Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

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Conversations, loud enough to be heard, go like this: "Hello, Lindbergh, ole boy, nice of you to ring. Sorry I won't be back in time to accept that invitation. Give my love to Ann." Or, "Well, that's nice of President Hoover to have you call. It was just an oversight on my part that I didn't answer his wire," etc., etc. BILL HAINES is superstitious about starting pictures on unlucky days. The other day, he was told that the starting date of his next picture would be on Friday. Bill protested. Bill argued. Bill pleaded. "Any day," he proposed, "but Friday." They finally capitulated. They agreed to start on Monday. Bill was overjoyed — until Monday, when he looked at the calendar. It was the 13th. HPHERE are only two pawn shops in Holly■*• wood. . . . Evalyn Knapp has recovered from her recent almost fatal fall. . . . Clark Gable has a new and very swanky dressing room. . . . Phil Holmes is growing a moustache. . . . And you'll have to get used to James "Bad Girl" Dunn co-starring with Janet Gaynor instead of Charlie Farrell. . . . In Paris Connie Bennett went on a clothesbuying orgy. . . . Sure, the Marquis was with her when she shopped. . . . Richard Barthelmess sued his stock brokers for $72,225. . . . And Merna Kennedy has gone into bankruptcy. A L JOLSON and Eddie Cantor were describ■*Ving the merits of "Street Scene" following the preview. "I will bet anything that it is the biggest box-office hit ever," said Cantor. "And I never gamble." "Oh yeah?" Jolson interrupted. "You know I don't gamble. Oh, the stock market ? "That? It was no gamble. It was a sure thing. A sure loss from the beginning." HTHE story of how Kathryn Crawford won *■ the leading role in the production which M-G-M is making of "Flying High" is another of those examples of the actually-dangerous lengths to which ambitious girls go, in Hollywood. Innumerable film girls were being tested for the lead role in the musical, which is to be one of M-G-M's biggest pictures of the year. Naturally, rivalry was keen. When Kathryn took her screen test, all went well. They were enthusiastic about her but she was«too — well — plump. "If it weren't for that, you'd be a cinch for the role," they told her. TT'ATHRYN got busy at once. "Don't -^decide for a week," she said. She went to one of Los Angeles' best hospitals and underwent the most rigorous course of reduction that could be devised. At the end of a week, she reported back to M-G-M, eleven pounds lighter! It made the necessary difference. Within two days, it was announced that she could have the part. But Kathryn Crawford, before beginning work, had to return to the hospital for several days more, to prevent her collapsing from the effects of the strenuous weight-losing — and also, of course, to prevent her regaining the lost poundage. IT'S amazing, the lengths to which bad taste can go! For instance, huge 24-sheet billboards throughout Hollywood proclaimed to the world that "26 MEN DIED to open the HUGHES-FRANKLIN STUDIO THEATER!" It was a hideous attempt to cash in on the fact that twenty-six men were killed in an explosion aboard the boat on which Varick Frissell and his crew were making scenes for "The Viking," the Arctic epic with which the new theater was opened. To call it bad taste is being mild. The "Hughes" of the Hughes-Franklin chain of theaters is Howard Hughes of "Hell's Angels" fame. Three men were killed during the making of "Hell's Angels." Hollywood will start calling him "Killer" Hughes if he permits such publicity to keep up.