People, Nov. 18, 1935

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Arriving in New Orleans to open a three-day engagement in The Constant Wife, Ethel Barrymore wheeled on a young woman newshawk, snapped: "I don't give interviews, especially to little whelps who don't know anything."

Said her interviewer: "You can't talk to me like that."

Boiled Miss Barrymore, digging her nails into the young woman's chin: "The hell I can't, you little wart! . . . You little rat! ... You little bitch!"

Paying his first visit to the U. S., British Novelist James Hilton (Lost...

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