| Show Must Be Out When tell Roles Demand No Ring RingBy By CANDID KAY KAY- Hol wood has borrowed ils Us full share of superstitions from the s stage e. e Whistling In a dr dressing room putting up an umbrella on a sound sta e. e accepting a pin from the wardrobe woman woman woman-th these e and countless other traditionally unlucky acts arc sun still so much poison polson to screen mayers There arc those who forbid any sewing ewing on a costume while they are wearing caring it it There are those who ep firmly on a comb when It has been dropped anyone can pick It t up Silly No sillier r than that I adder you and you meticulously void avoid walking under nor that pinch o of spilled pilled salt you ou insist on tossing over o our shoulder nor that mirror you oid a breaking like a large dose of smallpox But the ag old age old superstition corn com mon on to womankind that Old Man Bad Luck uck will come romping down full Corce orce if it for any reason she removes that hat little band placed on her ring Cinger mger when she said I 1 do has more morer or r less gone b by the boards in in Holl Holly wood It has had to to and that w was wasat thal at Whether you realize it or not there arc thousands on thousands of movie ovie fans just itching for the chance lo write a studio to tell cm em of a boner it has pulled in a picture And it be a boner of the first water for tor Sadie adie Glut in in te life lite Mr Joe l to wear that I do dong doring ring ng when she's portraying M Miss s Minerva in The Thc Agony of Annabelle E cn if poor Joe's Joes fc feel l. l ings gs are arc hurt by the omission It all 11 comes mes under the heading of art for forts fort's arts art's t's ts sake or something closely ic Ie it il Two Tw Are Arc Adamant Of course wh when n the role calls caUs for a marital status the married femme star wears her own ring if ir she has one Aline MacMahon though happily wed to Clarence Stem Stein a N. N Y architect has never had a wedding ring Leastwise Least wise wise not of the ordinary Kind Hers is a wide band of oC platinum set with wilh a variety of stones Naturally Natu rally this would hardly do for the therole therole role of or Bertha Krasnoff fur dealer deal er er in Fur Coats Nor would Barbara for Cor any role Hers Is composed of two platinum bands joined by the words From Frank to which Mr Fay placed upon her finger ago There are arc two joung oung screen stai stal matrons however who are adamant bout about removing their rings They never ever have and swear thc they never will The hey are arc Joan Blondell Barnes and Ruby luby Keeler Jolson When loles call caU callor for or the spinster state Joan Jom covers her herring ring ng with a special plastic rubber concoction con con- devised de by man manere Perc ere Westmore Ruby finds a bit of adhesive tape covered with grease paInt aint does just as well Bc Daniels is probably bemoan bemoan- ing g the tact fact that she didn't follow their example She removed her ex ex- diamond studded band on the thet set t during the filming of a recent picure pic ture ure and handed it to her maid Hilda for or safekeeping It was a long and busy afternoon and afternoon and at the end of it Hilda ilda discovered she had lost the ring It has never been found TilEY THEY SAID I should have b been en an Es kimo What a lover I would have hu-e be been n Jimmy Schnozzle Durante FIGS ARE OUT Its It's going to be a Eden for foric forthe the ic stars at The famous 30 old ear fig tree landmark of that lot ot is to be cut down Sentiment figs nd all aU notwithstanding the studio need iced more room for lor new new wardrobe and and the fi fig tree is doomed Beneath its spreading and heavily laden branches some of the most famous stars of oC the cinema world have stood and plucked its delicious fruit It was originally part of a ranch which blossomed where the thc glistening white buildings s of now stand Despite the fact the tree was protected by an austere warning of Do Not Pick the Figs the stars proceeded to nibble at will Greta Garbo started the old Swedish custom When she first arrived at the studio she couldn't read English Or so she claimed when she felt fell In tn o 0 fig eating mood O O 0 6 e ANOTHER GUESS WHO All AU right here's heres your dally test ol keeping keeping- tabs bbs Who are the actor and his wife who will soon hit hithe he the divorce courts because became another famous amous femme star herself a wife and mother deliberately and ruthlessly shattered battered their marital happiness happiness' The husband md who wants the di vorce will find tind the sailing a bit rou rough h it f when he becomes free he marries he the destructive side of ot the triangle Sentiment is heavily against him and when he becomes still sUll another husband hus hus- band and and they are many hes he's apt pt to discover she's not so glamorous or sought after aeter as she might have been For Tor Hollywoods Hollywood's thumbs have been turned down in no uncertain fashion In n contempt for tor her recent actions OR DO YOU CARE CAREb b LeRoy receives recel fan letter a month WHAT NOW RUTH Confirmation by Geor George e Brent that he and Ruth Chatterton have decided to separate though no mention is made of or divorce at this point brings to mind all the whoop whoop di doo at the time of then marriage a little over a year ago Ruth you remember was married mar ried and had h been for tor a number of years to Ralph Forbes Brent became her leading man in two pictures He was a 1 constant guest guestin m in the Forbes menage Then came the friendly bust bust- up with Brent walking of off with Ruth Ralph and Ruth still the best of ot friends the trio constant d out diners and Ruth who's getting get In ting along in years telling the world v long and loudly that at last she had found her Ideal mate Yesterday she wired Brent from New York After a week in New NewYork NewYork York she said I have decided it is necessary for us to separate Ho hum huml 0 o SPEAKING OF ROMANCE ROl While were we're on the subject Harry Joe Brown noted director and new spouse of ot Sally Eilers Hoot Gibsons Gibson's ex cx Is in a merry little m mess ss MarjorIe Mar Mar- orie jorIe Gay actress is suing him for breach of promise Filing the action under her real name of Marjorie Marjone she charges that hat Brown after an engagement of ot three years promised to marry mury her hern herin in n 1932 which promise he repudiated by y marrying marring Miss Eilers The first knowledge that she had been given chen the gate ate came with the announcement of ot the wedding weddin bells bell she said So Its It's or else Ho Bo hum again I BRIEFS OF NEWS Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert will co costar star for tor Paramount in an nal inal b by Bogart Rogers and Frank Mitchell Dazey no title lUle ns yet Paramount has notified Charles Laughton that It will exercise its rights to an extension on his services service under the terms of ot their contract Laughton Lauhton wants to do Mr Barrett for in The Barretts of Street and contends that the lause In his contract contrad which gives Paramount the right to meet the terms of outside offers means more than th-an money money it means meeting values of outside vehicles offered or so he sas sa's its it's stalemate at the moment Undressed Parade a 1 picture will be Joan Crawfords Crawford's next t Tamara Geva has had her nose nos bobbed Beatrice Lillie has been signed up by to make m a n short under the supervision of Lee Marcus On the heels of Mar Mary Pickford's s 's announcement that tha t she intends going coin into Independent production pro making eight pictures a year Iwo wo of which arc to star herself and he the other six six with other oiher star names comes the rumor th that lt Harold Lloyd Lloydis is hot for tor the idea Frank Cra vens ven's Nineteenth Hole may be Lloyds Lloyd's first if Jt his hi Idea Ide jcl Jells Sid columnist on the New York Dally News is receiving ten grand for Cor an original for tor M Marion rion Davies Broadway bright boys figure its it's Willies Willie's first move to corral him as motion picture editor for lor the afternoon after noon PARAGUAYANS WIN ASUNCION Paraguay March 28 The JP-The The government r ported todDY today that the army had won its greatest victory since December In the war with Bolivia Seizing approximately ap approximately proximately 1000 prisoners and great quantities of ot supplies in the Canada Tarija sector of western Chaco Following the example of ot cattle raisers California apiarists sent their swarms of bees bee to th the high Sierra region for tor the summer months |
