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one and I can use one. Will see you in the fall of '39." It was si«ned "Gable." By Gum! The Marches are Right At the preview of "There Goes My Heart," two young ladies were ushered to seats close to Fredric March, the star of the picture, and his wife, Florence Eldridge. "Good heavens, there's Freddy March," one young lady whispered to the other. "Let's get rid of our gum." Sheepishly, they removed their gum and carefully wrapped it in their best hankies. Suddenly, in the midst of a newsreel scene, the girls were startled by a strange crackling scund. Glancing around, they discovered the cause. Mr. and Mrs. March were chewing their gum in rhythm to the marching soldiers on the Jimmy Tells All AND how's the love life these days, Jimmy?" a friend asked Jimmy Stewart. "Oh, swell. Fine. Going along like a house afire. There's only one thing about it, though, that has me worried. My tailor tells me it's either a new tuxedo or no more love life. He claims the old suit won't stand another pressing, so I'll either have to get a new one or give up the girls. "Gee, I wish I could decide." And the wide grin let the friend know he was right back where he started from as far as Jimmy's love-life secrets were concerned. Mother Knows Best I HE Hollywood Theater was jammed with the usual preview crowd. Suddenly, in the midst of a Pete Smith short subject, there came a wild burst of applause from one woman as a small child flashed on the screen for a brief bit. No one seemed to know what the fuss was about except those close to actress Joan Davis. To them it meant that a mother was applauding her very own daughter's first screen appearance. Secrets? llS whispered Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are not seeing quite so much of each other —and not because Clark spends all his vacations duck hunting, either . . . The wives of the merry, mad Ritz Brothers scarcely nod to each other, so the boys have to PHOTOGRAPHS BY HYMAN FINK attend their own previews in separate little groups . . . While tourists gape and hunt and search for Jack Benny at the local lunch spots, the actor sits at the counter of a Beverly Hills health food store and eats a carrot salad almost every noonday . . . June Lang, 'tis said, is so washed up with her persistent suitor, A. C. Blumenthal, there's no hope of a continuation of their romance . . . Despite rumors of quarrels between Conrad Nagel and Joan Fontaine, Nagel still teaches sister Olivia the difficult feat of surfboarding. And right good the two are at it, too . . . Joan Crawford and producer Joe Mankiewicz are the newest and latest twosome to be dining at the night spots. Strictly Hollywood T HE sight of Connie Bennett, walking up the packed and crowded aisles of Grauman's Chinese Theater after the preview of "Hold That Co-ed," with tears streaming over her cheeks, washing away the make-up. "I can't help it," she said to the Don Ameches. "I have laughed till I've cried and don't care how I look. That Joan Davis can reduce me to helpless 'tears of laughter' any day." Livvie's in Love — But with Whom? WHO is the man in Olivia de Havilland's heart? All Hollywood is speculating on this question. The town insists the beauteous Olivia is suffering from a cruel hurt and even little Olivia herself freely speaks of the "empty gestures without sincerity" of Hollywood males. The name George Brent keeps forever pop iSWe*^, ping up in connection with Olivia, but those on the inside say George and Olivia are only true friends. Her heart lies elsewhere. But where? That's the question Hollywood would like to have answered for them, not just from curiosity but because the town really loves Olivia. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? RALPH BELLAMY'S friends are gathering around in comforting groups. Just when Ralph finally got going in "A's," his happiness was dimmed by the loss of his home in the Hollywood floods of last winter. But Ralph set his teeth and started over again. A good part in "Trade Winds" helped to revive his lagging spirits until word came that his Eastern home had been totally swept away by last fall's hurricane. (Continued on page 67) ^ iTf Another film elopement — Genevieve Tobin and Director William Keighley (top). When you've read all of Cal York's gossip this month, you'll know the test Charlie Chaplin (center) was put to the night he dined with Paulette Goddard; and what Lana Turner (left) did before she went night-clubbing with George Raft, Dorothy Lamourand Dotty's husband, Herbie Kay