Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)

HOT OFF THE WIRES THE LATEST NEWS AND VIEWS FLASHED FROM THE FILM CENTER -UESS where Hedy Lamar r buys her J lipstick? At the five an' ten ! Hedy likes lie shades they sell there and she says it Itays on better, too. Personal note to La .amarr: The Westmores are going to get ■ ou if you don't watch out. DUR favorite story of the month concerns Errol Flynn's Rhodesian lion logs. Born in this country, these lion-atjacking pets have never actually come ace to face with the king of beasts. So ^rrol decided to take them out to the lion arm to get their reaction. When they . alked up to the cages, the dogs took one i!pok at Numa and went shrieking off in r [he opposite direction. It's all Errol's fault ecause he loves his pets so much, he's ever even given them an unkind word, .lavbe Errol should start making faces! I "HIS isn't exactly a beauty tip. But Garbo :i finds it comes in handy. Recently she | nought a dress from Irene at Bullocks Allshire. Just before her fitting, Garbo ■ sked for a plain rubber band. She wrapped t around her hair, making a topknot on •tier head. Definitely not photogenic — but fomf ortable. MONKEY BUSINESS" can be very expensive. The "Tarzan" company vas shooting close to an old 1890 drugtore set, left over from "Honky_ Tonk." ■ Tarzan' s chimpanzees wandered into the irugstore. Attracted to bottles of bright '•olored liquid, they proceeded to sample he contents. Thirty minutes later they vere rushed to the studio hospital, sufferng from dye poisoning. They were put right in the very beds where actors are idministered first aid. No Garbo or Gable fever received finer care. The company (waited for days before the chimps were pronounced out of danger. 1 F there's a "Visitors . Welcome" sign | posted outside an M-G-M sound stage, you can bet that Red Skelton is working inside. Directors have learned that Red is a hundred percent funnier when playing to an audience. It's a hangover from those early days of struggle, when Red used to knock himself out trying to please the paying customers. HOBERT STACK'S a very nice kid. K That's why -Hollywood thinks it's too bad that he seems to be working so hard at dating the eligible bachelor girls. They say Olivia de Havilland really looked forward to a date with Bob. Then he took her to a party at the Cocoanut Grove that turned out to be one of those obvious publicity and cameraman affairs. Olivia hasn't been out with him since. Here's hoping his new friendship with Lana Turner won't be spoiled. IT'S a standing gag with Jean Parker. I Every time she meets anyone in a cowboy costume, she kiddingly calls him Gene Autrey. She even pulled it on Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter, both cowboys in their own right. Jean actually has never seen Autrey, on or off the screen. Then she went to a Hollywood party. Everyone was there from Baby Sandy to Muzzie May Robson. Jean was sitting on a diving board when a cowboy came along. "I'll bet you're Gene Autrey," Parker kidded. "Why, yes, mam, I am," came the unexpected answer. Parker went headlong into the pool ! IN "The Maltese Falcon" Humphrey BoI gart wears his first hair piece since he took to beating babies and shooting helpless widows. On the screen of course. The studio likes it so much, they've decided to keep the "topper" on Bogart for future characterizations. Bogey says he feels like he's back again, playing juveniles! Left, Tyrone Power males love to Virginia Gilmore in this scene from "Son of Fury," the film based on Edison Marshall's best-selling novel, ''Benjamin Blake," in which Tyrone plays the role of the young Englishman, Blake. Remember how handsome Ty looked in those short breeches and silk stockings he wore in "Lloyds of London"? Well, he wears them again in this picture. GET ready to hear those separation rumors about the Robert Taylors again. The owner of their present house has sold it out from under them. Alterations on their new home still haven't been completed. So Barbara and Bob are forced to move into a hotel. When Bob goes away on that hunting trip, Hollywood gossips will start smacking their lips. What price fame, yes? POOR Bob Cummings is still exhausted from working in two pictures at one time. On the "Kings Row" set, he had to stop a scene. "I'm so sorry," he apologized to director Sam Wood, "but my leg fell asleep." Bob paced up and down. Finally, he got back into the scene again. "Okay," he said. "My leg's awake now." "Indeed?" kidded Wood. "Won't the rest of your body be surprised!" WE saw it happen right before our very eyes. For a scene in "Twin Beds'' they "needed a cheese souffle for George Brent to eat before it cooled off and shriveled. To rush one from the Brown Derby was out of the question. What to do? Mischa Auer offered to make one right there on the set. He did, too. They timed it so the scene was shot with George actually eating it right out of the oven. George says he never tasted a better souffle. Mischa is asking two checks : his own for his part in the picture, and an extra one for playing the role of chef! 57