IN HOLLYWOOD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1940, Page 9

IN HOLLYWOOD

THE LATEST STORIES. Jeanette MacDonald has just completed a book titled "No Royal Road to Song.” It is obviously the story of her singing career, and should be very interesting. They’re telling this story about Harpo Marx. He was at a premiere at. Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and he was placed right behind a woman who was wearing one of those stovepipe hats. Before the picture began he asked her politely to remove it, as it blocked out the entire screen. After the picture had been going about two reels Harpo leaned over and asked the 0 lady if she would mind putting on her hat again. He explained the picture was too bad to look at. Dorothy Parker, famous writer and poetess, was arguing with a writer in the R.K.O. commissary the other day. ■ The writer said: “I don’t believe in any of the ‘isms.’ ” “Except plagiarism,” snapped the witty Miss Parker. A friend was telling director John Ford how much he liked “Grapes of Wrath.” “You ought to be very proud i of directing that picture. I thought it' was far better than the book, didn’t I you?” Ford replied: “I can’t talk about j that, because I never read the book. I j started to, but read only a couple of | chapters and then stopped. I didn’t ■ want it to confuse me.” There’s a theatre in Hollywood known as “The Pelican,” and its sign reads: “Always a Good Bill.”