HOLLYWOOD OLOGISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1939, Page 9

HOLLYWOOD OLOGISTS

DESIRE TO SEE INTO FUTURE. Hollywood celebrities are getting squint-eyed trying to peer into the future. The "Ologists" and the “Ics” have long since learned that the film colony is a rich field for their operations, and there are few actors and almost no actresses who arc not interested in one of the many pseudo-scienti-■ fie methods of foretelling the future. Those who believe, or half-believe, in astrology form the largest single group, and many of the screen’s biggest names arc to be found among these. Bette Davis has recently been added to the long list of players who have had some comfort and advance information from the stars, as interpreted by an accredited astrologer. For years John Barrymore has consulted an "Ologist” or an “Ic" before starting each new picture or any business O)personal adventure. There are many others of little or great faith who go, more or less regularly, to some oracle for advance information on life. George Brent is interested in astrology and the things, the astrologers foretell for him, and so, incidentally, are Charles Chaplin, Ruth Chatterton. Joan Crawford. Director William Dictcrle. Anna May Wong. Lola Lane. Paulette Goddard, and more than half of all the important producers in town. They pay good money and sometimes "big money foi this service. Even Olivia de Jlavilland had a “reading" before she lei I for England for her vacation. She was told that the stars were right at die moment mid that she could tiavcl safely. Palmists at the beaches near Los Angeles like to display the name of the famous people for whom they have predicted future events. One can find the names of Kay Francis. :—„ e v-'-garet Lindsay. Marie others behind =>’ bi'ollw.