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Restaurant Employe Pays For Olivia De Havilland's Meals For Signature REDEEMS HER CHECKS Player Is Now With Enrol Flynn in "Adventures of Robin. Hood" By FRANK HEACOCK Hollywood, March 2. The prophet may be without honor in his own country but the movie star certainly isn't. One of the demonstrations of the honor in which the screen darlings are held is their pursuit by autograph hunters. And nowhere does the autograph hunter flourish more lustily than in California, country of the movies.

And California signature seekers have several times achieved new highs of ingenuity in devising methods of obtaining the coveted name scrawls of their film favorites. Most unusual of them came to light recently during the filming of "The Adventures of Robin Hood," when the company was on location near Chico, Calif. Sign the Checks When a film troupe is on location, be it explained, the studio takes care of meals and accommodations for its members. And to simplify the business of paying for meals $he studio arranges for members fi the company to sign their checks; a company auditor paying them later. Members of the "Adventures of Robin Hood" company, in which Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havil land are co starred, ran up a healthy accumulation of meal checks to be paid off.

But a week after her arrival at Chico it was found no meal check signed by Miss de Havilland had turned up at the hotel where she was staying. Auditor Stumoed Now Miss de Havilland, by her own admission, is a girl who likes her victuals. She wasn't on a diet and she certainly wasn't paying lor ner own meals. The auditor couldn figure it out. Sold Autoeratih Investigation discosed that a kitchen employe had been re moving her "autographed" meal cnecKs irom the daily collection and dropping into the cash register an amount equivalent to the price of her meals.

The hotel employe then proceeded to sell the "autographs" to a Hollywood autograph broker of whom there are dozens. The broker, according in thP avid autograph collector, was pay ing him fifty cents more for each signature than the check bearing it cost him. Considering that there was nothing intrinsically dishonest in his actions, the hotel contented itself with a reprimand and a proposal that he denote his profits to a local charity. But by that time eighteen Olivia de Havilland autographs had found their way to market tribute to California's ingenious autograph hunters. Tribute, too, to the healthy appetite Miss de Havilland worked up during the making of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" in Chico's bracing atmosphere.

GLADYS SWARTHOUT ON "GOOD MUSIC" Commending the efforts which motion picture producers are making to bring classical music to the Gladys Swarthout, screen and opera star, notes: "But they have found music is not enough. Audiences are not sufficiently familiar with it. They know that music has to be supplemented by stories with entertainment value. "In 'Romance in the Dark' which I have just completed with John Boles and John Barrymore, I sing a total of eleven numbers, nine of them serious. Now in considering who will make it a point to see the picture, we don't have to worry about the people who go regularly to the opera.

They undoubtedly see pictures featuring opera personalities. "The group we really want to attract, because it includes millions of persons, is unfamiliar with opera music. And for that reason the good music would not itself be a sufficiently strong induce ment to get them to enter the theater. But if they know that the singing is supplemented by a lot of fun and comedy for the eye, they are happy enough to sit back and enjoy the music." ,8 fiwitl iMMl I jjjpHalf Moon On The Hudje I "I Could Use A Dream" K3SLf Jill "Thi Is Where I Camt In" VI kJP III "Help Wanted Mole" 1M "Who Stole The Jam" by Bullock and Spina "Got My Mind On Music "Sweet As A Song" by Gordon and Revel "Minuet In Jazz" by Raymond Scott ite set 1tc LAST DAY "Gold Is Where You Find It" With GEO. BRENT OLIVIA DEHAVILLAND HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 3, 1938 'GET THAT SIGNATURE" IS SLOGAN OF ARMY OF ALBUM CARRIERS AUTOGRAPH ARMY ALWAYS ON TRAIL OF CINEMA STARS BUSY BARRYMORE The new Paramount production schedule has John Barrymore slated for seven productions all starting within the next two months.

The list includes "Spawn of the North," "The Gracie Allen Murder Mystery," "Things Began to Happen," "Cafe Society," "Midnight," "Four Leaf Clover" and another "Bulldog Drummond." GEO. RAFT, ATHLETE In his late 'teens, George Raft was a prizefighter, gave that up for a fielder's berth on the Springfield, baseball team, then tried dancing. Now starring with Sylvia Sidney in Paramount's "You and Me," he had no acting experience when picked for his first film role. WHAT TO DO, SEE AND HEAR By L. U.

K. Just Wait First on the new Senate Theater's bulletin board: "A Yank at Oxford." "The Seven Dwarfs" will take care of Robert Taylor and "Snow White" will be the cheer leader. Just after a gargantuan build up, he 11 get a lovely let down. Note to SAG: 'Whistle while you work." Whit Church notes that three of the lour downtown houses have technicolor films two all the way Is Where You Find It" and "Goldwyn and one in part The Jerry Wollaston tells me that "Victoria" is doing very well at the Victoria, thank you and its' glad I am to hear it. It a glorious Last times tonight.

Picture of the week: "Victoria the Great." fOOD booking! Manager Wollaston (Victoria) has teamed the I Louis Mann fight films with a re showing of "The Perfect Speci men" in which Errol Flynn is rescued from grandma by Joan Blondell and proceeds on a rollicking series of adventures. In the cast May Robson, Edward Everett Horton and Hugh Herbert. Our hero does everything from flopping a truck driver to flipping a flapjack In short he goes to town in the "it happened one night" tempo. Sooner or later there'll be a movie fashioned on a background of one of these public 'speaking courses. It seems husbands with no lodge alibis are going in for forensics, acording to some sources.

Note to Mr. Your zipper story did a flip flop It's a stock anecdote But such things could happen. Mrs. Minnie Gastrock, who helped keep Loew's spic and span for you (one of the cleaning women), went to bed the other night. She never woke up.

Death came as she slept. Mrs. Gastrock had been at Loew's since the theater was opened, was always a faithful employe and many were the lost articles she turned in at the box office. International Ice Revue at Zembo March 14, 15, 16 "Gene Otto presents Homa from sunny Florida to put on an ice show, that's show "Wide Open Faces" is the name of the Hershey film feature, opening tonight. Edward G.

Robinson in "A Slight Case of Murder" at the State on Friday, March 11.. On the stage, as previously and voluminously mentioned, "La Conga Follies" (Cuban cuties, etc.) And, of course, on Monday night only, Walter Hampden in "Ethan Frome," the play of life in New England honest farmer, invalid wife, hired girl A triangle in the bleak hills and a sled ride you won't soon forget. At Hershey, of course! Belated congratulations to the Sec. 'on his Tenth anniversary He has us out dated and there's gray in his hair Cheerio, Sec, Help, Please R' EADERS, a lift please. We're anxious to streamline the name of i the column now a little too wordy.

SEND IN SUGGESTIONS. We'll arrange a theater party (up to a dozen tickets) for the accepted name. Already suggested: Views and Reviews Shots in the Dark "The Time Has Come" Before and After What. After Dark Let's have YOURS. Downtown tomorrow: With a Yank at Oxford and Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo there'll be no Romance in the Dark for Sally, Irene and Mary.

Shirley Temple's date at the Colonial: March 18 of Sunnybrook Farm." "Radio City Revels" roll in on March 11. nings at her neighborhood theater However, it is strictly business with Osa, who maintains she goes to improve her diction and study the acknowledged appeal of Hoi loywood feminine stars. vim 9 ,11 these all thesj Tina an pro col y0or top" STARTS TOMORROW "Rebecca Judy Garland in "Everybody Sing" at Loew's March 11. How about that personal appearance. Carter Barron, Loew's chieftain in the East, crashed Major Bowes' hour the other Thursday evening (Feb.

24) and Sam Gilman wasn't on my! My! "YOU AND. ME" CAST Warren Hymer has assumed a gangster role in Paramount's "You and Me," starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. Others in the cast are Robert Cummings, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey, Ros coe Karns, Guinn (Big Boy) Williams, George E. Stone, Carol Paige, Egon Brecher and Vera Gordon. Fritz Lang is producer FINGER MAKEUP A "makeup detail that required time for the Ritz Brothers in pre paring for their roles in "Ken tucky Moonshine," musical, was putting dirt under their fingernails.

so they would be in character as mountaineers. IMPROVES DICTION Osa Massen spends her free eve MARINE EXPERT Chris Christenseni ship maker for the movies, has built more than 140 vessels for celluloid seas. He is at work on a $40,000 brig for Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kid naped," 20th Century Fox. ELECTRICIAN At the age of 18 Jack Haley was a. $15 a week apprentice electrician in the Boston Naw Yard.

A I lliliitlilliii'' ftMSHHinKilllinSilllllHHIilMHiH you see these two Johns battle for Gladys' hand the year's swellest musical comedy I 89 Vs 1 Hi: 1 i3 30:32: I facaamcDaB am Twm LAST TIMES TODAY STARTS AN NAB LLA mwwwuw vv American made picture! m7lmmmm A loth Cettturj Fox Ptcmrt SmmSimmm OP" 4 iSP5tSb 1 ill tent Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'SulIivan, with director, cameramen and techniciani on a 7,000 mile 'location trip' to film the Oxford icenec in the exact locale of the story StartsTonwaf LOEW'S LAST TIMES TODAY 'THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES' With CHARLIE MCCARTHY RITZ BROTHERS, ADOLPHE MENJOU and SUri of Screen, Radio nd Opera.