Screenland (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

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es he owa ra s d' an Sh ow "Hamlet" of the stage, debonair hero of the screen, the noted English actor turns completely small-boy as he tells you about his camera hobby By Ruth Tildesley A FRIEND, stopping at the Leslie Howard house in Hollywood, had occasion to look for a handkerchief in one of his host's bureau drawers. Instead of handkerchiefs, the drawer fairly bulged with prints of camera pictures. He sought in the rest of the drawers, but there discovered more piles of prints, more spirals of film, more strips of not-yet-enlarged Leica shots. "But what do you do with your shirts and ties?" he demanded, mystified, when the actor had come to his rescue with the needed linen. "Oh, Mrs. Howard sees to that, — I don't know. I need this space for my pictures!" returned Mr. Howard. He took trunkloads of camera pictures with him to England, where they are permanently installed in the Howard homestead, but already the new Hollywood domicile is overflowing with results of recent Howard-Leica excursions. The new home is not three minutes from the heart of Hollywood, but once inside the gates you'd Leslie Howard before the camera and behind it. Right, view made on the "Romeo and Juliet" set. Center, left: his daughter before the Lincoln monument, and, right, with her father in another view made in Washington, D. C. Upper right, Linton, England. Upper left, the picture-taker taken, with two pals. 32