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Hollywood Xewsreel
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H The Universal studio publicity department called a new young contract actor the other day and said: "You're the luckiest man on the lot. We just made a date for you to take a beautiful gal to a preview tomorrow night." "Swell," said the lad, excitedly, "what's the name of the picture?"
E Ber-Mar, the fortune teller at the House of Murphy, recently went to the owner of the place, Bob Murphy, and said he was thinking about going to Reno to work in a night club there. Ber-Mar said to Murphy: "What do you think, do j'ou think I should go?"
"What do I think," yelled Murphy. "You mean what do YOU think. You're the fortune teller."
Ber-Mar thought maybe he'd go and did. Several days later he was back. "Business," he said sheepishly, "was bad."
| Talking about a certain Hollywoodsman, Jimmy Durante said: "I couldn't warm up to that guy if we was cremated together."
| Odd sights: Ann Sothern arriving for work wearing an orange blouse, purple slacks, a chartreuse turban, canvas sneakers and a mink coat.
| Jan Grippo, a Hollywood agent who does card tricks as a hobby, has got himself the mqst envied job in town at the moment. He's teaching Veronica Lake some of his tricks for her role in This Gun for Hire.
"Nice job," I told him, "but I'd hate to concentrate on cards with Veronica around."
"Yes," said Grippo, "sometimes I look at Veronica and forget where I put a card. And then when I remember where it is, I don't know whether it's an ace or the two of clubs."
H Ida Lupino finally gets a crack at comedy in This Changing World, the BritishAmerican charity film. She'll play a cockney girl.
"Quite a relief," says Ida, "after all those neurotic characters I've been playing."
H On location with Valley of the Sun, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Dean Jagger were fishing side by side in a stream. Jagger pulled in one fish after another while Sir Cedric had nary a nibble.
"I guess I just don't have any fish appeal," said Sir Cedric, in exasperation. "I've never been able to catch a fish — not even in those trout club pools where the fish give themselves up."
■ Off The Sound Track: Swell story behind Sidney Miller, who helps Mickey Rooney write those songs and is his offand-on-the-set shadow. Their mothers became friends and the kids became pals, while working in their first picture together 15 years ago.
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