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• HE WAS one of those directors who fly into violent outbursts to soothe the artistic nerves. But he always showed uncanny good sense as whom to pick on. For instance he had never made a producer or star the butt of his temper.
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It occurs to old Hobnobber (with his quaint sense of humor) that it would be extremely funny if an actor — in a frenzy to sign a contract — pulled out his pen and accidentally shot a producer.
And so, kiddies, the following week he got a five dollar raise.
• WHEN the news
came that Ruth Chatterton had signed with Warners, there was naturally some feeling among Paramount executives.
The story goes that B. P. Schulberg was deeply hurt and that Miss Chatterton, knowing this, marched herself into his office one afternoon. Mr. Schulberg was polite but frigid until the star said:
“What’s this alt about? Now you get out of that chair, put your arms around me and say that everything is O. K.”
And B. P., grinning a little sheepishly, did just that.
• THE latest wrinkle around the cinema city is a lad who is cashing in on the current racketeer and robbery fear. He is offering fountain pen revolvers for ten dollars each. The gun is an exact replica and
It seems that young East, who is an extremely handsome and personable chap, took Greeley’s advice and went West —
• LOCAL depositors can go to the nearest theatre to see their banker, for many of the well knowns of Cinemaland plow a deep furrow in the field of finance.
Perhaps you didn’t know that Norma Talmadge is a member of the advisory board of the Hollywood branch of the Bank of America. Well, she is. So is Cecil deMille, who rates a vice-chairmanship;
and Charlie Murray and Samuel Goldwyn.
• "SHOW y a ankle. Margie. We gotta get some sex in this!"
On the contrary it was generally his third assistant — a meek looking individual who quivered and quaked when his master gave voice. But one fine day the worm squirmed, and — after a terrific verbal lambasting — bravely said to the director:
only slightly larger than the average ink squirter. It carries one .38 caliber cartridge.
“Lissen, Chief, I gotta have more money or more respect.”
John Barrymore and Wallace Beery are directors of the Hollywood Whitley Bank. D. W. Griffith and Howard Hughes help run a bank in South Hollywood and Fred Niblo is a director of the First National of Beverly Hills.
While we’re on this subject of business after hours — studio hours — you might or might not have heard that Harry Green owns a dress factory in New York; Richard Dix has a real estate office there; Jack Oakie is financially interested in several vaudeville acts; and Gary Cooper packs fancy dates for the city trade at his ranch in the Coachella Valley.
• THE East is the
East and the West is the West — but the twain has met — in the person of Arthur East and Universal Studios.