The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

4 vi&5 ©C1B 247998 new movie VOL. XI No. 2 • • • FEBRUARY 1935 CATHERINE McNELIS, Publisher Frank J. McNelis, Managing Editor«Bert Adler, Eastern Editor • Mary Marshall, Director of Home Service; John C. Mitchell, Western Editor* Hugh Ryan, Art Director* Verne Noll, Associate Art Director. A GLIMPSE AT THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK SOME of you probably wonder, from time to time, why pictures of certain stars appear on movie magazine covers more often than others. And some of you, too, may wonder why your own favorite star does not appear. There are many reasons: Sometimes a new personage sweeps the country by storm, capturing the hearts and minds of the vast movie-going public, as in the case of Anna Sten; sometimes, it is an old favorite, who again zooms into prominence; but often it is the dear-to-the-heart-of-the-public type of star, whose performances, year after year, give her deeper hold on your affections. Such is the case, this month, in the selection of Norma Shearer, for the place of honor on NEW MOVIE'S cover. Norma, besides being an outstanding actress, of great talent and charm, is also one of Hollywood's most delightful persons. She is a good wife and an excellent mother, and in addition to her never-ending home-work, she brings you a new picture every several months. And now, our Nemo reports, Norma is again to play the greatest role a woman can play. About the time you read this, or shortly afterward, Norma will present her husband, Irving Thalberg, with another child. She hopes that it will be a girl, so that little Irving Jr., will have a little sister for a companion. • • • In every issue of NEW MOVIE, you find stories which the editor refers to as "personality stories." These are planned to give you an intimate picture of some star whom you would like to know better. Such a story is the one Elsie Janis is preparing for you on Walter Connolly, who, from a small beginning in a Columbia picture just a year and a half ago, has steadily and surely won for himself a vast following. They say, in Hollywood, that if every studio wants to borrow you, you are a success. In Mr. Connolly's case, this is indeed true. For in the last several months, in addition to picture work at his own studio, he has been busily engaged in giving sterling performances for Fox, Paramount, and other major producers. Elsie Janis, who knew him during his early stage successes in New York, has done another vivacious article that we are sure you will like. • • • When it was rumored that Edward J. Flynn, astute New York politician, was to succeed Will Hays as head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors, the leading executives of the movies, quite unknown to Mr. Hays, issued a round robin denial of the report. The general belief is that Mr. Hays has made such a good job of his current clean-up of the movies that he has become too valuable to displace. There is no question but that the church organizations which initiated the clean-up are, in the main, satisfied with Mr. Hays' conduct of it. But is his censorship going too far, and entering the field of politics as well as that of sex vulgarity? The report comes from Hollywood that Walter Wanger's production, "The President Vanishes," has been having hard sledding at the hands of Hays censors because it is a political caricature. Certainly the industry and Mr. Hays would do well to shun political censorship of the movies, and as a friend of the industry and Motion Picture Producers and Distributors, NEW MOVIE hopes that the changes, if any, ordered in "The President Vanishes" will be in its moral rather than political tone. • • • It is the custom in certain smart Manhattan and Hollywood circles to laugh at the so-called "British invasion" of the American movie business. The scoffers point out that London Films have so far delivered but two winners, "Catherine the Great," and "Henry the Eighth," while another great English producer, Gaumont British, has only come through with "Power" and "Chu Chin Chow." No other English producer has yet rung the bell on this side, although Herbert Wilcox's "Nell Gwyn" is rated as having possibilities of becoming an American box-office hit. True, all this does not make the "invasion" anything for American producers to worry over, but on the other hand five important attractions in one year might well become ten important pictures in two years, fifteen in three years, and so on. It is not beyond possibility that the English producers may yet be making twenty to twenty-five per cent of the pictures that American fans pay their money to see. Big conquests grow from little "invasions" and the scoffers better not bet. THE BEST OF THE MONTH'S STORIES OF THE STARS Revamping the Stars Kathryn White 4 George Jean Nathan's Movie Favorites — Douglas Gilbert 16 That Gay Girl Ginger Elsie Janis 20 Ralph Bellamy Tells on Fredric March 22 The Most Uninteresting Man in Hollywood —Whitney Williams 24 Color Magic on the Screen. .Gerald Breitigam 25 Ramon Romero's New Movie Forecast for 1935 26 Sitting on Top of the World — Maude Cheatham 40 Why I'd Hate to Be a Movie Star — Jack Jamison 44 NEWS OF THE FORTHCOMING FILMS On the Set with the Coming Pictures — Barbara Barry 6 NEW MOVIE'S SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS Hitch Yourself to a Star 30 Hollywood Day by Day Nemo 35 Hollywood Entertains Grace Kingsley 36 Royal Squabbles of the Movie Queens — Herb Howe 38 You Tell Us 42 Junior Hollywood Henry Willson 46 Wynne Gibson Discovers New Salads for Lunch 48 Things to Make from Oilcloth 50 Diet Problems of the Stars.... Dr. Henry Katz 51 The Make-Up Box 0g Music in the Movies John Edgar Weir 74 COVER DESIGN BY GENE REX Published Monthly by TOWER MAGAZINES, Inc., 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, III. Executive and Editorial Offices: 55 Fifth Avenue New York, N. Y Home Office: 22 No. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre Pa. Western Editorial Office: 7046 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Cal Officers: Catherine McNelis, President; John P. McNelis, Vice-president; Theodore Alexander, Treasurer; Marie L Featherston'e, Secretary R. H. Flaherty, Advertising Director; E. L. Schroeder, Eastern Ad.c, tising Manager; S. B. Galey, Western Advertising Manager; R. M Budd, Pacific Coast Representative. Advertising Offices: 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.; 919 No Michigan Ave., Chicago, III.; Russ Building, San Francisco, Cal. Copyright, 1935 (Title Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) by Tower Magazines, Inc., in the United States and Canada. 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