Evening star., 1943-02-16
Betty Is Blunt
In Her Account
OF Loves End
Miss Hutton Bored.
And That Has That;
SelSmck Profits
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOI

k1oLb4 Woob.
HE bored me-" explains Betty
Hutton to this reporter in reference
to her broken engagement with
Perc Westmore. And that seems to
be a good reason. Il wanted to
have more fun, and see more men,"
states Betty. Which is not such
good reasoning, because you cN
usually have a gayer time with one
man than with a crowd. David
Selznick received close to $4,000 900
from goth Century Fox for the pack
age deal in which he gave the un-
finished script of Jane Eyre" Star
Joan Fontaine, Director Robert
Stevenson, Photographer George
Barnes and Art Director w. B.
linen to that studio. And that's a
pretty fancy package, if you ask me.
And a fine deal-for Selznick, who
pays his people probably 100000
from the $4,000, 900. Star Joan
Fontaine receives about $1,250 week
ly, which is not much for star OF
her caliber. But the new salary
ceiling makes it all the same, any
way.
Gary Cooper's father, Judge Frank
Cooper, who is also his manager,
has finally broken down to the ex-
tent of saying, Gary has become
a good actor!" Pancho, head
waiter at Romanoff's, has small
role with Ginger Rogers in Lady
in the Dark" Jean Arthurs
contract for Free for ALP prohibits
her working at the studio later
than pm. 1t was getting near
that time when the still cameraman
asked her to pose for some photo
graphs on the set. f.. BY the time
he was ready it was o'clock. will
these pictures do you any good?"
Jean asked him. He said they
would. "Okay," said Jean, and she
set her watch back 10 minutes.
Something seems to have happened
to Miss Arthur. She is positively
frolicsome on the set. But she still
runs away from reporters.
1t was Sam Wood who insisted on
having a European girl for the FEM
mime lead in For Whom the Bell
Tolls His reason was that Amer
lean girls did not know how to be
doormats for the men they love! So
that is why, Zorina first, then In
grid Bergman, got the role =. .
There are so corpulent sweater girls
working with Bob Hope in Lets
Face It" who can never come to
the screen in the sweaters they have
to wear :. Sonny Tufts got his
current job at Paramount after
doing Charles Boyer love scene
from Love Affair" The test was
so bad that they thought the boy
had been kidding! Sonny, by the
way, was bones" man at Yale,
and visited Egypt and the Balkans
as a cruise member of the Yale Or
chestra Mrs. Tyrone Power
is showing pictures of her Marine
husband washing his underwear in
camp Don Ameche was on
the way out at Goth Century Fox,
but the tremendous shortage of
males at this studio resulted in a
hurried picking up of his option,
and he is now starring for Ernst
Lubitsch in Heaven Can Wait"
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Fred Astaire' was just bit dancer
in For Goodness Sake" when Mar
jorie Gateson was the star of the
stage piece. Now Marjorie is play
ing a bit in Fred's newest film,
The Sky's the Limit" But that's
life, and the movies. Remember
the villain who married Ginger
Rogers in "Once Upon a Honey
noon? His name is Walter Slezak
and he is now being just as mean
to John Garfield and Maureen
O'Hara in The Fallen Sparrow"
To make him look worse he wears
rubber pads under his eyes and
false mustache. meet him on the
RKO lot, pulling of the accessories
and muttering, 1T took me so years
to grow natural pads under my eyes
and now have to hide them!"
Erich Won Stroheim tells me, I'm
no longer interested in art for arts
sake. When was last in pictures I
used to work 80 hours with a ham
sandwich to keep me going. Now
I'm just ham. I've lost my ambi-
ton, prefer to sleep" Whatever
it is, Erich is much pleasanter to
work with these days. He is now
playing Marshal Rommel in give
Graves to Cairo"
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) ..