Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

APR -z ^v /o\. 23 No. 5 HOLLYWOOD WE DO OUR PARI ROSCOE FAWCETT Editor ©C1B 221561 Carmel Myers sang on the radio and ivon another movie chance. She is in The Countess of Monte Cristo NOTES FROM THE EDITOR'S CUFF Warren William is a scarf addict ... he even wears them with his pajamas. . . . Carl Brisson, Danish star, was first to introduce the musical saw to theatre audiences abroad ... he learned how on his uncle's farm, where the quivering notes of the wood-cutter were used in place of a dinner bell . . . when Henry B. Walthall came up for a telegrapher's role in Operator 13, they asked him if he knew the Morse code . . . whereupon, he nipped out a sentence with quickly batting eyelids. • Fan-dancing Sally Rand gave her mother, Mrs. Ernest Kisling, a tractor for a birthday present . . . the mater is a rancher, you know ... in the 1906 sequences for You Can't Buy Everything, May Robson wears costumes from her stage wardrobe of that era . . . one cherished taffeta cape was first worn when she played with William Gillette in The Private Secretary . . . the secret of Leon Errol's collapsible knee is out at last . . . years ago, when he was trying to teach a dog some new tricks, the canine turned tables and taught him one. 9 Kay Francis wears bedroom slippers in all movie scenes where her feet do not show . . . but someday the cameramen are going to play a dirty trick on her . . . Bartholomew Durante, the Schnozzle's daddy, had two molars extracted the other day, leaving him only thirty of his socalled permanent teeth, which isn't so bad for a lad of 86. Contents for May, 1934 FEATURES , Are Pretty Girls Safe in Hollywood? By J. Eugene Chrisman 18 Answering a jnoot question Hollywood's Most Beautiful Friendship .. .. By Camilla Jordan 20 An inspiring story about Elissa Landi You Can't Help Loving Peg Sullavan By Ruth Biery 24 A fascinating word picture How to Hold a Husband in Hollywood By Val Lewton 25 Dolores Del Rio reveals her methods You Have Sex Appeal By Marlene Dietrich 30 A glamorous star tells why Mother Clara! By Dora Albert 32 Revealing a new Clara Bow I'll Be Suing You! By Dorothy Spensley 33 Victor Jary discovers a quaint custom Filmdom's New Heart Throb By Jerry Lane 36 Lanny Ross' true story Kay's Secret Marriage By Boris Nicholai 37 Kay Francis' most tender secret Pryor Rights to Fame! By Clark Warren 40 Introducing Roger Pryor, nezu find FASHIONS AND BEAUTY Two Stunning Patterns 4 1 From Hollywood stars Beauty Perfection 44 Beauty tips from Sylvia Sidney DEPARTMENTS The Publisher's Page 6 What's New on the Screen 8 Editor's Mailbag 12 New Portraits 2 1 With the News Sleuth 26 Harry Carr's Shooting Script 38 Cross-Examining the Stars 42 J. EUGENE CHRISMAN Western Editor Hollywood is published monthly by Hollywood Magazine, Inc., 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Entered as secondclass matter at the post office at Louisville, Ky.. August 11, 1930. under the act of March 3. 1S79. Copyright, 1934. W. H. Pawcett, Publisher; Roscoe Pawcett. Editor and General Manager; S. F; Nelson, Advertising Director; Douglas Lurton, Managing Editor. All manuscripts should he addressed to the editorial office at 529 South 7th Street. Minneapolis. Minn. Western office. 0005 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood. Calif. Subscription rate, $1.00 per year and 10c per copy in United States and possessions. In Canada $1.50 per year, 15c a copy. Unless otherwise stated, all names used in Action stories are assumed. Printed in U. S. A. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS. ARTHUR C JANISCH Assistant Editor John Cabot Lodge, socialite screen star, and his wife, Francesco Braggiotti, snapped at Palm Springs OF INTEREST TO ALL FANS • Czar Will Hays won by a nose when he went to a Hollywood hospital to battle flu germs . . . Jimmy Cagney's new talkie will be titled Jimmy The Gent instead of The Heir Chaser . . . Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook who copped the honors in Fox's Cavalcade, are to be reunited in Radio's Dover Road . . . Ann Harding is going out to Metro to star in Biography, a role sought by practically every feminine star ... Ed Blondell, vaudeville veteran and daddy of Joan, has been cast in a Warner picture. Margaret Lindsay was quite seriously burned when her fur coat brushed against a lighted candle on a sound stage . . . Edna Best is hurrying back from England to be with hubby Herbert Marshall . . . and she's bringing along the baby girl as well as her twin boys by a former marriage . . . Radio is considering an elaborate production of Ziegf eld's Follies with Billie Burke supervising . . . Pat Wing has checked in at First National for Merry Wives of Reno, her first role since her marriage to Bill Perry. Paramount is going to re-produce Jimmie Gleason's 7s Zat So? with Bob Armstrong once again the star . . . Sam Goldwyn has bought Frank Scully's Fun in Bed as Eddie Cantor's next ... a nervous breakdown sent Slim Summerville to a hospital . . . marriage and exercise have cut ten pounds off Polly Moran's belt-line. HOLLYWOOD