Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Dec 1932)

HOLLYWOOD FILMOGRAPH II Chif-Chaf and Chaffer by Hal Wiener How the Warner Bros.-First National Stars Will Spend Christmas GEORGE ARLISS and Mrs. Arliss are great motorists, and will drive to some nearby winter resort for Christmas dinner. RUTH CHATTERTON and her new husband, GEORGE BRENT, have two important reasons why Christmas this year has a special significance to them. It will be their first Christmas together, and December 24th is the star's birthday. Consequently, a double celebration is in order. Miss Chatterton always has a home Christmas. WILLIAM POWELL and his wife, CAROLE LOMBARD, will be at home in Hollywood this year, and Powell will spend the day doing anything that Carole happens to fancy when the day arrives. They will probably eat turkey, however, with their close friends, the RICHARD BARTHELMESSES and RONALD COLMAN. KAY FRANCIS will have a rather lonely Christmas this time, since her husband, KENNETH McKENNA, is doing a play in New York while Kay is at work on a picture in Hollywood. She has decided to work Christmas Eve and then sleep as late as possible, although many friends are insisting that she eat turkey with them later in the day. JAMES CAGNEY and Mrs. Cagney will spend Christmas at their Hollywood home. JOE E. BROWN and Mrs. Brown will spend a quiet day at home, with the holiday activities centered about their three children, Joe Junior, Don and Mary-Elizabeth Ann. There will be a tree, presents from Santa Claus, and a big turkey dinner, but otherwise their holiday will be spent quietly because the star is recovering from a recent illness, and there is a fourth little Brown on the way. In fact, it is not improbable that the stork may cooperate with Santa Claus in bringing the most important present of all. EDWARD G. ROBINSON and Mrs. Robinson (Gladys Lloyd) will spend Christmas in New York with friends. They also are anticipating a visit from the stork. BEBE DANIELS and BEN LYON are looking forward to a very gay and happy, if somewhat complicated, Christmas. Christmas Eve will be devoted to calling on their friends, extending seasonal greetings, and delivering presents. Christmas morning is a very private celebration of Yuletide for Bebe, Ben and and little Barbara Bebe, at home with their own tree and their own presents. Of course Barbara hangs up her stocking, and finding out what Santa has brought her will be the first business of the day. From their own tree, they always go to the home of Bebe's grandmother for another celebration with the rest of the family and a general exchange of presents. Two or three very intimate personal friends are usually there in addition to the family group, of which Grandma is the center. And Christmas Bebe and Ben will have open house in their own home and receive their friends. BARBARA STANWYCK and FRANK FAY are another film couple who have a special reason this year for looking forward to Christmas. For the first time they will have a baby in their home — ten months old Dion Fay, red-headed, bouncing baby boy who has recently become their adopted son. Although they are also planning to entertain friends at dinner, their activities will center about him, and Barbara expects that Christmas Eve will still find her worrying about "What on earth can you buy a pampered ten months old baby that he doesn't already have?" DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. and JOAN CRAWFORD will entertain guests at dinner in their Brentwood home, and sometime during the day will pay a visit to Pickfair, where Fairbanks, Sr.. is expected home shortly before the holiday. Every year Doug and Joan make good dresolutions to open their presents in the morning, but Christmas Eve Joan always weakens and starts cheating, opening them one at a time until she has seen them all. This year young Doug has thought of a plan to fool her, and will hide a few of the presents, letting her think she has them all in the evening, so that there will be some left for the morning — if she doesn't read this. WARREN WILLIAM and Mrs. Warren William will motor to Lake Arrowhead, where they hope to capture some of the spirit of an eastern Christmas in the snow. LORETTA YOUNG makes it her custom always to spend Christmas with her mother and sisters. Gifts are always distributed in the morning between the family, and the main item in Loretta's gift list this year is a pair of Chinese pajamas for baby sister Georgianne. It will also be their first Christmas in their lovely new Brentwood home. JOAN BLONDELL is another star who will be happy this year because her family is with her. She will entertain them in her new home on a Hollywood hillside. BETTE DAVIS will celebrate her first Christmas with her new husband, Harmon O. Nelson, Jr. Bette's mother and sister will also be with them, and they will have their tree, presents and dinner at home. ALINE MACMAHON will have her husband, Clarence Stein, famous New York architect, with her, and she is preparing a silver and blue Christmas tree for him. They will spend the holidays at their home here, where the gifts will be exchanged Christmas morning. She is planning a real German Christmas in the old-country style, and their German maid is acting as "technical director," even to fixing up the punch bowl which is an integral part of the celebration. PRESTON S. FOSTER hopes to spend Christmas with his parents in New Jersey as he has done every year. If his latest picture keeps him from getting away in time, however, he and Mrs. Foster will entertain friends at turkey dinner in their home here. ELEANOR HOLM will spend Christmas in Hollywood at the home of the Antonio Morenos. The new Wampus Baby Star says that so many lovely things have come to her this year, she can't think of another thing to ask Sant Claus for — but a little bird has whispered that a beautiful white ermine jacket is on its wy from her mother in Brooklyn. GLENDA FARRELL has an ambition to go swimming in the ocean, as a suitable celebration of her first Christmas Day in California. So, unless it's rainy or snowy, she'll be found at one of the beaches. HOLLYBEVERLY TYPEWRITER CO. Hollywood's modern equipped shop RENT a Machine— 3 Months '. $5.00 OWN YOUR OWN— Monthly Payments 5.00 Bring This Ad— It saves You 25c If You Rent— $2.00 If You Buy 1650 North Cahutnga GLadstone 1590 Latest Torchey Comedy Proves to Be FunFest — C. C, Burr's Direction Good One of the better two-reel laughies comes from the Educational Studios under the title of "Torchey's Kitty Coupe." Under the direction of C. C. Burr, this latest in the series of Torchey comedies would make an excellent showing as a laugh getter on any program. At the Fairfax theater preview, the audience just howled at the antics of Torchey, and Franklyn Pangborn. George Jeske, who penned the story, allowed for any number of laugh situations. His theme dealing with a group of society women giving a cat show, and then not being able to find any cats, is both novel and clever. How Torchy, played by Roy Cooke, and Franklyn Pangborn by their ingenious methods round up a bunch of alley cats and exhibit them at the show, makes nothing short of hilarious entertainment. Edmund Breese also comes in for a good share of the honors as a forgotten husband who forfeits his place in the household to the cats. Marin Shockley, a very shapley Miss, takes care of the romancing with Torchey. Dot Farley and Adalyne Asbury also help out with splendid bits of acting. What tended to do more harm, than good, was the too many closeups in the picture. This, however, can be eliminated very easily and when it is done, "Torchey's Kitty Coupe will be a fast-moving and tremendously funny comedy. Lew Physioc was the cameraman, whose splendid work aided in building up the laughs. MISCHA AUER FINDS CREATIVE MAKEUPS MORE USEFUL THAN THE CUT AND DRIED TYPES What constitutes a good character man? Is it his unique appearance? Is it his ability to emote before the camera? Or is it his versatility and creative instincts which help him to devise new and vastly different types of characterizations? After talking with Mischa Auer, one of the better known character men of the screen, we were inclined to believe in the latter. Mischa Auer has created quite a name for himself around Hollywood for the deft way in which he contrives novel character makeups. It is a known fact that many of our best heavies are at a loss when it comes to portraying anything other than what he looks like. With Mischa Auer, it is different. Being somewhat of an artist, Mischa has studied the contour of the face and in most of his character makeups, you will notice that he uses but very little makeup but depends more on a simple characteristic of the individual he is portraying to establish his identity. The dragging of a foot, the twiching of an eyebrow, or the continual nervousness of the hands are simple tricks in character studies. Mischa Auer is a true artist, who understands the full advantage of a situation and has proven more than once, that his creative mind is far better than the manufactured scripts, when it comes to makeups. But what he wants to do, probably, more than anything else in the world, is to direct. There is not enough excitement for him in simply acting in pictures, he tells me. The excitement, in the moving picture industry, comes in the direction of a picture. The excitement in acting, comes on the stage. LYLE TALBOT will spend Christmas day with relatives at home, honoring particularly his grandmother, who is visiting him. They will have a tree, and exchange presents early in the morning. DICK POWELL would like to go home to Little Rock, Arkansas, but probably will not be able to do so because of work and the distance. Otherwise, he will stay at home, with a few friends for dinner to keep him from being lonly. SHEILA TERRY, planning to have turkey with her mother and friends in Hollywood, says she has written to Santa Claus to send her a snow storm instead of filling her stocking. GUY KIBBEE wants to get in some duck hunting just before the holidays, so that he can have a wild duck dinner on Christmas Day. He will spend the day with his wife and 18-months old baby daughter, Shirley Ann. Their gifts, according to the more ancient custom, will be distributed on Christmas Eve, but the baby being asleep, will have hers placed in her crib so that she will see them the first thing when she wakes up. Her main present (not placed in the crib) will be a rocking horse, because she is wild about ponies. Next year, when she is a little older, Guy is planning to give her a real one. HELEN VINSON hopes to get away at the last minute to spend Christmas with her family in New York. If work prevents, she will dine here with friends. PATRICIA ELLIS, another new Wampus Baby Star, will be with her family at home in Hollywood. Her father, Director Alexander Leftwich, has recently joined them here, so the reunion will be complete. CLAIRE DODD will drive to one of the mountain resorts for dinner with friends. And ALLEN JENKINS, belying the hard-boiled, ruthless parts he plays on the screen, says that, believe it or not, he is staying home to have Christmas dinner with his mother. Tel. 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