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Married. Barbara Hutton, 30, Woolworth heiress ("the richest girl in the world"), and Cinemactor Archibald Alexander Leach (cinemonicker: Gary Grant), 38; she for the third time, he for the second; at Lake Arrowhead, Calif. She divorced her first husband, Georgian Prince Alexis Mdivani, in 1935, her second, Danish Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, in 1941; Grant was divorced by Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill...
...canoe bearing Cinestar Bette Davis and 12-year-old bitplayer Janis Wilson across California's Lake Arrowhead overturned, dumped them into deep water 40 yards from shore. Swimmer Davis succeeded in getting semi-swimmer Wilson to shore, gave her up to her mother, who spanked the daughter, kissed the actress. "I am an old Eagle Scout," explained Miss Davis...
...commentator, leaves actual work of whipping programs together to Director Sanford Howard Barnett. Only when particularly knotty problems occur does De Mille contribute a bit of sage advice. Once, when animal imitators were unable to render the baying of a beagle, De Mille dispatched six of them to Lake Arrowhead, there to study the call of four fine hounds. Best scholar was one Lee Millar, who progressed so fast that he was eventually permitted to imitate Mr. Smith, the wire-haired terrier of The Awful Truth. Another imitator discovered by Lux was George Arliss, who supplemented his performance...
Hollywood is more than academically interested in all this, for Arrowhead is financed largely with cinema money. Chief Stockholders Schenck and Paley sold $1,000,000 of the corporation debentures, the 10,000 shares of common stock to Hollywoodians. Among the stockholders are Constance Bennett (one of the smartest of cinema's businesswomen), Claudette Colbert, Darryl Zanuck, Al Jolson, Paley & friends are planning to sell $500,000 more of common stock issue to finish the job of making Arrowhead a glittering combination of Carlsbad and Sun Valley...
...Arrowhead but an oldtimer. On its site for 34 years stood a creaky, bulbous-Victorian hotel building. Soon after Paley & friends bought the place (including 1,800 acres of ground) for $800,000, a fire destroyed the old building, which they would have had to tear down, left them richer by $277,671 in insurance. To lay out the new buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought...