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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THERE'S been a bit of knife-throwing going on in Hollywood, and it's been none too good for the nerves of the spectators who are scheduled to act as targets. Paulette Goddard is trying her hand at it, in preparation for her role in Cecil B. DeMille's "North West Mounted Police." She is scheduled to play "Louvette," whom Mr. DeMille described as "a combination of Circe, Desdemona, Carmen and a black panther." She always gets her man, and knife-throwing is part of her menace. So she's been practicing around the studio. "It's hard work," she complained the other day. "I'm afraid I'll knock oil a finger or chop off a toe before I'm through." "Frobnbly my toe," gloomily prophesied Bob Hope, who's working work-ing with her in "The Ghost Breakers." Break-ers." And over at Warner Brothers' Steve Clemento Is also hurling knives, in a corner of the set for "Torrid Zone." An expert, he , V "V : r hv V : ' j . , , A j(iaoom$" j BETTE DAVIS easily flips a knife into a wall 15 paces away. James t'agncy and Pat O'Brien, stopping to watch him, noticed that there were two chalk marks on the wall, less than six inches apart, and that the knife went whistling neatly between them. "What do those marks mean?" asked O'Brien. "Those," answered Clemento, "represent your head and Mr. Carney's. Car-ney's. They'll be that close together togeth-er when I throw a knife between them for the picture." Bette Davis owns her own home at last. She's been in Hollywood for nine years, and lived in a different dif-ferent home each year she's never owned a house, a ranch or even a vacant lot. But before beginning "All This and Heaven Too" she bought what the salesman called "An American farm house"; she says it reminds her of her childhood home in New England. It's just five minutes from the studio. It's also just a little too near the Los Angeles river, which overflowed its banks a few years ago, washing away several homes in the vicinity. Martha Scott and William llolden, two of the stars In Sol Lesser's "Our Town," consumed 32 strawberry straw-berry ice cream sodas during the making of the love scenes for the picture, and at the moment wouldn't care if they never saw another one. But Frank Craven, who finished 10 cans of tobacco in his pipe during his scenes, just went out and bought more for his personal use. There's an entire Hollywood novel in a press announcement that was sent out a while ago, before Linda Darnell started east "Miss Darnell will be accompanied to New York by her mother, Mrs. Margaret Darnell," Dar-nell," it stated, "but her father, who is a clerk in the Dallas post office, will remain on the job back In Texas." Apparently even the fame of his very beautiful daughter doesn't dazzle Mr. Darnell. Priscilla and Rosemary Lane received re-ceived a substantial offer to become platinum blondest and turned it down! A representative of more than 5,000 hairdressers made it; he said that a scheme is being promoted pro-moted to revive the platinum blonde craze introduced by the late Jean Harlow, and that several other stars are being approached with the same offer. It includes a royalty in addition to the flat advance sum. Recently the students of Blue Ridge college, New Windsor, Md., selecced Albert Dekker as the "Perfect "Per-fect Profile of 1940." Dekker won a narrow victory over Nelson Eddy; the girls selected him because his was the profile that impressed them most when they inspected the photographs photo-graphs of the contestants, which included every male star in Hollywood. Holly-wood. What they didn't know was the man they chose as appears hi his current picture, "Dr. Cyclops," with his head shaved and his nose obscured by a pair of glasses. |
