Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

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rabid Hepburn fan after seeing her in "Alice Adams." T/ie two girls were working on the same lot and one day the star saw Hepburn in the street below her dressing room window. "Miss Hepburn," she called, "I've been wanting to meet you. I think you — " "Well," said Hepburn, cutting her short, "now we've met." And walked away. When Gene Markey left for the East recently and Hedy remained in Hollywood, all those old divorce rumors were started again. But as usual, without foundation. Gene had to go to Washington on legal business matters for the new picture he is to produce at Paramount, and Hedy had to stay at home to make tests for "The Ziegfeld Girl." Lunchers at the Hollywood Brown Derby nearly fell in their cold consomme the other day when Lana Turner, Artie Shaw and Greg Bautzer all arrived to have lunch together. Who says that Hollywood isn't one big happy family? Or can it be that lawyer Bautzer is going to handle the Shaw divorce? Betty Grable and her rhumba are the sensation of the moment at Ciro's. All the men about town promptly made desperate efforts to get Betty's phone number, but they sort of got discouraged when Alexis Thompson, her wealthy New York boy friend, arrived by plane to keep an eye on her. None of this light lunch on a card table in the dressing room for Clark Gable. He eats a hearty lunch in the Metro commissary every day when he is working, and his presence rarely causes a flutter, except when there are tourists lunching Right: It's rather difficult keeping your eye on the ball when playing tennis with RKO's Elaine Sheppard. Below: Virginia Weidler, in blue denim slacks and plaid shirt, with her horse, "Pancho," and pet dog, "Duke." there. But the other day he went over to the RKO studio to have lunch with Carole and there was so much excitement in the commissary that things didn't get normal for hours. The waitresses became completely confused and people got soup who never ordered soup, and the poor RKO stars, who aren't appreciated on their home lot, got shoved around something awful. The studio may have to pass a rule that Lombard keep her husband in her dressing room. Ah me, and alackaday, here's another of those heartbreak stories from the glamourous capital of make-believe. It seems that a little spider was found dead the other day on the set of "The Ghost Breakers." It had been strangled to death in a phony spider web which had been manufactured by studio technicians out of rubber cement, to simulate the real thing. Robert Taylor will help support one of the 1205 underprivileged youngsters of the San Antonio Boys' Club for the forthcoming year. When the cluk received his donation it forwarded in return a glass egg mounted on an orange card. The card bears the inscription, "Robert Taylor is a good egg." 74 Silver Screen