Show Movie Fans Still Write Wite Colleen Because SIze She Always ys fly By CANDID KAY Colleen Moore despite the two year retirement from the screen from she has now emerged still gets one or of the heaviest fan malls mails of any star pictures There Is n. n reason for fOl and it-and a reason for that rca rea- son ron Colleen answers every letter personally She does docs that that- because she he WM was once a writer o of fan letters herself herselL And thereby h hangs the tale lu As a star movie worshiping young young- iter aler Colleen wrote a letter etter to Grace Cunard asking for a picture In those these days fan an mail delivered as carefully as it is now and the letter Jetter undoubtedly ly reached some ome see wastebasket Instead or of Miss Cunard's hands Or its Us possible Miss tLC'S Cunard didn't regard her fan correspondents corre- corre very seriously At any rate Colleen didn't get the pIcture and didn't get an answer to her letter Immediately she switched switch d her affections to Marguerite Clark and who can forget the winsome little brunette who j is and has b been n for the long Jong years since her retirement retire retire- meat ment the wire wife of a socially prominent nent southerner southern r II H c er r appeal brought a prompt response and Colleen was yas elated Wh When n she Me h herself became a a star she remembered the heartbreak or of her first firs disappoIntment and vowed shed she'd never be guilty of the S same de- de Lection She has kept that vow THEY TilEY SAID Movie singers ers must have hae L a special guardian Lann Lanny Ross A TRUE TALI TAL Of such lucky breaks are film careers born Columbia had searched far and wide for lor a lad ad with sufficient dra dra- ability to play the emotional role of the juvenile lead In their new triumph No Greater Glory Hundreds were tested and found wAnting Director Frank Borza Borzage e was walking walk walk- Ing through a studio corridor when he spotted a lad who filled the physical physical phy- phy requirements Including wistful appeal The lad was va old year George What arc you ou doing here he asked George was embarrassed and frightened I only came to see my mother sir ir he saId She desIgns hats here bere I want to get the key to our house 10 0 I can get in The key can wait Borzage said Come with me The screen test revealed an actor A new star was born o C eo 0 a IIer Heres Here's s 's an announced cast that holds promise for a great pie pie- tUre Charles Laughton MaurIce Chevalier and nd Douglas Fair banks Jr will appear in Field of the Cloth of Gold which Alexander Korda will produce in London as a million dollar special cial for United Artists release Laughton will again appear as Henry VIII Frederick Lonsdale is authoring the story In the Walter Hampden program pro pro- gram was a line linc ot of refreshing candor or complete denee dence in advertising It reads LOIS GREENWOOD and nobody HAS else IT RANK CARELESSNESS Its It's little things like ilke this that gIve movie stars the jitters As A. Gary Cooper was leavIng the Ambassador the other nIght an elderly elder elder- ly man who appeared to be a gentle man stopped him and asked for his autograph He held out a callIng card Willingly enough Gary took the card to sign and asked Have you a pencil mean the autograph autograph- seeker snapped Dont you carry your own equipment o a a a aTHE TOE THE RED LION If you have a little black book in which you jot down things like this get gel out your own equipment Its It's tt a. a teaser that's thal's all the rage age in Hollywood and its ns called the King of t the Cocktails Red fled Lion H was originated by the Duke of Manches ter ah erel and was adjudged the Jq th o recently in London Landon Heres Here's how you mix it lb third One dry gin in third One Grand One sixth orange juice sixth One lemon juice Shake well and serve in a glass glaS whose rim rh-n has been frosted with lemon and sugar Salute DO YOU CARE Diana Wynyard has never received a a. proposal of marriage Fan letters Without exception teal with Uh comments on her work s-ork JS IS IT One ot of the bright bo boys at Universal Uni- Uni versal must have ha sat up tIp nights on this one In the advance ballyhoo on The Black Cat the new horror opus to which Boris Frankenstein Karloff and Bela Dracula Lugosi have contributed ed cd theIr talents is a word one description de- de of the picture It is o NO O. O 1 ENEMY Leslie Howard gets out his pannIng pIpe for his pet national nuisance The No 1 Enemy ot of the Theater he says is the person who cats a bIg hearty meal just before going to a show Playgoers should eat eal after ater the show instead o of stuffing themselves with a lot ot of food and then rushing frantically to the theater Mr Howard Howard How How- ard says lIt III the latter fashionable man man- ncr ner they generally sIt in misery for lor two hours suffering from indigestion tion or struggling to 10 overcome the natural drowsiness that food lood promotes pro pro- motes he believes And what chance has the poor actor act in the face of such obstacles he demanded Give er supper parties not dinner parties i if you want your our guests to enjoy the show a a 0 eo a NEWS AND VIEWS Katharine Hepburn arrived yester- yester yesterday day In New York from the European sojourn she cut short she may maysue maysue sue R K in th the federal courts allegIng al- al breach of con contract collusion arid and restraint in trade the possible possible pos pos- sible suit arises out of the deal by which she was to play Paramount houses on personal appearances Douglas McLean and his wife will leave today for Honolulu hes he's given up acting for the wrIting and supervising end ot of the game game Marie reported improving in health which means she may be back on the job jOD soon her first fir one sCheduled is a Tish story Paramount now has 63 writers on assignment that's a lot of potentIal movies Darryl Za Za- nuck nuci and Roy Joy Del Ruth are going goin on ona a a. bl big game hunting trip as soon as Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is in the can so Zanuck will have hav some use for that newly built trophy room alter after nil all il if ilbe's hes he's lucky Roy D'Arcy's hopes to reenact his orIginal role of the heavy lii In The liThe Merry Widow were dashed yesterday r Irving Irvin Thalberg Thai Thal- berg has decided to elimInate the villain from the new version of the operetta l. l 1500 nuns were guests at a special showing of Little Women Women Wo- Wo men in New York on Monday |