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Show LATEST MOVIE TROTH HELD PICTURE "BAIT" r - Y - r I By 8HEILAH GRAHAM Copyright, 1917, for The Telegram HOLLYWOOD, Jan. Publicity linking Robert Taylor In a romance with Jean Harlow will last aa long aa their Joint picture. The Maa la Possession." But Miss Harlow Is more In love than ever with Bill Powell, who has been reminding her of this fact with a dally corsage f gardenias. And Taylor is equally equal-ly la love with hie career and has no intention of slowing it up with marriage to Miss Harlow or Barbara Bar-bara Stanwyck, whom be still eo-easlonally eo-easlonally escorts to previews aad ' restaurants. Be don't let the fact that Taylor aad Harlow are attending the president's presi-dent's birthday ball in Washington on January so, mislead you Into expecting ex-pecting wedding bells for the couple. It's Just a stunt to lure you into the theater. Franceska Gael, Hungarian actress, ac-tress, will play the feminine lead in Cecil B. DoMtlle's "Buccaneer" . . . . Hollywood's know-alls were es surprised sur-prised as you were with the Howard Hughes Katharine Hepburn romance, ro-mance, deeplte the knowledge' that Hughes frequently acted aa Katie's air chauffeur and flew her to and from Ntw York and to location way back la the "Sylvia Scarlett" oars- - .. .-T Bonlta Granville sooree heavily In another of those horrid Httle girl parts In "Maid of Salem." Aad Claudette Colbert turns In her best Job of acting to date. Tou will like this picture, provided your Imagination Imagina-tion is not too vivid. Personally, X was scared to death by the too reallstlo witchcraft sequences. Following my remarks la this Column that Charlie Chaplin was wavering in his plan to produce "Regency," I hsve been gently taken to task by a friend of the comedian, who Informs me that not only has Major R. V. C Bodley completed the scenario In Its first rough form, but that Chaplin haa recently purchased pur-chased two sound machines, priced 113.000 each. Also that Charlie Is trying to sign Bp Charles Laughtoa for the role c Prince Regent In between theee activities, Chaplin is said to be working oa a story of his owa life. In which he would like to appear on the screen. It will be interesting to see what If anything happens. r JEAN HARLOW AND ROBERT TAYLOR . . . Their names are linked In romance .. , They will attend tha president's presi-dent's birthday ball in Washington, 0. C m And, by mora coincidence, they are costarred in a picture soon to be released. Oracle Fields, highest priced English Eng-lish screen actress, recently signed te a four-picture contract by Twen-' Twen-' tleth Century-Fox, is rumored re-' re-' calving from 1300,000 to $800,000 per film. In spite of which, this pertinent la' doubtful of her success with American audiences. Miss Fields performs meet of her comedy antics la Lancashire dialect But apart from thla handicap, British comediennes rarely make good in Hollywood. Funster Beatrice Lillle flopped badly en her eae aad only full-length film here. Sylvia Sidney hes'oae thing In Common with Peggy Joyce. Both girls drink champagne only . . . Did you know that Ernst Lubltsch was nee upon a time a stage comedian of the Buster Keatoa type? . . . Hugh Herbert's "joke diary contains con-tains 9000 stories, all catalogued end classified according to age, humor aad suitability. Frances Dee narrowly missed In-Jury In-Jury for the second time ea the "Souls at Sea" set She was knocked down by aa actor fighting Henry WUcoxon, and thea waa thrown to ths deck cutting her wrist severely ... At Roland Leigh's cocktail party for Sophie Tucker and Oliver Mae-sal, Mae-sal, Sophie greeted Blnnie Barnes - thuswise: Ton throw me, honey, every time you change your hair." Miss Barnes Is bow la the platinum blonde class. A bad luck jinx continues to delay completion of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." First came the death of Director Richard Boieelasrski. Then George Fltsmaurlee. scheduled to replace him, went down with the flu. Dorothy Arsnsr, next to be awarded the assignment had barely reached the est when Stars William Powell and Robert Montgomery developed de-veloped 101 degree temperatures and were ordered to bed. Most of the other performers, including Joaa Crawford, have held up production pro-duction oa the flu count Someone asked Composer Oscar Levant whether the music of Oeorgs Gershwin would be played 100 years from bow. "Yes if George Is alive," replied Levant (Gershwin Is famous for playing his owa ecm-poaitloaa ecm-poaitloaa any time, any place.) |