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IBnosatt5 IIBaDiiaito (EnosiiDavM Ujp nneii0 nneeii 3fedley GENE KRUPA's tom-toms pounded through a 3-foot, "sound-proof" wall on the "Some Like It Hot" set and startled Director MARK SANDRICH on the "Man About Town" set. "It's confusing enough as it is," the director protested. "Already we have PHIL HARRIS leading MATTY MALNECK's orchestra. And now they're trying to put Krupa's music on our sound track." Brats notoriously kick up their heels. But "Brat" Bonita Granville is pawing "the air, as pictured below, at the that she won't be a brat much longer.

Bonita is growing up. She's been 16 for three whole weeks! Sh-h! She's a Sleuth! And now that she's emerged from those meanle roles to become a heroine in the Warner studio "Nancy Drew" girl detective' series, she's gotta think of the future. Heroines must keep in shape little villains can be scrawny for all anybody cares. So Bonita kicks up her heels. It's the "bicycle" exercise she's Remonstrating below.

A Trap for the Mob It keeps her legs trim, strengthens abdominal muscles and, in general, improves the reformed movie brat's landscaping. After all, a gal detective's gotta be a neat judy, capable of chiseling her way into the confidence of mobsters. Now that you've been beautifying yourself with upside-down gymnastics, 3l AH That Mae West has ordered 50 statues of herself. Each will be dressed in a large boa hat and diamonds. M-G-M says TOM COLLINS grew a mustache in less than four days.

Watch for a Scarlett O'llara coiffure this spring. i I 1 The two buttons JACK OAKIE lost the other night weren't popped. A gal fan got 'em. A Newark, N. J.

theater offered this double bill: NEXT TIME I MARRY COME ON, LEATHERNECKS Five-year-old Janet Chapman can talk plainly enough it's just that she likes to keep repeating the five poems she- knows in French. Then there was the colorblind fellow who wanted to pay half-pricesee a technicolor movie at a Detroit theater. JERRY WALD'S mama is investigating his romance with JANE WYMAN. After all these years, it's revealed that Ramon Novarro's complete real name is Jose Ramon Gil del Sagra-do Carazon de Jesu Samaniego Guerrero. Hi, 'Jo! 9 BETTE DAVIS wants the dual role of mother and daughter in "The Old Maid." Off-Stage Whiskers FRANK HELLER, assistant stage manager of "The American Way," raised a mustache so he'd be in character.

He reads an offstage line. As soon as he had his hair bleached, J. CARROL NAISH was for "Beau Geste." Bob Burns has $3,600 insurance on 14 wildcat skins from the Van Buren, country. MARION MARTIN, "the last girl Ziegfeld glorified," is throbbing the heart of PRINCE IBRAHIM, Egypt's wealthiest blueblood. Rosalind Russell's dinner coat has blue, purple, yellow, orange and red squares.

Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong ended the letter to his agent like this: "Am Neckbones and Bcansly Yours, SATCH." To catch up on their sleep after moving to their new home, VIRGINIA BRUCE and Husband J. WALTER RUBEN canceled all social engagements for two weeks. Irene Dunne gets all four of the' kisses in "Love Affair," which isn't as torrid as the title sounds. The reason ANN SHERIDAN came home sore from ice skating was sunburn! Egail, Suh! FREDERICK CLARKE, Negro comedian from England, is practicing a southern accent. He got his present one at Bonita Granville, Warner itudio'i reformed movie brat, doesn't confine her exercises to pedaling an imaginary bicycle.

She'a great on swimming, tennis, badminton and horseback riding the very same iporti that virtually all iters adore if you're to believe their press agents. 6 Nedda Harrigan (Mrs. Walter Connolly) slinks lusciously as a screen siren. Nedda's afraid bf lightning and can't sleep without a small light. FRANK IACONELLI dodged CECIL B.

DeMILLE's rule that extras and bit players in "Union Pacific" must be either Irish" or Chinese. Wrote he to DeMille: "To convince myself that a man as talented as you are must have the Italian strain of the artistic, soulful, dramatic creative quality in him, I looked up all Italian names and find that your name should be Cecillo De-Millo. "Now as one Italian to another, I'd like to be an Irishman in 'Union Pacific' Sincerely yours, FRANK I. A. CONNELLY." Dorothy Lamour doesn't wear a sarong in "Man About Town." But she will appear in a harem scene.

If ERROL FLYNN ever writes a. letter to Wife LILI DAMITA ifU be some time when he can't telephone, telegraph or cable. PRISCILLA LANE made the housecoat from drapes she couldn't find room fQr injher new house. Benny Goodman's thinking of backing a band for his trumpeter, Ziggy Llman. Some Hollywood Days Arc Like This These are the things which keep Hollywood publicity writers busy M-G-M: "Cheeta, chimpanzee in the new Tarzan picture, has become a jitterbug." PARAMOUNT: "GRACTE ALLEN likes her new red hair so well she plans to leave it that way." 20TH CENTURY-FOX: "NANCY KELLY had her first unchaperoned date when she attended JACKIE COOPER'S opening at the Victor Hugo." WARNERS': "WILLIAM DIETER-LE has worn out the elbows of four sweaters directing RKO: "Although LUCILLE BALL reported she, 'hadn't broken anything' while skiing, she's sporting some outstanding bruises." MONOGRAM: "The story of 'The Girl From Rio' will center around the rollicking romantic adventures of a gay caballero and a glamorous.

dark-eyed senorita who match wits and kisses in a lavish, musical extravaganza." "7 Patricia Morlson was christened Eileen Patricia -Augusta Fraser Morison. BING CROSBY, has more than $200,000 in "East Side of Heaven." W. C. FIELDS drove the studio gatekeeper 'daffy when he showed up three times in one morning driving a different car each time, John Wexley, who helped to write "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," Is going to vacation in Berlin Illinois. BOB BURNS says: "The show must go on.

But why?" Whose Luck? In "Lucky Night," Robert Taylor and Myrna Loy kiss 13 times. Bonita, what d'ya hear from the mob? Hy Way of Mars? With world fair "publicity all over the place, a Philadelphia theater man decided to get on the band wagon. "Yvette and her parrot direct from the Chicago world fair," he advertised. LEE MOORE spent the morning dying before the cameras filming "The Grade Allen Murder Case." And his afternoon was devoted to dying for "Invitation to Happiness." And that evening he was "dead" after a hard day's work. After each "take," Fred MacMur-ray unbuttons his collar.

Remember PAUL the dirty villain of Perils of He's a cook on the Warner lot now. An Oriental. cupid is popping up in the Charlie Chan series. Chinese Glamour Girl IRIS WONG has been enrolled to play opposite Charlie's No. 1 Bon, SEN YUENG in "Charlie Chan in Reno." Faul Muni's "Juarez" has a Span Ish accent only when pronouncing a proper name.

jGet JUNE LANG to giggle and you've accomplished something. MAXIE ROSENBLOOM does it too shines a shoe by rubbing it against his trousers leg. When a high wind whipped that cloth covering off a 20th Century-Fox state, the obvious comment re ferred to David 0. Selznick's rights to "Gone With the Wind." Imagine the situation. There was WAYNE MORRIS in Havana on his honeymoon and whispering sweet nothings over the telephone to a girl in Hollywood.

It was Warner studio's idea of a neat way to record some dialog for a love scene. ELIZABETH RISDONiS cutest pet is a year-old wildcat. There wasn't anything funny about that Marion, theater fire aside from the fact that the feature film at the time was "Too Hot to Handle." Paramount delayed "Invitation to Happiness" five months. Meanwhile WALTER O'CONNOR was growing fast. So.

he lost his role in that film. Whoah! Harry Sherman produces those "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns in which daring young men tumble from galloping horses. But Harry Sherman required 35 stitches when his bicycle threw him. JXzn- 4, -v mm OAKLAND TRIBUNE, FEBRUARY 26, 1939..