Silver Screen (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

THE aviation boys at the airport, where scenes of "Test Pilot" were made, simply can't say enough swell things about Clark Gable. It is customary for the pilots and mechanics, hard-boiled guys who know their business, to sneer at the pretty boys who come out from the studios to have their pictures made in a plane that never leaves the ground. But Gable they all agree is "one grand guy." In the first place he won't let a double do the nasty work for him and take a chance on an accident. In the second place he' doesn't lose his head in an emergency, and when a four motor bomber caught on fire unexpectedly the other day not only did Gable extricate himself but dragged pilot Jack Sterling from the flaming plane, and saved his life. And in the third place Gable doesn't hide in a fancy dressing room between set-ups, but pals with the boys and joins them in a mug of beer when the day's work is done. Out at the United Airport they'll tell you about the day Gable joined the pilots for lunch, all done up in goggles and a hood and the movie conception of what a well dressed pilot should wear. "Get a load of me," said Gable with disgust, "and I can't even fly a kite." „— „<$>„_., ^~^NE of the newest fads in Hollywood for the ladies is Schiaparelli's autograph dress, which has all the names of the movie stars woven into the material. Lady Castelross introduced the dress at Palm Springs recently, and it's a cinch it will catch on in name-conscious Hollywood. It » ANDY DEVINE claims that he has had * * all the conceit he may have had abruptly removed at the last Mae West preview. It all happened very quickly. Andy was just emerging from the preview when a kid thrust a pencil in his hand, and a scratch pad, and asked him to sign his name. Andy is nothing if not agreeable. But while he was signing his name the kid saw Mae West and was off like a flash of lightning. "I felt pretty foolish," said gravelvoiced Andy, "standing there with a selfinscribed pad in my hand." || n<^>» n DOBERT TAYLOR'S new ranch-house ^ out in San Fernando Valley (and very near Barbara Stanwyck's) is the most modest abode of any of the big movie stars. It has only four small rooms. And no "guest" room. Evidently Bob isn't expecting any guests. " — "<t>° — « UOLKS, meet Nissa. Nissa is the eight year *■ old leopard who plays "Baby" in the new Hepburn-Grant picture called "Bringing Up Baby." Nissa was a foundling, deserted by her mother when she was only a day old, and has been brought up and trained by Olga Celeste of the California Zoological Society, and is supposed to have the sweetest disposition of any leopard in the world. But even an eight year old leopard with a sweet disposition can bite, and can bite a mouthful too, so the cast and crew of "Bringing Up Baby" were none too happy on that first day of production when Nissa was released from her cage. Cary Grant very frankly admitted he was scared stiff of Nissa, and so did everybody else in the picture except Katharine Hepburn, who showed no fear whatsoever. All Katie would do was wash her hands in perfume and then she and Nissa would romp with abandon. You've got to hand it to the Hepburn, she has plenty of nerve. 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