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Joan Crawford and her almost inseparable companion and leading escort,
Franchot Tone, were table companions with Helen Hayes at the Screen
Actors' Guild ball. It's a safe guess Joan is telling about further plans for
her pride and joy, her little theater
'""PHEY were making a scene in
"Mississippi" where W. C. Fields
enters, takes a drink from a mint
julep glass and does a bit of dialogue.
After several false starts, what seemed^to be a perfect scene was run off. However, Director Eddie Sutherland waved his hand in negation. "No good," he proclaimed, "Bill, you forgot to take a drink."
Fields recoiled as if indicted with a horrible crime. "Impossible!" he exclaimed.
"Yes you did — " said the director.
"Well," said Bill in a dazed, weak voice, "it's the first time I ever forgot to do that."
Y\ TELL, you will have to admit that little *^ Shirley Temple is doing all right when sh< rates Lionel Barrymore as her co-star. The picture is "The Little Colonel," which you adored when you were ten, and Shirley makes her first appearance in pantalettes. Bill Robinson, who must have invented tap-dancing (he taught all the famous dancers their routines), will appear in the picture.
f^RACE FORD, pretty dancing teacher. ^Jtook two of her child pupils to the Warner casting director. Max Arno. He looked them over and announced, " I can't use the children — but how would you like a contract?"
Grace is playing her first part in "Midsummer Night's Dream." But here is tin part of it that no one except a certain passer by knows. In sheer exhuberance, Grade wanted to dance for joy. The only place sh< could find which was not public, was a table top in the prop department, where she executed a Spanish fandango' (Ah. ah. Gracie! You're in pictures and nothing is secret now!
TD ICHARD DIX turned down -^-forty-six thousand dollars offered him to appear in a shirt advertisement, so you can imagine the consternation when his picture and endorsement appeared in the publicity of a new tea.
His manager, suspicious, asked him,"Didyou really endorse this tea?"
"Endorse it?" shouted Richard. "I own it!"
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Could two girls show greater admiration of husband or boy friend? Petite Alice White smiles up at husband Cy Bartlett (left) and Isabel Jewell puts that certain something into her smile for Lee Tracy. They made up one of the jolliest Guild parties
PVELYN LAYE worked until seven A. M. when "The Night Is Young" was finished. She stayed awake just long enough to get to Santa Barbara where she slept for two days without a quiver.
"DERT WHEELER gave his little girl a dime for charity, but she invested it in a soda instead. When papa questioned the investment, the young lady informed him, "It goes twice as far this way — I give it to the soda-jerker, and he can give it to charity!"
Dick Powell was just about tops as squire at the Screen Actors' Guild ball
in that he escorted not one but two charming ladies. On his sturdy right
arm was Mary Brian, as was to be expected, while on his left was Mrs. Joe
E. Brown. Joe E. was home with laryngitis
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