The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-28
- In -
hollywood
- ERsKINE JOHNSON
NEA Stan Correspondent


Cary Grant Is reading the script
Of Scenarist Harry (Here Comes Mr.
Jordan) Segall's latest fantasy,
Angel On My Shoulder" and prob
ably viii play the lead. It's the
story Of gangster who is killed by
the mob as he leaves the gates of
San Quentin prison, goes to hell
and organizes a gang in an at
tempt to break into heaven. Charles
r. Rogers will produce.
Copyright owners of old time
songs are still upping their fees
for screen rights. Daryl Zanuck
wrote checks for $32,500 for per-
mission to use bits from q old
songs in Wilson" Highest was
5000 for use of your Old Gray
Bonnet" which Wilson often
hummed or sang.
Motto on Barbara Stanwyck'S
dressing room mirror. do not
be disturbed at being misunder-
stood; be disturbed at not under
standing"
Deanna Durbin's first picture in
technicolor will be Carolina" a
western epic. Yes, she'll ride a
horse.
Those Christmas pictures of
Mary Anderson hanging up a two
star service flag are on the level.
Her husband is in the Aleutians,
her brother in the South Pacific.
>. Captain Clark Gable probably
will return to the cameras in the
1ilm version of the Air Corps show,
Winged Victory Ever since
her break in odd Acquaintance, I"
Dolores Moran has been praying
for role equally as good. Now
she got it as an angel in THE
Horn Blows at Midnight" She
says: II came in on a wing and
= prayer"
A grandmothers' club in New
York Is planning to picket the film
version of Arsenic and Old Lace.
What will those press agents
dream up next?
TOWN TALK
Judy Garland and her agent, Le-
land Hayward, are feuding and
she'll probably file suit in an at
tempt to break her contract q.
Memo from Cartoon Producer Wal
ter Lantz: wonder how many
people realize that cartoon charac-
tiers have only four fingers. The
reason - because fifth finger gets
in the animator's way" InSti-
tute OF Marital Relations, in a
happy marriage research, says &C.
tors have the sixth best chance
among 300 occupations. If you
are an unskilled laborer, your
chances are the worst. Chemical
) engineers have the best.
Don't know whether it's been
printed. but it's worth repeating
Day the Russians scored their
biggest victory at Stalingrad, Fred
Allen was asked to say a few
words at a Russian War Rally in
New York. Said Fred: IF Adolf
Hitler were a vaudeville actor to-
day, he'd get up and say, You
know, a very funny thing hap
pened to me today on the way to
the Kremlin'."
Add oddities: Paul Henreid Just
received fan letter from a CIR
named Pearl Harbor. She lives ir
the Bronx, N. Y.
There's a sign at Fort Hamilton
reading, Ann Sheridan Pass" Be-
meath it, there's a warning, Dan
ger, Soft Shoulders"
ADD ODDITIES
Now it's diving bell for a div
ing belle. M-G-M is dunking a
technicolor camera for Esther Will
liams' underwater scenes in Mr.
COED"
Gladys Georges definition oil
Hollywood: Where half the people
are waiting to be discovered, ant
the other half are hoping theJ
won't be.
Faces Of Quiz Kids Joel Kup.
perman's radio sponsors are reddel
than a California sunset. Seems
Joel worked out the cube root
OF fantastic figure on black
board for some magazine ads TO,
the sponsor. Upon receiving the
proofs of the ads, which will ap-
pear In February editions and
which were too late to correct
the sponsors discovered to their
horror that Joel had written the
WRONG answer!