STUDIO CHATTER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 17, 28 August 1946, Page 6

STUDIO CHATTER

A FEATURE COLUMN KISS AND TELL Tough Going Being on the receiving end of Humphrey Bogart’s love-making is aparently a tough proopsition. During the making of a recent film, Lauren Becall lost seven pounds, and Dolores Moran lost five.

Icy Plunge Dolores Moran got lost in the fog on the set during the- filming of ‘To Have And Have Not’, and landed waist-deep in cold water. It seems the actress had walked right off a jetty into the studio lake.

Strung Up Humphrey Bogart, star of ‘To Have And Have Not, hopes he did the right thing in sending an autographed picture to a juvenile fan of Minneapolis. The photo was in answer to a fan letter the star recently received. The boy wrote: “Dear Mr Bogart. I want to hang you in my room.”

Tight Corner A short time ago, Robert Benchley was coming out of a tobacconist’s swinging a leather bag in one hand when a friend stopped him and enquired; “What you got in that bag Bob? A bowling ball?” “No,” Benchley answered seriously, “a skull.” A few minutes later a policeman tapped him on the shoulder, and with a hefty scowl growled: “Lemme see what you got in that bag.” (‘lt foi-tunately was only a jar of pipe tobacco,’ said Benchley with a shiver. “But just suppose it really had been a skull!’) Can’t See The Joke Acting is a big joke to everyone but songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. There must be something funny in it, he declares, because everyone he meets greets him hilariously with “Hi Actor,”’ and a raucous burst of laughter. When he was just a songwriter, he was a happy individual with never a care in the world. (Or so it seems to' him in retrospect). Then overnight he became a harried harrassed worrier, who works as he’d never before dreamed of, slaving by day and wrestling by night with nightmares about dialogue sides & camera angles. Hoagy gave up practising law to take up songwriting.

REGENT “Kiss and Tell” (Sat. and Mon. August 31, Sept. 2). Stars Shirley Temple in a new type of part and in new surroundings. Everyone that has so far seen this picture'gives it high praise, and Whakatane audiences should also find it suited to their taste. It is a romance-comedy, and makes good light entertainment. The play “Kiss and Tell,” which was written two years ago, is still playing on many stages in America on a National radio network. •