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Show Hollywood Is Where-Some poo-, t'lo coiwulor themselves literary' lira . . . because they're constantly con-stantly socking "bat cellars." Fifty Fif-ty people may be Invited to a private pri-vate party ... and 150 will show up. Motorcycle cops are very con-suh-rate and understanding and see your point of view ... but always give you a ticket. Natives ask visitors if they've seen "The Strip" .' . . but don't get excited they re referring to an exclusive shopping center near Beverly Hills People can be seen early morning going down the street wearing evening eve-ning clothes . . . they are no' returning re-turning from an all-night party-just party-just going to the studios to work. Pretty girls, wearing abbreviated shorts, parade up and down the Boulevard . . . very conscious (and pleased) of the admiring glances. Those "empty" guns proved very costly last week. One overlooked a bullet in the chamber. It went off, killing him instantly. A 14-year-old boy, raking rubbish away, hit a pistol that evidentally had been buried. And he, too, was killed. Even a rookie policeman is in serious condition because of an "empty" gun. Picture of the Week Preview-Variety Preview-Variety Girl Running time: 93 minutes. With practically every star and featured player on the lot in the picture, Paramount's smash comedy hit is swell entertainment enter-tainment sure to please all movie- Irmiiiil llolljHOld ,uvUiui Town Last Wovk-Ho-,'' rlvs may ho going P but for , '.j'itor iv iwm vally cost him Pretty pi'iiny afur chot'kin " Ve left is SI,,ilU zin,or haS on !!!', iW ami stopped out ... he o'lly gone a few minutes but 'Zn lie returned the bag was Vn- . . ami in it3 was every-T every-T lie' had $1200 in cash and 'voir.v. An 81-year-old gentle-J"in gentle-J"in married a 27-year-old lady . . . "nvss the gentleman's fourth mar-V mar-V he said: "I'll make a suc-of suc-of 'marriage yet or die." . . . L't the lady quickly added: "This ill be your last marriage or e" One man did his best to live up to his name . . . arrested on a ,f,arse of drunk driving, he start-ed'a'free-for-all in jail ... as deputes dep-utes led him away, he grabbed a ir and really ran amuck . . . he was finally calmed down after a battle ... his name Robert Out la' . . . If an extra works only a few hours, he still receives pay for a lull day's work. So nothing pleases pleas-es them more. than to have what they call a short day. On the -Ever the Beginning" set, Director Direc-tor Elliott Nugent was so pleased with the' morning shots that no more were necessary. He told several hundred extras to go home at noontime. set to start "Paleface" . . . and Jane Russell will be the lure. Oscar Levant will join the Al Jolson show in the Fall. A sign on the Boulevard advertising flying saucers sau-cers for sale. Sam Goldwyn has signed David Niven to star in "Take Three Tenses," a best seller by Rumer Godden. "Dick Tracy Meets Karloff" has been changed by RKO to "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" . . . may keep the gids away. Bob Steele, western star, plays a prizefighter in MGM's "Killer McCoy; film. Barbara Stanwyck seems set as Clark Gable's leading lady in "The Homecoming." Stuart Erwin and Glenda Farrell, popular stars of a few years back, are being teamed in "Headin' for Heaven," which rolled this week. has returned from a vacation spent in Scotland, his homeland, and in Europe. "Lew Tylor's Wives" is a story of a weak man loved by three women . . . but the picture 'is rather dull . . . the cast is head-, head-, ed by Frank Mayo, Ruth Clifford ; and Hedda Hopper. Richard Dix is : still the screen's most eligible - bachelor . . . when he marries he opes ,to stay married and he . wants a girl who feels the same way about it. One of the studios is tinkering around with a new invention , that may reproduce sound on the screen. ' ' ... Rattlesnakes are known to be in Griffith Park, just a few minutes min-utes from Hollywood and Vine, but over in the west section residents are preparing to stage, a real campaign cam-paign against the rattlers. Sq far, one woman has been bitten, two dogs killed, and they seem to be all over the place. A week ago Joan Fontaine was injured when her horse shied at a rattler. Jean Arthur and Esther Williams are among the residents who live in the area.- , Odds and Ends Bob Hope is all goers. It is light, plot is simple,' but the big names Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, Paulette Goddard, Gary Cooper, Dorothy Lamour, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Veronica Lake and many more should be enough to lure any fan. ' As the story opens, an infant, found in a theater by the manager after the audience had gone home, is adopted adopt-ed by the original members of the Variety Club. They take care of her and finance her education. Years later, the infant has grown to be a pretty young girl tylary Hatcher and is sent to Hollywood to try and crash the movies. And the big "boss" of the Paramount Studios is none other but the same manager in whose theater the infant in-fant had been found. Mary meets Olga San Juan, another studio crasher, and they become friends. There is a mixup which leads to a case of mistaken identity. Olga gets all the breaks at the studio and Mary is continuously riling the big boss. At the end, of course, Olga squares hersetf with Mary by giving her the big break. Comedy Com-edy is stressed throughout and the big stars, doing their little bit, contribute many laughs. 3 Getting ready for the final fight scenes for "Killer McCoy", MGM has constructed what is believed to be the largest boxing arena ever built in Hollywood. We dropped in to see the set and it takes up an entire, sound stage. Hundreds of extras were being used with painted props for the second and third balconies in the background. Incidentally, while practicing a fight scene, one fighter did nothing noth-ing but tap Mickey Ropney with weak, light jabs. It irked one extra ex-tra to the point where he yelled: "Hit him! The wind is with yuh!" For The Old Timers 1926 21 years ago After completing "Son of the Sheik," Rudolph Valentino looks tired and weary ... on location loca-tion one day in the Arizona desert, the thermometer in Mr. Valentino's tent went to 123 degrees before noon . . . and they all worked in the sun, toiling up the side of a big sand dune. Oddly enough, Chicago is the only large city in the country with its own censor board . . . they're very strict when it comes to crime in films . . . and yet, Chicago is the center of gangland gang-land welfare. Ernest Torrence |