Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

HOT FROM HOLLYWOOD . . . George in the feminine lead . . . Andy Devine journeyed down to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was selected as King of Cotton at the annual Mississippi Valley festival . . . Harold Lloyd cut short his New York business trip to get back to Hollywood for the Shrine Dunbar . . . Mona Rica, Mexican actress, who admires President Rodriguez of her native land, but thinks Franklin D. Roosevelt "one grand senor," has filed declaration of intention of seeking American citizenship . . . Sally Eilers and hubby Harry Joe Brown finally reached Honolulu . . . but they'll be back in Hollywood in time to welcome the stork . . . Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson boated it through the Canal on their current trip to New York. Romance Dorothy Granger and George A. Lollier had filed their application for a marriage license before Dot's mother got hold of her and talked her into waiting another year ... so George buried his grief in a trip to Europe . . . Miriam Hookins has eyes only for Harold Pickering these days . . . and nights . . . Toby Wing has returned that sapphire to Junior Laemmle in order to wear the solitaire given her by Eddie Hillman, Marian Nixon's ex . . . Gene Raymond seems to have forgotten our own Janet Gaytior in his enthusiasm for a New York debbie . . . Jay Henry and Gail Patrick are stepping . . . The interest that lies between Barry Norton and Alice Terry, Rex Ingram's wife, grows aoace . . . Raul Roulien is going places with Conchita Montenegro . . . Maxine Jones, Buck's sixteen year-old daughter, and Noah Beery, Jr., aged nineteen, are in love and can't help blushing over the fact . . . Charlie Murray took an attractive girl to Coronado Beach for a recent week-end, it being their twenty-eighth annual honeymoon . . . John Blakely of the New York social register is squiring Betty Furness . . . The Prince Serge Mdivani-Dorothy Dunbar (ex-Mrs. Max Baer) affair has reached a point where he is giving her polo ponies . . . Joe Schenck is seen everywhere with the dancing Grace Poggi, but he denies they're already wed . . . Arthur Lake is beauing Kay Toberman, the social deb who recently returned Monroe Owslev's engagement ring . . . Esther Ralston and William Morgan are mooning . . . Matty Kemp and Shirley Grey are very, very near the altar . . . Please turn to page flfty-elgflit ^fc^^NIWl Gossip and facts concerning your favorites direct from Filmland —Roy D. MacLean Lois January is appearing in Loves of a Sailor with Chester Morris, which isn't at all difficult t o understand. Anybody surely could love her Kay to Do Europe KAY FRANCIS set sail for Italy immediately after completing her task opposite Leslie Howard in British Agent, and you can expect an announcement that Maurice Chevalier is Europebound any day now. What began as a casual friendshiptwo lonely stars seeking companionship — has blossomed into a real romance. They're seen everywhere together these days — and evenings. Marches Adopt Boy The Fredric Marches have adopted a second orphan, bestowing upon him the monicker of "Anthony." To the proud foster-parents, however, the newcomer will be known as plain Tony. Ruth Etting Back GOLDEN-VOICED Ruth Etting is back in Hollywood, this time to make a series of short musicals for RKO-Radio. The healthy pay-checks Ruth garners for her efforts will go toward the restoration of the family farm near David City, Iowa. En Route to Talkietown from New York, Ruth stopped off at the old homestead long enough to set carpenters at work building a new barn and repairing the hog pens. Ruth has assumed active management of the place, and she's throwing out the mechanical equipment in favor of a dozen new hands. "Farming has become too mechanized," she declared. "Machines have cut down the demand for human labor, which is one of our real problems right now. I'm going to operate the place along the old lines with men and horses instead of with machines." Marriage for Phillips? Florence Rice has arrived in the film colony to begin her talkie career, and Phillips Holmes is Oh, so happy! When the daughter of the noted sports writer, Grantland Rice, alighted from a transcontinental plane the other dawning, she was greeted with a hearty embrace and a noisy kiss from Phillips, all of which served to revive rumors that wedding bells are being readied for this pair. Florence, ex-mate of Sidney Smith, deserted her role in Broadway's She Loves Me Not to accept a Columbia contract. Fishing Is Costly 28 A FISH-HOOK was responsible for John Barrymore's recent hospital sojourn. On a trip into Alaskan waters aboard his elaborate yacht, John pricked a finger while baiting his line. Fever laid him low after he reached the home port. Medicos traced his high temperature to the hand infection. HOLLYWOOD