Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1931 — Page 22

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N.Y. PARAMOUNT i IS HECKLED 8Y SCREEN-STRUCK Big Film Company Deals Daily With Many Odd Queries. By Timet Special NEW YORK, June 18.—Various and peculiar are the telephone calls which come into the home office of a big film company like Paramount from people who have the interests ©f the screen business at heart, but have their facts slightly muddled. No matter who is the star, director or producer about whom the caller wishes to make inquiries, Paramount is usually the company which is heckled about the matter. Why isn’t Janet Gaylor put into more pictures? That's one indignant query. The questioner is respectfully referred to the company which employs the winsome Janet. What is the next picture in which Paramount is going to present Greta Garbo? The devoted Garbo fan is politely told that another company is deciding the destinies of Greta. So it goes, with not a day passing that doesn't hold at least one slightly batty call from outside, either to voice some suggestion which is quite impractical, or to find out the whereabouts of some producer whose address is quite accessible in the telephone book. Tribute to Company In a way it is a tribute to the wide recognition of the name of Paramount as identified with the film business, so the calls are answered considerately, knowing that the fan is really paying a compliment even when he blunders. Perhaps the most astonishing of Much calls occurred during the past week, when an excited feminine voice rang up and stated, in no uncertain terms, that she was Marlene Dietrich. She was quite positive about it, although the ParaYnount staff was equally certain that there must be some mistake, since Marlene was definitely known to be in Hollywood making her next film, "The Lady of the Lions.” But they listened deferentially, and it turned out that it was exactly on this matter of the European beauty's whereabouts that the indignant call was being made. Imposture Errs “I am here in New York,” the speaker said, in a voice of broken English which those who had heard Marlene's fluent command of the tongue would scarcely confuse with, her enunciation. "I am calling to tell you what a foolish mistake has been made. The papers all say I am in Hollywood since I came back from Europe. Ha! Such a foolishness! I have been in New York all the time.” "Where are you staying?” asked the Paramount man, trying not to pound too skeptical. "At the Baltimore hotel,” replied the caller, and then when her listener repeated the name incredulously, she seemed to gather lhat there was no such hotel in New York, and that no foreigner would be likely to make such a mistake. “Wait a minute. I put my secretary ©n —she knows where I am better than I do.” Screen Struck Mimics So the secretary, who spoke very good English, took the wire, overlooking the fact that Marlene did

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not bring a feminine secretary here from abroad. The amanuensis explained that Madame was slightly confused —she was really at the Biltmore. But the Paramount man hung up with the conviction that if this was Marlene Dietrich, then he was Julius Ceasar, Mussolini and the long-lost Dauphin of France combined. The call brought up recollections of the occasion not long since when a young wom.an in New York allowed the impression to get abroad that she was Greta Garbo, secretly in the city, and was pointed out at first nights and in her hotel as the languorous beauty—until someone

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called up Greta in. Hollywood and choked off the masquerader’s fame. The Dietrich aspirant seemed to have made a bet with friends that she could set the Paramount offices in a fever by her popular parlor specialty of mimicking Marlene. Or else#she hoped to crash into films by imitating Miss Dietrich —for such devious ways are sometimes taken by the screen-struck. Speaks Fluent French Ruth Chatterton experiences no difficulty with her few French lines in her new Paramount starring picture, "The Magnificent Lie,” for she speaks, reads and writes the language fluently.

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