Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 60

fh Goci oi Marriage Bent Leah Ray. to Radio If you can sell BEVERLY ROB Any Rattles? "1 got the dress tn the Junior section of a department store and I picked up the hat at a baby shop on Hollywood Boule-. vard." That's how JACK OAKIE explains her new Aw, Geel Hey, Otzie (yes, and you, 'ean-ette), have you heard this? It was overheard while they were shooting stills of Gene Rayrrond and Harriet Hilliard between scenes of "The Life of the Party." Photographer: "No, no clinches "Mr. Raymond: "Too bad." Miss Hilliard: "Tomorrow, maybe." Mr. Raymond: hope so." I The Secret ROBERT BENCHLEY define the art of writing: Tht bringing of the seat of one's pants to the Beat of one's chair.

Because he was playing the role of a smuggler-parson, in a Gaumount-Britiflh film, "Dr. Syn," GEORGE ARLISS was asked topreach at Marsh In England. His sermon was a success. Practical Jokes are never funny to Aklm Tamlroff, whether they're; played on him or someone elne. ERTS a bottle of nail polish, she'll buy two more.

She keeps one at home, gives one1 to her professional manicurist and keeps one at the That way she always has the right color and is protected against chipped nails. When FAT O'BRIEN slices Into the rough, he throws his club as far aa he can. The meanest auto horn in ffolly-wood is on Joan Crawford'a car. Pedestrians leap for the nearest curb when it sends out iti blast. PRISCILLA LANS hat the email-est waist on the Warner lot.

It measures It inches. The next FRED MACMURRAY who so bravely pilots a plane on the screen, patronizes railroads in private life. Husbands, don't let your wives know this but Carole Lombard never wears the same hosiery twice. ELEANOR WHITNEY had a little lamb. She Was so fond of the 'pel that she uill not eat lamb in any form.

There are Just two place you can find RING CROSBY without a cap or hat on hi head eating at the family table and sleeping. BOB BURNS has one accomplishment which far outshines his work on the bazooka. He never unties the laces on hl shoes but he doesn't use a shoe Mary Magdelene la playing the starrlrfg role In "Angel." You know her aa3UarIene Dietrich. She con-traded the two namea Into Marlene when she went on the stage. IF IT HAD cost only $3 to get married in North Carolina, the radio public might have been robbed of Songstress Leah Ray.

With her high school sweetheart, 16-year-old Leah marched herself across the state line from Norfolk, but the marriage license cost $4, and they only had three between them. Leah went home and told her mother of. the elopement. Mother Leah decided to take the girl to California, maybe try the movies. Signed with Thil Harris, Leah with Mother Leah they're both Leah Ray Hubbard toured the country and gradually built -reputation on the radio.

Not so long ago the younger Leah made her screen debut in "One In a Million." Foreign tourists are held responsible for the- fact that 110,000 toweU plated on Austrian trains at tht beginning of 1931 now number only 13,500. 0 An old twin, a young male t.crcfry and thief. Character Actor hfo' 0, ('unroll plays ail three roles In "The Umbrella man." MARIE WILSON. EcrrJ BOBBY Bit EES went to box-inj elasi and came back with a black eye and cut Hp. Actor CmCK CHANDLER won't take vanilla or any other flavor.

Chirk ate lit ice cream cones for a scene in "Born Reckless." Injrt least one New York-reducing salon the women bend their away to the rhythm of Guy Lombardo reeorda. hen you see Jane Withers, salute. Bhe's honorary sergeant major of the army air force now. BINO CROSBY'S radio dialog writer it named CAROL CAROL, and it't a bother to Mm when he's being introduced. 1 wish there were four or five of me to do all the things I'd like to do," says Miriam Hopkins.

Rockaby Because he tikes to be rocked asleep by the sea, Preston Foster often drives 88 mllee to the sea Just to sleep aboard his yacht. ERNIE NIMS, Republic film ed-Iter, sighed with satisfaction es he finished editing "It Might Happen to You." The telephone rang. Nims picked up the receiver and heard he was the father of a boy. If you get the razzberrles from a passing ear around Hollywood, it's MICKEY ROONEY'S. He ha on hie tutomobile a horn that can be heard 10 miles, two cowbells, a barking dog and the rtszberry effect LOUISE FAZENDA was a baseball star In high school days.

It's hard to tell what Zeppo Mara thought but Robert Pirosh, one of the authors of "A Day at the Races, recently said, "There never wae any need for a fourth Man Brother, In A Day at the Races' they nse a horsa Instead." After putting 49 in quartert in a slot woeMne recently, hVPW VtLEZ ttruek the girl who stepped up to the machine and hit the )aekpot while Lupe wat getting some mora change. Lupe immediately Just because the man across the itrcst bought a telescope, Germalnt Atusey quit taking sua bathe la the yard. OAKY COOPEM didn't lay whether the ftguret are too large or whether he just doesn't like arithmetic. At any rate he can't stand to add up hie own check book. The Great Zacchlnl, who regularly geta himself shot out of a cannon for a circus, Jumped about three feet the other day when a photographer flashed a bulb unexpectedly.

Bath Soap? N' "My grandfather la Cecil B. De Mllle. He sella soap." That's the way Peter Calvin, De Milled -year-eld grandson Introduced himself arSrber, Randolph 8cott suffered a deep eut en his right hand when he did acme shirk fishing at Catallna RublaofJ la ft undid earner las. Lcck Outl The fence around SHIRLEY TEM PLE'B home is charged if electricity. That's to keep you tourists from climbing over.

WIimi Irving Berlin writes a new tune he sings it to the first person he meets, Dcg Gens? I'na Plerkel's dachshund puppies have had their paw prints taken so she can Identify them If they're dognaped. Tht 1 Leah Ray the the reason you're being told is because Mother Leah Ray looks so much like her daughter that she's her standin In the movies. X. 'X 4 X. MARION DAVIES offers five rules for screen success: Work hard, be modest, be courageous, be generous, keep faith with your fans, i 1 Ltn't let those rmzberry sounds in BERT WHEELER home sJnrtle you.

They come from a remodeled cuckoo "Something for statisticians to worry about There are only IS camels available for screen work In Hollywood. Henry Fonda once uon a hay pitching content In Nebraska. KESSY BAKER has been a truck driver on' the Boulder dam construction ytb. "Aw, that's nothing. We do that for JACK BENNY on every picture." said BILL MORROW, one of Benny's gsg writers, when told that they were trying to keep CHARLIE RUGGLES from being funny in his new picture.

After skiing all over the "I Met Him in Pans" location of Sun Valley, Idaho, CLAUDETTE COLBERT took a vacation. She 'went to Bishop, so she could ski. Regardless of what you may have Ihnught when ynu heard her sing, Martha Rtti6 can't stand tmid mvs'c. She has a mute on her radio. Claudette Colbert's friend have been getting letters from her In white Ink on dusky-red paper.

Irene Dunne ues blue, square-cut paper with her full name In special print and Dolores CosteUo likes her stationery with her name In large blocked letters. That stationery with the single monogrammed "Joan" diagonally across the top of the page Is Joan Crawford's. "I think I'll live to lie 100," Guy Kibbee says. v. Jf 4 OAKLAND TRIBUNE.

JUNE 27, 1937..