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"Let's talk about you for a while, now. Say, tell me, what did you think of my last picture?"
OUT at M-G-M they tell the following story on Irving Thalberg, Norma Shearer's husband, besides being one of the very busiest studio executives in Hollywood.
A prominent writer, they say, had sat in Thalberg s outer office for a long time waiting to see the young film head. By and by. he noticed that another man kept him company.
"Are you tvaiting to see someone, too?" asked the writer conversationally.
"Oh, yes, I'm waiting to see Mr. Thalberg," replied the other.
The writer looked greatly relieved.
"Then there really is a Thalberg!" he exclaimed.
BUSTER KEATON, enjoying a few hours off from his duties at M-G-M, strolled over to the
Talkie Town
Eddie Quillan and a crowd of the studio pulchritudes get rolled — but not in the Chicago meaning of the term. Eddie was taking a few minutes off from Night Work when this was snapped.
Pathe lot to call on his friend, Bill Boyd.
Approaching the gateman, he made known his mission.
"And who are you?" inquired that worthy.
"My name's Keaton — Buster Keaton," replied the comedian smiling.
"You'll have to prove it to me," came back the custodian of the entrance as he surveyed his smiling questioner "Got anything in your pockets to identify
Well, girls, Richard Arlen seems to be hardly suited to making love to Fay Wray. Not at least, in that outfit. What do you bet he's saying. "When I leave you I'll be completely sunk."
yourself with?"
With that Buster did one of his famous flip-flops, landing on the concrete driveway square on his shoulders.
"O. K.," said the gateman.
Even in Hollywood few people recognize Buster when he permits a grin to melt the frozen face known to screen fans.
1ILYAN TASHMAN, blonde vampire of the silversheet, ^ entered a small Hollywood shop recently to make a purchase. The article she desired stood on a shelf with theprice tag plainly visible — six dollars. Before the clerk approached her, she overheard a woman whisper to him, "That's Lilyan Tashman."
When the clerk took the article from the shelf he expertly removed the price mark and blandly informed her that the cost was nine dollars.
"I proved then and there that I was a real vamp," said Lilyan later. "1 walked behind the counter to where he had dropped the tag, picked it up and showed it to him. Do you know what he had the nerve to say?"
Tm sorry. Ma'am," he explained to Lilyan. "I looked at it upside down." .
THEY were making scenes for Precious, Jimmy Hall's new starring vehicle, at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Two former all-American football teams were battling in the picture.
Jimmy, playing end on one of theJeams, tvas the only member of the squads ivho never had won gridiron honors in College.
"Now, don't be nervous," coached his director. "Just grab the ball and run past Russell Saundefs."
"How the heck can I do that ivhen half of the football players in America couldn't do that last fall," replied Jimmy.
GRETA GARBO'S refusal to be interviewed by anyone was a great aid to enumerators during
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