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How's this for a figure, magnificently encased in a silver gown? It's the new Ina Claire, minus considerable poundage, as she appears in the leading role in the new Paramount, "The Royal Family." Yes, sir, Mrs. John Gilbert's an ingenue once more !
It so happened that on the day Charlie visited the United Artists studio recently, Fairbanks and Bebe were working in a farce cocktail-drinking scene.
Charlie stepped on the stage and watched. After a while he shook his head.
"The tempo," he said, "is all wrong."
"How?" they asked.
"Watch," said Charlie. Then, without the trick shoes, moustache, cane or hat, Charlie did the scene in pantomimeplaying each part — Fairbanks', Bebe's and even Edward Everett Horton's.
"There," said he, "that's the way it SHOULD be."
"Do it that way," ordered Goulding.
Fairbanks, Bebe and Horton did. And Chaplin directed while Goulding stood by and watched.
A USTIN gag, No. 548,279—
■"■ Disgruntled actor, who failed to get a contract, expresses his opinion of the producer who declined to hire him:
"Say, I just seen ALL of So-and-So's friends riding down Hollywood Boulevard in an Austin, beating bass drums."
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This little mite of Sepia has for his daddy a long, loose-jointed colored boy who could be one of pictures' great comics if he tended to business. It's Stepin Fetchit, Jr., in the arms of his mother. Pappy was on the Coast making a picture at Metro-Goldwyn
THAT Garbo just will have a private life no matter what happens!
The other day she dined in a very high-priced restaurant and, when she discovered she was being stared at, she got up and left her dinner upon the table.
Most of the Hollywood stars cheered her for the gesture and spouted the usual platitudes about their private lives being their own.
They're always doing that, but Ramon Novarro was honest enough to speak the truth. He said:
"As long as I put myself in a public position, I've no kick coming. I get paid for it."
That's more like it.
TT THEN Director Herbert Brenon was released from a W sanitarium where he suffered a nervous breakdown he was given a certificate declaring that he was perfectly well again.
The other day on the set he had an argument with an electrician, during which the juicer said, "Oh, you're crazy."
"Listen," said Brenon, "I've got a paper to prove I'm not — which is more than you have."
'"pHEY'RE saying that old man stork is hovering around little Bessie Love's back door. Bessie says 'taint so, but that's what Norma Shearer said for a long time. You just can't believe these blessed eventers.
OF course, nobody would suspect Paramount's press-agents of such things, BUT . . .
Clara Bow gets columns of publicity about gambling at Calneva, and her next picture turns out to be a gambling story entitled "No Limit."
And Jack Oakie, according to the newspapers across the country, gets into a run-in with Chicago gangsters because he wouldn't contribute to a fund they were getting up and, it is announced that, in revenge, Oakie is put "on the spot" by the gunmen.
And Jack Oakie's next picture, strange to relate, is titled "On the Spot."