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The TALK
Tops as a dancer and comedian on Broadway, Clifton Webb, above, will soon be seen in films. Watch him!
HUGH HERBERT, a mighty fine comedian in any studio, was under contract to Radio at one time and no one there could see him, even as a bit player. He looked like a good prospect to Warner's and they guessed right. Recently Warner's loaned Hugh to a major studio to play the lead in one of the most pretentious musicals that studio has ever attempted. Sure, it was to Radio !
MINSKY'S Music Hall in the heart of Hollywood will have to offer something different from their ace idea "strippers" — to get by. If Minsky's strippers wear any less clothes on the stage than some of the extra gals wear on Hollywood Boulevard and at the beaches they will have to take off plenty.
ALEX KAHLE, German still photographer, and a mighty good one, is about the only cameraman that can induce Will Rogers to stand still while the shutter clicks. Rogers has great faith in Alex, so much so that, on days when he is working at the studio and he just cannot get to the wire office in Beverly Hills to file his little comment, he trusts only Alex to file the copy. Recently Alex was making stills of a group of actors in
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You've heard Dorothy Page, above, on the radio. Now she's in Manhattan Moon with Ricardo Cortez
a picture with a war background. In one group, he thought he recognized a chap and he racked his brain, trying to think where he had seen the man previously. Under the pretense of making the actors appear a bit disheveled, he walked over to this particular chap and asked him to open his shirt and expose his chest — for the picture. The chap, reluctantly, consented. There was a scar, an ugly one. Then Alex remembered him. It was a chap he had bayonetted in a hand to hand conflict at Rheims, during the World War. Alex had always thought the fellow had died. They are the best of friends now.
MARLENE DIETRICH'S next picture will be The Pearl Necklace and Frank Borzage will direct her. A few days ago, Miss Dietrich was called to the studio to make costume tests for the picture. She brought her own technical adviser to the studio with her. The adviser was none other than Josef Von Sternberg, now a director at Columbia. And Joe is an advisor on photography — than whom there is none better.
Merle Oberon, above, (she's making Dark to the sea to indulge in her favorite beach And what poor fish is there, that
JULE BESCOS, brilliant football end at the University of Southern California and last year's captain of the eleven, went through one of the most strenuous of seasons last year without an injury that prevented him from playing in any game including the tough Stanford and Notre Dame games wherein he was roughed plenty, as an end would be. After graduating from college he decided to do a little picture work. His first day on Mutiny