Movie Classic (Sep-Dec 1931)

HOLD-OVER Romances: Mary Brian ami Russell Gleason. Wynne Gibson and Roger Manning. James Dunn and Molly O'Day. Ivan Lebedeff and Thelma Todd (alias Alison Loyd). This one went cold for a little while, but it seems to have warmed up lately. THE Fox picture, "Skyline," was unreeling-before the press at a studio preview. A girl, playing the role cf a stenographer, walks into Thomas Meighan's office and leaves a note on his desk. She turns . . . just a flash . . . and she is gone again. The girl was Marjorie White, formerly featured player. A couple of days later Marjorie announced that she was leaving pictures for the New York stage. MARRIAGES-TOBE-EXPECTED ANY-MOMENTNOW: Sharon Lynn and Benj amin Glazer. Ona Munson and director Ernst Lubitsch. Dorothy Mackail] and Neil Miller. AR L I N E JUDGE and Wesley Ruggles announced their engagement to a small group of friends at a dinner party following a local football game. Wesley had lost so much money on the game that he had to take a lot of kidding as to whether or not he had enough money left to pay for the beautiful square-cut diamond Arline was wearing. This romance began six months ago when the director of "Cimarron" met the pretty little girl from New York on the RKO lot where they are both under contract. Incidentally, one New York paper headlined the announcement to the effect that Arline was to marry Charlie Ruggles, who is Wesley's brother. WHAT with all the movie stars eloping to Las Vegas or Yuma, Arizona, in attempted "secret" ceremonies, the formal wedding of Rita La Roy to Ben Hershfield, motion picture artists' agent, was agreeably different — at least to the hard-working newspaper boys. Rita and her groom not only announced the date of their wedding, but went in for ushers and bridesmaids and all the other trimmings so dear to the local writers. The ceremony took place at the Temple Israel in Hollywood and Rita's bevy of attendants included June Clyde, Sue Carol, Claudia Dell, Roberta Gale, Lita Chevret and Sally Blane. Lola Lane would have been there, too, if she hadn't been honeymooning with Lew Ayres. LORETTA YOUNG appeared in court j under the name of Gretchen Withers, and told the Judge all about the difficulties of her married life with Grant Withers. The basis of the divorce action was "non-sup port," Loretta relating many instances where Grant failed as a good provider. e, she claimed, he made her a gift of a hundred-dollar piece of lingerie — and she was very' grateful until she discovered that the garment had beer charged to her per■ mnt. 1 also paid all the grocery bills," she stated. The pretty little ingenue was awarded her decree. SYLVIA ULLBECK, Hollywood's demon masseuse, should worry if the movie stars get a "mad on" her because of those revealing articles she wrote about them. Sylvia has other plans. For one, she is planning to become a star herself — a stage star. Edith Ellis, who wrote "White Collars," has penned a play for Sylvia, and as soon as it is whipped into final shape, the little Swede will takeoff for New York. "Let them get mad!" scoffs Sylvia. " It is too bad that movie stars cannot bear to be painted as human beings instead of gods and goddesses!" w: Janet Gaynor has gone abroad — along with husband Lydell Peck — to see Paris. It's her first visit to the scene of "Seventh Heaven" rOULD you like to know what a movie star carries in his pocket ? Ramon Novarro opened an envelope sent over to him from the Turkish Bath establishment on the lot the other day and containing the contents of his suit he had left to be pressed. Item one was a handsome gold and black cigarette case; item two, a watch, very plain; item three, a tiny gold box the size of a postage stamp, containing saccharine tablets to be used in the place of sugar at lunch; item four, a prayer book with his brother's picture pasted in the front; item five, a rosary, and item six, a cigarette lighter of gold. WHEN the stars are interviewed at lunch Metro pays the lunch checks for both interviewer and player. "You'd be surprised," said the studio official whe okays the checks, "how much more heartily some of the big stars eat these days!" One we interviewed recently, ordered for his dessert, two pots of coffee, two pieces of apple pie, and tw:o helpings of ice cream — on the house! IT was Jimmy Durante, a vision of superb sports outfitting who may be described as a walking example of What the Well Dressed Golfer will wear. He came from his dressing room, preceded by three flunkies each reverently carrying a new bag of expensive golf clubs. 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