Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1943)

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lion of the leading man's burden. This time next year we expect Roddy McDowall to be carrying on like mad opposite Irene Dunne. Captain Gene Raymond, after a year in London, arrived in Hollywood to spend a week alone in his Hollywood home. Wife Jeanette MacDonald was in New York rehearsing for her debut in grand opera. Gene, who looked a bit peaked, drank in the familiar scenes of Hollywood like a thirsty man. He joined Jeanette for a whirl in New York before returning to his post in London. The old Troc got its face lifted with a brand-new coat of green paint trimmed in white, preparatory to its opening. The night clubs, oddly enough, are crowded these nights, but not with movie people, who are in a noticeable minority. But what swains, except George Raft, are left to attend night clubs? The town greeted both Lt. Commander Robert Montgomery and Lt. Commander Gene Markey, back from a year in the Guadalcanal zone and both looking it. George Montgomery's gracious gesture in calling on every member of his studio publicity department, from mail boy to unit workers, to say goodby the day he left for the Army drew a lot of favorable comment. Georgie even gave old Cal's phone a jingle to say farewell. Nice boy, George. Best girl Dinah Shore gave him a young Big day for a big baby was christeningday of Alice Faye Harris Jr. . . . . . . who came to church with her father, Phil Harris, and her mother, Alice Faye *i Two Juniors in one family: Phil's son, Phil Harris Jr., holds little sister Alice Jr. calf as a going-away present and George shipped it up to his dad's ranch in Montana. The town was glad to hear Myrna Loy was coming back to Hollywood to make more "Thin Man" stories. Remember how Myrna Loy was the butt of every radio comic's quip in the old days when they wanted to speak of the tops in dames? Today it's Hedy Lamarr. One can almost judge a star's popularity by the number of times the radio comics refer to her pulchritude. Whoever heard anyone over the air brag of kissing Connie Bennett, for instance? The shortage of houses and apartments is haunting those stars who want to close up their out-of-the-A bookarea homes and can't. One little starlet, whose dog stood in the way of her subletting an apartment, solved the problem by having an enormous dog collar made upon which was engraved "To