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Close Ups From The Coast
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THE first shot of another Broadway-r/. -Hollywood battle was fired when Bert Lahr, comedian of the stage version of "Hold Everything," threatened to throw eggs at the Warner Brothers' screen version of the same play.
And he didn't make any secret of the fact that his particular target would be Joe E. Brown, who essays his role on the screen.
Bert says Joe copped his stuff. He further says that one comedian's copping another comedian's "line" is in the same class as "lifting" plots and melodies. He says Joe traveled to New York to see his show and deliberately made use of his personal brand of humor, which includes, " Some fun, some fun, eh, kid ?" and other goof expressions.
Out in Hollywood, Joe says "phooey," or something to that effect, and calls attention to the fact that when a producer buys the rights to a stage play he is privileged to make use of the laugh lines.
This thoroughly reasonable explanation has in no way
Kenneth Alexander
No raging Torrence: in Hollywood yes-men may be common (catch the double meaning*, but chess men are rare, and one of the rarest is that canny Scot, David Torrence (above), who never gives a game away, and has a good time playing in "Raffles"
No, Alice Joyce is not sitting on the disguised radiator (left) because she has been out in th ; cold. She hasn't been there since the talkies came in. She is merely warming up for some bigger and better opportunities
appeased the enraged Mr. Lahr. He's out gunning with eggs!
PAULINE FREDERICK being waved in Jim's Beauty Parlor, while her new husband reads a stage play near-by.
Sally Eilers, delighted, but surprised at being chosen by Ziegfeld as the most beautiful girl in Hollywood.
Bebe Daniels, in brown and white, on the back seat of a gray Rolls-Royce.
Norma Shearer's " The Divorcee" breaking Greta Garbo's "Anna Christie" records at the Criterion Theatre.
Greta Garbo, driving her own car, feeing from a newspaper reporter down Beverly Boulevard.
Lilyan Tashman deciding to go to New York with Eddie Lowe, her husband, two hours before train-time.
Hays office barring four Broadway plays: "It's A Wise Child," "The Last Mile," "Lost Sheep," and "Lily JVhit^r
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