Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG An open forum in which readers express their views on stars and pictures. $5.00 is paid to each of the five best letters received each month Connie's Wonderful Many People Call Constance Bennett bad because of the way she acts in pictures. Anyone with human sense should know that is only acting and this acting is done for our entertainment. What do we do know about her private life? I do know one thing — she is a wonderful actress and is hard to beat. Give us more of Constance Bennett's pictures. ($5.00 Letter) NINA TRONCALE, 4008 Banks St., New Orleans, La. Success For Alice Brady WE ALL know how Alice Brady "clicked" in the roles assigned her in When Ladies Meet and Beauty for Sale, but somehow it seems a pity that such exceptional talent as hers should be wasted on such roles. I rather fear that the playing of halfmoronic characters will retard her rapid ascent on the ladder of screen fame since, in spite of our appreciation of her interpretation of such characters, she will gradually become stamped upon our consciousness as a sort of nit-wit, whereas her rise to the top should be meteoric if she is cast regularly in roles depicting clever and intelligent women. ($5.00 Letter) MARA COLLINS, 1020 Beville Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Beauty Not Needed I Can't See Where people get the idea you can't be a movie star unless you have good looks. Look at Ruby Keeler. She hasn't much in the way of looks, it's her acting that makes me like to go and see her pictures. I don't believe I saw anything better than 42nd Street. In Gold Diggers of 1933 nobody could have played her part any better, not even as good. ($5.00 Letter) PAULINE LUCAS, Mill St. Ext., Tarentin, Pa. Judith Allen, who appears in The Thundering Herd with Randolph Scott Turner. She is a very versatile and gifted actress and her part in Sarah and Son, one of her greatest successes, is the type of thing in which her appeal is most pronounced. I hope that in the future actresses who can depict only the Lilly Turner type successfully will be relegated to those roles, and Miss Chatterton will be given better material. ($5.00 Letter) MRS. W. H. VOSKUIL, Urbana, 111. Ramon's Merry Twinkle WHY don't we see more pictures of Ramon Novarro? He could easily be the most popular male star on the screen if he cared to be. His unspoiled boyishness is what makes his acting so good and that merry twinkle in his eyes is unforgettable. It's stars like Ramon that make us feel glad of life and put a certain longing in our hearts. MRS. JOHN R. HALL, 928 Nicholas St., Henderson, N. C. A Friend of Jean's IAm A Real Friend to Jean Harlow. I have been corresponding with her for years. All the letters have been written personally by her. She is a darling and a real sweet girl. I count Jean among the real superb actresses of motion pictures. I have known Jean for years and the girl has not changed, except to broaden as is natural in the course of time. She is and has been delightfully feminine, amazingly intelligent, intoxicatingly lovely and abundantly blessed with charm, innate good breeding and unselfishness. JOSE ANTONIO VELAZQUEZ, P. O. Box 3711, Santurce, Porto Rico. To Leslie Howard PLEASE listen to the plea of an admiring fan of yours. I am representing many who feel the same way about you. We don't want you to return to the New York Stage, or even to dear old London. We're just a bit jealous, perhaps, and feel you belong to us alone. Wally and Marie, real people None Like Them MARIE DRESSLER and Wallace Beery — such a team! The swellest ever mated. There have been teams such as Gaynor and Farrell, Eilers and Dunn, but never one like Dressier and Beery. They are so human — just like real people we meet every day on the streets. May they play in many, many more pictures together. ($5.00 Letter) LORENE NEWTON, Elm Springs, Ark. A New Deal For Chatterton IT Is Difficult to understand why Ruth Chatterton should be seen in a succession of parts similar to that of Lilly 10 Ruth, versatile and gifted HOLLYWOOD