Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

Hollywood Footnotes {Continued from page 71} statement . . . Zelma O'Neil is a knit girl. Don't get us wrong, Oscar. Sweater-making IS her passion . . . Hollywood's three best rackets today are voice culture, foreign language teaching and massage reducing. Adolfo de la Huerta, former president of Mexico, IS teaching do-re-mi's, and Nance O'Neil, famous actress, is breaking down Middle West nasal tones. Dr. P. Marafioti, Italian, I nee with Metropolitan Opera as throat specialist, says one young actress has the voice of a mosquito. M-G-M hauled him West to correct like buzzings in their Thespians . . . Arthur Rankin, just divorced from Wife Ruth, has opened a shop on Boulevard Sunset and is selling wild strawberry jam and objects d'art. Sniff that off . . . Mary Brian, so they murmur, is related to Geore Washington. Wouldn't that stamp her? . . . Frank Fay and boss, Darryl Francis Zanuck, are going in for star sapphire rings set in platinum with moon-shaped diamonds . . . Don't give Mary Nolan a nightgown. She doesn't wear one . . . Lucien Littlefield, Chaney's characterization rival, has .1 baseball nine that calls itself the Littlehelders. Dont' tell Connie Mack . . . The population of the Bronx in 1790 was 1,761, but what has that to do with the price of broccoli-' ... A producer once said thumbsdown on the name Greta. That was before Garbo, and Mrs. Alan Hale, then Germanica Hartman and in pictures, wanted to change her handle. He's still wringing his hands •igonismgly . . . Clara Bow, says Secretary Daisy De 'Voe (poetry), takes three baths a day. Nice, clean girl . . . Comment on recent film joining; "It was a swell wedding and the best week-end I ever spent" . . . Estelle Taylor tells of the actress who made a vocal test singing The Star Spangled Banner. All the pioducers had to stand up when they heard it . . . Al Cohn's license plate reads "■-ll. He doesn't have to be a scenario editor to know it's a natural . . . F.ddi( Lowe has one hundred fifty ties and seventy two shirts. Put them end to end and imagine the cleaning bill . . . That slim golden bracelet Maureen O'Sullivan wears doesn't spell hot romance. Uh uh. "Daddy gave it K) me," murmured Miss Maureen modestly . . . Lew Brown of DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, melody-makers, dubbed Dave Butler's new Malibu beach house 'The Butler's Pantry." Buddy DeSylva's he called "De Sylva Lining. " Still allowed to live, he gave Allan Dwans place the name of "Dwan Away." His own palatial shack, flanked by taller beach dwellings, he called "Hemmed Inn." It is said he will recover . . . Victor McLaglen's idea of a swell vacation would be a trip to Tahiti. He's been reading those travel books again . . . Claude Allister, comedian, is also a conjurer. Laugh that away . . . For the first time since he has been an independent producer, Douglas Fairbanks will be without a production staff. He's making Reaching for the Moon for Feature Productions and Joe Schenck will have all the worries . . . Ben (Jazz Maestro) Bernie's Lincoln crashed into Jeanette MacDonald's Ford. The former insisted he was not trying to strike up an acquaintance . . . The Gentleman from Verona who is panicking Hollywood's jemmes is none other than Nino Martino, golden-voiced, brunette and young . . . The egoist's theme song, according to Phillips Holmes, is "Mimi-mi," the third tone of the diatonic scale . . . Paulette Duval, black-haired, svelte, French, of The Dressmaker from Paris, now has her own modiste shop in that city. No. 140 Boulevard Hausmann is the address. Drop in and say alio . . . M-G-M's commissary offers "creamed chicken and creamed chipped beef Novarro on toast." We expect "John Gilbert in aspic" any day . . . Sign on furrier's shop fringing Fox studio — "Clearance of Foxes." News gets around. 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