Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1937 — Page 23

Page PDF (11.57 MB)

Back to issue view

THURSDAY, AUG. 2,

1937

To Hollywood Studios

Summer Tourists Flock |

But Few Are Admitted

250,000 Visitors Expected in Film Capital During

Month; Stars Find Them Better-Mannered Than Bolder Local Fans

By HOLLYWOOD, 26

is at its height.

Aug.

PAUL HARRISON

(NEA).—The tourist season

Last month brought about 215,000 visitors

to Southern California, and August should roll up a total of a

quarter million.

Practically all of them are celebrity hunt- |

ers; the movie people will testify to that.

It's ists something of a trial for

Actually the folks from Clay

Center and Sioux City are a

lot better mannered than the

brash, insistent vokels. The former merely want to have a look. An out-of-town lady visitor who got into the studios on a sheaf of credentials and written requests was

insistent that she not be introduced |

to any of the stars. Believes She Would Faint

She said, “Good heavens! —if T were to shake hands wiih Tvrone Power or Don Ameche or Clark Gable I'd faint dead away on the spot!” There are few instances in which tourists attempt any strategems to crash studiod gates. Sometimes youngsters scale walls or gain entrance to back lots, and from there they wander around open-mouthed until picked up and ejected by company police. Quite a number seek admittance by claiming to be bosom pals. from home-town days, of plavers. But busy play:rs have short memories. They seldom send word to the gate that thev’ll receive their old friends. My favorite Martha Malloy,

receptionist is one at main entrance at 20th Centurv-Fox. She says that about 300 people daily come in with frank requests to be shown how pictures are made.

She Turns Them Down

For these she has a stock explanation, and a Kindlv one, to the effect that sound stages are crowded with people who have to work on them, that plavers are upset by tiptoeing visitors, and that it is patently impossible to admit everybody. Most visitors take the refusal in good spirit. A few declare that thev'll never again patronize a 20th Century-Fox picture. With fair reason they argue that they're the people who pay admissions, and so daserve a glance behind the scenes. Movie companies realize this fact, and trons’ favor. make friends and too. Fake correspondants for ecut-of-town newspapers presented a real problem until the Motion Picture Producers’

But they make

just can’t pictures,

investigated, imposters exposed, and credentials exiended to qualified reporters.

Bolder Ones Forge Letters

Previously, a studio was likely to receive a dozen visitors daily claimed to be working on special articles for their home-town papers, when all they realiv wanted was the satisfaction of their own curiosity. Quite a few forged let'ers of introduction have been picked up. Some of these letters have been used to get work as extras. bearers claiming that they want te write articles from the extra players’ viewpoint. Such a procedure is now, the new Screen Actors’ code requiring guild membership of

every person to appear before the

cameras.

Recently two burly gents present- |

ed such a letter at 20th CenturyFox. The wording and SHOE ¥ were

| some stationery | sports editor of a Midwestern news- |

fences to |

would like to clinch their pa- |

enly, served cocktails to pupils rehears- | Association established | |

an office from which writers wera | | for her

| day aration for her

who | cut.

the |

impossibla | Guild |

TT.

sheer force of numbers, though, that makes tour- |

the studios and their people.

considerably under journalistic par, | and the men were investigated. They turned out to be a couple of | wrestlers who had appropriated while visiting the]

paper. Lots Closed to Bus Tours

| | | | |

| in the main room and watch film |

players passing through to their |

inner sanctuary, the Indian Room. | marble swimming pools, but almost everv one of the film stars has

Picture previews, restaurants and |!

: { night clubs, and boxing and wres- | prominent |

are the best | stars at close | the |

tling matches. still places to see the range. But of all these spots, Vendome at midday and the Trocadero at night are the only ones invariably patronized by numerous celebrities.

| | |

RATHBONE LEERS AND PLOTS

It's evident from the length of Basil Rathbone's hair polite leer that he is about to perpetrate some suave villainy against which comes to the Lyric screen tomor-

Kay Francis in “Confession,” row,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Movies Do

| | |

(all her New

and that

But None Is String Saver

Times Specinl

HOLLYWOOD, Aug.

| pet economy, publicity men say.

William Powell released his valet two years ago because his shoulders he »

“non-Powellish” whenever | advertising to the contrary, shaves himself with an old-fash- |

| ioned straight razor.

Greta Garbo hires a maid only | for the duration of her picture work. Myrna Loy Knits her own sweaters. Clark Gable and Wallace Beery,

| say their publicity men, save hotel |

Ex-Teacher | Wins Test

Blond Lost Her Job Over Cocktail Party Reports.

Buy United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 26, — » dream of almost every pretty girl in the country will come true to-| morrow for Miss Isabel Hallin, petite Saugus, Mass. blond, when she receives a screen test from Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. | here. Miss Hallin syllable as ‘“‘een’) teacher who lost her

(accent on the last is the school job in Saugus |

last month when parents and take |

board officials understood—mistak= she contends—that she |

ing for a school play. Life, however, has not been dull since, Miss at the hotel where she has | been rehearsing dialogue in prepscreen test. “Naturally, I'm thrilled,” she said, “but really I'd prefer not to say too much until I see how the test turns I also have offers of tests from several other film companies,

tomorrow's comes first.”

Since leaving Saugus, Miss Hallin |

has appeared on a commercial radio program and has been considering other radio work as well as screen test offers which, she said, have displaced her interest in school teaching.

SWIM- DANCE

WESTLAKE

PAUL COLLINS’ yORCHEST FEATURING JENNIFER NEF TER Everv evening MLL Mondav

LY shacks

CoOL 10 | =

Mage EE —

First time here—playing melodies that completely captyvated New York!

§ p

and his

Including

_ MARIO & FLORIA

VIC HYDE

MIRIAM VERNE

® Stanley Worth

® Patricia Norman

o Beautiful, Heart-Throbbing,

ftamous

ORCHESTRA

Plus His Own Revue

Y N

AN NY

ARCs»

Hallin said to-|

but ! I'm taking them one at a time and |

bills by using a station wagon and |

Husband Took Clothes

a trailer, respectively.

Goes Bareheaded

Robert Taylor wears no hats and |

Buddy Ebsen no neckties, it is re-

ported. but perhaps not for economy. |

Gladys George does her own | cooking except when she is work- | | ing on a picture, and Robart Mont- | | gomery drives a small car and | | boasts of his gasoline mileage. Spencer Tracy raises alfalfa for his ponies and Myrna Loy flowers for her house. Nat Pendleton doesn’t like gardening, and apparently | grudges florists a living. He worn the same artificial gardenia

for three vears, except when it was |

at the dry cleaners,

BEERY STARTS

ON WESTERN FILM

Times Specinl HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26.-—Wal-lace Beery and 500 other film workers started work this week on “Bad Man of Brimstone” in Zion Canyon, Utah. | Ranchers supplied 600 cattle and | 100 horses for scenes which united

| the Beery brothers, Hatton Wallace, for 1916.

has !

| must

26.—They may live in mansions and dive into | era on me it broke and they had to

he felt | were brushed. Today, despite |

Luise Has One Dress

| as | Protest, She Says. |

Times Specinl HOLLYWOOD, Aug. Rainer hasn't a thing to wear! Just back from a visit to New | York, where her playwright husband, Clifford Odets, preparing {another stage production, the aec-

tress has but one dress to her name. | her | clothes as a protest against her re- | turn to Hollywood for picture work. |

Her husband confiscated

“If IT am to stay in Hollywood, I buy a whole new wardrobe,” said Miss Rainer. She says she is going to try finish her work in "Big City” quickly as possible less because of | her scanty wardrobe than because

she'd rather be with anyway.

MOVES 10 HOLLYWOOD |

Harriet Hillard, feminine star “The Life of the Party,”

master Ozzie Nelson, will be sta-

“CARLILE DANCE STUDIOS

“Indianapolis’ 19 937.2

OUTSTANDING RECITALS

2215 N. Pennsylvania St.