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Show Chaplin's Wit Spikes Query On Film Part By RHRII.AH fJRAHAM Copyright. lST. for The Telegram HOU.YWOOD. Oct. 0 Charlie Chaplin was tslephonad by a London Lon-don newapaper wanting to know whether Paulette Uoddard waa playing Brsrlett In "Gone with ths Wind" "No, aho Is not." replied the comedian emphatically. "I am." ' Incidentally, Paulsttt I now making mak-ing the rounds with the Earl of Warwick and declaiming that nothing on earth could indue her to accept the part Is this a caaa of sour grapes? Eleanor Powell baa black eye. And It was thought at first to be the gift of Ilona Maasey, her rival for honors In Roaalis." But Investigation In-vestigation proved the shiner an accident from ths elbow of a chorus girl In ths film. Thera wont aw much left of Virginia Vir-ginia Bnsee'e quarter of a mlllle Inheritance tram el-Husband Joha till beet by the ttn tha teeth-earning teeth-earning litigation with Beatrice Joy another former wife at tha lata actor la settled. Tha reaaon Uarbo looks so homely In ths first sequences of "Conquest" la the new toned film used so successfully suc-cessfully with Jeanetta MacDonald in "Flrsfly." Which proves the old adage: One girl's sepia la another girl's looks-dsstroyer. M-O-M spends an annual M.-000.000 M.-000.000 on its product But you would never gueaa It from some of Ita very recent pictures . . . Noah Beery and Wallace Beery have buried their old-time quarrel and are working peaceably together In "Bad Man of Brimstone." t Clark Gable will not go to England En-gland to play that British air fores officer. Publio opinion was against a foreign impersonation. Adolpha Menjou la full af peaal-mlsm peaal-mlsm regarding the stock market situation. Anyway, ha la Beading moat af hia money abroad . , . Frances Farmer and Huatmnd Uef Krlksea are etill dlecuaelng that divorce. William Powell I taking oar of Jean Harlow'a pet dachshund. Ths little fellow Is at present in a boarding kennel but will live with Bill when he return her in November. No-vember. Tyrone Power very nearly missed hi successful career in films. It was Just bsfora "Lloyds of London." and Tyrone had received an offer from Al Woods to do a New York play. Dairyl Zanuck persuaded him to remain la Hollywood Holly-wood and take a chance on tha picture'a success. Which was lucky for Tyrone. The play folded after a four-day run. And "Lloyd of London" Lon-don" resulted In screen stardom. |