Cal York's Gossip of Hollywood: April 1938

HOME WITH GARBO

Greta Garbo went home to Sweden to spend the winter with her mother, so while she was away, Photoplay’s mice worked instead of played, culling these tidbits about her and her house in Brentwood:

1.     Her interest in clothes is not so casual, after all! Her wardrobe of sport things is both extensive and magnificent, with suits and overcoats designed by the world’s foremost tailors; and she adores making several changes a day.

2.     She has never set foot insider her own dining room. All her meals are served in her bed, or on the sun porch where she reclines on a fancy swing made complete with mattress, sheets, pillows and blankets.

3.     On the other hand, her kitchen is her favorite room, for that is where her shiny latest model ice box is to be found. She sits by it by the hour, admiring its size, its many lights and ice trays. She pecks at this tidbit and that; shrieks with glee at the revolving glass boxes of hors d’oeuvres; and vastly disrupts kitchen routines and confuses the cook by indulging her new passion for emptying and refilling ice trays.

CHEAP AT 55

We’ve heard of ambitious fans, but we’ll have to doff our chapeau to a young Boston girl named Parsons who succeeded in getting Deanna Durbin on the long-distance telephone and talking $55 worth to her.

Hearing Deanna would soon make a radio appearance in New York, the young girl asked her to try to get down to Boston to be her house guest. And the strange part about it is that Deanna was so impressed at her young fan’s sincerity that she has asked her parents if they can’t get down to Boston for a day to look up Miss Mildred Parsons.

BITS AND BITTERS

The latest prank played by Carole Lombard on Clark Gable concerns the monstrous sheep dog Clark gave her as a gift. While Clark was in San Diego on location, Carole had a dog house built for her pet and proudly led Gable out to see it when he returned. One look, and Clark almost swooned, for at the windows of the dog house were cream-colored Venetian blinds with organdie drapes. A dotted-swiss draped dressing table set with dainty bottles of flea powder and dog brushes stood in one corner. Taffeta cushions were scattered about while the dog, tied up with pink bows, reclined on a blue rug. Speechless for one whole minute, Clark at last let out a howl of laugher. Now the gagged-up dog house has gone to the neighbor’s children for a playhouse. Mr. Sheep Dog is sleeping—under Carole’s house.

Bette Davis’ father-in-law, visiting Bette and Ham in Hollywood, thinks (out loud) that Bette is the finest actress in pictures, but Bette (gorgeous-sense-of-humour Davis) says he keeps looking at Olivia de Havilland while he’s saying it.

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