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• • Tidings from Talkie Town • •
the recent census taking," said Neil Hamilton. "Fortyseven Los Angeles women who slammed the door in their faces are now listed under her name."
'M having a house-warming," Ned Sparks told a friend over the telephone the other day. "Grand," responded the party. at the other end of the wire, "I'll be right over."
"Never mind," said Ned, "the firemen are attending to it." This is one of the few true stories to emanate from Hollywood. Ned's house actually was on fire — defective wiring in the kitchen.
) KO officials summoned Arthur Lake, their youthful star,
into their office. "We want you to play in a picture about a dance hall chap." Then they added, "We'll hire a double for the difficult dance sequences."
Arthur was jolted into silence. But the next day he arrived at the studio with his flivver piled high with silver cups. Young Mr. Lake has won no fewer than forty dancing contests!
No double was employed.
LICE WHITE is paging Diogenes! _ \. Three years ago, the proprietor of a small Turkish batli establishment in Hollywood that Alice patronized in her efforts to keep slim, told her he had invented a reducing device, but that he needed $40 to pay a repair bill on his auto and his expenses to San Francisco, where he hoped to interest a wealthy manufacturer in his project. Alice, believing that every man is entitled to his chance, gave him the $40. At that time, her salary on the screen was $75 a week.
Gary Cooper talks things over with Scotty Allen, famous Alaskan racing driver and well-known dog fancier. His dogs were used in important sequences of The Spoilers, Gary's forthcoming talkie.'
Owen Moore and Mary Nolan wax playful on the Universal lot. They both have leading roles in Outside the Laic, which Tod Browning will direct for Universal.
Recently, Alice's secretary, opening the mail, found a check for the sum, plus interest.
The fellow finally was profiting by his patent.
HEN thirteen year old Jack Neal of Bluefield, W. Va., was arrested in Hollywood on a charge* of being a delinquent, it was none other than his screen idol. Hoot Gibson, who went to his rescue.
Jack ran away from home and hitch-hiked his way across the continent to get a peep at Hoot in person.
Hoot interceded with the authorities, had the boy sent back — via train — to his parents, and wrote the latter a letter pleading that their offspring be not punished. Thereby proving that he is no idle idol.
FOR the first time since their marriage, ten years ago, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., are seen tivo and three times a week in the film colony's supper and dancing clubs.
. Except for premieres, the famous couple have preferred the seclusion of their own mansion to the places patronized by their fellow stars. There, when not entertaining visiting notables, they would enjoy quiet evenings with a fetv intimate friends. Intimate really meaning just that — close friends and members of the Pickford-Fairbanks clan.
And now Hollywood wonders why the change!
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