Show Greta Garbo Latest One to Fall S S n Victim to Polite Blackmailing By ny CANDID KAY KAY- Racketeers chiselers blackmailers and other low forms torms of ot human life Ure flock fIock to Hollywood as buzzards round a desert carcass Until r recently re recently re- re the pickings have been about M as cas easy for tor the stars stra dreaded the glaring light of publicity Even though the things of which they were accused and only insinuations were proved false the world was quick to remember the accusation and unfairly slow to remember th the acquittal Hollywood b being ing human was at nt times at nt fault fault but but not as often otten as publicity would have you you- believe Thus mill men mn and women paid and pai paid rather than drive ugly things into int the open where they were d dealt quIck death at the hands of the law Clara Clar ClaraS S Bow of the thc first to S was one courageously courage force the i. i issue uc when sh she dragged Daisy DeVoe her cx S tary into court and jail jan So now Hollywood is watching wit with Interest the outcome of one of th the newest of the slimy attacks Therea Theresa Theres There's a fellow in flicker town to who wi will either cither find lind himself wealthy wealth in a B hurr hurry or in an uncomfortable legal position He lIe arrived via Sweden in possession of several reels of film mm of Greta Garbo Gar Gar- bo ho The film Hm was made for exploitation exploitation tion purposes b by a Swedish department department depart depart- ment store for tor whom Greta worked In the thc long long ago The pictures needless to say are not what Greta Gret nor M. M G. G M. M would care car to have released re reo leased now that she is the Great GarS Gar Gar- S boo bo This Tills bit of fact the pO possessor o othe of the films knows and appreciates Hence he is of offering the films to the studio at a n certain price price and and a fanc fancy one at that If Garbo the studio and their collective c lawyers lawers cannot restrain the exhibition of the pictures an the grounds they were made for exploitation exploitation exploitation tion purposes in Sweden only the studio studio studio stu stu- dio may have to buy them for tor their nuisance value Such is polite racketeering in inS these days S S THEY TilEY SAID I II do not like my mv face It belies belies be be- lies the feelings feeling I have e Inside Ida Ida Lupino y SCORE FOR FOB OSCAR Looks like Oscar colored bootblack bootblack bootblack boot boot- black at t Paramount is one up upon upon upon on on the M. M G G. G 9 M M. ditto with whom he is feuding at present pres pres- eat ent Earlier in the week Oscar played host to the elite of Central Central Central Cen Cen- avenue the negro main stem of Los Angeles and had none other than Duke Ellington and his band as guests at a surprise party for the birthday of 11 his is year three daughter Depres Depres- sion lion I FORMALLY EMBARRASSED At a cocktail party parly honoring tenor Tito Tilo given b by Writer James Seymour Enrico Caruso Jr w was the only man appropriately dressed striped trousers cream spats wing wins collar etc ete Said young Caruso after alter observing that the rest were wearIng wearing wear wear- ing as usual either cither business or lr r sports attire tUre I feel feet as Edward G. G Robinson must have felt in The Little Giant when he was the only one at a fancy lancy affair wearing v a up get like this a aA i A TOUCH OF SCOTCH I Rotund Guy Kibbee working in a scene cene for a new one over at Warner Brothers the other day did nothing but eat eat cat eat from 9 until 12 o'clock noon Quite naturally he had reached the point where one more mouthful was a seven course dinner I too much Just as the noon whistle blew Hugh Herbert strolled up Come on Guy he said Ill rn bu buy you OU that lunch I owe you ODD ASSIGNMENTS ASSIGN z I Creating sou sounds like none ever heard before for devices that don dont don't really exist As As for instance the noise of a secret d death ath ra ray S SKETCH OF AN UNKNOWN An idle sound stage the other day da- reverberated with organ music At Atthe Atthe Atthe the huge Instrument used for recording record record- ing purposes sat a young man in work clothes faded clothes faded trousers grimy blue shirt open at the throat He played with the sure fine tine touch o of an experienced organist Melody flooded the otherwise deserted stage echoed into the studio streets The Theman Theman man played on on oblivious to the occa occasional occa lional curious who poked heads ead inside iMide the door to marvel at t the music and music and the incongruous incongruous' picture the young man nian made Someone finally ventured the question that was in the mind of all aU I Used to play In picture houses houle he be said iid Talking pictures meant exit smiling for us UI all Yeah I work here Drive a truck o 8 NONE SO BLIND Heres Here's your our laugh for the day Mrs Tom Rooney official chaperone chap chap- crone for the 11 specially imported imported imported im im- im- im ported Earl Carroll b beauties and wife of the business manager for Carroll is pretty much of an eye eye- I ful tul of beauty herself She was Ip spotted by a film exec the other otherS S noontime and given a test S Now she's been signed for a arob arole role rob in the forthcoming Cleopatra Cleo Cico patra and patra and the 11 ii b beauties she's been chaperoning and who received re rc the avalanche of pulchritude pulchritude tude publicity lire are still stUl in the thc atmosphere atmosphere at class a aa IN THE MAKING fAKING Here are some of the new ones in production Twentieth T Century with John Barrymore and nd Carol Lombard Lombard Lom- Lom bard One Night of Love with Grace Moore and Tullio TuUlo Carminati Change of Hearts Hear with Janet Gaynor Gaynor Gay Gay- nor and Charles Farrell Springtime for Henry Henr with Otto Kruger anc and Nancy Carroll Merry Andrew with Will Vill Rogers Barretts of Wim- Wim pole Street with Norma Shearer Sadie McKee with Joan Cr Crawford 1100 Per Cent Pure with Jean Harlow Harlow Harow Har- Har low ow Many Happy Happ Returns with George Burns and Grade Gracie Allen Thirty Day Princess with Sylvia Sy Sidney Little Miss Marker with Adolphe Adoiphe Private Scandal with ZaSu Pitts Of or Human Bondage Bond Bond- age with Leslie Howard Great American Harem with Ginger Rogers Rog Bog ers SUn Stingaree garee with Richard Dix and Irene Dunne Head of the Family Fam Fam- ily with George Arliss Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back with Ronald Ron Ron- aId ald Colman Coman The Black Cat with Boris Karloff and rind Bela Lugosi Alias the he Deacon with Berton Churchill Dames with Dick Powell powen and Ruby Kc feeler Keeler Old Dolls Doll's House Howe with Richards Barthelmess and The Dark Tower with Edward G. 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