PARS ABOUT STARS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 200, 16 April 1932, Page 7

PARS ABOUT STARS

HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP. Norma Shearer's next picture will be "Strange Interlude," according to announcement by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Clark Gable will have the principal male role in the film version of Eugene O'Neill's London and New York success. At the same time it is announced that Miss Shearer has signed a new long-term contract with Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer. Miss Shearer's last picture was "Private Lives," with Robert Montgomery co-starring. Since his debut in Joan Crawford's "Dance, Fools, Dance," Clark Gable has risen rapidly as a leading man. JHe has played with Garho in "Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)", with Miss Shearer in "A Free Soul," and with Joan Crawford in "Possessed," among other roles. He recently completed a part with Marion Davies in "Polly of the Circus," her new starring picture. The best way to make friends with a monkey is to feed him! This is an actual experience in animal training that happened to Maureen O'Sullivan, leading lady in "Tarza'n, the Ape Man." Jn many of the scenes she had to work with a pet monkey on her shoulder and at Director Van Dyke's suggestion she took care of feeding the animal for a day hefore the first scene was to he "shot." At breakfast the monkey began to show a decided interest in the fair lady who was providirig his meal. Lunch time was the beginning of a strong friendship between the two, and by dinner they were inseparable companions. Stan Laurel, a native of London, is making the trip essentially to see his I parents, who reside there.. He visited ! them last in 1927. It will he Hardy's first trip abroad.