FOOTPRINTS FOR POSTERITY

Southland Times, Issue 24228, 11 September 1940, Page 8

FOOTPRINTS FOR POSTERITY

LINDA DARNELL IN “HALL OF FAME”

The glamour girls of 1940 have bigger feet than their predecessors of a decade or so ago. The other day Linda Darnell had to record her hand and foot prints in the famous forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood’s “Hall of Fame,” and it was found that she wears shoes one size and ahalf larger than those of Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge and Gloria Swanson.

Linda has joined Hollywood’s “immortals” more easily than any other of the scores of artistes who have registered their marks in the wet concrete at the Chinese. The honour has hitherto been reserved for outstanding figures of the screen. Linda is not even a star —yet.

Linda, playing a film queen in her new picture, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” had to perform the footprint ceremony merely for a scene. Grauman, anticipating her future success, consented to making it the real thing. The sequence was shot at the theatre and her imprints will remain alongside those of filmland’s great ones, whether Linda is subsequently a failure or not. Curiously, the most famous feet of all have never trod the Chinese forecourt, except in a Disney cartoon. No one has ever asked Greta to record the impressions of the Garbo feet and hands for posterity.