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Dashing through the metropolis has been the most popular sport for any number of players this month. Here is some lively chatter about them.
By Karen Hollis
The Record Smasher. — You never can tell how these 1 ersonal-appearance tours will turn out, but Robert .Montgomery proved one thing recently : be could travel from coast to coast on such a tour and then retire with a fortune, if the rest of the country liked him as well as Xew York.
He appeared for a week at the Capitol Theater, and people stood in line for blocks — and for hours — waiting to see him. It would have taken a strong-arm squad to get an interviewer past the mobs.
He'd been offered $3,500 a week and fifty per cent of the receipts over $50,000. At the end of the week he got $1 0,500 — for appearing on the stage twenty-eight
Sometime
during the
month
Janet
Gaynor
stole into
New York,
her mind
set against
letting
anybody
know about
it, not
even Fox.
Dorothy Lee
chirped her way into town for
"Take a Chance."
times ! He was turned it down, around town.
offered $6,500 for another week, but Wanted to spend the time playing
Wanderlust. — Colleen Moore is drifting up and down the Atlantic Coast in a yacht. Eleanor Boardman is vacationing in Paris, but says don't believe any of those rumors that she has left the screen. She is coming back soon to go to work. Pola Negri is making a picture in Paris, and once again she is rumored for a Broadway play. Then she's going back to Hollywood — the report persists. Her last foray into pictures was no more satisfactory to her than it was to the audiences, and the fighting Pola does not intend to stop with defeat. Sally Eilers lias fiown to Hollywood fifteen pounds heavier for her European jaunt. Al Jolson has come back to New York after punching Walter WincheH's picture. "Broadway Through a Keyhole," into international prominence via the front pages. Ian Keith has gone to Hollywood to play in Garbo's "Queen Christina."
When picture people do arrive in New York these days, they hurry away. Constance Cummings did it — came home with her new playwright husband, Benn Levy, lunched and dined in some of our smartest places, looking very lovely, and then hurried back to the studios.
Helen Hayes arrived with her little girl, and was beContinucd on page 67
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