Show Languorous Betty Grable’s temper flares when she is asked to comment on Hus band Jackie Coogan's court battle with his mother manding— a ’few modest thousands to endow homes for friendless skunks or to complete perpetual motion machines Worse is the odd assortment of people who besiege her front door The star also is weary of being called a glamor girl protesting that she never was one and hopes to die if she ever will be but the reputation stic's is Myrna Loy Huns Also irked by dreds of stories have been written about her on the "perfect wife” Angle since she was the amiable spouse in "The Thin Man" Richard Greene got his first dose of American publicity called him "Dimples” but when a local-papeafter a brief snort of indignation he decided to forget it and hope everyone else would too Simone Simon made the mistake of snapping Her at intejviewers when she first arrived she couldn’t is that speak good apology now English and was unfamiliar with press procedure Her temperament was exaggerated she said and when it is hinted that her frequent illshe has a nesses were not always Simon-pur- e herself hard time restraining "They acted like a pack of wolves!” she said tag-line- r By Lucie Neville HOLLYWOOD movie people really suffer for their Or for their publicity which is the same thing Theirs is the anguishing choice of THE impudent questions and being or not answering them and being called snooty Few are adroit enough to be both evasive and charming But few are impulsive enough J when prodded in a sore spot ‘to punch a detractor in the nose or drag him into court Practicilly every player has a sore spot or two and these may be found almost anywhere — and in almost any degree of soreness An acanswering "The first time I was sick somebody furiously Simon’s studio hopes her illness ‘Miss wrote is not trivial’ ” The “Get Simone" campaign reached almost national proportions and now she avoids interviews like the plague She is equally suspicious of all strangers especially those who she thinks are trying to get in her good graces “I hate affected people and people who lie” she said coldly “There are plenty of them in Hollywood but you always find out the lies” ' tress who will tell how much money she makes and why she quarrels with her husband may hit the rafters if asked whether her hair is bleached- - An actor who doesn’t mind divulging his age and the facts that he sleeps raw and snores dreadfully may freeze when questioned whether he really sang in his last picture Sometimes like Robert Taylof’ they’re just terribly terribly tired of false rumors A few like Fred Astaire arc touchy about their Loretta Young will domesticity talk for hours about her Judy but children his two in Robert Montgomery includes AJsorhe’s beginning to get touchy about fa Recently— and announced broke out in a rash of that Taylor had a new heart interest and that Barbara Stanwyck was now second choice The report was based wholly on a glimpse of Taylor at a crowded soda fountain as he chatted with - a girl studio employee who happened to sit next to him The actor entered and left the store Martha Raye is plenty tired of having her mouth hailed as the "wide Robert Montgomery (right) is pleasant to interopen spaces" but don’t try to get him to talk about his children and his viewers alone "Yes Nicky" Clark Gable the best-natur- of actors sel dom is disturbed at anything printed or said flagrantly untrue and un- commentis "Well how strongest flatteringhis do ya like that?” and adds "They have to about him make a living If it is too” However he is much annoyed at the recurHe seldom takes a rent rumors of his death day off without being reported shot drowned or killed in a car accident These forebodings of doom are getting on his nervesNot only is it a nuisance to answer the telephone at mid - F'EW of the players air their pet peeves to court but £onstance Bennett is one who will do todre than just resent the allegation Martha Raye also decided to tell it to a judge because ahe is tired qf having' comparisons of her mouth stretched beyond all proportions Recently she asked an injunction against a magazine to prevent— its— using an— olLicture-©- f her posed with” a chimpanzee in an contest What really hurts she said are the small ‘ family life say they have jplit Mane ever since she was known I’ve “Why a kid" Grinde said indignantly "Caught her 1 running around barefoot in Anaheim and was crazyabout her long before she ever got in Isn’t that right?" he demanded of movies Marie Miss Wilson looked adoring and said now he’s broke?" In the indignant wives section Alice Faye Bette Davis and Maureen O'Sullivan are touchiest Anybody who doesn’t like Tony Martin Harmon Nelson or John Farrow had better keep quiet about it Miss Faye still boils when she recalls how people advised her before her marriage to drop Tony and go with stars who were her “professional equals” Mrs John Farrow’s silent wits has about ended treatment with would-b- e e the of "O’Sullivan's Heel” Mrs “Ham” Nelson who has a fine temper and i rakish vocabulary would like to get her hook who said she paid for the on the flowers her husband gave her Marjorie Weaver is glad that people have almost stopped asking about her reported ma“It was a good story for a while" the rriage amiable Kentucky Babe said “but it’s just copy now I didn’t get mad The first thing I said about it was ‘I’m not married’ and I still say it "I am getting a little tired though of having people say ‘Oh you were a beauty contest winner weren't you?' What really wean me down is the story about the mule kicking me and breaking its leg” tag-lin- thus-and-- though she knows her friend Mary Livingstone flares when anybody recalls that she used to be Sadie Marx Iftn Dunne patiently explains that she never Sang at the Metropolitan she was only soloist u series of concerts whose orchestra was recruited from the Met’s musicians BuLshe shies away from reminiscing about road-shodays aw dates Lola Lane doesn’t mind talking about past history but she has a horror of being && interpreted ‘ Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine their being freeze up when anyone remarks on o sisters Rosalind Russell is sick and tired people noting her resemblance to Myrna I!' Another who doesn't care for mention of markw resemblance is Douglas Fairbanks Jr He cant escape comparisons of appearance and tyP® roles with his father Both Loretta Young and Ginger Roger an Young n about legs Miss always wears her skirts as long a's possible Rogers squashed her studio’s campaign to licize her legs as the most beautiful m H° -- romance-ttimorsr- rumor-houn- Martha'" Also entangled in a parental suit was Betty Grable who dodged reporters asking for details of Jackie Coogan’s money fight Newshawks transferred their probing to his wife when young Coogan’s lawyers advised silence but -- she only said "1 have nothing to say" However she will reply volubly and angrily when asked “Are you going to stick to Jackie boy fired don't believe it tag-lin- when this suit is bad publicity for you she said of the pet peeves are such minor affairs Myrna Loy wishes people would forget about Tier posing for the statue that stands in front of Venice High School Madge Evans cheerfully admits being the little girl -the Fairy Soap ads but doesn’t elaborate on it Marlene Dietrich is furious if anyone mecook ntions that she is a good mother and a good — which she is Her chocolate cakes would wu county fair prizes Joan Bennett is still up®1 over a story that she refused to ride in a botd elevator with other passengers and had an flexed his muscles and stuck out his chin and his ‘chest Also he went into the ring and swapped punches with professional pugs But now he’s openly resentful of this virility business thinks it’s being over emphasized un- Iil it makes him look silly ft's almost as bad e as the formerly used by dazzled female interviewers — "Beautiful Bob Taylor" WILSON and her director fiance Grinde the most devoted of Hollywood couples are embarrassed and irritated rt jlfOST his strict taboo on any mention of his Tnvale life Robert Taylor showed the spirit of an early Christian martyr when his studio began shouting "Look I He isn’t a sissy 1” in its campaign to n For a while ha make him a public MARIE Mi suing her for Raye said she had been giving him $50 a week ever since she began to make top money and still is doing so "But it doesn’t make you feel any better when all your pals say ‘You know her father was night to say "No I’m still alive" but the rumor is distressing to his friends After "a recent trip with the Jisual death-rep- ort Carole Lombard said "I think you’d better telephone me every hour the next time you’re away" Miss Lombard is a taboo topic in Gable in- malicious digs one columnist takes at her about slinging money away on “dozens of fur coats and othea finery Actually she has two fur coats a white fox and an undistinguished browri one and vice versa But with trusted correspondents they sometimes talk about each other Also on her silent list is her salary reputedly $600000 a year Whenever it’s mentioned in print letters pour in asking — or de-terviews These cracks were particularly annoying when ‘ i H V ) ( tqo-thi- t wood by refusing to okay nine out of graphs which displayed the v - 1 saijd limbs 0 P10®’ -- |