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LORUM
Away from it all,
or That's what you think
The papers announce a new murder, The victim was cut up like ham ; A man has been crushed by a girder, A woman's had twins in a tram. A financier's leapt from a liner, A girl has been gassed in a flat, The state of the City is not very pretty, Mr. Eden has bought a new hat.
So let us all go to the pictures, Forgetting such horrors can be; Yes, let us all go to the pictures, And what do you think we shall see?
We'll see just the loveliest murders, All gems of the movie-man's craft, With marital ructions, attempted seductions, Extortion and blackmail and graft ; There'll be brawling and shooting and
drinking Our poor sluggish bloodstreams to chill, And we settle down tightly and lap it up
nightly Even when there's one of those travel pictures with an American commentary in the bill.
I KISS YOUR LITTLE HAND, MR. KORDA
It is reported that America's women want a more intimate greeting than a handshake.
According to Max Factor, Hollywood make-up expert, the "hand-kiss" is the solution. Real kisses, he says, spoil make-up.
Joan Crawford is said to have described the hand-kiss as a "very beautiful greeting." Marlene Dietrich says : "Charming, if the 'kisser' knows how."
Feeling that this touches only the fringe of the subject, W.F.N, sent their Hand-Kiss Editor, a wicked old relic from the Regency days, to try and get one or two of our British film personalities (we gave him a list of all three) to loosen up on the question of this novel form of greeting. His first despatch, which has just reached us from Vine Street, reads as follows: —
Isidore Ostrer: "Ever so nice, but isn't it rude!"
Jeffrey Bernerd: "I am continually having my hand kissed, but never by anybody I know."
Arthur Dent: "It does soil one's gloves so."
Alfred Hitchcock: "I never feel it."
Tommy Fair: "Try kissing mine."
Alexander Korda: "I never allow it. I might get snake-bite."
Snooks Grieser, W.F.N.'s repulsive liftboy, who tried to kiss Miss Lejeune's hand in a weak moment, is in bed with a broken nose.
LINES TO
SOME LADIES
Anna Neagle
Has gone all reagle.
Annabella
Makes a fella
Just a little bit Fonda,
And no wonda.
With Madeleine Carroll, I have no quarroll.
Carole Lombard
Can be nombard
Among the blondes
With whom I should like to hold hondes.
Kay Francis Knows all the ancis.
Irene Dunne Is lots of funne.
Barbara Stanwyck Is often volcanwyck.
Martha Raye
Is a little too gave.
Vivien Leigh
Is O.K. with meigh.
Than Luise Rainer There is nobody fainer.
As Others See Us
Recent developments in the B.B.C. autumn television programme include transmissions from film studios. Viewers will be taken through a complete course on how films are made, how scenes are shot, how stars work, what they eat in the restaurant, what the directors look like in action. — News Item.
"Yes, dear, those are the stars having lunch. No, they don't eat very nicely, do they? They're rather out of practice. The director? He's under the table."
Songs for the Stars
With Plenty of Muni and You
Arliss, Where Art Thou'.'
It's a Sin to Tell a Loy.
Mae Little Grey Home in the West.
THOUGHTS FOR TO-DAY
An unnaturally solemn youth Is Freddie Bartholomewth.
"Not Balalaika-ly," as Eric Maschwitz said when asked if he regretted leaving the B.B.C.
" Now do you take back what you said about Shirley Temple ? "
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