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Snapshots of screen stars in the gay Coronation whirl
ondon
By
Hettie Crimstead
Glenda Farrell and Clive Brook, left and right above, are seen where celebrities gather in London. Left, reading down: Tullio Carminati and Lilli Palmer in a new film; Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria; Brian Aherne, whose attentions to Merle Oberon are so faithful. Right, James Pirrie and Anna Lee, new screen team.
WHEN the golden Coronation banners gleam against the night sky and the crowds press round Buckingham Palace to see King George and Queen Elizabeth leaving for the Opera, that's the time the stars begin to twinkle at the London Casino. .
Here in our smartest restaurant you can sit in a rose brocade armchair and watch all the famous and glamorous folk of Europe's Hollywood as they dine and dance and applaud the very daring floor-show. There's the debonair Tullio Carminati entertaining pretty little Lilli Palmer who plays with him m the New Herbert Wilcox film, "Sunset in Vienna." She wears filmy black net to enhance her delicate blondeness and one of the latest white china butterflies is poised on the top of her piled-up curls.
Ruth Chatterton has chosen a black gown too but set off by a soldier-style jacket of scarlet brocade— everything military is naturally highly fashionable this gay Royal season of ours ! Irving Asher is escorting his wife Laura la Plante who's fast becoming London's snooker champion and regularly beats people who've been playing billiards for years though she only took up the game a few weeks ago. Now she pauses to exchange greetings with a gay party that includes Nils Asther and Frank Lawton and Evelyn Laye, m a white dress patriotically tied with a red, white and blue chiffon sash.
Otto Kruger was here last week and he'll be appearing again very soon, tor Otto is a steady Atlantic commuter these days, one film m Hollywood and the next in London and then back to California for a spell before visiting us yet again His British production this summer is based on one of Jack London s stories and— hold your breath, please !— Otto actually gets the girl m the final
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Sitting near the stage you'll observe Chve Brook, recovered from his illness at Ion? list and now back at the studios again. He is making a modern society drama at Denham called "Action for Slander," with beautiful Margaretta Scott whom you'll remember as the passionate siren m "Things to Come. With' his wife and two children, Clive has just moved into a lovely old Queen Anne house in North London, with a white-panelled drawing-room and a green and gold dining-room and a tennis-court on which Chve plays betore breakfast every fine morning. He goes in for the popular ping-pong too and has many fierce duels across the table with his great iriend John Loder.
That slim blue-eyed young man ordering his dinner so epicureanly is Director Kurt Bernhardt, descendant of the great Madame {Please turn to page t>6)
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