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Looking at Hollywood with Ed SullivanThe Real Rulers of Wild and Woolly'

Hollywood-the Actors' Children

(Scotty We1bourDe photo.)

Pat O'Brien and his daughter, Margaret MClYoumeelL.

By ED SUIJJV ANH oZlywood, Cal. thought I, this will be a good

WE HAD lunch in Loretta place to get an earful of insideYoung's bungalow at the studio stuff.Twentietp Century-Fox ••Were your children at the

lot the other noon. It was a Jack War n e r s' youngsters'very good lunch, too-meat balls party?" Director Seiter askedand spaghetti with a very pal. McCrea. ••No, they weren't,"atable tomato sauce. Director said McCrea, helping himself toWilliam Seiter, Joel McCrea, the meat balls and sp1lling someand Stu Erwin were Loretta's gravy on the tablecloth. ••Frankguests, and I thought to myself, Capra's youngsters were out at

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the ranch, and they were ridingaround all afternoon in thatminiature Wells· Fargo stage-coach. Here are some picturesI took of them." Miss Youngbubbled as she looked at them." Don't get me talking about mybaby," she said, "because shesays the cutest things any littlegirl ever said." Loretta's littlegirl is an adopted infant.For one solid hour they talked

about their children; and whenthey got into the studio car todrive back to the stage theywere still telling each otherwhat Junior said and how hesaid it. That, my friends, iswhat is going on out here inwild and woolly Hollywood dayin and day out. I've never seensuch a town for babies, and ifyou don't think these actors andactresses are devoted parentsyou have another think coming.Hollywood is the west coastproof that "a little child shalllead them."The adopted babies in this

town are legion, and a numberof these mites come from theCradle in Evanston, m. Nogrander thing has been doneby Hollywood, to my way ofthinking, than to adopt theseIi t tl e t ike s who otherwisewould start out in life with twostrikes on them before they wentto bat. The movie stars bringthem into homes that have everyadvantage. The children getthe best of food and care, fineenvironment, and, most impor-tant of all, they get a very deepand sincere love.

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Jack Benny the other nightwas tal kin g about success.••Say, I'd trade it all in," he said," to have that little girl upstairswrap her arms around me."The little girl is Joan Benny, anadopted daughter. It is amusingto hear Benny talk about Joanie,because he is just as conceitedas a real father. He showed ussome pictures of her and saidseriously: "Mary say s thatJoanie looks a little like me.What do you think?" We as-sured him that there was a re-semblance, and he was delight-ed. When foster -fatherhoodreaches that stage it is mar-velous, and it testifies anew tothe fact that a baby's helpless-ness is the most compelling formof salesmanship in the world.Little Joanle Benny has takenover the Benny hom e lock,stock, and barrel, and in theirnew home now building the littleadopted daughter will have anursery that is the last word inscientific design.To appreciate the thrill that

Wallace Beery'. daughter, CarolADD.

GretwIL. daughter of Norman andSally Blane Foater.

these ch1ldless actors and ac-tresses get from their adoptedchildren you must understandthe people of the stage. Foryears most of them troupedt h r 0 ugh vaudeville, medicineshows, burlesque, and musicalcomedies. They lived in hotelsand on trains and became olderin the process of earning a ltv-ing.Then along came the movies

and radio and they didn't have

resultant scramble for ch1ldren.It wasn't a fad or a whim ofthe moment. They had to gobefore the courts of the variousstates to prove their fitness asparents, and in most instancesthey had to file their applica-tions and then wait for a yearor two years or even three years.No lovelier story ever has beenwritten in Hollywood than thistrue story of the movie stars inquest of children to mother andfather. They had fame and for-tune, but they were lonely forchildren's voices in their homes,for tiny arms around their necks,and their sense of frustrationwas understandable.So now Hollywood is full of

adopted babies and other babies,and it's a nicer place to live in,because the babies have broughtpermanency to the colony and athrilling interest. Actors whoonce sat in the Lambs club andFriars club and played rummyor shot pool now rush home toplay with the youngsters. Andyou ought to hear them carryon about their children! When

Norman cmd his mother, Joan BlondelL greet Dick PoweU at the railroad.tatiOIL.

to troupe any longer. They set-tled down in Hollywood, and itwas almost pathetic to see howeagerly they went out with realestate agents to find a HOME.They had enjoyed every experi-ence, but not since childhood hadany of them had a home. Sothey bought or rented homes inBeverly and Bel-Atr and Bren-wood and invited their vaude-ville friends in to look the placeover with a pardonable pride.They engaged B1ll Haines andothers in the interior decoratingbusiness to come in and slick theplaces up. By the time they gotfinished the actors and actresseshad their homes - magnificenthomes, too-but they were con-scious of something that wasmissing to make their homescomplete-children.At first they were abashed to

bring up the subject of children.But they looked into it and in-vestigated and learned t hatthere we r e orphanages thathad babies that could be adopt-ed. Not since the Californiagold rush has there been any-thing to compare wit h the

Wallace Beery starts talkingabout his Carol Ann, or VirginiaBruce displays Susan Ann Gil-bert, aged 5, they are changedpeople. George Burns of Burnsand Allen almost struts sittingdown when Sandra and Ronniecome into the living room to kissGracie and him good night. TheAcademy award dinner wasrendered memorable when Mrs.Spencer Tracy accepted thestatuette for "Spencer, Susan,Johnnie and me."

Su.cm. Frcmk McHugh'. daughter.

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Fear of kidnapers has been anatural reaction to the tidalwave of Hollywood b a b i e s,While this fear has abated, someof the stars still refuse to lettheir children be photographed.Fred Astaire is still adamant inthis respect. Other stars (butthese are in the minority) don'tfavor 'photographs because theybelieve glamor girls should notbe publlcfzed as mothers.Groucho Marx is one of the

very proudest pops in town, andwith good reason. Mrs. Marx,a pretty Swedish girl, won theBeverly Hills tennis champion.ship, and her son Arthur wonthe junior boys' championshipof the club the same year.Groucho is prouder of the factthat his wife and boy won theclub tennis titles than he is ofanything he's ever achieved onstage or screen.

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Victor M c Lag len, HaroldLloyd, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Can-tor, Wally Beery, Charlie Chap-lin, Bob Burns, Andy Devine,Gary Cooper, Joel McCrea, PatO'Brien, Frank McHugh, HarpoMar x, Robert Young, LewisStone, Allan Jones, Robert Mont-gomery, William Powell, DonAmeche, John Carradine, BorrahMinnevitch, Norman Foster, AlJolson, Phil Baker, Dick Arlen,Ben Lyon, Edward G. Robinson,and Roger Pryor are just a fewof the fathers in this colony-with their own or adopted chil-dren. Norma Shearer, LeatriceJoy, Virginia Bruce, MarleneDietrich, Bar bar a Stanwyck,Joan Bennett, Joan Blondell,Loretta Young, Gloria Swanson,and Irene Dunne are a few ofthe mothers - of their own oradopted children.Let it be told to the world that

the movie stars make grand par-ents and that the children livenormal lives. They are not morepampered and petted than youryoungster, and they get spankedjust as regularly.Let me conclude this article

with a story that bears retellingbecause it IS so charming a solu-tion of a difficult problem. Thestars who have adopted childrenalways dread the day when itw1ll be necessary to explain to

the youngsters that they areadopted. One star solved it verygracefully. He and his wifetook their l1ttle adopted daugh·ter out shopping and told herthat she could have anythingshe chose in the store. She se-lected five or six articles, andwhen they returned home themother asked her why, out ofall the things in the store, thelittle girl bad :selected only fiveor six. ••I chose these because

Scmclrcr. clcrughter of Geol'ge Burnaand Gracie AUeIL.

t wanted thetn most," said thelittle girl logically. So then themother explained that once upona time they went out to find alittle daughter, and that theysaw hundreds of little girls, butthat they had chosen her be-cause she was the only one theydesired. " Youwanted me most,mummy?" asked the little girl,and the mother nodded. Thatis the best picture I can give youof Hollywood's attitude towardits adopted ch1ldren.

Suaan .ADD Gilbert. daughter ofVirginia Bruce and the late John

Gilbert.

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Dear Miss Tin~: I have just read Miss Simone Simon, and all the rest are punk, 5 teet 11 ifWhes taU, weighs 165 pound8,Alyce L. MIllard's note about Annabella. too. L. W. and has brown hair and eyes. EducatedI didn't see" The P. S.-Let's have a picture and some Oarl Ourtis grammar school and OulverBaroness and the information about Henry Wilcoxon, who Military academy, Hia hobby is raisingButler," but I played King Richard In ••The Crusades." cocker spaniels. .read It, and I Thanks.didn't think I'dcare for It. I do Editor's note: MiaB MUlaN! ple(J8e reply.think, however, Henry Wilcozon 1O(J8 born in the Britishthat the part of West Indies, Sept. 8, 1905. He's 6 feet !the bar 0 n e s & inches tall and h(J8 brown hair and hazelwasn't the kind eyes. In 19!7 he made his debut on theof a part for London stage. Hil; screen career startedAnnabella. I saw in 1931.her In ••Wlnp ofthe M ° r n lng,"which was abso-lutely tops. I be-lieve if Miss Mil-lard had see nthat she wouldn'tdislike her S 0much, I thinkshe Is a grandactress. and I hope to see much moreof her.As for foreigners, I suppose Colbert,

Dear Miss TIn~: I have found RhettButler! After viewing the splendid per-formance of George Sanders In "LancerSpy" I wonder why directors look fartherfor a perfect Rhett. Of course, hIs accentwould have to be changed. But directorscan do anything!Will you please give me a brief biogra-

phy of that splendid actor OscarHomolka? Is he from the stage? The••Movie News" wrote that he Is an Eng·llshman. That Is a mistake-he Is aCzech.I like your column very, very much

and hope you can spare a few lines forme.Sincerely, MRS. A. F. P.

Editor's note: Mrs. Oolumbus, e1l./ OscarHomo~ka W(J8 born in VienM in 1901.Educated at Vienna Dramatic academy.Mr. Homolka played comedian r6les untilthe war. He enlisted and when he re-turned portrayed dramatic r6les. He 1I.(J8appeared in many stage proouctiom, in·eluding (I Ef1II1Ieror Jones." ... I'm V61'Jl,very glad you like the column.

Dear Mlaa T1n~: I saw the picture••Big Broadcast of 1938" and must say Iwas disappointed. In the first place, W.C. Fields has been playing that same oldgolf and pool game since 'way back In the••Ziegfeld Follles." It'. time he got some-thing new.Dorothy Lamour In a sarong costume

was a hit In ••Hurricane" and "JunglePrincess," but doesn't go over big singingIn ••Big Broadcast." A good deal of thepicture was poor.I have been going to movies since BIo-

graph days, and the recent picture, ••TheAwful Truth," was the only movie I eversaw four times and liked better each time.Yours very truly,

HARRY T. JOHNSON.Editor's note: Now, don't you go get·

ting bl(J861

Dear Mae Tln~: Three cheers for TimHolt for the splendid work he did in••Stella Dallas" and ••Gold Is Where YouFInd It." I t1nd his acting most enjoyableand hope he wIll carry the Holt name onto greater glory. Will you please printa brief biography of his life and also de-scribe him? Thanks for listening.Yours truly, D. E. C.Editor's note: Thank8for writing! Tim

ia the son 0/ Jack Holt, screen star. He's

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