Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

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How she can hear the drip, drip, drip of a leaky water faucet six blocks away, and how it nearly drives her crazy. (Me, too.) How she was frightened out of her wits by a flock of geese that once chased her for several blocks in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She was only seven then, and was singing in the city park. (She sings in Hershey again this year, but I bet it will be fans, not geese, who chase her this time.) How thrilled she was in Selma, Alabama, last year when a crowd followed her to a restaurant, stood politely by until she had finished eating, then proceeded to strip the table of everything, including the cloth, for souvenirs. How she would like to accept invitations for tea and dinner in the towns and cities where she sings, To outsmart them all , , . JOLENE offers you these glorious styles of the stars . . . seen at Hollywood's most fashionable rendezvous and brought to you by JOLENE, it reen land's foremost stylist. 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She wound up her program, amid screams of delight from the movie fans in the audience, with such favorites as "Vilia," "Italian Street Song," "Indian Love Call," j "Rose Marie," and "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life." With the most unpretentious graciousness she took bow after bow. Once more Jeanette had the privilege of slipping unseen out of a side entrance, but again she refused to run out on her fans who were practically tearing down the stage door. With the rain pattering down relentlessly on her new ermine coat Jeanette walked to her car escorted by hundreds of her adoring public. She is very proud of an editorial which appeared in a Birmingham newspaper, and which said in part, "Miss MacDonald sings from the heart and her singing unfailingly reaches the heart." Which reminds me of the most wonderful compliment I have ever heard anyone pay a j Hollywood celebrity. It was said by Hazel Hurst, the blind girl, after a recent chat at the studio with Jeanette. "Miss MacDonald's success," she said, "has gone to her heart, not her head." I'm a Harmless Vegetarian' [Continued from page 24] In 1930 he returned to Hollywood, rode to success on the vogue of musicals. He sang in "Lady in Ermine," "Mile. Modiste," "Viennese Nights," and other musical pictures. Then the bottom fell out of films with music. Thus the demise of another cycle. Pidgeon says he knew he had finished a cycle when he paused outside a theatre showing "The Bride of the Regiment." A large sign in front of the house announced Walter Pidgeon will sing only once in this picture. "That," he says, and I don't blame him, "brought me to a pause." "At first, I decided to keep on studying voice and wait for the inevitable return of musicals," is the way he explains it. "Then I took myself in hand. I realized I was typed. That this cycle in my life had ended. I gave up and retreated to New York. I decided to really learn how to act." Pidgeon appeared in a number of Broadway productions, in "No More Ladies," with Tallulah Bankhead in "Something Gay," in "The Night of January 16," and other plays. "Up to that cycle I had just stalked through musical comedies, bursting into song when the conductor tapped his baton on the stand in front of him," says Pidgeon. "At the final curtain, I had taken the chief woman vocalist in my arms for the closing tableau and I had embraced her carefully so that my handsome hussar uniform wouldn't be mussed. Yes, I learned to act in that cycle. And it was ; an interesting training." Came another call from Hollywood. That was 1935. Pidgeon came out, did extremely well in a Universal film, "Asj Good As Married," and was signed up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is still under contract to that studio. You have watched Pidgeon in "Saratoga," with Clark Gable and the late Jean Harlow; in "Man-Proof," with Myrna Loy and Franchot Tone; in "Girl of the] Golden West," with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; in "The Shopwo n Angel," with Margaret Sullavan and; James Stewart. Recently, he has been doing Nick Carter. "Detectives are ageless," he comments. "Always remain undated. Hansom cabs can change into fast motor cars, but Sherlock Holmes is still Sherlock Holmes. Crime always is young. It never gets bags under its eyes. Never has to have its face lifted. Crime is eternally youthful." Pidgeon goes after all his roles seriously. That is why he has made an extensive study of Nick Carter, who years ago stepped out of paper covered weeklies to win the interest of a generation now grown old. "I like the Nick Carter character," he says, "because he is a regular detective." Pidgeon hasn't sung a note in five years.