In Hollywood

Every woman has the right to change her mind, and often she does. Lana Turner has left Turhan Bey and begun keeping company with Bob Hannon; but rumor has it that they have parted, and that Lana has gone back to her old friends - "Greg Bautzer," whom she knew before her marriage to Steve Crane, or Artie Shaw...

The happiest husband in Hollywood today is Humphrey Bogart. He loves his wife Lauren Bacall very much. And they both love her new boat, the "Santana," which belonged to George Brent, from whom Ray Milland bought it; but before long he sold it to Dick Powell, and he in his turn sold it to Dick.

When the English actor Rex Harrison arrived in Hollywood, the director John Cromwell asked him his opinion of the story "Anna and the King of Siam." Rex answered that it was magnificent, and that the finest scene in it was the one that begins on page 103. But Cromwell could find nothing in the scene to show its magnificence: all there is in it is the King eating rice. So he said to Rex: Might not the scene be on another page?
- No! But why are you so astonished?
I have not tasted rice since the beginning of the war, and this scene would spur any English actor to sign any contract with any company in Hollywood.

When Pat O'Brien arrived at the studio, the brim of his hat was turned up, and the director asked him what that meant. He replied: It was my wife who turned it up, so that I would remember to mail a letter she had written. But I have just remembered that she forgot to give me the letter...

Ida Lupino has a dog named Duchess who has often stopped traffic in the public street, having chosen the middle of it as a place to rest. Ida said to some of her friends: That is the third time traffic has been stopped this week. Anyone who sees me and Duchess in the middle of the street must surely think we have made a pact to commit suicide together...

... As for Jeanette MacDonald, she wore an evening gown that ravished everyone's heart. But Barbara Stanwyck said of her that her mind never knows what her mouth is going to say. What did she mean, one wonders? Jealousy, or envy?

Joan Davis told a story to this effect: the son of a certain director swallowed his father's fountain pen. The director sent for a specialist from among the doctors of Hollywood. The doctor answered him on the telephone: I will come as fast as I can. But tell me: what are you doing now? And the director, without thinking, replied: "I have replaced the fountain pen with a pencil!!"