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PAGE EIGHT MIAMI DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1936 THE VOICE OF Broadway By Louis Sobol HOLLYWOOD, April 13. We wander on to the set of "Suicide Club" There is a lull here, so we settle down in the tiny dressing cabin and watch Robert Montgomery, in the dress of an English gen' tleman of the 1880s, lose game after game of backgammon to Andy Lawlor Over on the set itself, Reginald Owen plays with his unusual headpiece which gives him a lofty, magnificent, but quite bald pate It is made of some rubber composition and Owen kneads it into grotesque shapes The death of Marilyn Miller is chief topic at the studio Ted Healy recalls starvation days when he and Marilyn out for more money Metro execs are pondering whether to insert the Marilyn Miller name into "The Great Ziegfeld" instead of the fictional moniker now used (Harriet Hoctor plays the rale) i NORTHEAST SECOND AVENUE AND FORTIETH As predicted, the studios are beginning to concentrate on color pictures with each company among the majors committed to from one to three of the tinted features They're beginning to gag about it One wag has suggested as a theme song, "I Love Hue I Love Hue I Love Hue" Or they'd have you believe that the directors on color pictures now scream: "Don't shoot until you see the blues of their eyes" All this furore, of course, because of Walter Wanger'a successful "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" Louis Prima may elope with the red-headed Alma Ross on or about April 30. The publicity departments are still concentrating on the Jean Harlow so-called "brownette" shade, but back on Broadway we'd still call it plain, ordinary blond don't let them fool you Donald Flamm and Harry Hershfield are on their way out by boat and expect to land here on the 18th Mitzi Green and her mam, Rosie, wandered into the Brown Derby, each looking haggard and drawn they've just come out of a siege of the flu Joan Blondell is still bedded with the flu, however, and Tony Lanier, whose widely publicized "Million Dollar" legs haven't gotten her much here except a showgirl part in "The Great Ziegfeld," emerges from the hospital Incidentally, Bert Lahr, still blue over his fractured romance, leaves for London with Harry Kaufmanwhose brother, S. Jay Kaufman, is scheduled to return to Manhattan within a few weeks Sally Bynam, now known as Delma Byron, former Vanities beauty, has caughUon at the 20th Century-Fox as the result of her showing in two pictures and had her contract renewed for six months And the Pwitz brothers will land either into the Metro fold or with Walter Wanger as matters stand now. STFflDIEIE fflfi jn HDD IE A IL IE Vera Van headlines the Paramount stage show here hailed as another New York sensation The gal is a native of Los Angeles, and like most local-boms had to go to Broadway first to gain recognition on home grounds Allan Jenkins conceived a yen to go to Ensenada while he was at Santa Monica The distance is hundreds of miles a seven-hour automobile trip, to give you an idea Jenkins hailed a cab and ordered the surprised cab driver to the Mexican resort Then he kept him and the cab and meter there over the week-end All in the grand Hollywood manner Grace Poggi and her bridegroom, Louis Arno, open in the Trocadero Junior Laemmle was among the others suddenly ousted out of the snooty Sunset Towers when new ownership took possession Only H.

N. Swanson, former editor of College Humor and now an agent, remains, refusing to obey the ouster summons Sam. Marx is on his way to New York when he returns he may.be elevated from head of the scenario department at Metro to producership Marx, before he came to Hollywood, was the editor of Broadway Amusements. For genuine loyalty in Hollywood, no less consider the case of Mary Blackford One of the prettiest youngsters in the film capital, her career seemed assured She had played the part of Muriel in "Ah Wilderness," with Will Rogers, had appeared in several Warner pictures, when the horrible automobile accident occurred which resulted in her complete paralysis, from the neck down That was in September. 1934 Hollywood shuddered and sympathized, but a group of her friends determined not to let her down were Tom Brown, Ann Shirley, Patricia Ellis, Sue Carol, Grace and Junior Durken who was to meet his death in a similar accident), Lois Wilson, William Janney, Anita Louise, Helen Mack and Henry Wilson This group ran a huge benefit and raised $6,200 They took care of her hospital and doctor bills They have been raising money here and there to provide her with the best medical attention But the girl is still completely paralyzed Now, they have arranged to have her appear on one of Bing Crosby's programs (she will be $aken to the studio in an ambulance), for which she will be paid, and shortly within a few weeks the same group of loyal friends is planning another huge benefit to replenish the fund, which is now practically exhausted Meanwhile the beautiful girl powerless to move a muscle below the neck fights the almost hopeless battle Sally Rand Fumes as Nudists Invade Street She's 'Working' resort to such legal action as may be necessary to prevent disruption Dancer and Girls Who Scorn Even Fans Both Screaming "Indecent" of her performances.

After Miss Rand passed up an invitation to tea with the nudists at the Pan-American exposition seV' eral of the younger members struck back. One of the most militant, Mary Pomeroy, asserted with some sharpness: tone nas had plenty of opportunity to acquaint herself with nudism's high principles. She probably figures that nudism will sound the death knell of sensation By Auociatrd Press) SAN DIEGO, CaL, April 13. Sally Rand, at outs with nudist colony over principles of decency, threatened today to resort to the law if members of the bareskin clan picket her fan and bubble dance show again. Differences between them are more than a matter of fans, it developed Saturday when nudist pickets began working Miss Rand's exhibition with sandwich boards demanding "the bare truth about nudism and nakedness." "An indecent performance of this nature should not be tolerated," the dancer retorted through her publicity representative, who added: "Flaunting of nakedness under the guise of nudism is not in accord with her principles.

If this shock- alism such as she practices." The pickets were sent back to their gardens and Miss Rand's exhibition was given a guard. 9 Sir fCrgSVSiS Drinking of salt water can change a man's life from one of acute fatigue and inertia to one of brightness and activity, said Pro- ressor moss in a paper read to the Institute of Civil Enei. ing event is repeated she intends to London. WCE A YEAR DON'T OWE H1TC I k. A I 1 i .1 C18B0M mn it.

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