Modern Screen (Dec 1936 - Nov 1937 (assorted issues))

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By Helen Louise W a lker Gene Raymond in "That Girl from Paris" has his opinion swayed by his recent engagement to Jeanette MacDonald. You'll get honest answers from these top men stars who are in the know! Clark Gable, who likes to "get away from it all," has a rather prejudiced outlook on the town. A VISITING celebrity in the world of sport, returning to Hollywood after an absence of several years, remarked to me, "I miss the cronies whom I enjoyed so much when I was here last time. When they are working they are, as they should be, filled with that early-to-bed-early-to-rise spirit. When they are between pictures, they aren't in Hollywood at all. They are hiding somewhere. Not that I blame them 1 Hollywood has gone chi-chi. It's just a woman's town now." A bit startled at his apparent bitterness, I took a hasty mental census of the whereabouts of our current he-man stars. As this was written, Clark Gable was departing for northern parts unknown on a hunting and fishing trip, accompanied by one or two of his rancher cronies who have nothing to do with the picture industry. Warner Baxter was returning from a sixweeks' camping trip in the high Sierras — his companions were all males. Ronald Colman and Bill Powell had spent the last week-end aboard a small, rented, gasolene-motored boat — fishing and bemoaning the absence of Dick Barthelmess. Ronnie was then tucked away on his 'miniature ranch which is as thickly walled and hedged as was ever a Greta Garbo establishment. Lee Tracy and Buck Jones were bounding over the 54