Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

flftR^S 1939 ©C1B 413079 A LETTER FROM LIZA DEAR BOSS: The other night at a party we got tired of panning all the latest pictures and couldn't think of anything new to say about "Gone With the Wind," so I revived that old game of "Ten on a Desert Island" — which means, of course, the ten stars you would want with you if you were cast off on a desert island. It went like a house afire. And then a malicious meanie with malice towards some (that was me, too) suggested "Ten on a Sinking Boat" and you have no idea how rapidly those boats filled with our most glamorous Glamour Girls. One Glamour Girl, I won't mention any names, made every boat! But I know you are interested in the finer things alone — and often deplore the cat in me — so I shall only tell you about the ten stars I chose to have cast off on a desert island with me, and maybe some of your readers would like to join in and I make lists too. Well, on my desert island I would like to have Clark Gable, naturally. And I say, naturally, in the fullest sense of the word. And you're crazy if you think I'm going to allow Carole Lombard to be cast off on the island, even though she is one of my best friends, and I shall miss her terribly. I shall insist upon having Joan and Dick Powell because one of their merry insanities can pull me out of my darkest mood in no time at all, and because they don't destroy any of my oldfashioned illusions about happy marriages. I want Tyrone Power on my island because I can't think of anything more romantic than holding hands with Ty around a campfire in the moonlight while Alice Faye sings, "I Have Eyes to See With." Oh, yes, Alice is going to be along. I couldn't do without torch songs the way Alice sings them. Of course, being a theatre-minded person I would have to have my Saturday night charades and one act plays, so I shall see to it that Bette Davis and Spencer Tracy get cast off with me — and this will guarantee that I .will get the best in acting. Miss Jezebel is also the best read person in Hollywood and I must say it's fun to be with someone who reads occasionally. I suppose I really ought to invite Dorothy Lamour so she can show us girls how to wear a sarong most becomingly, but I don't think I'd look well in a sarong, anyway, so there's no point in inviting Dorothy. I'd much rather have Hedy Lamarr. Yes indeed, we're all going to get awfully tired of looking at sand , dunes and ocean waves so I think we'll have to have Hedy along to have something pretty to rest our eyes on. Her naive humor is refreshing, too. Well, that's it. But I have a "just in case." I've arranged for the Queen Mary to stop at the island at the end of three weeks "just in case" I want to change my list. REFLECTING the MAGIC of HOLLYWOOD MAY, 1939 Volume Nine Number Seven Eliot Keen Editor Elizabeth Wilson Lenore Samuels Frank J. Carroll Western Editor Assistant Editor Art Director CONTENTS STORIES AND ARTICLES Page THE GLAMOUR GIRL SWEEPSTAKES Elizabeth Wilson 16 Ann Sheridan Favorite FLASHSHOTS Jerome Zerbe 18 Big Names Stay Up Late ON WHAT DOES MASCULINE CHARM DEPEND? Gladys Hall 20 Figure, Face, Or Something Else? SULLIVAN "SPILLS THE BEANS" Ed Sullivan 24 Stars Live For The Limelight VIVIEN LEIGH BREEZES IN Jack Holland 26 An Interview With Scarlett MAKING A PHOTO FINISH OF A THOROUGHBRED, On Location In The Blue Grass KATHLEEN COGHLAN 28 WHEN A STAR CLICKS-THEN WHAT HAPPENS? Alyce Shupper 30 Spending The First Check HOW NOT TO BREAK INTO RADIO Ruth Arell 32 Advice For Crashers "LOVE IS FIRST WITH ME" Ben Maddox 34 Claire Trevor's Code THE SUN NEVER SETS ON DAVID NIVEN S. R. Mook 51 Conquering The World A PEEK INTO ALICE BRADY'S LOVELY HOME. Helen Louise Walker 52 She's Always An Artist MONTHLY FEATURES THE OPENING CHORUS 4 TIPS ON PICTURES 8 PERFUME IS IN THE AIR. Mary Lee 10 Here Are Guides To A Choice LIGHTER FOOD FOR SPRING .". Ruth Corbin 12 Add Salads And Fruit To Your Menus TOPICS FOR GOSSIPS 15 PICTURES ON THE FIRE . . . S. R. Mook 54 Mooching Around The Studios REVIEWS 58 A MOVIE FAN'S CROSSWORD PUZZLE. Charlotte Herbert 82 THE FINAL FLING Eliot Keen 82 ART SECTION WE POINT WITH PRIDE 35 Jeanette MacDonald MYRNA LOY AND RITA HAYWORTH 36-37 Favorites Of The Camera DON AMECHE AND BING CROSBY 38-39 Radio's Contribution To Films JEAN PARKER AND ROSEMARY LANE 40-41 With A Message As Old As Eve DEANNA DURBIN . 4* In "Three Smart Girls Grow Up" PAUL MUNI 43 As Juarez, The Patriot Of Mexico THE "LAST WORD" 44~47 Springtime Fashions "ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON" 48-49 Sherlock Holmes Rides Again ELLEN DREW 5° Gone To The Bow-Wows COVER PORTRAIT OF SHIRLEY TEMPLE BY MARLAND STONE V G. Heimbucher, President Paul C. Hunter. Vice President and Publisher D. H. Lapham, Secretary and Treasurer aIIms antTVEN Published monthly by Sereenland Magazine, Inc., at 45 West 45th Street, New York, N. Y. AdvSing Offices ': 5 West 45th St.. New York; 410 North Michigan Ave Chicago; 530 W. Sixth St., Los Aneeles Calif Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by return postage. They mil receive careful fttention but Silver Screen assumes no responsibility for their safety.. Yearly subscriptions $1.00 in the United I States its dependencies, Cuba and Mexico; $1.50 in Canada; foreign $1.60. Changes of address must reach us five weeks in advance of the next issue. Be sure to give both the old and new address. Entered Tsecond class matter September 23, 1930, at the Post Office, New York N. Y„ under the act of March 3. 1879. Additional entw at Chicago Illinois. Copyright 1939 by Sereenland Magazine, Inc. Printed in the U. S. A. Additional entry at Lmcago, 1 E ^vmT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 4