Show Sui 2 Stintla) Morning a A Vo(t u ill avenm tonne' the o unt-- S uranc Hornf om tl Care Pity the weary star for the help expects to entertain plenty — and to be entertained 15 V ¥ AS Lucie ieille HOLLYWOOD HOLLA WOOD'S private life grows quieter the greater looms its But the difficulty servant problem isn’t in beeping good servants it's in keeping up with them and their ideas of the social pace a movie star should set There’s many a gifted chef who sulks in the kitchen because his employer wants snacks instead of banquets many a gentleman’s gentleman who too rarely lays out white tie and tail coat? Maids go on shopping tups for nibticsses who are too busy to pick out their own hats and chauffeuis mournfully polish limousims that are driven only to premieres It’s chsupixunting to them becuu one of the biggest attractions about working for the movie players is the chance to bask in reflected But how they ask can they bask when glory the star doesn't want to go out and slime? Lew Ayres’ chef and major domo Joe is one of the saddest cases of wasted genius He desperately “Aren't we going to have anjifcocj for dinner tonight?” Sometimes "anybody” means even Ayres who has been woik-in- g steadily for months and eats pci haps four meals a week at his house No bicakfast no luncheon no dmmr parties— small womhr that Joe gloomily practices making icing rosebuds and mayonnaise squills rit night in lus empty An aitet meek an audience shilling kitchen and Joe is undeniably an aitht Once a chef in distinguished continental hotels he has his own kit of spec lal tools fiom Ayres' chctnc pastry tubes to dm k piess asks mixer simply rusted away fiom disuse scorned who even makes his own gelatins for salads and who shops intensively for each clove of garlic It’s an insult to ask him for just a sandwich Joe’s sandwiches are woiks of art suitable for framing Actually he docs phoother tograph them and masterpieces m food them on postcards to send hack to repunting his relatives in what was Czechoslovakia as pi oof that sometimes his employer docs put on a little dog and enteitain movie royalty Tavorcd guests also receive food plvotos Joe being an ardent camera fan hut the only disadvantage about this hobby is' that having a deal of expensive equipment he keeps the house barred like a bank vault Ayres can’t go out and turn around without being locked out but he was somewhat compensated by a Christmas piesent of a stercopticon — Joe gave it to him so he could really appreciate the photos of pastries and spun sugar towers in three dimenby Joe sional views When be docs get a chance to compose ip something besides bread and butter the Czech chef really has a time for himself and heaven If help the guest who doesn’t eat everything one refuses anything on the serving platter Joe barely represses a snort sighs heavily and menacingly pokes the platter under the diner’s nose It isn’t refused twice distinctions OLRVANT-CLAS- S k- -' 1 lollyvvood and there is no are sharp in chance of there ants’ ball as being a yeaily Native-bor- n white there is in New York colored servants are in the minoiity here servants the majonty and there is a sprinkling of Chinese Filipino Mexican and any numupper-crust-ser- v ber of European nationalities Harry Caiey for years has employed only Navajo Indians at his Saugus ranch Cobh household is 7 lie Gail Paliick-Bob now with a colored couple successors to a french cook and an T nghdi hoy who c emildn’t agree cm the foreign situation her marriage Miss Patrick had a colon d Care maid whose Malapropnms linger on smoother fully coached to address the visiting Maharajah of Indore as “Your Highness” the awed maid gave beautiful service but called him "Mr Highness” As owner of Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurants Cobb is accustomed to deference and with Robert Montgomery is one of the movie few bosses called strict by the standaids He's one of the few too who hire from Sometimes the servants are inherited agencies as are Fay Bainter’s Czech couple who "came ’ the house she rented fiom Gregory with IiCava May Robson employs a house couple and a personal maid all hailing from the same part of the south and vaguely kin to all the others she has had in years of stage and screen work One who has inherited stars on the other hand is Blanche Jean Harlow’s personal maid for six years After her death the maid worked for Miss Harlow's mother then came back to the Metro lot with Eleanor Powell When Hedy Lamarr arrived at Metro she offered the maid more salary than the Powell budget could meet so Blanche again is working for the movies’ Number One Glamor Girl When Greta Garbo left for Europe her colored maid Hazel was liiied by Rosalind Russell On her return Miss Garbo asked to 'Hazel come back but was told gently “Oh I couldn’t do that madam I’m working lor Miss Russell now" Her employer is relieved because Hazel knows exactly which telephone caller to stall and which to tell where Miss Russell may be reached she shops for hose and gloves and knows which accessories are to he laid out In her for a favoiite costume spaic time the maid dqes leather work and presents stars with hand tooled pictuie frames and tig tret boxes Joan Crawford has one in blue her favorite easy-gom- g olor Lulu Rc-foi- (huge of n i anging (Copy! feci ?- - 1 Mitro's mation who has Jinn in stats’ diessing rooms for 13 years their flowets and sorting their mail Ilit IV 5 by EveijVVrtU Magazine) hankerchiefs and appearing rabbits work Director Wood’e VanDyke's stiff climaxwhin with him without even cueing as he called ing a heated argument with a guest "Annie have we any cya maid and said I want some for Mr anide? drink” Annie never hatted an tv merely the said respectfully "I’ll see what we hue in knows just what type of servant Miss Gaibo wants and hires them for her Imitating her idol she adopted the Swedish star’s diet for anaemia drinking quarts of vegetable juices and also follows her rule of silence — Lulu doesn’t talk about Miss Garbo any more than the star herself does 1) ECOMMENDATIONS from other play-ei- s are more valued than agency okays because the movip colony knows whaf partly each other wants and how much they want to Florence Rice’s maid Mattie B was hired six years ago after service with Phillips Holmes Maureen O’Sullivan’s maid was pay doubly valuable to Joan Crawford while the latter was studying French the maid had an easy time because the star grimly did all the chores she couldn’t ask done in French A colored maid Alice also worked for Miss Crawford for eight years succeeded for a while by Mabel who departed with a license and her employer's blessing T he set was a madhouse the afternoon of Mabel's graduation with Miss Crawford cheerfully hunting her own shoes and powder puffs while her maid was away receiving her diploma Lewis Bennett her chauffeur for 10 years named his daughter Joan and Miss Crafu went on a shopping spree for baby clothes and paid for special nurses as well beauty-operator- 's movie servants have about time of any domestic employes in the world Stms are generous with wages gifts clothes and time-of- f and notonoufly easyIn many house holds the servants going aie e characters who can part of the art YCTUALLY stooge or ud lib as smoothly ‘ns they sirve a dinner Claiie revor's conk Maicclo C main is as will— a professional one for 13 years — and astonishes gin sis with vanishing 1 a magician house Mr VanDyke" boM Tliere is a certain fiiendslup belwicn and hired help that has few par vlli Is fired cmne back or deserting for other reasons tinny colored to their jobs as did Ray Mill iiid's couple tvhose business venture ot a Harlem meed The actor lnd dance hall Hopped y and it hut he took thfm hack cheerfullv has them for life Walter Pigeon’s Filipino boy hid Joint to tie tiouble because his wife dt voted lcir Ml he whin Pigeons left her husband bhe nlmn'd nf service to open a cafe when the cook his restaurant a fiihm reinstated Ann Sheridan is another who employ fin pob-abl- but the cook she pun ukmgly instructed in the art of fiylug ihM'11 ias rihpino servants 1 s a southern sui ibly as ‘hick to have the fryers served u cacrinttori complete with onions g icniem di take nii little Another tomaldes aary bv bered in Hollywood was mark o a tor s fnche Cooper s butler during the mne c for an a Irr days the kummel ordered hair onic Lreniel liqueur turned out to he to Du married Cecelia Parker recently rprised 11 Baldwin and very much Mis Nr" v"f nn a dace of hi'r own found even loo much to lie up to mfr cook and ft rub and do oilier iMn rho Filipino hmiseboy foil ilde in K and finally dismissed I m him K n |