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Life In The Studios Is Even Funnier Than It Is Wisecracked Up To Be
Charles Laughton as Ruggles of Red Gap, his first comedy role on the screen. He will next be directed by Rene Clair.
NOW if I just sat here and enumerated all the wits of Hollywood and the cute things they've said, mercy, child, we'd be here all winter, and personally I've got better things to do. ZaSu Pitts has just called that she's putting on a pan of fudge, and is waiting for me to crack the nuts, and the way I feel today I'd be ten times happier cracking nuts for ZaSu than cracking jokes for you.
Of course, Lhe last time ZaSu invited me over for a batch of fudge, the goo ran all over the frigidaire, and the last discouraging glimpse I got of it, it was making "gravy" (Shirley Temple calls chocolate sauce "gravy") on a leg of lamb, which is certainly one place you don't expect to find fudge. So I must hurry out there to see that the "soft ball in water" isn't too soft, and naturally I want to get this wit business over as quickly as possible. So when I say laugh, frozen face, you laugh, if you know what's good for you.
I just sort of hope now that you have gathered from the above that I'm the type who much prefers, of an afternoon, a dish of fudge to "dishing the dirt." I am afraid, oh so, so afraid, that Hollywood wit rather centers around the "dirty crack," and it all had me quite confused when I first came out here, as I considered myself a sophisticate and tossed out "lousy" on all occasions with more soignee than Raquel Meller tosses out violets.
But, for the purposes of this story, we are going to consider Hollywood humor in its more pleasing aspects, and simply ignore those nasty, naughty people who make Sex sound so difficult, indeed we'll leave them to their ilks and mooses. The kind of wit we're going in for won't involve a survey of sin (Oh, I bet you're disappointed) in fact it won't involve anything but a series of yawns which I trust you will have the goodness to pat away quietly as I am very sensitive.
Of course, everyone in Hollywood goes in for "laughs," and so, after the day's work at the studio is done, there's nothing like gathering at a friend's house and disturbing the neighbors by a little noisy chinning. Bill Powell's house is one of the favorite meeting places of Hollywood wits and halfwits because Bill is an excellent host, always in gay spirits, and never muffs a snappy comeback. Carole Lombard, Bill's ex-wife in case you remember figures and not names, is also right there with the witty wisecrack, and the elegant bon mot, and their little evenings at home must have been something in the nature of a scene from a Noel Coward play.
I didn't know Carole and Bill
when they were Madge Evans gets married, that was kidded because she before d came to has a reputation for ollywood, but snappy comebacks.
Bill Powell might well have been the model for the character he played in "The Thin
knowing them as I do now I rather imagine that they had to divorce each other because neither was willing to play stooge. Carole's secretary once told me of a trip
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