The international photographer (Jan-Dec 1934)

Twenty The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER October, 1934 CINEMACARONI (It's better with a little sauce.) Sorry, son, you're on the wrong train. Newspapers state that the late Speaker Henry T. Rainey kept himself physically fit by his untiring work with dumb-bells. * * * He should have been a movie director. That sort of thing pays big. The police department was frantic last month because a nine-ton load of stolen dynamite was hidden somewhere in Hollywood. They were afraid it might explode any minute. * * * Probably figured Jean Harlow might -walk by A lot of people would get right up and go home. * * * And somebody would rush up to San Quentin to see if Mooney had escaped. * * * Studio officials couldn't be expected to turn a hair. A blow-up is all in the day's work to them. * * * But there'd be an epidemic of blasting pictures. They'd be censor-proof. Who ever saw a stick of dynamite with sex appeal> (_ ome to think of it, so have I. Where Eadie Adams, blonde radio blues singer, got this 1 don't know; and maybe it's just as well. Tzvinkle twinkle little star Who the hell do you think you are Shining up there so doggone bright Just like an electric light Bulb. All of which leads to the following technical problem: If a man who rents a room is a roomer, is a man in a tomb a tumor? And should a blues singer be known as a that is, should a blues singer be known? TRUTH DEPARTMENT * * * Don't miss seeing "The Thin Man." It is the most scintillating, fast-moving piece of sophisticated comedy I have seen in a long time. Bill Powell and Myrna Loy team it to perfection. I'm as happy as Myrna is to see that she is staying out of Oriental parts * * * Polo is becoming more and more the sport of cinema satellites. There's always a big turnout of celebs at any good match * * * Johnny Mack Brown had a birthday while he was working on "Police Ambulance," his first of a series of pictures for Columbia, and Mrs. Johnny brought him a birthday cake on the set. Johnny was so busy working that everyone on the set got a piece of cake before he did * * * Everybody and his brother had a birthday last month. The cleverest party for a child I have ever seen was the one for Barbara Bebe Lyon, three year old daughter of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. It was a Mother Goose costume party, held in the garden of the Beverly Hills home of Louella Parsons and Dr. Harry Martin. A big table was decorated with Nursery Rhyme favorites; the trees and hedges were all hung with hundreds of gaily colored balloons and fruit and lollipops and popcorn, while three tremendous birthday cakes were a la mode and I don't entirely mean with ice cream. There was a pony for the kids to ride and a grab bag and a puppet show and even a real merry-go-round. Barbara Bebe herself was Bo-Peep, complete with crook and sheep; and most of the famous children of filmdom, decked out in Mother Goosery Rhyme costumes, were there to do her honor * * * Cute Jean Muir was as fussed as a novice when I photographed her recently at a popular cafe. She was worried about the people standing around watching * * * Milestone's picture, "The Captain Hates the Sea" — finally wound up forty-four days over schedule — enough time to make two extra productions. But all reports say it is to be a wow * * * Malibu is no longer the same old beach The recent storms have changed the contou )( the beach front, and some of the stars e nearer the water than they used to be * * A magician Doesn't have to go around wician. FIERCE AMBITION DEPARTMENT See what the postman just brought: Dear Sir: Do you think 1 could be a movie star. \\\ you send me three of my best Stares if )U could, 1 am trying to get Charles Rugles, C er Rogers, and Goerge Raft, will you pleas § to get then. Will you wright every wunc S a wile and tell me if I would be a Movie u or not. I could act pretty good. I wa 1 be a star so bad sometimes I bite m'lf. Send as soon as you can. Your Frien' C. Latest quip, translated from the Hindu, , i reason : "Mahatma! Mahatma! Mahatma!" "Here's your hat, you little fool. An< m NOT your mother!" An interview with Kay Francis quote as saying: "1 shan't marry again so lo __ I am acting in the films. Marriage in ch circumstances doesn't give either pai i chance." * * * Right. It keeps you acting every minute, h that's not fair under NRA. ADD ALTERED PROVERBS: The sins of the fathers are often even unto the fourth generation. 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