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Show Tr King's Whiskers Off Frugal Flora's Funds 7V Wary Pecked the Queen ' Ily Virginia Vale ' DAVID NIVEN is one of the few men in Hollywood who grew a mustache by order of the king of England. He shaved it off the other day by order of Samuel Gold-wyn. Gold-wyn. When he first was assigned to a Guards' regiment of His Majesty's service, young Niv-en Niv-en was officially informed that all officers must be equipped with mustaches. Patiently, sometimes despairingly, he grew one. By the time when he left the army he'd grown so accustomed to it that it seemed like part of his face. But along came his role In "Wuthering Heights," and off came the mustache. That same David Niven can laugh now over a little-known incident In his colorful career, but at the time when it happened it didn't seem particularly funny. When he arrived In New York four years ago, intent on making his fortune but not knowing Just how I fi - ; i ! U 1 DAVID NIVEN he was going to go about it, he registered at a smart hotel. He hadn't much money. Nine days later lat-er he not only had no money, with which to pay his bill he didn't even have enough to get his shirts back from the Chinese laundry where he had taken them. So he made a deal with the laun-dryman. laun-dryman. He'd work for a full day as a deliveryman, in return for the return of his shirts. Two days later in a clean shirt he got a job. ' Flora Kobson, the celebrated English Eng-lish actress whom you'll see also in "Wuthering Heights," didn't have to work for a laundryman to learn the value of money, she just knows it by instinct, and as a result her friends are suffering no end of embarrassment. embarrass-ment. Arriving in Hollywood before be-fore the studio knew that she was there, she went into the first apartment apart-ment house that she saw and took an apartment at $60 a month; and still lives there. She had to have a car, and bought one, for $75. Hollywood is shocked. But Miss Robson says that she has heard too many bitter tales of people who do foolish things there. Madeleine Carroll, who made a gay tour of New York's night clubs before she sailed for Europe, was hailed a while ago, in print, as the only glamour girl ever presented to the king and queen of England at court. Whereupon Mary Pickford, now deeply engrossed in her cosmetic cos-metic business, rose up to correct the impression. She not only was presented at court, she played a trick on the queen. Fearing that the rouge on her freshly made-up lips would slain the royal glove when she kissed it, she touched it with the tip of her nose instead. It sure was a victory fcr somebody some-body when Janet Gaynor was persuaded per-suaded to sign up to do "Mayer-ling" "Mayer-ling" on the air with William Powell. Pow-ell. She had broadcast only once I before, about a year and a half aeo, ! also on the Radio theater. But the IhouRht of the vast unseen audience terrified her. Your correspondent, after appearing appear-ing on Paul Wing's Spelling Beo and winning the large sum of $11.50, can't understand how anybody could have mike fright ODDS AVD ESDSWh.n Barb ara Stanuyck If ft hor ranch and moved into town everybody promptly predicted ifiat the uws preparing to marry Hob-prt Hob-prt Taylor immediately . . . It's sfttlrd that Lubitsrh will direct Greta Garbo in "Xinotchka" . . . Apparently Holly-woodites Holly-woodites are too proud to pawn their valuables at home; the town, since 1928, has had but five pawn xhops . . . 7 he three young men who made "Youth Marches On" at a coH of $175 (it had a five weeks' run on Broadway) gave Hollywood producers somnthing to think about . . . $175,000 would be a mre drop in the bucket to them, for a picrur that ran one-fifth of that time. Z Western Newspaper Union. |