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ON AND OFF THE SET
JOAN CRAWFORD, sitting on the set of "Mannequin," remarked, "I hate this rushing during the football season, trying to crowd six days' work into five and a half on account of the games." "Don't you enjoy the games?" we asked. "I don't go," she answered. "Every one else on the set goes so I don't feel I ought to keep them away when they get so much pleasure out of it — but / should get in those crowds when there are other things I can do! Not me, baby!"
I AST month Marlene Dietrich phoned from abroad for false eyelashes. This month she cabled for some finger nails. As Jack Oakie once remarked anent Bing Crosby, "She's just a robot glamour girl!"
I N an advertisement in a trade paper Frank Capra took occasion to thank Columbia for all they've done for him in the past and all they're doing for him now. At the moment Columbia is suing him for $100,000 for breach of contract.
A THEATER in Hollywood recently revived the successful "Twentieth Century," made four years ago. John Barrymore is starred and Carole Lombard merely featured
below the name of the picture. To-day Carole is starred in "True Confession" and John plays a supporting role. That's Hollywood — and fame.
^PEAKING of "Twentieth Century" brings to mind that after the picture was completed Barrymore was approached by a broadcasting company with an offer to do the play on the air. He was offered $7,500 for the broadcast, the only stipulation being that he get Carole for his lead. He told Carole the broadcast meant a lot to him and, like a good sport, she appeared. Barrymore collected his pay and Carole got — not even a rose.
A LARGE spread in a Los Angeles newspaper tells of Joe Penner's new $100,000 French chateau on Beverly Glen Boulevard. A six-line squib the following day announced an auction of the furnishings at the Ralph Graves estate on the same street. Remember Ralph? He was once a star.
EVEN Stan Laurel is a sensitive soul at heart. When he
began scrapping with his wife he also started fighting
with Oliver Hardy and Hal Roach, his film buddies. He
cut himself off from both, with a legal sweep. But now