Photoplay 1932-03 Vol. 41, No. 4

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The NEWS MAGAZINE of the SCREEN PHOTOPLAY MARCH 25 CENTS MIRIAM HOPKINS What Really Happened To How Garbo’s Fear Buddy Rogers of People Started

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4 PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 GAYEST SCREEN EVENT ofthe YEAR! Chevalier! Captivating all the world with laughter and love! Gay, irresistible, romantic! Jeanette MacDonald—beau- tiful, tuneful sweetheart of “The Love Parade’! Genevieve Tobin, brilliant comedienne! Charlie Ruggles! Roland Young! What acast! What a swell time you'll have at this Paramount Picture! What a swell time you have at all Paramount Pictures— always “the best shows in town’! MAURICE » ——~ 4. Chevalier mer e U BITSE CH PRODUCTION ‘ONE HOUR WITH YOU, wm JEANETTE MacDONALD Under the supervision - GENEVIEVE TOBIN - Charlie Ruggles « Ernst Lubitsch - Directed. by George Cukor cs — PARAMOUNT PUBLIX CORPORATION, ADOLPH — PRES., PARAMOUNT BLDG., NEW YORK,

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hs ol PHOTOPLAY The World’s Leading Motion Picture Publication High-Lights of This Issue Close-Ups and Long Shots. .° . .. « . James R. Quirk How Garbo’s Fear of People Started . - 5 KATHERINE ALBERT What Really Happened to Buddy Rogers LLEWELLYN CARROLL The Ex-Mr. Swanson Club . : : é s Lreonarp Hai Cal York’s Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood . . The Unknown Hollywood I Know : : KATHERINE ALBERT Come On, You Fat Girls! Hey, You Skinny Girls! . . 9 Sytvia Winners of Photoplay I’m Forever Chasing Garbo . Leonarp Hat Magazine Gold Medal for . : Seymour— AyY’s § f i : Z 7 < 3 = Ecce picture of the year eymour—PxHorop.ay’s Style Authority It’s All Done With Scissors d ; 4 f : : A 7 1920 1921 1922 “HUMOR- “TOL’ABLE “ROBIN ~ ESQUE” DAVID” HOOD” Photoplay’s Famous Reviews 1923 1924 1925 “The “ABRAHAM “THE BIG ; COVERED LINCOLN” PARADE” Poeraeviews'o! Current Pictures . . «.° «oe.. « = ‘es WAGON” The Shadow Stage i re: ee ko ee 1926 1927 “foc puomactoyecisior the Month . gps es. ee. ae “BEAU “7th “FOUR _GESTE” HEAVEN” SONS” 1929 1930 “DISRAELI” “ALL QUIET ON THE ; Personalities WESTERN FRONT” Joan Crawford and Constance Bennett ; ; : : ; y ae A Gallant Mother. ; ‘ d : : : . Franc Ditton Information and Claudette, Your New Screen Clothes Are Grand! & Service Telling on Norma . F ; : : : P . Sara Hamitton Brickbats and Bouquets 6 When I Faced Death . sy, ie TO ERE em 5 Ok me Tom Mix Friendly Advice on Girls’ Slemiaiked;Doowvlmch 5 ke Rota Brery Mies fee Sh. 4 16 Ms Aves | ae SlemGaweis Gets'Glamour!’. . 9... « «+ ‘=. A Hucnes BE iiyx00 eagpnees S APW Me Nag He Won’t Argue... : Bie st on ens chee ye) = anes LAMTOTON Seren EE 6 Hg Greu iene S@EIeMtal re ee a ee ww ilaresses _; neater George Arliss. : 2 : : j ; 3 é , . Casts of Current Photoplays . . . 125 Vol. XLI No. 4 JAMES R. QUIRK, Editor and Publisher March, 1932 119 Published monthly by the PHOTOPLAY PUBLISHING Co. Editorial Offices, 221 W. 57th St., New York City Publishing Office, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, II. The International News Company, Ltd., Distributing Agents, 5 Bream’s Building, London, England JAMES R. QuiRK, President RoBertT M. EASTMAN, Vice-President KATHRYN DOUGHERTY, Secretary and Treasurer YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION: $2.50 in the United States, its dependencies, Mexico and Cuba; $3.50 Canada; $3.50 for foreign countries. Remittances should be made by check, or postal or express money order. CAUTION—Do not subscribe through persons unknown to you. Entered as second-class matter April 24, 1912, at the Postoffice at Chicago, Ill., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1932, by the PHOTOPLAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, Chicago

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What the Andie Thing With Brickbats and Bou- quets PHOTOPLAY Readers Voice Their Opinions of Pictures and Personalities THE $25 LETTER To the blue noses of the Society for the Pre- vention of Everything in General, who love, when the occasion offers itself, to chorus, ‘“The movies are sending our young folks straight to the devil,” I, one of the young folks, a senior in high school, would like to reply that if we really feel the craving for unhealthy thrills there are far more exciting places to go to get them than a movie theater. To the average parent who shakes his head dubiously and says, “Well, I don’t know, I suppose the youngsters do get ideas from what they see,” I should like to say that we have already got all the ideas from sources other than the movies. And I would like to say further that George Arliss, Marie Dressler, Polly Moran and Joe E. Brown are just as great favorites with my classmates as the sex-appeal cuties. Epwarp T. McNamara, Danbury, Conn. THE $10 LETTER Our mother is past middle age and we are two young daughters endeavoring to live in this cigarette and cocktail era not too prudish- ly, but with the least possible friction at home. The movies are our mediator. We take mother to all the star productions. Here she sees modern clothes, and modern life as it is lived today in which her own two daughters must take a part. She would never agree that we place ourselves in the same circumstances as Joan Crawford in “Possessed,” but she does realize, through these enlightening movies, that there has been many a step forward since the horse and buggy days. Dora BARNARD, Tulsa, Okla. THE $5 LETTER The trouble with picture players is that they want tobe too versatile, or their directors want them to be. Why not let them do what they do best? Then we can choose our pictures by the cast. What happened after “The Love Parade’? As delightful and romantic a pair as ever sung and made love while dwelling in marble halls were separated and not allowed to do too much singing. I speak of Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. Leslie Howard, the genius of ‘Outward Bound,” was blocked into a wooden peg, the conventional husband with a no-good wife but an oh-so-good child, for Ann Harding to hang her ‘‘Devotion”’ on! Joe E. Brown, prince of comics, we are asked to consider, seriously, in college stuff! Lilyan Tashman is so much admired as an exponent of up-to-the-minute gowns that she was put into khaki for ‘The Mad (and Sad and Bad) Parade”! Now I’m going to see Marilyn Miller, that wonderful dancer, in a picture where she dances but once. E. D. GrrrioER, New Bedford, Mass. 6 Why, Mrs. Thalberg, that’s no way for a lady to act! And you, witha boy of your own! Many people objected to the big fight and break- age scenes from ‘Private Lives” and begged Norma and Bob Mont- gomery to calm down HE Garbo fans are at it again, since the release of ‘‘Mata Hari’ and the article in the January PHOTOPLAY called **Hollywood’s Cruelty to Greta Garbo.”? Some liked ‘‘Mata Hari’? (and how they liked it!) and some didn’t (and how they didn’t!). Is there a man, woman or child who has a lukewarm attitude toward Garbo? There was a little squabble about Norma Shearer and Rob- ert Montgomery in ‘Private Lives,”’ and it was pretty gen- erally agreed that Mrs. Thalberg wasn’t the type to play the ca- pricious Amanda. No dissenting votes cast in Fredric March’s direction. Al- most everybody liked **Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.** You'll find a grand picture of him in our color gallery this month. “Taxi,’? ‘“‘Tonight or Never,”’ **Ladies of the Big House,”’ and **-Emma” are the favorite films, while Helen Hayes and Miriam Hopkins, among the feminine contingent, got the most praise. Readers haven’t forgotten Jack Gilbert, and Clark Gable and Jimmie Dunn are still ace-high. When the audience speaks the stars and pro- ducers listen. We offer three prizes for the best letters of the month—$25, $10 and $5. Literary ability doesn’t count. But candid opinions and constructive suggestions do. Write up to 200 words, no more. We must reserve the right to cut letters to suit space limitations, and we are sorry but no letters can be returned. Address The Editor, PHOTOPLAY, 221 West 57th Street, New York City. IT’S GARBO AGAIN I shall always admire Ruth Biery for her sympathy and squareness in writing ‘“Holly- wood’s Cruelty to Greta Garbo.” Garbo needs it, after the vicious attacks of some of your writers. HELEN Voict, Syracuse, N. Y. After reading ‘“Hollywood’s Cruelty to Greta Garbo” in the January issue of PHoro- PLAY, my admiration for the star has increased tenfold. I am so thankful for her great success, for she rose so far above Hollywood’s “400.” How ashamed they all must feel now. Mrs. N. ELENDER, Houston, Texas Did I rave when I read that hard luck story about Garbo! It really exasperated me— “Hollywood’s Cruelty to Greta Garbo.” Ruth Biery acts as if no other actress had hard luck on her climb to stardom. Did Garbo expect us Americans to open our arms wide to a perfect stranger? Garbo is dull. D. S. BEECHER, Indian Head, Md. Greta Garbo is not a peasant girl, and as I am also ‘“‘one of those Swedes” and also from Stockholm I know a little about Miss Garbo’s family. They are not rich people but very nice and educated—far from peasants. ANNA B. STRINDBERG, Havana, Cuba MATA HARI’S CLOTHES In my opinion, “Mata Hari” was Garbo’s best as far as acting is concerned, but won’t someone please tell her to stop wearing such ridiculous clothes and hair arrangements. Mrs. JEANNE FLorio, New Haven, Conn. Greta Garbo has long been a great actress, but ‘Mata Hari’ places her as the supreme actress of the American screen. Never has she been more fascinating, never has a réle suited her better, never has Adrian designed such exotic clothes. KENNETH JORDAN, San Antonio, Texas If there is anybody left who doubts that Garbo can act as well as be glamorous and enigmatical, let him see “Mata Hari” or forever hold his peace. She surpasses all former performances. Dorotuy H. Avery, Morganton, N. C. STAR OR STORY? Give me the good old days when we went to see a show and not to see a star. Nowadays it’s the star’s name that is draped all over the billboards and if we look closely we sometimes find the name of the picture in small print. My hat is off to the producer who knows how to find suitable stories in which to cast our favorite stars. ALTON TayLor, Grenada, Calif. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 10]

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR MARcH, 1932 Edw.G.ROBINSON HE SCREEN eNO UTE: ACT “The HAICHE MAN’ Purple nights! ... Words of love! . . . All the witchery of the mystic East with its tangled skeins of human passion pervades “The Hatchet Man”... It is a symphony of blazing with LORETTA YOUNG & as Toya San the beautiful butterfly broken on the wheel of life. emotions ... Stark, elemental ig [am De drama — of a man who gives —of a woman who takes—of a butterfly who singes her wings at for- bidden flames... Thrilling! powerful! breath-taking! with the screen’s most DUDLEY DICGGES Based on a play by Achmed Abdullah and David Belasco - Screen play by J. Grubb Alexander .. . Directed by WILLIAM A. WELLMAN versatile character actor scaling the highest peak of emotional portrayal.

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Consult this pic ture shopping euide and save your time, money and disposition %* Indicates pholoplay was named as one of the best upon its month of review AGE FOR LOVE, THE—Caddo.—Billie Dove is good but the old familiar story doesn't click. (Oct.) ALIAS THE BAD MAN—Tiffany Prod. —You probably won't like this even if you're a Western fan. Ken Maynard is okay—but you simply don’t believe that story. (Sept.) ALMOST MARRIED—Fox.—A competent cast, including Ralph Bellamy and Violet Heming (stage star), struggle valiantly with a ney story, silly dialogue and careless direction. (Feb AMBASSADOR 1BILIL—Fox.—Will Rogers, a mythical kingdom and a lot of laughs. (Dec.) ANYBODY’S BLONDE —Action Pictures.—Prize- fight stuff, with some laughs and exciting moments. (Feb.) ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?—Radio Pictures.—Inside, and pretty serious stuff on what goes on in some high schools. Neither parents nor children should miss it. (Dec.) ARIZONA — Columbia. — (Reviewed under title “Men Are Like That."’) Laura La Plante and John Wayne find life and love at anarmy post. (Oct.) AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY MINUTES—United Artists—Douglas Fair- banks in the funniest, trickiest, peppiest travelogue you've seen. A novelty you must not miss. (Jan.) ARROWSMITH — United Artists.—Neither author Sinclair Lewis nor you will find fault with this. The story of a doctor, beautifully done by eee Colman and Helen Hayes. A great picture. (Jan.) BAD COMPANY—RKO-Pathe.—A_ gang picture that’s different, with Helen Twelve- trees and Ricardo Cortez doing some fine acting. (Nov.) BAD GIRL—Fox.—You'll laugh and cry over this, made from the novel of the same name. Sally Eilers is all the girls who live next door. That new kid, James Dunn, bears watching. Don't miss this one. (Sept.) BEAST OF THE CITY, THE—M-G-M.—Inside workings of a city police department—with Jean Harlow and Walter Huston. (Feb.) BELOVED BACHELOR, THE—Paramount.— Complications between a sculptor, his ward and his sweetheart. Paul Lukas and Dorothy Jordan are the heartthrobs—Charlie Ruggles screamingly funny. (Dec.) BEN HUR—M-G-M.—Although filmed in 1925 and dressed up in new sound effects, this Ramon Novarro-Francis X. Bushman picture is still eye- filling and exciting. (Feb.) BIG SHOT, THE—RKO-Pathe.—A clean little yarn. Eddie Quillan puts over startling business deals and wins Maureen O'Sullivan. (Feb.) BLACK CAMEL, THE—Fox.—Here’s your old pal Charlie Chan (sure, it's only Warner Oland) un- raveling the mystery of a movie star’s murder in Honolulu. Great stuff for the mystery-minded and other folks, too. (Sept.) BLONDE CRAZY—Warners.—(Reviewed un- der the title ‘Larceny Lane.’’) James Cagney and Joan Blondell in another ‘crook picture” that’s top-notch entertainment. (Oct.) * BOUGHT—Warners.—Connie Bennett and her father, Richard, rip off a real picture. Elegant acting, clothes you'll be ca-razy for, and a vivid, human story. Ben Lyon does the best work of his career. (Sept.) BRAN DED—Columbia.—Good scenery, good riding, good ol’ Buck Jones. But let’s have less talk and more action in Westerns. (Oct.) 8 Brief Reviews of Current BRANDED MEN —Tiffany Prod.—An old-time . Western with more action than a Democratic con- vention and just as many thrills. Ken Maynard, June Clyde and Tarzan, the horse. (Feb.) BRAT, THE—Fox.—Remember Sally O'Neil? What a comeback the kid stages in this old Maude Fulton comedy-drama. And what a rough and tumble fight she and Virginia Cherrill have! (Sept.) BUSINESS AND PLEASURE—Fox.—Will Rogers is a riot. (Oct.) CAPTIVATION — Capital Prod. — Ho-hum, a wife-in-name-only situation, a stouter Conway Tearle and a leading woman who almost out-Dietrichs Garbo. Made in England. (Dec.) CAUGHT—Paramount.—The plot is pretty silly. Boy (Dick Arlen) finds mother (Louise Dresser) is outlaw he was sent out to get—but Louise is worth the admission. (Sepl.) Watch! Next Month’s PHOTOPLAY for the beginning of the most complete and amazing beauty service ever offered American young womanhood CAUGHT PLASTERED— Radio Pictures.— (Re- viewed under the title ‘Full ot Notions.”)—If you like Wheeler and Woolsey, don't let this get by you, for it’s one of their best comedies to date. (Sept.) * CHAMP, THE — M-G-M.— You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll thrill at this superb picture with those two great artists, Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery. Don’t miss this one. (Dec.) CHEAT, THE—Paramount.—In which Tallulah Bankhead does her acting stuff in an old-fashioned story. (Jan.) CISCO KID, THE—Fox.—Warner Baxter makes the girls’ hearts beat double time in this thriller. The plot isn't new but the treatment is. (Nov.) COCK OF THE AIR—United Artists.—Obviously meant to be whimsical, this Billie Dove story about a ravishing war-time Parisian beauty went haywire somewhere along the line. Pretty risque. (Feb.) COM PROMISED—First National.— ( Reviewed under the title ‘We Three."’) Just uh-huh on this one. It neither bores nor thrills. About a million- aire. (Nov.) Pictures CONSOLATION MARRIAGE—Radio Pic- tures.—Don't miss this truly sophisticated 1931 movie, with Irene Dunne and ‘Pat ‘Front Page” O'Brien. (Nov.) CONVICTED—Supreme Features—A murder mystery at sea and a good one, with Aileen Pringle and Harry Myers. (Dec.) CORSAIR — United Artists—Familiar gangster activities transferred to a marine setting, without im- © provement. Chester Morris. (Jan.) CUBAN LOVE SONG, THE—M-G-M.— _ Lawrence Tibbett’s voice, Lupe Velez’ love- making and Jimmy Durante’s darn foolishness in a lusty story of marines in Cuba. Great stuff. (Dec.) DANGEROUS AFFAIR, A—Columbia.—A fast- moving and surprise-filled * ‘shrieker™ with Jack Holt and Ralph Graves. (Nov.) DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON—Paramount. —Sessue Hayakawa and Anna May Wong in an Oriental mystery. Recommended if you like your murders sinister. (Oct.) DEADLINE, THE—Columbia.—A Western with a really good plot. Better than the average horse opera. Buck Jones. (Jan.) DECEIVER, THE—Columbia.—Wicked deceiver, young girl, backstage atmosphere and a murder. Ian Keith and Dorothy Sebastian. (Feb.) DELICIOUS—Fox.—Recommended for Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell fans and lovers of clean entertainment. Janet is a Scotch immigrant and Charlie the rich young American. (Feb.) DEVIL ON DECK—Thrill-O-Drama.—All about a brother's revenge in midocean and the wicked sea captain's just desert. (Feb.) 7 DEVOTION—RKO-Pathe.—Perfect cast, ex- cellent direction and sparkling dialogue make this moth-eaten plot a picture you must not miss. Ann Harding. (Nov.) * DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE—Para- mount.—Another horror picture that will send cold chills and thrills up your spine. Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins are great. Fred handles the difficult dual réle superbly. Marvelous stuff, but don’t take the kids. (Feb.) DREYFUS CASE, THE—Columbia.—An accu- rate account of the famous Dreyfus-Emile Zola apes made in England with a fine British cast. Nov EAST OF BORNEO—Universal.—The title tells _ the story. Real Borneo scenery, excellent studio “fakes."’ Charles Bickford and Rose Hobart make — it interesting enough. (Sept.) EMMA—M-G-M.—Another laurel wreath for — Marie Dressler. She makes you laugh and cry in this moving drama of an old servant's love for her master’s children. (Feb.) ENEMIES OF THE LAW—Regal Prod.—Unless you want to see Lou Tellegen’s brand new face-lift, you can check this off your list. Not even Mary Nolan's beauty compensates for that old formula 877—a gangster story. (Sepi.) EXPLORERS OF THE WORLD—Raspin Prod. | —Six of the world’s greatest explorers tell their adventures in words and pictures. (Feb.) _EXPRESS 13—UFA.—A thrilling German- dialogue film that makes you wish you'd paid more attention to your German teacher. (Oct.) FALSE MADONNA, THE—Paramount.—This doesn't make you laugh but it hits your heart. Kay Francis is good but a new boy, John Breeden, steals the show. (Jan.) [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 12]

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 a) C harlie Chan's Chance WARNER OLAND in another elamae adventure of Earl Derr Biggers’ master sleuth! With eyes that see all, lips that tell nothing, Charlie Chan unmasks the most sinister crime of his career. Directed by John G. Blystone, with Alexander Kirkland, H. B.Warner, Marian Nixon, Linda Watkins....A mighty murder mystery!

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What the Audience Thinks | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 } Some said, “Greta, I think those clothes you wore in ‘Mata Hari’ were grand and you looked just that much more charming because of them.” Others said, ‘“‘Greta, those clothes you wore in ‘Mata Hari’ were terrible and we hope you won’t dress like that again!’’ The gown she’s wearing here caused the most comment NORMA’S PRIVATE LIFE I have always admired Norma Shearer, but in “Private Lives” I saw a new Norma. A Norma no longer alluring; who fought and kicked like a rowdy and shrieked like a shrew. MAarcaret M. MARKHAN, Saginaw, Mich. Norma Shearer is known as a faithful wife, a devoted mother and an exemplary character in her “private life.” Why did she have to be dragged through the cheap réle she played in “Private Lives’? There she played tag with marriage, divorce and re-marriage. Mr. Play- wright, keep congruity between the stars and their réles. GERTRUDE SEAFORD, San Francisco, Calif. Just as I had begun to despair of ever seeing Norma Shearer in another comedy, along came “‘Private Lives.” I loved it and I loved Norma. I know only one adjective which will ade- quately describe her acting, and that is “perfect.” Norma never disappoints. IE. A. SPAULDING, Chafee, N. Y. LESSONS IN A THEATER The blow of my life came when I was in- formed that my eight-year-old daughter could not continue in the public school. Illness had retarded her mental growth to such an extent that she could not be taught the most simple things, yet, strangely enough, her body had recovered. This made her appear doubly stupid. We began sending her to educational talkies, of which she is extremely fond. Gradually she acquired a fund of general information and an 10 incentive to learn to read. She has practically no social contacts, and the movies are her fairyland. Now she is attending the day school, where she has a special teacher. i shudder to think what would have happened to her without the help ore talkies. Mrs. M.S. SAunDERS, Multnomah, Ore. SEES WITH HER EARS I am a blind old lady who had very few pleasures before talkies. Now I can hear the movies and I picture in my mind how these talented artists look. I like to classify their looks by their voices. I love to hear Janet Gaynor and would not think of missing one of her pictures. ZaSu Pitts, with her funny voice, is an ideal person for mental picturing. Clark Gable’s brutal voice and Greta Garbo’s delicious accent are fascinating. BELLA Mazur, Cleveland Hts., Ohio HEARS WITH HER EYES The advent of the talkies sounded my death knell, for I am one of the great army of the hard of hearing. Living in a town of only eighteen hundred people, I found the movies my only diversion. Last summer a teacher from a school for the deaf and dumb came to town for five weeks and initiated me into the new world of lip reading. Now the talkies teach me and I go every time the program changes. Hearing with my eyes gives me the feeling of a very pleasant bowing acquaintance with every mouth in filmdm. Hazev K. BAXTER, N. D. Enderlin, CLARK, JIMMIE AND FRED I have just been to see “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and I was thrilled, for Fredric March proves his talent conclusively and has shown us that he can do the brilliant, intense scientist and the repulsive, destructive beast as well as conventional réles. Could Clark Gable do it? Or the suddenly popular James Dunn? How about a little recognition where it is deserved? CAROLINE Crossy, Detroit, Mich. Art with a great big A certainly describes Fredric March’s latest picture, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” It isa marvelous portrayal of the good and bad there is in all of us, a sinister _ warning to each and every one of us not to allow the baser nature to overcome the better. Mrs. R. B. Davin, Dayton, Ohio SPIRITUAL LESSON Many years I have attended my church faithfully, but never before has a sermon on “the wages of sin is death” been brought to me so forcefully as it was in the phonoplay “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Here I saw portrayed vividly the result of one following his baser impulses and the effect not only on himself, but upon those with whom he came in con- tact. I came away from the picture feeling that I had been taught a spiritual lesson. MrriaM MILLer, Washington, D. C. “DELICIOUS”? AMERICANIZATION I arrived in America from Wales nine years ago but in all that time I have never had such a feeling of pride and happiness because I am an American citizen as I experienced during the showing of “Delicious,” with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. At the time of my arrival in this country I was too young to understand what it meant to be admitted to America. This picture made me realize how fortunate I really am. Dytis Evans, Margate City, N. J. CANADIAN ANSWER I spent a few days in the United States this summer. I won’t say that the screening was only fairly good nor that the sound apparatus was ghastly (as one of your readers said about our theaters) but I can truthfully say that the reception was not one whit better than the showings in Canada, for I saw them again here some time later. LILLIAN JENNINGS, Toronto, Canada LIVE, DON’T ACT Movie queens, such as Garbo and Dietrich and others, rely on their beauty rather than brainwork to guide them through a picture. These actresses could increase their drawing power by taking a lesson from a future screen idol—Mae Clarke, w ho _ Says, “Simply live your part, do not act it.’ Jor J. Kovarik, Garfield Heights, Ohio PUT ON YOUR CLOTHES, GIRLS I would like to know why Tallulah Bank- head had to dress and undress before the public in “The Cheat”; why Barbara Stan- wyck and Joan Blondell had to run around in their underwear in “Night Nurse”; why pro- ‘ducers and directors believe that the success of a picture depends on half clothed heroines. Jutta Youncs, San Antonio, Texas | PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 112 j

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 as FILM is found bydentalresearchto play an important partin tooth decay ..to cause unsightly stains on enamel. It must be removed twice daily. Two reasons for (ec Three rules for fighting it Interesting theories on what makes teeth decay. UTHORITIES now believe there are two causes of common tooth de- cay. One is the lack of essential food elements in diet. .. interior tooth struc- ture when under-nourished shows a _ tendency to disintegrate and offers ‘low _ resistance’’ to disease. The second cause is germs—or to be more accurate, acids manufactured by germs. These acids gradually dissolve enamel and attack the part beneath. Pepsodent tooth paste was developed to remove the ‘outside’’ enemy of teeth. Only your diet—see suggestions—can help you fight trouble from within. Remove film on teeth On your teeth a coating forms called film. It is most prevalent after eating and on rising in the morning. Film is ugly. It absorbs the stains from food and smoking. It dims the sparkling brilliance of your teeth. What to do Film attracts the germs associated with decay. It glues them tightly to the tooth’s enamel. What’s more, film makes an idealincubatorin whichgerms prow and multiply. Film must be re- moved for safety—twice every day. A new cleansing material Recently Pepsodent laboratories made a notable discovery —a cleansing and polishing material entirely new and dif- ferent. This material is unsurpassed in removing stained, destructive film. It imparts a higher brilliance to tooth en- amel. And, last of all, this new mate- rial is SAFE—safe, because it’s soft, twice as soft as polishing material in common use. Because of its great safety it is urged for cleansing baby teeth and for polish- ing delicate enamel. Pepsodent.marks the pinnacle of achievement in the mak- ing of modern toothpaste. Rely on it. 1. Remove film — use Pepsodent toothpaste every morning and every night. 2. Eat these foods— One or two eggs, raw fruit, fresh vegetables, head lettuce, cabbage or celery. *3 lemon with orangeutice. Onequartofmilk, and other food to suit the taste, 3. See your Dentist— Adults at least twice @ year— children every 3 months and at the slightest sus- picion of trouble. Amos ’n’ Andy brought to you by Pepsodent every night except Sunday over N.B.C. network. ) USE PEPSODENT TWICE A DAY—SEE YOUR DENTIST AT LEAST TWICE A YEAR

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Brief Reviews of Current Pictures FANNY FOLEY HERSELF—Radio Pictures.— Edna May Oliver's first starring film. You'll laugh and—what's more—you'll cry. In Technicolor. See it. (Oct.) FIFTY FATHOMS DEEP — Columbia.—Why waste Jack Holt and Dick Cromwell on that same old plot? Oh sure, they are deep sea divers in love with one girl. (Nov.) FIGHTING SHERIFF, THE — Columbia. — Recommended for dyed-in-the-wool Western fans. Others will find it just average film fare. Buck Jones is the hero. (Sept.) FIRST AID—Sono Art.—In which a lot of people —Grant Withers, Marjorie Beebe and Wheeler Oak- man—do a lot of unconvincing things unconvinc- ingly. (Sept.) FIVE STAR FINAL—First National.—Rush to the nearest theater. You mustn't miss this exciting story of tabloid newspaper sensa- tionalism. Eddie Robinson is superb. (Sept.) 4 FLYING HIGH—M-G-M.—Comedy with snappy music used in just the right places. Good dancing, good singing. Bert Lahr and Char- lotte Greenwood. (Jan.) FORBIDDEN—Columbia.—Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou and Ralph Bellamy give fine per- formances in a gloomy ‘“‘wages of sin’’ story. (Feb.) FRANKENSTEIN — Universal. — Not for faint-hearted folks. This is strong horror stuff which leaves you breathless. But what does that matter? See it. Boris Karloff out-terrors Lon Chaney. (Jan.) FREIGHTERS OF DESTINY—RKO-Pathe.— Cowboy songs and good comedy put the ginger in this ‘so with Tom Keane and Barbara Kent. (Jan. FRIENDS AND LOVERS—Radio Pictures.— Adolphe Menjou, Eric Von Stroheim and Lily Damita get tangled up in an involved yarn that tries to be too sophisticated. (Oct.) GAY BUCKAROO—Allied Prod.—Hoot Gibson does his best, Roy D'Arcy his worst and Merna Ken- nedy her sweetest in this formula Western. (Jan.) GAY DIPLOMAT, THE—Radio Pictures.—Ivan Lebedeff intrigues the ladies (Betty Compson and oe Tobin) in this story of Balkan intrigue. (Oct.) GIRL OF THE RIO—Radio Pictures.—Dolores Del Rio comes back strong in this mildly interesting talkie version of ‘The Dove.’ (Feb.) * clothes. a clothes and speak those smart lines. GIRLS ABOUT TOWN—Paramount.—The old gold digger story all dressed up in new Kay Francis and Lilyan aware wear the ec.) GOOD SPORT—Fox.—Whistle the story—it's that old and that familiar. But it has good dialogue and Linda Watkins. (Jan.) GRAFT—Universal.—A fast action thriller. Regis Toomey is a dumbbell reporter and Sue Carol is heart interest. (Oct.) GREAT LOVER, THE — M-G-M. — Adolphe Menjou breaks hearts. Irene Dunne breaks into song. Both do good jobs. (Sept.) [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 } GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM, THE—United Artists.—Sophisticated, smart and different—honestly! Ina Claire, Madge Evans and Joan Blondell are the three gold diggers. Not for children. (Feb.) GRIEF STREET—Chesterfield.—A wobbly mys- tery story with pretty Barbara Kent and John Holland. Save your time. (Dec.) GUARDSMAN, THE — M-G-M. — Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. You'll be ca-razy about them in this sophisticated comedy. See it, but don’t take the kids. (Oct.) GUILTY GENERATION, THE—Columbia.— No machine guns but plenty of action in this beer feud drama. Leo Carrillo stars. (Jan.) GUILTY HANDS—M-G-M.—That Lionel Barry- more—how he canact! You know he is the murderer but will they discover his guilt? You'd better find out. (Sept.) HARD HOMBRE, THE—Allied.—For kids and grown-ups. A novel Western with Hoot Gibson and Lina Basquette. (Oc/.) HEARTBREAK—Fox.—This has a war _ back- ground but it’s really a sweet love story. Madge Evans (what an actress!) takes honors from Charlie Farrell, a good actor, too. (Dec.) HEAVEN ON EARTH—Universal.—Recom- mended only for Lew Ayres fans. (Nov.) HELL DIVERS—M-G-M.—Wallace Beery, Clark Gable and the United States Naval Air Forces turn out a picture of peacetime aviation you won't forget. (Jan.) HER MAJESTY LOVE—First National.—Mar- ilyn Miller, as a beautiful barmaid, tosses off songs between every glass of beer. This is light, but pleas- antly entertaining. (Jan.) HIS WOMAN—Paramount.—Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert try hard but a baby steals the picture with its lusty bawling. Claudette plays a tarnished lady. (Jan.) HOMICIDE SQUAD — Universal. — Ho-hum, another gangster picture. (Nov.) HONEYMOON LANE-—Sono Art.—Not a great picture, but a delightful one. A nice romance be- tween Eddie Dowling (who sings) and June Collyer. And that swell comic, Ray Dooley. (Sept.) HONOR OF THE FAMILY—First National.— Nothing left of the Balzac story but the title. Bebe Daniels is a hot-cha-cha adventuress heroine. (Nov.) HOUSE DIVIDED, A—Universal.—Life in the raw with Walter Huston as a hard-boiled sea captain whose wife falls in love with hisson. Huston is grand. (Jan.) * blues. back to old swimmin’ hole days. HUCKLEBERRY FINN — Paramount. — This sequel to “Tom Sawyer" will cure the Jackie Coogan and mi bn een take you cl. HURRICANE HORSEMEN, THE—Willis Kent Prod.—A fast moving thriller, with plenty of Spanish atmosphere. Lane Chandler has the stuff. (Dec.) HUSBAND'S HOLIDAY — Paramount.—Clive Brook vacillates between wife and seductive siren. Amusing enough. (Feb.) I LIKE YOUR NERVE — First National.— Douglas Raiieabe, Jr., acts just like his father did in “The Americano.” He does it well, too. The story is weak. (Sept.) IMMORTAL VAGABOND, THE—UFA.—A tedious Tyrolean story without a single yodel. Nice scenery, good acting, English dialogue. (Oct.) IN LINE OF DUTY—Monogram Prod.—The Northwest Mounted Police get their man again. This time it’s Noah Beery. Sue Carol is the girl. (Dec.) IS THERE JUSTICE?—Thrill-O-Drama.—In spite of a good cast this yarn about attorneys, crooks and newspaper reporters just isn't there. (Feb,) JUVENILE COURT—Ziedman Prod.—Have yourself a g cry over this excellent and — pathetic story. Junior Durkin and Pat O’Brien are splendid. (Feb.) LADIES OF THE BIG HOUSE— Para mount.—An emotional story about women prisoners, with some terrific scenes you'll never forget. Sylvia Sidney does her best work. (Feb.) * LADIES OF THE JURY—Radio Pictures.— This movie is one of the big laugh-makers of film history. And Edna May Oliver—but you know how swell she is! Take the children. (Feb.) LASCA OF THE RIO GRANDE—Universal.— Just another Western—but this one is South of the Rio Grande. Fair entertainment with Johnny Mack Brown, Leo Carillo and Dorothy Burgess. (Sept.) LAST FLIGHT, THE—First . National——Gay aviators in Paris make the first half grand, but the somber part is not so good. Richard Barthelmess’ work is overshadowed by the others in the cast. (Odl.) LAW OF THE TONGS—Willis Kent Prod.—A Chinaman is the gentle hero in this mel ima. You'll shed a tear or two over his-death. (Feb.) - LEFTOVER LADI ES Tiffany Prod.—Divo talk a lot about careers and freedom _in_ drea dialogue. Claudia Dell, in a brunette” ‘wig, is good (Dec.) * LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD—First Na- tional.—Joe E. Brown is funnier than he's ever been, in this story of a college grind with inhibitions and botanical aspirations. (Dec.) LOVE STORM, THE—British International. Three men and one woman are exiled toa lighthomay nee murder doesn’t speed things up. Dreary fa ‘are. ec MAGNIFICENT LIE, THE—Paramount.—Not up to the standard of most Ruth Chatterton films. But there’s a new young man named Ralph lamy who is particularly good. (Sepi.) MAKER OF MEN—Columbia.—A football coach is the hero of this appealing, if slightly slow- moving story. Good work by Richard Cromwell and Jack Holt. (Feb.) MANHATTAN PARA DE—Warners.— Broadway gets a chance to see itself satirized. Laughs by the vaudeville team of Dale and Smith, helped by Win- = nye and Charles Butterworth. Technicolor. Feb.) [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 14] Photoplays Reviewed in the Shadow Stage This Issue Save this magazine—refer to the criticisms before you pick out your evening's entertainment. Make this your reference list. Charlie Chan’s Cities —-Rog Dance Team—Fox File 113—Allied Pictures. . Forgotten W omen—Monogram Freaks—M-G-M.. boy Hatchet Man, The—First National. High Pressure—_W. arners. Local Bad Man, The—Allied Pictures. Lovers Courageous—M- G-M Page Man I Killed, The—Paramount...... 49 Man Who Played God, The—Warners. 50 Michael and Mary — Universal-Gains- borough Murders in the Rue Morgue — Uni- Night Beat—Action Pictures No One Man—Paramount Panama Flo—RKO-Pathe Prestige—RKO-Pathe Silent Witness, The—Fox Sky Devils—United Artists Stepping Sisters—Fox Sunset Trail, The—Tiffany Prod..... rie Tex Takes a Holiday—Argosy Prod... This Reckless Age—Paramount Tomorrow and Tomorrow—Paramount 51 Two Kinds of Women—Paramount... 50 Two Souls—Cicero Prod U. S. 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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR Marcu, 1932 bP y Ps 3 a - we ies em i} cs | Cre y f " e 5 ‘) gee ne 5 eis J > 4 Grimmer than that grim picture, “DRACULA,” more gruesome and awe-inspiring than““FRANKENSTEIN,” EDGAR ALLAN POE’S remarkable mystery story “MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE,” laid in the dark caverns of Paris, will thrill you to your finger-tips. Beautifully enacted by BELA LUGOSI «nd SIDNEY FOX The Original “DRACULA” Star of “STRICTLY DISHONORABLE” Directed by ROBERT FLOREY rl HHP seicie UNIVERSAL PICTURES i UNIVERSAL PICTURES CORPORATION CARL LAEMMLE, President 730 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY

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14 “i y) Amazing events mark the passing of a famous old hotel— A DRAMA OF ROMANCE, MYSTERY AND TRAGEDY featuring PEGGY SHANNON THEODORE VON ELTZ ALAN MOWBRAY A Sam Bischoff Production ( FAMOUS hotel is about to close A vast and weird its doors. assemblage celebrates its passing, and stark drama whirls through rooms and corridors. Ghosts of a glamorous past fill every nook and corner—and, in room 705, a ghastly plot unfolds which fairly makes your blood run cold—a boiling pot of sinister emotions. Directed by CHRISTY CABANNE Owned and Produced by QUADRUPLE PICTURES, Inc., Ltd. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 Brief Reviews of Current Pictures | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 ] MATA HARI—M-G-M.—Garbo and Novarro are co-starred in a glittering story of the most romantic of all war spies. Grand supporting cast in- cludes Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone. (Feb.) MEN ARE LIKE THAT— Columbia. — (Also shown under the title of ‘“‘Arizona."’) Laura La Plante and John Wayne find life and love at an army post. (Oct.) MEN IN HER LIFE—Columbia.—The dialogue crackles, but the old story creaks. All about a rich girlin Europe and a rough and ready American. Lois Moran and Charles Bickford both good. (Jan.) MEN OF CHANCE—Radio Pictures.—The old story of the woes of a gambler's wife, well acted by Ricardo Cortez and Mary Astor. (Feb.) MEN OF THE SK Y—First National.—Yep, it's an aviation war story—but it’s pretty flimsy stuff. Irene Delroy and Jack Whiting. (Sept.) * MERELY MARY ANN—Fox.—Take your hankie to this one, but be sure to go. Not since “7th Heaven" have Charlie Farrell and Janet Gaynor been so whimsical and idyllic. (Sept.) MERRY WIVES OF VIENNA, THE—Super Film.—Even if you no speak Deutsch, you'll enjoy this. Rippling waltzes and sparkling gayety make this foreign film worthwhile. (Sept.) MONKEY BUSINESS — Paramount. — Messrs. Marx, Marx, Marx & Marx in another outbreak of assorted lunacy. No beginning, no end—just gor- geous nonsense. (Oct.) MORALS FOR WOMEN—Tiffany Prod.—This “it’s the woman who pays” yarn takes a couple of new routes and brings back trouper Bessie Love. (Jan.) MOTHER AND SON — Monogram Prod. — Another Reno story, with Clara Kimball Young as Faro Lil. (Oct.) MURDER AT MIDNIGHT—Tiffany Prod.— Yep, it’s a mystery story and a swell one! Alice White, in a small part, has a sex-appeal voice. (Oct.) MURDER BY THE CLOCK—Paramount.— With such a cast, headed by Lilyan Tashman, this should have been swell. But alas! and alack! this gruesome, murder story is nothing but gruesome. (Sept.) MY SIN—Paramount.—Tallulah Bankhead and Fredric March in one of those “‘should a woman tell her past?” things. (Nov.) MYSTERY OF LIFE, THE—Classic.—Clarence Darrow and a Smith College zoology professor ex- plain evolution. Uh-huh, it’s as dull as it sounds. (Sept.) MYSTERY TRAIN, THE—Darmour Prod.—Old school mystery melodrama. with plenty of sure-fire hokum and suspense. (Nov.) NECK AND NECK—Thrill-O-Drama.—Only Stepin Fetchit’s funny face and voice save this dull race-track story from a complete case of the dol- drums. (Jan.) NEW ADVENTURES OF GET-RICH- * QUICK WALLINGFORD, THE—M-G-M.— And they said William Haines was slipping! See this knock-out comedy with Billy and the coming big shot, Jimmy Durante, to be convinced they're wrong. (Nov.) NIGHT RAID (UN SOIR DE RAFLE)—Osso Prod.—A lively French film about a prize-fighter, his real sweetheart and a siren. Amusing. (Dec.) OLD SONG, THE (Das Alte Lied)—Austrian Cinderella. Lil Dagover brightens it considerably. German dialogue. (Nov.) ONCE A LADY—Paramount.—Charming sim- plicity and Ruth Chatterton’s acting redeem a not too original story. (Dec.) ONE WAY TRAIL, THE—Columbia.—The Kids will love these exciting adventures of handsome Tim McCoy. (Dec.) OPERA BALL — Greenbaum-Emelka Prod. — English lines flashed on the screen make it possible for you to enjoy this sprightly German production of Viennese night life. (Jan.) OVER THE HILL—Fox.—Mae Marsh's screen return as the self-sacrificing mother un- wanted by her children. Jimmie Dunn and Sally Eilers, too. (Jan.) PAGAN LADY—Columbia.—The SadieThompson theme in a new dress, with Evelyn Brent wearing it becomingly. (Nov.) PALMY DAYS—United Artists.—A typical Eddie Cantor-and-nonsense show that should” bring film musicals back. (Oct.) PARDON US—Hal Roach—M-G-M—Laurel and _ Hardy ina lot of hohkum. Funny. (Odc.) ’ PARISIAN, THE—Capital Prod.—This attempt at a smart story made in England with Adolphe® Menjou and Elissa Landi proves that these glamour kids get that way in Hollywood. (Nov.) PEACH O’ RENO—RadioPictures.—Bert Wheeler | and Robert Woolsey in an absurd plot concoction of © Reno's divorce colony. Short on romance but long on laughs. (Jan.) : PENROD AND SAM—First National.—If you haven't forgotten how it feels to be a kid you'll love” Leon Janney and Junior Coghlan in this. (Nogp.) PERSONAL MAID—Paramount.—Nancy Car- roll gets all mixed up in a namby-pamby plot. (Nov.) * PLATINUM BLONDE—Columbia.—Youth and beauty, comedy and drama—and Jea Harlow. A well done newspaper yarn. Seeit. (Dec.) POCATELLO KID, THE—Tiffany Prod.—Ken Maynard in another W ild Western setting; Marca Day, the lady in distress. (Feb.) POLITICS — M-G-M. — Polly Moran oul Marie Dressler start you off with a giggle and you'll laugh all the way through the picture. Don't er these two attempting to clean up the town, epl.) * POSSESSED—M-G-M.—What a pair Joan Crawford and Clark Gable make in a picture that has plenty of action, sophistication, and gorgeous clothes. (Jan.) PRIVATE LIVES—M-G-M.—Norma Shearer and Bob Montgomery do good team work im this farce made amusing by priceless, if risque, lines, You one hundred per cent sophisticates will have yourselves a fling. (Feb.) PRIVATE SCANDAL, A — Headline Prod.— Another underworld story in which the crook re forms. (Oct.) PUBLIC DEFENDER, THE—Radio Pictures. — After ‘‘Cimarron”™ you expect too much of Richard Dix. That’s why this story of a man who brings a gang of crooks to justice is disappointing. (Sept.) — RACING YOUTH—Universal.—If you aren't too critical, you'll enjoy this story of automobile road racing with Frank Albertson, June Clyde and Louise Fazenda. (Jan.) RAINBOW TRAIL.—Fox.—George O’Brien tries to make a weak Western come to life. (Feb.) RANGE FEUD, THE—Columbia.—Buck Jones may be vour favorite Western star but you'll twiddle your thumbs at this banal old story. (Dec.) RANGE LAW —Tiffany Prod.—This Western taxes the credulity but Ken Maynard does some slick riding. (Jan.) RECKLESS LIVING—Universal.—. ing little picture. (Nov.) RICH MAN’S FOLLY—Paramount.—One of those stark dramas in which George Bancroft as an ambitious shipbuilder wrings sympathy out of an un- sympathetic réle. (Jan.) RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE—Fox.—A grand Western with fast action, grand Arizona scenery and marvelous production. George O' Brien and Marguerite Churchill excellent. (Dec.) ROAD TO RENO, THE—Paramount.—Divoree, murder, suicide and an important cast fail to make thisanything buta picture that just doesn't jell. (Nop.) ROAD TO SINGAPORE, THE—Warners.—Bill Powell and Doris Kenyon—splendid in a tropical drama of tangled loves and desires. (Oct.) SAFE IN HELL—First National.—The only re- deeming thing about this sordid story of a shady lady is the work of Dorothy Mackaill, who deserves better stuff. (Jan.) SALVATION NELL—Tiffany-Cruze.—Religion and sentiment are pretty obvious in this out-of-date story, but Helen Chandler and Raiph Graves make you believe every word of it. (Sepi.) SEA GHOST, THE—Imperial Prod.—Laura La Plante wasted on this cheap, ridiculous story. (Wov.) SECRET CALL, THE—Paramount.—Peggy Shannon, who pinch-hits for Clara Bow in this one, scores a solid hit. It’s a political story with love interest. Dick Arlen excellent. (Sept. ) [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 117 ] An entertain-

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE ror MARCH, 1932 15 PZ HOWARD HUGHES =e ‘s WZ=)- ae Presents ee ok We N i ey WS \ \f ee a eee Sree NMENT SPENCER TRACY 7 WILLIAM BOYD EDWARD ANN DYORAK ‘SUTHERLAND GEORGE COOPER | Production UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE PRODUCED

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Take Lhese Beauty To Gain What You Envy in the Stars Oh, that flashing smile of Lupe Velez—how it is envied! S you read this page I am in Hollywood preparing a sur- prise for every reader of PHOTOPLAY who is interested in personal improvement and beauty. You will be simply delighted when you look through your April issue of this magazine because you are going to find therein the most complete and helpful beauty department ever printed in any magazine. I am right now out here in Hollywood gathering for you all the beauty secrets of all the stars, and what I have already learned sur- prises even I who thought I knew a lot about them. Going to the movies is one of the most stimulating beauty treatments I know! Why, you ask? Because I rarely ever see a glamorous looking star that a certain amount of dissatis- faction with myself is not created. I find that I go home, wondering why my figure isn’t as svelte, as say, Constance Bennett’s. Or why my eyes aren’t as expressive as Joan Craw- ford’s. And after I have wondered long enough, I find that I have a new stimulus to take those exercises that had been boring me. And I find that perhaps I could find a little more time each day for the special care of my tired looking eyes. Sylvia is right. It is only laziness that keeps us from being the charming looking creatures we want to be and ought to be. It is that extra half hour that could be spent in a little self- beauty culture that we never seem to find in our day’s whirl. It is the seem- ingly tiresome little things that we shirk which would bring us the most benefit. ROM your letters I find that most of you consider beauty such as you see reflected on the screen, quite unat- tainable. An extra pound about the hips bars you from the Constance Bennett class. The lack of a flawless skin ruins all hope for a natural looking beauty like that of Madge Evans or Dorothy Jordan. Let’s see what you envy most in some of your favorites. And then see how a few simple beauty tips will put 16 The slim princess, or should I say Marquise? To be as slender as Constance Bennett is the secret desire of half the feminine world Friendly Advice on GIRLS’ PROBLEMS I can not answer letters which do not enclose a stamped, self-addressed en- velope, so don’t forget it when requesting booklets or personal advice. I will gladly answer questions on per- sonal problems about hair, correct colors for your type and shades in make-up. Ask for my booklet of normalizing exer- cises and non-fattening menus. My com- plexion leaflet gives general advice on the care of the skin with specific treatment for blackheads and acne. Address Carolyn Van Wyck at PHOTO- PLAY, 221 West 57th Street, New York City. Madge Evans’ natural, unaffected beauty draws envious sighs you on the right track toward attain- ing what you want! Now there was a girl who wrote to me bewailing her teeth. They were regular but they didn’t sparkle like those of Lupe Velez! I know that it seems unbelievable — that in this day of wonderful mouth washes, dentifrices and brushes, that teeth should not be actual pearls. Yet yellowness is a common complaint. Did you know that exercise is im- portant to teeth health? It is. You should chew systematically and eat — foods that really give your teeth a workout. Fibrous foods, hard foods are what your teeth need daily. Brush your gums as well as your teeth. And have several tooth brushes so that one can be sterilized while the other is in” use. UCH simple precepts, but they do wonders for the beauty of your smile! I listened to a lecture by an eminent physician recently. His interest at the moment is directed toward laboratory research in behalf of beauty. He de- fined beauty as ‘“PERFECTION RESULTING FROM A HARMONIOUS COMBINATION OF ELE- MENTS.” Isn’t that an intelligent definition? Thus, you see, in order to gain per- fection, you simply must harmonize — all the elements of your own body. One of Joan Crawford’s most strik- ing features is her eyes. They are large, lustrous and tremendously ex- pressive. And her figure is reputed to be one of the loveliest in Hollywood. Yet Joan started out in the movies weighing on the heavy side. She has worked hard to keep that slimness she finally attained. She believes that you must look at yourself with the eyes of a critic. You can’t hope to have eyes like Joan’s unless you give them daily at- tention. An eye wash should be a morning rite. There are dozens of good ones on the market. Or you can use a home-made remedy of soothing boric acid solution. Pads of cotton, dipped [PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 100]

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18 PLAY SAFE GARGLE TWICE A DAY PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 Lowers Resistance Kills Germs on Contact.. Reduces Colds 66% | S the poundage goes down, so usual- ly does the body’s resistance to disease. But now women have found a pleasant way to aid them in keeping well during periods of systematic ex- ercise and rigid diet. It is the twice-a-day gargle with full strength Listerine—recommended by physical instructors and physicians. Exercise and diet all too frequently lower vitality so that germs multiply more rapidly. Disease takes hold quick- ly. Dieters are easy prey to serious colds and more dangerous infections. Used as a gargle, full strength Lis- terine helps Nature to overthrow germ invaders. It kills germs in the fastest time possible to measure scientifically. Reduces bacteria in the mouth 98% and maintains substantial reduction for hours. Listerine’s value as an aid in pre- venting and treating colds is not a matter of opinion but of fact. Tests on 204 persons in normal health revealed this astonishing truth: That those who gargled with Listerine twice a day had from 50% to 66% fewer colds than those who did not gargle with Listerine. When Listerine users did contract colds they were only one-fourth as severe and lasted one-third as long. Such results are clear proof of the benefits of Listerine’s germicidal action. That Listerine is, at the same time, 4 non-poisonous, safe to use, and actually healing in its effect on tissue recom- mend its use over ordinary antiseptics so harsh they may damage tissue. Get in the habit of using Listerine every morning and every night whether you are dieting or not. It is your protection against infection and your certain assurance that you are free of halitosis (bad breath). Listerine is the swiftest of deodorants—instantly conquers odors that ordinary mouth washes cannot hide in 4 days. Always keep Listerine handy in home and office. Lambert Pharmacal Company, St. Louis, Mo., U. S. A.

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O UR lowest Chesterfieldian bow and our wildest applause goes to Fredric March for his amazing and spectacular work in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” That picture puts him right up in the very first line of actors, either stage or screen, marching be- tween Lionel Barrymore and George Arliss Otto Dyar

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Elmer Fryer OAN BLONDELL has been charged with grand larceny at least half a dozen times since she reached Hollywood. She is the most consistent picture stealer in the colony. When Joan is in the scene every other player, even the star, works frantically to hold on. She's a bundle of dynamite—that girl

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HEY billed her as a Lillian Gish type when she crashed the movies a few years ago. But the photographer of this new picture evidently forgot that now they are casting Helen Twelve- trees in tough parts that would give sweet Lillian the heebee jeebees. You'll be seeing Helen next in “Panama Flo”

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ICKIE MOORE is mad as mad can be. The director wanted him to cry and said if Dickie didn’t he was going to get another boy to play the part in “Slice of Life.” “Let him get Jackie Cooper for all I care,” mused Dickie.“* What's the use of Christmas presents if you never get time to play with them?”

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HW AX) Harta Washington” CREPE SATIN —IN SKINNER’S } 4 ah Marian Stehlik HE Martha Washington theme—fashion head- liner for the Bicentennial year! Skinner's Crepe Satin—supreme among fabrics. They are here united in a widely-heralded gown—a modern adaptation of the inaugural dress of the wife of our first President. Marian Stehlik, of New York, fashion creator for the Silk Show of National Silk Industry Week, designed it as a forerunner of 1932 styles. Grace McCoy, chosen for the role of “Miss Martha Washington,’ is here pictured wearing it. From scores of candidates, she was selected by a committee of judges including McClelland Barclay, artist, Prince Georges Matchabelli, per- fumery expert, and Moses Dykaar, sculptor, to feature the dress at the Silk exposition. “When asked to create this Martha Washington gown, | visualized a combination of the modern molded silhouette with the flattering bodice of the eighteenth century,’ said Marian Stehlik. “A material of soft, clinging quality which would lend itself perfectly to long flowing lines was needed. My choice was an egg shell shade of Skinner's Crepe Satin.” WILLIAM SKINNER & SONS—Estab. 1848 New York Chicago Boston Philadelphia Los Angeles Mills: Holyoke, Mass. NAinner’s Silks “LOOK FOR THE NAME IN THE SELVAGE”

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Y personal nomination for the | \ / | most versatile and capable young leading man in pictures—seconded by the charming blonde with whom I hold hands in picture theaters — is Fredric March. And this goes for those billed as stars of first magnitude. No player in pic- tures or on the stage could surpass his per- formance in ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Any man who can handle this heavily dramatic role with such finesse, and also put over an entirely different personality, such as he did as the rollicking brother of “The Royal Family,” is a first-class all around, journeyman actor. Incidentally, he’s a great guy off screen and con- fines his acting to his professional work. ND while I am all steamed up about my picture pets I can’t get away from this typewriter with- out expressing my admiration for Miriam Hopkins. Of all the luscious wenches that ever threw a sin- ful shadow on the screen, I recommend her to you in “Dr. Jeykll, Etec.” Please, Mr. Paramount, don’t make her a good woman. Let us have one siren who can wreck a man with a laugh. Some of us are so tired of those glowering vampires that lead men astray by wrinkling their foreheads. We need a new technique in masculine annihilation once in a while. DITORS, like human beings, sometimes have emotions. As the copy for “Screen Memories From Puotopuay,” on page 116, passed over my desk this month it left me feeling as blue as my editorial pencil. Tragedy and happiness, hope and disillusion, paradise gained and lost, life and death. With one or two exceptions I have known them all. And only this morning as I brushed my hair I found silver threads among the gold. MARCH, 1932 PHOTOPLAY Close-Ups ae Long-Shots By James R. Quirk N the first flush of her romantic mar- riage to the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Gloria announced that she wanted lots and lots of children —oh, perhaps seven or eight. Well, the stork was never even suspected of flying over Gloria’s home until Henri had gone bye-bye and Gloria married Michael Farmer. Then, before you could say “Tonight Or Never,” came the news that she was knitting little things. Now Constance Bennett, just married to the marquis, is quoted as saying slre is interested in home and babies. And a few days later she adopted a three-year old boy. HEN you read all this ballyhoo about tele- vision being “‘just around the corner” don’t rush right out and load yourself up with television stock. It may be around the corner, but the corner is somewhere over in the next county. WO feminine members of the PHotopLay editorial staff disappeared for a whole day recently. They showed up next day in my office with a “‘well-what- do-you-think-of-me-now” grin on their altered and beauty-parlored faces, and with brand new coiffures. Thadn’t the heart to chide them for their truancy. The day before Carolyn Van Wyck, the magazine’s beauty editor, had sent in from Hollywood such a bewildering package of beauty tricks for next month’s issue they just had to go and try them out. Thousands of young husbands will be politely cursing PHotopLay when they come home and find dinner late. 25

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XCERPTS from a hysterical advertisement in a motion picture trade journal: “Griffith! . . . sends roaring across the screen this devastating story . . . personally directed ... “The Struggle.’ ... This picture is box- office! . overwhelming in its timeliness! . . . tremendous as entertainment! . . . Skelly! This one picture will send him zooming to stardom, just as Griffith’s previous triumphs sent blazing to the cinema heavens such illustrious names as Pickford! Valentino! Gish! Barthelmess! .. . Aye, and a hundred more.” The only thing true about these statements is that Griffith started Pickford, Gish and Barthelmess. He did not make Valentino! Rex Ingram and June Mathis did. Skelly, a grand stage actor, will have a hard time living that picture down. He deserves a chance to prove he is not as bad as he was directed. FTER that historic United Press dispatch from Baltimore describing the reception accorded Lawrence Tibbett, when six women fainted as he sang his “Cuban Love Song,’ we wouldn’t be sur- prised at anything. Watch your home town papers for dispatches like these: Hottywoop, Cauir., Feb. 5—(Via a little bird) — Millie Miff, 16, was serving customers at her father’s news- stand, Ye Olde Beverlyy Hillse Smoke and Paper Shoppe, here this afternoon. She heard a guttural voice at her side. “Giff me, bleese,”’ it said, “‘a goppy of dis afternoon’s Hjolly- wood Sjentinel-Tjimes!” Looking up, Millie saw that the inquiring patron was Greta Garbo. Sixteen-year old Millie dropped dead. Wavxesna, Wis., Feb. 8—(By hook or crook)—Little Fannie Smosh, six, has now been crying for 147 consecutive hours. Her case has utterly baffled the efforts of local doctors, as well as a couple of Chicago specialists rushed here by dog-sled. Nothing hurts her, say physicians, and no pins are sticking her. She spurns all offers of dollies, candy, ice-cream, pie, cigarettes, toys, cocktails, motorcycles and little baby sisters. “I declare,” Mrs. Smosh, the worried mother, told reporters today, “I can’t think what’s got into the child!” The only clue to little Fannie’s mysterious malady is that she screeches over and over, between sobs, “I want Jackie Cooper! I want Jackie Cooper!” Cuicaco, Iu., Feb. 9—(By cracky)—The Bijou Dream Theater, neighborhood movie house here, was a mass of trembling ruins today. Police threw a cordon as far as they could about the wrecked building today. Last night, during the showing of Joan Crawford's latest picture, “Possessed,” dozens of male patrons began shouting “Darling!”, “Joan, I luff you!”’, “My sweetheart!” and “Oh baby!” | The climax came with the display of a close-up of the beautiful Miss Crawford. At this point a mob of some 500, mostly men, rushed to the stage and tried to kiss the screen. “Tf I have ever another theayter,”” Manager I. C. Kornblatt said sadly today, “I shall show nothing but ‘Our Gang Comedies’ and ‘Mickey Mouse’.” New York City, Feb. 11—(By no means)—Mr. and Mrs. Frank X. Hootle were walking up Broadway this evening. looking at the electric signs. A handsome, well-dressed man approached the couple. “Ooh, Frank!” screamed Mrs. Hootle, clutching her husband’s arm and almost falling senseless to the pavement, “there’s Clark Gable!” “Nuts!” Mr. Hootle replied, and socked her on the nose. NEVER could understand why the average pro- ducer looks upon and acts toward studio camera- men as mechanical appurtenances. With few ex- ceptions, every director is guided in camera angles, lighting and visual flow of a picture by his cameraman, who, if the motion picture is entitled to consideration as an art, is entitled to consideration as an artist. Stage directors, who know no more about motion picture technique than dentists, come to Hollywood, get credit for directing good pictures when as a matter of fact, they are as helpless as children in a kinder- garten without the advice and cooperation of the cameraman. “‘Lady, could you please spare a dime fora former movie star?”

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MARION DAVIES gave a kiddie party and among the Holly- "wood children who came to eat ice cream and cake, all dressed up in their party clothes, were little Joan Crawford and Connie Bennett. Shame on you, Joan, for bringing your hoop to a party. _ Put it right outside the door or you won't get a single drop of gin EAA OA AIS ANETTA RN ELE ATE LAIN TEL ND nN

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How Carhom Feal By Katherine Albert The triumphantly smiling man in the circle is a Chicago reporter who interviewed Garbo as she changed trains on her way home. But about all he got out of her was, ‘‘Don’t annoy me” RETA GARBO has a bad case of agoraphobia. What is more she suffers acutely from anthropophobia. But don’t be alarmed. None of these high-sounding ailments will take her off—unless it is to Sweden. Those goofy words are simply what any first class psychoanalyst calls plain old-fashioned “fear of people.”” You may have it and simply think yourself self-conscious. Agoraphobia means fear of crowds. While anthropophobia is fear of society. You must use high-flown words about Garbo. Let us consider her recent sensational visit to New York. Several days before the story of her incognito trip broke in the papers, Harry Hershfield, the famous columnist and cartoonist (you all know his Abie Kabdibble) was wandering around the Metropolitan Museum. He is well-known there since he, himself, is an art collector. One of the guards called him aside and said, “That tall woman in the tweed coat is the movie actress, Greta Garbo.” Hershfield took a good look. It was Garbo. He went up to her, introduced himself and said a few words in praise of her work. She was most sweet and cordial, but she put her finger to her lips and said, ‘‘ Yes, I’m Garbo, but don’t giff me away.” A few days later the news got out and the St. Moritz Hotel, where she was stopping under the name of Gussie Berger, looked like a reporters’ convention. You all know about her long-legged jaunts through Central Park, Walter Winchell’s account of his meeting with her in the hotel elevator, the remark about the gentlemen of the press being no gentlemen accredited to her, her little excursions to New York’s best speakeasies with Director Berthold Viertel and later Ramon Novarro. Why, New York went wild and so did all the reporters. They were furious with her for her attitude of silence (a thing that the Hollywood press has long ago accepted). One man cashed in on her presence. In Central Park he set up a telescope (a battered old telescope, where for a dime you could see Orion and Ursa Major on a moonless night) and charged a quarter for a peep at that greatest of all stars, Garbo. But it wasn’t Garbo. The telescope commanded a view of a St. Moritz room. In the room one of the innumerable Garbo doubles walked back and forth in front of the windows. For a quarter and a | squinted eye the suckers could see her. Then came word that Garbo had not been in town ai all. It was strange that just after all the excitement, that just after every °

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(); Peeple Started The order “Bring back a picture of Garbo or don’t come back yourself,’’ forced the newspaper photographers to do every- thing but hide under her bed. One in- vaded the beauty parlor where she was having a shampoo, but this is all he got columnist in town had literally turned over his space to Garbo anecdotes, her picture ‘‘ Mata Hari” opened. Was it a publicity stunt? Had the mysterious Swede been lan- guishing in her Brentwood Heights home all the time, and had M-G-M simply evolved this giant press-agent ruse? If she really wanted quiet why did she go to the St. Moritz Hotel, the haunt of stars, instead of to one of the smaller, less publicized houses? Garbo was in New York—there’s no doubt about that. A lot of fancy was built up about her visit and much of the saga concerning it was untrue, but she was in Man- hattan and she was at the St. Moritz, and she does fear (and hate) people. Her fear was once a vital and a devas- tating thing. HE is the psychological Case D, the pet of all the analysts. And anyone with only the vaguest working knowledge of psychology can trace the simple steps that gave her the phobia of which she is a victim. It has been said thousands of times that Garbo was un- happy in Hollywood because she knew nothing of American ways and language, and could not understand. But dozens of foreigners have come to our shores and have not acquired sudden complexes, complexes that lasted for years and years. It is true that people laughed at her when she first came over, but her phobias, her self-con- sciousness started long before that, and for a psychological reason that is as simple as all great truths. Her height was the beginning of her self-consciousness. Any girl who has, at twelve or thirteen, suddenly begun to grow tall, knows the experience. She towers head and shoulders above the other girls of her own age. She sees sprightly, precocious youngsters, their little pleated skirts just missing their chubby [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 103 ] Every time Garbo tried to take a quiet walk in Central Park she was dogged by reporters and cameramen 29

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What Really Happened To THER boys have come to Hollywood at the age of twenty and have matured gracefully in the goldfish bowl supplied by their cinematic peers. Charles Rogers, however, came as “Buddy” and Buddy, at best, is a patronizing nickname. It keeps a boy in short trousers unless he compels respect by virtue of a re- doubtable character. Buddy helped keep his trousers short. He bubbled youth, naiveté, eagerness. He dazzled the commu- nity. The wearily wise and the cau- tiously wise refused to believe him. “Tt ‘ain’t’ true,” they marveled. Buddy was happily unaware of the ripple his Peter Pan char- acter had created. To him, Hollywood was just another city in which to be Buddy, the lad used to the affection and approval of family and friends, to personal popularity. Paramount had brought him to Hollywood, taking him from the University of Kansas, where he conducted his own collegiate band, to New York and the Paramount School of young players. He had scored in ‘‘ Fascinating Youth,” and a contract and Holly- wood was his reward. Jesse Lasky called him the greatest male screen find of years. Hollywood pleased him with its vast yawn of country and its charm of sunshine. His contract pleased him. It meant good money and in the years to come he could return to his first love and his real ambition— leading a jazz orchestra, achieving, possibly, the position of a syncopated Sousa. UDDY liked the girls, but he never aspired to be a heavyweight with them. His seriousness revolved in his drums, his saxophone, trombone and horn. But Buddy also relished a good time and when invitations from the film famous climaxed his intro- duction to these film famous, he ac- cepted them. To his terror, he dis- covered the girls he met were not the gentle souls of Olathe, Kansas, mem- ories. They smoked cigarettes, and cigarettes are prohibited in Kansas. They drank, and drink, too, is pro- hibited. Worse, they were the at- tacking sex. When they cast appraising eves upon his six feet of broad-shouldered slenderness; when they permitted a flirtatious gleam to sparkle their eyes; when they nestled significantly in his arms as his dance partner—well, sir, as Buddy might explode with his 30 uddy “He’s ga-ga and so very, very sweet,” they said. Buddy said he would show them. And he did By Lilewelt va Carrotl ga-ga.” re This is the meek lad who almost let Hollywood lick him. He was good to his mother, but a dub in the back seat of a parked automobile. Some smart aleck called him, ‘‘A Rover Boy in search of a choir”’ Offers favorite expletive, they weren’t inter- ested in his musical instruments and ambitions. No, sir, they were in- terested in the stuff that had swept Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction. Buddy knew. His parents were de- vout Methodists and Sunday the entire family would go to church. The girls agitated Buddy’s peace of mind. So he ran away from them. He ran to the sanctity of the home where he lived with friends, a safe distance from the sex battlefields of Hollywood. He sought his fraternity brothers and their friends and his musical instruments. He didn’t ex- actly say ‘‘ No” to the ladies, but he didn’t say ‘‘ Yes”? nor so much as a half-hearted “ Maybe.” “Buddy Rogers?’’ a vivid screen personage tittered. “‘He’s “And so sweet,”’ crucified another. ““A Rover Boy in search of a choir,” cooed yet another. In Hollywood lived Claire Windsor, who admits to Cawker City, Kansas, as her birthplace. Confessing to the same state as did Buddy may have had some- — thing to do with her conquest of the “no boy.” Being blonde and beauti- ful and persevering may have had more to do with her lulling to rest his fear of proximity. She appropriated Buddy and he came to rather like the possessiveness of love. When he went to San Francisco on location for a picture, his hotel telephone ranz frequently during the day and the night and when he answered the ring he was rewarded with Claire’s caress- ing voice. Romance elevated Buddy to the dignity that prepared Hollywood to erase the stigma of his being the “no boy.’ Then Buddy’s mother came West. Hollywood heard, and de- duced her appearance on the scene was to sever the ties of blonde loveli- ness. ITILLATING stories bubbled and skipped. Mrs. Rogers had had a frank talk with Miss Windsor. It was said that she had stressed the discrepancy in the ages of Miss Windsor and her son. That other matters affecting Buddy’s freedom were gone into. Buddy said nothing. Claire con- fided only to her intimates. Mrs. Rogers departed. Buddy was again in short trousers. Hollywood shrugged. Hollywood has little patience with apron strings. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 108 ]

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When Buddy Rogers toots his trombone and other assorted in- struments the notes sound like one big, booming razzberry for Hollywood. This is the new Buddy, full of pep and gumption. No longer the dear boy, he has a fast line and a Follies contract. Read how he got that way Preston Duncan

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“Gentlemen, a toast. We toss off the first forkful to our mutual wife!’ Husbands Nos. 1, 2 and 3: “To Gloria!’ The scene is the Brown Derby Restaurant, on Vine Street, Hollywood—a thriving venture in which Mr. Herbert Somborn, No. 2, is happily interested. The other characters at the meeting are Mr. Wallace Beery, No. 1, and M. Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Falaise de la Falaise, No. 3. The current Mr. Swanson, No. 4, is enjoying his honeymoon in foreign parts. The three boy friends are assembled around a table in the restau- rant, and getting their share of stares you may be sure. Mr. Beery is the biggest. Mr. de la etc. is the handsomest, and Mr. Somborn is very nearly, if not quite, the most prosperous-looking. R. BEERY—Well, boys, the club might as well come to order. As astarter I recommend that Henri, here, as the newest member, be voted into the chair. M. Henri—But no! It is only fitting that Mr. Beery, the senior member, should preside! Name of a name! But yes! Mr. SomBoRN—Now, no bickering, fellows! I really think you rate the chair Wally! After all, you date ’way back to the Mack Sennett days. SoI vote with Hank here. Mr. BeEry—(simpering becomingly, if you can imagine Mr. Beery simpering at all)—Well, all I can say, men, is thank you. It is a great honor to preside at the first regular meeting of the Ex-Mr. Swanson Club. And now I move that we have a nice filet mignon all round and get down to business. Mr. SomMBORN—1’ll second that motion—Hank, you don’t even have to vote, as we’ve got a quorum already. Gus—three of those special filets, and they should be succulent. Nervous OLp Lapy From Mipwest—(I almost forgot about her)—Gracious sakes, Madge, what three fine looking men those be! Mapcre—Sh, Auntie! They all used to be married to Gloria Swanson! Nervous OLtp Lapy—Gracious sakes! friendly like! Mapcre—Ah, they have a Bond! Mr. BEERY—(rapping on his water tumbler with a fork and causing six jobless extras, working as waiters, to choke on their boneless sole)—Now, men, let’s get down to brass tacks. What is the pleasure of the meeting? M. Henri—I think, mes- sieurs, we should dispatch the cablegram to that so gallant Mique de Farmer—our dis- tinguished successor. Yes? No? Que voulez vous? Oui? Non? Mr. SoMBORN—Hank, it’s a great idea! JI move that our 32 And they act so Being a fairly incorrect report of a meeting of The Boys Who Used to Be Married to Gloria distinguished president write a cable right here on the table- cloth—I’ll pay the laundry bill with pleasure. Wally, it is the sense of this meeting that you compose a wire to Mr. Michael Farmer, No. 4, here and now, and we'll split the toll three ways. _ Right, Hank? M. Henri—Okay keed. Mr. BEERY—Boys, I take this commission in the spirit in which it is offered. How about this? Dear Mike comma congratulations and best wishes for a wonderful honeymoon period You have undertaken a great and noble career and one that will demand all your fortitude period We all wish you better luck than we had period Love and kisses from the Swanson alumni meeting at the Brown Derby. R. SOMBORN—Wally, it’s a pip. I bet that will cheer Mike up all right! Oh my goodness, boys—what a woman! Mr. BEERY—You said it, Herb! What a woman! M. HEnrI—Eh bien! Quel femme! Mr. SOMBORN—Oh boy, eh? Mr. BEERY—Yes sir—oh boy! M. Henri—Ma fois! Oh garcon! Mr. BEERY—Well, it was a great experience, men. Mere chit of a girl when I up and married her—back in the old Essanay days, that was. Gosh, it makes me feel old! The truth is, I don’t remember her very well, but I’ve seen her in pictures. Mr. Somporn—Well, Wally, you date pretty far back. She was a star when I married her, you know. Boy what days those were in the movies! Why, money lay around loose in the streets! M. Henri—(Feeling slightly faint)—Mon Dieu! Mr. SomBporn—Fact! You came along pretty late, Hank! Things around here had slowed up a lot by the time you blew in. Mr. BrEry—(rubbing his hands as the chow arrives)— Heigho! Here come the filets. Gentlemen, a toast! We toss off the first forkful to our mutual wife! (All stand, with poised forks. agog.) The restaurant is largely Mr. BreERY—To Gloria! Mr. SomBorn—To Gloria, God bless her! M. Henri—To that so handsome, that so charmant M. Farmer! Mr. BEERY—Down the hatch! (The three gentlemen bolt the first forkful of filet mignon and then throw the forks at the ey el ee ee 4 0 OPP het a

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€ Ex-Mr. a Club nervous old lady from the Midwest, who falls in a dead faint, aceompanied by her niece.) Mr. Brery—(sitting down)—Boys, did I ever tell you about the time Gloria—I think it was in ’19—was walking down Hollywood Boulevard—it was all lined with pepper trees in those days, and— M. Henri—Ah, those days in Paris, when we were young and charming. The trees in the Bois, the music at the Reetz, the cocktails at Zelli’s! Ah, that night when Gloria took off her shoes and went—what you call wading— Mr. Somporn—Speaking of wading, reminds me of the ) time Gloria was on location at Santa Monica. It seems that a big leading man named Hector Glutz, or Glitz, or some- thing was— Mr. BEERY—Heigho! Them was the days! Why, when | Gloria wore that Sennett bathing suit the cops used to— | Mr. Somporn—(shaking his head reminiscently and wiping away a tear with a roll)—Dear little “Bunny”! “Boys, did I ever tell you about time Gloria—” “Who are those nice looking men?’ asked the Nervous Old Lady from the Midwest. ‘Sh, Auntie,’”? said her niece, ‘they all married Gloria’’ Mr. BEERyY—(stopping short and glaring at Mr. Somborn)— I beg your pardon, Herb. You’re wrong. Gloria’s pet name is “Toots”! Mr. SomBorn—(trading him a particularly nasty glare)— Mr. Beery, I said “Bunny,” and “Bunny” it was and it is. DEAR LIDTIE, SBiUGIN Nive?! M. Henri—(leaping to his feet and waving a butter knife)—Messieurs! Mv fraaaans! Who should know better than I that Gloria’s name is “Snookums’’! Such strange names sadden me. Please, gentlemen! Darleeeeng leeeetle “Snookums”’! Mr. BEERY—“Toots”! Mr. Somporn—‘Bunny”! M. Henri—‘Snookums”’! (Mr. Beery winds up and lets go with a boiled potato. Mr. Somborn sees that and raises it with two hard rolls. M. Henri, not to be outdone, wafts a salt shaker and sings the “Marseillaise.” The firing then becomes general.) ILLUSTRATED BY VAN ARSDALE

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HIRR! Burrr! Boom! Look out, below! The airplane comes so low that men in the war-torn village street flinch, fearful lest its wheels may graze them. All is excitement and tense nervousness, as real as life. Yet this is simply a scene for a big, special film 2 S4

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Photo by Stagg OLLYWOOD’S most dynamic personality — the barking, biting, shrieking Von Stroheim plays movie director, J/r. Von Furst, in ‘‘ The Lost Squadron.” Wearing his inevitable gloves, carrying his inevitable cane, he and the camera crew watch this tricky scene ~ Or

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Wide World Handsome, dashing, singing Larry Tibbett and his bride, the former Jennie Marston Burgard. When Larry sings, ladies faint with emotion, but Jennie looks as if she could stand up under the spell of a lower G or two. Lawrence is warbling with the Metropolitan Grand Opera Com- pany, but don’t let that worry you—he’ll not give up his screen career OES Greta Garbo wear artificial eye- lashes? That is a question that has in- trigued Hollywood as well as millions of her admirers, and PHoropLay has received hundreds of questions on this subject. Greta’s eyelashes are naturally long, but even in public she wears a heavy mascara make-up. Now, that’s settled. The new fad of artificial long eyelashes has hit Hollywood hard. Ata recent dinner party, Mrs. Raoul Walsh, wife of the director, who is so good looking that it is certainly gilding a lily in her case, wore them applied so skill- fully that it was almost impossible to detect them. At the same party, Hattie Carnegie, famous fashion designer, was also arrayed in a complete set. A Se Jackie Cooper appeared with “Our Gang’’ on the stage of The Capitol Theater in New York, eighteen months ago, his name was not mentioned in the program. Now he’s offered $7,500 a week to appear in person at The Roxy. HILE Tom Mix was lying in a hospital between life and death, following his operation for acute appendicitis, the former Victoria Mix, who had secured her final decree of divorce just a week before, was married to an attaché of the Argentinian Embassy at Washington. As Tom had turned over to her about three-quarters of a million dollars she is pretty well fixed financially. It has always been said that one of the troubles between Tom and Victoria, whom he married when she was working as a cowgirl in pictures, was that she objected to Tom’s friends, and the living room which he insisted on decorating with revolvers, guns, steer horns and saddles. Adjoining this she had her own little French salon. 36 Her wedding was performed in the swanky Tuxedo, N. Y., home of Mrs. Ramos, the former Millicent Rogers, society girl, who also married an Argentinian. ELL, Clark, you have arrived. Cadiz, Ohio, your birthplace, now prints its post cards with the heading —‘Cadiz—birthplace of Clark Gable.” BULE DOVE and Howard Hughes are romancing again. They went together for a long while in Los Angeles. Then they seemed to go their separate ways, and Howard was seen beauing Lilian Bond around. Lilian seems to have slipped out of the picture. =. y International One of the cutest pictures ever taken of that cute little trick, Mrs. Maurice Chevalier. Having cut short a vacation in France to rush to Hollywood and quash un- pleasant rumors about her hus- band and Marlene Dietrich, she is now a gay member of the col- ony’s social set Cal York

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Seymour doesn’t like this snappy model. He thinks that setting hen on the lady’s head gives her a rakish look that is not the mode of the moment. But once, Seymour, old boy, that was a darn smart hat. Have you guessed it? An old still of Gloria Swanson in ‘‘The Coast of Folly” eae: Wide World Take off that swanky lorgnette, Joan Bennett, you’re not the Marquise de la Falaise. Sure, your boy friend’s name is Markey but that’s his real monniker and not a title. This snap was taken just after Gene Markey slipped a sapphire and diamond engagement ring on Joan’s finger. The groom-to-be is a writer and used to go places with Gloria Swanson ERE are some of the names of old-timers working at one of the small independent studios one week, every one of them a former star of considerable magnitude: Henry B. Walthall, Clara Kimball Young, William Far- num, William Desmond, Franklyn Farnum and Priscilla Dean. DP you hear about the desert house Clara Bow has built herself? Right out near Rex’s shack. Only, of course, the house is for both Rex and Clara. Well, instead of a number (and who the heck wants a number on a desert?) steer horns hang above the door. The house outside is all red and white stucco. There is a huge living room, 46 by 30, with beamed ceiling | The Monthly Broadcast of Hollywood Goings-On! and red cement floor. The fireplace is granite and gold-bearing ore dug right out of them thar hills. Back of the living room is another room with a bar and yes, yes, my hearties, it has a rail. It also contains a roulette wheel and— now wait—a slot machine. Gives it atmos- phere, Clara says. Clara and a slot machine. typical Bow gesture! Upstairs is Clara’s orchid and black bath- room and orchid bedroom. The other three bedrooms are downstairs. So are the servants’ rooms. A huge veranda surrounds three sides of the house and the garden is composed of huge cactus plants. The kind that stick when one unexpectedly backs into them. If one is rash enough to back. In the center of the garden is an old Joshua tree over a century old. Well it may have had a dull old time in the past century but what it’s in for the next, my, my! “Ny desert paradise. My desert of love,” Clara calls it. Pretty, don’t you think? If that isn’t a ND who remembers when Greta Garbo first came to Hollywood and told an interviewer she’d like to have a room with some nice quiet Hollywood family? VER on the RKO lot a movie extra was called out from the mob. ‘‘Name,” he was asked. “Creighton Chaney,” he answered. “Well,” replied a rather sarcastic assistant director, “it’s Chaney, eh? I suppose you were related to the great Lon, eh?” “Yes, sir,” replied the boy. “He was my father.” And the assistant director looked rather silly all that day. 37

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OR ten years, a tall, swarthy-looking in- dividual has been roaming, rather aimlessly, about Hollywood, doing bits and small parts in pictures and an occasional stage play. Today he’s the most talked of man in pictures. William Henry Pratt (or Boris Karloff, the monster, to you) has certainly rung the bell and has recently signed a long term contract with Universal Studios. And so it goes in Hollywood. It’s the break around the corner that keeps them hanging on. BIG show-off was _ bragging about what a swell movie star he’d make if he ever got to Holly- wood. ‘Well,’ said a bored eaves- dropper, “‘you might at that, you rat. Mickey Mouse is a hit.” HE prize freak accident of the month occurred on the ‘‘Polly of the Circus”’ set. Ruth Selwyn, dressed all up like a Christmas tree, in a tinsel dress, sat on her horse waiting to enter the ring. A camel nonchalantly strolled up (being a camel he would be non- chalant) and, mistaking the tinsel for sugar, began nibbling at Miss Selwyn’s skirt. Much annoyed (for after all nothing is more annoying than a camel nibbling at one’s skirt) Miss Selwyn pulled away her dress, where- upon the camel reached over and deliberately nibbled away a portion of her anatomy that she needed for riding on a horse. And Miss Selwyn didn’t ride horseback for several days after. A WRITER was talking to Jackie Cooper on the telephone about his meeting Tallulah Bankhead at the party given by Joan Crawford for the specific purpose of bringing these two together. “And were you thrilled at meeting Miss Bankhead?” she asked. “Do you mean was Tallulah thrilled at meeting me?” Jackie answered. ET Marie Dressler on the second of January, 1932. “How are you?” “T am still alive,” Marie said serenely, re- minding us that the soothsayers had foretold her certain death in 1931. And Marie has always been one of our most ardent believers in the psychic. Has had each month foretold for her. Well, she isn’t quite so ardent! SNe SKOLSKY tells the story of a chorus girl, quite stuck on her- self, who attended a party that Howard Hughes gave in New York. “T think Howard is trying to make me,’’ said the chorus girl. “T’m not worrying,” replied the boy friend. “It took him two years to make ‘Hell’s Angels.’ ”’ UPE VELEZ has a new boy friend. Ran- dolph Scott, Paramount’s so-called new Gary Cooper. Now, ain’t that fate? The lad comes down to Hollywood, heralded as the successor to Gary, and the first gal he meets is Lupe. He must be determined to be a irue suc- cessor for one look at each other and Lupe forgot all about Jack Gilbert. Can scarcely remember she knew him. Reverend Gable will now lead the congregation in song. Turn to Hymn two hundred and eighty-nine in the big blue book. But the big blue book in this case is the script for ‘‘Polly of the Circus,’’ in which Clark plays the role of a minister. know, and the two are taking a quick rehearsal before the next scene. Marion Davies is Polly, of course, a character you all Do you think ‘‘What-a-Man” Gable is the type to play a reverend? 38 It’s Randolph’s eyes. They got her. Oh, me—oh, my, and it was Gary’s eyes in the beginning. However, we’re glad it’s all happened. It’s the first time in months we’ve seén Lupe really happy. All the worn, sad look gone away. She’s more beautiful than since the first days she fell in love with Gary. All because she’s learned that very old lesson: It may take a long time but there always comes a day when another man can make a woman forget even the “one and only.” But then, you can’t judge all women by Lupe. OOR Randolph Scott. He’s learning about Hollywood with a vengeance. He’d only been there a few days, brought from stock in San Francisco, when he met Pola Negri. Interest at first sight. Then Pola was taken sick. Lupe Velez. Love in a second. Then Pola got better. He went to see her. Lupe heard about it. She was Randolph met She was cool. taken sick. An old hand at the Hollywood game took him aside: ““You must learn first of all in this town to tackle one wild-cat at a time, Randolph.” Ann Harding doesn’t like her new contract. She thought she could pick her stories and found she couldn’t. She doesn’t like her picture ‘“‘Prestige,’’ but she likes husband Harry Bannister ——_. _

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RETA GARBO simply stood the ex- ecutives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on their heads by her mysterious trip to New York City. And the rest of Hollywood, too. No one knew she was going. No one knows why she went. But Hollywood thinks it was just another trick of Greta’s to prove her in- | dependence. She has a contract to be re- i} newed. And just when Metro thinks she’s ' ready to sign she takes walk-out powders. HE younger sister of a present musical comedy star was given a contract with a Hollywood studio and arrived on the Coast preceded by the usual fanfare of publicity. ' Taken to a publicity office, she was asked the usual questions from the printed blank and among them was, of course, this: “Are you married?” “No, not married,” she replied. The publicity man, as a gag, asked her the next question, which was: “Any children?” | “Yes, one,” she answered, “but the front office knows all about it.” iA PEROXIDE blonde, who was _ success- H ful in getting a term contract with a | major studio in Hollywood as a featured player, Lookee what we found in an old file. What grace, poise, charm! When Seymour saw it he ran screaming from his office and hasn’t been the same since. It’s Wally Beery asa comic servant in an old picture was filling out the usual information blank for the publicity department and getting along famously regarding height, age, weight, etc., until she came to a query as to her education. The kid had never been beyond the seventh grade in public school, and when the question, “Where educated?” confronted her, she de- cided to put on the dog a bit. “Educated by a private tooter,’’ was what she wrote. The spelling was her own. ELL, well, well, Mrs. Clark Gable cer- tainly pays her bills on time. She was in Magnin’s shortly after the first of January and gave the saleslady a check to take to the accounting department to see if it checked with the store’s figures of what she owed them. She had kept track of her bill and brought in the check before she received an accounting! And was she getting attention! Seven salesladies hovering over her at once. And the customers whispering to each other, “That’s Mrs. Clark Gable.” I couldn’t help but remember Clark’s re- mark, “And a year ago I could have walked down Hollywood Boulevard munching a dough- nut and no one would have paid any atten- tion.””—Least of all the salesladies of an exclusive shop. RNEST BOOTH, author of “Ladies of the Big House,” will never be able to see the picture made from his story because prison scenes are never shown in penitentiaries. He is a “lifer” in Folsom Penitentiary. HEY have completed the renovation of “Pickfair,” the home of Doug and Mary, and there are a lot of nice new bedrooms avail- able for royalty that might drop into Los Angeles from now on. NTIL Puotopiay’s story on “The Man That Gloria Swanson Married” appeared in the last issue, Hollywood was very busy with rumors about the bridegroom. And such rumors. His income was $25,000 a year and not a cent over. support him. He really didn’t have any social background. PuoropLay’s Hollywood office had writers call with proof (supposedly) for these wild statements. Then PHoropLay told the whole story and proved that such yarns came from those who have always been jealous of Gloria. Gloria was going to have to AX D about the same time, rumor was doing away with Adrienne Ames’ fabled wealth. “Fuh. She isn’t the little rich girl she pre- tends. ““A penthouse in New York. That’s the bunk. She’s just trying to make the grade on the old gag of a rich-girl publicity.” Then Adrienne went to her penthouse in New York for Christmas. Paramount took pictures and they arrived back in Hollywood. The gossips gasped. You never saw such a place. Just one little item: A chaise longue cover of ermine on one side and black velvet on the other. Worth enough to pay the ex- penses of most of the Hollywood gossips for several months. We don’t want to brag but we do want you to read us so you'll get the real truth about these people. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 76 | One of Hollywood’s most charming and popular hostesses. Keystone The name? Look again. Have you forgotten those eyes? Don’t you remember when press-agents said she was born in the shadow of the pyramids and dined on humming-birds’ wings? Theda Bara is now content to be Mrs. Charles Brabin and shine in the glory of her husband’s directorial light, but you’ll hear rumors of her screen return. That’s Charles with her 39

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The Unknown Hollywood ....... HEN Joan Crawford first came to M-G-M she was more unhappy than Garbo. Joan’s unhappi- ness was within herself and had no external cause. Garbo had a reason for misery. Joan’s vague, in- tangible emotions were later to grow into thoughts. There is no pain so great but unable to open the door and take it. She thought it lay in the realm of gayety. She found it did not. When she was win- ning all those dancing cups, she was unhappier than she has ever been (and she has, dur- ing her life, been very unhappy). She went from night club to night club, danced madly for hours and found nothing. It was worse for Joan than most peo- ple, since she did not drink. I believe that cabaret habitués are able to keep going because of the false stimulus of liquor. OAN never drank. She does nottothisday. Therefore, she had to bolster herself up on her own emotions. It is a difficult and a wearing task. She got out of one scrape only to find herself in another. Al- ways lavish in her generosity, she remembered all of the work- ers at the studio with gifts. Among them was a set musician. She gave him, like the rest, a sweater and an autographed photo. His wife sued for divorce and named Joan co-respondent. Of course it was ridiculous, but the papers said it with headlines. It was the second time she had been unjustly named and some- thing had to be done so we, in the publicity department, pre- pared an answer. The creator of this answer would not want me to tell his name although he should have credit for such a grandretort. Said he—the words were surrounded by Joan’s quotes for publication—‘‘I’m tired of being a target for disap- pointed wives.” Joan was a vivid study in con- trasts. So many pictures march across my mind. Joan dancing, dancing, dancing at the Mont- 40 I Know By Katherine Alber. as that which comes when one first begins to feel an idea wandering about in a hitherto unused brain. I flatter myself that I saw what was going on in Joan. Although I did not like her at first and disapproved of her in many ways, I knew that within her was a deep well of intelli- gence and logic waiting to be used. In the years that followed I saw Joan Crawford become a personality. She was a strange girl—wanting more than life had to offer, Don’t miss a word of these intimate and never-before- told stories of famous stars How did Lon Chaney achieve the effect of blind- ness in one eye for ‘‘The Road to Mandalay’’? You'll find the secret in this story print) . . . Joan, reading aloud the notes from her boy friends . . . Joan, living on coffee and cigarettes . . . Strange, un- happy, ever-changing Joan. You see these girls change before your eyes. They come the screen so young and so unformed that they must crystez as they work, whereas women and men in other professions and arts do most of their internal growing before giving them selves to the public. The picture public is a witness Cocoanut Grove, the beach places . . . Joan sit ting in the middle of the floor of her room at a smart seaside hotel mak- ing an entire dress for her. self without a sewing ma chine .. . Joan, going into © raptures over a flamboy ant, beaded velvet hang- ing (now she prefers the beauty of an old English to all the stark nakedness of mental growth. I should prefer to have my divorces or my affairs of the heart flaunted to the world rather than my thoughts, wouldn’t you? Joan’s change from an eager, tragic girl into a lovely womar was everybody’s show. Yet it was a lovely thing. Four years ago when I y visiting in New York a nice voiced young actor called me and explained that he was friend of Joan Crawford. He suggested that we have tea gether. We had it togethe with an olive, while he told mi of meeting Joan when she w on location at West Point. He adored her but he told me the that she had been perfec honest with him and had neve said she loved him. It w Joan’s honesty (sometimes, it those early days, amounting t rudeness) that saw -her throug the first part of her troublou career. 7 HE lad I’ve just mention came to Hollywood and madi good in pictures. His name t Monroe Owsley and he may no’ say heand Joan weresweethearts but she never held out fals hopes to him and she wrote hin immediately when she fell in” love with Doug. Joan’s life, at its beginning a muddled mass of emotions, 1 now beautiful, but she is not yet through growing. Every tim I see her I say to myself, “Sh has come to the last of her cap bilities. She is as good, as @) person, as it is possible to be. And then I see her again am some new facet has turned im the light of her personality. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 92

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ICHAEL CURTIZ directs for all he’s worth. Star Marian Marsh looks her most beautiful. But it’s that old, decrepit camera that tells the final story of this close-up for “Alias the Doctor.” Look at the darn thing with its broken jaw bound up in adhesive tape! Yet it always has been and always will be the real god of the set Ferenc

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EFORE Maurice Chevalier was ever heard of in America, Bill Hart was one of the best known personalities in the world. Today Hart would give his best pinto to be back on the screen, while Maurice longs for the quiet of private life. They're great pals—these two—and ‘spend days together at Bill’s rancho outside Hollywood : ; : ; j

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“T didn’t like you in the last part of ‘Over the _ Hill,’’? Mae Marsh’s daughter, Mary, told “You were too . But I guess all that work would make anybody look old.” And isn’t Mary like her mother was in “The Birth of a Nation’’? HE San Francisco earthquake drove Mrs. Maisie Marsh, a widow with six small children, to Hollywood about twenty years ago. ‘There were _ Marguerite, Elizabeth, Oliver, Mae, Frances and Mildred. A _ lovely family with no money. No place to go. . Mrs. Marsh heard of a small hotel where she might get the _ position of manager. “But not with children,” she was told. _ “The owner wouldn’t want children around.” She got the job. Nothing was said about the children. She hid them. With threats and bribes she kept them under cover. Until one day the hotel owner dropped in unexpectedly. Six _ small children scrambled under the desk in the lobby. Six small children drew back into the darkest corner, in an effort to efface themselves. For they had been told about the hotel owner who didn’t like children. And then suddenly the quiet was broken by a small giggle. Just a tiny, little giggle, stifled almost before it was born. ___ But the hotel owner heard it. Little Oliver was pulled out : from under the counter. The man looked at him; looked at the _ embarrassed mother; sensed her fear of losing her job. __ “Hell!” he roared. “I knew you had a child all the time. _ I want to tell you that after the way you have run this hotel, I wouldn’t care if you had ten children. It’s all right.” _ “But there aren’t ten,”’ protested Mrs. Marsh. ‘There are only six.” And one by one they were pulled out into sight. She didn’t lose her job and managed to keep her little brood together until Marguerite, the eldest, was old enough to look for work. A beauty, she began her career as an actress at the old Belasco Theater. A few years later D. W. Griffith brought his Biograph Com- pany to California to make pictures during the winter months. Marguerite had no trouble in securing work with him. And little sister Mae went to the studio with her. = ~ Could my kid sister do some extra work?” Marguerite asked Mr. Griffith. And so Mae’s career began. __ It wasn’t much of a career at first. Mae, recovering from an attack of appendicitis, was thin to the point of scrawniness. She was freckled. Her nose turned up. But extra work and By Franc Dillon allant Mbther “Mary really decided me to play the part,” says Mae. “She said that none of her play- mates at school would believe I ever was an actress because they had never seen me in a picture. AndI couldn’tlet my children down, now could I?” small bits fell her way and were eagerly accepted. Then came “Sands O’ Dee,” one of Mr. Griffith’s first pretentious pictures, and Mae got her first big chance. Everyone knew that Mary Pickford, the star of the Biograph Company, would play the leading role. Mary’s heart was set on it and it was an accepted fact around the studio that the part would be hers. But Mary and Mr. Griffith had a trivial argument and to discipline Mary, perhaps, Mr. Griffith rehearsed Mae in the part. She was surprisingly good. In fact, she was very good, and Mr. Griffith decided that she should play the part. Mary’s heart was broken and soon after she left the company. “T didn’t mind so much that Mae got the part,”’ Mary ex- plained later, ‘‘but she was so good init. That hurt.” AE was always on hand to gather up the crumbs left by other stars and in her hands the crumbs always seemed to grow to huge cakes. “Home, Sweet Home”’ turned out to be another success for Mae, another milestone in her career, and paved the way for her greatest role, the little sister in ‘“‘ The Birth of a Nation.” Another crumb which had grown to a full sized cake. Mae’s story from then on is too well-known to bear repeating. Her career never traveled along the middle path of success. Her work was always either a sensation or it was dwarfed by a poor picture. And often she was miscast. But it was at the very height of her success that she fell in love with and married Louis Lee Arms, a newspaper and fiction writer. For a few years she continued her work and then it became necessary for her to choose between a career and her home. Home and children won and Mae became just Mrs. Arms, living in a big, Colonial house on a six-acre estate in the ex- clusive Flintridge district, high up in the hills above Pasadena. For eight years Mae stayed in retirement. Three lovely children came to the big house. The little sister of “‘The Birth of a Nation” was lost in a medley of babies, bottles, nurses, croup, measles and tonsilitis. Any day she could be found [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 121] 45

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Come On, You Fat Girls! She made motion picture stars beautiful and kept them in trim. She can do the same for you Listen To A—This is the exercise for you fat girls who don’t want hips. First you take this position. Stretch the left leg far back, toe pointed. Draw the left leg up and put your weight on it (as in picture B). As you do this be sure that the hips rise in the air. Progress as you move hands and feet ’M ready for your alibis! Last month I told you that I was talking to just one out of ten of the young women who read my article. I said that if you followed my minute instructions you could lose fifteen pounds. I told the thin girls they could pick up the same amount. Well, what I knew would happen has happened. Oh, you meant well. You were going to fol- low the diet word for word. You did it for the first five or six days. And then a friend had a juncheon party and there was a dish of grand creamed chicken and you ate just a little bit— not enough to hurt. And a few days later you went to a tea and you saw that plate of small pastries and they looked so good you just had to have one. And one led to two and three. You can’t kid your Aunt Sylvia. She’s been kidded by experts—Hollywood experts. I said last month (and you who missed the February issue may have it by writing PHOTOPLAY’s Chi- cago office at 919 North Michigan Avenue, and enclosing twenty-five cents) that I did not want those who wouldn’t follow my instruc- tions to read my articles. But behind my hard-boiled exterior there beats a heart of gold. I don’t know why, but I get to thinking about those poor, fleshy girls who didn’t do what I said. So I’m going to give them another chance. But just one! If you don’t brace up and make a brand new set of resolutions, I’m through with you I’m going to cite Helen Twelvetrees 46 Underwood and Underwood C—To develop the bust stand in front of an open window. Push shoulders back. Relax. Raise arms, inhale through nose, counting to eight, palms down. Turn palms inward, draw hands to chest, as I am doing. Straighten forever! arms at right angles to body. Hold breath for eight counts. Exhale, putting arms at sides B—Go entirely across the floor, back and forth three times. Do it slowly and be sure that you feel every muscle in your hips pulling, pulling. Gradually increase this until, at the end of ten days, you’re walking across the floor six times. This is my own exercise. It is designed to shave off your hips as a bad example. She is a dear girl, but she hasn’t the ambition to fight flesh. I will admit that it is hard for stars to work at the studios all day and come home and take exercises. That’s why I have to be more tolerant with them than I’m naturally inclined to be, so I pound them to get the blood circulating and stimulate them to fight flesh. Stars have to keep thin to hold their jobs. You have to keep thin to hold your husband or get a husband, to be happy and to have good health. When I gave Helen Twelvetrees the first treatment, she was dead to the world. She flopped down on the bed and tried to vamp me with those dreamy eyes. “Well, baby,” I said to her, ‘‘it’s no use. I might fall for you if I were a man, but I’m only little Sylvia, so up you get and take your exercises.” “T hate to do it, but I suppose I have to,” Helen said. She started off well for about a week but she couldn’t keep it up. She is rather a large girl and puts on weight easily. Now don’t emulate Helen’s example. Buck up and try once more. But try hard. You can do it yourself but you must have the intestinal fortitude (if I were talking to you instead of writing to you I’d use a stronger word) to keep © it up and keep it up and keep it up. Come on, darlings, be beautiful and lovely and attractive! You can if you will. Give up tasting rich food “just this once.’’ Follow the diet to the letter of the law. Take your exercises. Be

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Sylvia Lazarnick “T told you so! I said that nine out of ten would not obey me. And you didn’t! I sup- pose you’d rather go around looking terrible with all that surplus weight. You don’t want to be pretty, do you? But I’m going to give you one more chance!””—That’s Sylvia Lo a, good girls. Every one of you has the makings of a beautiful woman. The framework is there. Come on—snap into it. Do this for Sylvia. Do it for yourself! Women must fight to be attractive. Look at yourself in the mirror. Your figure looks terrible. Look at that spare tire. That should make you fight! You can be beautiful. That should give you ambition! Step on the bathroom scales. Good Lord, you didn’t know you weighed that much! Well, you do. But don’t you want to change? There are two kinds of people. Those who did not follow my instructions and those who did. To those who did I say, ‘I’m proud of you.”” Don’t you feel grand? The first ten pounds were the hardest, yes? But you’re on the right track. You don’t mind passing up rich and highly seasoned foods. You’ve got more ambition. You’re light on your feet. People are be- ginning to tell you how marvelous you look. You wonder how you ever ate so much. It was worth it, wasn’t it? Worth every minute of trouble and work and deny- ing yourself pleasures. You’ve lost fifteen pounds and you’re going to lose more. I told you I was too busy to answer letters but, since I’m trying to do so much for you, I’m going to ask you to do a favor for me. Write to me care of PHotopray, 221 West 57th Street, New York City, and tell me how I’ve helped you. Thanks! Sylvia’s proud of those who followed advice. The others—let them stay fat if they want to. As for you others—don’t you wish you had listened to me and were now fifteen pounds lighter than you were just a month ago? Shame on you! Well, come on. Get together. Try again. This month it will be different. You know you’rea little ashamed that you didn’t have the nerve to stick to the routine. Hey, You Skinny Girls! Lose or gain fifteen pounds in one month. But Sylvia says you ve got to help yourself Now I’m going to tell you fat girls how to reduce your hips and I’m going to let you thin girls in on the secret of building up your bust. Also I’m going to give you the anemia diet. Then I’ll make it possible for you to lose weight and keep your face from getting flabby. Here goes. You can take several inches off your hips in a month. I promise you. That body swinging exercise I gave you in my first article, the one you were to do for twenty minutes every morning, was to limber you up, to prepare you for this hip exercise. Therefore you can substitute this for that. I’ve illustrated this exercise in Pictures A and B and de- scribed the movement in the caption. It will darn near kill you at first and you'll say, “If ever I get my hands on that Sylvia.” Well, if ever that Sylvia gets her hands on you—but never mind. I don’t need to get my hands on you. You can do everything I can do for you and better, too. But don’t neglect your dancing. Turn the radio to a peppy band and, with arms above your head, hips swaying from side to side keeping your spine moving, do an old-fashioned two step: One, two and one, two, etc. You can take a good long step at the beginning and hop more than you did last month. Do this for one hour every day [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 122 | D—There are three vital spots on the face that must be stimulated if you want to keep your face firm while you’re taking weight off your body. My right hand indicates one spot, my left hand another. The temples are the third. Press the fingers, making them tremble like a vibrator, on these spots 47

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Select Your Pictures and You @ THE HATCHET MAN—First National F he can’t be a gangster and knock ’em off with machine guns, he’ll join a Tong and be a hatchet man, is Eddie Robinson’s answer to the censors. The splendid acting, the novelty of the background, the magnificent sets and the exquisite gowns (both Occidental and Oriental), will hold your interest, in spite of story weaknesses. Robinson equals his best performance as the Chinese merchant made wealthy by his dearest friend—a man whom he was forced to kill in allegiance to the Tong. His life is devoted to bringing happiness to this man’s daughter whom he has reared and married, only to have her snatched from him by a young, Americanized, gin-drinking Chinaman. Loretta Young, lovely in her Chinese make-up, wins new laurels. Leslie Fenton and Dudley Digges are also excellent. Ke LOVERS COURAGEOUS—M-G-M NE of those sweet, idyllic stories which make you be- lieve fairy tales may come true in spite of modern sophistication and depression worries. Therefore, very much worth seeing. Robert Montgomery is at his wisecracking best in this adaptation of “‘Courage,” which he played on the stage. But even Bob’s good acting would have made only half-a- picture without Madge Evans. That girl is grand! A vivid personality, if you ever saw one. It’s not a big production and depends upon an old theme —the rich girl who tosses everything overboard to starve with a struggling playwright. But love and good perform- ances make it a safe proposition for a bang-up-evening. 48 Won't The Shadow Stage (REG, U, S. PAT. OFF.) A Review of the New Pictures ig ARSENE LUPIN—M-G-M HE acting is so superb that no one should miss it. For here you have the two Barrymore boys in their first appearance together and at their best. And that, good people, is a real best. The well-known story of the daring thief who baffles the Paris police is too well known to repeat here and yet it has been sufficiently modernized, with sprightly lines and situa- tions, to keep your interest at a high peak. Certainly there are some weaknesses and a few directorial slips, but when Jack and Lionel are working together you don’t care whether the plot sags at the knees or faints away. John Barrymore is Arsene Lupin and that means he fur- nishes the romantic interest, while medal-winning Lionel dashes off a character performance, as the captain of police, that may have been equalled but just at the moment we can’t remember where. Which one does the best acting? That’s a little problem with which to start a family argument on a long winter evening. ; Karen Morley, the girl with the Garbo voice, has her splendid moments, but at times she has to work hard to keep up the pace the Barrymores set. Put this film on your list. You'll be fascinated by it. tT, ha ct

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Have to Complain About the Bad The Best Pictures of the Month ARSENE LUPIN THE MAN I KILLED THE HATCHET MAN LOVERS COURAGEOUS DANCE TEAM MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE The Best Performances of the Month Lionel Barrymore in ‘The Man I Killed” Lionel Barrymore in “Arsene Lupin” John Barrymore in ‘Arsene Lupin” Jimmie Dunn in “Dance Team” Sally Eilers in “Dance Team” Edward Robinson in ‘The Hatchet Man” Madge Evans in “Lovers Courageous” George Arliss in “The Man Who Played God” Paul Lukas in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” Casts of all photoplays reviewed will be found on page 125 f Keg THE MAN I KILLED—Paramount VERY once in a while someone makes a motion picture that is a gem, a beautiful, living poem. And now no less a person than Ernst Lubitsch, director of frothy musicals, has made a touchingly beautiful picture. The story deals with a young French musician whose soul is constantly haunted by the face of the man he killed in the trenches. Deep remorse drives him back to the man’s town in Germany, where he is taken into the man’s home by the father and mother who never dream the thing he cannot bring himself to tell. He falls in love with the dead man’s sweetheart who learns his secret and forces him to make the sacrifice of remaining forever in the home as a substitute for the man he killed. The story is beautifully and simply told. Phillips Holmes, as the Frenchman, gives a grand performance. Chalk up another perfect performance for Lionel Barrymore, as the German father. Nancy Carroll, as the German sweetheart, brings a quiet naturalness to the part. The whole thing is a powerful preachment against war. It’s a picture that will appeal to those who love a tender, beautiful story. If you must have sex and snap and sophisti- cation, don’t see it. ke DANCE TEAM—Fox Ge again the team of Eilers and Dunn hit the bull’s- — “ths picture ocond ‘Bad Girl,” ¥ he old story of *s catches up— or a moment. amie Dunn, as a ‘xids you knew in ‘headline dancers, er, barker and hot then Jimmie, the + are some over- by others in the va‘? being anything iy MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE—Universal NOTHER shocker with all the time-honored appurte- nances—clutching hands shadowed on the wall, the monster menacing the beautiful heroine, the madman with the homicidal complex, yet this famous Edgar Allan Poe story manages to smack of the novel. It is different from “Frankenstein,” and if that sent the cold chills up and down your spine, prepare yourself for another thrill evening. He plays Dr. Mirakle and, although folks who like the repressed school of acting will get a little annoyed with his tactics, he is, nevertheless, the perfect type for this sort of film. Score another one for smiling Junior Laemmle, the producer. Score a nice performance for Sidney Fox. And give the ape a hand. 49

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Here’s Your Monthly Shopping THE MAN WHO PLAYED GOD— Warners ITHOUT George Arliss this would be mild entertain- ment. But Arliss’ skill is so great that the rather old and, at times, unbelievable situations, are gladly overlooked. The story concerns an embittered, deaf man who, through lip read- ing and a pair of powerful field glasses, comes to know the needs and problems of the people in the park below. Violet Heming is splendid. See it. TWO KINDS OF WOMEN— Paramount HILLIPS HOLMES fits the réle of wealthy playboy, and Miriam Hopkins is the senator’s daughter from South Dakota, who succumbs to the excitement of New York and the charm of young Mr. Holmes. Wynne Gibson, playing the “other kind’? of woman, causes the complications. Miriam should have meatier réles; Irving Pichel has done better; the story’s weak. But entertaining, if you’re not too critical. PRESTIGE— RKO-Pathe HE murky setting of a tropical penal colony again accentu- ates Ann Harding’s platinum loveliness, but it doesn’t com- pensate for blatantly careless plot construction. The way in which Miss Harding, as a poised Frenchwoman, is forced at the point of a camera to stand stoically by while her weakling husband goes native, fails both actors and audience and offers only an anticlimax to ‘“‘Condemned.”” Exquisite photography. 50 List! THE SILENT WITNESS— Fox OURT-ROOM drama in a strangling mystery, with the victim the mistress of a gilded young man whose father attempts to shoulder the blame. It’s quite all right, and made more so by Lionel Atwill, stage favorite, in his talkie début. You’ll want to see him again. That cockney witness who steals the show is Weldon Heyburn. Greta Nissen plays the loose lady, but hasn’t much to do. BREEZY, amusing opus of ‘The Get-Rich-Quick Wall- ingford” type. Bill Powell, promoter, whizzes his way through a ticklish proposition to the edge of the penitentiary. Being a pretty good character, he only hits the edges. Powell is splendid, as is Evelyn Brent, the girl friend, who would like a home and babies but must take bogus bonds to keep up with her financial high-stepper. FREAKS— M-G-M F you’re one of those who pay admission to the side show and pass up the big circus, you’ll like this picture, which is a vivid story of the sordid life of pathetic creatures who have missed part of their physical and mental heritage. Baclanova, who has the part of the beautiful trapeze performer, gives an excel- lent performance. The freaks were gathered from all over the world for this film.

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ineerirst and Best Talkie Reviews! CHARLIE CHAN’S CHANCE— Fox LOW motion where swift is needed is the trouble with this latest offering of Charlie Chan. Detective stories should get away toa snappy start and keep your mind on the run. This lets you walk. However, if you’re a detective fan you’ll want to watch that excellent actor, Warner Oland, as the famous Earl Derr Biggers sleuth, get his criminal. There’s a grand cast to help you enjoy it. THIS RECKLESS AGE— Paramount OU saw the silent version of this several years ago under the title, ““The Goose Hangs High.”’ Despite the sincere efforts of such stars as Richard Bennett, Frances Starr, Charles Rogers, Frances Dee and Peggy Shannon, this just doesn’t click. Perhaps the passing of the jazz age has left us a little cold to the pranks of thoughtless youth and sacrificing parents. Charles Ruggles is a bright spot. TOMORROW AND TO- MORROW— Paramount a Ee conversational stage play and not a ‘‘moving” picture! With the exception of a few scenes, Ruth Chatter- ton is not the lovely, wistful Ruth you know so well. She plays the role of a woman who is frustrated in her desire for mother- hood. Paul Lukas, as the Viennese doctor, is superb. And Robert Ames in this, his final picture, gave the best work of his long career. NO ONE MAN— Paramount HIS is a lavish production of a dull, slow moving story, all about a girl who is bent on marrying three times. The players, including Carole Lombard, Ricardo Cortez and Paul Lukas, more than make up for a weak plot with gay, sparkling performances, while excellent dialogue, sumptuous clothes and smooth direction make you forget how little action there really is. Nice enough. PANAMA FL RKO-Pathe ITUATIONS that are different and should have been enter- taining somehow go haywire in this potpourri of a New York speakeasy, a Panama honky-tonk and the South American jungle. Neither Helen Twelvetrees, as lovely as ever, nor Charles Bickford, can rise above the inconsistencies of the char- acters and the trite dialogue. Players as capable as Twelve- trees, Bickford and Robert Armstrong deserve meatier stuff. SKY DEVILS —United Artists T’S been done before — making a comedy of life in the trenches. You’ve even seen some of the gags! But they’re done so well with new faces that even the old ones bring laughs. A good hour and a half of giggles, and a look at some great air stuff is our promise for this one. William Boyd, George Cooper and Spencer Tracy are capably humorous. [ ADDITIONAL REVIEWS ON PAGE 107 ] 51

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Claudette, Your New “Buttons are the thing,” says Claudette Colbert, pointing to her new brown silk frock. Yes, and that diagonal ar- rangement is new, too. Clever brown leather belt, Claudette. And did you say your hat is Rodier fabric, stitched? Four sables gave their all for that scarf Not only a change of cos- tume but of hair coloring, too, itseems. You’ll have to see the picture to find out why Claudette does it! Meanwhile, study this lounging outfit —it’s a knockout! Coral velvet embroidered in gold thread for both trousers and blouse. Very gay sleeves from the elbow down. This is for more formal leisure Just like a man’s loung- ing pajama suit—but very feminine withal. Claud- ette wears this for the orange juice and coffee hour. They’re yellow brocade trimmed with dark blue silk—isn’t that a grand combination? Don’t miss the side stripes or the crease on the trousers

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Screen Glothes Are Grand! Don’t miss a detail in this ex- clusive preview of the fashions Claudette Col- bert wears in “The Wiser Sex” Photographs by Shalitt “Of course this jacket goes with the skirt, silly!’ says Claudette. ‘‘It’s terribly smart to wear a plain skirt with a diagonally striped jacket.” It’s black woolen, the skirt plain, the jacket finely striped. A black crepe blouse has an Ascot scarf at- : tached. In the circle, note the two diamond clips on her black felt hat. Also the up- in-back roll and eye tilt. This Claudette knows her fashion ABC’s, all right!

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By Sara Hamilton ORMA SHEARER is a sensible woman with a giggle. Which should explain a lot of things about the young lady. But prob- ably doesn’t. | In spite of everything, she will bite at her nails and walk in her sleep. But not, of course, at the same time. For instance, she never bites when she’s walking or walks when she’s biting. Atleast she’s pretty sure she doesn’t. And the biting has been reduced, at only Norma knows what cost, to the littlest finger on her left hand. It, however, is practically bitten away. She always plans too many things to doin one day. And usually does them all. The more there is to do, the happier she is. She is deliriously happy three-fourths of the time. Clothes bore her to death. Claims she could weep at the sight of them. Nevertheless, she is compelled to give them considerable thought. And has never been known to shed a tear over it. . She takes infinite pains in seeing that every accessory matches. A new dress is permitted to hang in her closet for weeks at a time until she is absolutely certain she has the proper hat or shoes to wear with it. She visited Paris without buying a single frock and hurriedly snatched off two hats while passing through London. She wears plain, tailored { sports clothes that run to woolens and scarfs in the daytime. And plain satins for evening. Her wardrobe is not extensive, but she wears things just one season. And then promptly gets rid of them. In the spring, she sells her last summer’s clothes. In the fall, her winter things. Sara says you don’t like clothes, Norma, She loves the frilliest and laciest of underwear. But wears only the but if you are thinking of throwing away plainest of pink knit. With no lace. Or no anything. Just plain knit. this lovely new outfit with its black And decidedly pink, too. velvet jacket and tricky ermine sleeves, As Norma says, herself, she can’t imagine why the report that she 4 let us know. We'll be hanging around, wore no brassiere in her picture, ‘‘ Private Lives,’ should get scattered hoping you might let us in on such new fashion tricks as that white satin dress, creased over each knee like a man’s all about. As a matter of fact, she declares, she didn’t wear a brassiere in ‘‘Private trousers. And those short black gloves Lives” or in anybody’s lives for that matter, but why start a report about —are they the choice of a girl who it? That’s what stumps her. Tch. Tch. Tch. doesn’t care about fashion trends? Luncheons or tea parties during the day bore her to death. Actually a) o4 -

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Oh, Miss Hamilton, how ‘can you dare tell such livery intimate things ‘rabout Miss Shearer? Te.iinc ON Norma . give her the fidgets, Norma claims. Thinks of all the things she | could and should be doing while she sits there. | She loves gay times with friends. But only after six o’clock. And promptly at eleven becomes so sleepy she can’t imagine where she is. Or why, even. Comes eleven and Norma wants to go to bed. | She seems, to those who know her slightly, much more gay and optimistic than she really is. For very often, and for no reason, she’ll be seized with moods of self-consciousness and imagines no one likes her. And suffers horribly. Old things have a strange hold on Norma. She has the same studio maid she began with. Years ago. The same dressing- room. While Marion Davies, Garbo and Crawford revel in exquisitely furnished bungalows of four and five rooms, one must climb a rickety pair of stairs to a long row of doors where next to a door marked Miss Greenwood is one marked Miss Fie, Norma, don’t you go bit- ing your pretty nails anymore. And, is it true that you some- times walk in your sleep? Shearer. A tiny nook of a dressing-room. The one she began with. And nothing would induce her to change it. She keeps the same servants. Year after year. And after talkies did away with any need of stage musicians, Norma kept hers. And paid them out of her own salary. So strong is her belief in old things bringing luck, that when she began making “Let Us Be Gay,” she moved back to the house in which she lived while making “‘The Divorcee.” She was positive the old house would bring her luck. Otherwise she loathed the place. Dropping hairpins means losing a friend to Norma. She'll search for hours on her hands and knees for a lost pin. No losing friends if she can help it. She has a tremendous appetite, but claims food wearies her to death because she likes and eats everything. Is constantly threatening to become fussy about her food so people will fly madly about preparing extra dainties and worry dreadfully. But, somehow, she always forgets about it until she’s eaten everything in sight. T the studio she has her luncheon sent over to her dress- ing-room from the executive’s table. And never knows what she’s having. She says she loves to be surprised. But seldom is. It’s usually beans and cutlets. She postpones drinking her tomato juice until the very last thing because she isn’t too fond of it. But molasses cookies she dotes on. No such cookie on the tray, and her whole afternoon is practically ruined. Norma Shearer is immensely proud of her little son and has grand ideas about him. Thinks a parent’s job is filling a child’s life with happy fun and gay times together. And not holding on and twining oneself about his thoughts and heart and soul. So that when it’s time for him to leave, as they always do, she can reach out a hand in gay, happy fellowship and say, “ Best of luck. Your life is your own. Take it and live it.” And, too, she thinks no mother should place a child before a husband. Children always leave. Some time. Husbands seldom, if they’re kept sweethearts. Wise, beautiful lady. And she is much more beautiful off the screen than on. Her skin is clear and fair. She wears a clean, scrubbed look and an amazing dimple in her right cheek. That doesn’t photograph for some provoking reason. She curls her own hair. Taking long clean strips of cheese cloth and wrapping each strand of hair about the cheese cloth strip until she finally emerges with an amazing mass of cheese cloth ends. Like a platinum-headed pickaninny. Thirty minutes later each strand [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 110] 55

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When | Faced Death HE only thing that hasn’t taken place in my hospital room is a post-mortem—com- monly referred to as just plain “‘post,” in hospital lingo. First, I am in all wrong. Am in the right church, but the wrong pew. I don’t belong on this floor, they tell me, cause it’s clean. I belong on number three, that’s dirty. Reason —this floor is for clean surgery and the third, dirty surgery, such as drainage cases. Here’s how come I’m here. The night I was unloaded and left on the front porch of this open-all-night physical in- stitution of search and research, they didn’t know if I had been kicked by a horse, struck by a side winding rattle snake or listened to the fermenting of the home brew too long. The night watchman, making his rounds, discovered me and like an orphan left on the door-step, I was taken in and turned over to the research department, which put me through the dipping vats and disinfecting chute, declared me free from hoof and mouth infection or fever ticks and said I could pass the quarantine to the open range and grazing grounds of the research boys, who I could hear grinding their knives and waiting with gurgling, ghoulish glee. But, about this time, my friend Dr. Smith arrived from his ranch out Malibu way, riding his best cutting horse, to major domo the round up. He had me dragged to the periscope pen and looked into, and discovered that the old pen-dix had gone plumb wild, quit the home range and was running all over the restricted territory. Dr. Smith marked the spot where he thought he could locate this old rascal, slipped me in a hurry over to the brandin’ corral, where Dr. Hutchinson sneaked up behind me and shot a load of sheep dip, or something, in the third joint of my spine, which put all of me from there down out of working order, in order for Dr. Smith to try and get his rope on that galloping pen-dix and bring him into camp. In the meantime, leaving me from the third lumbar up in a state where I could read brands, watch the count and put them in the tally book. pe boys areall in a corner plan- ning how to drag the range, when Dr. Smith stampeded them out of their covey, using sign language, and the first thing I knew, I was hog-tied by this bunch of Klu Klux dressed up Indians. I know now why they put on them thar masks and all the fixings around their heads; it’s to keep the “Ex- hibit A,” if he don’t turn out to be a corpus delicti from recognizing them, so he will know which one to shoot first in case he met up with him at some out of the way place. Dr. Smith takes his favorite bowie, runs his thumb over its edge, con- sults his Rand McNally, takes a peek at the almanac, sees the sign of the moon is okay and goes to work. Our Favorite Cowboy wrote this to his many PuHotopLay fans from the hospital By Tom Mix into the Grand Canyon, so I decided they could do the rest without any help from me. Then all at once J heard Dr. Smith say, “Folks, that old pen-dix has teamed up with another tough hombre called peritonitis, and between the two of them they can sure make short work of a boy, once they get him down.” I hear this and says to myself, they may think they’ll get me down and stomp on me, but I might fool them. So, anyway, they took old pen-dix into camp and chased that peritonitis in a corner but he broke out past them. Dr. Smith sent for his old elephant gun and shot him full of holes. T looked for a while as if I would cross the range and, after all, the trails I rode had not been so smooth—plenty of cactus and catspaw—as a boy draggin’ wood to the chuck wagon helping the cook, horse wrangler, night hawk, cowboy, horse- breaker, wagon boss and foreman. It was a long trail full of thrills, spills and happy-go-lucky, take ’em as they come. Movies, success, beautiful home, friends, my baby Thomas- ina. So I looked over the horizon with curiosity, wondering what was there. I had no fear of death. God knows me. Then I thought of the many things I wanted to do and the looking after of my baby girl, Tommy; the friends and the young folks a-pulling for me, so I couldn’t lay down on the job. That decision being arrived at, I snapped the old jaws together and let them hop to it. Never having been worked on in the region of the belt buckle before, it made me kind of squirmish. F course, I’d been hungry, had the collera morba when a kid, ate and drank everything that caused a fellow to make resolutions in the middle of the year. But when they started poking around in my equa- tor, like twisting a rabbit out of a hole with a green briar, uncoiling a mile or so of those things necessary ~ to have, I got a-thinking, maybe — they wouldn’t get them untangled, coiled and hung on the right peg in ~ the saddle house again. F I could see by the expression of © the doctor’s eyes, (the rest of his face — being covered by a mask), that everything was not so good, but I had confidence in Dr. Smith, plus fifteen years of friendship, and knew he would do his stuff. They sewed me up, using three or four pairs of rubber gloves with the ends of the fingers cut off sticking up out of the wound, which handed me a laugh, for my tummy looked like a rubber plant. Then they have a gag of using pearl buttons, setting them four on each side of the wound and about two inches apart and up, down and across, connected with a draw- string running through my hide, so they could clinch it up tighter any time the saddle began to slip. ee es a When he had been at it what seemed about four or five hours to me but actually five minutes, I took a squint and I thought I was looking 56 When they sent Tom home from the hospital he insisted on sitting out in the yard to greet “Tony,” and you should have heard that pony whinny his happi- ness after five weeks’ separation This handed me another laugh, for I looked as if I had on a four- button, double-breasted coat, only [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 106 ]

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Talked T was the second day on the set of the Maurice Chevalier picture, ‘‘ Playboy of Paris.’”’ Frances Dee, the newly dis- covered leading lady, was walking downstairs in a gorgeous white gown, under the tutelage of Director Ludwig Berger. Just a week before she had been a merest stock bit player at seventy-five dollars weekly. Now, she was a full-blown leading lady. Naturally, Mr. Berger was taking many pains with Chev- alier’s inexperienced discovery. It was necessary. She was pretty, she had charm, but she knew little of pictures. He told her step by step how to descend those stairs so the camera would catch her to the best advantage. She tried it several times. Something was wrong. Finally, Miss Dee approached the director: “Tt is because you do not allow me to descend them natu- _ rally. A woman in this kind of gown would come down—+thus!”’ She ran to the top and started down. The director watched. The girl was right! She was as natural as a butterfly flitting from one bud to another, her way. This story spread on the Paramount lot as rapidly as had the rumor of the quarrel between Lilyan Tashman and Eleanor Boardman! For an extra girl on the second day of her big opportunity to tell a director how she should make a picture was heresy, and heresy has always made good gossip. But she continued to make suggestions and Director Berger continued to listen! Of course, she was riding for a fall. It _was inevitable. They waited! Then came the day when he whirled on her: ‘‘Sometimes you make good suggestions; sometimes you make bad ones. You shouldn’t talk so much!” By Kuth Biery Otto Dyar No, no, gentle reader. The picture of Frances Dee isn’t upside down. But turn it up if you want to. You’ll do it, anyhow Too Much There were rumors about this new girl. She didn’t seem a bit excited about her success! She took it as calmly as though it were her divine right to be selected by Chevalier. And when Josef Von Sternberg chose her for ‘‘An American Tragedy,” she took this in the same nonchalant, I-expected-as-much manner. I remember the day Anita Page took a test for ‘“‘Red Headed Woman,” to be made by M-G-M. Weallknewaboutit. Anita was so excited at the opportunity to make a test for a big lead that she told the entire world! Youth gets excited when opportunity almost knocks in Hollywood. It means so much if it should happen. Even older actresses succumb to that. Hedda Hopper was wild with enthusiasm on the day they told her she might play Greta Garbo’s maid in ‘Grand Hotel.” Marie Dressler was like a child with a new toy when she read the script of “‘ Politics.” ND here was this newcomer acting as though “ breaks” were especially ordained for her! Sidney Fox told me when she and Frances were working in ‘‘ Nice Women”’: “I wish I could be like Frances Dee. She never gets excited about anything.” This twenty-year-old has a philosophy. She analyzes her emotions and controls them through stern mental training. Most actresses live on the bubbles or the dregs of emotions. They are exalted today with the prospects that glimmer before them. They are in the depths tomorrow, because those pros- pects have proved to be bubbles. Frances Dee is assiduously trying to save herself the nervous thrills of the heights [PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 124 ] o7

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I'm orever hasin ARB By Leonard Hall Padded Cell No. 1313 New York State Looney House June 42, 1819 Dear Epiror Quirk: Well, Editor, here I am in a nice comfortable cell, picking black-eyed susans from the walls, just as you have often prophesied—and all because Greta Garbo spent a couple of weeks in New York! I like it here. Napoleon drops in every afternoon for a dish of tea or a friendly shot in the arm, and Cleopatra is a great pal of mine—we are raising asps in our spare time. Believe me, Editor, the peace and quiet of this place is swell after what I went through running the Stockholm Baritone up alleys and over spiked fences while she was in New York. ‘‘Scoop” Hall, your demon reporter, did his stuff for PHoropray, all righty, and if it landed him smack in the booby hatch, he got the story for you and our 500,000,000 readers. ; And here it is! I was enjoying my usual afternoon snooze in the back room of Tony the Boot’s when the alarm bell, which I always carry in my vest pocket, clanged loudly. MHurriedly pulling on my rubber boots and clapping my chief’s helmet on my somewhat addled noggin, I rushed into the street in all directions. “Pst!” psted Sleazy Joe, my stool-pigeon. ‘‘ Greta Garbo’sin town. She’s registered at the St. Moritz Hotel as Mrs. Gussie Berger.”’ Andwitha last “pst” Joe doveintoa nearby man-hole. I was off, like a shot, to the St. Moritz—a new and fancy hotel, of some hundreds of rooms and 12,000 sunken baths, that smiles down on the southern fringe of ‘Central Park. It was true! Garbo wasin New York! Hastily assuming my Disguise 22, “‘ Visiting Scientist,”’ consisting of a red Van Dyke beard and shiny pants, I was ready for duty. Then, Editor, began the maddest, merriest few days that ever blistered the life and singed the soul of a great reporter. 58 I had to be sly, for newspapermen were as thick as flies in a livery stable. Walter Winchell, the noted Broadway columnist, disguised as The Archbishop of Canterbury, pottered about the lobby, demanding an interview on the Religious Aspects of the Soviet Five Year Plan. No dice—not even acie-deucie. Garbo turned him down cold. His ego painfully fractured, he hobbled to his typewriter and spanked her mystery in burning print. But not ‘‘Scoop” Hall! He remembered your orders— “Bring back that story or else do a double-back~jackknife off the Empire State Building!” I stuck toit, Editor! “Garbo or bust!” I said grimly. ‘Mrs. Gussie Berger’”’—egad, Editor, what a name for the Swedish Rose!—was in that there hotel! And I would run her down! I buttonholed the help. One bell-hop, who had been inspect- ing the keyhole for mice, admitted, with the help of four bits, that he had heard Garbo sneeze. An elevator man, goose- greased with a dollar, said that he had heard The Great White Silence say ‘‘ Yop” or “‘ Yup,” he couldn’t remember which. IERCE reports came to the corner of the hotel lobby where I lurked, now disguised as a syringa bush. Garbo, hiking in the park for a breath of fresh air and cinders, had been set upon by a mob of ten thousand, who had pulled out all her hair for souvenirs. Garbo had been shopping on Fifth Avenue for a second-hand tweed topcoat. Garbo was selling apples at the corner of Park Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street. Garbo had been seen at a famous night-club in Harlem, talking Hoch Swedish and Ordinary Mississippian with a Sene- gambian banjo-twanger. I jumped on my raging red motorcycle and ran these rumors down, other and feebler reporters puffing and cussing in my wake. Once I thought I caught a glimpse of that old coat going over a high fence, and heard a sneering voice mutter “Ach,

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_Nurtz!” but it may just have been the goofy, ga-ga imagination that finally landed me here. _ Then came the night she went to the theater, and—vwell, Editor, I guess I owe you an apology for that one! OR go to the theater she did, with a gent’man friend. The play was a giddy comedy hit, ‘“‘ Reunion in Vienna,” and there was Garbo, all decked out in a green frockie and stealing the show from the actors, who were pretty put out, I can tell you! | The fact is, I learned this from my pal, the gal who sells peanuts | between acts. I happened to be sitting up with a very sick | friend that night, and somehow I just missed her. As I galloped _and shredded. up to the playhouse on “‘Silver King,” my pinto hoss, Garbo _had just left in an auto-gyro and mounted coppers were massag- ing the scalps of the huge mob with their nightsticks. But I darned near had her that time, Editor! Why do friends get sick to be sat up with? Then came the greatest break of all! It happens that one of my pals is the smartest girl press-agent in New York, and among her accounts is a beauty shoppey run by one Louis Parme. Well, there had been some comment about a Mrs. Gussie Berger who was coming up there to get her wool rubbed “Looks like an old-maid school-teacher!”’ com- mented one of the help—her name was Heloise or Gert. My press-agent friend took one quick look, and—oops! _ You’ve guessed it, Editor! It was Greta, the Guttural Goddess, and none else! There she sat, with her bib on, getting a good going-over, _ having tight curls put in her back hair that, when combed out, | would become the familiar Garbo hair-arrangement. Well, then the shoppey was ina fine dither! Garbo wore black stock- ings, a long, shapeless tweed coat, a white turtle-necked sweater that came right up to the chin, a skull cap and dark goggles. When she went into the street again she looked like a sun- “Scoop” Hall, ereatest living authority on the Stockholm bari- tone, writes from padded ec ell about Garbo’s New York visit ILLUSTRATED BY RUBE GOLDBERG blinded student of Anglo-Saxon on her way to the public library! And about all she said, while in the shoppey, was “‘Bleeze close dot gurtain!”” whenever the little maidens rallied round for a free peak at divinity with its hair down. And—well, Editor, I might as well confess that I missed that one, too. You see, Mother had sent me out to get one of these Wall-Eyed Pekes, and by the time I had stolen the brute, sneaked it home, and rushed to the shoppey, Garbo had, as they say, taken it on the lam. But you can see I was in there fight- ing, Boss! And so it went. I picketed the hotel, acted as porter and room-clerk, went upstairs on trays disguised as a tomato juice cocktail. But somehow I never quite got delivered to Gussie Berger. One morning I went up to the manager and said brightly, “Well, and how is my old friend, Mrs. Berger!” ‘a ERCIFUL heavens, Professor! Haven’t you heard?” asked the horrified Boniface, Mon. Godfrey Taylor. “Why, Mrs. Berger left for Hollywood last night to get a job as Greta Garbo!” Then it was that I went cuckoo. I hurled the manager into a fountain, frightening fifty goldfish to death. I kicked and screamed. The next thing I knew a man in white was saying, “Take it easy, brother!” And here I was, and still am—play- ing pinochle with a couple of Julius Caesars and unsuccessfully counting my fingers. So “Scoop” Hall missed—just by an eye-tooth and a couple of molars. But he got the story for you, Editor, the story of Greta Garbo in New York as Mrs. Gussie Berger. My rep as one of the greatest reporters of all times is still unsullied. Hoping you are the same, Editor, I am still your famous reporter, LEONARD HALL 59

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ae is big in fash- ion this year—for daytime or for evening. Circles of brilliants are cleverly embroidered in a scattered pattern over this white crepe romain gown that Carole Lom- bard wears above. Don't miss that bodice detail. The front is de- signed so that two pieces of material cross in front, cross again in back, and tie in front. Very un- usual. The back decol- letage is extremely low. White is Favored in No One Man” UCH of the action of “No One Man’’ takes place in Florida, so Carole’s clothes make an excellent forecast of what you will be wear- ing this summer. Below, the bathing suit is the new two-piece style of shorts and brassiere. The cape is a nice variation of the beach robe—in white jersey trimmed with balls of yarn. | MAGINE a dazzling white jacket of seed pearls and brilliants, topping your black crepe evening gown. That's what Carole Lombard is wear- ing on a warm Florida night in the picture above. The waist- length jacket fits snugly.

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ORTRAIT. of a young lady waiting for the first warm day to wear a new suit! This one of Miriam Hopkins’ is cut on simple, tailored lines, but looks feminine. Probably because the tweed is woven in a soft, irregular pattern. A small rolled turban, in the same black- and-white tweed, has a piece of ribbon tied in front. Note that the jacket is belted and has pockets. Trick flare on those hand- sewn gloves. Seen in “Two Kinds of Women. HIS white silk blouse should never be cov- ered by even the best looking jacket. Miriam Hopkins wears it under the suit | described above. Don’t miss two big details you'll be see- ing on both frocks and blouses. The neckline tied high with a big bow. And full sleeves caught in at the wrists by smaller bows. THERE'S FASHION NEWS IN HATS, SLEEVES AND NECK- LINES THIS SEASON HE whole design of clothes is simpler, and trimmer. Less period stuff | —and more really wear- able things. You'll notice § this trend in new screen costumes, especially. Fem- inine details still linger 7 because they are becom- ing. For instance, this col- 9 lar on a black crepe dress © worn by Miriam Hopkins % in TwoKindsof Women. It's organdie, all done up 4 with little howers and a ™ big bow. The same flower | idea is repeated on bell 4 sleeves. Cire ribbon, fine- ly shirred, makes a smart ¥ turban trim, | think.

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ACRE collars and cuffs—seems to be quite a rage, doesn't it? Our smart friend, Lilyan Tashman, uses crisp Irish lace for collar and cuffs on her black silk jacket frock. Those short sleeves are on her jacket. Note ow simple in line her dress is. Black and white is being worn by our smartest stars. ERE’S a tip on your Easter bonnet. It can be me small, like Evalyn Knapp’s, have a feather sticking up at the side or in back—and be a com- bination of rough straw and felt. This one is blue —one of the first spring colors. Don't forget the tilt! ‘Grapes and bows again! It looks like a screen fad. Organdie is a nice contrast for black satin, too, as worn here by Loretta Young.

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OU can hardly tell whether a dress is knitted or crocheted these days. Crochet stitch is up in fashion and this sports frock Lilian Bond wears is a smart example of it. Black and white contrast is used efHectively HITE with a color—and what better than red? This silk sports frock Lilian Bond is wearing, below, lets a red bordered collar serve for sleeves. That surplice fold is clever. Note the red pocket and sash—also the straight silhouette. Nice outfit.

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“be Ggawgia (yetr White Studio Can this be the same girl who is putting on the hot- cha-cha look to Fredric March in “Dr. Jekyll, etc.” on the opposite page? “Nope,” you say. And you’re ready to lay your last, tattered, gilt-edged bond on that 66 The startling rise of Miriam Hopkins from a scrawny ingénue toa cirl who’s cot everything By Al Hug ives S ONE who knew her when, during the days of her mere ingénuehood—and there never was a merer one!—I’m convinced that ‘‘Li’l Gawgia’s” sudden flare-up and flame has been one of the most astonish- ing in picture history. If you were to ask me—please be a pal, and do!—who has made the longest, fastest strides in talkies during the past year, I shouldn’t think for a minute of the bigger and gaudier shots. I’d pass by Gable and Robinson and Cagney, fine though they are, and I’d vote, in a loud, hog-calling, carrying voice for Miriam Hopkins! Hardly a year ago—with all due respect to the darling— Miriam Hopkins was just another rather skinny blonde child mugging for the camera. As one old film-hound to another, I couldn’t see that she had any more screen future than an Easter bunny. Then, almost overnight, the moth turned butterfly. Today she is a lovely, voluptuous and practically vicious picture- stealer—a dangerous threat to any star in whose celluloid opera she appears. Don’t be surprised if by the end of 1932 her name shines in bigger and brighter lights. She’s come fast and she’ll go far. Why? Miriam Hopkins suddenly, miraculously acquired glamour—that mysterious, magnificent quality that is vital to outstanding screen success. And how? Lawsy me, chile, if I knew I’d be getting five grand a week from the movie moguls instead of crouching over a one-lunged typewriter yarning about the darlings of the gods! UT get it she did—and if we poke about in the minor drama of her young life before fame’s lightning struck her pretty blonde noodle, we may find a couple of clues. It’s worth it. Anybody who can come as close as “‘ Gawgia” did to yanking a picture out from under Maurice Chevalier in “The Smiling Lieutenant” is worth a right smart spell under any microscope. If we could find the answer, you and I and Maisie and Joe could rattle out to Hollywood in the old Ford and collect our million. I first clapped an eye on Miriam Hopkins in the first great Irving Berlin girl show, ‘“‘The Music Box Revue.”” But I didn’t know it, really. For Miriam, just up from Savannah with an accent you could cut with a butter-knife, was a chorus girl. No—-sort of a super- chorine, for in that show one song number was trilled by “ Eight Little Notes””—eight rec blondies whose names were Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti and Do. Whether ‘“‘ Gawgia” was Mi or Fa, or one of the two Do sisters; I can’t tell—but now that she’s in the big picture money, I have a hunch she was one of the Do girls. She was pretty, and cunnin’, and about nineteen—and if she was a bit on the thin side, w ‘hy, the bald-headed row liked ’em slender in ’22!

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It wasn’t long till Miriam battled her way from the chorus into the legitimate drammer, and her life as a mere ingénue began on Broad- way. Never shall I forget, mates, the time I saw her make her party bow in her first big part. Manager Arch Selwyn had imported a trans- lation from the German called ‘‘The Garden of Eden,” and for those modest days—back in ’25 or ’26—it was a right snappy piece! The leading feminine part was that of a modern girl, a little in the daring line, and the climax of Act II—the sensational sock that was to set the customers to rolling and howling in the aisles—was when the young lady tore off most of her clothes as a gesture of defiance to the villain, and stood before him in her teddy- bear (or whatever the darned things were then) and her armor of girlish innocence. That was Miriam’s part. I, as a critic, squatted pop-eyed in an aisle seat. The moment came. ‘“Gawgia’’ ripped off her evening gown, and what did the great revela- tion reveal? Why, a skinny, little tousle-head with undeveloped shoulders and arms and positively scrawny legs. The great moment was a total dud—the luscious heroine stood revealed as a bony hop-pole, and with no more allure. I relate this shuddering episode because it furnishes the key-note to the Miriam Hopkins that was. No appeal, no richness—in short, no glamour! I’d have bet my studs that “‘ Gaw- gia” had no future at all in show business. “The Garden of Eden” died the quick, pain- ful death of a perfect flopperino on Broadway —and Miriam Hopkins was off on her trying career as a flop actress! H, she got a good part now and then, and played it well enough. But shows died un- der her and people had a dismal way of saying, “Oh, yes—Miriam Hopkins. Pretty little thing! Darling accent!” That about let little Miriam out, in her pre-glamour days. Com- petent enough, pretty enough—but no peppo, none of the old dash and derring do, no spiz- zerincktum, none of the stuff that turns a diffident daisy into a full-blown rose. I used to see her at parties, now and then, and we laughed and joked together over other times in the theater. And when I was on my way home alone I used to muse on the strange Fate that put a tousle-headed, little blonde Southe’n gyurl into the theater without the natural equipment to make her shine above a faint, feeble glow. How much labor I might have saved my muser, in the face of the Hopkins of today! So she went her very modest, rather unsuc- cessful way. She married Austin Parker, the writer (they’ve separated since, by the way). And then the talkies called—as they have had a way of doing since 1928, The Year of the Big Microphone Blight, as we old geezers call it. With no fuss, no feathers and no praise, “Lil Gawgia” debutted in Paramount’s “Fast and Loose,”—born on Long Island and died all over the nation. I cast a bilious eye upon it—and so did a good many others. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 110] on, Tae ae a Bad " foe 4 a é * * 2 5 4 ef es 2 te But yes, indeedy, that conventional baby on the other page is none other than Miriam Hopkins as she appeared a few years ago on the New York stage, shortly after she had said good-bye to the peach blossoms of Savannah, Ga. 67

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ont He ALTER HUSTON was at a famous banquet in New York not so long ago and his turn to speak came directly after a famous aviator’s. The aviator had succeeded in flying over the greater part of the globe and had done a wonderful job. He spoke at length on his achieve- ment and the applause at the end of his speech was deafening. Then Huston’s turn came. He stood there, head a little on one side—you know how he does—and looked about. Finally he said, ‘I’m out of place here. I’m an actor. Not a doer. I’maman witha talent. A talent which was not even achieved. It was giventome. J amaman who merely gives imitations of men who do things. Who achieve things. In this world.” And darned if he didn’t sit down. It simply stumped them. For Walter Huston was one of the most famous men in New York. Acclaimed by men like George Cohan, Eugene O’Neill and every New York critic. Only last month Ring Lardner was telling a friend about Huston’s speech. “I'll never forget the amazing simplicity of that statement,” Lardner said. “It left us all thinking.” But here’s the funny thing about it. Walter Huston didn’t make that speech through any sense of modesty. I doubt if he has five cents worth of modesty along those lines. Neither did he make it for effect. No. Walter Huston saw the truth, knew the truth, and spoke the truth. He’s an actor. He imitates other men’s deeds, he says other men’s words, thinks other men’s thoughts. That’s his job. And you can beat the drums, and blow the bugles and throw the con- fetti all you want. You’re not fooling Huston. You might as well take your confetti and go home. Nobody is clouding the issue for this man. He wants the truth of everything. Not just what he thinks. He’d be the first to tell you that isn’t always the truth of things. Or the way you think, either. It’s what actually is true. Especially about the characters he portrays. he doesn’t EORGE COHAN was talking to a friend about Huston. “ Grandest guy I ever met,” Cohan said, “but say, did you ever try to get Huston to do a thing he didn’t think was the right way? About playing a char- acter, mean. I insisted that Walter change a certain character around a bit. Add a little more theatrical color, and so on. Huston listened carefully to.everything I said. ‘Sure, George,’ Walter said. ‘I’ll try it that way.’ Andhedid. That very night. But the next night, darned if he didn’t go right back to playing it the way he saw was true. “No words. No arguments. That’s Huston.” He’s an athlete, this Huston. Swims, boxes; swell hockey player. 68 But try to get Walter Huston to do anything ‘Where we ought to be, those of us who have, is on our knees before God Almighty, in thanks” By Sara Hamilton Areue Can do most anything they ask him to do along those lines. Even to cracking long South American whips. But he hadn’t ridden much when he came to Hollywood to play the role of Trampas in “The Virginian.” And the cowhands didn’t feel too good about one of these New York stage actors coming out to play a cowboy. And then, in one of his very first scenes, he was to ride a horse to the top of the hill, singing and puffing a cigarette as he rode. At the top of the hill he was to turn the horse quickly about and go on with his singing. Wie he made the hill all right, puffing and singing, but at the top he swung his horse too abruptly and the horse dropped. Still in the saddle, never missing a note or a puff, or showing the least concern, he got his horse to his feet and nonchalantly finished the scene. want to do And so easy, so natural was the whole thing, that they shot it exactly as it happened. The director was amazed. “How come you didn’t forget to sing, or fall off or something?” he asked. Walter just looked at him. ‘‘ Why, a fellow like Trampas wouldn’t have done any of those things, would he?’’ he asked. You see, as usual, he was playing his character true. From the inside out. Not the outside in. He was Trampas. He reacted exactly as Trampas would have. And you never saw as many horse- hair belts as those cowboys kept making for “this here New York feller.” He was plaving golf with a friend just before he played the district attorney in ‘‘The Criminal Code.” Finally the friend stopped and said, “For God’s sake, Huston, quit bark- ing at me. You're not a district attorney yet.” USTON is a Canadian. Born in Toronto. He joined his father in the contracting business, but he soon saw he wasn’t fitted for it. So he went on the stage. Playing in stock and vaudeville. And finally made the Great White Way even whiter. We were talking the other day about an actor that had put up a row about his salary. His $2,000 or $2,500 a week wasn’t enough. “Vou know,” Huston said, his head on one side and an earnest light in his gray eyes, “here we are, a bunch of actors in Hollywood. Sit- ting on top. While all about us is grief. Want. Depression. Where we ought to be, those of us who have, is on our knees before God Almighty. In thanks.” Now how do you figure a guy like that? ”? e.

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LD Maestro Ernst Lubitsch and cigar view the set from atop the biggest camera crane ever built. This amazing toy weighs many tons, can be managed by the pressure of a finger and was used for the trick shots in ‘‘The Man L. Killed’”’ 69

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les All Dike With wee (“Mata Hari”) begins with Greta Garbo dancing, very badly indeed, in leggings and something that looks like a pillow on her wiggling rear.—Time. “FT“HEY (the stars) find they can have both babies and a career simultaneously; their public is sticking. When fans approve of an actress they imitate her, so watch the country’s birth rate from now on. It’s going up.”— Billie Dove. “T7*HERE was a time when everything thrilled me. . . . But no longer can I, for example, go downtown to a store shopping and lose myself in the throng—and you'll never know what it means to be deprived of a pleasure like that.”—Norma Talmadge. E believe, with the correct casting, Cagney’s popularity could equal or over- run Gable’s this 1932. The lad isn’t tall, isn’t handsome, isn’t romantic. He’s cute, and he has a grand sense of humor, and he’s one swell actor.—N. Y. News. "THE chronic film picture of Mickey Mouse shows unmistakable symptoms of a para- noidical dementia on the part of his creator. A diagnosis of the thin-legged, hydrocephalic, astigmatic and neurasthenic Mickey Mouse proves in the first place troubles of feeling in the sphere of vision and hearing, an ailment commonly known as the delusion of the senses. —Der Querschnitt. “AFTER ten years in pictures, the best years of my youth, I feel that screen acting is stifling toa manof ambition.”— Ramon Novarvo. EOPLE engaged in motion picture production work as hard as those in any industry in America. In about seven out of ten cases they work longer hours than do those employed in any other line. More actual creative effort is required than in any other profession or busi- ness. More careful, scientific regulation of habits of eating, sleeping, exercise and recreation is required than in almost any field imaginable. I speak as a trained news- paper observer who has watched the operations incident to the production of motion pictures for more than ten years right here in Southern California. I speak as one who has written originals and scenarios, pro- duced and directed pictures, and who has equal opportuni- ties today with anyone to ob- serve the routine of every studio in Hollywood.—Leo. Meehan in Motion Picture Herald. T is not surprising that the movies used to inspire all the pretty waitresses of Keokuk and Kankakee to hie for Holly- wood. Did they not recognize their types in many of the stars and featured players of a few years agone? Talking pictures probably have done more to stabilize the restaurant busi- ness in the Middle West than anything else in recent years. When the waitress hears Ruth 70 Chatterton or Ann Harding she recognizes a type she cannot imitate and sticks to her job. —L.A. Times. OAN BENNETT: The stars portend no marriage for her in 1932, nor in the coming few years. Nor is there, in 1932, any sign of an important romance.—Dareos, Hollywood’s For- tune Teller. “CNHAPLIN, born a cockney in a city of caste, is the one person who can see nothing funny in his own antics. Too keenly has this debonair ornament of society felt his part.”—N. Y. Times Magazine. HE legend of Garbo is greater than she is. That is the difference between Garbo of yore, who was great enough to start the legend, and Garbo today. Her hold on her public, or ona new public caught up in the legend, is, of course, unquestioned, but, as I have hinted before, there will come a time when even the legend will not be able to carry her through. She is still fascinating enough as a screen per- sonality, but there is not enough technical variety in sight to overcome the monotonous beat of her voice.—John S. Cohen, Jr., in the New York Sun. “T CONSENTED to réles that I knew couldn’t augment my draw at the box- office. I accepted directors who had never worked on a picture before, permitting the studio to cut down on expenditure on films already sold to exhibitors. Believing promises of great treatment in future films, I agreed to play parts of secondary importance.” —Buddy Rogers. = Director: “Spit out your chewing gum” SYLVIA SIDNEY is a distinctly new type as a screen star. Pint sized, cute, her little grin is by no means all that she has. She is an excellent little actress, in dialogue as well as out. Dark, sensual, she may be the proper relief for a public fed up on beautiful, blonde- white goddesses.—John S. Cohen, Jr., in the New York Sun. ONSTANCE BENNETT is afraid of any and all kinds of insects! That, I believe, is an informative sentence that will leave the civilized world literally gasping for its breath. She manages to keep under admirable control a stupendously emotional nature which when — aggravated takes vent in an oratorical form rather than by gesticulations—Douglas Fair- banks, Jr.,in Vanity Fair. BY an axiom of the stage and screen, which asserts that when a villain makes an audience hate him he is a great actor, young Jackie Searl can be judged a capable per- former, despite his years. Reports from theater men who have shown “Skippy,” “Tom Sawyer,” “Huckleberry Finn” and others in which Jackie has been the tattletale, cry-baby little pest, state that spectators, in lobby talk while leaving the theater, have voiced their desires to give that child a good, sound spanking. — The New York Evening Post. MOVIE studios in Hollywood are now trying to regulate love. If the studio doesn’t like the girl their big male bet is running around with, they threaten to break his con- tract.—N. Y. News. "THERE are only two pawn- shops in Hollywood. And neither will give an actor a penny on his scrapbook.—WN. Y. News. “N/OU know how it is. There are some things people just don’t care for—pet aver- sions like spinach, sunburn, girls who giggle, sand in your shoes. Me, I just don’t care for Hollywood. I’m trying to be honest about it, but no- body will understand.”’—Bar- bara Stanwyck. “TLL have to make another million to get in the state of mind where I can consider I can afford to get married again.””—Tom Mix. ET Gloria, one of our fore- most stars, who proved in “The Trespasser” that she could handle the heavier meller and make herself mighty popu- — lar in the doing, continues to fiddle and twiddle while Rome (her career) burns.—The Chi- — cago American. a ET Santa Claus, I fear, © in an effort to get ““Sooky” to us as a Christmas toy, neg- lected to wind it so that it would run as well as it might — have. ‘“Sooky,” you i please the kids, whereas “Skip- py” and “Tom Sawyer” pleased allages.—The New York Times. 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Loretta Foes Oriental veanerensnedansatepnaneceanatas stars And here’s the finished job. Good work, Perc Westmore. Loretta Young could fool us into thinking she was the mandarin’s daughter Intimate portraits of a smart, young, American girl being turned into a Chinese woman. Working time, two hours! Discomfiture, pretty heavy! Patience —a lot of that! Perc Westmore, who de- lights in making people what they aren’t, does the skilful work on Loretta Young » The first step is accomplished by pulling the skin back from Loretta’s eyes and pasting it down firmly with spirit gum and fish skin —not adhesive tape. The fish skin is then covered by make-up. Lips i are made larger, eyes and nose are lined. The finished job might make you think Loretta was | Anna May Wong And why didn’t a real Chinese girl get the part? Well, Loretta is under contract to First National, where “The Hatchet Man” is being made. Her tests were as excellent as the make-up, so they thought you wouldn’t know the difference. Loretta has only to worry about the accent

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se HAT, Mr. Warner, you’re going to ask me to take a salary reduction?’’ asks George Arliss. “Haven't you heard that my father was born in Edin- burgh and that the English income tax is very high?”’ Jurgh and that the English income tax Is \ ugh:

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@ “GOOD LOOKS are an asset in business as in matrimony,” says Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton. A gifted hostess and a brilliant young business woman beside, she cleverly solves the problem of looking always fresh and charming. “In my office,” she says, “I keep just the same beauty kit I have on my dressing table at home—Pond’s Two. Creams, Tissues, Skin Freshener. “Tt doesn’t take a minute to cleanse your skin thoroughly with Cold Cream, wipe it off _ with Tissues, pat on Skin Fresh- | ener—then a touch of Vanish- ing Cream gives the perfect base for powder ... All traces of toil have been removed— your skin looks fresh and alive.” “Tveno patience with women who don’t look their best when @ Mrs. Hamitton is the wife of a grandson of the late J. Pierpont Morgan . . . Her evening frock is by Bergdorf-Goodman, her suit and hat from Saks-Fifth Avenue. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR MARCH, 1932 ts the best short-cut 73 Rees imcss | know. Jays it’s so simple to do,” says Mrs. Hamilton with her charming smile . . . “Pond’s is the best short-cut to loveliness I know!” @ FOUR THINGS your skin must have to keep it lovely, Cleansing and Lubricating ... Stimulating ... Protecting. 1—For immaculate cleansing gen- erously apply Pond’s Cold Cream several times during the day and always after exposure. Wait a few moments to let the fine oils pene- trate every pore and float the dirt to the surface. Wipe away with Pond’s Cleansing Tissues, softer, more absorbent... White or peach. 2—Pat briskly with Skin Freshener to tone and stimulate . . . close and gradually refine the pores .. . keep contours fresh and young. 3—Smooth on a dainty film of Pond’s Vanishing Cream always before you powder, to protect your skin and make the powder go on evenly and last longer. It dis- guises blemishes and gives a vel- vety finish. Use this Vanishing Cream wherever you powder— arms, shoulders, neck . . . and to keep your hands soft and white. POND’S TWO CREAMS ¢ CLEANSING TISSUES * SKIN FRESHENER MRS. PIERPONT MORGAN HAMILTON pPONDS! eee | ef 4 At bedtime, always repeat the Cold Cream and Tissues cleans- ing to remove the day’s accumu- lation of grime .. . then, smooth on a little fresh Cold Cream to soften and lubricate the skin— leaving it on through the night. SEND 10¢ FOR POND’S FOUR PREPARATIONS POND’S EXTRACT COMPANY, Dept. C.... Name . . . -114 Hudson Street, New York City Street. City, State Copyright, 1932, Pond’s Extract Company Tuneinon Pond’s every Friday 9:30 P.M.,E.S.T. Leo Reismanand his Orchestra and guest artist. WE A F and N. B. C. Network

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 75 They know a the secret of keeping A ph Teareana Youthful Charm BEDFORD HE screen stars have no fear of growing old! Birthdays have no terror for them! They know the secret of keeping youthful freshness right through the years! “Guard your complexion above everything else,’ they will advise you. And even the youngest of them will give their own peach-bloom skin the most zealous regu/Jar care. ““We use Lux Toilet Soap,” they confide. Those in their twenties— those in their thirties—those in their forties— keep their skin youthfully aglow with this fragrant white soap! g out of 10 Screen Stars use it Of the 694 important Hollywood ac- tresses, including all stars, 686 use Lux Toilet Soap. Their preference is so well known it has been made the official soap for dressing rooms in all the great film studios. You will want to guard your com- plexion this wise, sure way! loilet Soap __ IOs

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Cal York’s Monthly Becadeaee from Hollywood “Dear Mr. Dunn. I saw you in ‘Bad Girl,’ ‘Over the Hill’ and ‘Dance Team’ and I think you are swell. Will you please send me a picture of yourself for my collection?” To the average star, fan mail is one of the necessary evils of film fame, but to Jimmie Dunn it is all wildly exciting and sends little this of delight up and down his spine. Jimmie’s just that new at the game N 1910, even before he worked as a comedian for the old Essanay Company, Wallace Beery was fired from the chorus of a Raymond Hitchcock revue. Now he is starring in ‘‘The Champ” which opened at the same Broadway theater from which he was booted. 76 | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 39 | ORINNE GRIFFITH’S vacation days are over, for the time at least. She has been in London with her husband, Walter Morosco, who is manager of a studio there. Now she is going to be starred in some English pictures. © a at the Brown Derby they were telling the story about the movie leading man who was nasty to the heavy in one of his pictures. Finally the heavy backed him up against a set. “Listen,” he warned, “either you treat me differently or when we come to that big fight scene I’ll have my double beat the life out of your double.” RIENDS who know Elsie Janis well, and have been guests at her home outside of New York, say that Elsie, who admits to 42, was never so happy in her life as she is with her 26- year-old husband, Gilbert Wilson. Gilbert is a fine-looking young fellow, who has tried his luck at various undertakings, in- cluding motion picture acting. Elsie says that from now on he will be her business manager. “T must have a business manager,” she says, ‘and Gilbert has the making of a fine business man. We all need companionship, and Gilbert is the finest companion I ever knew.” We congratulate Mr. Wilson and wish Elsie all the luck and happiness she deserves, which is more than one human being in a million ever gets. OAN CRAWFORD and Doug Fair- banks, Jr., have a new answer to all those asking about that expected child. They’ve been asked so many times when it is expected that they now answer with, “It’s entirely im- possible to know when it will come. You see, we don’t know yet which one will have it.” And then do they howl. Pola NEGRI has a grand sense of humor. While she was critically ill she asked her secretary in case of her death to ship her body back to Poland on any boat flying the Polish flag. The secretary said that it was doubtful if they could find a ship of that sort. “In that case,” whispered Pola, “my death will have to be postponed until we can find one.” ILE Wallace Beery was on a visit to New York the reporters kept pestering him about Greta Garbo, who works in the same studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Beery said that although once when Garbo was not feeling so well her manager arranged for her to spend three weeks at Beery’s cabin in the High Sierras, they had never met. What a big world a studio is. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 78 ] How to choke a lady in one easy lesson. Movie heroes have slapped their leading ladies and knocked them down but Director Marcel Varnel intro- duces something new and different in ‘‘The Silent Witness.” Here he is showing Bramwell Fletcher just how to place his fingers on Greta Nissen’s throat. But don’t you try it on the girl friend. Remember Greta gets a lot of money for playing this scene

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+ é ALAIN 4 9 1 \52 4s Ul Cex SECEL “T always thought you had to pay a lot for a dentifrice to have white teeth and healthy gums. I believed it so firmly that for years I had been buying one of the most expen- sive tooth pastes on the market. “But recently, money hasn’t been so plentiful with us. I have had to look for bargains in every- thing, but I still persisted in pay- ing a lot for tooth paste. “John pointed out to me that it wasn’t necessary any more to pay : so much for tooth paste—that | was losing a good chance to econo- mize in that direction, After a lot of persuading, I took his advice. “I bought Listerine Tooth Paste at 25¢. And I’m going to let you in on a secret—that’s enough to pay for @ dentifrice of first-rate quality. John’s teeth are as white and gleam- ing as they ever were. My teeth look fine and my gums feel fine. d even Junior speaks about the clean, sweet after-taste this famous tooth paste leaves in the mouth. “T’ve been convinced — yoy won't catch me paying 50¢ for a tooth paste again.” The Listerine people put this tooth paste on the market, only after 50 years of oral hygiene study showed them what was needed to make a tooth paste really good. * %. Some of the things you Now four million critical men and can buy with that $3 | women have discarded older and ou save costlier favorites for this modern y : 5 Stockings tooth paste at the modern price. loves ~ Listerine Tooth Paste owes its Handkerchiefs remarkable effectiveness to a spe- Scarf cial polishing agent. This cleans teeth faster and more thoroughly than ordinary dentifrices do. It leaves no trace of tartar, tobacco Stains, decay, or any discolorations, : et it is so scientifically gentle in A House Dress These are just a few sugges- tions for s ending the $3 you save yearly by using a 25¢ tube of Listerine Tooth Paste a month instead of dentifrices Costing twice that amount. Tooth Caste made ie of uty testh” ee its action that it cannot possibly Ze ee damage the most delicate tooth enamel. Ls Our Economies Save You Money high quality dentifrice at an extra- low price because we use the most efficient manufacturing methods known, and huge demand permits production on a vast, Cost-cutting scale. All these economies we pass bi lige: on to you. Lambert Pharmaca Co. i We are able to give you this extra- i

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Cal York’s Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood. [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 76] And if just one more time somebody says, ‘‘The show must go on,” we’re going to reserve a nice cosy padded cell for ourself. When Jean Harlow was making personal appearances in Pittsburgh and suffered an attack of intestinal flu she insisted that her father, Marino Bello, carry her to the edge of the stage SK Blanche Sweet which she thinks is the vainer sex, men or women, and she’ll tell you men, and prove it by an experience she had recently. Blanche is doing an act in vaudeville and the routine is for the stage to be darkened just after the preceding act finishes, and, while the lights are out, her piano is rolled on, then she comes out in a brilliant spotlight. While playing in Canada recently she got her cue from the orchestra leader and made her entrance, only to find no piano there. She was panic-stricken at first, then started to ad lib and under her breath kept hollering back stage, ““Where is my piano?” The audience got wise, so she told them she vas minus a piano and she’d have to go back stage and find out what the trouble was. She dashed back and yelled to the stage hand, “WHERE’S MY PIANO?” To which he re- plied: “Tt’s the electrician’s fault. He didn’t darken the stage after that last act was off and do you think I’m going out there in front of all those people with my overalls on?” It is reported Blanche nearly collapsed. 78 ERE’S a gem of a Skippy-Sooky Story from the New Yorker: The parents of a young son who had been deeply moved by the film “Skippy” took him, as a Christmas surprise, to the sequel to that picture, called ‘‘Sooky.”’? On the way home afterward, the youth was enthusiastic about “Sooky.” ‘Better’n ‘Skippy,’ even,” he ob- served. “It ends happier.” “But it doesn’t end happier, James,” said his mother. “‘Doesn’t Sooky’s mother die?” ‘‘Oh, sure,” said James, “but in ‘Skippy’ the dog died.” AY JOHNSON has had her nose changed a bit here and there. It looks fine but then we never found any fault with the one she has been wearing since she was born. Gloria Swanson once considered fixing hers up a bit, but before she made up her mind to give the plastic surgeon the order the public began to rave about her beauty and she took no chances. HE veiled mystery surrounding the baby that Constance Bennett — pardon — The Marquise Henri de la Falaise de la Coudray, and former wife of Phil Plant, brought back from Europe a few years ago was dissipated in a Hollywood court recently. In legally adopting the three-year-old boy, Miss Bennett explained that he is the son of her cousin, who, with her husband, was killed in a motor accident in London two years ago. The papers in the case, as is usual in all cases of adoption in Los Angeles, were sealed by the court, and the newspapers were not permitted to examine them. ES, SIR, there’s no two ways about it; the old town’s changing. It’s nolonger quite as mad as a hatter. Slowly but surely it’s — gaining sense and balance. A few years ago, for instance, a star as brilliant as Clark Gable, would have set out with all his new found riches, to dazzle the town with 15 room mansions, swanky cars, — yachts, scandals and parties. Listen to Gable. “I own two cars which I paid cash for. I rent an apartment. Just for © six months at a time and not a year. I don’t © even own furniture. I’m saving my money.” ~ ILE in New York, Greta Garbo suffered terribly from insomnia, and often at five o’clock in the morning she would give up the effort to sleep and go out for a long walk, as it was only at that time she could be sure of ~ eluding reporters and camera men. | PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 80] mm. - ee 1 Pee Oe, ’ i “Why, Mrs. Collins, that baby should be in the movies,”’ said the neighbors of this child’s mother. So Mrs. Col- lins and Cora Sue left their home in West Virginia and came to Hollywood. The mother sold stockings from house to house while she was taking Cora Sue around to the studios. Then the baby was picked by Universal to play in ‘The Unexpected Father” and given a long term contract. But that only happens once in every ten thousand

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR Marcu, 1932 STOCKING S-T-R-A-I-N comes when you cross knees, bend, stretch, pull your garters too tight. If elasticity has been de- stroyed, silk threads break, starting ruinous Tuns. It is then that runs start! Wash after EACH wearing. Perspira- tion left in stockings or underthings will actually rot the silk. Don’t rub with cake soap. \t destroys elasticity, making the silk lifeless, apt to break into runs. With Lux there’s no rubbing. Even stubborn spots come out perfectly if you gently press in a few dry Lux diamonds. Don’t use too-warm water — this fades color. With Lux you use lukewarm water. No hot water needed. The tiny 2 minutes a day keeps them like new Lux for stockings — 79 Preserve the ELASTICIT Y* that makes stockings WEAR DO YOU KNOW what causes those ruinous runs? New stockings are elastic—they give under strain, stretch and then spring back again. When this pre- cious elasticity is destroyed, the silk threads, instead of giving, break under strain. At the least provocation! That is why Lux is made to preserve the elasticity that makes the sheerest stockings really wear. *The Lux Way to make stockings last twice as long Lux diamonds—so sheer you can actually read through them — dissolve twice as fast, even in water at wrist temperature! Wash this 2-minute way: 1 1 teaspoon of Lux for each pair of stockings. 2 Add lukewarm water to Lux, squeeze the gentle suds through stockings, rinse well. Anything safe in water is just as safe in Lux.

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Cal York’s Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood ERE is news. Josef Von Sternberg actually decided to get a hair cut. After all these years. But the trouble was, Josef Von couldn’t find the time what with Dietriching and so on. So he summoned a barber to perform the operation on the set between for “Shanghai Express.” Every time he had a free moment the barber sneaked up and snipped a lock. He began snipping at nine in the morning and at three in the afternoon the last lock was sheared. And the property man is still picking up Sternbergish locks all over the expansive Para- mount lot. These geniuses and near geniuses. scenes WO nights before Christmas Marie Dressler’s telephone rang. “Anderson, Alabama, calling, Miss Dressler,” the Butler reported. A little girl’s voice said, ‘Is this really Marie Dressler? Oh, thank you. I just wanted to call you up and wish you a Merry Christmas because you are my favorite actress. Wait a moment so you can talk to my little sister.” And little sister told Marie that the two, both under ten, had asked just one present [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 78 from Santa Claus: this opportunity to talk to her. Mother had agreed and told Santa Claus he needn’t bring any other presents. ES JOAN BENNETT laughing heartily these days? When this blonde beauty first decided to try films, a good friend tried to get her in and she was willing to sign up for $250 per week on a six months’ contract. Three studios would not even consent to give her a test. More recently two of the studios paid her more than $2,500 per week. And Dorothy Jordan, who was a dancing girl at Fox during the heyday of musicals at $75 per week, came back to the studio as a dramatic actress later at $750 per week. D» you know that James Dunn played as an extra in a mob for the Paramount Studio in the East? Almost every major company gave him a screen test, and nobody wanted him. URING his personal appearance tour Jimmie Dunn told a story about his first meeting with John Barrymore. Jimmie was a “T guess I can sit in this chair if I like,” Mary Ann Elizabeth Brown said to the prop boy who told her that place belonged to the star. Joe E. Brown is her daddy and if he gets dignified she’ll tell everybody how he acts around the house, always clowning and using up those gags he should be saving for the camera 80 This month’s most romantic Mexican wedding was that of Una Merkel (y’all know that li’l honey chile from the South) and Ronald L. Burla. Una once said she’d “nevah, nevah marry . an actor, no suh,”’ and she has kept ‘4 her word. Burla is an aeronautic en- : gineer. Una is one of the first string screen comediennes, but she really thinks marriage is a pretty serious business young actor with plenty of self-assurance, and 7 the meeting took place after a performance in 7 which Dunn appeared. : “Excuse me, Mr. Barrymore,” he said. “I7 saw you watching me act tonight. I have been on the stage for six years, and I was wondering if there is anything you can do to” help me.” 4 Barrymore looked at the young fellow and — said gravely: ; “That depends upon whether you still want” to become an actor.” T seems pretty certain that wedding bells) will soon ring for James (Bad Girl) Dunn and June Knight. ; She was working on the coast until Zieg= feld saw her in “Girl Crazy,” and she is” slated to appear in the next New York edition” of the Follies. ASU PITTS, charging desertion in 1926, is” suing her handsome husband, Tom Gallery, for divorce. ‘ ME CLARKE is wondering what is going to happen to her next! In “Front Page” she jumped out the window — and killed herself. In “Waterloo Bridge” she was blown up by a bomb. o In ‘“‘Three Wise Girls” she died of poison. In “Impatient Maiden” she is operated on right before the camera for appendicitis. “At least they let me live. I don’t want to be typed as a ‘dead’ one. It might prove fatal,” she told us. p [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 82 }

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i ‘Heavens / PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR Marcu, 1932 81 Buddy must have a girl!” . N | O—you grown-ups are wrong again. I’m brushin’ my teeth ’cause Ma finally got me some toothpaste I like to use. And if you don’t think it’s keen— just try some yourself. It tastes swell—and I think a feller ought to havea right to do some things the way he /ikes to do’em. Ma was complainin’ the other day to Doctor Brown about me not brushin’ my teeth reg lar and he told her maybe she hadn’t given me a toothpaste I like to use, and after all, he said, what a toothpaste is for is to clean teeth, and he said Colgate’s would do that aswell as anything he knew. He told her she couldn’t go wrong buyin’ a toothpaste more people use than any other kind. An’... T’ll tell ya a secret Pa don’t know. . . mebbe y’ guessed right about the girl. Ma says I kin take her to the movies tonight with the quarter she saved by buyin’ Colgate’s.” Pe. eat g This seal signifies that the composition of the product has heen submitted to the Council on Dental Therapeutics of the American Dental Association—and that the claims have been found acceptable to the Council.

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Cal York’s Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood No, no, not another one. eyed look, those tip-tilted eyebrows, that hair brushed off the forehead. Whom does she make you think of? Shh, don’t say it. We can’t bear it. | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 80 ] Those long lashes, that sloe- Sari Maritza has a glamorous background. Her mother is Austrian, father English. She was born in China and just before she came to Hollywood and signed her Paramount contract her name was linked with Chaplin’s in Europe, but (whisper) it might have been just publicity. You’ll be seeing her soon ig isn’t every divorced couple who remain good friends throughout the years, but Tom Moore and Alice Joyce are still pals to the extent of doing a vaudeville tour together, and, what’s better, the new Mrs. Tom Moore and John Regan, husband of Alice, don’t seem to mind it a bit. N annual announcement from Ziegfeld de- signing the annual model of the American girl is as sure as the annual income tax. According to him, the 1932 American girl should be blonde, five feet, six inches in height; one hundred eighteen pounds in weight, fuller curves than last year, and less stream lines. Ho hum. ET Constance Cummings in a business office without hat or coat but wearing thick black kid gloves. She noticed our look of amazement. “T don’t bite my nails but I bite the skin from around my fingers. I am wearing gloves 82 every moment until I break the habit!’ she announced firmly. A beauty hint for you, ladies, who boast nerves. ATE! Ah, how difficult it is to understand it. Tyrone Power’s last scene, before he passed from among us, was the deathbed scene as the patriarch in ‘““The Miracle Man.” He left the set to enact the same scene—his last— in life. Hobart Bosworth, intimate friend of Tyrone Power since 1886, replaced him. They started together in the old “Augustin Daly” stock company in New York. Shared dressing rooms. And this is the third time Bosworth has replaced his friend. Twice before when illness hit Power. T may not make a bit of difference to you, but— Mary Astor wears horn-rimmed spectacles off the screen. Robert Montgomery seldom wears a neck- tie. Arthur Brisbane once fired Jack Barrymore from a newspaper. Wally Beery wears a huge diamond ring on his third finger but wears no garters. Walter Huston is a tea drinker. Joel McCrea was an employee of a cement — company and helped build the sidewalks on © Hollywood Blvd. 4 j LL stars of the films receive begging 4 letters, but one Marie Dressler received ~ recently takes the cocoanut cream cake. — “This is the fifth time I’ve written,” it stated, ~ “and still no money. You can’t possibly need ~ it as badly as I do, so get it here at once.” “As if,” Marie said, ‘I hadn’t worked hard and long for every cent I’ve earned. Other actresses can stroll on the stage or screen, in — a risqué gown, say a few sophisticated lines © and make a hit. Or an ingénue can skip on, © roll her eyes, look cute and isa wow. But me. ~ 1 Listen. I’ve got to fall over chairs, dive into oceans, break my neck coming down stairs or do some darn thing every time I make an appearance. “Yes, sir, I work hard for my money. And what’s more I’m keeping it. I earn it, don’t I?” Marie asks. HE laugh of the month comes from the story of a certain picture star who was describing a marvelous dinner party she had attended. “Tt was wonderful,” she said. ‘The dinner was superb and not too many people there. Just eight of us. There were Constance and the Marquis, Joan Bennett and Gene Markey, — Dick and Jessie Barthelmess, my friend and myself.” “But who gave the party?” her companion asked. “Oh, I forgot,” she answered. “There were — nine of us. The other man was from New — York? “How did he get in?” “Well, he gave the dinner.” OP mae, i 4 |, CHICAGO newspaper has appointed a Garbo editor. This is the first time in history a newspaper has given any personality such individual journalistic attention. The funny thing about it is that the editor never ~ saw Garbo except on the screen. Now, perhaps, we’ll hear of a Hoover editor, who may also double as Depression editor. N heaven’s name what will they do next? Since most theaters in Hollywood are running a double bill, a brand new game has developed among picture players that has anagrams and backgammon beat a mile. It has solved the problem for many a Hollywood hostess. She simply loads all her guests into cars and drives from theater to theater reading the comical billing on every theater front. And does it get a laugh? For instance here are a few that appear- ed in Hollywood last week: My Sate oct eer oreo CAUGHT PLASTERED OnCE“A> LADY? seme oe eee Way Back HoME WORKING GIRESSo kn © ee ee SURRENDER RACING YOUTHS uctace. stew cisions SAFE IN HELL [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 84 ] >

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 83 | | learned from a beauty expert how to hold my husband —and why so op 4 many women fail You must keep skin young, lovely, say over 20,000 experts, who advise daily use of Palmolive Soap — the one world-known soap made exclusively of vegetable oils. Bs convinced we wives grow careless— that husbands watch our complexions much more than we think. It was my beauty expert who warned me: “Keep your com- plexion young—that look of youth is what men seek.”’ x * OX “Don’t neglect your complexion. Don’t use your face as a testing ground for soaps. “Let me tell you the cleansing method I consider best. A thorough washing with the rich,deep suds of Palmolive Soap.Then a refreshing rinse with warm water, followed by cold. “Cream? Yes, if your skin needs it, be- fore applying powder. “But Palmolive Soap. That’s the im- portant thing. I can’t tell you the cases I’ve seen where harsh, strong, irritating soaps have dried once-lovely skin. “Olive and palm oils are safe. I know of no two cosmetic oils that are better for theskin. Many of my own preparations are made of these same beauty oils. More than 20,000 of my colleagues believe in them, believe in and advise Palmolive Soap. You just try the method I have outlined. Watch the change it makes; the new light of ad- miration it brings to your husband’s eyes.” “Your complexion decides your beauty possibilities”, says the celebrated beauty specialist, Desfosse, of Paris. “I have seen the results, only too often, when women have experimented with the wrong soap. Use a soap you are sure of. A soap made of vegetable oils—a soap that CANNOT hurt your skin—Palmolive.” ' ri KEEP"THAT SCHOOLGIRL “COMPLEXION

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Cal York’s Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood BEERY tells they weren’t And picture this one. motion Wally swears directors. It seems that a man was driving, one night, along the Colorado Street bridge, at Pasadena, when he saw another man just ready to leap over the railing. “Hey. Wait a minute. What’s the matter?” “Tt’s the depression,” said the other. “Now. Now. Things aren’t so bad as all that. Sit down for a few minutes and we’ll talk it over,” said the first, filled with concern over the plight of the second man. Down they sat. They talked and talked. Finally there seemed to be no more left to say. They rose and exchanged a long, friendly, handclasp. Then both jumped over. CERTAIN columnist discovers that some Ienglishmen have a sense of humor, even that romantic looking Englishman, Ronald Colman. She relates that, during the holidays, a friend decided to send Ronald a telegram and chose one of the telegraph company’s standard greetings, number 17, thinking Ronald would never know the difference. Within a few days a reply came back. “Thanks and number 15 to you.” (Signed) Ronald Colman. EDDA HOPPER was attending a party at Laura Hope Crews’where there were such motion picture people as Ruth Chatter- ton, Roland Young and others. An intelligent and rather well-known stage actress from New York City was also among those present. Her first motion picture party. proached Hedda. “Really, Mrs. Hopper, I’m amazed. You picture people have such charming manners. You seem like—well, charming people.” “What did you think?” Hedda’s stiffened. “Did you expect us to bite you?” “No. Not exactly. But you hear so much about Hollywood being gauche, you know.” Hedda made her get-a-way before she should give a good old-fashioned raspberry and prove exactly what the woman had expected. She ap- back ARLENE DIETRICH announced to the world that all is well with her and her discoverer-director, Josef Von Sternberg, by clinging adoringly to his arm at a Hollywood opening. N Freddy March’s latest, ‘“The Black Robe,” a picture of his father plays a large part in the production. Freddy plays two parts, you know. Twins. The art department produced one father after another for his inspection but Freddy didn’t like them. Finally, he brought down a small photo- graph of his own dad and said, “Why don’t you use that?” So they had it enlarged and hung it on the wall to take its place as almost an actor in the picture. rad i | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 82 | Just think of the thrill Freddy’s father will get when he sees that picture back in Racine, Wisconsin, and finds himself playing a part with his son in the movies! HEN Una Merkel married Ronald Burla, aviator, unexpectedly, she left one very broken heart in Hollywood. Johnny Arledge. They worked together in “Daddy Long Legs” and Johnny just thought Una the greatest little gal in the world. Still thinks so. But Una could only marry one man and she’s happy and Johnny is happy to see her happy. OLLYWOOD has gone kitchenette. Many of the stars are giving up their beautiful and expensive Beverly Hills homes to move into apartment hotels with electric refrigerator privileges and no worries about servants. The Richard Barthelmesses are the latest couple to rent their home and move into The Town House. They still have their newly completed home at Malibu Beach, however. UST a few days before he left Hollywood, to go East, the late Robert Ames was talking to a friend about his future. “What’s this getting us?” Robert asked. “We work like dogs and think of nothing but money. I’m going to do one more picture and then quit. I’m going to live the rest of my life as I want to.” But Bobby Ames never made that picture. In less than a week he was dead in New York. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 94] We'll give you up to a million guesses on the identity of this here woman. Nope, it’s not Mae Marsh in “Over the Hill,” nor is it the pet scrub lady of one of the stars. We’ll give you a little tip—it’s all done with mirrors and grease paint. Meet Barbara Stanwyck (cross our heart and hope to die) as she appears in some of the scenes from “Forbidden”

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Ask THE ANSWER Man Fine work in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” brought loud ap- plause for Fred In the January, 1931, issue of PHOTOPLAY we told you that Freddie brought in the most “‘tell me” letters. Now, over a year later, following his great success as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, folks are asking about him again. For those who didn’t save the January, 1931, issue, here’s Freddie’s history. He was born in Racine, Wis., on August 31, 1898. Is 6 feet tall, weighs 170 and has brown hair and brown eyes. Was educated at the Racine High School and University of Wisconsin. Was in many successful plays before he entered pictures in 1928. Married to Florence Eldridge, stage and screen actress. His next picture will be ‘The Black Robe.” Pir tre J MARCH is again a favorite. And here’s a surprise! Raul Roulien scored second in the mail bag. Some of you don’t know him, but after you’ve seen “ Delicious” you will want to know all about him. Raul is a newcomer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America, on October 12, 1905. His father, before his death, was the director of the National Musical Institute of Rio de Janeiro. Raul made his first stage ap- pearance at the age of five. From then until he was twelve he travelled all over Brazil with various companies. Then he returned to school. After he finished school he resumed his pur- suit of a stage career. He formed his own musical comedy company and travelled all over the world. He composed the song, ‘‘Adios Mis Farras,” the sale of which ran up to 1,700,000 on records and 386,000 printed sheets in seventy days. He wrote and staged more than twenty plays, such as ‘The Irresistible Robert,” “Miss Charleston,” “Heart,” “Pet- als,” and others. In addition to his achieve- ments as song writer, playwright and com- poser, he has an architect’s degree. His next picture will be ‘‘Widow’s Might.” Rita Carr, Purira., Pa—Junior Coghlan was born in New Haven, Conn., on March 16, 1916. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Junior’s latest pictures are “Juvenile Court” and ‘Union Depot.” Don’t miss either of them. They’re good and he’s good in them. Paut FiLores, VENTURA, CALIF.—Jean Har- low is a native of Kansas City, Mo., born there &6 on March 3, 1911. She is 5 feet, 3 inches tall; weighs 112, has blue eyes, and—oh well, you know about her hair. Jean is divorced from Charles McGrew. Her latest picture is ‘‘The Beast of the City.” THELMA ScuHmipt, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.— Robert Ames was about forty-two years old when he passed away. Hardie Albright uses his own name in pictures. Una ALLWARD, ToronTO, ONT., CAN.—Una, you have been raving about Lionel Barrymore in ‘‘The Mad Genius,” when all the while it was John you should have been praising. Lionel was not in that picture. The other chap you mention is Donald Cook. Have you seen him in ‘‘The Public Enemy ” ‘Side Show” and “Safe in Hell’’? Betty Dartiinc, Utica, N. Y.—Darling, who wins the bet? Mary Pickford was married to Owen Moore from 1910 to 1920. Mary’s real name is Gladys Smith. She has no children of her own, just an adopted daughter of her sister, Lottie. MarGARET DeEsmonpD, Troy, N. Y.—Kay Francis is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and the gorgeous Garbo tops her by one inch. I believe these heights are without shoes. A FrIEND.—You can convince your pal that Edward Everett Horton did play a dual rdéle in “Lonely Wives.” Ed played the part of the criminal attorney and also the part of a vaude- ville performer. YOLA FRANKOVSKE, LopE, PoLAnp.—Yola, I am glad that you like our American pictures. Maurice Chevalier has just completed work on “One Hour with You,” with Jeanette Mac- Donald and Genevieve Tobin. Grace Moore hasn’t done anything in pictures since she made “Jenny Lind” in 1930. IRENE KELLY, HAzArD, Ky.—It was Ray Milland who played the réle of the deposed king in “Ambassador Bill.” Ray has played in several other good pictures. They are ‘The Bachelor Father,” ‘‘ Bought,” ‘‘ Larceny Lane,” and he will be in the new Marion Davies-Clark Gable picture called ‘Polly of the Circus.” Ray was born in Drogheda, Ireland, on Janu- ary 3, 1907. He is 6 feet, 1 inch tall; weighs 168 and has brown hair and hazel eyes. Was married to Muriel Weber last September. Carta Losty, OKLAHOMA City, OKLA.— The reason you don’t see Ralph Graves so much in pictures now, is that he spends most of his time writing stories for the screen. He and Bess Meredyth wrote ‘“‘West of Broadway,” Jack Gilbert’s latest picture. Ralph was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 1, 1900. He is 6 feet, Read This Before Asking Questions Avoid questions that call for unduly long an- swers, such as synopses of plays Do not inquire . concerning religion, scenario writing, or studio em- ployment. Write on only one side of the paper. Sign your full name and address. If you wanta personal reply, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Casts and Addresses As these take up much space, we treat such sub- jects in a different way from other questions. For this kind of information, a stamped, self-addressed envelope must always be sent. Address all inquiries to Questions and Answers, PHoTroPLAY MAGAZINE, 221 W. 57th St., New York City. “De- One picture role (in licious’”?) made Raul Roulien a favorite 1 inch tall; weighs 170 and has brown hair and blue eyes. Is married to Virginia Goodwin. “A Dangerous Affair” was his last picture. Janet Louise Evans, MALDEN, Mass.— Tallulah Bankhead uses her own name in pictures. Tallulah started her stage career _when she was but seventeen years old. She was popular on the New York stage, but de- serted it for London where she appeared before the footlights for over eight years. Returned to America last year to make pictures. Her latest is ‘‘The Cheat.” Betty SmitH, OMAHA, NEB.—Irving Pichel was the District Attorney in “An American Tragedy.” Charles Middleton was the Prose- cuting Altorney. Irving was born in Pitts- burgh, Pa., 40 years ago. He is married and has three children. His first picture was ‘‘ The Right to Love” and his latest is “Two Kinds of Women.” Giapys MatrHews, Des Moines, Iowa.— Raquel Torres played the réle of the half-caste wife of Ben Lyon in “Aloha.” MARJORIE CALVERT, MONTREAL, CAN.— The very first picture that Chester Morris ap- peared in was “‘Alibi,” in which he also played onthe stage. Chester’s father, William Morris, played in a few pictures too, among them “Brothers,” and “Behind Office Doors.” Muriel Oakes was Robert Ames’ fourth and last wife. H. Lorraine HEINKE, FLouRTOWN, PA.— As a typist you’re okay with me, Lorraine. Here’s the lowdown on Laurence Olivier, the new chap who has your heart all a-flutter. He was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, on May 22,1907. Is 5 feet, 101% inches tall; weighs 150 pounds and has dark brown hair and dark green eyes. Appeared on the London stage and in British pictures before he came to America. I know it’ll break your heart, m’dear, but Laurence is married to Jill Esmond. Jill, by the way, is also a Britisher. She was born in London, on January 26, 1908. Has appeared on the London stage, too. Jill has been appearing in American pictures recently, among them “Once a Lady” and “Ladies of the Jury.” [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 96 |

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What would it mean to you to BE SEVENTEEN TONIGHT? LIPSTICK Apply Seventeen Lipstick to the upper lip and to the center of the under lip. With your finger, gent- ly work in the rouge until the out- line is soft and natural. You will be delighted with the soft, natural effect—possible onlywith youth- tone shades. Light, medium and dark... in a smart black-and- silver case. Apnly Seventeen rouge to skin made firm and dewy by Seventeen Creams and Freshener. Remem- ber that youth lines are up lines —avoid color placements that em- phasize downward lines of the face. Choose your shade of Seventeen Rouge from five fas- cinating vouth-tone tints. TWO-TONE POWDER “% Here’s the Two-Tone Powder that lends your skin the delicate trans- parency of youth! Ingredients of two weights areblended. The heav- ter clings closely to the skin. The lighter weight, on the surface, seems to take on another, lighter color tone! Whata glorious dif- ference—from the masking dull- ness of ordinary powders] PHororLay MAGAZINE For Marcu, 1932 87 Have you heard the thrilling news? ThatSeventeen has put youth’s own subtle coloring in powder, make- up? Thatyour complexion may have the charm of seventeen tonight? Here’s what you must do! Forget previous disappointments with make-up. Forget the rouges that deceived no one. The lipsticks that made your mouth look — not soft — but hard and old.The powders that seemed to coat your skin as with a mask, clouding natural transparency, discovering tiny lines. Forget all that. It’s in the past. Your complexion’s future—is Seventeen! For Seventeen Make-up comes in Youth-Tone shades. Soft, glamorous tints that bring the fresh, natural glow of youth to your complexion. Shades carefully compounded, by wise beauty workers, to lend your skin the fugitive color tints of the seventeen- year-old complexion. You'll want Seventeen Rouge. Seventeen Lipstick. Andby allmeans, Seventeen Powder. Forperfectresults, use Seventeen Creams, to prepare your skin, and leave it smooth and dewy: Then the make-up. And the glori- ous thrill—of seeing your own mir- ror reflect the radiance of seventeen!

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88 PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE For Marcu, 1932 Still as FIT as ever Here’s a dish for young men and men who stay young YOU remember him when he was fresh from college —lithe and healthy and fit. He wants to keep as young and as athletic as he was then. But no man has the time to figure out what to eat. He leaves that to you. You don’t want to fail him — so give him a delicious cereal that’s especially made for active people. Serve Kellogg’s PEP Bran Flakes. These better bran fiakes are full of a flavor men love—the matchless flavor of Pep. But even more important, they’re filled with whole-wheat nourishment. Whole wheat is a favorite food for active people because nature has made it a storehouse of the food elements that build and nourish... of iron and min- erals, of vitamins and proteins. And just enough bran to be mildly laxative. They’re an ideal dish for the children as well. Have Kelloge’s PEP Bran Flakes for breakfast tomorrow. For your own lunch. For the children’s supper. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. In the red-and-green WAXTITE sealed package. Quality guaranteed. FOR THE CHILDREN: Tune in Kellogg’s SINGING LADY every afternoon except Saturdays and Sundays at 5.30 East- ern Time, over WJZ, WLW, WBAL, KDKA,* WBZ,* WBZA,* WGAR, wir. At 5.15 Central Time, KOIL, WREN, KWK; at 6.00, WEN. Songs and stories children love. *When available

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Banana bread, crumb sauce, and beans Italian style ESPITE the fact that ; everywhere you turn you hear that the good old curves are once again mightier than the angles, women con- tinue to pursue that will-o-the- _ wisp, slimness. The response to | Sylvia’s first article in PHOoTo- | PLAY last month proves that. Dorothy Jordan gets her sup- ply of good foundation material. Her lunch at the studio com- 'missary wisely consists of a fruit salad, a glass of milk and raisin bread. Dorothy never neglects eating her quota of vegetables and fruits every week, which accounts for that figure. Vegetables need not become a bug-a-boo on the menu. Here, for instance, is a grand way of giving the lowly bean an elegant _ air. It is called, Beans—lItalian Style. Beans—Italian Style 2 tablespoons chopped celery 3 cups cooked green beans 1% teaspoon salt 22 cup tomato pulp 2 tablespoons chopped onions 4 tablespoons olive oil 14 teaspoon paprika 2 tablespoons chopped parsley Heat the oil in a frying pan. Then add onions and celery. Cook slowly until a light brown. To this add the rest of the in- gredients, cover and cook slowly for 10 minutes. Be sure to stir frequently. Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower or any other vegetable you might choose, will seem twice as tasty if covered with this ex- cellent sauce. Bread Crumb Sauce 34 cup fine, dry bread crumbs 4 tablespoons of butter. Melt one tablespoon of the _ butter, then add crumbs when | itis very hot. Stir this over the fire until the crumbs are a light brown, then add the rest of the butter. This is poured hot over the vegetables. Banana bread often takes the _ place of white bread on the Fredric March’s table. Here is how to make it—I might add lovely skin and nicely rounded Recipes That Help Dorothy Jordan Keep Her-Grand igure Dorothy Jordan has one of the most beautiful figures in pictures. By watching her diet care- fully, it never varies more than a pound or two PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. Please send me a copy of PHOTOPLAY’S FAMOUS Cook Book, containing 150 favorite recipes of the I am enclosing twenty-five cents. stars. Be sure to write name and address plainly. You may send either stamps or coin. that the best part of it all is that it takes no time at all to make it! Banana Bread 1 cup shortening 2 eggs 3 ripe bananas 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup sugar 14 cup water 1 teaspoon soda 2% cups flour Pinch of salt Mash the bananas with the sugar and shortening. Then sift the baking powder and flour together. Add the ingredients. Bake one hour in @ moderate oven. And there’s another way of dressing up vegetables so you can hardly recognize them. Here is one of the recipes. Scalloped Eggplant 1 eggplant grated cheese V6 cup of milk 14 box salted crackers lumps of butter salt and pepper. Cook the eggplant whole un- til it is entirely done. Remove it from the water in which it has been cooked and peel it. Butter a baking dish. Break up the crackers in fairly small pieces. Slice the eggplant and put a layer on the baking dish. Then add a layer of crackers and small lumps of butter. Continue until the dish is almost full. Add the milk, sprinkle the top with grated cheese and bake in a medium oven until hot through. Summer squash is excellent this way and so is oyster plant. Even the lowly carrot is de- licious if given a new zest. One of the best and most nutritious methods of cooking carrots is to cook them in boiling water whole until they are done. Take them out and skin them. Put them in a pan and mash them with potato masher add- ing butter generously. When they are thoroughly mashed, beat them with a spoon, as you would beat potatoes, until they are creamy. You’d never know your old detested carrot. CAROLYN VAN Wyck 89

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MArcH, 1932 gi Bic 1932 <Q choosing natl Lips GA aee TINTED oc NATURAL..? Tue popu.ar GIRL oF 1932 is w ay fast losing sleep over whether to wear her nails bright or pale. ’ The deep question that every smart - young thing today is pondering is which of five shades of nail polish is best to wear / with which dress. Will she lure more men from the stag- line if she wears the white satin dress with Coral nails, or with Rose nails? Or the red crépe de chine with delicate Natural finger tips? _ If you’re not bright enough to work out your own color scheme, you can look it up in the chart at the right. But whatever you do, don’t be seen with the same color nails 7 nights in a row! In other words one nail polish is no longer enough. To be smart you’ve got to have at least two shades... a lighter one and a deeper one. And with color so Very Important you’ve also got to use a flawless polish. Cutex Liquid Polish has a grand lustre; All Colors! Every popular deb has at least two shades, and varies them with her gown, says world manicure authority Natural just slightly emphasizes the natural pink of your naifs. Goes with all costumes—is best with bright colors—red, blue, green, purple and orange, e Rose is a lovely feminine shude, good with any dress, pale or vivid. Charming with pastel pink, blue, lavender ... smart with dark green, black and brown. e Coral nails are bewilderingly lovely with white, pale pink, beige, gray, ‘‘the blues” . black and dark brown, Wear it also with deeper colors (except red) if not too intense. e Cardinal is deep and exotic. Contrasts excitingly with black, white, or pale shades. Wear Cardinal in your festive moods—be sure your lipstick matches! e Colorless is conservatively correct at any time, Choose it for ‘‘difficult"’ colors! cuTex Jiguid (oli . ONLY 35¢ Gowns from Mary Walls, New York dries in no time — lasts for days, and does not crack, peel, turn white, streak or fade! And the new bakelite cap wipes out the broken cork problem — keeping the brush (attached) neatly off the table top. Go pick your favorite shades today! Follow this easy Cutex Manicure .. . Scrub the nails. Then remove old lifeless cuticle and cleanse beneath nail tips with Cutex Cuti- cle Remover & Nail Cleanser. Remove old polish with Cutex Liquid Polish Remover and brush on the shade of Cutex Liquid Polish that best suits your costume. End with Cutex Nail White, Pencil or Cream, under tips for accent. Before retiring, use Cutex Cuticle Oil or Cream to soften the cuticle. NortHamM WarrEN - New York - London - Paris 2 shades of Cutex Liquid Polish and 5 other manicure essentials Jor 1Z¢ NortHamM WarREN, Dept. 2Q3 191 Hudson Street ... New York, N. Y. (in Canada, address Post Office Box 2320, Montreal) I enclose 12¢ for the new Cutex Manicure Set, which in- cludes Natural oud Polish and one other shade which I have checked . O Rose OO Coral Cardinal

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The Unknown Hollywood I Know | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 40] But there was, at M-G-M, one woman whose life was never straightened out. I’m referring to Jeanne Eagels. The great stage star came to Hollywood to do “Man, Woman and Sin,” with Jack Gilbert. Monta Bell, having written the story, was assigned to direct it. Having faith in Jeanne Eagels’ ability, he didn’t know what he had let himself in for. Getting Jeanne to work was a task fit only for a Hercules. You already know the reason. One morning she arrived late on the set. The scene was a simple one. Seated at a desk, it was her sole duty to pick up a telephone receiver and speak a few words, any words at all, since this was before the days of talkies. They rehearsed over and over again but she could not coordinate enough to accomplish the single gesture required of her. Once, during a rehearsal, she did it right. “We'll shoot it,”’ said Bell. They hit the lights and the cameras turned. Jeanne failed miserably before the cameras. Almost frantic with the waste of time and energy, Bell decided that they would keep on shooting the scene, right or wrong, in an effort to catch her when she was at her best. They did it twenty or thirty times, using valuable film and electric juice. Slowly she be- gan to get it, slowly she was com- ing out of the fog which dimmed her brain. Bell heaved a sigh of relief. Ah, it was coming along. UST at that moment a publicity man, who knew nothing of the strain of the morning, walked on the set. He waited until one take was completed and then stepped in front of the lights and, before anyone could stop him, leaned over to Jeanne and said, “I’m writing your biography for our department. Miss Eagels, where were you born?” Her face was enough to tell them all what was about to hap- pen. Worn down by the repeti- 92 Billy Haines announced his engagement to Polly Moran (left), but it was all a gag. Here are the two of them with Anita Page, who came to Hollywood with Harry Thaw and made good in spite of it “Stop her from saying those things!” cried executives. But the press-agents were help- less against Eleanor Boardman’s frankness frayed and jagged, she turned upon the press-agent and shouted at the top of her lungs, “ Where was I born! Good Lord, who cares where I was born? You ask me where I was born! How should I know? Who wants to tion of the scene, her nerves © know? MaybeI wasn’t born. Maybe I’m a living ghost. Born, — born, born—God in Heaven, where was I born!” Her hysterical shrieks shook the set. She arose from the desk ~ and stumbled away, still shouting, “‘He asks me where I was born!”’? And there was no more work that day. OT very long ago I saw in the paper an article which stated that Lon Chaney guarded his make-up secrets carefully, particularly the one that made him appear sightless in one eye in ‘* The Road to Man- dalay.”’ That is not quite true. Any friend who asked Lon could have had the secret for the listen- ing. lining of an egg cut to fit the eye and carefully slipped over the eyeball to achieve the effect. And Lon would teil you about it, for he was essentially an honest per- son. HERE was another honest person on the M-G-M lot and she got herself and the publicity department in trouble because ofit. The name is Eleanor Boardman. It was with fear and trembling that I used to take interviewers to Eleanor’s dressing room. With utter frankness she answered whatever questions were asked her. She told exactly what she thought of life, love, marriage and studio executives—especially studio executives. Invariably the interviewer would call us and say, “Do you think I dare print what Miss Boardman told me?” And we, on bended knees, would beg her not to do so. But Eleanor did not [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 104 ] In this picture he used the

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 93 “MEN ARE STRANGE CREATURES” WHAT AN unmerciful twitting they give women about their bargains! And how they love to harp on ‘‘vain as a woman”’ when wives and daughters are successful in looking their best! . . . But to hear them at the office is another story. It’s ‘‘my wife this, and my wife that’’—with evident pride. Vain? There’s nothing quite so vain as men who have attractive and accomplished wives. How their wives man- is a source of age the home — how they plan and buy constant wonder and appreciation. Nothing pleases a man more than the knowledge that his wife is a shrewd manager and a deft hostess. But what is so amazing to men is commonplace to wom- en. Women know that shrewd management and good taste are not matters of chance, but qualities to be culti- vated — personal qualities that depend upon a thorough knowledge of style and value. It is not difficult for them to obtain this knowledge. They read the advertisements in the magazines — printed statements of style, price and value. Statements that are sponsored and signed by companies known for business integrity and style authority. Guided by this knowledge, women choose wisely — and receive for their money the highest in quality, the utmost in style.

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94 PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR Marcu, 1932 en go wild, simply wild, over me.. Wm not a bold bad baby who rolls her eyes. But men simply love to play around with me. Every time they get a chance they tickle my chin or tenderly stroke my cheeks! All this has got me thinking that they like girls with complexion allure. Now what Id like to know is—what’s the difference between complexion and skin? Grown-up ladies say what’s above the neck line is complexion. Now, really I wasn’t born yesterday. I know that my skin is the same all over me—and it simply feels grand after an Ivory bath! I guess mother’s come over to my way of thinking. She doesn’t fuss over her face the way she used to do. She washes her face good and clean with my cake of Ivory Soap. I guess she realizes that a soap that’s nice to my sensitive skin is just bound to be the best beauty treat- ment for her pretty face. Andshe’s getting my complexionallure ... notice fatheris cheeking with her. too! IVORY SOAP KIND TO EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES 99 44/1 90% PURE Cal York’s Monthly Broadeast from Hollywood [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 84 ] EN little Bette Davis’ contract was not renewed by Universal, she was thrilled. Tickled to death. She had failed in pictures and was glad of it. She was going home, to New York, for good. Nothing would separate her from her boy-friend again. (A business lad in New York.) She was working in ““The Man Who Played God” on the Warner lot when she learned her option was not to be renewed. Just as she was ready to leave—all packed—Warners asked her to sign a long-term contract. Her heart dropped a mile but her ambitions jumped two miles. She signed. Somehow, ambition always wins the old battle in the film city. OW here’s a smart lad—and a chap who ought to go far in big business. The name’s Jimmie Fidler and once he was married to Dorothy Lee. When they were divorced he advertised the house he’d built for Dorothy for rent. Dorothy was the first to apply for it and Jimmie rented it to her—for six months’ cash advance. SARl MARITZA is Paramount’s new import from foreign lands. Another Marlene Diet- rich hope for the studio that has lost Bow, Chatterton, Francis, Powell and that has let Wally Beery slip to Metro. ; Well, if this little gal uses the same tactics to tackle Hollywood that she did to tackle England and her first picture, Dietrich had better look to her laurels. It all started when Sari was eleven. The daughter of an English father and an Austrian mother (shades of Elissa Landi!) she was born, and reared until eleven, in China. She passed through Hollywood on her way to England and was shown the Douglas Fair- banks set where Doug was making “Robin Hood” with Wally Beery. Exactly ten years ago. When she left the set, she announced loudly, “T will be a motion picture actress.” “Tush, tush, tush,” said mother and daddy who were training her for a grand début in diplomatic circles in Europe. Gre learned the social prerequisites. She speaks English, French, German and Chinese as though she were a native. She made her début—and then, one day, she slipped over to England and met an actress named Vivienne Gay. “I want to get into pictures. How can I do it?” “Tl fix it for you. I will be your manager.” Miss Gay went to the phone and telephoned five British producers saying that Sari Marit- za, the great Austrian actress was in town ~ between engagements and would consider one picture offer if the picture and the price were right. She chose Sari’s mother’s name because it was Austrian and would uphold the story. The five producers arrived; three of them made the great Austrian offers. Sari accepted

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one and explained her awkwardness before the camera by the fact she had only been on the stage; never in pictures. She’s been playing leading réles ever since, either for British concerns or for UFA. If she could get by the British producers without a day of experience on either stage or screen—we'll trust her with Hollywood’s head moguls. EINES a kid named Jackie Searl became a screen actor, he lived with his dad, an oil driller, and his mother in a little house such as an oil driller could afford. The family either walked or used street cars and busses when they traveled. _ Jackie’s toys came from the ten-cent store, and he played with the neigh- borhood kids. _ Now Jackie Searl is a Paramount actor, making several hundreds of dollars a week, with prospects of being in the four-figure class soon. And what is the result? He’s still living in the same house. His dad still works as oil driller. He still plays with the neighborhood kids. He still gets his toys at the ten-cent store, because his ma gives him $5 per picture spending money, and that’s all he gets. Every other cent of what he earns goes either into clothes or other material for his professional work, or into bonds in his own name. Not a cent of little Jack’s earnings are taken or spent by the family. They’re still living on dad’s salary. [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 128 ] Good work, Pola, you’ve never dis- appointed us yet. Look at this re- markable photograph. It was taken just as Pola left the Santa Monica hospital where she fought for her life. Still weak from her long con- finement, she was mistress enough of herself to be a good showman in spite of everything. Note the flowers, note the Russian boots, note the dramatic smile PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 ...and be guided by the world’s greatest authority on beauty— Mme. Helena Rubinstein —and wonderfully receptive to ‘‘finish- ing touches’’! This unique cream comes in three distinct blends. For normal skin —PASTEURIZED FACE CREAM. For oily, sallow skin — PASTEURIZED BLEACHING CREAM. For dry skin — PASTEURIZED FACE CREAM “‘SPECIAL’’. Each in a gen- erous jar at one dollar. Trying days, these are, for your looks! March winds whip dust and grit deep into the pores. The skin dries — lines —ages. Ordinary methods of care fail you now; you recognize the need for something entirely different! “At this time of the year,” advises Helena Rubinstein, the world’s fore- most beauty authority,‘‘I especially rec- ommend my Valaze Pasteurized Face Cream—a cream unlike any other in the world —combining biochemical ingredients which revive the life and loveliness of the skin. A beauty treat- ment in itself!” TO CLEAR AND BEAUTIFY—use Valaze Skin Clearing Cream(Beautifying Skinfood) youth- ifies—clears away sallowness, freckles —1.00 TO TONE AND BRACE—Valaze Skin Toning Lotion—refines pores, corrects fine lines. For dry skin—Skin Toning Lotion “Special” —1.25 “FINISHING TOUCHES” YOUTHIFYING FOUNDATION CREAM— (Weatherproof)— 1.00 —a flattering, protec- tive powder base. WEATHERPROOF BEAUTY POWDER — 1.50 —in the new “transparent” Porcelain Natural or Ivory Rachel. ROUGE (en creme or compact)—1.00—in alluring tones. NEW AUTOMATIC LIPSTICK — 1.00 — nourishing— indelible! PERSIAN EYE BLACK (Mascara)—1.00 —does not run, or rub off. Rich, plastic, Valaze Pasteurized Face Cream sinks gently, deeply into the pores, cleansing antiseptically—remov- ing every trace of dust and make-up— revitalizing important skin glands. Fine lines retreat, the skin is left soft, pro- tected—without a trace of “‘stickiness”’ Secure these creations from Authorized Helena Rubinstein Representatives among the better department and drug stores—or, if unobtainable, communicate with helena rubinstein LONDON ° 8 EAST 57th STREET, NEW YORK ° PARIS HAVE YOUR FACE ANALYZED by HELENA RUBINSTEIN MME. HELENA RUBINSTEIN, 8 East 57th Street, New York, N. Y. P.H. 8 Please send me without charge full individual instructions for correct daily care of my skin. 0 MEDIUM O oILy OO RED HANDS DO ROUGH ELBOWS TEXTURE OF SKIN: [J DRY 0 BLACKHEADS OO LINES, WRINKLES 0 OILY NOSE OC) PIMPLES, ACNE (0 COARSE PORES 00 THIN LASHES O SALLOWNESS 0 DROOPING CHIN MY NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE SE SIE {SETI SE EAL th EE FES

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96 <elan goo AOL BCE AT A NEW LOW PRICE HY risk aiscomfort for the fifty trying days of the year? The easy comfort of softly fluffed Modess makes these difficult days more endurable—happier. Its safety backing saves you from fear of embarrassment. Johnson & Johnson have reduced the price of Modess. It is the same quality—nothing changed but the price. The most you should now pay is 30¢ a box. Try Modess. If it isn’t com- pletely satisfactory, write your name, address, and the price paid, on cover of box, and mail to us. We will refund your money. Goh TUSOYV NEW BRUNSWICK VOW N.J..U.S.A Modess SANITARY NAPKINS PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE ror MArcH, 1932 (uestions and Answers HAZEL ANDERSON, BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The young lad who played the réle of Joan Craw- ford’s brother in “‘ Dance Fools, Dance,” was William Bakewell. Bill is a native of Los Angeles, Calif. He is 23 years old, weighs 145 and is 5 feet, 1114 inches in height. Has brown hair and gray eyes. His latest pictures are “Taybreak,”’ “A Woman of Experience,” “Politics,” “Guilty Hands” and “The Spirit of Notre Dame.” VIOLET RUHWEDEL, CHICAGO, ILL.—Here is the information, Vi, and I hope it is not too late to settle your argument. Conrad Nagel was born in Keokuk, Iowa, March 16, 1897. He is married to Ruth Helms and they have one daughter. Conrad has been doing a little turn in vaudeville and that’s why you haven’t seen him on the screen lately. Junry Now rn, OKLAHOMA City; OKLA.— Jimmy, your namesake, Jimmie Hall, is just 31 years old. He was born in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 22, 1900. Stands 5 feet, 10; weighs 158 and has dark brown hair and green eyes. Lately he has been devoting most of his time to stage appearances. He is divorced. Rupy StrorrMer, Waco, Trx.—Phillips Holmes still has his pretty blond locks. For the picture, ‘‘The Devil’s Holiday,” he had his hair bleached a lighter shade. Now it is back to its original natural blond shade and doesn’t photograph quite so light. If you like him [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 86 | better with the pale colored hair, I’ll pass the information on to him. Jerr, San Dreco, Carrr.—Jefi, you came along too late. Arlene Judge was married to Director Wesley Ruggles last October. Arlene was born in Bridgeport, Conn., 19 years ago. She is 5 feet, 2 inches tall; weighs 100 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. Was on the stage before she entered pictures. Her latest picture is ““Are These Our Children?” Mary Brane, CANTON, On10.—Yes, Mary, Wallace and Noah Beery are brothers. Nor- man Foster’s latest picture is ‘‘ Girl of the Rio” with Dolores Del Rio. Monroe Owsley played the réle of Jim Woodward in “ Indiscreet.” L. A. S., OCALA, FLA.— You have been misin- formed. James Kirkwood is very much alive. He is now appearing in “‘ Widow’s Might,” for Fox. James was married to Beatrice Powers in September, 1931. DupLEY McKee, TERRE Haute, Inp.— Here are the descriptions you wanted: Sylvia Sidney is 5 feet, 4; weighs 100 pounds, has dark brown hair and blue-green eyes; Greta Garbo, 5 feet, 6; 122 pounds, light brown hair and blue eyes; Clark Gable, 6 feet, 1; 190 pounds, brown hair and gray eyes; Madge Evans, 5 feet, 4; 116 pounds, golden hair and blue eyes; Eric Linden, 5 feet, 9; 150 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes. The gentleman wearing the grey suit is very seldom photographed, as his pose will testify, but he’s a power behind a throne, nevertheless. Robert Fairbanks, brother of the widely known Douglas. Meet Bob accom- panies Doug on many of his travels and has a voice in most of the business deals Doug puts over. Except for the similar cut of the moustaches we don’t see much resemblance

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“Studios in Culver City, California. ‘Ywant to write to any of the other stars you will ‘Wand a list of names and addresses printed in the a joack section of any issue of PHOTOPLAY. 1 2 lop ae 7 | | Berry JANE Moran, Youncsrown, O. Whe January, February and March, 1931, covers of PHOTOPLAY were graced with the faces of Clara Bow, Dorothy Mackaill and Constance Bennett, respectively. K. Onizumi1, Tokio, JAPAN.—Little Dorothy Jordan uses her own name in pictures. You can write to her at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer If you EVALYNNE OF WINSTED.—It was Bramwell Pletcher, blond English lad, who played the ole of Billee in “Svengali” and Allen in ‘‘Once n Lady.” Donald Crisp played the réle of The )\§Laird in “Svengali.” ie | Eva ALyNN, WorcESTER, MaAss.—Eva, the icture you described to me was ‘“‘ Three Girls Lost.” The three in question were Loretta Young, Joan Marsh and Joyce Compton. John 7 Wayne was the handsome hero. ( Seymour tells us that there is a decidedly mannish air to play clothes this coming season. Well, we have picked this pyjama ensemble for its boyish, gamin look. Evalyn Knapp says her headgear is a “Jimmie Walker” cap—no doubt inspired by hizonner from New York. The jersey trousers are yellow, the knitted Jumper orange and the shirt white PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE For Marcu, 1932 97 P CO LDS spread from germ-filled handkerchiefs Prevent spread of colds and self-infection by using KLEENEX Disposable Tissues AKE care when a single member of your family has a cold. Start everyone using Kleenex immediately. Especially children, who catch cold so easily. This is the modern, inexpensive way to keep colds from spreading to others . . . to prevent germ-laden handkerchiefs from self-infecting the user. GERMS in handkerchiefs During a cold a handkerchief collects thousands of germs. It infects your cloth- ing and laundry bag, and may spread a cold through the entire family. It self- infects you every time it touches your face. Colds get worse and worse. They hang on for days and weeks. So often they develop into grippe, flu and other serious complications. Now Kleenex brings you new safety. This sanitary tissue is used only once, then destroyed. Germs that live and KLEENEX 4123% TISSUES multiply in ordinary handkerchiefs are destroyed this way. They cannot self-in- fect you or spread infection to others. Far more absorbent Made of rayon-cellulose, Kleenex is many times moreabsorbent than linen— and infinitely softer! It’s a positive com- fort during colds! Once you have a package of Kleenex, you'll find it convenient in scores of ways. Use it for removing face creams, to blot up impurities that cling so stubbornly in the pores. The former 50c size is now 35c at all drug, dry goods and department stores. PU a) KLEENEX COMPANY _ PH-3 A; ce M NI Lake Michigan Bldg., mi 4 Chicago, Illinois Please send me a free trial supply = Zz] of Kleenex. Name Street City State In Canada, address: 330 Bay Street, Toronto, Ont. ME Germ-filled handkerchiefs are a menace to society!

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98 FOR BEAUTYS SAKE wear these smart shoes that put you AT EASE ATURAL BRIDGE SHOES lift up your spirits — put smiles in your eyes — by releasing you from the enervating effects of arch strain. There’s a triumph of modern shoe- making in the way the natural arch bridge gives normal support to your natural arch —in the way these shoes fit the foot in action as superbly as in repose. They bend without bulging — mould suavely to the arch and instep — cling comfortably to the narrowest heel. Standing, sitting, walking, they give you the joy of constant ease; the flat- tery of a perfect fit. Let your dealer show you the soft, durable leathers, the perfection of de- tail that make Natural Bridge Shoes such remarkable values. They are styled for girls and women who know shoe fashion; priced for the thrifty; designed in individual combination lasts to fit every foot. All sizes, AAAA to EEE. Natural Bridge Shoemakers, Lynchburg, Va. The ATHLO The KILDORN In Canada $7.50 and $8.50 PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 It’s All Done With Scissors | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 70 ] HE pseudo-science of the story (Para- mount’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”) is rather overdone, leading us to speculate un- duly on this marvelous chemical which not | only alters the shape of the doctor’s skull and changes the number of his teeth, but deranges his linen and soils his cravat; just as the anti- dote restores teeth and profile and launders out in an instant the white ties—The New Yorker. OME day, in the distant years, Hollywood is going to awaken to the fact that one of the greatest actors who ever lived, is in our midst, has been for almost a year, and with every intention of remaining here indefinitely. Richard Bennett is the name.—IV. R. Wilker- son in the Hollywood Reporter. STAR’S attitude toward press and public should be governed by the character she is assuming. Miss Janet Gaynor must be gentle and soft as she faces her worshippers, and Miss Tallulah Bankhead must be daring and unconventional even though in the inner- most reaches of their souls they long to change It happens that Miss Garbo’s role parts. Yep, those are snow balls, but there isn’t any ice on the Connie Bennett- Marquis de la Falaise marriage, yet. left arm won’t cause any scandals, either. is that of the mysterious and distant lady o poetry and legend, and it would be suicida for her if she attempted to drop it long enougl to greet the boys and girls of the local paper with the easy heartiness and informality of 3 Bebe Daniels or a Richard Dix.—Richare Watts, Jr., of the 222772 “T LIKE the movies for the romance and th¢ fascinating contacts they give you... . ] am saving seventy-five per cent of my salary because I get a kick out of saving up agains} a rainy day.”—Joel McCrea in Picture Play, ETTING a child to sit willingly ané happily in a dentist’s chair is a feat that is accomplished regularly in the office of @ Boston dental surgeon. He had two or three very young patients, one his own three-year old son, who fought and wept when they had their teeth attended to, and one day he brought his movie machine down to entertain his child, He rigged an arrangement for throwing the movies on the ceiling, and the little boy laughed at the antics of Felix while the necessary work was done—The New York Times. And that attractive girl in Hank’s She’s Diana Fitzmaurice, wife of the director, at whose home the two were married, and it was near her mountain cabin that this picture was snapped. Note the latest in hiking costumes that Connie is wearing. She’s dressy even when she’s having fun ;

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR MARCH, 1932 99 STRIKING demonstration of the theory that seeing motion pictures may be classi- fied as a necessity as well as a diversion is found in a recent decision by the leading film bL ©) fe LY 4 E% ‘sixteen and one hundred and sixty. lect fod _ They are real. They live and move. They DSU aang Get i Seteea have organs and dimensions. They are fas- causing waste. Unless we take some cinating. So let’s continue to have them. precaution we never know the moment We'll send the kids to see ‘Huckleberry Finn,” a “B.O.” (body odor) may offend. Play safe! “Tom Sawyer” and ‘“ Penrod.”—Edward Or- = Wash and bathe with Lifebuoy. Its ° = r= Fie Z \leans in the New York Mirror. 4 5 Ny) creamy, abundant lather purifies pores— oe . é removes all odor—removes germs. ' E crisis is heartbreaking and no man can | {“\ mH A ‘ 8 Wonderful for skin. Complexions stay | ~ regard it with indifference. What do do? \ B is fresh and glowing with Lifebuoy’s care. eet 1S Se Sate Certainly the lovely f ic It’s a real beauty and health safeguard. les and compelling men who bring romance Nee ’ eh to the people in the movie houses that dot the ni plrssent, by. BiSeSCEnE ride land must not be allowed to feel the pinch of parr ee jwant and the pain of privation. No heroine ; tells you Fifebuoy of the films can do her best work if she labors 4 protects. Adopt |) ‘under the annoying knowledge that until the de- : — Lifebuoy today. |} pression lifts, her weekly pay will be delivered \ j jn six sacks instead of seven.—H. I. Phillips im the New York Sun.

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100 Yes.. but which laxative? e complain of a headache. No pep. Just don’t feel right. “Guess I’ll take a laxative,” you say. But which laxative? Isn’t it only common sense to take the one which most nearly dupli- cates Nature’s own way of acting? That's Ex-Lax, the chocolated laxative. Ex-Lax meets the Doctor’s requirements A laxative, says the doctor, should limit its action to the intestines. It should not rush food through the stomach, it should not disturb digestion. It should be safe—and not be absorbed by the system. It should be mild and gentle. It should not gripe. It should not be habit-forming. No secret about Ex-Lax. Ex-Lax checks on every point! Ex-Lax is a special scientific formula for the pleasant relief of constipation. Its only medic- inal ingredient is phenolphthalein—a laxative universally recognized by physicians. And it is the special Ex-Lax formula, combining a delicious chocolated base with phenolphthalein—of the right quality, in the right proportion, in the right dose—that accounts for the fine results that millions get from Ex-Lax. Don’t gamble— get Ex-Lax ! Ex-Lax acts by gently stimulating the bowels to action—naturally and surely. It exercises the intestines—it does not force them! It does not gripe—nor is it habit-forming. If you are taking the wrong kind of laxative now, get Ex-Lax tonight. At all drug stores, 10¢, 25c, soc. Or mail coupon for a free sample. Keep “regular” with EX-LAX —the safe laxative that tastes like chocolate MAIL THIS COUPON—TODAY ! A 32 EX-LAX, Inc., P. O. Box 170 Times-Plaza Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. Please send free sample of Ex-Lax. Address . PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 Advice on Girls’ Problems [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16] in an eye lotion or witch hazel should be ap- plied to the eyes while you lie down for a fifteen minute rest. Rest will eliminate dark circles, as will proper diet. Careful massage with a good cream will iron out those tell-tale crow’s feet. Exercise out of doors will bring a healthy sparkle. How does Constance Bennett keep such a slender figure? How often I answer that ques- tion. Those slender hips, that flat waistline, those lovely, lean legs are all the results of faithful exercise both indoors and out. Here is a grand exercise to flatten the waist- line to Bennett-like proportions. Lie flat on your back, preferably on the floor. Then place your right hand on your stomach, just below the waistline. } Then lift the stomach slowly as far as you can without straining yourself. Then slowly lower the stomach as far as possible. The slight strain you may feel, will have no injurious effect. 14 Don’t hold your breath as you do this. Keep 9} your mouth open and inhale as you go up, ex- By hale as you come down. Do this exercise ten J) times in the morning and ten at night before” retiring. “Any Woman Can Be Beautiful” NOW “The Hollywood Beauty That is what Carolyn Van Wyck wrote in PHOTOPLAY a few years ago when she started to write on Girls’ Problems. Since then she has proved it by metamorphosing thousands of girls from plain, unattractive, self-conscious young- sters into attractive, stunning young women. Thousands of readers of PHOTOPLAY have written to her during these years, expressing heartfelt gratitude. Shop” Miss. Van Wyck will, in next month's issue of PHOTOPLAY, inaugurate the finest beauty de- partment ever ofered American young women- hood. Hollywood is acknowledged to be the beauty center of the world and taking up her residence there, she will give you, not only the benefit of her long experience as a beauty and cosmetic expert, but convey to you by wonderful, especially posed photographs of the beautiful women of the screen, all they know about how to improve looks and per- sonality. Watch for the beginning of PHOTOPLAY’S “HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SHOP.” Tell your news dealer to be sure to save you a copy. It will appear exclusively in PH OOP 1-AGy the 15th of March on all newsstands

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| ' q Everyone envies Madge Evans her fresh, Hnatural looking beauty. Her face radiates good health and care. How does she do it? ~§ She follows a simple daily beauty routine. ‘ before, says that the simplest beauty treat- ments are best and most effective. He says that the skin is an auxiliary to the lungs, it ) breathes, takes in oxygen and is an absorbing ) organ. Therefore, if you would avoid enlarged )) pores and ordinary skin blemishes, you have § to keep your skin free to breathe normally. Internal and external cleanliness is essential to natural beauty. Always remove make-up with a good cleansing agent. Never fail to ) wash the entire body with soap at least once a iday. When using a bath powder or talcum, ® see that it is light in texture so that it will not clog the pores. Apply a cream rich in oils but not too heavy for your make-up. It should not be a coating upon which the powder lies like a blanket, it Doesn’t sophisticated Connie look ingénue in this charming picture? Perhaps it is her gown of brocaded white satin, with its flattering roll collar of the material. Notice where la belle Bennett wears her gardenias —on the shoulder they would have spoiled her neckline : This same eminent doctor whom I mentioned ‘in texture. And be careful of the base you use | PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR Marcu, 1932 IOI ~s P_ce’e ; Chewing gum is the qui nmediate. And if you ar daily beauty s of face. y around your mouth. : nown. Its results are 11 UBLE MINT as 2 regul ng, fresh, new lovelines tense facial lines. lar in Hollywood. tale lines, especiall lip beautifier and facial k Wrigley’s delicious DO manent result is an amazi + — Chewing Gum relaxes NT is so popu chew habit, the per iT’S A FAC That is why DOUBLE MI = LLED gw Uy ow’ CHEWI NG PEPPERMINT FLAVOR or

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102 Fora the short time, UXUY PLU and a brand-new complexion for Tuis is the “powder that is pure”. . . that is made in the Luxor laboratories. That is sifted fine through tight-stretched silk. That is fragrantly scented, and perfectly blended. This is the “powder that is pure” that will bring petalsmoothness to your skin. And a new delicate transparency ...a charming, natural bloom. You'll like the Cold Cream Facial Soap too. A bland and mild cleanser, satin-smooth beauty! A full-size box of the face-powder, a free cake of the soap .. . the “Luxor Special” that will do wonders for your skin. The cost is but soc! Can you resist such a reasonable | investment—or forego brand-new beauty of complexion? This offer is made for a limited time only. So go soon to your toilet- “goods dealer who dis- plays the “Luxor Special.” Luxor, Ltd. i Luxor, Ltd., 1355 West 31st Street, i Chicago, Illinois am ¥ I enclose 10c for a generous sample of EES the face-powder. Check Rachel, Flesh, White. Name Address REAR ctl PAP Pt At AP LB EPA PPPS PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 should merely be an agent that leaves the skin soft and receptive to make-up. And while I am on the subject, may I make | one admonition? When you find your skin be- coming irritated with blemishes—don’t fran- | tically try every salve or remedy that you hear about. Rather go sanely about it. Ask your- self what is wrong with your diet. Question | your daily beauty routine to see if perhaps you | may be using a powder or cream that is not suited to your individual skin. Cosmetics are | like hats, one type is not becoming or suited to every woman. You have to try on several before you find the one that is right for you. SALLY ComBIs: No one with your attractive coloring of au- burn hair and brown eyes need worry about looking plain! Play up the reddish tints in your hair. Choose such warm, rich colors as, deep orange reds, all shades of brown, deep and light greens, blues in both deep and vivid hues, white and black with a color accent or white. Since your skin is light, I would suggest using a cream powder, coral rouge and lipstick. Ex- periment a little with different ones. You are very lucky to be just the right weight for your height and age. DONNA: Use a cream with an oil base. Apply it liber- ally, leaving it on for at least a half hour. You will find that a dry, scaly skin needs stimulat- ing. The following treatment is simple and very effective. After you have used a cleansing cream. Wipe it off, then take a pad of cotton and cover it with a square of gauze. Dip the pad first into your cream and then into a dish of table salt. Rub this over the skin gently, using a rotary motion. Do this until the skin tingles. Next apply the cream again and again until you have completely removed every vestige of salt. Warm olive or facial oil applied to the face after this is aMo beneficial. Be sure, how- ever, to remove the oil carefully and tone your skin with a good tonic. Don’t wear extremely high heels if you want to cut down your height. A medium heel is | smarter and better looking. it leaves | your skin refreshed and glowing—all ready | for Luxor face-powder to transform it to | p You are ently a few pounds underweight so) there is nothing to worry about. HELEN: Continue to use the peroxide, it eventually discourages the growth of hair. It takes con- siderable time, however, so do not become dis- couraged. I would suggest adding a few drops of household ammonia to the solution. BILLiE: I am afraid you have confused posing and poise. The two are not the same. You can not adopt a pose and keep it for very long be- cause it is false and sooner or later you will be found out. Poise is the assurance which comes when you know that you look and appear well. It is natural, not forced. Blue-eyed blondes have an easy time choos- ing costume colors because there are so many that flatter them. They look lovely in pastels such as yellow, pink, blue, green and others. Orange reds, nearly all shades of blue, rich are and black with white are charming ‘or them. RUTH: Don’t become discouraged about making friends readily the first few months at college. It is always a little hard to break the ice when you are transplanted into new surroundings and friends. There is nothing the matter with your per- sonality; you have become a little’ self-con- scious, that is all. Join into class activities and club work. If you are athletic, go in for that. Nothing will get you acquainted and “in” quicker than taking part in school activities. ROSEMARY: Your sort of sensitiveness is nothing but self- pity. You need to take things less seriously. Nothing is more fun than being able to retaliate gaily to friendly teasing. Of course, laugh it off—and furthermore, have something to say back. No one who isa good friend is going to deliberately hurt your feelings. If you think the teasing is intended to be catty then just dismiss the person who does it from your mind. “And with this ring .. .” Monta Bell discovered Betty Lawford when she was playing in a Broad- way production and gave her her first screen rdle. Jimmy Walker listened to their “I do’s.” Let this picture be a warning to all directors. Not long ago Mayor Betty played in ‘‘Secrets of a Secretary” "=e ae eee ee a. ok fae |

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ow Garbo’s Fear of People Started [| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 ] nees, and she looks at her own long, awkward egs and could die of shame. Her feet and her PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE ror MARCH, 1932 103 hands get in her way. Her energy taken up | vith too much growing, she has not enough eft with which to feed her mind. She usually “Nags in her studies. This is a fact that all school Beachers know. They learn about it in their ormal school courses. Such was Garbo’s experience. At thirteen he was as tall as she is now, and her feet and “Sands were as large. She wears a seven and a wMalf shoe. Lathering faces in the Swedish yarber shop, and later working in the millinery ‘Mlepartment of a Stockholm store, she felt that eyes were upon her. The shame of con- ‘@spicuousness, a shame more devastating than ny other, was her constant companion. I do hot need to go into this further. Every tall virl knows about it, and every tall girl will mpathize with Garbo. EN came the amazing sequence of events that took her to America. Her tallness Bseemed worse in Hollywood, since most of the screen stars were dainty, petite women. Ruth Biery, who wrote for PHororLay the | only life story of Garbo from Garbo’s own lips, a story which in part has been quoted through- out the world (and incidentally the very last interview that Garbo ever gave), tells a story about Greta that illustrates the point. The appointment between star and writer was made for dinner at Garbo’s hotel, the Il Mirosol. Garbo had not wanted to give the mterview, she had been forced to do so by her manager, Harry Edington. She was ten minutes late, and later she confessed that she had been pacing up and down her apartment embling with fear, trying to get the courage | o face a stranger who was going to make her talk about herself. The first words she said were, ‘‘ Pardon this woolly coat, but it is the kind they wear in weden.” She was afraid Ruth wouldn’t think her dressed correctly—would laugh at her. Prodded by the clever interviewer, she be- gan to talk. Suddenly she stopped, “But you wouldn’t understand. You laugh at me, maybe.” She was afraid of being laughed at by a strange woman in a strange country. I remember when I was in the publicity de- partment at M-G-M, I took an interviewer to see Garbo. Greta had just come over. When the interviewer came back to my office she said, “‘That girl has been hurt—deeply, ter- | rifically hurt. I wonder what it is?” Well, what is it? Those are the facts. Garbo | was frightened. But why? Some people were nice enough to her. Many tried to help her. | We were not, at M-G-M, as brutal as we have been sometimes painted. But she would not accept that help. Why? y | “HE answer is the answer to every question asked about Greta Garbo. One name looms ‘large and conspicuous in her life. No serious | story about the star can ever be written with- out a mention of Mauritz Stiller. Stiller had told her, “‘These people are not ‘ your friends. They do not understand you as Ido. They will seek to exploit you, to make a ' fool of you. You have but one friend in this entire country. I am that friend.” And Garbo believed him as she believed everything he told her. She was afraid to be seen having even the most casual conversation with anybody lest Stiller discover her. Why | Stiller imbued her with all this is another (and a more sordid) story with which we are not concerned at the moment. But these were minor little fears compared to the great one that rocked her during the | making of her second picture, ‘The Tempt- 4848 Roliins Lace Tops priced $4.00 to $4.95 2943 Rollins Mesh and all-over lace effects $1.50 to $1.95 ee Stina aenors f ERY MIEWMYIOIRIK WoW iG hGAIGO. io oe PRY detons AND NARROW.. .. 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104 HOvrRS of this. tone HEPA th 18 rf —— WASTED ate by neg~ l ectin gan instant fo Crqatat Pare Deadorent THIS Inston? -Perspiront FTEN all efforts to attain a dainty, lovely appearance are undone by perspiration moisture. It’s so unnecessary, for just a minute devoted to DEW w.ll protect a beauti- ful frock. DEW may be used at any time —even while dressing. Dew will not irritate a tender skin or injure fragile fabrics when the simple directions are followed. At all drug and department stores in three sizes, 25c, 50c and $1.00. (DEW instantly deodorizes sanitary pads) LAMBERT-FESLER, Inc., St. Louis Crystal-pure Deodorant * Instant Non-perspirant Lampert-Fester, In Dept. J-26, Del Monte Way, St. Louis Enclosed is 10c. Please send DEW sample to: Name.... Address City State PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 ress.” Stiller began the direction of that pic- ture. He was taken off and Fred Niblo was given the job. What is more, Stiller’s contract was not renewed with M-G-M. This was a circumstance she could not understand. He was the hero not only of Sweden but of all artistic Europe as well. He was known as the greatest of all the motion picture directors. She was nothing in Europe. And yet it was Stiller whose artistic integrity was assailed in America. Stiller was chucked out of a job as if he were an office boy. If the studios were powerful enough to do that to him—the great one, what would they co to her—the little one? : Tortured by these grave doubts, unable to t.lk to anyone (since Stiller had bade her not to do so) she refused to come to the studio and ciscuss her contract. And it was at that time that she got the reputation for shrewdness. It was not shrewdness then, it was fear. The shrewdness came later. Garbo has not conquered agoraphobia and anthropophobia. The block (as psychologists have it) in her mind is too deeply imbedded there. She still shrinks from crowds. She still shrinks from society. But something else, a natural result of the fears that first gripped her, has come to her. Now people do not laugh. They may vilify her in the public prints, they may hate her— but they do not laugh. They laughed at ‘her long enough. It is her turn now. It is Garbo who does the laughing. And that laughter is pitched in a deep, sardonic key. eae is the most bitter woman in Hollywood. I’ve seen her come on to her set, making the entrance of a queen, causing prop men to run with chairs, great director to dash to her with an inquiry about the state of her health, great executives, fearful lest she not appear at all, to mop feverish brows. And I’ve seen the look in Garbo’s eyes, a look of diabolic amusement. “So, a few years ago they did not care whether Garbo lived or died. Now they bow to Garbo. Well, make them bow. Make them bend those rusty knees.” People stare at her now—but not because she is tall and awkward. They stare at her be- cause she is the great Garbo. Every night before she retires she reads every word that is written about her in the papers. And her big, booming laugh can be heard by her servants throughout the house. It isn’t a pretty laugh. For it is tinged with The Unknown Hollywood I Know | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 92 } care. She figured that if the public did not want to see her as she was, if her views could not be expressed—then to the devil with that public. i fe an interviewer did print what she had said we were always called to the front office and severely lectured. ‘Why don’t you stop her from saying those things?” Stop her from saying those things indeed! You can’t stop the frankest person who ever lived from saying what she chooses. One of the easiest girls to work with, from a publicity standpoint, was Anita Page, but she made her entrance into Hollywood on the wrong foot. Here is the true story. When she was living in New York, Anita wanted to get into pictures. She registered at the different casting offices. At last she had a call from a certain manager representing the Kenilworth productions. She made a test and was signed under contract. She and her mother set out for Hollywood. In Chicago, the two were sitting in their hotel lobby waiting to leave for the station. A . : the bitterness that only people who have been # tortured by one time phobias know. . J She enjoys making the press trail after her.) When she first arrived in New York from) Sweden, wearing the funny little checked suit, ) they took a few snaps of her and murmured, | “That girl hasn’t got a chance.” She loves | throwing M-G-M in a fever of excitement for ™ § fear she will not sign her contract and will take) 4 herself, their little gold mine, away. HEN she first arrived Stiller had to be the studio to make a screen test of a fe hundred feet of her. She gets great glee out of quarreling with her manager, Edington. When she first arrived she was completely intimidated by him and must do whatever he said. Shi adores ignoring the publicity department an¢ refusing to cooperate with them in any wa When she first arrived she had to pose in bath ing suits and track suits, suffering acutely a seeing her broad shoulders and big feet exposed,= as she compared herself with the slim lovelines of Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer. Oh, Garbo is a straight Case D psycholo cally. Its cause and effect, as simple as a movi extra’s mind. First the fear and now the bitter ness, her great chance to get even. Garbo i even! ; And yet the fear still crops up. When sh returned from her sensational visit to New York, Mrs. Berthold Viertel, wife of the di rector, met her at the train in Pasadena. Ne even Mrs. Viertel knew Garbo’s reservations. Trailed by hordes of reporters, she rushed from car to car. Other passengers greeted their friends hysterically, ““Garbo’s on this train Rush down here and you can see her.” Garbo stepped from the next to the last car wearing her dark glasses and slouch hat. Mrs Viertel asked her to be a good girl and pose for the newspaper men. “No, no,” cried Garbo. “They’ll only ask me embarrassing questions. Get me into a car, Get me into a car.” Mrs. Viertel tried to persuade her. “No Where is the car?” Garbo persisted. Conductors and porters ran interference for her, warding off the newspaper cameramen as she made a dash for her automobile. “But your baggage,” Mrs. Viertel screamed “Leave it, leave it. Somebody will come back for it later.” An hour later, Garbo safe again in her home, behind her locked doors, the chauffeur returned for her suitcases. man was introduced to them as the head of Kenilworth productions. He was Harry K Thaw. Anita and her mother were thrown into 4 panic. Had they known that this notoriou! character was connected with their company they would never have signed the contract. What could they do? Should Anita come to Hollywood under such inauspicious circum- stances? Should they turn and go back to New York? Buta contract had been signed. They went on and in Hollywood secured a lawyer who broke the contract. Anita then met Loui B. Mayer and convinced him she could act by weeping over his best mahogany desk and beg ging him to give her a chance. ‘THE publicity department was faced with a dificult problem. What would this Harry Thaw connection do to her career? We had. seen girls wrecked by scandal (true or false before. It was my task to wring the truth out of Anita, so we could work out our stories. I shall never forget that afternoon. I put Anita through a session that would have done

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any first-class third degree department proud. I threatened her, maligned her, got her mad and appealed to her sympathies. She was com- pletely worn down, but her story held up. She could account for every second of her time since she was born into the world. I realized at last that it was simply through chance and ignorance that Harry Thaw was connected with her in any way. In the meantime, other members of the de- partment had been working on her mother. The story stuck. It was all true. Now, what were we todo? A conference was called. Some were in favor of keeping Thaw’s name entirely out of it (her name had already been changed). But others of us were against this, feeling that if we tried to make a secret of it the papers would dig up the story and put a wrong inter- pretation upon it. We decided for once in our lives to come clean and tell everything there was to tell. Leave it to Lilyan to find the unusual! Now La Tashman comes out with these tricky pyjamas in black satin and white crepe. That longer coat is a new idea, not to mention the white scarf that pulls through a slit in the coat. Do you note the high collar line, even on pyjamas? LONDON PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MArcH, 1932 105 pectiought to your ROUGE TO HAVE IT NATURAL ONLY if the color “‘seems to come from within the skin,’’ does Rouge give you bewitching Beauty By Patricia Gordon ROUGE that appears artificial de- feats the very purpose for which you use rouge. Choose, then, the one rouge of which it may truly be said, ‘the color actually seems to come from within the skin.” This one rouge is Princess Pat—because none other possesses the almost magical secret of the famous duo- tone blend. You know, of course, that such color as the cheeks possess natu- rally, shows through the skin, from beneath. It has glow, radiance. Actually, it is the blood showing through the skin. Unfortunately, few women retain this beauty of natural coloring beyond girlhood’s days. Then rouge must be the resort of all. Give to Your Cheeks the Wondrous Beauty of Princess Pat, Natural Color If you’ve used only usual rouge, try Princess Pat. A small thing to do, surely ... yet startling as to utterly new beauty. Just as though you had blushed, will your cheeks be suffused with lovely, radiant, youthful color. No flat, painty, artificial effect. Instead an adorable transparency of skin texture, en- riched so magically that no matler how much color you use it will seem your very own. Only the ‘“‘Duo-Tone’”’ Secret Can Give This “‘More Than Natural Beauty’’ ““Duo-Tone”’ means that each Princess Pat rouge shade is composed of two distinct tones, perfectly blended into one by an exclusive, secret process. Thus each shade of Princess Pat rouge possesses a mystical underglow to harmonize with the skin, and an overtone to give forth vibrant color. Too, Princess Pat rouge changes on the skin, adjusting its intensity to your individual need. Princess Pat Lip Rouge a new sensation— nothing less. For it does what no other lip rouge has ever done. Princess Pat Lip Rouge colors that instde moist surface of lips as well as outside. It is truly indelible. You'll love ti! PRINCESS PAT CHICAGO A Marvelous Advantage in Selection of Shades. You Use Any or All With usual rouge, you are restricted to just one shade—the one that ‘‘matches your skin.” That must be so of ‘‘one tone rouge.’ With Princess Pat rouge, all eight shades match every skin. Thus you select Princess Pat shades at will—to harmonize with your gown —to be brilliant or demure—to be ultra fashionable. Your Make-up in Perfect Color Harmony Remember that all Princess Pat make-up aids give the famous Princess Pat color harmony make-up automatically. This most beautiful of all effects is carried out in Princess Pat almond base face powder, eye make-up and lip rouge. Today, Be More Beautiful Than Ever Before Today, secure Princess Pat rouge. Discover what it means to enrich your beauty with color that ‘‘actually seems to come from within the skin.” You'll adore the effect that none other than Princess Pat duo-tone rouge can give. PRINCESS PAT, Dept. A-2063 2709 South Wells Street, Chicago Without cost or obligation please send me a free sample of Princess Pat rouge, as checked. O) English Tint ([) Squaw [J Medium OJ Theatre 0) Gold =] an 0 Vivid O Nite (G) bin tele ee State One sample free; additional samples 10¢ each. — —— IN CANADA, 93 CHURCH S8T., TORONTO

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ZIP Epilator—IT’S OFF because IT’S OUT (Formerly $5.00) Now in a new $1.00 size package Your Form Beautifully Developed IS FASHION’S DECREE—< full, rounded form of feminine grace and charm. If you are flat-chested and “ unattractive,investigatethe National Developer. Sold . forsixteen years— praised by ®, hundreds. Write for book- ¥ let, “BEAUTY CURVES DEVELOPED,” sent FREE—no obligation. THE OLIVE COMPANY Dept. P Manitou, Colo. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 Strangely enough, it worked, and the re- porters seemed to feel that when everyone was so frank there must be nothing to it. Very soon it was all forgotten. But every time I see Anita’s big eyes on the screen I think of that afternoon when I put her through the third degree. Nor was Anita’s coming to pictures the only inauspicious one recorded. There was Billy Haines, for instance, who arrived at the studio with a cold in his head and a boil on his nose. No wonder they made him play milkmen and plumbers. Nobody thought the kid had much until, because no other actor was available, they gave him the name réle in “Brown of Harvard.” It was his big chance and he made the most of it. Billy Haines is, without doubt, the most an- noying person I’ve ever known. Oh, mind you, I think he’s a swell guy but his delight in up- setting dignity is something almost poetic in the fineness of its fervor. He can no more resist pulling a gag than Peggy Hopkins Joyce can resist a marriage license. One day I took a very dignified member of the press out to his set. Let it be said in the lady’s defense that she had, before her arrival in Hollywood the week before, been assigned to write political news in Washington and she knew almost no one in pictures. She asked Billy if he had any exclusive news for her. ‘Yes, I have,” said Billy. “TI’ll give you the exclusive announcement of my engage- ment. I’m going to marry Polly Moran.” He expected her to laugh. She didn’t. She had never heard of Polly. ‘Oh, that’s fine,” she said, ‘‘now tell me all about it.” It was as good as Billy wanted. His eyes glowed with the fire of creation and—fixing Anita Page and me with a steely gaze and daring us to laugh—he went on, “ Miss Moran comes from the old Virginia Morans. Her people were all famous fox hunters.” HE newspaper woman busily took down her notes, beaming with delight. “Her father not being here, Louis B. Mayer will officiate and we’ll be married in a church— a big affair. Miss Moran will wear duchess lace—a gift from her grandmother. It was worn at the wedding of all the Morans. We will have the ceremony solemnized beneath a bower of lilacs.” “Thanks so much,” said the reporter. “I'll wire this story at once to my paper.” We turned to go. Billy called me aside. “Listen here,” he said, “if you tell her the truth, I’ll put ground glass in your coffee. This is the best gag I ever pulled. Tell her and ’ll murder you—do you understand?” I was torn between fear and duty. If Billy discovered that I told her, my life would be a burden of practical jokes. If I let the story go through she would be furious and the studio would never get another line of copy from her powerful newspaper. A! last I had a brilliant thought. “Polly Moran is working on this stage,” I said as we walked along. “Would you like to get more details from her?” We went on the stage. “Polly—Polly Moran,” somebody called, ‘“‘we’re ready for your scene now.” And the newspaper woman saw the real Polly Moran of the old Virginia fox hunters. Later, when’ the story did not appear, Billy accused me of having snitched. “I swear I didn’t,” said I, “she just happened to see Polly.” Hollywood is a strange town—as perhaps these stories have already shown you. Not long ago somebody asked me to recount the most incredible sight I’d ever seen in the film colony. That was a poser, but I do believe that the Savior on a bicycle seat is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. H. B. Warner, if you remember, played the Christus in “King of Kings.” In the final scene he was suspended from the cross. The problem was how he could hang there without doing himself bodily harm. Somebody had a thought. They at- tached to the cross a bicycle seat and, with hands and feet supposedly nailed, Warner was able to take the weight off his arms by resting upon the bicycle seat which did not show in the picture. Surely that’s fantastic enough for anybody. Is there any sin in Hollywood? That’s the question I’m going to answer next month. You can trust me to be honest. I haven’t been cagey with you yet, have I? I’ve discussed everything perfectly frankly and I promise you this won’t be the average stuff written about Hollywood sin. I won’t trick you. Next month [ll also tell you about the coming of the talkies and give you, among others, the inside story of Renee Adoree’s departure for the Arizona sanatorium When I Faced Death | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 56 ] wearing it a little too far down to be in style with Mayor Jimmy Walker. HEY now ransacked the joint, counted all the tools, saw that they had everything that belonged to them, took all they wanted out of me, put: back what they couldn’t use and I could, makin’ sure I wasn’t holdin’ out on them. Cowpunchers can be pretty slick at times, but try and get away with anything on one of those personally conducted tours, with stop- | over privileges at selected points of interest, with those eagle-eyed nurses giving the once and all over. Glad they didn’t have any of them for brand inspectors in the days of my cattle-rustling past. On the way up to my room, I saw a couple of birds standing in one of the halls. I didn’t like the look they gave me—reminded me of a time a strange cowhand stopped overnight at the ranch, and I saw him eyeing a certain horse in the corral, and next morning both stranger and horse were gone. Found out later that these boys went by the handle of the “death watch” and I was a prospect eighteen carat fine. They stuck around till daylight—it being two A. M. then—waiting for me to “cronk out” as they say it here. I now arrive at my room on the clean fifth and élite floor. The reason they sent me back from whence I came, they thought I would not be long any place, except the place you stay longest. So they said I could stay here if I promised to be a good boy and not shoot up the place, or insist on riding Tony up and down the halls, when I got to feeling better. Now | am getting along fine and if they want to keep me here much longer, they'll have to allow me to sleep with my boots and spurs on, — as this is the longest I have been out of them to date. WHEN I am turned loose back home on the home range, I will be Simon pure and fit — as a fiddle. Thankful to everyone for their help and always remembering that God sure enough rode night herd on me.

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The Shadow Stage The National Guide to Motion Pictures (REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.) [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 51 ] THE SUNSET TRAIL—Tiffany Prod. EN MAYNARD’S horse, Tarzan, and a small boy named Buddy Hunter really walk off with the acting honors in this shoot-em-up Western. There is the usual blonde to be saved from a bunch of black-hearted wretches; this time they are trying to scare her into selling her ranch. Ken Maynard, of course, turns the trick with fist and gun. Ruth Hiatt is the rescued damsel. Good riding and lots of shooting. CAIN—Talking Picture Epics MODERN Robinson Crusoe story, not as idyllic as the lovely ‘‘Tabu,” but enter- taining in spots and sometimes very beautiful. Although it is a French-made film, what little dialogue there is (and most of the scenes are silent) is in English. It was photographed on an island off the coast of Madagascar and points out the conflict between a lonely para- dise and civilization. THE LOCAL BAD MAN— Allied Pictures RATHER mild Western with Gibson gone a little naive. Not much story or action to this one and everybody is just so tired when they hold up that train. A wasted evening for adults. Sally Blane is the girl who just knows Hoot can do no wrong. MICHAEL AND MARY—Universal- Gainsborough Tus film, made in England from the play by A. A. Milne, boasts Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, the two real life love birds who wouldn’t be separated even for a few weeks. But those who wrote theater mash notes to Marshall (when he appeared in the stage play Those gay little tams that turn up in the back, only to zoom down over the right eye, have turned to straw this Spring. This fetching one worn by Kathryn Crawford is made of a dull prystaline straw. Two ostrich pompons point toward the eyeline Hoot | At All Drug Stores Handy Pocket Size 25¢ Large Size $1.00 Effervescent ALKA -SELTZER TABLETS PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 Try This New ALKALINE ACCEPT THIS TRIAL OFFER We make it easy for you to try ALKA-SELTZER be- cause we want everybody to know how wonderful this new “Alkaline Way” is to get relief from colds, sore throat, headaches, sour stomach, indigestion and other everyday ailments. Fill out the coupon NOW —take it to any drug store and the druggist will give you a regular 25 cent pack- age for only 10 cents. You will find it one of the best ten cents you ever spent. This New ALKALINE Way ODERN SCIENCE has discarded the old, violent method of treating a cold with strong drugs. Today leading authorities recommend the “Alkaline Way”—that is, to thoroughly “Alkalize”’ your system. Slow down—rest—keep warm—go to bed if pos- sible. ALKA-SELTZER Tablets are a most effective way to “Alkalize” your system. A cold that hangs on is apt to cause serious trouble. Don’t neglect it. If you have a cold, or feel one coming on — cut out the coupon below—take it to any drug store and receive a package of ALKA-SELTZER Tablets on our Special Trial Offer. You will be pleased at the prompt and effective relief you get. A tablet of ALKA-SELTZER in a glass of water makes a bubbling glassful of the vital alkaline minerals which you need to alkalize your system and relieve your cold. When colds and sore throat attack—when you are troubled with headaches, sour stomach, acid indigestion and similar everyday ills—it’s a sure sign you are suffering from TOO MUCH ACID in the system. ALKA-SELTZER Tab lets help to correct this excess acid condition. They make a sparkling antiacid drink, first relieving the pain and then building up the “alkaline reserve” which is so necessary if you want to get well and keep well. ALKA-SELTZER is the new common sense way— the Alkaline Way”— to relieve colds, headaches and indi- gestion. Use the coupon below and get a package at your nearest drug store. TE EET This coupon saves 15c Take this coupon to any Drug Store and = as a Special Introductory Offer the drug- gist will give you a regular 25 cent package of ALKA-SELTZER tablets for only 10 cts. P= UU eee customer and we will replace each package you give out on this Special Offer. DR. MILES’ Laboratories, Dept. P-51, Elkhart, Ind U2 0 PTTL SMC

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C.-NOTRE DAME FOOT- BALL GAME—Sono Art-World Wide OR those who love football this is one of the greatest spectacles of the year. The combat that has been called “the greatest game in foot- ball history” is here shown play by play (many of the shots in slow motion) with all the sus- pense, action and excitement of the original. And when the Trojans defeat the fighting Irish in the last two minutes of play you’ll be lifted out of your seat. Every football fan must see this! STEPPING SISTERS—Fox DULL farce, with a couple of faint snickers buried in the overdone slapstick, the tedious direction and the song and dance numbers. Louise Dresser, Minna Gombell and Jobyna Howland, as three burlesque queens, two of whom try to play the society game, work their little fingers to the bone in a futile effort to drag something out of this that isn’t there. NIGHT BEAT—Action Pictures RYING to cash in on the waning gangster .picture vogue this “quickie” attempts to glorify the law, with amusing results. But the producers didn’t mean to be amusing and that’s why Patsy Ruth Miller and Jack Mulhall (Jack used to be a big star) have such a tough time making it even passable. FILE 113—Allied Pictures PICTURE that fails to click in spite of the splendid work of Lew Cody, Clara Kimball Young, George Stone and Buster Collier. The story (written many years ago) about a famous detective who has the knack of solving crimes of all sorts with no apparent effort, has not been sufficiently modernized to seem even probable. TEX TAKES A HOLIDAY— Argosy Prod. THs story of a Mexican cowboy wanders here, there and everywhere but it does most of its rambling in color, some shots being really beautiful. The picture, however, is much too antiquated for modern audiences. The kids may like it. Wally MacDonald and Virginia Brown Faire have the leads. TWO SOULS (ZWEI MENSCHEN )— Cicero Prod. ACRIFICE is the theme of this story, a drama of love and religion, with enough bright spots for those who do not like heavy drama. The scenic shots of the Tyrolese country are beautiful. Because of the English titles the story will be clear to those who do not know German. FORGOTTEN WOMEN—Monogram ARION SHILLING, Carmelita Geraghty, Virginia Lee Corbin and Edna Murphy are all attractive to the eye, which is about as much as you can say for this story of a cub reporter on a big daily. Rex Bell is the pencil and note- book boy. What Really Happened to Buddy Rogers | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 30 ] Mary Pickford signed Buddy to appear opposite her in “My Best Girl.” Together with her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary shared the publicized spotlight of screen royalty. She signalized aloofness from the dark swirl of passions that spurt and foam from the springs of Hollywood emotions. Buddy was among the chosen few invited to Pickfair, a charming house in the hills of Beverly. Charles Farrell, one of his closest friends then, was also to be among the few, later, but now— t I "HE boy from Olathe, Kansas, rose to heroic ~ S ocial heights. But again his nemesis, ridicule, thrust him back into the male Pollyanna class for, with a crash of publicity cymbals, Paramount blared their boy, Buddy, forth as “America’s Boy Friend.” The reaction was anything but favorable. Buddy sought solace in his musical instru- ments. He did more. He made a date with the vivid Latin screen personage who had called him “ga-ga.” He primed himself for the date. He gloomed over his titles: the no-boy, the apron string puppet, ‘America’s Boy Friend.” Buddy was not quite himself that evening. His blood boiled and his heart hammered it through veins accustomed to it cool and tempered. With a grind of brakes, Buddy drew up to the beautiful home of his date. He rang the doorbell. The butler opened the door. Grimly, Buddy stalked to the drawing-room where she who had insulted his manhood by branding him ‘‘va-ga’’ awaited in all her effete beauty. Light- ning crackled his brown eyes, eyes usually so mild and gentle. Before his hostess could say more than “Hello,” Buddy had reached to her, pulled her to her feet, crushed her in his arms. She was warm, fragrant, a mite of a trick, albeit on occasion she had been known to enforce an argument with an uppercut that would have done justice to Jack Dempsey in his prime. “T’m ga-ga, am I?” shouted Buddy from his anguish, or words to that effect. ‘Well, sir, I’ll show you who’s ga-ga!” He pressed masterful lips to the lips of his unresisting prisoner. “T’ll show you,” he half-sobbed in defiance to all his tormentors, or still words to that effect. “Here, here,” she interrupted, exercising the strength with which nature had blessed her. “You're in a lava, my lad. Sit down and cool off.”” Was it Buddy’s fault that experience and courage forsook him at this critical moment and left him a poor second to the firmness of her who keeps him, now, among her amusing souvenirs? N the rationalizing light of a new day, the fiasco of the night before must have been just a bottle of white rock that didn’t fizz when opened. However, Buddy had been pursued before. A certain star, whose name would surprise you if you knew it, looked upon Buddy’s handsome- ness and fell hard. And Hollywood gasped when they learned her name. The gasp in- creased to a stifled shriek when it became known that a delivery car from a smart haber- dashery had stopped in front of Buddy’s house and left a gift package containing twelve magnificent pairs of silk pajamas. Had he ever had silk pajamas before? Never, returned the echo.

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But Buddy later found to his relief that all femininity in Hollywood is not_ necessarily aggressive. Not all girls were of the attacking sex. There was Mary Brian. Buddy rushed Mary at a pace that augurs seriousness. Mary soothed the wounds of vanity. Mary responded sympathetically to his musical am- bitions. Mary was girl and woman and from her emanated a motherly sweetness that Buddy craved. But he was not ready for matrimony. His pace slackened. His direction wavered and focused on June Collyer. He began to pay court to June. Mary and June appeared with him in a picture, “River of Romance.” It should have been a situation. It wasn’t, for Buddy. His eyes favored June, and Mary, her hurt her own, turned to others and where love had been anticipated, friendship alone remained. And now, having achieved the eminence of a male, a man who made his own engagements, who lived his own life secure from the bolder ladies, Buddy permitted himself to expand and to voice his ideas of love and marriage. He liked Mary and June and Florence Hamburger, the Los Angeles society girl with whom he used to go and who is now married. He liked many girls, in and out of pictures, but he wouldn’t marry until he met the right one. In her, he idealized the virtues of the Victorian and the Jazz Ages. He may find her. today. Paramount refused his plea for dramatic roles. Even after “‘The Lawyer’s Secret,” in which he became Charles and smoked his first cigarette, the studio refused him further dramatic réles. So Buddy is in New York, the metropolis that has acclaimed him wildly before, ac- claimed him for the very qualities Hollywood laughed at. The effort he has put into a musical future is being realized in a salary approximating ten thousand dollars a week derived from the stage, the radio, and his own band. He is not in Hollywood Dp PBEE thousand miles away, Hollywood considers Buddy Rogers in a more reflective light as radios are tuned to his program. They remember yesterday and the boy who came out of Olathe, Kansas, to be Peter Pan and their no-boy. They read of him today, the boy who must still call the police reserves in New York to protect him from the frenzy of admirers; who is successful, wealthy, sought after. He is twenty-eight, and the demands of crowding days and evenings of work and play have mellowed his youth, his naiveté, his frankness. Charles Buddy Rogers, secure in a new field of popular favoritism and a tremendous and assured income, is tooting his saxophone at Hollywood, notes that resemble razzberries. March Coane March 1—John Loder March 3—Edna Best, Jean Harlow, Ed- mund Lowe March 4—Dorothy Mackaill March 11—Lois Moran March 16—Junior Coghlan, Conrad Nagel March 18—Betty Compson, Rosita Moreno, Edward Everett Horton March 22—Bernice Claire March 23—Joan Crawford March 24—Jameson Thomas March 25—El Brendel March 27—Gloria Swanson March 29—Warner Baxter, Wheezer (of Our Gang) March 30—Anna Q. Nilsson March 31—Eddie Quillan, Victor Varconi PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR Marcu, 1932 109g ca he E we WwW w A Y : HANS FLATO Many women who first learned of Norforms from their physicians, told their friends of this dainty, safe form of feminine hygiene. Now it is the accepted modern method. « There is no need for complicated apparatus. Norforms are small, conve- nient suppositories, all ready for use. No mixing, no dissolving . . . odor- less and deodorizing. & Norforms are not untried newcomers! Made by the Norwich Pharmacal Company, makers of Unguentine and Amolin, Norforms have over 15 years of medical use behind them. @ Unlike the momentary douche, Norforms remain in prolonged contact, applying a protective, antiseptic film to the delicate membranes and tissues. e Norforms come 12 in a package. Order them from your druggist, or if you wish to know more about Norforms, fill in and mail the coupon below. e feminine hugiene For NORFORIMS KNOWN TO PHYSICIANS AS VAGIFORMS © W.P.CO. 1932, e@ Dr. M. W. Storer, Toz Norwicu Puarmacat Co., Dept. 53, Norwich, N. Y. Please send me booklet “The New Way.’’ I want to know more about the safe, modern Norwich form of personal hygiene.

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Then she reaches for her strong white brush and with firm determined stroke brushes out every single vestige of curl. She has the satisfaction of knowing she did curl her hair, anyway. Her eyes are small, expressive and very blue. Her teeth are strong and very white. Her hair plain brown. But a glistening, well-brushed brown. Gee plays the piano rather well. Her hands are long and slender, but surprisingly strong. In one scene in “Private Lives” she was to smack Robert Montgomery’s face right smartly with her left hand. Not able to con- trol the swing of her left arm, she let out a blow that smacked an amazed and_ thoroughly stunned Mr. Montgomery directly through a screen. Where he lay gasping like a fish while Norma looked on in horror. They shot the scene exactly as it happened. And caused a riot with the fans. Who little dreamed how it really happened. Her one ambition as a child was to be a famous and spectacular athlete. The kind that swims channels and crawls up _ buildings. Human fly fashion. Her heart was set on the human fly business. She plays a good game of tennis, swims well and is an excellent skier. Landing, nine times out of ten, on her skis. To her own delight and surprise. She drinks a glass of hot water with lemon juice in it every morning after her setting up exercises. But she doesn’t believe in sun baths. Thinks women should keep fair to be lovely. She’s tried and tried, but simply cannot bring herself to get under a cold shower. But will plunge into the coldest pool without a qualm. Her feet are always cold. Winter or summer her feet are cold. Even in a heat wave. Especially during heat waves, as a matter of fact. Norma Shearer goes about the studio quietly and even submissively. Asking no favors. She actually goes to extremes to show that because she is the wife of an executive she expects no favors. HE entire studio adores her. Andshe never suspects how much. And would weep with gratitude if she knew. But they have to threaten all sorts of dire things before she’ll pose for photographs. But once let the urge seize her, nothing can stop her. She’ll go steadily for days. And pose for hours ata time. She’ll drag every garment she owns to the photographer and there she’ll sit. For days. Until actually the poor photog- rapher weeps with fatigue. Then she won’t go again for a year. She never knows any Hollywood gossip, but loves it. Knows she’d make a perfect movie fan. Recently, for the first time since she’s been working at M-G-M, she made a trip with friends to the different sets. -She sh-h-h-h-h’d her guests half to death, stole meekly across sound stages and stood there, like a tourist from Kansas, thrilled to death. She says herself she’s as patient as a cow. Doesn’t mind waiting dinner for her husband or dinner guests and can’t imagine why any hostess should be disturbed by her tardiness. Heaven knows it never bothers her when people are late. If there is one kind of person she dotes on, it’s that willing person that joins in on-an im- promptu good time. A ‘‘come on, let’s go places” person. Who always goes at the drop of the hat. * She uses one scent. With toilet water to match. And won’t tell its name. Hates to write. _ And sends all her messages by wire. Has only the deepest disgust for telephones. And is constantly surrounded by phones that ring madly. She loves stage actresses. And will go home from the theater and imitate them by the hour. Sweeping grandly before her mirror. Gestur- ing and acting. Until her husband swears she must have a fever. ANS. Crowds of people outside theaters thrill her to death. She would, if permitted, linger among them for hours, signing auto- graphs. Once, coming out of a hotel in London, she found a crowd of people milling about to glimpse her. Pleased, and puffed up at the unexpected attention, she entered her car and drove to a theater. With a bit of pity for the Prince of Wales whom she pictured at that very moment as being absolutely devoured with envy. At the theater she was amazed to find another crowd. Demanding autographs and plucking at her coat. ‘How ever did you know I was coming to this certain theater?” Norma asked one. “Oh, we didn’t,” he re- plied, ‘‘you’re just an accident. We’re waiting for the star.” And did Irving Thalberg shout! But Norma has a grand time laughing at herself. FOR some reason she never has a cent of money. : And keeps dashing in and out of shops to borrow from her chauffeur. Who keeps plenty handy for that very purpose. She’s a great actress in real life and puts ona grand show. Of a charming, worldly-wise woman. As a matter of fact, she’s pretty well frightened three-fourths of the time. And, terribly unsure of herself. And, oh yes. I must make a list. I must write on that list to speak to Norma about the way she swings with both feet up on that screen door of her dressing-room while she talks. Some day that screen will break and Norma will go hurling over that rickety bannister. And if ever that should happen, a million hearts all over the world would break. For Norma Shearer. “Li'l Gawgia” Gets Glamour! | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 67 | “ Alas,’ thought I, and so did others, “the same old Minam. If she has anything to give to pictures, I’m Eddie Cantor’s five daugh- ters!” Just another job of work by just another ingénuc—except that she was a little more colorless and more plain than some. And when other inconspicuous Hopkins talkies came along, I conveniently forgot and went to a newsreel. Then I went to “The Smiling Lieutenant,” to see Chevalier grin—but what I did see was 1h ly OS Ey ©) wr mE Se ek en ee

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Here is Miriam Hopkins at the age of two and a half, way down South in Georgia what was billed as Miriam Hopkins! What a woman as the little princess! What charm, what grace, what vivacity, what oo-la-la and yum-yum! My hat! Your hat! Queen Mary’s hat! Somehow, sometime, snickering Fate had dealt her a mess of glamour! In some inscru- table fashion she was no longer a scrawny and colorless girl, but a woman full of danger and allurement! As the dance-hall girl in “24 Hours” she repeated the dose, doubled and redoubled—what a luscious picture she made in that. ND now, in Freddy March’s newest essay, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” our li’] Miriam really comes of age. As one watches her bril- liant performance in Fearless Fred’s support, the feeling comes that here is a real somebody, a power and a personality in the making of talking shadows! Out there in the Hollywood jungles there roams, practically unchecked, a vivid woman and an exceptional actress. It’s “Li’] Gawgia” Hopkins, the girl from Savannah, and it’s safe to predict— Whoa! What a rotten predictor I turned out to be! I watched that girl, on stage and screen, for a matter of nine years, and I could see no more future for her than awaits an old studio gate- man who snoozes the sunny hours away. And now look what she’s done to me! Yep—I’ll take a chance. I'll say that 1932, if it gives her a good shake in the matter of roles and directors, will make Miriam Hopkins one of the outstanding screen figures of the day. AX? here it is in writing! Well, it just goes to show that, well, it just goes to show. By one of the blinding, blistering miracles that life delights in committing, now and then, a blank cartridge among ingénues has been changed into a siege-gun shell destined to blast a big niche for her in the fortresses of film- land. Anything can happen now—you and I had better run for President on a Know-Nothing Ticket! What did it? Good old Glamour, whatever that is! You tell me. Gosh and gee whillikins, kids, if they only sold that stuff in drug stores! PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 1st Veg P lan cuts Laas of Eats THE FAMILY’S REDUCES fare SOME “*COLDS-TAX re Loss OF TIME AND 9 a family’s ““Colds-Tax” can be reduced. It is being reduced this winter— in every community in the country—with the Vick Plan for better “‘Control-of- Colds.” Developed by the makers of Vicks VapoRub, the Plan is made possible with Vicks Nose & Throat Drops. Based on a new idea for preventing colds, this new Vick formula is com- panion to VapoRub, the modern method of treating colds. Each aids and sup- plements the other in the Vick Pian, which follows: 1. BEFORE A COLD STARTS.. At that first sneezy, scratchy irritation of the nose or upper throat— Nature’s warning that you are “catching cold” — use Vicks Drops promptly as di- rected. If you catch cold easily, use a few Vicks Drops up each nostril after exposure to any particular condition that you know is apt to give you a cold—for instance, a night on a Pullman—a dusty automobile tide— sudden changes, wet or cold—after over-smoking — dry, over-heated rooms — indoor crowds—etc., etc.— and you feel the slightest stuffiness of the nasal passages. TRIAL OFFER BY ALL DRUGGISTS You have Vicks VapoRub—now get Vicks Nose Drops and use together as directed in the Vick Plan for better “Control-of-Colds’—to reduce their number and severity. Unless you are delighted with results, your druggist is authorized to refund your money. 2. AFTER A COLD STARTS =. At night, massage the throat and chest well with Vicks VapoRub, Spread on thick and cover with warm flan- nel. Leave the bed-clothing loose around the neck so that the medicated vapors aris- ing can be inhaled all night long. During the day—any time, any place—use Vicks Drops as needed for ease and comfort. (If there is a cough, you will like the new Vicks Cough Drops—actually medicated with ingredients of Vicks VapoRub.) This gives you full 24-hour treatment and with- out the risks of too much internal “dosing.”

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 What Do You Want To Know About The Pictures? Is it a good picture? Is it the kind of picture I would like? Which one shall we see tonight? Shall we take the children? PHOTOPLAY will solve these problems for you—save your picture time and money. Photoplay gives you: Authorized interviews with your favorite actors and actresses who speak frankly because PHOTOPLAY enjoys their full confidence. Photoplay’s “Shadow Stage” is nationally famous. Here Striking editorials that cut, with- out fear or favor, into the very heart of the motion picture in- dustry. Articles about every phase of the screen by outstanding authori- ties who have made pictures their life business. are reviews of all the new pictures, with the casts of all the players. PHoro- PLAY also prints monthly a complete summary of every picture reviewed in its pages for the previous six months. 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X3 eautiful fem- CIR ora wiacd ob sek nnin(o'oe'e cio ata am oaheints Statesscarcar--.<- 2 inine form 816 Broadway, New York, N. Ye What The Audience Thinks | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 ] GABLE TRIBUTE Clark Gable has charmed me out of twenty years of despondency. During that time I have waged a desperate battle with a suicide complex. In all that time the movies have been my greatest solace. For the time being I would forget that constant planning to end it all. However, it was not until I saw Clark Gable the second time, that, suddenly, I didn’t want to die. Life was beautiful and worth while. What does anything matter when I can look forward to seeing Clark on the screen? Isn’t it the most ridiculously amusing thing? At the same time, isn’t it perfectly wonderful? Can you explain it? I can’t. I don’t try very hard. I just accept it and am thankful. : Epiru F. South Gate., Calif. PRO AND CON JOAN Why does Joan Crawford try to imitate Garbo? She must sit up nights studying the Viking Venus. My idea is that us Garbo-ites will not have carbon copies—so Joan, stop wearing gray slouch hats and above all don’t try to imitate Garbo’s eyes. FLORENCE BOLDER, East Hartford, Conn. Why doesn’t Joan Crawford get the praise that’s due her? She could have taken any one of Norma Shearer’s last three pictures and done them as well, if not better than Shearer, without the affected giggle. Betsy Baer, Chicago, II! JACK OR CLARK Just a short while ago John Gilbert’s name was on every lip. We girls raved on and on about him. And, now, what has happened? Instead of Gilbert it’s Clark Gable. And Gilbert has almost faded out of the picture. I don’t think it fair. Gilbert is as good an actor as ever and just as handsome. I, for one, shall remain an ardent Gilbert fan re- gardless of all the Gables or what have you. Mrs. B. Densy, Brooklyn, N. Y. FIRST GABLE FAN When I saw Clark Gable as an extra in a picture about two years ago I recognized his ability, and, what’s more, I wrote him and wished him all the luck in the world. It was the only fan letter I have ever written and con- tained no request for anything. But just the same I received an autographed photograph by return mail. I am sure I shall be a Gable admirer long after feminine bosoms have ceased to heave whenever he comes into view. BaRBARA PuHitirps, Cambridge, Mass. WORLD THOUGHTS Why isn’t there ever a line about Victor Varconi? I hope there will be more publicity soon for that divine actor. Lory AOLLER, Vienna, Austria I adore Norma Shearer for her acting (al- though I do dislike her réles), and for her clear pronunciation, but it is Warner Baxter who has made me sit back and relax when he talks, for I understand him perfectly. Ramon Novarro is still the supreme idol of most of us down here, for his extreme boyishness, ro- mantic appeal, and now his splendid voice. He is the best understood of all the stars, for he speaks exactly as most of our friends, cousins and brothers do. TRINIDAD RAMIREZ DE ARELLANO, Manila, P-I.

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In the “Brickbats & Bouquets” depart- ment we like to compare our opinion with that of your American readers, who see the pictures so much earlier than we do. Lucky people! JouHN ScHErERs, Antwerp, Belgium In Malaya, it is really out of the question to see stage plays like “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney,” “Journey’s End,” etc. But now, thanks to the talkies, not only can we enjoy them, but we can afford to see them several times over. Novels are very expensive here and so naturally one cannot afford to buy all the books written by favorite authors. Again we must thank the talkies for having trans- lated such books as “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “The Divorcee,” “Trader Horn,” etc. Goxu CHENG ENG, Penang, S. S. Many of the college stories are not life-like. “Confessions of a Co-Ed” caused me serious trouble. My mother and I live in a country place and do not often go to the movies, but we saw this one. My mother was saving up for me to go to college, but when she saw this picture she said I could not go after all. It took my uncle and me a long time to convince her that it was only a story. May Repo, Mexico, D. F. Several theaters in Paris show English talk- ing films. My friends and I appreciate them greatly. The directing is skillful and the casts always splendid, but why are the majority of stories so poor? My American friends agree with me. Why don’t companies that are willing to pay third-rate actresses like Con- stance Bennett $30,000 a week spend more money on stories? HELENE Lung, Paris, France This is an appeal for Frank Fay pictures. All his films have proved amusing and interest- PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR Marcu, 1932 ing, only unsatisfactory because there are not enough of them. A. Harris, Montreal, Canada John Gilbert and Clara Bow are not through. Clara has had a lot of tough luck and we all admire her for her courage in trying to come back. She has a good voice and has nothing to fear from the microphone. Fans still like John Gilbert. He made a bad picture in “His Glorious Night,” and people said he was finished, but that was disproved in “The Phantom of Paris.”” I saw that picture several times and would like to know what star could have given as splendid and as dramatic a performance as Gilbert. His voice was natural and better than many voices of male stars I have heard. Hitpa GRAHAM, Vancouver, Canada I am told that Mary Pickford once acted splendidly as Judy Abbott in ‘““Daddy Long Legs,” but I know nothing about it. I only know that ‘Daddy Long Legs” is produced again splendidly by Janet Gaynor and Alfred Santell, the director. Many of the scenes make my heart move. Hrrosui Nacae, Tokyo, Japan LESS TALK, MORE LOVE Something drastic will have to be done about the love scenes in the talkies. As it is now, our favorite stars are pathetically funny, saying the silly lines they have to repeat over and over again. Why not limit the lines to a few expressive words? Rutu Dovuctass, Council Bluffs, lowa ART WITHOUT A COUNTRY Many of the letters state that we should not patronize foreign stars, but should give the ie Americans a chance and incidentally keep the money among Americans. It seems to me the American actors and actresses have the best chance from the beginning, with no accents to conquer, and if they fail to ‘come across’ whose fault is it? Are we to lose the artistry of a Garbo, Arliss or Dietrich because they were born in Europe? I fail to see the connection between nationality and artistry. When George Arliss gives us one of his inimitable performances and speaks English as it should be spoken no one grudges him the money he makes. We are the better for having seen and heard him. Rose Taprock, Buffalo, N. Y. CHEER UP, LIL “The Woman From Monte Carlo,” in which Lil Dagover makes her movie début, will suit the kind of audience that likes real drama of the inevitable, as in Greek tragedy. Those who prefer for their suspense the unexpected- ness of cheap melodrama, will not be so pleased. Miss Dagover is an entirely different type of heroine, making one think of Gloria Swanson at times, of Greta Garbo often. She will give them all a race for laurels, providing her producers give her real plays. Like Ruth Chatterton, she is a real actress. EmeEro! Stacy, Portland, Ore. THAT BLOND GENE “Ladies of the Big House” was wonderful. Sylvia Sidney gives a fine performance. But you should see her leading man, Gene Ray- mond, tall, handsome, blond and witha charm- ing smile. He is a relief from Clark Gable. Miss VALtory, Newark, N. J. Gene Raymond is a different blond hero. 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the ONE TOMATO COCKTAIL CoOL INN ToMarG JUICE | COCKTAIL. || Greet your appetite with original College Inn Tomato Juice Cock- tail—the one tomato cocktail that is chock-full of flavor and body. Original College Innis the prod- uct of whole tomatoes—rich, red, ripe, big fellows. A bit of season- ing is added to make it racy. And it’s packed by the new exclusive Hi-Vita process which preserves all the original flavor and vitamins. Always put up in glass contain- ers—you see its flaming bright- ness, and the new cap is a great convenience. Enjoy the difference today be- tween full-bodied, full-flavored tomato cocktail and ordinary thin, watery, canned juices... and you'll enjoy it often. Ellewe ik THE ORIGINAL TOMATO JUICE COC KTAIE Co.ivtece Inn Foop Propucts Co. Hotel Sherman Chicago 415 Greenwich St... New York PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR MARCH, 1932 Photoplay’s Wonderful New Beauty Service! It will be the most complete and helpful beauty department ever given by magazine to its readers, and will be called, appropriately enough, any “The Hollywood Beauty Shop” There you will find all the latest beauty tricks and fads of all the Screen Beauties. There you will find, prepared for you with startling pictorial clearness, the fundamental requirements of make-up and hairdressing, and care of the skin. either on the screen or off. But now I’m all for Gene Raymond. Anw Lasucxas, Chicago, Ill. AN ENGLISH COMPLAINT How much longer will it be before British pictures are given a fair showing in the United States? Certainly some of our films are very poor but there are a lot of darn good ones which deserve universal success. Our players get no publicity in the American press and are consequently unknown to the American pub- lic, yet seventy-five per cent of the film news in the English press concerns American picture players. Leste J. Crocker, Middlesex, England YOU DON’T KNOW MAC? I arrived at our neighborhood theater to discover that almost every seat was taken and I saw that the majority of those present were children. When Graham McNamee’s face ap- peared on the newsreel screen the applause completely drowned his greeting. A little girl sitting two seats from me asked, ‘“Who’s that?” The one next to me said, “ Why, that’s Graham McNamee!” Mere words can’t convey her apparent shock at the colossal ignorance of the one who did not know Graham McNamee. Mary W. WALLACE, Atlanta, Ga. JOAN’S GOOD EXAMPLE A little ten-year-old girl I know had taken piano lessons for about a month and was Carolyn Van Wyck is now in Holly- wood searching out the beauty secrets of the stars for you. Watch for it in the April issue of PH? OF 'F*O Blea getting bored with them. She and I went to see Joan Crawford in “‘ Possessed.” She heard Joan play and sing and right then and there her former interest in the piano lessons was revived. So far, Joan’s influence is still going strong, for the little ten-year-old practices diligently so she can “play like Joan did.” Perhaps Miss Crawford did not do the playing but what does that matter if she was just pre- tending. She did a lot of good. Dorotuy REED, Scranton, Penna. QUEEN MARIE Be it rain or shine it’s standing room only when Marie Dressler’s name is blazing from the electric signs, for some actresses are good in some pictures and not so good in others But Marie is good in everything. Myrt_Le KaurMan, New York City PERSONAL OPINIONS My opinion of Hollywood’s gossip hounds is that they are jealous of Jean Harlow’s loveli- ness and her personality. They realize they are not so pretty as Jean. Doris SuitH, Davis, Ill. Gloria Swanson is the greatest actress of them all. “Tonight or Never” was great. New stars may come and go but Gloria goes on forever. Harry R. Brake, South Milwaukee, Wis. PHoTOPLAY combines everything that other magazines spread out for pages, in a short,

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interesting, easy-to-read manner, with nothing missing. Dororuy Dorsey, Philadelphia, Penna. Robert Montgomery does a certain type of sophisticated comedy that is splendid and he has a charming style all his own. Berry BARNSDALL, Cannes, France Let us have more pictures with Helen Hayes, whom I consider the greatest actress ever to grace the talking screen. Joun WELLs, Los Angeles, Calif. I find so much greater pleasure in reading a book after having seen the picture made from ae The characters are infinitely more real to me. Marin PETRIE, Seattle, Wash. Ramon Novarro does not have to wear a uniform before he can act. What about “ Ben Hur”? What other star would have put that nasty make-up all over his entire body, to make it look scaley? Also remember ‘The Pagan” and “Where the Pavement Ends.” Marie J. WaGneErR, Denver, Colo. Don’t pluck your eyebrows, Clark Gable. Only sissies do that. -You should remain the he-man you are. D. Ripincs, Dayton, Ohio If Hollywood is overflowing with beauty and talent, why in the name of Garbo can’t they find some of it to put in a few of those terrible short subjects? Jot Boorue, Sweetwater, Texas Joan Blondell is not only the cutest and peppiest blonde in Hollywood but she has a pleasant voice as well and I could sit for hours just looking at her. Joan Granam, Oakland, Calif. “CLEAN those Lips...or we _; DON’T GO PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 People have to blame something for making their children bad so they are picking on the movies. CLARENCE Lonto, Shakopee, Minn. They can talk about glamour but personally I prefer sweetness and simplicity. Betty Drummonp, Orono, Me. Directors are as important as the stars. No matter how talented are the actors, no matter how good or novel is the story, it is the director who is responsible for the success or failure of the finished film. Mary Lane, Wellington, New Zealand TOM MIX For miles I drive my rattling Ford among dense fields of sugar cane, and suddenly emerge into a village whose inhabitants are ‘“‘ gooks ””— a mixture of Oriental races. However, enough of the population is Japanese that theirs is the common language and theirs is the movie theater where I see brilliant banners in red and blue floating from long poles to announce the show. Yes, they are talkies. Usually the picture is a Japanese one with real Japanese actors, but sometimes I see Tom Mix. Then I am especially early at the show. You who enter thoughtlessly, those luxurious picture houses in the States to see the latest films, stop sometimes to think how much happiness can be gleaned in a little rough board theater half hidden among the sugar cane of Oahu. Mrs H. E. Tom.inson, Waialua, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii. RANDOM THOUGHTS I am sorry to learn that Leslie Howard doesn’t care for Hollywood. I think he is a Lis fine actor and would like to see him in more movies. Mrs. W. E. WELLS, New York City. If Sylvia Sidney were starred in more pic- tures, Greta Garbo would be forgotten en- tirely. Miss Sidney is one actress of whom the fans will never tire. SyLvIA GRIDLEY, Syracuse, N. Y. I spend lots of money on shows. Every time Elissa Landi is playing, I drag my family to see her. I would rather see her than Clara Bow. MELBA SADEWHITE, Marshall, Mo. To my way of thinking Mae Clarke in “Waterloo Bridge” does more real acting than Constance Bennett has achieved in her entire “talkie” career. RutH Ery, St. Paul, Minn. Why give all the praise to Clark Gable? What about Robert Montgomery? He has more wit, personal appearance and technique than Gable ever thought of having. Bob Montgomery has been my favorite ever since I saw him in “Shipmates.” EvELYN Kierer, Rochester, N. Y. Not only do I think Eric Von Stroheim a consummate actor and a unique director—a genius—but I think he is the most fascinating man I’ve ever seen. One glance is sufficient to show that his is a background of breeding and culture. Compared with Mr. Von Stroheim, these popular matinée idols seem inane. Minprep H. Hupson, Washington, D. C. Never before have we had a screen star like Joan Blondell. She has good looks, personality and she is a great actress and a trouper. M. Retsseck, Denver, Colo. “7 UST think— Jack breaking out like that and the Briggs waiting right there! I nearly died of shame... but when I looked in the glass—my lips did look painted.” That painted look is one thing men simply cannot stand! You don’t notice it—but others do. Colors you have grown used to look cheap and tawdry to your friends. End painted lips! Forget your present lip- stick. When you make up, Tengee your lips. Tangeecan’t make you look painted. It isn’t paint. It’s a new discovery that changes on your lips to the color that looks best on you! Tangee is permanent. Its cold cream base sinks into the pores. It won’t cake or chap. Get Tangee at your druggist or cosmetic Cheeks Mustn’t Look Painted, Either counter. Use it next time you make up! Tangee Rouge changes on the cheeks—just the way Tangee changes on your lips. It gives the color most becoming to you. Tangee Rouge keeps your cheeks from looking painted. And it makes the color on your cheeks match the color on your lips. When you get Tangee Lipstick, ask for Tangee Rouge. TRY TANGEE LIPSTICK AND ROUGE —---~<-—-Miracle Make-up Set for nae ta GrorGe W. Lurt Co. 417 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: I enclose 10c. Please send your miracle make-up set to: Name Address City A os we en en ee State.

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116 NEW KIND OF SOFT BEAUTY Scientists say that the skin contains about 28 miles of pores and ducts. That explains how Dr. Charles Flesh Food is bringing a new kind of soft-skin beauty to so many women. Almost as soon as applied, this remarkable cream is absorbed by the pores; thus it gets at the entire skin—the lower tissues as well as the upper—lubricating them and giving them a pliant softness which is different from any- thing else. As a night cream it imparts a translucent beauty and tones down wrinkles. On chapped hands or other rough surfaces it works seeming miracles. Every woman should take advantage of it. 50c and $1 the jar. DrCharles FLESH FOOD DmpDruT For free sample jar eend this coupon to Dr. Charles Flesh Food Co., Dept. P-C. 220-36th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Meaning of Beauty THE woman men call beautiful is the woman who radiates health and vitality. Such women are popular with both sexes. The desire to be healthy should be the dominating Pavel Onna every Wwom- maf an’s life. : ere Bos R. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription has helped countless women. It builds up the system, causes irregularities to d:min- ish, and the regular use of this tonic has helped do away with monthly pains and those black circles under the eyes. Make your body healthy! Inward beauty is the most important of all. For free medical advice write to Dr. Pierce's Clinie (Dept. “L”’), Buffalo, N. Y. Druggists sell ‘Dr. Pierce’s ‘Prescription’ HOW TO REMOVE THEM A simple, home treatment—25 years success in my practice. Moles dry up and drop off. Write for free Booklet. WM. DAVIS, M.D., 124-D Grove Ave., Woodbridge, N.J. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 Screen Memories From Photoplay ‘THs department has often wept over the passing of the one-time great and glamorous stars. We printed this picture of Marie Dressler and the caption under it read: “Marie Dressler is now a star in her own comedy company, valued at two millions.” Here’s something else that doesn’t change. In our editorial we got as excited as a politician on election day over the ubiquitousness of the movie butler. Said we: ‘Pictures have passed the boob stage and yet the screen butler per- sists. The bachelor is not allowed to hang his own pants in his own closet and the business man cannot put away or get his coat or hat when he exits or enters.”” The film butlers and gentleman’s gentlemen are in pent houses now, but they’re still their obsequious selves. But there are heart throbs in this issue, too. The beautiful girl in riding habit is Seena Owen Marie Dressler oe thought gangster pictures were some- thing new, didn’t you? No, there’s nothing novel under the cinema sun, for ten years ago we ran an article called ‘Underworld Life in the Films” and it kidded the then-recent cycle of crook pictures. There were vice rings and “moll buzzers,’’ but we didn’t take them so seriously as we do now. Incidentally, the piece was written for PHoropLay by Willard Huntington Wright, whom you know as S. S. Van Dine, the creator of Philo Vance, who then was a steady contributor to the magazine. Under a picture of Rudolph Valentino we wrote ‘“‘Even in these days of dismal depression in motion picture production (times were bad then, too) his services are being eagerly sought.’ On the opposite page he gave his views about women and one of them read, “TI would not care to kiss a girl whose lips were mine at our second or third meeting.” And Theodore Roberts TARING out from among the pages of five years ago is a picture of Lois Wilson with bobbed hair, and the story which accompanies it is plentiful with words of defiance hurled by Lois. She says she is sick of being sweet on the screen. She swears she is interesting and has personality and will prove it. Poor Lois! A great story will some day be written about her. She’s the girl who was born to be a satellite, invariably revolving in the orbit of a great star—once it was Gloria Swanson, now it is Ruth Chatterton. But they say she blossoms forth in a new role in the forthcoming Chic Sale picture “Slice of Life.” You’d never believe that those two pictures, on opposite pages, are of Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. Is it possible that five years can make such a difference? Norma is a smiling young woman with demure curls and bangs, while Joan is buxom and untidy. Not a trace of the glamour which is later to sur- Joan Crawford 15 Years Ago whom we called the loveliest siren of the screen. Professionally, Seena is almost for- gotten, but she hasn’t forgotten her friends. During the long months when Lila Lee was regaining her health at an Arizona hospital recently, Seena was one of the few faithful ones who made the trip to see her time and again. The girl on the cover was Mary MacLaren, who may come back any day, and the gallery included Marguerite Clayton, Antonio Moreno, Edna Hunter, William Courtleigh, Jr., Jackie Saunders, Wilfred Lucas, Lois Weber and Marie Chambers. Pictures reviewed were: Geraldine Farrar in “Joan, the Woman,” Douglas Fairbanks in “The Americano,” Marguerite Clark in “Snow White,” Lenore Ulric in “The Road to Love” and Ethel Barrymore in “The Awakening of Helena Ritchie.” Cal York item: Mae Murray has become the bride of Jay O’Brien. (She was later married to Robert (Director) Leonard and is now married to Prince David Mdivani, brother of Pola’s ex.) 10 Years Ago that was Rudy! On the screen, the cave-man (they were cave-men then) Rudy had, in reality, the heart of a simple Italian boy. There were two pages of horrific pictures, one showing Lon Chaney achieving some of his weird make-up effects, and the other of Theo- dore Roberts, getting emotional with his trusty cigar. Three brilliant performers— Rudy, Lon and Daddy Roberts! All gone! Olga Petrova was the cover girl and pictures of Rex Ingram with Alice Terry (whom he had just married), Helen Ferguson, Thomas Meighan, Alice Calhoun, Wally Reid and his son Billy, Charlie Chaplin, and Carol Dempster graced the gallery. The best pictures were “Orphans of the Storm,” ‘Miss Lulu Bett,” “Boomerang Bill,” “Three Live Ghosts” and ‘‘Red Hot Romance.” Cal York items: Bill Hart and Winifred Westover are on their Honeymoon... Marilyn Miller issued an indignant denial that she was to marry Jack Pickford . . . Mabel Normand’s health is bad again and the brilliant little comedienne has not been able to start her scheduled picture for Mack Sennett. 3 Years Ago round them can be seen in either. If you covered up their names under the pictures, I defy you to recognize them. Norma was, at the time, a star; Joan just a small part player. Promises were made but to be broken! We recount the story of the discovery of Jimmie Murray by King Vidor and we quote Jimmie as saying, “I’m going to keep my mouth shut, do what Mr. Vidor tells me and make good or bust. I won’t have any alibis if I don’t make good.” All right, Jimmie, you’ve got no alibis. You had the biggest chance of any young fellow in pictures, but you sold it for a—well, not for a mess of pottage. And you didn’t do what Mr. Vidor told you, lad. Arlette Marchal (who started out big and flopped) was on the cover this month and gallery pictures were those of Gloria Swanson, Billy Haines, Clara Bow, Natalie Barrache, Anna Q. Nilsson and Charles Ray. Here were the six best films of the month, “The Kid Brother,’ “The Fire Brigade,” “Tell It to the Marines,” “The General,” “Blonde or Brunette,’ and “The Music Master.”

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Brief Reviews of Current Pictures | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 ] SECRETS OF A SECRETARY —Paramount. —The actors make this worth the price. Claudette Colbert is fine and that Herbert Marshall, ae the stage, is one of those men you don’t forget. Se pl.) SECRET WITNESS, THE—Columbia.—ZaSu Pitts as a flustered telephone operator adds her usual deft humor to a mystery with a double murder and a couple of suicides. (Feb.) SECRET SERVICE—Radio Pictures.—Adven- tures of a Northern spy behind the Confederate lines. Richard Dix tries too hard. (Dec.) SHA NGHAIED LOVE—Columbia.— Mutiny and gory evil-doings at sea. Too much dialogue. Not enoughaction. (Nov.) SHERLOCK HOLMES’ FATAL HOUR — Warners-First Division.— British-made mystery film, rather long-drawn-out but not lacking in interest. Sherlock Holmes and Watson solve another murder mystery. (Sept.) SHOULD A DOCTOR TELL?—Regal Prod.— Dreary talk about dreary ethics. Who cares? (Nov.) SIDE SHOW —Warners.—Winnie Lightner and Charles Butterworth try hard, but the un-funny lines are distressing. A circus story. (Sep/.) SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK—M-G-M.—A laugh a moment and just the right number of moments with “dead pan’’ Buster Keaton, Cliff Edwards and Anita Page. (Oct.) Aside from being a very charming pose of Claudette Colbert, this pic- ture has fashion distinction. A black woolen frock has the unusual trimming of white angora on sleeves and collar. Note the epaulet effect which gives the broader shoulder line that Seymour has been telling you about. And what a pert feather on Claudette’s black felt turban! PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR Marcu, 1932 EL The World’s Most Beautiful Women Wear Bon Ton Foundations arguerite Churchill Star of 4/ =f . 5) ~ . PN ELE NEO “Vs 4/ Charlie Chan Carries On,“ Quick Millions’, “Ambassador Bill’ demands \ Bon Ton ys Foundation Garments ~ Miss Churchill says— LA aod 7 é . Correct Foundations are the most unportant feature ofa Wardrobe. I find Bon Jon Foundations far Pe ie “/ more satislactory than ary other. Miss Churchill’s measurements are: Height 5’ 63°; Weight 119; Bust 34; Waist 26; Hips 36. Bon Ton brings figure beauty—no matter what your measurements. The nearest Bon Ton dealer will gladly give you a special fittings. RoyAL WORCESTER CorsET Co. Worcester-New York-Chicago-San Francisco-London Bon Ton is on Sale all over the World Subscribe for Photoplay Magazine! RATES SS Bs YEARLY SEE ON. ee in the United PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE States, its dependencies, Mexico and Cuba; oe $3.50 Canada; $3.50 to foreign countries. Re- Dept.3-P, 919 No. Michigan Ave., CHICAGO mittances should be made by check, or postal Gentlemen: 1 enclose herewith $2.50 [Canada $3.50. or express money order. Foreign $3.50] for which kindly enter my sub- scription for PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE, for One year, N O sh I C E ] effective with next issue, Do not subscribe for PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE through unknown persons. Verify the credentials of all solicitors. If in doubt give your subscription S00 EIR BG Bn BAGH BECCOOOGRONODOLCOOOODC Oo dapSenens to your newsdealer cr use the coupon and send it direct to ° Photoplay Magazine Street Address..........--- ain(aicic sietalcfe wierd oisis a ateiete Dept. 3-P 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago SOR POCO MOOR ORTH RAT R Pee eee RT PTeT TTI Your Favorite Movie Actresses wear Nesto Lashes Always imperceptible, these can be used repeatedly. Made artificial eyelashes enhance the in four shades—Blonde, Brown, facial features and give the eyes Dark Brown and Black. Price an alluring charm. Made by $1.00 per pair at your beauty Nestle—the originators of the shop—or if not available there, permanent wave. mail in your check or money order with the coupon below. A Instantly puton or removed,Nesto happy revelation awaits you with Lashes are readily cleansed and your first pair of Nesto Lashes. THE NESTLE-LE MUR CO. + Dept. M + 10 East 49th Street, New York, N. Y. You may send_____pairs of Nesto Lashes______color, at $1 a pair, postage prepaid, for which | am enclosing check or money order. Name S26 oy tote

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A charming, sophisticated yarn of the “Holiday” school. (@ct.) SOB SISTER—Fox.—You'll like this fast news- piper varn and Linda Watkins. Jimmie Dunn is grand,too. (Nov.) SOOKY—Paramount.—Even if this does resemble “Skippy,."’ without equalling its success, young and old will like it. The gang’s all there (Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan and Jackie Searl) with tears and laughs. (Feb.) SPECKLED BAND, THE—First Division.— Sherlock Holmes is at it again, finding sinister East Indian death methods used in an English country house. (Jan.) . SPIDER, THE—Fox.—Thrills and shivers over a murder in a theater. Eddie Lowe is grand and suspense is geared on high. (Oct.) SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME, THE—Uni- versal—Knute Rockne lives again in this powerful football story with Lew Ayres and the real Notre Dame team. (Dec.) SPORTING BLOOD—M-G-M.—The biography of a race horse. Not interested? All right, then, Clark Gable has a featured réle. That should get you. It’s a good movie. (Sept.) SPORTING CHANCE, THE—Peerless Prod.— The famous young jockey throws the race, but is re- doomed by the love of the stable owner's daughter. (Jan. STAR WITNESS, THE—First National.— At last! An entirely new plot with suspense, humor, heartache. Walter Huston, Chic Sale and Frances Starr are in it. Worth your time. (Sept.) * STREET SCENE—United Artists.—Thirty- four excellent actors and super-direction by King Vidor make this one of the great pictures of the year. A vivid cross-section of life you'll never forget. (Oct.) STRICTLY DISHONORABLE—Universal. —You'll love this story of the grand opera singer captured by the innocent little girl from Mississippi. Paul Lukas, Lewis Stone and Sidney Fox all great. (Dec.) STRUGGLE, THE—United Artists—Old Massa D. W. Griffith has lost his cunning with the mega- phone and this old-fashioned, phony, “Face on the Barroom Floor’ melodrama is a sad spectacle for those who remember “The Birth ofa Nation.” (Feb.) STUDENT’S SONG OF HEIDELBERG, A (Ein Burschenlied Aus Heidelberg)—UFA.— Rol- licking tunes, students and Heidelberg campus stuff. Even if you don’t know German you'llenjoy it. (Nov.) SUICIDE FLEET—RKO-Pathe.—The war on a wit and wisecracking basis with Bob Armstrong, Jimmy Gleason and Bill Boyd as the familiar Three Musketeers—this time in the Navy. (Jan.) SUNDOWN TRAIL—RKO-Pathe.—Good acting helps a poor Western. (Oct.) SURREN DER—Fox.—Warner Baxter and Leila Hyams just work their fingers to the bone trving to make you believe this story about a French officer im- prisoned in a baron’s castle. (Jan.) SUSAN LENOX, HER FALL AND RISE —M-G-M-.—Romance spread thick, passion strong. You Garbg-maniacs will eat it up. Clark Gable plays opposite. Don’t miss it. (Sept.) TAXI—Warners.—The lowdown on the taxi-cab racket, with James Cagney and Loretta Young. Well-done. (Jan.) TERROR BY NIGHT—Famous Attractions.— Bet you can't guess before the last reel who did the A good mystery with comical Una Merkel and ZaSu Pitts. (Dec.) THIRTY DAYS—Patrician.—A wealthy tene- ment owner plays the regeneration scene in jail. Betty Compson and Maureen O'Sullivan make it en- tertaining. (Jan.) THIRTEEN MEN AND A GIRL—UFA.—A “ony tragedy. Foreign made, English dialogue. cl. THIS MODERN AGE—M-G-M.—Joan Craw- ford lovely and dripping box-office appeal in a ridiculous story. (Nov.) TIP OFF, THE—RKO-Pathe.—Fresh guy Eddie Quillan gets mixed up with gangsters and a sprightly comedy is the result. (Jan.) TONIGHT OR NEVER—United Artists.— ‘ A Gloria Swanson vehicle that sizzles and burns with snappy love scenes. And there’s a new sex appeal lad named Melvyn Douglas. For the sophisti- cated. (Jan.) TOUCHDOWN — Paramount. — A football Picture that’s different—with inside stuff on crooked methods used. Dick Arlen and Jack Oakie. (Jan.) * TRANSATLANTIC — Fox. — Edmund Lowe and Greta Nissen plus an exciting melodramatic plot, make this one of those hit pictures you mustn't fail to see. (Sepl.) * 24 HOURS—Paramount.—It’s not only good but different. Kay Francis and Clive Brook are grand. (Nov.) _UNDER EIGHTEEN—Warners.—A neat little picture, Marian Marsh’s first starring one, about an innocent cloak model and a rich client. (Feb.) UNEXPECTED FATHER, THE—Universal.— Another little girl adopts a bachelor daddy. Ho- hum! Four-vear-old Cora Sue Gollins toddles off with the honors. (Feb.) UNHOLY GARDEN, THE—UwUnited Artists.— Far-fetched melodrama and romance in a Sahara castle, with Ronald Colman working hard to save the impossible story. (Oct.) UNION DEPOT—First National.—Bits of life as you see it in a railroad station. Doug Fairbanks, Jr., turns in a splendid performance, one of his best. {Feb.) WATERLOO BRIDGE — Universal. — It’s morbid, yes, but it’s intelligent and honest screen fare. A war background, but don’t let that stop you. You'll like Mae Clarke. (Sept.) WAY BACK HOME—Radio Pictures.—If you follow Seth Parker on the radio, you'll enjoy seeing as well as hearing him. He uses all his radio stuff. (Dec.) WEST OF BROADWAY—M-G-M.—John Gil- bert’s voice is low—so is the entertainment value of the picture. Jack is a war veteran with six months to live. (Oct.) WHITE DEVIL, THE—UFA.—Russians in big fur hats are doing serious things again. You need not bother. (Nov.) WICKED — Fox. — Elissa Landi and Victor McLaglen are good in a too heavy drama about a bank robber and his wife who go to jail. (Oct.) WILD HORSE—Allied.—Hoot Gibson captures a wild horse, a bank bandit, a murderer and his pe Se approval, all in one handsome gesture. (Sept.) WOMAN COMMANDS, A—RKO-Pathe.—Pola Negri in her comeback film is beautiful and alluring, but the story is trite and impossible. See Pola, anyhow. (Feb.) WOMAN OF MONTE CARLO, THE—First National.—Lil Dagover bows to American audiences in a weary, over-talkative drama. Lil could do better with better material. (Feb.) WOMEN GO ON FOREVER—Tiffany-Cruze.— Your old friend Clara Kimball Young makes a good comeback in this story of racketeers and illicit love. A lively film with plenty of comedy relief. (Sepi.) WOMEN MEN MARRY — Headline Prod. — Don't take this picture too seriously and you may not find it too dull. Sally Blane is nice and Natalie Moorhead wears startling clothes. (Sept.) WORKING GIRLS—Paramount.—Two beauti- ful country blondes learn about life in the city. But not even Paul Lukas and Buddy Rogers can make the story and dialogue seem real. (Jan.) X MARKS THE SPOT—\Tiffany Prod.—Another gangster-newspaper story inspired by the Lingle case. Pretty poor, except for a terrific climax. (Jan.) YELLOW TICKET, THE—Fox.—Russia before the revolution. The heroine fights for her honor. Old stuff made worthwhile by Elissa Landi and Lionel Barrymore. (Jan.)

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MArcH, 1932 11g Short Subjects BOF ocopsle of the Month A new film to tickle the fancy of sports lovers. Ice hockey fans will be thrilled by ‘‘He-Man Hockey,” a short re- viewed below. Here you see Joe Jerwa, Alex Cook and F. Jerwa, of the Boston Bruins, who cut plenty of capers HE-MAN HOCKEY Educational-Brown Nagel Come on, you hockey fans—don’t miss this short! Bill Cunningham takes you right into camp with the fast skating Boston “Bruins. - Want to know how hockey teams train? This will show you. INCREDIBLE INDIA Fox This is one of the very best of that splendid “Magic Carpet” series. And you mustn’t miss it, no matter how blasé you’ve become about travelogues. The shots of elephants at work is one of the most remarkable ever filmed. SMART WORK Educational-Cameo A very amusing marital quadrangle makes the plot of this funny comedy. A lawyer un- wittingly shadows the husband of a client to his own doorstep and wife! Billy Dooley and Addie McPhail head the cast. CAMPING OUT RKO-Pathe Did you ever go camping with the wrong people? Then you'll sympathize with the folks in this story. There are some fairly new gags and it’s entertaining enough. You'll enjoy Florence Lake and Dot Farley. POTTSVILLE PALOOKA Educational-Sennett That funny team, Harry Gribbon and Babe London, who care for each other in a big way, are at their best in this prize-fight comedy. The fight is a scream. SQUARING THE TRIANGLE Vitaphone Remember.Donald Brian, who created the role of the Prince in “The Merry Widow” so long ago? He’s the leading character in this short about a suspicious husband who returns home unexpectedly. It’s mild screen fare, but Brian is good. DREAM HOUSE Educational-Sennett This is another one of the comedies featuring the famous radio crooner, Bing Crosby. Bing seems more at ease in this quite amusing skit than in previous ones. You'll like his songs. CLOSE HARMONY Paramount The Boswell sisters, whom you’ve been hear- ing on the radio for quite a spell, show their faces to the camera. They are nice faces, too. The idea of this amusing sketch is that the girls sing in the barnyard and inspire the chickens and the cows to better efforts. FOR THE LOVE OF FANNY Educational-V anity Comedies The usual college rah rah plot is made un- usually funny by the appearance of Glenn Tryon in a dizzy striped bathing suit and silk hat. His best girl won’t say yes until he be- longs to a certain fraternity, so he endures much horseplay at the hands of his rival. THE JAZZBO SINGER Columbia A grand burlesque on all the back stage stories ever filmed. Literally, it’s monkey business, since the cast is played by monkey actors and some of the lines (spoken by real people) are very funny. ROAD TO ROMANCE Educational-Brown Nagel Prod. Claude Flemming finds a romantic journey right here in America this time. He takes you on horseback through one of the magnificent Western canyons. The color photography is superb. Cte ON CO) soft eS IN SPITE OF HARSH,HARDWATER Stop-watch tests on the hands of 1143 women show that the average skin completely absorbs Chamberlain's Lotion in only 37 seconds. So quickly does this clear liquid penetrate the pores that no bothersome massage ts necessary. No matter how much your hands are in hard, hot, or soapy water, you can keep them from becoming rough and red. No matter how chapped they may become from housework or weather, you can quickly and easily keep them soft and smooth as satin. Just apply a few drops of Chamberlain’s Lotion to your hands and arms after removing them from water, or when housework leaves disfigur- ing marks. Instantly, they become soft, smooth and lovely. Not sticky or greasy Chamberlain's Lotion not only dries quickly, but it is neither sticky nor greasy. And it has a delightful orange blossom fragrance. You will enjoy using it, too, as a powder base and a most effective astringent. To keep your hands and arms as lovely and youthful as your face, have a bottle always available—one in the bathroom, another above the kitchen sink. Buy Chamberlain’s Lotion at drug stores and toilet goods counters, 50c and $1. Chamberlain’ LOTION "The Invisible Glove” To prove to yourself how guickly Chamber- lain’s Lotion beautifies hands and arms, send coupon and 10c for purse size flaconette,atwo weeks’ supply ~ Chamberlain Laboratories Dept, 25 Des Moines, Iowa Enclosed is 10c. Please*send me the purse size flacon of Cham- berlain’s Lotion.

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120 PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 Addresses of the Stars Hollywood, Calif. Paramount Publix Studios Culver City, Calif. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios > 6 i F you want cheeks like velvet, a lovely skin and happy, sparkling eyes, try Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. So mild, yet so sure, thousands call them “the internal cosmetic.” A wonder- ful substitute for calomel and a lot safer. Used for 20 years by people who want relief from blemishes and pimples—nothing better for liver trouble and constipation. Beauty comes from within Any doctor will tell you a system clogged by poisons from the intestines is the greatest threat to beauty. That is why Dr. Edwards made this rare compound of vegetable ingre- dients. For just one week, take Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets before going to bed, and see how your mirror flatters you. Get a package from your druggist, 15¢, 30¢, 60¢. HERE is a lipstick discovered for you by one of the world’s most famous chemists. Forget about color charts and be assured thet Phantom Red Lipstick is scientifically correct for your complexion. Phantom Red One Shade Lipstick merely accentuates your own natural coloring. Harmless, because it is made from vegetable ingredients. Phantom Red Lipstick and Rouge is sold at Beauty Parlors, Toilet Goods Counters and Drug Stores. Phantom Red STOPS Bx" HAIR wae, LUCKY TIGER, a proven germicide, ee ca corrects dandruffand scalpirritations. Ps World's largest seller—Money- fan Back Guarantee. Safe for adults ‘S ® and children. At all Barbers, ES fm Druggists and Beauty Parlors. ad LUCKY TICER Adrienne Ames | Richard Arlen _ | George Bancroft Tallulah Bankhead George Barbier Clive Brook Eleanor Boardman William Boyd John Breeden Chas. D. 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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR MARCH, 1932 A Gallant Mother | [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 45 | digging in her garden, an old straw hat perched on top of her red-blonde hair, her arms bare to the shoulder, as many freckles will testify. Some days she must have forgotten the hat, for a little row of tiny freckles runs across her uptilted nose. AE was digging in her flower beds when she was called to the telephone. “Oh, bother,” she said. Jack Gardner’s' voice came over the wire. Jack is the casting director for the Fox Studios. “How would you like to make a picture?” he asked. “Oh, I don’t know. What kind of part?” she asked. Her mind was still on planting her sweet peas; the snails that were eating up her chrysanthemums and what the baby should have for lunch because it was the nurse’s day out. The next day she went to the Fox Studio to see about playing the gallant little mother in “Over the Hill.” She was the actress again. She was the thirty-first and last actress to make a test for the part. And how she played it! “Tt is the first réle that has appealed to me in the eight years of my retirement,”’ Mae said. “Of course, I was curious to hear how my voice would sound in a talking picture, but I was especially glad to play the part of a mother.” “But Mae,” I wailed, ‘“you’re going to be typed now, just like every other actress who makes a hit in one réle. You’re going to have to play mothers from now on.” “T don’t care,” Mae replied. ‘Let them type me if they want to. I’ll play mothers. Pll play grandmothers. I’m not the ingénue type. I never was. “One critic said that I was not so young, not so winsome as I was twelve years ago. I hope I haven’t stood still all that time. I don’t know anyone who is as young today as he was twelve years ago.” The red-blonde hair is now snow white; bleached and bleached for the scenes in which she played the white-haired mother in “Over the Hill.” Wig after wig was tried but none of them looked natural. And so they bleached Mae’s own hair, because it must look perfect for the part. Now that the picture is finished, Mae hates her hair. “TT makes me feel so old,” she complains. “T have an old lady complex anyway, since I made the picture. I can’t stop feeling old. They kept telling me I couldn’t do this and I couldn’t do that because I was too old. Now I feel that I’m at least a hundred.” But her daughters like the color of her hair. “Mama, darling,” they said, “why, you look just like a platinum blonde. Like Jean Har- low.” “That reminds me—I’m in love” Mail the Coupon 2 “S BE an ARTIST Earn @ Fat income HAT would you give to be thoroughly trained in Mod- ern Art on which magazines, news- papers and publishers are spending millions every year? Many Federal Students who already have this training are earning from $2500 to $6000 a year—some even more. More than fifty famous artists making big incomes themselves have contributed exclusive lessons and drawings to the Federal Course in Illustrating. Through these lessons you may get the benefit of their long experience in Illustrat- ing, Cartooning, Lettering, Poster Designing, and Window Card IIlus- trating. Careful training through the Federal Course teaches you to turn simple lines into dollars. You learn at home in spare time. Earn while you learn if you wish. Through their professional success hundreds of Federal Students have already proved the value of this home study art instruction. TEST YOUR fALENT—FREE Fill out the coupon below and get the Free Book “A Road to Bigger Things.’’? You will also re- ceive our Free Vocational Art Test to measure your ability. When you fill this out and return to us our instructors will go over it and give you a frank opinion as to your ability. NOW

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Richard Blackstone, N-223, Flatiron Bidg., N. Y. C DENISON'’S Songs, Make-up Goods. YEARS OF HITS, Catalog Free T.S.Denison & Co.623 S.Wabash, Dept.76, Chicago Musical Comedies, Oper ettas, Vaudeville Acts, Minstrels, Comedy SUBSCRIBE FOR PHOTOPLAY Use Convenient Subscription Blank on Page 112 M. TRILETY, Pioneer Noseshaping Specialist | PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH, 1932 Come On, You Fat Girls! | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 47 ] either in the morning or the afternoon. This makes the muscles elastic and draws the fat from underneath. It also makes you long and lithe and grace- ful. It gives you poise, too. Now for you poor thin girls who want to build up the bust. Keep up the exercises I’ve already given you but add to them the exercise I’ve illustrated and described in Picture C. Do this complete exercise twelve times every morning and be sure to feel the chest muscles stretching. You’ll be amazed at how firmly your bust will develop. New for you people who give me that alibi, “T know I should reduce, but I have anemia and must keep up my strength by eating.” Those anemia people are always whiney. I know them. They love to be sick and they think it interesting to look pale and fatigued. Well, it isn’t. I implore you—don’t get a kick out of looking like the devil. As a rule you anemia people won’t do a thing to help yourselves. You take it out on your poor family and friends. They’ll put up with you, but I won’t. You look awful—fat and flabby and pale. Come on, get that fat off and, at the same time, cure yourself of anemia. Here’s how it’s done. Follow the general re- ducing diet I gave you last month, but with the additions I’m going to tell you about. (You’ll find the general reducing diet and the general building up diet repeated at the end of this article.) The milk cure for anemia is very good. There are a number of institutions where they take people and feed them on milk alone. And they get results, but some folks have difficulty in digesting milk. Why not correct that anemia yourself? Be spunky about it. You can do it without milk. The tops of turnips contain more iron than any other vegetable. Wash the turnip tops or turnip greens thoroughly. Put them in cold water and let them simmer slowly for two hours. Strain off the juice and drink that liquid as you would drink water. Take three cups of it every day. Do this along with the reducing diet and don’t fail to keep up the exercises. Eat lots and lots of rare beef, broiled liver and lettuce. And eat all the gelatin you can. Substitute gelatin for every dessert I’ve given. You can take it at every meal. Make a resolution that you'll never whine again. When I left Hollywood, everybody said, “Don’t be crazy, Sylvia, you’ll be back.” But I told them I was through punching stars. The other day I got a telegram from Norma Shearer which read, “Please come home soon. Love. Norma.” Now the reason I’m not going back to Hollywood and the Hollywood stars is because I’m going to keep on writing these articles and make you as attractive as those girls are. Surely you should give me a little codperation, when I’m giving up so much—even a gorgeous person like Norman Shearer—to help you. ERE is the beginning of the facial work ’m going to continue in my next article. People always say to me, “The first place I lose is in | my face.” My patients never have that experience, but there is a trick to it. Get the proper amount of nourishment. If you follow my diet you won’t get that hungry, wolf-like expression whenever you see food, because I’ve given you plenty to eat. Nor will your face get saggy if you do what I say. This is the house, the one with the fresh coat of paint and the new roof. The address is 169 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gladys Smith was born there a little less than forty years ago. 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Give your face plenty of time because you will love it. It’s so restful and relaxing. Clean your face with cleansing cream. Re- move it and with a good feeding cream go all over your face with a gentle, smooth rotating movement of the two middle finger tips. Linger longest over the sagging muscles of the chin and deep lines about the mouth and nose, ' but always rub lightly and gently and do not pull the skin. But that’s not all. Your nerves and muscles must be stimulated. RESS the two middle fingers of both hands just at the cheek bone rather close to the ear (where my left hand is in Picture D). Do not | pull the skin but press hard, making the fingers tremble as if they were a vibrator. Do this for two or three minutes. Do the same thing at the temples and also between the eyebrows (where my right hand is in Picture D). In the picture I have my two hands in different places —that’s just to illustrate. When you do it, put both hands to the cheek bones at the same time, also put both hands between the eye- brows at the same time. Touch the three spots I’ve mentioned with the fingers in the vibrating motion for two or three minutes each. You will love this for it stimulates the face PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FoR MARCH, 1932 and makes your nerves tingle pleasantly. This keeps your face toned up and doesn’t allow it to sag. Now use a lot of cold water on your face, but never until every bit of cold cream has been removed, for that’s the surest way to start blackheads. Look at yourself. Why, you look lovely. Your eyes sparkle, your skin is fresh. You’re losing weight, but your face is still firm. Think, as you look into the mirror, how pretty you are. The pounds are going, going, going. You’re youthful. Isn’t it great? Doesn’t it pep you up to know how splendid you’re becoming? And, as I tell you more and more things, you’re going to look more and more beautiful. NEXE month I’ve got some surprises for you fat and skinny girls, that will make you sit up and hear the birds sing. Now go out and enjoy life. But don’t forget your diet and your exercises. There—you see, what a fool you were not to obey me the first month? But it’s different now. Keep it up without variance! But remember, I’m too busy to‘answer letters. I’ve told you what to do. Go do it. Come on, baby, get busy. General Reducing Diet Breakfast Small glass (about four ounces) grapefruit or orange juice. Cup of black coffee (no sugar). _ Slice of melba toast with a little honey and no butter. Luncheon (You must have one liquid meal a day. It can be at luncheon or dinner. I give it here for luncheon.) Glass of tomato juice. Cup of tea or coffee (no cream or sugar) or Large bowl of clear soup (no crackers). In the middle of the afternoon you can have a cup of tea with lemon and no sugar. Dinner Fruit cup. Salad of lettuce and tomato or any other salad except avocado. Salad dressing of mineral oil and lemon juice. Small broiled rare steak or Double lamb chop or One slice of 44-inch thick roast beef or Two slices of turkey or chicken and a wing or Two slices of broiled lamb or Ground round steak, without fat and use the cheaper meat where you get the fibres. (Cut off the fat from all the meat and don’t use gravy). Two green vegetables (peas, carrots, broc- coli, greens, cauliflower, cabbage, etc.) No bread, instead do this: Bake a potato. When it is done, scoop out the inside leaving about 14 inch to the peel. Throw away the inside and put the rest back in the oven until it is dry. Eat this instead of bread without salt and no butter. It’s de- licious. Gelatin or Baked apple without sugar or Stewed fruits without sugar. Use no salt on anything, as there are mineral salts in most foods. General Building Up Diet Breakfast Big glass of orange or grapefruit juice. Twenty minutes later Dish of hominy with ripe sliced bananas and certified milk and sugar. Coffee or tea with sugar and cream. _ Toast with plenty of butter and jam if you e (Two hours before luncheon a big glass of tomato juice if possible.) Luncheon Bowl of thick soup. (Cream of mushroom or Cream of tomato or Cream of celery or Thick vegetable soup or Chicken okra with rice or noodles.) Green salad and often half an avocado. Spaghetti (with butter—allowed to melt after the food is off the fire) or Egg noodles (with butter). Chocolate or rice or bread pudding or Cup custard or Stewed fruits with cream. Bottle of certified milk. (In the middle of the afternoon a glass of milk.) Dinner Fruit cocktail. Soup (cream or clear): Any sort of meat that is broiled or roasted, and gravy; but skim off the fat—it’s hard to digest. Two vegetables (creamed or with butter, and | put the butter on after the vegetables are done. Use plenty). Glass of milk. Cup custard or Ice Cream or Pudding. 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New pictures certainly prove that the screen designers are right up on their toes—they are ready to broadcast the new trends before they happen—and they are determined to give you a visual picture of the fashions you will be wearing a season in advance. This isn’t just ballyhoo. Watch for Carole Lombard in ‘No One Man,” if you don’t be- lieve me. Her Florida costumes are what you'll be picking for this coming summer. Girls who like that come-hither look of a nose veil, can go as veiled as they please. Many new spring Lats that turn their brims up to She Talked Too Much | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 57 } and the pitiful sorrows of the depths. She says: “Tt is all a matter of breaks. It is just as easy to fall one way as the other. I was an extra off and on for nine- months— mostly off. I learned from watching Holly- wood how desperately cruel it can be. I learned that success is difficult to win but easy, oh so easy, to lose. I also learned that the moment you start getting excited about any- thing in this business or any other, for that matter, you are overwhelmed with your own importance. Your perspective is dimmed as a result. “T sometimes think I have learned to an- alyze too much.” LTHOUGH she didn’t tell me, I knew of what she was thinking about. Frances Dee had met a young man just a week before he was to sail to Europe. It was love at first sight. Mad, wild love. Other Hollywood girls would have married—or admitted love. Not Frances. She let the boy slip away. “Separation will tell whether it is the real thing or an attraction for the moment,” her mind argued. ‘We will write. We will come to know each other through letters. If we discover we are really suited to one another—” Her part in “An American Tragedy” came about like this: Marlene Dietrich and Josef Von Sternberg noticed her in the lunchroom. They observed her closely. Marlene kept talk- | ing to her mentor; Josef kept nodding. They called to Frances from a window later in the afternoon and asked if she would like the part. boldly reveal the hair at back, go coy with veils over the eyes in front. , One of the first formal affairs that Constance Bennett gave after she married the Marqui was a dinner announcing sister Joan’s engage ment. She chose to wear formal evening | pyjamas on this occasion—they were od | velvet with a coat of silver metal cloth. Joan Bennett wore black and silver. Somehow she _ always looks like a little girl dressed up for her : first party, especially when so closely con-_ trasted with soignée sister Constance. - Red was quite the order of the evening, might add. Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford both — sponsored it. Waistlines are on the up and up. A new high is being launched that out-princesses the mo princess silhouette. It’s being cleverly adapted, though, so the not-so-slim-waisted sisterhood need not get too worried. { By way of an interior decorating note—both Mrs. Richard Barthelmess and Mary Pickford have had rooms in their houses done over im white. j Mary’s is the drawing-room—Mrs. Barthel mess’, the boudoir. At the opening of that picture in Los An geles, Marlene leaned over to a friend and sail she had ‘‘discovered” Frances. Gossip about herself and Von Sternberg hurt Frances. When it went so far that folks bega making up poetry about “Dee and Dietrich” she went into another huddle to settle the situation between her emotions and her mind) | Her emotions said— “T’d better stop staying on that set when © I’m not working; I’d better stop having lunch eon with him every noon. Id better not be seen with him at all—” But her mind said, “‘He’s teaching me more about pictures than anyone I’ve known. He can help me as few can. Why shouldn’t I advantage of it? What do I care what people say. Gossip doesn’t do any good. but it needn do any particular harm.” HE continued to be seen with Von Sten berg. : Will she, with this philosophical beginning= © become a star? She’s not one, today. Fat from it. : Her important pictures to date are “Play boy of Paris,” “An American Tragedy,” “Rich Man’s Folly,” and “This Reckless Age.” But she’s taken a long step since, a year a half ago, she came out between her sopho more and junior years at the University Chicago to visit an aunt, learned they were — casting for a college production at Fox, v nonchalantly to the casting office, and “T’m a college girl. Why not use me?” They used her.

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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR Marcu, 1932 Casts of Current Photoplays Complete for every picture reviewed in this issue “ARSENE LUPIN”’—M-G-M.—From the play by Maurice Le Blanc and Francis De Croisset. Screen play by Lenore Coffee and Bayard Veiller. Directed by Jack Conway. The cast: Duke of Char- merace, John Barrymore; Guerchard, Lionel Barry- more; Sonia, Karen Morley: ; Prefect of Police, John Miljan; Gourney-Marlin, Tully Marshall; Sheriff's Man, Henry Armetta; Sheriff's Man, George Davis; Buller, John Davidson; Laurent, James Mack; Marie, Mary Jane Irving. “CAIN "—TALKING Picture Epics.—Directed by Leon Poirier. The cast: Cain, Thomy Bourdelle; Zouzour, Rama-Tahe. “CHARLIE CHAN’S CHANCE"—Fox.—From the novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Adapted by Barry Conners and Philip Klein. Directed by John Bly- stone. The cast: Charlie Chan, Warner Oland; John Douglas, Alexander Kirkland; Inspector Duff, TR a Warner; Shirley Marlowe, Marian Nixon; Gloria Garland, Linda Watkins; Inspector Flannery, James Kirkwood; Barry Kirk, Ralph Morgan; Kenneth Dun- wood, James Todd; Garrick Enderly, Herbert Bunston; Kee Lin, Jimmy Wang; Doctor, Joe Brown. “DANCE TEAM ”—Fox.—From the novel by Sarah Addington. Adapted by Edwin Burke. Directed by Sidney Lanfield. The cast: Jimmy Mulligan, James Dunn; Poppy Kirk, Sally Eilers; Alex Prentice, Ralph Morgan; Penworthy, Edward Crandall; Jane Boyden, Nora Lane; Herb, Harry Beresford; Benny Weber, Charles Williams; Cora, Minna Gombell. “FILE 113"—A..iep Pictures.—From the story by Emile Gaboriau. Adapted by J. Francis Natte- ford. Directed by Chester M. Franklin. The cast: Monsieur LeCoq, Lew Cody; Mlle. Adoree, Mary Nolan; Madame Fauvel, Clara Kimball Young; Verduret, George E. Stone; Prosper Bartomy, William Collier, Jr.; Madeline, June Clyde; Fauvel, Herbert Bunston; DeClameran, Roy D'Arcy; Lagors, Irving Bacon; Michele, Harry Cording; Ol/man, Crauford Kent. “FORGOTTEN WOMEN ”—MonocramM.—From the story by Wellyn Totman. Adapted by Adele Buffington. Directed by Richard Thorpe. The cast: Patricia Young, Marion Shilling; Jimmy Burke, Rex Bell; Fern Madden, Beryl Mercer; Sissy Salem, Vir- ginia Lee Corbin; Helen Turner, Carmelita Geraghty; Trixie de Forrester, Edna Murphy; Sleek Moran, Edward Earle; Dugan, Jack Carlyle; Swineback, Edward Kane; Walrus, G. D. Wood. “FREAKS "'—M-G-M.—From the story “Spurs” by Tod Robbins. Adapted by Willis Goldbeck and Leon Gordon. Directed by Tod Browning. The cast: Phroso, Wallace Ford; Venice, Leila Hyams; Cleo- paira, Olga Baclanova; Roscoe, Roscoe Ates; Hercules, Henry Victor; Hans, Harry Earles; Frieda, Daisy Earles; Mme. Peirallini, Rose Dione; Siamese Twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton; Rollo Boys, Edward Brophy and Mac Hugh; and The Freaks. “HATCHET MAN, THE’’—First NaTIoNaL.— From the play ‘“‘The Honorable Mr. Wong" by Achmed Abdullah and David Belasco. Screen play by J. Grubb Alexander. Directed by William A. Wellman. The cast: Wong, Edward G. Robinson; Toya San, Loretta Young; Nog Hong Fah, Dudley Digges; Harry En Hai, Leslie Fenton; Yu Chang, Edmund Breese; Long Sen Yat, Tully Marshall; Charles Kee, Noel Madison; Mme. Si-Si, Blanche Frederici; Sun Yat Sen, J. Carroll Naish; Miss Ling, Toshia Mori; Lip Hop Fat, Charles Middleton; Malone, Ralph Ince; Chung Ho, Otto Yamioka; Wah Li, Evelyn Selbie; The Cobbler, E. Allyn Warren; Bing Foo, Eddie Piel; The Nolary, Willie Fung; Sing Girl, Anna Chang. “HIGH PRESSURE"—Warners.—From the story by Aben Candel. Adapted by Joseph Jackson. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The cast: Gar Evans, William Powell; Francine, Evelyn Brent; Colonel Ginsberg, George Sidney; Mike, Frank McHugh; Clifford Gray, Guy Kibbee; Helen, Evalyn Knapp; Geoffrey, Ben Alexander; Dr. Rudolph, Harry Beres- ord; Jimmy Moore, John Wray; Salva‘ore, Charles Judels; Colombo, Luis Alberni; Littlefield; Banks, Charles Middleton; Alison Skipworth; Vanderbili, Harold Millie, Lilian Bond; Mrs. Miller, Waldridge; Ga Girl, Polly Walters “LOCAL BAD MAN, THE”—AL tIep Pictures. —From the story ‘‘All For Love’’ by Peter B. Kyne. Adapted by Phil White. The cast: Jim Bonner, Hoot Gibson; Marion Mead, Sally Blane; Ben Murdock, Hooper Atchley; Joe Murdock, Edward Hearn; Hickory Drake, Edward Peil; Skeeter, ‘Skeeter Bill’’ Robbins; McGee, Jack Clifford; Horsetail, Milt Brown. “LOVERS COURAGEOUS” the play ‘‘Courage”’ by Frederick Lonsdale. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The cast: Willie, Robert Montgomery; Mary, Madge Evans; Jeffrey, Roland Young; Admiral, Frederick Kerr; Mrs. Smith, Beryl Mercer; Jimmy, Reginald Owen; Lady Blayne, Evelyn Hall; My. Smith, Halliwell Hobbes; Willie (as a child), Jackie Searl; Waller, Norman Phillips, Jr.; Lamone, Alan Mowbray. — M-G-M.— From “MAN I KILLED, THE’—Paramount.—From the story by Maurice Rostand. Adapted by Reginald Berkeley. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The cast: Dr. Holderlin, Lionel Barrymore; Elsa, Nancy Carroll; Paul, Phillips Holmes; Schulz, Lucien Littlefield; Anna, ZaSu Pitts; Waller Holderlin, Tom Douglas; A Priest, Frank Sheridan; Frau Holderlin, Louise Carter. “MAN WHO PLAYED GOD, THE”—Warners. —From the story by Gouverneur Morris. Play by Jules Eckert Goodman. Adapted by Julian Joseph- son and Maude Howell. Directed by John Adolf. The cast: Royale, George Arliss; Mildred, Violet Heming; Batile, Ivan Simpson; Florence, Louise Closser Hale; Grace, Bette Davis; The King, Andre Luguet; Harold, Donald Cook; The Doctor, Charles Evans; The Lip Reader, Oscar Apfel; Concert Man- ager, Paul Porcasi; Eddie, Raymond Milland; Jennie, Dorothy LeBaire; First Boy, William Janney; Firs! Girl, Grace Durkin; The Reporler, Russell Hopton; The King's Aide, Murray Kinnell; Chittendon, Harry Stubbs; Mrs. Chitlendon, Hedda Hopper. “MICHAEL AND MARY ’”—UNIVERSAL-GAINS- BOROUGH.— From the play by A. A. Milne. Scenario by Angus MacPhail. Directed by Victor Saville. The cast: Mary Rowe, Edna Best; Michael Rowe, Herbert Marshall; David, Frank Lawton; Romo, Elizabeth Allan; Price, D. A. Clarke-Smith; Tullivani, Ben Field; Mrs. Tullivant, Margaret Yarde; Viole! Cunliffe, Sunday Wilshin. “MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE”—Un- VERSAL.—From the story by Edgar Allan Poe. Adapted by Tom Reed and Dale Van Every. Directed by Robert Florey. The cast: Dr. Mirakle, Bela Lugosi; Camille L'’Espanaye, Sidney Fox; Pierre Dupin, Leon Adams; Paul, Bert Roach; Police, Brandon Hurst; Janos, The Black One, Noble Johnson; The Morgue Keeper, D’Arcy Corrigan; The Mother, Betty Ross Clark, “NIGHT BEAT ”’—ActTion Pictures.—From the story by Scott Darling. Directed by George B. Seitz. The cast: Johnny, Jack Mulhall; Eleanor, Patsy Ruth Miller; Marlin, Walter McGrail; Chili Scarpelli, Harry Cording; Weissenkorn, Ernie Adams; Fealher- stone, Richard Cramer; I/alian, Harry Semeles. “NO ONE MAN’”—ParamountT.—From the novel by Rupert Hughes. Adapted by Percy Heath. Directed by Lloyd Corrigan. The cast: Penelope Newbold, Carole Lombard; Bill Hanaway, Ricardo Cortez; Dr. Karl Bemis, Paul Lukas; Sue Folsom, Juliette Compton; Alfred Newbold, George Barbier; Mrs. Newbold, Virginia Hammond; Stanley McIlvaine, Arthur Pierson; Delia, Frances Moffett; License Clerk, Irving Bacon. “PANAMA FLO” — RKO-Patue. — From the story by Garrett Fort. 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Cal Spek S Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 95 ] “Well, my land,” says ZaSu Pitts, “‘ain’t he the clever one, lighting his cigarette off that gas jet. Wonder how it feels way off up there.’’ ZaSu is all bewildered over Clifford Thompson, the tallest man in the world. He’s eight feet, six inches tall and ZaSu puzzles how in the name of Garbo the camera is going to photograph both her and Clifford at the same time. The two are acting together in Hal Roach’s MAGAZINE printed a nasty little bit of chit-chat about Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. When he read it, he telephoned the editor, and thanked her sweetly for spelling his name correctly. Dy sLIE COLLIER, SR., one of the finest actors and most popular young fellows of the picture colony, was not at all enthusiastic over the smallness of a picture role handed to him recently. The director called him. over. “Ready?” asked the director. ‘*No,” said Collier, “I couldn’t learn my part. I haven’t got my script.” “Why not?” thundered the director. “A flea ate it,’”’ growled Collier. 128 Collier ambled “Seal Skins” LTHOUGH the fad for wisecracks on “Tin Lizzies”’ has had its day, a hopped- up Ford outside of Hollywood high school had a crack that is entitled to at least passing mention. The kid had chalked on the door of his car: “Doorway TO HELL.” HE SRE’S a note of hope to you mothers with young sons. Even Jackie Cooper collects bits of wire, pieces of rope and broken glass and goes home with his pockets bulging. Recently his mother rearranged his dresser drawers with socks in one, ties in another and underwear in another. She told Jackie he must keep them straight. The next day Mrs. Cooper found everything dumped together in one drawer and the rest of the dresser filled with string, rope and wire. So don’t be too harsh on your own offspring. Maybe he’ll be a great actor like Jackie. cy FRANCIS is a different person since her marriage. Once a regular fellow and the life of every party, she now lives in almost semi-retirement. She and Kenneth MacKenna} rush to their sailing vessel between pictures and | remain there until the studio calls them back. | She has only been to two parties this} winter—the opening of the Mayfair and the I-mbassy. ERE’S how Mickey Mouse happened. His creator, Walt Disney, broke and discouraged, was sitting on a park bench. At last his eyes fell upon a frightened little mouse, running around the outside of a refuse can trying to find shelter. Disney laughed at the animal’s antics and that’s what gave him the idea that has been making the rest of us laugh for all these months and months. Incidentally, both Mickey’s income and hig fan mail are enormous. It takes sixty artists) to put him on the screen and two weeks work on each production. OHN (Profile) BARRYMORE never kisses a girl unless he has to. In a scene from “Arsene Lupin,” John was supposed to seize Karen Morleyin the dark and kiss her violently. Came the darkness but John merely stood off by himself and emitted long passionate sighs. Which passed for kisses. Strange person, this Barrymore. And have you seen Karen? HEY bought gold mines in Arizona and § stocks on margin and now the fortune] which three years ago amounted to $1,000,000 | that Vivian and Rosetta Duncan earned by @ singing that close harmony is all gone. | In Hollywood the two sisters put their heads together and had a big joint cry. Maybe Nils 4 Asther, Vivian’s husband, joined in Swedish For the breaks haven’t been so good for him) | either. He hasn’t done any work in pictures for § a long time. And the baby needs shoes. The girls have gone into bankruptcy but they sa they’re going to work hard and pay back their debts. AY FRANCIS’ dachshund is the dressed dog in Hollywood. He alwa wears a sweater the color of the dress Kay wearing. .. . / A woman in a Los Angi theater died while laughing over the scree antics of Joe E. Brown. . . . Sidney Sko says that James Cagney fired his first bullet for the first time in Maine last summ And he was scared, too, in spite of all those fa shots he’s made in pictures. LIFF EDWARDS walked on the Greta” Garbo set where “Mata Hari” was im) progress. No shooting was being done. was pulling long faces. Cliff looked from one to the other and them piped up with, ““What’s the matter, Hari?” And then he played the ukulele as if his little heart would break. Everybody F