- You know that actors have always been superstitious and credulous people. You can give it to them to drink as the most innocent gossip. Exactly why Hollywood is the ideal place for all the soothsayers, fortune tellers, necromancers e. .. such swindlers. So you ignored the existence of Madame Salomon where he threatens to also lobby for three hours, so much so the crowd of petitioners? So you have not ever knocked on the door of the Wise Orimon? You see that your love affair is booming. Yet Orimon is well known: Just try to speak ill of this fake Indian born in a suburb of London and you will cry all the blame Hollywood. Needless to ask if you have visited the house of Donna Jesus, at the Belvedere. But being a journalist are you? Donna Jesus is the depository of secrets the cream of Hollywood. Run to interview her, and if you succeed you will learn amazing things about Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Norma Talmadge, Joan Crawford and many others. And if you want a consultation for you, get ready to bleed your wallet: Woman Jesus, this old half-breed, is expensive and then you always have the obligation to buy its own fake Aztec idol which costs dear, but ... will take some luck. Women
Jesus is famous for having predicted the third divorce of Gloria Swanson and the quarrels that Dietrich has had with his House. It is said that she has been predicting the end of Rudolph Valentino. And when poor Jack Pickford, who died recently in Paris, came to her before going to Europe, Donna Jesusita gli sconsigliò il viaggio.
— E, scusatemi, questa brava vecchietta ha anche predetto la crisi attuale?
— Non scherzate mai su certi argomenti nei salotti hollywoodiani: vi ho detto che gli attori e le attrici sono tutti molto superstiziosi e voi offendereste una credenza assai simile a quella religiosa. Non fu San Tomaso quello che disse: Credo perché è assurdo? Ecco, gli attori e le attrici credono, come San Tomaso, a delle assurdità.
— Voi siete un eretico, un blasfematore...
— Perdonatemi l'innocente paradosso: l'assurdo di San Tomaso è la Divina Parola di Cristo, lo so benissimo, l'assurdo di costoro sono degli idoli, dei and superstitious practices or fetishes, as they would have said at other times, stuff of black magic.
- not only have to burn them alive, like wizards and awarding of the black masses.
- would, after all, healing.
- What are these idols, these fetishes, these superstitious practices?
- gathering could be a very curious museum. You do not know for example that in the palm of your hand next to Greta Garbo has formed a callus. And you know why? Why Garbo has always at hand from an Etruscan idol which never goes anywhere and nervously clutching and continuously. But this is not! Clara Bow, every Tuesday, recita un'orazione speciale per fortificare il suo cuoio capelluto.
— Se la recitasse per rinforzare la materia cerebrale non sarebbe meglio?
— Lo credo anch'io. Kay Francis usa per lo stesso scopo un'altra pratica: ogni mattina, prima di pettinarsi segna una croce col suo crayon nero sulla palma della mano destra. E tutte le volte che incontra John Barrymore lo prega di adottare una pratica così semplice cosi efficace e così cristiana per far scomparire le sue zampe d'oca agli angoli degli occhi. Per raggiungere lo stesso scopo Irene Rich usa un altro metodo: la sera, prima di coricarsi, mette nella lozione dei capelli che userà il mattino dopo un idoletto atzeco vendutole a questo scopo da Women's Jesus.
Norma Shearer is more scientific: it pays regularly in his soup three drops of iodine is thoroughly convinced that a similar treatment to preserve intact the splendor of her beautiful eyes.
You know what makes Joan Crawford when he wants to win the friendship and admiration of a person? With great skill, without the person if n'accorga, pays them a pinch of salt on the head.
- Who knows how many tons of salt will have wasted Joan to make such a dizzying career! I want to try this method ...
- But if you want to succeed in a business of love is preferable to the method of Lew Ayres: He cuts a hair ciocchettina al suo gatto e li sparge, senza farsi accorgere, nel posto dove spera di compiere la sua agognata conquista.
— A quest'ora avrà consumato almeno cento gatti di ricambio...
— Allora è preferibile strappare con le buone e con le cattive il segreto del profumo che adopera Lupe Velez. Lupe dichiara che un vecchio indiano le insegnò la ricetta di questo profumo che rende irresistibile la dama che lo porta...
— Sarà il profumo della virtù!
— Dio volesse! Richard Barthelemess ha un reparto segreto nella serra del suo giardino dove coltiva il quadrifoglio. Quando vuoi conquistare una dama cerca di deporre nella borsetta dell'amata una foglia della rara leguminosa.
— E non ci sono dei metodi per migliorare la propria misera sorte?
— Quanti ne volete. Io vi consiglio quello di Cedi B. de Mille che possiede i migliori alberghi di Hollywood ed è afflitto da molti milioni: nei primi giorni di ogni mese, bruciate dodici foglie di lauro e dodici di oleandro e cospargete la porta di casa vostra con la cenere calda.
— Ma io abito in un hotel!
— Peggio per voi.
— E perché De Mille non consiglia a Roosevelt un metodo simile? La crisi sarebbe risolta con la cenere di dodici foglie di lauro e dodici di oleandro sparse sulla soglia della Casa Bianca. Ma, ditemi non avreste un rimedio per i dolori rheumatic: I suffer from it every time you change the time ...
- Easy: Robert Montgomery every morning he makes a cross over his right shoulder in coal: since then his shoulder, who once broke, it does not suffer anymore. Are you afraid of thieves?
- I do not: they are probably rich, I?
- but it gets! Remember then that there are two ways to protect themselves from thieves first to Adolf Menjou every night before going to bed lights a candle to a statue of Vishnu, and that of Nancy Carroll puts it in the doorway twelve grains of rice. Have you ever thought that someday will die?
- Yes, this is the only thing I am sure the good Lord will take care when needed.
- But maybe when you know?
- I do not care too much.
- yet there are some lucky people who know. Marion Davies, for example, is convinced that it will lose its lovely pearl necklace from donatale WilliamiHearst, the king of the newspapers, ten days before his death. Frank Albertson know the seven who died a month sometime between nine and ten at night. The seven days of every month Frank, not knowing what will happen to the nine, is a good boy, you make peace with God and we are looking at the clock hand.
- And when the ten have passed?
- It puts the fear with a solemn hangover.
(Conversations in Hollywood, October 1932 Kines)
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