Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

passion before she met Maurice Chevalier, now night-spots it with young Rochelle Hudson . . . Barbara Weeks and Guinn (Big Boy) Williams are serious . . . Martha Sleeper's new heart is Ted Bassett, handsome Easterner . . . Gloria Shea and Walter Kane are on the verge of an elopement . . . Jeanne Howard is keeping Charlie Feldman from getting too lonesome while Raquel Torres, his fiancee, is in London . . . Eddie Hillman, Marian Nixon's former mate, is finding romance with Florence Desmond . . . Sheila Terry gets two long-distance calls from Orchestra Leader Vincent Lopez daily . . . Joan Marsh and wealthy Tommy Lee are altarbound . . . Twelve photographs adorn the walls of Jack Oakie's boudoir . . . and they're all of the same girl, Edith Holloway . . . Ginger Rogers admits she's very, very fond of Lew Ayres, but insists she isn't marrying Lew or anyone else for the next five years . . . Irene Hervery is Dean Markham's big moment . . . Lewis Milestone, the director, and Kendall denser, just freed from the international jeweler, are plotting a future together . . . Maurice Hill, em bryo medico, is ditching it all in favor of acting just to please Fifi Dorsay. Marriages Eleanor Hunt, the former Mrs. Rex Lease, is giving matrimony another try out . . . Dr. Frank Nolan is the bridegroom . . . Now that stuttering Rosco Ates and his former frau have revived their old vaudeville act, they're considering a remarriage . . . Dancer Betty Kaege's elopement with rich young Jack Peine of Chicago provides the answer for her surprise move in withdrawing her $100,000 heart balm action against Alan Dinehart . . . Alice White and Sidney Bartlett were married at Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. Townsfolk gave a dance in their honor . . . Verna Hille is the second Paramount panther woman to find love in Hollywood . . . she's the bride of Frank Gill, Jr., a radio m. c. . . . The Doris Warner-Mervyn Leroy nuptials have been scheduled for January 3. appearance has made her more intriguing than ever, for the gatekeepers out at Fox Hills are finding it difficult to keep her army of beaux from falling over one another. Gene Raymond, Jack Oakie, Donald Cook and Russell Gleason are almost daily callers. John To Do Hamlet John Barrymore Is going to do Hamlet behind the footlights. But leave it to a Barrymore to be different. John is after Hollywood Bowl, with its 25,000 seating capacity, for the presentation of his own version of the Shakespearean vehicle in which he starred for more than two years on the London stage. The younger prince of Broadway royal family has been paying daily visits to the Bowl, testing out his voice, which, naturally, has lost much of its volume during his long run in front of the microphones. Details for the venture will be worked out by John while he cruises the South Seas with Dolores and the two kiddies early this Spring. He's Not So Dumb! JACKIE COOPER has gone Hollywood in a big way. This good looking juvenile who spells romance and adventure to American youngsters squired beautiful LUa Lee to luncheon at the Brown Derby. It was his initial appearance as a real-life beau. Jackie did nobly throughout the meal, but when the waiter presented him with a check totalling $5.25, he nonchalantly opened Lila's purse and paid off. He explained that ifs an old Hollywood custom! Ramon's Sister In Debut The Rather Large Samaniego family is contributing another of its talented members to the screen. This time it is Carmen, 19-year-old sister of Ramon Novarro. Like Ramon, Carmen originally intended to become a dancer, and she recently made her first public appearance as such at a Los Angeles benefit performance. FEBRUARY, 1934 But now she is to display her dramatic ability in the role of Ramon's screen sister in Laughing Boy. Hero Worship BORIS KARLOFF, a star in his own right ever since he drew shrieks from movie patrons with his portrayal of Frankenstein, is temporarily doffing his stellar toga to play second fiddle to the man he considers the greatest actor of them all — his fellow countryman, George Arliss. Karloff will satisfy a lifetime ambition when he goes into a featured role in support of Arliss in Twentieth Century's The House of Rothchild. As a mere boy in London, Karloff, whose real name is Bill Pratt, horded his allowance in order to applaud Arliss from a gallery seat. Separation Succeeds After Three Months of it, Gloria ^ Stuart has pronounced her trial separation from her sculptor-husband. Blair Gordon Newell, "a howling success." "We are lovers again," declared Gloria. "We have gone back to the days of our courtship five years ago." Gloria said Blair and she would continue the plan of separate abodes for another nine months, at least. ■ — Wide World The youngest bicyclist on record. Jobyna Ralston (Mrs. Arlen) fixed a basket on the bars of her bike in which Richard Ralston Arlen gleefully rides while Papa Dick Arlen proudly watches the youngster enjoy the sport. They were vacationing at Palm Springs 29