The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

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LEMUR COMPANY MAKERS OF QUAtlTY PRODUCTS NEW YORK HENNA SHAMPOO NESTLE S H A M r " at all 10 c Stores and Beauty Shops ...Nestle ColoRinse, SuperSet, Golden Shampoo and Henna Shampoo I Was That Way About Fields I recall well when he was to make his first important Broadway attack in the Follies of 1915. We all knew he was great in his golden silence, but were a bit dubious about how he would stack up with Ed Wynn and other talking comics. He not only stacked up, he cleaned up. True, he didn't talk much. He didn't have to. With each added success, the movies screamed louder for his presence. Bill left wonderful contracts for the theater to come West and make silent pictures. Here was the great new comedian! Before he could really get camera-wise the talkies clanged across the silver sheets and buried Bill underneath them. It was, of course, understood that no silent comedian could possibly talk. Bill gathered up his billiardcues, cigar boxes, pride and other props. Back to the theater he went, but clinging to his dream. "You know, Elsie," he said, "I was ready to work for anything or nothing to get a chance to just live here in peace. Really unpack for the first time since I left home as a boy. I planned for a little bungalow, never got as far as hoping for a car. I had decided that if I couldn't do pictures I would do cartooning. I wanted to manage some little theater. I wanted most anything that would just give me enough to live modestly." T KNEW that he meant without A nibbling at capital, because Bill has worked long and hard. He has never been a "show-off," so I imagine that if he had not finally crashed the talkies with a resounding boom he would still have betn able to unpack the trunk. It took this wise and supposedly fly village two and a half years to recognize that W. C. Fields was "a natural" for the screen. The town is full of patient talent. Fortunately, people rarely die of discouragement. The willows swayed in rhythm at the edge of silver Toluca as we left the future suspended in air and traveled back time's highway. Bill remembered so many little details about Mother and me. How she used to stand in the wings saying every word as I said it. Singing my songs with me, telling me when and how to bow. "She was a great woman!" he said. "She still is," I answered. I sounded strangely like her when I said in a business-like tone: "This is a marvelous place, Bill. Do you own it?" "No, I don't, but it is nice, isn't it?" He looked around and sat back smiling. "I still can't believe (Continued from page 25) that it's all true. I still expect them to say, 'The trunk has to be ready in the morning.' Do you get up early?" he added briskly. I bragged gladly that I do get up and that I resent all those lovely hours of lost life when no bell was allowed to ring and my faithful entourage held its breath until nearly noon while Elsie slept those nine hours that she couldn't live without. (")N comparing notes, we decided ^^ that our pasts had been thrilling, but that our "presents" were grand. Again we left the future dangling out on a limb. Bill's is pretty secure. His popularity is mounting daily. Another picture like "The Old-Fashioned Way" and he can burn all the trunks. I have a feeling that he has kept that motor trailer for a getaway just in case he should "see a dream walking" out on him, so I'm going to put in my application for it. You never saw such a perfect little home on wheels. I'm going to need a movable one if I don't sell one of my stationary ones pretty soon ! The mark of affluence was so clearly obvious under the spreading oak! Telephone messages overlapped each other as Bill said, "Tell 'em I'm playing golf!" No one in this world could play as many golf games in one afternoon as the King of Toluca Lake thought of. Among the Flotsam and Jetsamites who drifted through the Fields-Toluca pastoral was Tammany Young. This amusing and unusual lad used to be known as the Champion Gate Crasher of New York. His claim being that he could get in to any opening night, championship fight, world series and other events of importance on his personality. Some folks called it nerve but it got him in just the same. When he came to Hollywood it was feared that he would bounce that reputation to bits against the studio gates. Tammany is now definitely inside. Just how much Bill had to do with his entree I don't know but when I said, "Things are looking pretty good for you, aren't they?" ho threw me the wink at which he excels and with a nod toward our host said, "Yeah, and thanks to this swell eggl" If Bill is the egg it would seem Tammany must be the ham, because the two are inseparable. Bill apparently keeps open house. Two or three men walked past us with a "How're you, Boy!" and went into what I imagine must be the "Playroom" judging from the sounds of enjoyment I heard. To one man he called, "Take Jack first, will you?" "A trainer?" I asked. "Yes." Bill's eyes fell sheepishly to the former slim waistline. "I try to keep as fit as possible. I don't stay up late, any more. Play a bit of golf. Like to potter around the place, eat a bit, drink a bit. Oh! It's a great life, Elsie!" I must say he looks about as nearly like the well-contented man should as anyone I've seen since I used to marvel at the peaceful expression on farmers' faces around and about Marysville, Ohio. He's headed for a farm, by the way. He was going out today to look at one. "Are you really going to farm?" "Well, no! but I want more room for my pottering. I want to put on my rompers and play," he grinned, and I grinned. I don't know what he was thinking about, but I was visualizing Bill in rompers. I'm still grinning. Radio, which is so busy "snitching" screen personalities, is making alluring monetary gestures in his direction. Bill isn't falling for them yet. He thinks he has to be seen to be funny. Well, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Joe Penner, Jack Benny and other air aces must have thought the same at one time, so perhaps the millions who have never heard or seen him will have a chance to meet this mellow, kind and amusing W. C. Fields via the ether waves. I think he could ride them with great success, if they gave him a consistent story and a good character like the one he played in "The Old-Fashioned Way." It's nice, however, to meet someone who hasn't got "grabitis" when it comes to the big money. It has never been known to bring complete contentment and, as Bill seems to have that, maybe he's right to let others take the chances while he potters around in rompers. TV/TIND you, he only potters between films, and his next picture is about to start production, so the rompers will be parked for a few weeks. It's called "Back Porch" at present and is an original idea of his own. By the time you see it the title will be changed to "It's a Gift" and Bill won't recognize his bi*ain child, but from what he told me about it I wouldn't mind sitting on said "Back Porch" watching him pull old tricks which his artistry polishes to a modern brilliancy. He has plenty of them up his sleeve. He is an excellent character actor and other comedians who might be saying "What's he going to do after he has done all his vaudeville stunts?" may find another twist to the ever familiar line; "New Fields to Conquer." THE ART OF COOKING MEAT It's a fac t that most American cook ., no matte r how exp ert they are in other res peels, lack skill and variety in cooking meats. Th sre has been a definite demand from readers for he P in cooking meat. This month's food circu ars have been prepared to meet this demand . Here they are: 1. Ru es and recipes for cooking beef. 5. Cooking ham and oth er smoked pork pre ducts. 2. Ru es and recipes for cooking lamb. 6. Ways of cooking and serving sausag e. 3. Ru es and recipes for cooking veal. 7. Cooking poultry, 4. Ru les and recipes for cooking fresh pork. 8. Cooking liver and oth er edible parts of beef, lamb, etc. If y°u would like copies of these circulars, send ten ce nts to Rita Calhoun, care of NEW MOVIE M cigazine, 55 Fifth Avenue, N ;w York N Y lh ey are printed on 1 oose leaves , so you can keep them in a loose-leaf binder. 58 The New Movie Magazine, January, 1935