Silver Screen (Nov 1939 - May 1940)

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upper Uft: Director WUliara KetgKley ditcMtes a (ceoe for "Tke Fighting 69th" with Jame* Cagney. A6ov«: At a cocktail party before the opening of the Lot Aagele* Opera teacoa. Gene RaynMnid tells a atory to Walter Pidgeon, Mrc Raymond (Jeanette MaeDomaU), Lily Pona and hubby Andre Koatalenetz. Left: Brian Aheme with hii bride, Joan Fontaine, at the Cafe Lamaze. L«u>er left: Henry Fonda and Claodetto Colbert take time out for a drink of water during a reheanal for their recent Kate Smith broadcast of "Drums Along the Mohawk," (irRi HoUr cuJii stop in order to sign autographs for four kids who had been dogging her ■"i,^ car for blocks. In another city, sixty-three high school girls stormed the l^^i hotel where she was staying, bribed their way up to her suite, and tried "'I to sell the maid on letting them take a peek at her while she was sleeping. According to intimates, Connie is getting the kick of her life out of this tour — ^and, according to critics and press notices, so must everyoiie|l(fmi who sees her. — Virginia Field is never without her mad money. Imtead of the proverhial charm bracelet, "Ginnie" wears one containing varied sized framesi into which may be slipped nickels, dimes and quarters. She keeps the' coins highly polished, and the effect is completely novel — and practicd. Richard Greetie, of the dimples, is still head m<in in her Ufe. Fotih — 4»— ' lid Well, really now, George Brent can't be everything to every woman. tl^ii But one week-end recently, mind you just onS ■week-end, he was reported visiting Olivia de HaviUand at Coronado Beach, beauing Greta Garbo at uliioii' Palm Springs, and welcoming Bette Davis home in Hollywood. Well, really, he's not that good. The fans pile into the Florentine Room at the Beverly-Wilshire these, evenings to see Marlene Dietrich and Jimmy Stewart dancing every^ dance. ' / f Tyrone Power shows you an old tin can that looks like a megaphone and asks you pathetically if you don't think it would make a wonderful lamp, for heaven sakes don't agree with him. He's only kidding, he's one of the best kidders in Hollywood. "You'd be surprised," says Annabella, "how many people agree with him when he shows them that horrible old tin can." Well, Annabella, don't forget it's a yes-tovon, full of yes-people. From a clipping in a Hollywood newspap^*, anent the War: **No longec can Irene Dunne have her Czecho-Slovakian filets of anchovies. Or Joan Bennett her pate de foies gras, with truffles or Perigord. Or Wally Ford his favored Polish hams. Even Dorothy Lamour's Norw^ian herring and Isabel Jewell's Russian caviar may be war casualties." Mercy now, doesn't it just bresd^ you up! Those poor, poor, movie stat*,. The most embarrassed man we have ever seen sat next to us at the Shrine Auditorium recently when the San Francisco Opera Company gave; out .with "Rigoletto." AH the music lovers and movie stars were gather©" in worshipful sflence. It was just as the curtain vras parting and the mai next to me leaned over to pick up his program. The buttons of his coai caught in Jeanette MacDonald's hair — ^and caught good. For awhile il li you're curious cdx>ut the intimate doings of yo\ Itlaog swlf iOIB d