Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (Jan - Nov 1933)

-M BROADWAY AND Likes Bill Powell CHICAGO, ILL. — Boy! what a knockout your November issue was. You have more Interesting pictures and features then any movie magazine I’ve ever read. Here’s wishing you lots of luck. I have a little request to make of you. Please give us a few stories and pictures about William Powell, Jean Arthur and James Cagney. They are my favorite stars. — S. D. Larking Dick and Greta DETROIT, MICH. — In a screen magazine just after “the Great Garbo” returned to her mother country, I read, “Since Garbo’s gone to her country let her stay, we want our own American actors and actresses.” Why do all fans want Garbo pictures? I believe that the foreigners are better actors and actresses than a typical American. I never miss a Richard Cromwell picture. For his age I think he is a very, very good actbr. Here’s wishing Garbo returns and wishing to see more pictures starring Richard Cromwell. I’m just cur-razy over him. How about a picture of him? I think there is no other actor like Richard, and the screen will never know another star like Garbo. — Lonesome Eleanore. From the Granite State r PETERBORO, N. H. — I hope you try ot make your Broadway and Hollywood Movies a real fan magazine for those who likd snappy pictures and text, especially pictures, instead of just another movie magazine with a lot of blah stuff. There are too many of those already that are not a bit exciting. Here is comment on your recent issue. That picture of Anita Page is cute, she is worth looking at, only I’d like to see more of her. Those life-size heads of Dorothy Burgess and George Bancroft — terrible! What sex appeal to over-size mugs like that? But that Dvorak girl in a bathing suit is plenty exciting. Landi is attractive; Tobin is better than nothing. More power to your contest, by the way, and don’t be stingy with the photos you get if the gals are cute — we’d like to see all the photos you see, and is there any law against publishing addresses of the socalled fair contestants? “Balloonacy” is a grand idea, kidding the other joke mags, and better than them, I think. You’re right about that double page of Joan Blondell and Olive Hatch — they’re both cute in that pose. • — Roger Bullock. ifiQNi irv/? Oh. is issue edited by: DOROTHY JORDAN End of Depression JERSEY CITY, N. J.— When one has trouble finding a seat, after a long wait, in the New York movie houses, then I believe Old Man Prosperity is here, — or at least on his way back. Pictures are getting better and the theatres are once more getting crowded; and once again I am watching your review criticisms closely. There is no other film magazine, — and I buy nearly all of them, which publishes as many illustrated reviews of pictures as you do. Keep up the good work. — Sylvia Schlein. This Letter Wins $10 EVANSTON, ILL. — Regarding the controversy running rampant concerning the return to America of a well known Swedish actress, the presonal opinion of one who is teaching in a mid-western university might be worthy of note. I fear very much that the so-called “glamorous blonde” has a phobia which borders closely on dementia. No man liveth unto himself alone, and the power of example is still potent enough for me to offer the prayer that she rest upon her laurels and remain in the Scandanavian countries. Regardless of how sincere the actress may be there are too many young girls in this country who are “movie bitten” and who would be prone to interpret her actions as abnormal or the result of an exaggerated ego. She has had a profitable and honorable screen career here and has amassed a fortune. I can wish her no greater honor than the words of Napoleon when he came upon one of his generals lying upon the captured battle flags. |? “Rest upon them. La Salle, — you have well deserved them.” — Just a Teacher. Ramon Needs Boosting? OTTAWA, CANADA. — I hope you will see fit to publish this little letter of mine very soon in your magazine. It is a most sincere appeal to all Ramon Novarro’s fans to write to his Studio — the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co., Culver City, California — and ask them to give him better parts and finer pictures to play in; and also to let him sing and dance. Just lately, in an interview, he has asked us to do this for him. And surely it is not very much for us to do in return for all the pleasure we have had in watching and listening to him on the screen. He has just signed a new contract with his company, and this is probably the most critical period of his whole career. He is a splendid and versatile actor, a beautiful singer and a very fine man, and the movies need his personality and his great talents for many years to come. If we do not support him enough just now, he may slip out of acting in a year or two and become entirely a director. And we don’t want that to happen, do We? Fan mail carries great weight at the studios, as we all know, so let us one and all show our loyalty to Ramon Novarro by writing in to his studio at once on his behalf. — Helen Dale. From A Garbo Fan NEWARK, N. J. — Reading in the editorial of your newest issue that Greta Garbo’s face has been on the cover of two issues of your Broadway and Hollywood “ Movies” a wonderful magazine, I would like to get copies of those two editions. I would appreciate it a great deal if you will sell me those two copies. I have been buying your magazine for some time now. I think it is the ideal “fan” magazine. — A. S. Torcasio Tasmanian Thanks HOBART CITY , TASMANIA.— Your movie magazine is a good one and something quite different from the usual type one sees on the news stands here, but if is it not asking for too much, would prefer to see a better quality of paper used; at any rate for the full page photos. The price of your magazine out here for single copies is 40 cents, equal to our Is. fid. and is well worth it for the articles alone. The best photo in your June issue was the full page one of Arline Judge who is a fine type of young woman and has a 100 per cent appeal. A double page photo of this player would no doubt make your magazine a best seller. In the July issue I liked the photos of Lilian Bond and Anita Page best. I wish your Journal every success. — Reader