| Show f By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union THERES THERE'S THERES been a bit of throwing knife-throwing going on in Hollywood and its it's been none too oo good for the nerves of the spectators who are scheduled to o act as targets Paulette Goddard is trying her hand at atI atit atit it I in in preparation for her role in Cecil B B. B DeMille's North NorthWest NorthWest West Mounted Police She is scheduled to play Louvette whom Mr DeMille described as a combination of Circe Desdemona Carmen and anda a black panther She always alway gets getsler her ler man and throwing knife Is it part of her menace So she shei been blen practicing around the studio Its It hard work work she complained the other day Im afraid Ill I'll knock off oil a finger or chop chopoff chopoff of off a toe before Im I'm through Probably my toe gloomily prophesied Bob Hope who's work Ing with her in The Ghost Breakers Break Break- ers And over at Warner Brothers' Brothers Steve Clemento is also hurling I knives in a corner of the set for Torrid Zone An expert he J t fix No BETTE BETIE DAVIS easily flips a knife Into a wall 15 IS paces away James Cagney and Pat OBrien O'Brien stopping to watch him noticed that there were two chalk marks on the wall less than six Inches apart part and that thai the knife went whistling neatly between them What do those marks mean asked OBrien answered Clemento Those represent your our head blad and nd Mr Ir Cagney Cag- Cag neya ney They'll be that close together torether er when I throw a knife between them for lor the picture 4 Bette Davis owns her own home at last She's been in Hollywood for nine years and lived In a different different dif dlf dif dif- ferent home each year year year-she's she's never owned a house a ranch or even a vacant lot But before beginning All This and Heaven Too she bought what the salesman called An American farm house she says it reminds her of her childhood home in New England Its It's Just five minutes from the studio Its It's also Just a little too near the Los Angeles river which overflowed its banks a few years ago washing away several homes In the vicinity t f Martha lartha Scott and William holden two of or the stars In Sol Lessers Lesser's Our Town consumed 3 32 strawberry strawberry straw straw- berry Ice cream sodas lodas during the making of or the love scenes for the picture and at the moment wouldn't care If they never saw another nother one But Frank rank Craven who finished 10 cans of or tobacco In his pipe during his scenes Just went out and bought more for lor his personal use Theres There's an entire Hollywood novel In a press announcement that was sent out a while ago before Linda Darnell started east Miss Darnell will be accompanied to New York by her mother Mrs Margaret Darnell Dar Par nell it stated but her father who Is a clerk cllrk in the Dallas post office will remain on the Job back in Texas Apparently even the fame of his very beautiful daughter doesn't dazzle Mr Darnell tr Priscilla and Rosemary Lane received received received re re- a substantial otter offer to become platinum blondes blondes and and turned I It down A representative of more than hairdressers made It he said that a scheme is being promoted promoted pro pro- mated to revive the platinum blonde craze Introduced by the late Jean Harlow and that several other stars tars are being approached with the same offer It includes Include a royalty in addition to the flat fiat advance sum 1 Recently the students of Blue Ridge college New Windsor Md laid selected Albert Dekker as the Perfect Per feet lect Profile of 19 1940 O. O Dekker won a narrow victory over Nelson Eddy the girls selected him because his was the profile that impressed them most when they inspected the photographs photo graphs of the contestants which included every male star in Holly wood What they didn't know was the man they chose as appears in his current picture Dr Cyclops with his head shaved and his nose I obscured by a pair of glasses |
