Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

La George Arrives Gladys George is in town for her initial talkie role, which will be in Metro's Dolly. The Broadway actress who scored such a hit in the flop footlight production of Queer People is the bride of Edward Fowler, multi-millionaire paper manufacturer of Holyoke, Mass. They have found a great happiness, Gladys will tell you, through living under the Fannie Hurst matrimonial code. They're Writing Checks THE bank accounts of Joan Crawford and William Powell received severe set-backs the other day when William Haines, who deserted the kleigs for interior decorating, returned after six months in Europe, where he busied himself picking up knick-knacks for the Crawford and Powell abodes. Will Goes Visiting? Metro Intends to do right by Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wildnerness, financially speaking. Clarence Brown, the studio's highest-salaried director, has been assigned to megaphone the piece, and now Brown is negotiating with Fox for the loan of Will Rogers for the same role he portrayed on the Hollywood stage. If the deal goes through — and there's every likelihood of it — it will be the Oklahoma philosopher's first vehicle off the home lot. Jolson Goes Dramatic AL JOLSON, who won fame and fortune as a mammy shouter, is going in for bigger and better things. Because of Al's smash hit in the role of Pancho Villa in the etherization of Viva Villa, his radio sponsors now are buying up the air rights to such dramas as The Hairy Ape and The Valiant for Jolson to microphone. All of which brought out Al's secret ambition. It is to do Hamlet on the silversheet! Diana Takes Spill Diana Wynyard has been in the saddle since childhood, but it took a California nag to toss her for a Prince of Wales loop. The English star limped onto Universal's One More River t other morning, her torso bruised and aching. Her unpremeditated exhibition of the previous day gave her Beverly neighbors quite a thrill, for it occurred on the bridle path that runs through the center of busy Beverly Boulevard. Dot Jordan Home DOROTHY JORDAN and her newborn, Mary Caroline Cooper, have arrived from Honolulu, where the stork delivered Mary. Dorothy, however, will not resume her histrionic career for several months because she and hubby Merian Cooper, RKO-Radio head, are leaving shortly for Italy, where Cooper will supervise the shooting of exteriors for his production of The Last Days of Pompeii. Mary Caroline will be left behind in care of her nurse. Colleen's Doll House The Doll House that Colleen Moore has had under construction for six years will shortly be completed, and Col SEPTEMBER, 1934 leen will send it off on a tour of the United States, exhibition proceeds to go to aid hospitals for crippled children. The Lilliputian castle, which cost more than $50,000 to build, is complete in every detail, including workable water and lighting systems, electric refrigerators and every other convenience. One Wife at a Time ! IT WOULD seem that persistent reports of approaching marriage for Bert Wheeler and Patsy Parker are a bit premature. Bernice Speer is still Bert's legal mate, although they've been separated for more than two years. Eric Dons Makeup Eric Von Stroheim, for whom the I have seldom smiled in recent months is coming back to the screen as an actor. The eratic thespian-director will portray an Austrian army officer in Invincible's The House of Strangers. Henry Walks Again HENRY WILCOXON has tossed aside the cane on which he has been hobbling for several weeks. The English actor, imported for De Mille's Cleopatra, was seriously stabbed in the knee during filming of the feature. The knife was one of those trick things supposed to break with the slightest impact — but this one fooled its inventor. Mexico Likes Wally Wallace Beery made such a hit with the residents of Mexico City during his Viva Villa location sojourn there, that I'lenxe turn to i>nu< forty-eight Twenty years ago Adolphe Menjou was an extra in The Man Behind the Door which starred Alice Lake. Now she has a bit in The Great Flirtation which stars him