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Show tally, Edward Small is going right' ahead with "The Life of Rudolph Valentino." He is sending a camera cam-era crew to Italy to film background back-ground scenes. Odds And Ends After being off the screen for two years, Jack Oakie returns as the comedy lead in Eagle-Lion's outdoor color film, "Stampede." Overheard on' the Vine: "I don't wanna be an actor. I just wanna make a livin'." John Howard has the male lead in "Rose Marie," initial stage production at the Greek Theatre. (Hollywood National Syndicate) Around Hollywood appearing this wtn-k under tlie .'(ion, "Around Hollywood," by Jimmy Siuuicci, is the first of a Ties of national releases, one of which will k published in the Herald Her-ald each week. release gives a number of in. erecting incidents, most of which oVinate in Hollywood, together with the latest goings-on in the famous movie capital. : Around Town Last Week A ! ajv appeared in court on a mis-1 mis-1 demeanor hit-run charge, when i 'he judge asked her to read a sec-! sec-! ('ion 0f the Motor Vehicle Code, she replied: "I thought that was your j duty." The judge barked "five days I in jail." but reconsidered when she ame up for sentence. He jolted her with a $100 fine. A 48-ycar-oid worker returned home late the other night, he called his wife names and threatened her, then started to beat her. As she fled for help, he grabbed a gun and fired five bullets at her. Police used tear gas to bring him out of the house. As they were taking him away, the wife flung her arms around his neck and cried: "Oh, Honey Boy, they won't hurt you." A market manager did not worry when he put $13,000 into his safe, after all, the safe was built into the concrete floor. Next morning he received a shock, not only the money had been taken but also the safe. The burglars, after spending spend-ing hours chipping away the concrete, con-crete, had used a heavy jack to lift the safe out and on a truck, the maner they handled the job indicated indi-cated they were more of the refined re-fined type, for while they worked they consumed many bottles of milk and orange juice but not a drop of liquor. Harry Mynatt has perhaps the most enviable job in the country. His five-day-per-week routine is squiring the "Queen For A Day" winner around Hollywood. And he alone figures out just what eac rent control law. Some monthly rates (hotels have jumped from $30 to $135. One woman with a pair of rooms faced a $300 increase. in-crease. But the Studio Hotel on Vista Del Mar Ave., came through with the biggest jump of all. A tenant there received notice that his rent would be increased from $30 to $600 a month, August 1st. It's just another way of evicting. For the Old Timers 1927 20 years ago Edwin Carewe has offered of-fered the Queen of Roumania $25,000' to appear in moving pictures. pic-tures. The Kid is no more. Jack Coogan is now going around with a haircut and long trousers. Lelio De Ranieri, the famous sculptor, has just presented Vilma Banky a statue of the late Rudoph' Valentino Valen-tino in his last role, "The Son of the Shiek." Miss Banky played opposite Rudy in the picture. First National Studios have moved to California where they now will make all their films. Betty Branson's Bran-son's last picture was "Paradise." Now she'll appear with Richard Dix in "Paradise for Two." A little lit-tle Hal Roach player, Lupe Velez, has been selected by Douglas Fairbanks Fair-banks a$ the "bad influence" in his next picture, "The Gaucho." Pauline Pau-line Starke and Claire Windsor have left Metro-Goldwyn, and Red Grange has quit F. B. O. because they would not pay more money. Leo Guild, Hollywood's famous "Wizard of Odds," has his own ideas on the flying saucers. He pooh-poohed the whole thing, saying say-ing that the odds against existence of such phenomena are about a thousand to one. And he quickly added that he would offer $100 to anyone who could prove the flying fly-ing saucer really exists. A few years after World War I, Metro came out with a picture titled "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." It was a terrific hit and it made an unknown, Rudolph Valentino, a great star. MGM is now considering remaking the film so "The Four Horsemen" may again ride the screen. Inciden- Queen would like to do in their 24-'' hour whirl about town. Asked if he alone figures out just what -each ty, Harry Says: "I always begin each whirl by telling the Queen how well she looks. You can say that to women from 17 to 70 and never get in trouble." The "flying saucers" are still the talk of the town. And each day there is always someone around here who sees them. Police and newspapers are getting all kinds of reports. One man called and said he saw six saucers flying through the air. A minute later a woman called and said the man had seen the six saucers, but he forgot to mention the six cups that followed them. Several studios are already considering the idea of filming a story based on the flying discs. Picture of the Week's Preview The Hucksters, running time: 117 minutes. With such top casting as Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr (the English star) , Sydney Greenstreet, Adolph Menjou, Ava Gardner, Kee-nan Kee-nan Wynn and Edward Arnold. As the story opens, Gable back from the war lands a job with his old friend, Adolph Menjou, who heads an advertising concern. One of Menjou's most important clients is Sydney Greenstreet, and his beauty soap. Everyone including Menjou and his staff fears Greenstreet Green-street but Gable he refuses to be a yes-man. His straight talking wins favor with Greenstreet and Gable makes a few changes. When Greenstreet insists that a big show be built around Keenan Wynn, a ham actor, Gable frowns upon the idea but goes through with it. He surrounds Wynn with top talent in hopes that Wynn's corny acting would not do much harm. Greenstreet Green-street considers the show a great hit and Gable sees a rosy future! HeV can now marry Deborah Kerr and provide her with the better things of life. But he suddenly realizes rea-lizes that he has become nothing more than Greenstreet's yes-man, so he ups and tells the old boy off. Gable is now broke ' but Deborah would rather have him that way, anyhow. With real romance at the end everyone knows that Gable has it in him to make good, i What is happening to our Hollywood Hol-lywood actresses? One tried to commit suicide because of love disappointments. Another, working work-ing in "Sleep, My Love," disappeared disap-peared for several days after being hypnotized on the set. And a third is being tried on a "lure" kidnaping kidnap-ing charge. Many Hollywood tenants are having difficulties under the new |