News of the Stars

"Special to The Woman's Voice"

• Angela Lansbury has a widely famed uncle: the celebrated actor Robert Mantell.

• London makes a splendid showing on the "list" of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's actors — Edmund Gwenn, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury, Patricia Medina, Elizabeth Taylor, and Hume Cronyn are London-born.

• The famous comedian Red Skelton is fond of designing models of trains.

• Audrey Totter is skilled in the stuffing of animals and birds, and is a brilliant specialist in the matter.

• Spencer Tracy was a player of the "tuba" in his school days — it is a large musical instrument — so that he could follow the football team on its travels; this was not open to him unless he joined the band, so he acquired this instrument and learned to play it.

• The English star Deborah Kerr turned to acting when she was told that she was very tall and that such height did not suit dancing.

• In the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film "The Pirate," Gene Kelly returns to dancing with his lovely colleague Judy Garland; they danced together for the first time in 1941 in the film "For Me and My Gal."

• The number of hours flown by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer actor Dick Simmons has reached 4,700; he has obtained a commercial pilot's license, and during the war he flew between India and China.