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Show Loan of Gable Contingent on Role as Rhett By SHEILAH GRAHAM (Copyright, 137, for The Telegram.) HOLLYWOOD, Dec. A gadabout's gad-about's notebook: There is a little matter of $100.-000 $100.-000 holding up the divorce of Const Con-st sncelJertnettiandher Marquis de la Falaise ... Willie Wyler want sto direct Simone Simon in her next film which ia tantamount to telling you he is in love with her. George Raft and Virginia Pino ejuarreled but loudly t th Brown Derby a few night ago . . The unwritten clause In David Heisnlrk's new producing deal with M-G-.M was the loan of Clark Gable for that mythical Rhett Butler role ("Gone With the Wind"). There is leas kissing in films manufactured man-ufactured during the winter by order of the insurance companies which pay when players are bedded with California colds. Errol Flynn ia reported to have lost his sense of humor and can't take the ribbing of coemoters Olivia da HavUland-aiid Basil Rath bone. (Olivia calls bim "Old Gallows Face") Incidentally. Rathbone's college graduate son Is now visiting his parents par-ents and trying to decied on a career. ca-reer. And so he ia going to work three months aa an actor, three months aa an aaaiatant director, three months assisting a cameraman camera-man and three months in the cutting cut-ting room. After this thorough picture pic-ture course ha will decide which branch of It he prefers. He is lucky in bis choice of fathers. Ginger Rogers wants ber next film to ba In technicolor. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. baa ahot aeveral tinted stills of Ginger, which she prefers to her "black and white" self . . . ftonja Henlo gets a percentage per-centage on her picture which ara the hlggeat money makers of all the Hollywood product. This explaina why Honk la Insured for a total of ts.ooo,ooo. A quote from Barbara Stanwyck: "I am not going to marry Robert Taylor." Well, we ahall soon see . . If you are Intereated. Shirley Temple Tem-ple has four upper and four lower of her permanent teeth. Several mothers here have told me this is quite unusual for a child of 8. Is it? Donald Crisp, who has worked with Garbo in several pictures, hss this to say of Hollywood's famous recluse. re-cluse. Her genuine shyness was intensified in-tensified because of her inability to speak the American language when ahe first came here. And ahe haa never quits mastered it for evervday use. Criap tnM mo that wheal Oarha la ready to leave for that castle In Sweden aha will go very quietly and without any public announcement announce-ment of retirement The only reason rea-son aha la still continuing to work la to recoup the g4 00,000 lost when a certain Beverly Hllla bank cloaed Ita doora a few years ago. Garbo has always kept her money in liquid cash, so that aha can pick it up at once, if ahe wants to. (And if it Is still there!) |