Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

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*p My Pet Superstition Are the stars superstitions? These four Hollywood personaliites frankly admit they are— about certain things. This is the third in the new HOLLYWOOD series of sidelights on the stars Paulette Goddard Appearing in The Crysfal Ball | I've been superstitious ever since I got out of my crib, and I couldn't begin to list the various ways I annoy my friends with my little idiosyncrasies. I've lost many a beau by refusing to drive through a tunnel, or insisting on making a U-turn and driving right back through if the damage were already done. I'd rather burn my house down than open an umbrella in it. And I'm the fastest salt-tosser, knocker-on-wood and avoider-of-ladders in the Western Hemisphere. I've got all the tried and true superstitions. I seem to take a harpielike interest in discovering them, and then I shudderingly carry them with me the rest of my life. I even have a few superstitions all my own, patented "Goddard." I suppose everyone has. Mine are all silly, and all based on a quick hunch. I suddenly feel I have to touch every lamp in a room I'm walking through, for instance; or every third bush when I'm out on a stroll. Or I just know that if I don't wear a certain pair of shoes to a certain party, something awful will happen. Or I'll turn back after buying one newspaper from a newsboy, and buy ten more papers. Added to all the old-fashioned superstitions, they probably make me eligible for the title, "The Most Superstitious Girl West of the Rockies!" Fred MacMurray Appearing in Flight for freedom ■ I don't bother about walking under ladders, and a black cat is just a black cat to me, but when it comes to my saxo Conrad Veidt Appearing in Casablanca B I have a pet superstition — the number 17. Seventeen has cropped up uncannily throughout my life, sometimes in vital ways, sometimes in trifling ones. But it has always been there, until I feel that it must be there to preserve my peace of mind — -and my luck. On my first visit to America, for instance, my house number in Beverly Hills was 817. Seventeen years later I settled in another house in Beverly Hills whose number was 617. On my first trip to this country I had Cabin 17, and 17 was on my ticket. I was 17 years old when I acted for the first time and made up my mind to make acting my career. My first stage success, Sea Battle, was in 1917. These are only a few examples of the way 17 has appeared throughout my career. But they're enough to show why, odd as it may seem, the number 17 has become very precious to me. ■ My pet superstition is the ring I always wear. If I found myself without it, I'd lie right down under a truck and ask it to run over me! I know why the ring is so important to me, too. Just once I took it off, and I almost never had the chance to put it (or anything else) on again. I was at Lake Michigan one summer many years ago, with another girl. When Ann Sothern Appearing in Three Hearts for Julia we decided to go in swimming, I put on my cap as usual and started to dash into the water. But my friend shrieked at me, 32