Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

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New York City Send Trial Package, Glover's Mange Medicine and GLO-VER SHAMPOO, in hermetically-sealed bottles,and informative booklet. I enclose 25c. NAME ADDRESS B A Hollywood bootblack stand, near Republic studio, bears this draft-inspired sign: "Shines— By Appointment Only." ■ Overheard by Gracie Allen at the Brown Derby: "His life hasn't changed very much. He's simply exchanged a mother-in-law for a sergeant." ■ Elliott Paul left Hollywood the other day after completing the screen play for The Last Time I Saw Paris. Commented Paul as he climbed aboard a train for Chicago, "I hope that's the last time I see Hollywood." ■ It happened on the set of a new Paramount picture, China. Producer Richard Blumenthal was visiting the set and noticed a venerable Chinese actor intently studying a newspaper between scenes. Curious, Blumenthal leaned over to see what it was. The aged Chinese was studying a racing form. | It happened at the Hollywood Red Cross bank. Cesar Romero had just donated a pint of blood, when the attendant, a pretty young nurse, hesitated a moment and then stammered: "Could you give me just one more drop for my autograph book?" Cesar obliged. | Sensing the public's demand for spiritual armament in war, Hollywood is planning an ambitious program of religious pictures. Among them are Franz Werfel's The Song of Bernadette, and A. J. Cronin's Keys of the Kingdom. The big plum, however, is Producer Frank Ross' purchase of Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe, which in less than two weeks exhausted its record first edition of 60,000 copies. Ross, husband of Jean Arthur, bought the novel for $100,000. It is the story of the regeneration of a young Roman soldier during the time of Christ, and carries a timely message. | Overheard at the Hollywood Canteen: Eddie Cantor: "Bring in some more sandwiches for the boys." Hattie McDaniel: "No more left." Cantor: "Then see what's left in the icebox." Hattie: "There's nothing in the icebox but a marine and two soldiers." Cantor: "A marine and two soldiers! What are they doing there?" Hattie: "They just got through dancing with Betty Grable." B Betty Grable, who has been trying to convince her studio bosses that she should play a serious role for a change, thinks maybe her current picture, Coney Island, is a good beginning. She wears some very fetching tights. "Hamlet also wore tights, you know," says Betty. "If I play him first, maybe the change won't be too sudden for the audiences." I Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck, between scenes of Flesh and Fantasy, were discussing what they mutually consider the foolhardiness of trying to be deceptive about one's age. "I'm over 40 and I can see no reason for attempting to conceal it," said Boyer. "And I have a definite theory on the subject of women's ages," said Miss Stanwyck. "I make no effort to minimize my mid-thirties. It's my conviction that if you're 35 and you intimate that you're 30, no one will believe you. But if you're 35 and insist on it, you're sure to draw a sincere compliment for honesty and frankness. This, to me, is a real conquest." ■ Back in the days when few Germans took Adolf Hitler seriously, an actor named Kurt Katch frequently insulted the paperhanger on the German stage. His best act was a ribald caricature of the Nazi salute. Then Hitler rose to power and Katch fled to America. Recently the actor was cast in a new Warner picture, Background to Danger. He plays, ironically, a brutal Nazi officer. ■ Ida Lupino, an amateur songwriter, has turned out a romantic ballad dedicated to husband Louis -Hayward, who's in the Marines. Title — "My Heart's in Blue." | Overheard by Shirley Deane in a Hollywood late spot: First hat check girl: "Gee, I feel so sorry for those boys in uniform that I can't even accept a tip." Second hat check girl: "Yeah, I'll be so darned glad when this war is over and we can start clipping them all alike." i | Film writers love to poke fun at Hollywood. In a new Columbia picture, Something To Shout About, Don Ameche enters a small country store and asks for a telephone. The storekeeper points to an old-fashioned wall set and asks, "Do you know how to use it?" "Know how to use it!" yells Ameche. "I invented it!" Another example: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are tramping over the desert in Road to Morocco. Says Bob to Bing, "You know — I bet we meet Dorothy Lamour. We always do." No Hallowe'en party is complete without an apple ducking, so Aviation Cadet Carl Zeiss obliges by coming up with a winner while Claudette Colbert looks on 14