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Show I frJi JjBl Candid Shot of a Man Doing a CoVm: Harold Lloyd is no sissy, but he plays with a doll. The toy has an interesting and tragic history. Harold Har-old was a long-time friend of Lillian Leitzel, the lovely circus aeriallst. She fell to her death In Copenhagen several years ago while performing her famed act . . . Her mother took the costume in which Lillian was killed and cut It up into mementos me-mentos for the star's closest friends . . . Some received pin-cushions, others got similar tiny tokens . . . Lloyd was sent a little doll from the material. It is one of his treasured treas-ured possessions. Croucho Marx was singing the praises of one of the movie firms recently. re-cently. "They're absolutely tops!" he said. "When they make a lousy picture none of the other film companies com-panies can come near it!" Have a Debunker: Novelist Rose Wilder Lane told a reporter she isn't earning money because she doesn't want to pay income tax to support government agencies, Including the Writer's War board . . . Lady, the writers who work for that board take no fees for their work. The taxes may pay salaries of people you dislike, but taxes also support the army, navy and marine corps, which protect Americans such as Rose Wilder Lane. Have some irony: "Strange Fruit," the exciting novel which has been banned in Boston (the cradle of Yan-keeism), Yan-keeism), was written by a Southerner Southern-er and preaches equality . . . The current Magazine Digest credits Sid Sheldon with the anecdote about "Tootsie Rolls" being on a Russian menu. "Tootsie Rolls?" asked the guest. "What's Tootsie Rolls?" . . . The reply: "Lend-Lease!" . . . When it appeared here months ago the locale was Italy . . . Will Mr. Sheldon kindly forward the check he took for that one to the Red Cross? . . . That's peachy. "The Adventures of Mark Twain" movie makers had considerable material ma-terial to go on because Mark Twain is one of the few modern authors who had more books written about him than those he wrote. Mr. Twain wrote 24 volumes. He had 305 written writ-ten about him . . . Bert Six, the movie photographer, was taking a likeness of a character. "Okay," said Bert, "I've finished. You can look unpleasant again" . . . Jimmy Starr's book, "The Corpse Came C. O. D.," is a click . . . Paul Hen-reid Hen-reid ' and Hedy Lamarr were rehearsing re-hearsing love technique for scenes in "The Conspirators" . . . Mrs. Henreid was watching with others . . . She got a howl when she called out: "Paul, you ought to try that kissing technique at home some time!" ... Of all things: Radio station itPAS in Hollywood interrupts, inter-rupts, their midday preacher with race results! Love Letter Dep't: The colyum thanks the Poly Spotlight's Instructor Instruc-tor of Journalism (of Riverside, California) Cal-ifornia) for the press pass. It reads: "Press Club, Poly Spotlight. Reporter's Re-porter's Pass. This certifies that Walter Winchell is a member of the Journalism classes of The Riverside Polytechnic High School, and a staff reporter for 'The Spotlight.' All courtesies cour-tesies extended for obtaining or forwarding for-warding news will be appreciated. Signed: F. Wayne Coons (Journal-1 (Journal-1 ism instructor) and Bill Cornwell, editor." The pass expires in 1950. Thank you very much. But by 1950 you boys and girls will be mak- ing and writing the news . . . However, How-ever, I wiD always treasure it, and tack it on the back of my wheel chair. Bob Dunn, one of the better cartoonists, car-toonists, sends this Bed-time Story to Keep the Baby Awake: A Big Front Door who was a Daddy Door had a Little Son who was a Little Door. So the Daddy Door wanted to measure meas-ure the Little Door to see if he was growing. So he stood the Baby Door up against a Boy and marked on the Boy's neck, how high the Baby Door was. And that's why all children should wash their necks. Now go to sleep, d'ya hear? At a stuffy motion picture party, Rosalind Russell was approached by a grande dame who said maliciously, malicious-ly, "What lovely pearls! Are they genuine?" Rosalind nodded. "Of course, you can always tell by biting them," said the cat, "Here, let me see." "Gladly," said Rosalind, proffering proffer-ing the jewels. "But remember, you can't tell real pearls with false teeth." The trailer for Warner's "In Our Time" (now in some local theaters) reads: "See it with someone you love." When this is flashed on the i screens all the unescorted girls out front groan . . . Starlet Eleanor Parker of that studio has a pup that performs a cute trick. She says to it: "Which'd you rather be a dead dog or an actor waiting for a break?" . . . The dog rolls over and plays dead . . . "Diplomacy," says Jack Warner, "is cutting the other fellow's throat without using sharp words." |
