Hollywood (1940)

* • * * * * • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * • • * * * * • * * • * * * * * * * * * • • * * • * * * * • * * * * • • • * .fiot/wi ■ Ma OCT 12 m ms*m Published in this spac every month Although we've never had our face lifted, we do know what it's like to feel young all of a sudden. • • • • There was Mickey Rooney at the drums, there was Judy Garland at the voice, and there were we and all the audience at our happiest. That trip to see "Strike Up The Band" was a trip to the Fountain of Youth. • • • • It started us singing. Usually our vocal efforts are confined to the marbled halls of the shower-room, but after seeing this new M-G-M sooper dooper musical smash, our little voice went pattering all over the house. • • • • The boys and girls in the picture get the plot inspiration from Maestro Paul Whiteman himself. Over the years Whiteman has deserved the title His Royal Highness of Rhythm. Paul's music never palls. • • • • We have a flock of bouquets to pass around on this one. We'll toss a few to Arthur Freed, the hit Ascap song-writer who turned producer ; to Busby Berkeley , the director; and to those brother rats, Monks and Finklehoffe, who wrote the screen play. • •■'•• When you hear "Our Love Affair", others will hear you. It's more than a melody, it's an infection. *''••'• But the final repeat rave must be held for those incomparable artists of the present and future, those babes in arms, Rooney and Garland. We call them Punch and Judy, because punch is what they've got. • • • • It's remarkable the way M-G-M keeps up the parade of hits. This summer has revealed "The Mortal Storm", "Pride and Prejudice", "New Moon", "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante", "I Love You Again", not to mention the recordbreaking "Boom Town." • • • • That leaves you all set for the masterpiece, "Escape" (Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor) as well as this month's delightful "Third Finger, Left Hand" (Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas). • • • • No wonder we're singing A eo Advertisement for Metro-Golduiyn-Mayer Pictures W. H. "BUZZ" FAWCETT, JR., President LLEWELLYN MILLER, Editor Table of Contents EXCLUSIVE FEATURES Town Clown (Gregory RatofT) by Erskine Johnson 19 The New Bogart by Michael Mines 21 Dietrich and Seven Sinners by Nord Riley 22 How To Be a Holiday Hostess (Mary Carlisle) 24 Introducing "The Lupino" 26 A Smattering of Insolence (Oscar Levant) by Irving Drutman 27 They Always Get Their Girl [North West Mounted Police) by Jessie Henderson 28 Together (Albert and Elsa Basserman) by Kolma Flake 32 Fun in the Hospital by Helen Louise Walker 34 Sir Cedric Explains by Ed Jonesboy 36 Adventures with "Road Show" E. J. Smithson 38 EVERY MONTH IN HOLLYWOOD Hollywood Newsreel by Duncan Underhill 6 Movie Crossword 12 The Show Goes On by The Editor 14 Important Pictures by Llewellyn Miller 16 Marshall-ing Fall Clothes by Candida 30 Movie Masquerade 49 In Loving Hands by Ann Vernon 54 Mary Astor's Chinese Supper by Betty Crocker 60 HOLLYWOOD'S Fashion Spotlight by Candida 66 HOLLYWOOD Magazine is published monthly by Fawcett Tublieations, Inc., 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Printed in tT S A Entered as second-class matter at the post ofrW at Louisville. Ky., under the act of March 3, 1S79. with additional entry at Greenwich. Conn. Copyright 19J0 by Fawcett Publications, liwr Eliott Odell. Advertising Director; Roscoe K. Fawcett, Circulation Director: Ralph Daigh, Managing ; "Editor ; Al Allard. Art Director; E. J. Smithson, Western Manager. General offices. Fawcett Building, Greenwich. Conn. Trademark registered in U. S. Patent Office. Subscription rate 50 cents a year in United States and possessions: Canadian subscriptions not accepted; foreign subscriptions $1.50. Foreign subscriptions and sales should be remitted by International Money Order in United States funds, payable at Greenwich, Conn. Single issue five cents. Advertising forms close on the IStli of third month preceding date of issue Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. Send all remittances and correspondence concerning subscriptions to Fawcett Building, Greenwich, Conn. Advertising offices: New York, 1501 Broadway; Chicago, 3(50 N. Michigan Ave.; San Francisco, Simpson-Reillv, Ml* Russ Building; Los Angeles. Stmpson-Reillv. Garfield Bldg. Editorial offices, IjOI Broadway, New York City; Hollywood offices, 8555 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California.