Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-07 | Page 17 | Marlene Cuts Salary Demand. but Takers Still Hold Aloof

THERES THERE'S NO FEUD ON THIS SETI SET L ii UA w l k WA WI I I Bette Belie Davis and Henry Fond y Fonda They refuse to feud with Director Direct r William Wyler Wyer ri right ht- ht on the Jezebel set because the director kno knows ws best Marlene Cuts Salary Demand But Takers Still Hold Aloof By SHEILAH GRAHAM Copyright 1938 for The Telegram HOLLYWOOD Jan 7 Marlene 7 Dietrich whose asking price per picture was as recently as last month has brought the figure down to But the takers are still shy The foreign market which used to yield the profits on Hollywoods Hollywood's pictures has slipped to zero zero zero-ex- ex excepting England and South Africa- Africa due to political unrest Dorothy Parker of the never come back to Hollywood Parkers returns to town any edition and parks her typewriter typewriter type- type writer at Metro Al Jolson's favorite speech speech I I have in the bank so why worry vorry There seems to be something something something some some- thing in what he says Houses ne' ne next t to those owned by film stars are rented at double the usual rates They're nice houses houses if if you youcan youcan youcan can get them The gre great t s surprise on the Warner Warner War War- Varner ner lot is that Willie Wyler is not feuding with his film puppets He Is up against two people who will not be feuded with Bette with Bette Davis who says The director knows best and Henry Fonda the most easy going actor in Hol Hol- lywood Executives in a studio studio not not Twentieth Twentieth Fox Century are making bets that hat the singing voice credited to simone Simon in Love and Hisses is s not her own P. P S. S It is Director Tod Browning Invites his mystery film writers to a lobster dinner the evening before a new epic is written And the next morning morning morn- morn ing ng incorporates their nightmares into nto the story Two sporting expressions that are invariably Incorrectly used in pictures pictures- pictures Behind Behind the eight ball and For my dough Old timers in Hollywood still talk of the method used by Joan Crawford Crawford Crawford Craw Craw- ford to break the news of her di divorce divorce dl- dl vorce to Douglas Fairbanks Jr She called representatives of the press to her home introduced them to the mystified Douglas and said We Weare Weare Weare are getting a divorce Just like that Carole Carob Lombard pays the smallest house louse rental of any star star a month which is no money at all in language Stan Laurel sent over his dog to play with his children currently in the custody of Mrs Laurel But the dog bit Mrs Laurel and she is suing both the he dog and her divorced husband I Ifor for or damages Shirley Temples Temple's f favorite a v o 0 r I 1 t to e Christmas Christinas present was a solid gold old police badge illuminated with a karat four-karat diamond the gift of her favorite person person Dill Bill Robinson Robin Robin- son David Is again offering Paulette Paillette Goddard the therole therole therole role of Scarlette in Gone With the Wind but hut Paulette is still demanding and on account account ac BC- count of being a very ery determined young oung woman she will probably get it Looking over an old movie program program program pro pro- gram of The Great Gatsby I found the thc name of William Powell I in the small part of a villain There is now talk of reviving the Scott Fitzgerald best seller with Powell this time in the leading role Errol Flynn is La once again dreaming dreaming dreaming dream dream- ing of a trip to the great open dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- places He rarely gets beyond beyond beyond be be- yond New York last years year's trip to Spain is an exception But he swears that just as soon as Robin RobinHood RobinHood RobinHood Hood is in the can he will charter charter charter char char- ter the biggest yacht on the Pacific and voyage to South America Ill I'll be seeing you Errol Errol-at Errol at Santa Monica Mon Mon- ica