The Modern Screen Magazine (Jun-Sep 1931)

International International International Louella Parsons, famous newspaper writer and mother of Harriet Parsons, gave Ben Lyon and Bebe an airplane send-off recently. Robert Montgomery recently arrived in New York with his young wife for a short vacation before beginning his next picture. Statistics show that there are seven and two-eighths marriages to every divorce in Hollyzvood. Tzvo-cighths of a marriage sound strange — even for Hollywood ! LITTLE Robert Coogan, age 5, went to the preview of "Skippy" the other night with his mother. Robert, you know, is the younger brother of Jackie Coogan. Mrs. Coogan told us that Bobbie laughed so hard at the picture that she almost had to take him out of the theatre. Afterwards, when he was asked how he liked it, he considered a minute and said, "It's all right, but it's just like the rushes out at the studio!" YOU remember that Hugh Trevor was in the insurance business before his pal, Richard Dix, persuaded him to become an actor. Well, Hugh hasn't been satisfied with the parts he has been getting, so he plans to leave pictures altogether and go back to stocks and bonds. Hugh is an exceedingly handsome fellow, and with the proper roles there seems no reason why he shouldn't be one of the screen's most popular leading men. But we guess he just got tired of waiting for his big break. Anyway, there's one thing that we're sure Hugh still likes about the picture business, and that's Betty Compson ! IRENE RICH disproves the saying that actresses are not business-minded. The other day Irene told us that she keeps a memorandum book»-now worn by much usage — in which she has recorded the starting and finishing dates, and the salary she received on every picture she was ever in. She first started this when she was a $3-a-day extra, "when even those small entries weren't any too frequent !" MARION DAVIES and her nephew, Charles Lederer, celebrated St. Patrick's Day by giving a small dinner party down at Marion's beach home — or "The Davies Hotel" as some call it, it's so large. The table was all green and white, with different kinds of St. Patrick's favors. After dinner, the main diversion was watching "The Front Page," which Marion showed for her guests. Alexander Penrod (sewing), the cameraman lost with the Viking, worked with Elmer Clifton (behind) in "Down To The Sea in Ships." Of course, Howard Hughes was there with Billie Dove, who looked simply gorgeous in a shade of deep blue. We hear that these two are planning to get married just as soon as Billie's final divorce decree from Irvin Willat is granted. And it won't be long now. Eleanor Boardman in cloth of gold, with King Vidor. Corinne Griffith and her husband. Mary Brian, looking sparkling in red, apparently was squired by Lewis Milestone. Jack Oakie had better look to his laurels if he expects to keep Mary for "his girl." MALIBU BEACH is getting to be the sanitarium of Hollywood. Everyone that feels run-down from overwork hies himself to Malibu to recuperate, so he can return and overwork again. Wesley Ruggles, the director, is among those "resting quietly" down there — swimming a little but lolling in the warm sand most of the time. Evelyn Brent is just finishing a picture and is hoping and praying there won't be any retakes. Evelyn wants to go down to her beach cottage and "do nothing" for a while. The shooting schedules for her last two pictures have been almost unbearably heavy — and as a result, she hasn't been feeling up to par. Dorothv Lee is en joying a six-weeks' vacation in good old New York, while her liusband of six months, Jimmy Fidlcr, adapts a story for RKO. Isn't Fred Waring starring in a musical comedy back on Old Broadway? Remember, Dot worked with Fred in several shows and was reported engaged to him, before she met Jimmic. WHEN a person as thin as Gary Cooper loses thirteen pounds in a short time — it's time to do something about it. For a long time Gary has been rushing from one picture to another with hardly any lay-off in between. That is the price you have to pay for screen popularitv. Although he hadn't been feeling so well lately, nobody took much interest in the fact — not even Gary ! But when his weight dropped thirteen pounds, he notified the studio executives that he would have to haA'e a vacation. So lie's in Arizona, and probably spends most of his time That was a great party Marion Davies gave at her beach home 16