Silver Screen (Nov 1939 - May 1940)

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Olivia de Havilland and escort Jimmy Stewart pause to read the "funnies" as they leave Earl Carroll's. Mischa Auer and his wife do an energetic rhumba at Giro's. At least, that's what it started out to be. Mischa, incidentally, is just about the busiest actor in Hollywood, because it seems Universal puts him in all its pictures. telephone the other night posing as a real estate agent, "Do you live on the busline?" he asked. "Why, yes," Pat replied sleepily. "Well, please move, will you, the bus wants to get by," flipped the wag, and hung up. Some people are just born wits, aren't they? No. Gruesome fashion note: In "Earthbound," co-starring Warner Baxter and Andrea Leeds, there is a Paris war time locale, and all the gals have to carry the most elegant gas mask regalia. Lynn Bari's gas mask is black velvet, shaped like a muff, Andrea's is rose wool to match her coat, others are plaid wool to match hat, gray Persian shoulder strap arrangement, barrel-shaped, purse-shaped, book-shaped, etc. The Parisian modistes will be able to filch a few good ideas for making decorative a war time necessity. Since the unexpected Lana Turner-Artie Shaw elopement, the Hollywood press has been as nervous as a witch, and will follow up any clue tossed to them, no matter how impossible sounding. So, a recent Sunday found them hanging on Joan Crawford's phone, ringing her doorbell, and cluttering up her driveway. There was a rumor, completely unfounded of course, that Joan and Lee Bowman were doing an off to Yuma. Joan was a httle startled by it all as she has only had one date with Lee Bowman. But — Lana only had one date with Artie Shaw. " — .<^« — " Bette Davis, who used to swear that she would never own anything in Hollywood she couldn't pack in a suitcase, has succumbed at last and bought a home. Though it isn't one bit movie-starish, and definitely on the wrong side of the tracks. And now that other hold-outer, Greta Garbo, is looking for a home to buy, the only requirement she insists upon is a high fence around it. She wants to keep the public out and Gayelord Hauser in. Well, you can't blame Jackie Cooper if he is a little intolerant now of lady fans. The apple of Jackie's eye, his brand new Packard roadster, was parked outside the Paramount studio last week when a woman driver, who was far more intent upon staring through the studio gates than watching the roadway, hit Jackie's new car square in the middle. And off it went to the junk heap. You can just bet the name of Artie Shaw was brought into the conversation when Greg Bautzer and Jackie Coogan lunched together at the Brown Derby. Jackie doesn't think Artie did right by his ex-wife, Betty Grable, and doesn't mind saying so. —'<%" — " Grade Allen has announced her candidacy for president. But she just can't decide on her platform. Ann Sheridan likes having two boy friends with her when she goes stepping. The lucky lads are Bruce Cabot and Pat De Cicco. Dick Powell, back home after months of record-breaking personal appearances, entertains his wife, Joan Blondell, at Ciro's. for Hay 1940 57