The first thing that comes to mind, from what we know of the lives of the stars in Hollywood, is that these stars pay no attention whatever to that great social institution which is the family.

In fact, what thus comes to mind is exaggerated. For there are in Hollywood stars at the very summit of fame and glory who keep an exemplary family life such as we rarely find in any other circle.

Perhaps the stars most attached to the family bond and to social traditions in this respect are Joan Crawford, of whom we said something in the last issue, Betty Grable, Hedy Lamarr, and Jane Wyman. And this last, perhaps, surpasses her colleagues in the matter.

The reader will see a picture, presented to us by the Beirut agency of the Warner Brothers film company, showing Mrs. Jane Wyman celebrating her daughter's fifth birthday. She has also drawn her elder daughter close to her, in warm parental tenderness.

"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.