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Show Shfilah Graham. Stars Catch Race Fever At Santa Anita HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 4 They're at It again. Making ploturee? Me racing borsss. From now until March 11, It' Kora horses, horses all the way! I rsfar to Santa Anita and tba movla bl( thou who would sooner run a raro at the beautiful track than win the academy award. Even Mickey Rooney haa suc-cum suc-cum bed to the raotnc fever and owne a box In the grandstand. Wed Aetaire will be In box C-5. (It'a Fred's firat ataeon of racing e waa working laat year and the year before ) George Burn and aide-kick aide-kick Gracle Allen hope to forget their federal court troubles In box UO. Joe E. Brown haa box 114. WsK Disnsy's In B-s. Oecll B. de MlUe C-a. AUn H Iff Wuiur Hunt Stromberg. Carl Laemmls, Joseph Schenrk, Harry Cohen. Mervya Le Roy, Frank Lkryd. Charles Rogers. David Butler. Myron Rehuuck. Woody Van Dyke. Jock Whitney. Alfred G Wynne Vsndsrbilt, Hal Roaoh and many snore. Blng Crosby is hoping to win the H0O.0OO Santa Anita handicap with Ligaroti if Louis B. Meyer's Peri-fox Peri-fox doesn't beat him. Alfred Van-darbilt Van-darbilt has a string of 20 horses In residence. Star of the Jock Whitney stable Is Flying Fox. Chary aa Tlpe Even the writers are not Immune from the horse fever, and Robert Rlskln is hoping thst his Red Corn end Alex ths Grsat will do tha thoroughbred thor-oughbred thing by him .and win trough, money to pay for their feed. Personally. I am a little shy of placing plac-ing my S3 bets on film-owned equinoa. I still remember wtth great sadness Clark Gable's Bevsr- ly Hills, which created the record of always being iset in his first and last Santa Anita season. Touring the acts. . . . "Plans Number Num-ber 4" (a new title la wanted for this epic starring Oary Grant and Jean Arthur). , . . The story of "Plane Number 4" Is true. Director Direc-tor Howard Hawk beard it whan recently In South America. On his rsturn to Hollywood hs dictated a six-pags script and gave It to Darryl Zanuck. While Zanuck waa reading It, Hawks wsnt over to Columbia to discuss with Harry Conn the directorship of "Golden Boy." "I didn't want to do It." Hawks tells ms, "and Conn said. Have you anything else In mind?' I left a copy of my story with him and went to Frank Capra'a office to say 'Hello.' As I waa leaving ths studio, Cohn sent word he had bought tha story and I could start directing next day with Jsaa Arthur Ar-thur and Cary Grant. Title Suggested When I got home, Darryl Zanuck telephoned that ha bad bought ths story and there was a similar message mes-sage from Jack Warner. But of courss I had already sold It to Cohn." I have a title for your picture, pic-ture, Howard. Why not call It "My Lucky Day"? "Blondia Steps Out." . . . Daisy, the dog. is really a mala, but doesn't mind playing a female role for a salary of 1S0 a week. (His owner picked him up for J5 ) . . . Blondie Penny Singleton the erstwhile brunette Dorothy McNuKy, tells ms her dark hair roots ara dyed every six days and assures ms it is extremely ex-tremely beneficial to her crowning glory. I doubt it. But thsrs is no question that being a blonde has Increased In-creased the little actress' appeal 100 per cent. "Changing from a brunette to a blonde nearly ruined my marriage," Penny tells me. When her husband said, "No, you can't dye your hair," Penny used strategy. Every day she lightened her locks dns shade only, so that by ths tlms she was a "blondie" her husband was acclimatised to the change! After this picture Penny does a personal appearancs tour, receiving t.TOOO a week for six weeka "It's the most I sver earned," she croons ecstatically. "With the money I'll buy a house for ths family and an annuity for my daughter (Dorothy Grace), who would liks to follow Daisy's precedent and play "Baby (Boy) Dumpling" in the series. "Only," says Penny regretfully, "I don't suppose the fans would stand for it." Would you? |