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Sprightly, inside com' ment about the talkies and talkie folk
By The Talkie Town Tattler
Well, well, if it isn't El Brendel, hard at work in the super production. The Big Trail. When EI heard that he had to work with a mule he said he thought he'd get a big kick out of it.
THE little Torres girl, Racquel, kept her manager waiting half an hour. Thereby exasperating said manager, who is quoted as growling:
"Say, what's the idea of making me stand around here like a monkey?"
"Sorry," sorried Racquel, "but can I help it how you stand?"
Tidings from
This is little Cherie Lawcs, of Fox films. She's sitting on the knee of the warden of Sing Sing prison, who also happens to be Lewis Lawes, her own famous father.
DISCOVERED — that Erich von Stroheim is quick on the repartee trigger, too. Apropos of what he may do, now that he has finished his role in Three Faces East, a very attractive extra girl at the studio asked: "What are you doing next?"
Von looked at his watch. "I did have an engagement at 3:30, but if you aren't busy now — ?"
Whereupon we award him the lace derby for this month !
ESTELLE TAYLOR has her domestic problems like any good housewije. Recently, troubled by tnice, she instructed her colored man to place traps through the house. Immediately a strange had odor permeated the at?nosphere, in spite of the houseman's efforts to drench it in incense. Finally Estelle said, "There must be a dead mouse in some trap. Go over the house carefully and see u-hat you can find." The man took a candle and searched diligently in every crevice fr077i cellar to attic, then reported sadly, "No -md am, dey's nobody daid anyiuhere. Dey's no mice in de house, an' de limburger cheese is still in all de traps."
kN THE sidelines of a set at Metro-GoldwynMayer, Buster Keaton sat talking .with a studio worker. The conversation drifted around to children. "I think I'll send those two boys of mine to college soon's they get old enough," suddenly exclaimed Buster.
"Why so keen on college?" asked the studio worker. "Well," drawled Buster, "I want them to start out
in life with the same handicap that other boys have!"
JACK Benny tells the following about Joe E. Brown, that funny comic.
Joe, he says, was heard talking to a girl in the lobby of the Roosevelt hotel. What is more, Joe was very plainly and very loudly talking about none other than Joe E. Brown. Finally, however, he smiled and said generously to the young lady, who had been listening with great politeness:
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