Silver Screen (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

Topics for Gossips s MYRNA LOY, the hussy, recently confessed that once she wore tights in a vain effort to catch a man. She was eleven years old at the time and deeply interested in a boy named Johnny Brown. "I had to figure out a way to attract his attention," confessed Myrna without shame, •'and a show did it for me. I produced Sleeping Beauty' in our cellar and I played the part of the prince so I could wear tights. The tights were made from mother's stockings. But my show died a tragic death. When the curtain went up, Johnny took one look at me, then doubled up with laughter. The show was called off— and so was my romance." THE hottest romance in town at the moment seems to be that of Janet Gaynor and Adrian. They have dinner together <ome place nearly every night and spend late hours at the Bublichi listening to the gypsy music— completely oblivious of anyone else in the world. At the gala premiere of Tallulah Bankhead in "I Am Different" the arrival of Janet and Adrian aroused quite a stir. They held hands during the entire play. It must be love. „_<§>„_„ GEORGE BRENT, one of the most eligible young men in town this gay fall season, divides his attentions, and invitations, among Merle Oberon, Loretta Young and Olivia de Havilland. A mighty pretty threesome, Mr. Brent. ■ — «#« — ■ SPRAINING an ankle when she jumped off a submarine in her newest Torchy Blane picture Glenda Farrell was given emergency treatment by the studio first aid department. Then she was sent home for the day and told to stop at the family doctor's and have some X-rays taken. The X-rays were made in due time and the doctor told Glenda to go home and rest and he would drop by to see her later. Imagine her surprise when an hour after she arrived home a nurse suddenly appeared and said she was there "on doctor's orders." She bundled Glenda off to bed, packed her hips in ice and applied heat lamp rays to her back. Glenda's protests brought only that it was "doctor's orders." H'mmm, thought Glenda, this is the funniest ankle treatment I've ever heard of. Is she crazy, or am I? The pay-off came two hours later when the doctor arrived quite frantically looking for the nurse. She Ray Milland and Louise Campbell are in "Men With Wings." Cupid, the Boy With Wings, plays a part. was supposed to be on a case two blocks away! "Well, I'm awfully glad she didn't treat me for ptomaine poisoning," said Glenda, thawing out her hips. BETTE DAVIS says those divorce rumors aren't true. She spent her vacation on a ranch near Lake Tahoe with her sister Barbara because "Hank" had to go East on a business engagement. He'll join her in Hollywood soon, she says. And Dorothy Lamour insists there is no truth to the rumors that she and orchestra leader Herbie Kaye are about to call it a day. "Why he is cutting his tour short and arriving to spend a month with me any day now," says Sarong Lamour. RandyScott, reported to be interested in Dorothy, and vice versa, is in Pineville, Missouri, on the "Jesse James" location. IF they're going to make a Garbo out of Hedy Lemarr the studio has a lot of work ahead of them. For Hedy is one of the friendliest people you've ever met, with not the least desire to be alone. She loves having people around her— even fan writers and photographers, which is certainly not in the Garbo tradition. At a dance hall recently I saw at least three stars refuse to have their pictures taken with the band leader— but not Hedy. And while wailing for the baton wielder Hedy had a perfectly grand time gabbing with the camera boys. I don't seem to see Hedy putting her hands in front of her face a la Garbo or running like mad when she sees a flash light a la Hepburn. And at a party I heard a hostess sigh, "Oh, I do hope Hedy doesn't pick up too many people to bring along with her." Shades of Garbo, my eye. u a > n a DON'T ever ask Una Merkel what the Eskimo from the North Pole and the Eskimo from the South Pole said to each other when they met— you'll think it the silliest joke ever but you'll die laughing. The Eskimo from the North Pole said, "Glub— glub— glub." And the Eskimo from the South Pole said, "Glub— glub— glub, you all." JOAN BENNETT'S coiffure in "The Texans" got quite a bit of razzing from the critics because she w^ent through the rigors of a blizzard, dust storm, prairie fire and Indian fight without a hair out of place. Hardly a reviewer failed to mention the remarkable staying powers of the Bennett tresses— and [Continued on page 65] ■for November 1938 15