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TOPICS FOR GOSSIPS
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"Broadway Serenade" is in the bag. Frank Morgan, Rita Johnson, Lew Ayres, Jeanette MacDonald, Ian Hunter, Virginia Gray, Franklin Pangborn and William Gargan walk away with the honors — high ones, too!
automobiles. Stylus in hand, Eddie pondered a moment as he gazed at the wet concrete. Then he wrote — "Children should be seen and not hurt. Eddie Cantor." _„<§>« — ,
PARTIAL to black and white, Hedy Lamarr wears the smartest of spring dinner dresses with crisp white blouse fashioned entirely of lace insertion topping a long black skirt of unpressed pleats. The gown features Hedy's favorite silhouette, the loose angel-type sleeves. ._„<§>._.
J^OW that Bob Taylor and Nelson Eddy
ALTHOUGH known as the Perfect Wife of the Screen, Myrna Loy still must learn how to press her husband's pants. Her first attempt has proven disastrous to Robert Taylor's personal wardrobe. In the role of Bob's bride in "Lucky Night," one of Myrna's duties is to press his trousers. During a long piece of dialogue, Myrna ceased her pressing, but let the iron remain on the trousers.
NO SERIOUS snooping can possibly occur in any mystery film whose title character is the amiable nitwit, Grade Allen. Let her remarks on being introduced to Warren William, the Philo Vance of her new "Grade Allen Murder Case," attest to this.
"So you're Fido Vance," she observed, surveying the suave Mr. William's tall frame. "Mm-m-m!"
"Not 'Fido,' " someone intruded. " 'Fido's' a dog's name." "Well," she giggled, "he's a bloodhound, isn't he?"
TT TOOK big-hearted little Eddie Cantor to make a safety ^ slogan out of the old adage that "children should be seen and not heard." But he did it recently when asked to inscribe a tablet erected by Santa Monica Boy Scouts at a dangerous intersection where several of their members were injured by
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have been given a "he-man" build-up the next in line for the virile treatment seems to be Bobby Breen. He's had his hair cut and now his studio wishes him called Bob Breen.
FROM a recent "Variety" we snitched: The Civil War took four long years Of marching feet and strife and fame, And from the tidings it appears "Gone With the Wind" will do the same.
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IS MARIE WILSON kidding the fashion dictators? Or isn't she? She appeared at a preview the other night in baby blue satin with quilted waist, set off by quilted gloves of the same material. It was quite startling.
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ONE of the most ardent Shirley Temple fans, it seems, is none other but sophisticated de luxe Noel Coward. On his recent three day stop-over in Hollywood one of the first things Noel insisted upon doing was visiting Miss Shirley on the set of "Susannah of the Mounties."
He signed her autograph book and she signed his, and then Noel, making conversation, politely asked, "What are you studying in school now?" "Fractions," said Shirley, "and they're awfully hard." "I never could do fractions," Mr. Coward said sadly. "Very, hard, fractions."
After the famous playwright had left Shirley turned to her teacher and said, "Mr. Coward must be over thirty and he doesn't know fractions. How can you expect me to learn them in a few weeks?"
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