Hamilton, Lillian Rich, Florence
Turner have stock contracts at
MGM. Buster Keaton is script
writer and comedy constructionist
at the same studio, where he was a
star for many years. Ramon Novar-
70 and Dolores Del Rio are active In
Mexican-made films.
Crane Wilbur, Raymond Griffith
and Douglas MacLean are writer
producers. Wallace Macdonald is
a story editor. Seena Owen is a
scenarist. Helen Ferguson conducts
a publicity Office of her own. Vir-
ginia Valli, retired, is Mrs. Charles
Farrell, now 1t. Farrell, U. S. N.
Jackie Coogan is an A. A. F..
glider pilot. Viola Dana is the wife
of Jimmy Thompson, golf profess
sional. Priscilla Dean is married
to Cleveland industrialist. Mary
Miles Minter runs an interior deco
rating shop in Beverly Hills. Bill
Haines ran a most successful one.
too, until he went into the Army.
Roy Darcy is assistant manager
and publicity director at the Los
Angeles Ambassador Hotel. Louise
Fazenda Is retired, the wife of Hal
Wallis, a producer. Sue Carol, now
an actors agent, is the wife of Alan
Ladd. Helen Holmes and Betty
Compson do character work,
Aileen Pringle plays a small role in