Picture Play Magazine (1938)

^^'wS 'TRSife .-** (55®5*:.i-'" Mvk t$5!8£&*g ■ ,» »*£$£ WHAT THE FAIVS THI Crosby Better than Caruso! AT last I have courage enough to tell the world of my admiration for Bing Crosby. What gave me courage? Well, it is because of some of the catty, unkind letters about him which I have recently read here. In defense of Bing, I would like to say that, in my opinion, he is the most versatile actor on the screen to-day. No matter what role he portrays he is always calm and self-assured. Besides superb acting abililv. he sings divinely. Surely no one can deny that his is the only voice on the screen and air to-day which possesses that certain quality to hold an audience for hours. Many singers train for years to get into the Metropolitan Opera. But what singer's voice in opera is any more renowned than Bing Crosby's? The name Caruso was no more famous than Bing Crosby. For years I have been collecting photos of Bing until my collection now consists of five thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Kathlyn Browning. Camden, Mississippi. Long or Short Hair? DEW ARE, Dorothy Lamour, your long hair will be your undoing. The truth is. you get roles because you have long hair, instead of because you have ability to act, beautiful classic features, a wonderful voice that touches the heartstrings. You will be hopelessly typed if you do two more pictures of the "take down your hair" type. Yes, I know your hair is magnificent. I know that you love it and wouldn't think of parting with it. But it must be cut short if you are ever to be recognized as the great actress and singer you really arc. Don't let them type you! Take up the shears and snip! Let's see those ears! And some cute bangs on your forehead. Then you will not be weighted down from recognition which is rightfully yours. All right, now. Take down your hair for the last time, pick up the shears and — right now! — let's cut the whole thing off. D. Caller). San Francisco. California. W! Modern Romance. 'E are six average American women, members of the same club, and we have two complaints to make. First, every one needs to see the amusing side of life and enjov a good laugh, but the studios arc giving us an overdose of comedies. We wish the producers would give us more variety in pictures and not ruin our taste for comedy by making ninety per cent of pictures comedies. Second, our members would like Hollywood In re\ ive the modern, romantic pictures which they prefer above other types. Romance has returned in everything, after being in exile for several years, except the movies. We haven't had modern romantic pictures since the days of Vilma Banky, Claire Windsor, Corinne Griffith, and Billie Dove. We. like the world in general, are interested in women who are beautiful, dainty, refined, cultured and feminine in the modern manner. We would like to see beautiful Gladys Swarthout in romantic musicals similar lo what she gave oxer the radio a few seasons ago. Beautiful, regal Elissa Landi, an accomplished actress and musician who suggests romance in model n romantic pictures. Virginia Bruce of a Dresden china beauty, very appealing in a romantic way, good actress and singer of romantic ballads. Olivia de Havilland. beaulilul. i omnntic-looking and a splendid actress. should be given more prominence. Continued on /<«;/<' 1 In Kathlyn Browning's whole-hearted tribute to Bing Crosby she asks what singer in opera is more renowned than Bing? Even Caruso was no more famous, she insists.